Jack Shaum

Jack Shaum is a retired award-winning print and broadcast journalist who spent nearly 50 years in the business. He is the author of "Lost Chester River Steamboats: From Chestertown to Baltimore," (2015) co-author of "Majesty at Sea" (1981), and co-author and co-editor of "Night Boat on the Potomac" (1996). He was the editor-in-chief of "Power Ships," quarterly journal of the Steamship Historical Society of America. For 20 years he and his wife traveled as on-board lecturers aboard several small coastal cruise ships.

The Maryland Center for History and Culture has named "122 Years on the Old Bay Line" as the winner of its 2023 Brewington Book Prize as the best book on maritime history related to Chesapeake Bay or the nation. The book also received favorable reviews from Sea History Magazine and PowerShips Magazine.