Local Digest

Foundation holds book-signing bash

ANNAPOLIS - The Chesapeake Bay Foundation will hold a coastal Christmas charity book-signing bash from 2 to 6 p.m. Sunday at the foundation headquarters, 6 Herndon Ave.

Richard LaMotte, author of "Pure Sea Glass;" Dr. Deacon Ritterbush, author of "A Beachcomber's Odyssey," and Margaret Carruthers, author of "Beach Stones," will be on hand to sign their books along with book photographers Celia Pearson and Megan Lloyd.

Guests are encouraged to bring in samples from their own collections of sea glass, fossils, pottery shards, prehistoric...