closed captioning provided by maryland public television narrator: for pat vincenti, the sea duck huntegins right here, in his workshop outside churchville, maryland. pat has been a duck hunter and decoy carver for 40 years. he's recently started carving, and hunting, sea ducks. pat: so this is the head for the surf scoters that we're making. i believe there's more of a demand for sea duck decoys because i believe there's more people actually hunting sea ducks. i believe it's actually become more popular over the years. i gained a new respect for the sea ducks because they're a lot more intricate and colorful than what i thought. what we're doing is just taking the bulk of the stuff off. narrator: there are several different species of sea ducks in maryland, and pat carves them all. pat: this is our surf scoter. very common on the bay. a lot of guys love to hunt these. this is our common eider. you don't see as many of them on the bay, but we do have a few. this is our long tail decoy or what we refer to as our old squaw decoy. i've only been sea duck hunting a couple of times and i've

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public service by your television provider. welcome to annapolis on booktv. with the help of our comcast cable partners for the next hour we will explore the history aaron literary scene of maryland's capital city. coming up we will learn about the day president lincoln walked through the streets of the south, the reason he was in an apples or passed through annapolis is he was on his way to the peace conference at hampton roads. >> to understand the roots of the area. >> annapolis was eclipsed by baltimore and was desperate. they needed economic security and didn't have it. >> we look and sit-down with rebecca morris to learn about the perot camps of an apple was. >> the largest one was at the naval academy. annapolis is the claim to fame for the civil war, union prisoners of war who had been released on parole by the confederates. in june of 1862 they set up three role camps. one was jefferson barracks in missouri. one was camp jason, ohio and the largest one was originally at the naval academy and men who were paroled would be brought to the exchange point or the release point on the east coast at city point, va. so all the paroled men would be brought there, loaded on to transp