Senator C. Bernard (Bernie) Fowler, one of Calvert County's most respected and well-known political figures, has devoted his life to public service. In 2014, the Calvert Marine Museum partnered with the Maryland Sea Grant College and Watershed Productions to conduct a series of five video recorded oral history interviews with Senator Fowler. Videographer Michael W. Fincham recorded and edited the interviews and prepared verbatim transcripts. Five separate interviewers posed questions that resulted in over seven hours of oral histories that cover a range of topics. In addition to Fowler's biography and political career, topics include his advocacy in the areas of education, land use planning, and environmental issues.

Volume 1. Biography (89 minutes), interview with Richard Dodds: Family background (01:25) -- Early life on Broomes Island (12:23) -- School days (21:47) Religion (35:45) -- High school (44:54) -- World War II and Navy Service (50:00)-- Homecoming and business start-up (67:38) -- Courtship and marriage (78:50) -- Bernie's Boats (83:07).

Volume 2. Political career (114 minutes), interview with Ann Swanson: Religious commitment (03:48) -- Charles Mac Mathias (10:35) -- Early political activism (14:31) -- Chesapeake Bay Commission (22:02) -- Program Open Space (28:27) -- Blue crab issues (32:54) -- Phosphate ban debates (38:12) -- Wastewater pollution (52:54) -- Bay education (61:31) -- Bay cleanup campaigns (74:00) -- EPA Bay Program (89:06) -- Lt. Governor Campaign (93:10) -- Values, family, health (98:58) -- Early memories (111:27).

Volume 3. Save the bay (111 minutes), interview with Walter Boynton: Chesapeake Bay Commission (3:33) -- Start of political career (11:35) -- Declines in the Patuxent River (16:29) -- Chesapeake Biological Lab (17:32) -- Campaign for the Patuxent (26:30) -- "Sue the bastards" (34:11) -- The Tri-County Council (43:23) -- Suing the EPA and Maryland (50:25) -- Patuxent River Charette (67:00) -- Patuxent River Wade-In (80:00) -- Last lawsuit for clean water (99:00) -- The future (104:00).

Volume 4. Education advocacy (72 minutes), interview with Wilson Parran: School desegregation (03:20) -- Recruiting teachers (04:36) -- Maryland Association of Boards of Education (12:07) -- Resistance to desegregation (14:26) -- Planning for development (15:17) -- Maryland Association of Counties (41:20) -- Campaign for Maryland Senate (47:37) --Environmental education legislation (50:36) -- Environmental issues in the Patuxent River (54:56) -- Campaign for Lieutenant Governor (60:00).

Volume 5. Land use planning (91 minutes), interview with Randi Vogt: Earlier life in Calvert County (04:47) -- Slot machines and development (16:00) -- Entry into public Life (18:52) -- Pleasant Peninsula Plan (27:42) -- Moratorium on subdivisions (31:55) --Early planning success (33:43) -- Governing approach and philosophy (42:17) -- Preserving farmlands (61:42) -- Friends and allies (77:00) -- Environmental legislation (80:56).

Currently only one copy on WorldCat database (Southern Maryland Regional Library) and no copies in the USMAI catalog.