Delmarva in Popular Culture
The area was romanticized in Chesapeake, a fictional account of life in the area written by James Michener.
A popular tourist site on the Atlantic side of the peninsula is Chincoteague Island, Virginia, which (together with Assateague Island in Virginia and Maryland) is noted for its herd of feral ponies as described by Marguerite Henry in Misty of Chincoteague.
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