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Since 1952, Eastern Shore of Maryland Vol. 68, No. 11
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About the Cover Photographer: Mary Farwell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Pete: A Memoir of a Friendship: Helen Chappell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9 The Tilghman's Island Series (Part IV): Gary D. Crawford . . . . . . . 21 Mary, Abe and the Cave: Bonna L. Nelson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Tidewater Kitchen ~ Meal Prep for the Week: Pamela Meredith . . 63 Tidewater Gardening: K. Marc Teffeau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Bloodsworth Island: Ann Foley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 A Potpourri of Clippings: Hal Roth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 Changes ~ All-American (Part VII): Roger Vaughan . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Departments: April Tide Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Caroline County ~ A Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Queen Anne’s County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Dorchester Points of Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Easton Points of Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 St. Michaels Points of Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Oxford Points of Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 Tilghman ~ Bay Hundred . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 Kent County and Chestertown at a Glance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 April Calendar of Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 Anne B. Farwell & John D. Farwell, Co-Publishers
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Pete: A Memoir of a Friendship by Helen Chappell
I never thought I’d be writing this column. I always assumed my friend Pete Howell would live forever. He was larger than life in every way, with a heart and a talent as big as he was. He was my friend, my fellow writer, my partner in crime, and a staunch ally in the never-ending quest for support for the arts. He went to that big arts administration in the sky on February 8, and somehow the world is less bright, less entertaining, and less joyful without his presence. Not that his was not a life well lived, mind you. Other tributes have listed his contributions to the arts, his philanthropy, his presence in this community, his devotion to his family and friends, and I would just be repeating them here. He did what we should all do; he made a difference. He was my friend, my cohort, my partner in crime. Our friendship sparked because we were both writers, and both bound to newspapering back when newspapering meant something. We bonded first over our mutual love of film. We worked for competing newspapers, and such was the rivalry of management that
we were not even supposed to acknowledge the existence of the other. So, we’d pick a movie in Salisbury, far from prying eyes, meet up at a theater down there, grab some popcorn, or in Pete’s case ~ Peanut M&Ms ~ and settle down to watch. We fancied ourselves true cineastas, and maybe we were. We were the Eastern Shore Cahiers du Cinema, or so we thought. Our opinions varied wildly, but we were united in our love of film. Pete and I would rarely discuss the movies we saw, preferring to re9
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hand-and-foot. He loved deeply and sincerely. I was so happy later, when he met and married Carla. She gave him a new lease on life. Their wedding was one of my happiest memories of him. Carla gave Pete a new life, and his friends will always be grateful to her. Pete might have been a dreamer, but he had a stubborn streak, too. When he found out the Dover Street wing of the courthouse had once been a music hall, he somehow became convinced that one way or another, that space could be a music hall again. Never mind that it was full of county offices and stuff. Pete was utterly convinced it could be a theater space once again, and he hung on to that dream for a long, long time. Alas, it was not to be. He went on to complete many other things, however, that continue to make a difference in the community he loved and devoted his life to for so many years. So, while Pete is gone, his accomplishments linger on ~ a great memorial to his life’s work. Pete made a difference.
of a hundred dramatic readings of my own work? I had one line in that play and I choked on it every sing night. If it weren’t for Pete keeping me calmed down, I probably wouldn’t have even made it up to the stage. Pete’s daughter Kate was in that play, and I swear the pair of us embarrassed her so much she pretended she didn’t know us, and I don’t blame her one bit. Pete loved Kate. She was his pride and joy, and he never missed a chance to praise her accomplishments. He loved his first wife, Ginger, too. When she was dying, Pete would sing to her and wait on her
Helen Chappell is the creator of the Sam and Hollis mystery series and the Oysterback stories, as well as The Chesapeake Book of the Dead. Under her pen names, Rebecca Baldwin and Caroline Brooks, she has published a number of historical novels.
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The Tilghman’s Island Series by Gary D. Crawford
NOTE Last month, in the third installment of Tilghman’s Island: An Exploration, we traced the founding of Great Choptank Island by Seth Foster and his wife, Eliza. When Seth passed away in 1675, and Eliza two years later, the island was inherited by their elder daughter, Elizabeth. She married twice, first to Vincent Lowe until his death in 1692, and then to William Coursey. Neither family lived on the island, however. When the Courseys sold the island in 1697 to Elizabeth’s half-brother, John Hawkins, it passed out of the founding family’s control and entered a new phase of development. No longer a family home, Great Choptank Island became a productive agricultural plantation under a succession of non-resident owners. In this fourth installment, we offer glimpses of the island during this “plantation period” and how it was affected by historic events in Maryland. ~ GDC Fairbank, Tilghman’s Island Sadly, we have no good maps showing the island during these early years. Even maps from the 18th century are notoriously imprecise about its shape. This one from 1778 shows Poplar and Sharp’s Islands in more or less the right location and with shapes
we can at least recognize. But Great Choptank Island appears as a shapeless blob about half the size of the other two. One thing we can be sure about, our island was quite a bit larger than it is today, as most parts of the Delmarva shoreline are subject to gradual erosion. The Bay tends to nibble away constantly, emulsifying the fine silt that was deposited here eons ago by the winds from the western piedmont regions to form the Delmarva Peninsula. By the middle of the 19th century, some rather accurate maps finally begin to appear. Here I have super21
Tilghman's Island imposed the 2008 outline of the island over an excellent map from 1862. This quite dramatically shows just how much of the island has been lost in just the last century and a half. Notice that most of the loss is on the western side. We can only speculate how much larger Great Choptank Island might have been two centuries earlier when it was first settled. Although erosion rates certainly are not constant, it is a safe bet that an accurate outline from three and a half centuries ago would show even more loss. When it was Foster’s Island, it may have been nearly 3,000 acres. Whatever its size and shape, it Welcoming the colors of Spring in Art. Come and enjoy as we bring the outside in.
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makes clear that the soil and climate were suitable for the growing of fruit trees, which would produce a cash crop that could also be used to make brandy. More clues w ill emerge later, but we may be sure that the island produced tobacco, corn and feed for livestock. “Gardens” could refer to f lowers, but he is probably speaking of household gardens for growing vegetables to be consumed by those in residence. All in all, it sounds rather pleasant, doesn’t it?
would be interesting to know what was happening on the island, how the property was being used. We know that it eventually became a highly productive farm, but we can only imagine how quickly it was transformed from wilderness to a wellordered plantation. The information is very scarce, but one little hint is found in Seth Foster’s 1675 will. He wrote: “I give to my oldest daughter Elizabeth Lowe all my island called Great Choptank with houses, buildings, orchards, gardens with all their privileges thereon belonging forever.” By “buildings,” we may assume Seth was referring to the farm’s outbuildings ~ its barns, corn cribs, smokehouses and other agricultural structures ~ which would have been constructed at convenient locations around the island. “Houses” refers to dwellings, homes for the human inhabitants. His use of the plural suggests that several families were in residence. It seems likely there was a manor house for the owner and his family, plus dwellings for the families of farm workers, indentured servants and farm managers. Distinct plantations would be established in years to come, and the wording of Seth’s will hints that such developments may have begun during his lifetime. H i s r e f e r e nc e to “or c h a r d s”
It is safe to assume that after Foster’s death, the island continued to evolve along similar lines, even though the owners were no longer in residence. There is no evidence that daughter Elizabeth and her husband Vincent Lowe lived there. She and her second husband, William Coursey, lived at Cheston, on the Wye River north of Wye Island. So, who ran af fairs on Great Choptank Island? It was probably a combination of some of the tenant farmers and hired hands, under the 24
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land. Plantations were established throughout the region, wherever vessels could land imported goods and take off local products. Consequently, there were few roads and fewer towns. Natural harbors, such as St. Michaels and Oxford, provided about the only reason for settlers to group together, where shipbuilders, chandlers and import-export merchants gathered to support the maritime commerce. To encourage settlement in the new province, each new immigrant was granted 50 acres of land. Those who brought wives, children or servants could claim an additional 50 acres each. Many with the means to do so took advantage of this bounty by bringing in successive groups of indentured servants and craftsmen. As long as new arrivals did not claim land, their sponsors could make the claims for themselves. In 1658, Set h Foster himself applied for 150 acres for having transported Margaret Hill, Rachell Metc a lfe and Margaret G old to Maryland, probably as household servants. He brought in five other settlers the following year and made application for another 250 acres. Substantial landholdings were created in this way by Maryland’s early entrepreneurs. The province did not grant land in “fee simple” (sold outright); rather, they retained a degree of control by leasing it for two shillings a year per 100 acres.
direction of overseers who reported to the owners. Settlement on both shores of the Bay continued apace, with the Eastern Shore developing as rapidly as the western. Rivers on the western shore were navigable only up as far as the “fall line,” where their waters flowed off the piedmont down into the tidewater area. Accordingly, towns grew up at those points where goods had to be trans-shipped. Not so on the Eastern Shore. Our indented coastline provided many attractive sites for homes and plantations, with its numerous waterways giving ready access to thousands of acres of prime farm-
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below) and gave his name to the waterway there. It is “Knapp’s Narrows” to this day. In 1670, Seth and Eliza sold Poplar Island (#2) to Alexander D’Hinajosa, a Dutch refugee from Delaware who sought asylum in Maryland. A Sir Andrew Cooke acquired land at the mouth of the Great Choptank River (#3), directly across from our island. He called his estate “Maulden,” but the cape has been known ever since as “Cooke’s Point.” A property in the Bayside area was granted to Zachary Wade, whose family held “Wade’s Point” (#4) for over a century. It is now a splendid and historic bed and breakfast. One very early land grant was to Captain William Mitchell, of St.
Here are a few that may be of interest. Robert Knapp entered the province in 1659 and claimed 150 acres for transporting himself, his wife, Emalia, and his daughter, Susannah. He was granted land in Kent County, which he called “Knapley.” Later he acquired land near Great Choptank Island (see #1 on the Herman map,
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Chester River, though he still had property on Kent Island, left to him by his mother. When Seth’s daughter Elizabeth Lowe Coursey put Great Choptank Island up for sale, Hawkins bought it. O n Ja nu a r y 19, 1697, Gre at Choptank Island was sold to John H aw k i n s , G e nt le m a n , f or 5 0 0 pounds sterling. One interesting foot note: t he t wo Just ices who w it ne s se d t he sa le to Hawk i n s were William Hemsley and Richard Tilghman. This is the first time the name Tilghman is connected in any way with Great Choptank Island ~ but it won’t be the last! Richard was the father of Matthew Tilghman, who later came to own the island himself; William Hemsley, too, had a descendant who owned a large portion of Choptank Island. Col. Hawkins soon took advantage of a monumental change then underway in Maryland ~ the importation of African slaves. At this point, it may be useful to refresh, brief ly, our understanding of black history in early Maryland. Despite slavery’s importance to the economies of other New World colonies, the institution remained marginal in Maryland during most of the 17th century. Black people comprised only a small fraction of the colony’s population. And not all were slaves; some were free blacks, and others worked as indentured servants. These black men and women of
Mary’s County. His new property was just at the mouth of the Miles River (#5), at the opposite end of the Bay Hundred peninsula from Great Choptank Island. Years later, a subsequent owner would establish an estate and call it “Rich Neck Manor.” It was to become closely linked with the destiny of Great Choptank Island. We need to return now to the life and fortunes of John Hawkins, introduced previously. He was Eliza Foster’s son by Thomas Hawkins, born just months after his father passed away. Though he could not be mentioned in his father’s will, his mother and stepfather did not forget him. After providing for his wife and two daughters, Seth Foster’s will reads: I give and bequeath to my Stepson Jo’n Hawkins that Plantation on Chester River, commonly called by the name of “Fauleys’ Delight” containing 1000 acres or there about, houses, orchards, vineyards, woods, stock forever except his mother’s thirds. Hawkins acquired several other properties in the area over the years: “Jasper’s Lott” on Red Lion Branch, “Tulley’s Delight,” “Barron Neck” on Double Creek, and a plantation, “Beaver Marsh,” on Tuckahoe Branch. He thus became well established in Queen Anne’s County. All these properties were near the 34
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to be hereafter imported into the province, shall serve durante vita*. And all children born of any Negro or other slave shall be slaves as their fathers were, for the term of their lives. *Durante vita means “for the duration of one’s life.” When the Maryland planters revolted against the rule of Lord Baltimore in 1689, they expanded their plantations to boost their production of tobacco. But that required more labor, just at a time when conditions in Europe were restricting the supply of white indentured servants. And so, of course, they began acquiring African slaves who already were being brought into the southern colonies by the boatload. Their numbers in Maryland remained small in the 1600s. Fewer t han 1,000 A f r ic ans ar r ived in Maryland between 1619 and 1697. In fact, indentured English and Irish ser vants outnumbered enslaved Africans until the 1690s. In 1697, all black people comprised a small minority ~ less than 10 percent ~ of the colony’s population. T hen t he d a m bu r s t . Ne a rly 100,000 African slaves arrived in Maryland during the 75 years leading up to the American Revolution. By 1755, nearly one-third of the entire population of Maryland was derived from Africa. What has been called the Tobacco Revolution and the advent of the “slave plantation” had a devastat-
the early Mar yland colony have been referred to by some historians as “Atlantic Creoles” because of their origins in the larger Atlantic world. They came mostly from the Caribbean islands or were born elsewhere in the Americas. Many spoke English, practiced Christianity and were familiar with English law and trading etiquettes. Although purchased as laborers and worked hard by their ow ners, these Atlantic Creoles formed families, joined churches and incorporated themselves into Maryland societ y. Doing busine ss a mong themselves and with others (both free and enslaved), they survived and some even prospered. They lived and worked alongside white indentured servants and, like them, some began acquiring property of their own. These Atlantic Creoles came to be known as Maryland’s “Charter Generation.” The Province of Maryland, however, was firmly opposed to the idea of a free black population made up of former slaves. In 1664, the Lord Proprietor established this law: Be it enacted by the Right Honorable the Lord Proprietary by the advise and consent of the upper and lower house of this present Generall Assembly, that all Negroes or other slaves already within the province, and all Negroes and other slaves 36
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process of transforming themselves from Africans to African Americans. So how does all this connect with our exploration of our little island? Well, 1697 was sort of the kick-off year for the Tobacco Revolution and the African slave trade in Maryland. And 1697 was the very year that Col. John Hawk ins purchased Great Choptank Island. And, yes, he began bringing in African slaves. The island would be worked by African slaves for the next 141 years. Hawkins purchased Great Choptank Island as an investment and began aggressively to develop it. White overseers lived on the island with their families, one on the southern part of the island and the other on the northern part. Just seven years later, in 1704, Hawkins mortgaged the island to John Hyde, a London merchant, for 707 pounds and 9 shillings. Ten slaves were included in the “property.” There were six males: Tom (30), Gey (28), Mingoe (25), Toney (23), Sambo (18) and Jacob (16). Four females also were included in the deal: Tilly (30), Tilly (22), Didoe (24) and Beck (20). We may guess that they made up two households, perhaps families. Why Hawkins needed the cash is not known, but it may be instructive that he brought in additional manpower. That same year, John Trulean indentured himself and his wife to John and Judith Hawkins. Trulean pledged to “serve 4 years in his trade
ing effect on black life in Maryland. Members of the Charter Generation either fled or were swallowed up by the massive wave of African imports. Planters put the newly arrived Africans to work in primitive inland plantations, where the largely male population lived lonely lives without friends or families. Driven to work at a feverish pace, slaves suffered grievously. Deadly diseases, for which newly arrived Africans had little resistance, killed them at a murderous rate. By the 1740s, enslaved Africans were living longer, having developed immunity to the diseases of the Americas. Planters, seeing the benefit of having a reproducing labor force, imported women as well as men. As the sex ratio flattened, black men and women again established families. Planters gave women some time off during the last trimester of pregnancy and the black population began to increase naturally. By the middle of the 18th century, few Africans were entering the colony and the black population was largely native born. Maryland lawmakers officially ended the colony’s participation in the international slave trade in 1774, but, in fact, the trade had all but ceased by midcentury. On the eve of the American Revolution, 90 percent of the colony’s enslaved population was native born, and black people completed the 38
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Tilghman's Island of a smith in good workmanship to the best of his power. His wife will do whatever is expected of a woman.” Hawkins had many other irons in the fi re, however, and for some reason he stopped making mortgage payments. After some years with no interest paid, John Hyde fi nally foreclosed and in 1720 became legal possessor of Great Choptank Island. Hyde never visited the island and may have had nothing more than a financial interest in it. Eventually, he put the island up for sale. Four years later, a buyer stepped forward ~ but that story will be told in next month’s installment. [sic] We offer one fi nal note about Col. John Hawkins. I discovered a footnote saying that in 1716 he donated a silver chalice to St. Paul’s Anglican Church in Centreville. Oh, really? Having been in that very church myself, I was curious whether the chalice might still exist. I soon learned that it does still exist, and indeed they use it every Sunday. Moreover, it is just one of three Hawkins pieces: there are also a tankard donated the following year (the year he died) and a plate donated by his son Ernault. To my delight, the Rector, Rev. Mary Garner, invited me to come see it. There on the altar were the three pieces of fi ne silver. As I picked up the chalice, I felt a connection being made, between my hands and those of John Hawkins
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~ the son of Elizabeth Hawkins Foster, our founding mother, and himself once the sole owner of Great Choptank Island. [End of Installment 4] Gary Crawford and his wife, Susan, own and operate Crawfords Nautical Books, a unique bookstore on Tilghman’s Island. The Final Chapter For those who may not know, Gar y Craw ford passed away on March 5, 2020, just days after submitting this article. Helen Chappell asked if she might say a few words about our dear friend: “About t went y years ago, my friends Edwina Murphy and Rose Garvin, queens of Tilghman Island, took me to Crawford’s Nautical Books, which had opened in the old bank building next to Rose’s 40
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She was the great love of his life, but Tilghman Island was his mistress. Her geography, her history, culture and people, especially watermen and their families were all precious to him, and he made a study of them his life’s work. He published both a small local newspaper The Island Flyer about the goings and doings of the local folks and for many years, wrote articles about the history of Tilghman and the Bay Hundred for Tidewater Times. “For me, he was not just a fellow writer, he was a great friend, larger than life and a fellow lover of writing and books. I am fortunate to be able to call Gary and Susan my friends, and my life has been blessed by his presence. Farewell, old friend. I hope to see you on another island and another time.” ~ Helen Chappell
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Mary, Abe and the Cave by Bonna L. Nelson
Among Kentucky’s many attractions are three American treasures: the Mary Todd Lincoln House in Lexington, the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Park in Hodgenville and the Mammoth Cave National Park in Mammoth Cave, Edmonson County. During our adventures in Kentucky, we explored the three very different sites: Mary’s elegant home in the city, Abe’s replica wood cabin in the woods and the Mammoth Cave, the longest in
the world. The Mary Todd Lincoln House was our first stop of the three. The friendly staff at the Lexington Information Center in the historic gray marble courthouse gave us a bundle of brochures about the area, suggested a lunch spot and directed us to the Mary Todd Lincoln House a few blocks away. We embarked on a brisk walk on a cloudy 30-degree day to the brick Georgian-style house, now a museum, located in the heart of downtown Lexington.
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spent many of her formative years in this house. The West Main Street home was the Todd family residence from 1832 (when Mary was thirteen; she was born in 1818 in a house just a few blocks away) until her father’s death in 1849. Her father, Robert S. Todd, was a prominent businessman and politician. He provided for his daughter’s education and fostered her interest in society and politics. Prominent politicians of the day visited the home frequently and included Mary in their lively political discussions. We were surprised to learn about
We were seated in the small foyer along with four other folks waiting for the first tour of the day to begin. The tour guides were dressed in period costumes and were very knowledgeable about the furnishings and First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln, a member of a very prominent early Lexington family. We learned that the 16th first lady’s 14-room girlhood home was built c. 1803-1806 and is furnished w it h To dd a nd L i nc ol n f a m i ly possessions. It is the nation’s first shrine to a first lady. Mrs. Lincoln
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my favorite pieces in addition to the black-and-white portrait of the Lincoln family. In 1832, when she was 21, Mary moved to Springfield, Illinois, to live with a sister. There, she met Abraham Lincoln, and they married in November 1842. Mary was deeply committed to supporting Lincoln’s career. Over year years, they visited the Todd family home in Lexington frequently. In Kentucky, Lincoln met many influential politicians who provided him with guidance and supported his political ambitions. The hour-long tour of the gracious home took us through the first-floor drawing room, dining room and other public spaces and the secondand third-floor bedrooms and sitting areas. We were able to see original Kentucky ash floors, Oriental rugs and hand-carved fireplace mantels. It was sad to think that Mary suffered so as first lady. The Civil War completely occupied her husband, and he was later assassinated in front of her. She lost three of her four sons prematurely, and in 1875 her only surviving son put her on trial
Mary’s education, sophistication and political savvy. She was ideally prepared to be a president’s wife, though she endured much controversy and tragedy. We were also surprised to learn about her family’s wealth, refinement and slave ownership compared to Lincoln’s simple logcabin, farming family background and stance against owning slaves. The rooms are elegantly restored and preserved with period furnishings: carpets, drapery, paintings, family portraits and accessories. There is an impressive silver serving piece collection that is displayed in the dining room, and Mary’s tea set is in the master bedroom. The iron baby bathtub, a four-poster canopy bed and a writing desk were
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offered information and suggestions about the park. A walk up 56 pink granite steps, a step for every year of Lincoln’s life, left us a bit breathless. The impressive six-columned, neoclassical-style Memorial Building at the top of the steps enshrines an early 19th-century one-room, one-door, one-window log cabin, a symbolic representation of Lincoln’s birth cabin.
for insanity. How different her life was after the Todd House. She died, grieving and a recluse, in poverty, but the lovely Mary Todd Lincoln House honors our complex, tragic 16th first lady with grace and dignity. Mary’s first 20 years of life were spent surrounded by elegance, substantially different circumstances from those of her husband, Abraham Lincoln. The 16th president was born in 1809 in a one-room log cabin on his father’s land, Sinking Spr ing Far m, in Hodgenv ille, a remote area an hour’s drive south of L ou is v i l le, Kent uck y. A be’s “humble, rugged beginnings shaped the man who shaped our nation,” according to the National Park Service literature about one of our favorite presidents. The day after visiting the Todd home, we drove past small and large farms, rolling hills, grazing cattle and horses, a smattering of trees and a few spots of snow on a beautiful, sunny Kentucky day. Our second American treasure destination was the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park and the area where Lincoln spent the first seven years of his life. A small visitor center offered some exhibits including the family bible and other family artifacts, an orientation film and information. The park rangers in the center and at the Memorial Building were friendly and
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farm on stony land bought by his parents for $200 in 1808. Now much of the acreage is wooded. Walking trails course through the woods, and accessible sidewalks lead to the Memorial Building. Visitors can also see the burbling spring for which the farm is named, Sinking Spring, the water source for the family. Lincoln lived at Sinking Spring until he was two years old. The fam-
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ily then moved a few miles away to another farm on Knob Creek, also a part of the National Historic Park, where Honest Abe lived until he was seven. In 1816, the family moved to Indiana to move away from slavery, which his father did not believe in, and due to difficulties with land titles in Kentucky. Back on the road, we drove another hour south to the 52,830acre Mammoth Cave National Park (MCNP), which hosts more than a half-million visitors a year. It was 40 degrees and sunny when we arrived to tour the third American treasure
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on our Kentucky adventure, Mammoth Cave, a water-formed labyrinth beneath sandstone and shale ridges. We reserved the two-hour Frozen Niagara Tour, one of the least strenuous, with the fewest steps, in advance using the National Park Ser v ice website. With my two replaced knees and my husband, John, planning his first knee replacement in a few months, we didn’t want to take a chance on not being able to exit the world-renowned cave system. Established as a National Park in 1941, Mammoth Cave is home to the world’s longest known cave system, with 400 miles of surveyed passages on five levels and new passages being discovered by archaeologists and cave explorers every year. UNESCO describes the World Heritage Site as “The world’s largest network of natural caves and underground passageways, which are characteristic of limestone formations…Mammoth Cave is the most extensive cave system in the world…Nearly every type of cave formation is known within the site, the product of karst topography [the dissolution of soluble rocks, such as limestone, dolomite and gypsum].” Visitors to Mammoth Cave can see formations millions of years in the making. Cave formations include long passages with huge chambers, high domes, vertical shafts, bottomless pits, stalagmites, stalactites, gypsum f lower and needle forms, rivers, streams and waterfalls.
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many cave entrances for our tour. Two eager and enthusiastic National Park Service rangers, so young they looked more like boy scouts to us, accompanied the group. One led the tour while the other ensured safety at the back of the line. Entrance was through a locked door of heavy steel. We easily negotiated the walk down 12 steep steps. Other tours for the younger and more athletic require miles-long hikes and/or hundreds of stairs or kayaking to reach the point that we were bused to. Smart move on our part. Crickets clinging to the cave walls and chilly, damp air greeted us as we entered the cave wearing jackets and sturdy shoes as recommended. The cave was not well lit, so the rangers used large f lashlights to point out unique cave formations as we traveled. They turned on a few orange and yellow lights to highlight features. I wondered how prehistoric
An International Biosphere Reserve, the cave system is home to a varied flora and fauna, including more t han a dozen endangered sightless creatures. According to UNESCO, the Mammoth Cave fauna comprises the richest known variety of cave-dwelling wildlife. More than 130 species found there include cr icket s, shr imp, sa la ma nders, woodrats. Numerous species are known to exist only at Mammoth Cave. These include 14 species of troglobites ~ underground species such as eyeless fish, shrimp and crayfish ~ that spend their entire lives in the cave, and troglophiles. After picking up our tickets at the visitor center and perusing its exhibits, we met our tour group and guides to board a small bus that took us for a brief ride through the gloriously forested MCNP to one of the
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the mystery and magic of Mammoth Cave, albeit in our limited, chosen way. After the bus returned us to the visitor center, we were required to clean our shoes on bio security mats with a disinfecting solution so as not to carry the white-nose syndrome bat fungus to another location. The disease has killed millions of bats in the United States and Canada. After purchasing a beautiful agate stone in the gift shop, we relished delicious homemade mushroom soup at the in-house restaurant. We drove leisurely past rugged hill country, forests, farms and pastures on the 1.5-hour drive back to Louisville while discussing our explorations of Kentucky’s national treasures ~ Abe, Mary and the cave ~ and our itinerary for the next day.
peoples, whose artifacts have been discovered there, explored Mammoth Cave 10,000 years ago without artificial lighting. We experienced three levels of the five levels in Mammoth Cave. The Frozen Niagara formation is a spectacular array of stalactites, the image of a waterfall petrified in stone. Unlike the broad, well-lit walkways, high ceilings and beautiful stalactites and stalagmites of Luray Caverns in Virginia, Mammoth was dark, with narrow walkways and low-hanging formations (I bumped my head twice). While not nearly as beautiful, the formations were amazing in depth, length, levels, variety and complexity: a truly natural wonder and treasure. We were pleased to experience
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ASPARAGUS DIP Makes about 2 cups This is a very versatile dip or spread. Use as a dip for tortilla chips, pita chips or fresh-cut veggies. It’s also great as a spread on a turkey, ham or veggie sandwich. 1 bunch fresh asparagus, bottom inch cut off and discard
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rest of the ingredients into a food processor and pulse until smooth. For more of a guacamole flavor, omit the mustard and fresh dill and add 1 teaspoon ground cumin. Cover and chill the dip until ready to serve. You can make this 1 day ahead.
2 T. fresh lemon juice 2 T. Greek yogurt 2 T. fresh chives or green onions, roughly chopped 1/4 t. sea salt 1 garlic clove, smashed 1 T. fresh dill weed, washed and chopped 2 t. Dijon mustard 2 t. finely chopped jalapeĂąo (seeds removed)
KALAMATA AIOLI Makes about 2 cups This sauce is great over any meat or served with fresh veggies or roasted French fries.
Cut the asparagus into 1-inch pieces and steam or simmer in water for 6 to 8 minutes or until tender. Drain and run cold water over the cooked pieces until they are cooled. Drain well again, blotting with a paper towel to absorb all the water. Place the asparagus and the
1/2 cup pitted and drained kalamata olives 2 cups mayonnaise 3 T. roasted garlic puree 2 T. fresh lemon juice
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1/3 cup cooking sherry 1/2 cup packed brown sugar 3 large cloves garlic, minced Crushed red pepper flakes to taste Protein of your choice Combine all ingredients except meat in a saucepan. Heat until it just starts to simmer and the sugar melts. Allow to cool and then pour into a sturdy zip-lock bag. Add the protein. Seal and refrigerate until ready to cook. Note: You can do 3 bags of marinade ~ one for the chicken, one for the flank steak and one for the shrimp ~ and then cook them each on a sheet pan (lining with foil is optional). Bake at 375° for 20 minutes or until each protein is cook to your desired doneness.
1/4 t. kosher salt Puree Kalamata olives in food processor. Scrape down sides and puree again. Transfer to clean mixing bowl, add rest of ingredients and blend. BASIC TERIYAKI MARINADE This flavorful marinade is excellent on flank steak (marinate overnight for the best flavor), chicken or pork (marinate from 4 hours to overnight) and fish or shrimp (marinate for an hour). 1 10-oz. bottle reduced sodium soy sauce 1 individual-size can pineapple juice 1/2 cup vegetable oil
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3 pats of butter (great for creaminess unless you are watching your fat content) 1/2 bunch cilantro, washed and roughly chopped Place first 4 ingredients in a small soup pan and cook over medium heat. Bring to a boil and allow to simmer, uncovered, until the sauce reaches the consistency of salsa (about 30-45 minutes). Once done, add pats of butter and cilantro and stir. Add salt if desired and serve over fish, steak, chicken or even rice!
serve it over broiled sea bass. It is also great over rice ~ so simple and delicious. 1 can black beans, drained 1 can (same size can as beans) plain diced tomatoes (not seasoned), drained 1 can chicken broth (College Inn is the best) 4 cloves garlic, minced
ITALIAN BEEF AND SPINACH PIE 1 unbaked 9-inch pastry shell
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heat and simmer, covered, about 10 minutes. Meanwhile, in a medium bowl, combine the spinach, ricotta and 1/4 cup of the mozzarella. Spoon the spinach filling into pastry shell. Top with meat mixture. Cover edge of pastry with foil to prevent overbrowning. Bake at 350° for 45 minutes for a big pie or 25 minutes for individual muffin pies. Top with tomato and remaining 1/2 cup mozzarella cheese. Bake 2 more minutes or until heated through and cheese is just melted. Let stand 10 minutes before serving. Garnish with fresh oregano if desired. Makes 8 servings. Make 2 pies and freeze both! They are beautiful with fresh tomato on top and fresh oregano.
1/2 cup tomato paste 1/2 lb. lean ground beef 1/2 t. dried Italian seasoning, crushed 1/4 lb. mild ground Italian turkey sausage 1 10-oz. bag frozen spinach, thawed and well drained 3/4 cup chopped red/yellow peppers 2/3 cup light ricotta cheese 1/2 cup sliced fresh mushrooms 3/4 cup shredded mozzarella cheese 1 clove garlic, minced 1 cup chopped tomato 1 cup water Fresh oregano sprigs (optional)
ROSEMARY CHICKEN and POTATOES Using extremely fresh rosemary, extra olive oil and sea salt is the key to this simple, yet fabulous meal. 4 chicken breasts, bone-in and skin on 8-12 small new potatoes, washed and cut in half 1 small onion, diced fine 2 T. fresh rosemary, washed and chopped 1 red bell pepper, chopped 1 T. sea salt Extra-virgin olive oil
You can make these in one pie shell or in muffin tins for individual pies. Line the pie pan or cut individual rounds from the pastry shell to fit the muffin cups. In a medium skillet, cook beef, sausage, pepper, mushrooms and garlic until meat is brown and veggies are tender; drain off fat. Stir in water, tomato paste, Italian seasoning and salt. Heat to boiling, reduce
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gredients in a large bowl. Arrange potatoes, onion and bell pepper on an oven-safe pan or sided cookie sheet that has been drizzled with olive oil or smeared with butter. Place the chicken on top, making sure that all the ingredients are in the cooking pan. Bake uncovered for 40 minutes, until chicken is cooked through and golden. You can double this if you have a big family and then store leftovers in individual containers to take to work. CHICKEN PEPPERONI This is so easy and so delicious 4 oz. pepperoni, diced into small pieces 1 medium onion, diced
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Your favorite pasta, cooked to directions on package
3 cloves garlic, roughly chopped Extra-virgin olive oil 26 oz. container diced, plain tomatoes (Pomi brand in the box is my favorite) 1/3 cup red wine 2 T. tomato paste Salt to taste 4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cut in half
Pour 2 tablespoons of extra-virgin olive oil into a large saucepan. I love to use my Dutch oven. Place pan over medium-high and allow the oil to heat up. Once hot, add the garlic and, watching closely, allow to cook until just barely golden and fragrant. Add the pepperoni and onion and stir frequently. Turn down heat if garlic begins to brown. After 2 minutes, add everything else but the chicken. Turn the heat down to low and allow sauce to barely simmer for 20 minutes. Add the chicken to the sauce, cover, increase heat to medium-low or medium and allow the chicken to braise for 30 minutes. Serve over pasta.
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Preheat oven to 425°. Line a rimmed baking sheet with foil. Combine the chili powder, 2 teaspoons salt and 1 teaspoon pepper in a small bowl. Place the peppers and onions on the prepared baking sheet, drizzle with 1 tablespoon of the oil and season with half the chili powder mixture. Bake until softened and starting to get golden brown, about 15 minutes. Meanwhile, cut the chicken into 1/4-inch-thick slices and toss in a large bowl with the remaining chili powder mixture and 1 tablespoon oil. Scatter the chicken on top of the peppers and onions and return the baking sheet to the oven until the chicken is cooked through and
3 slices bacon, cooked and crumbled In a large skillet, layer the melted butter, prosciutto, mushrooms, zucchini, carrots, rice, broth and cream. Cover and simmer over medium heat for 18-19 minutes, until most of the liquid is absorbed. Do not stir. Just before serving, stir the cheese into rice and sprinkle with bacon. CHICKEN FAJITAS on a SHEET PAN 1 T. chili powder Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper 1 pound yellow, red and orange bell peppers, halved, stemmed and seeded 1 large yellow onion, halved and thinly sliced 2 T. extra-virgin olive oil 1-1/2 pounds boneless, skinless chicken breast Juice of 1 lime, plus lime wedges for serving 8 fajita-size flour tortillas, warmed Shredded Monterey Jack cheese, guacamole, hot sauce, salsa and sour cream. 73
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Optional: fruit (fresh or dried), nuts, nut butter, seeds, protein powder, granola, coconut, spices, citrus zest and vanilla extract Add the desired amounts of milk, oats, yogurt, chia seeds and banana to a jar or container and give them a good stir. Refrigerate overnight or for at least 5 hours. In the morning, add additional liquid if you’d like. Once you achieve the desired consistency, top with fruit, nuts, nut butter, seeds, protein powder, granola, coconut, spices, zest or vanilla extract. The mixture will keep for up to 2 days. If you don’t add the banana, up to 4 days. However, once you are experienced, you’ll have no problem whipping up another batch midweek if needed!
starting to get golden brown, about 10-15 minutes more. Drizzle with the lime juice. Serve with the warmed tortillas, Monterey Jack cheese, guacamole, hot sauce, salsa, sour cream and lime wedges. OVERNIGHT OATS 1/3 to 1/2 cup liquid, such as dairy milk or almond, cashew or coconut milk 1/3 to 1/2 cup old-fashioned rolled oats 1/3 to 1/2 cup yogurt, optional 1 t. chia seeds, optional but highly recommended 1/2 banana, mashed, optional
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4 t. baking powder 1/2 t. salt 2 T. sugar, granulated 2 eggs, well-beaten 1 cup milk 1/4 cup butter, melted Cinnamon sugar Preheat oven to 425°. Grease muffin tins. Mix and sift dry ingredients together. Combine eggs, milk and butter, then add dry ingredients. Mix thoroughly. Fill muffin tins three-fourths full and top with cinnamon sugar. Bake for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown. BAKED APPLE CRUNCH I love making this anytime of year. You can make it ahead and then bake it right before serving. You can also double the recipe and make a large pan and to eat through the week with your friends and family. Feel free to substitute 75
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in an 8-inch pie pan or in individual ramekins. Preheat oven to 350°. Make crunch by combining flour, sugar, butter and vanilla and working the mixture between your fingers until crumbly. Drop on top of apple filling. Bake one hour or until golden brown. Cool slightly and then sprinkle with sugar. A longtime resident of Oxford, Pamela Meredith, formerly Denver’s NBC Channel 9 Children’s Chef, now teaches both adult and children’s cooking classes on the south shore of Massachusetts. For more of Pam’s recipes, visit the Story Archive tab at tidewatertimes.com.
another fruit for the apples. Add 1 tablespoon of flour in the filling if it is a juicy fruit or berries. For the filling: 2 pounds tart apples, peeled, cored and sliced 1/2 cup sugar 1 t. cinnamon 1/2 t. nutmeg 1/2 t. ground cloves For the crunch: 1/2 cup flour 4 T. sugar 3 T. butter 1 t. vanilla, extract Confectioner’s sugar for garnish
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Caroline County – A Perspective Caroline County is the very definition of a rural community. For more than 300 years, the county’s economy has been based on “market” agriculture. Caroline County was created in 1773 from Dorchester and Queen Anne’s counties. The county was named for Lady Caroline Eden, the wife of Maryland’s last colonial governor, Robert Eden (1741-1784). Denton, the county seat, was situated on a point between two ferry boat landings. Much of the business district in Denton was wiped out by the fire of 1863. Following the Civil War, Denton’s location about fifty miles up the Choptank River from the Chesapeake Bay enabled it to become an important shipping point for agricultural products. Denton became a regular port-ofcall for Baltimore-based steamer lines in the latter half of the 19th century. Preston was the site of three Underground Railroad stations during the 1840s and 1850s. One of those stations was operated by Harriet Tubman’s parents, Benjamin and Harriet Ross. When Tubman’s parents were exposed by a traitor, she smuggled them to safety in Wilmington, Delaware. Linchester Mill, just east of Preston, can be traced back to 1681, and possibly as early as 1670. The mill is the last of 26 water-powered mills to operate in Caroline County and is currently being restored. The long-term goals include rebuilding the millpond, rehabilitating the mill equipment, restoring the miller’s dwelling, and opening the historic mill on a scheduled basis. Federalsburg is located on Marshyhope Creek in the southern-most part of Caroline County. Agriculture is still a major portion of the industry in the area; however, Federalsburg is rapidly being discovered and there is a noticeable influx of people, expansion and development. Ridgely has found a niche as the “Strawberry Capital of the World.” The present streetscape, lined with stately Victorian homes, reflects the transient prosperity during the countywide canning boom (1895-1919). Hanover Foods, formerly an enterprise of Saulsbury Bros. Inc., for more than 100 years, is the last of more than 250 food processors that once operated in the Caroline County region. Points of interest in Caroline County include the Museum of Rural Life in Denton, Adkins Arboretum near Ridgely, and the Mason-Dixon Crown Stone in Marydel. To contact the Caroline County Office of Tourism, call 410-479-0655 or visit their website at www.tourcaroline.com. 79
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Queen Anne’s County The history of Queen Anne’s County dates back to the earliest Colonial settlements in Maryland. Small hamlets began appearing in the northern portion of the county in the 1600s. Early communities grew up around transportation routes, the rivers and streams, and then roads and eventually railroads. Small towns were centers of economic and social activity and evolved over the years from thriving centers of tobacco trade to communities boosted by the railroad boom. Queenstown was the original county seat when Queen Anne’s County was created in 1706, but that designation was passed on to Centreville in 1782. It’s location was important during the 18th century, because it is near a creek that, during that time, could be navigated by tradesmen. A hub for shipping and receiving, Queenstown was attacked by English troops during the War of 1812. Construction of the Federal-style courthouse in Centreville began in 1791 and is the oldest courthouse in continuous use in the state of Maryland. Today, Centreville is the largest town in Queen Anne’s County. With its relaxed lifestyle and tree-lined streets, it is a classic example of small town America. The Stevensville Historic District, also known as Historic Stevensville, is a national historic district in downtown Stevensville, Queen Anne’s County. It contains roughly 100 historic structures, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is located primarily along East Main Street, a portion of Love Point Road, and a former section of Cockey Lane. The Chesapeake Heritage and Visitor Center in Chester at Kent Narrows provides and overview of the Chesapeake region’s heritage, resources and culture. The Chesapeake Heritage and Visitor Center serves as Queen Anne’s County’s official welcome center. Queen Anne’s County is also home to the Chesapeake Bay Environmental Center (formerly Horsehead Wetland Center), located in Grasonville. The CBEC is a 500-acre preserve just 15 minutes from the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. Over 200 species of birds have been recorded in the area. Embraced by miles of scenic Chesapeake Bay waterways and graced with acres of pastoral rural landscape, Queen Anne’s County offers a relaxing environment for visitors and locals alike. For more information about Queen Anne’s County, visit www.qac.org.
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An Early Spring Spring has arrived! We are now on daylight savings time (DST) ~ no matter what your opinion might be on turning the clocks forward one hour. It is interesting how the debate about whether to continue the “spring forward ~ fall back” clock routine is getting much more discussion. According to a 2019 report from the Congressional Research Service, at least 39
states have proposed legislation to change their observance of DST. As I write this column, legislation has been introduced in the General Assembly that would alter Maryland’s standard time to be Eastern Daylight Time year-round. Here in Georgia, it looks like a non-binding resolution moving Georgia to DST will be on the November ballot. Do we still need to do this time change
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bers. If you hurry the season and plant seeds in cold and wet soil, they will rot.
thing? Well, for us gardeners, it is not so much what time it is during the day, rather it is when the sun rises and sets, so we can get the maximum amount of daylight for our gardening activities! Considering how brutal and snowy some winters have been in the past on the ’Shore, this past one wasn’t too bad. Daffodils and other spring-flowering bulbs popped out early. This means that some gardening activity may be accelerated in April, but remember, don’t rush the season by putting those tender plants out too soon. We usually have a hard frost at the end of April or the first of May, so wait until the soil has warmed up to 55 to 60 degrees before you set out warm-season tomato, eggplant and pepper transplants. Root growth is directly related to soil temperature. The same soil temperature requirement goes for seeding warm-season vegetables like corn, green beans, summer and winter squash and cucum-
Broccoli, Brussels sprouts and cabbage transplants can also be planted in mid- to late April. You might want to protect them from hard frosts with plastic milk jugs as “hot caps.” Remove the bottom 1 inch of a plastic jug so that the sides are straight. Then cut around the jug below the handle, leaving a halfinch uncut piece under the handle as a hinge. Place the jug over a seedling, pushing it deep into the soil with the handle toward the prevailing wind. This reduces the chance of it blowing open. The jug serves as a “hot cap” to guard against frost,
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crowding inhibits blooming. Dig up and separate in July. Store the bulbs in a cool, dry location and replant in the fall. Cut the f lower stalks back to the ground on daffodils, hyacinths and other spring-f lowering bulbs as the f lowers fade. Do not cut the foliage until it dies naturally. The leaves are necessary to produce big bulbs capable of ref lowering. To keep the planting going, you can fertilize bulbs upon the emergence of foliage with a 1010-10 fertilizer, using a rate of 1 to 3 pounds per 100 square feet. Repeat the application after the bulbs have bloomed. With our wet winter and the usual April showers, don’t be in a hurry to work the garden soil, especially clay-based soil, when it is wet. If you do, you will destroy the soil structure and will be stuck
a translucent shield to prevent sunscald and a wind barrier. When the plant is well established, the top can be folded back during the day and flipped into place when needed at night. When all danger of frost is past, cut off the top hinge, leaving the bottom to provide a reservoir for watering. Give some attention to the spring-flowering bulbs in the landscape. Observe your daffodil and other spring bulbs while in bloom this spring to be sure they have not been shaded by the new growth of other trees or shrub plantings. If they have, you may need to move your bulbs to a new, sunny location or prune back the tree or shrub plantings to allow for more light exposure. Label the clumps of daffodils that are too crowded, as over-
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good green foliage color. Buy plants with well-developed root systems that are vigorous, but not too large for their pots. Also, when shopping for annual flowers for your garden, look for plants with lots of unopened buds. Plants that bloom in the pack are often root-bound and can be set back for several weeks after being transplanted. Plants not yet in bloom will bloom sooner, be better established and grow faster. April is the perfect month to plant pansies in the landscape. A number of newer varieties have heat tolerance bred into them, so You can brighten up your front door with pots of transplanted pansies or place them in outdoor beds as soon as the soil can be worked. Purchase
with hard concrete in July when it does dry out. An easy test to determine if the soil is ready to work is to squeeze a handful into a tight ball and then break the ball apart with your fingers. If the ball readily crumbles in your fingers, the soil is ready to work. If it stays in the form of a ball or in large pieces, however, it is too wet. Wait a few days and do the test again. If April is warmer than usual, gardeners might consider planting annuals in the landscape a week or two earlier than normal. When purchasing bedding annuals this spring, choose properly grown plants with
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appear. Each rooted shoot or clump will develop into a beautiful plant for late-summer bloom. Pinching out the top when the plant is about 4 inches high will thicken the plant. You can also take chrysanthemum cuttings now through mid-June for flowers during fall and winter in the greenhouse. Many other popular perennials can be divided now, including phlox, fall asters, Shasta daisies, baby’s breath and liriope. Set up a plant exchange with friends and neighbors to share the excess. Planted now, Sedum spectabile and Hosta tardifolia or H. plantaginea will brighten your flower bed in fall. Aster novae angliae, a blue aster, or the red chrysanthemum cultivar
large plants that will give a good show before hot weather arrives. Chrysanthemums pop up in the flower bed in April. Lift, divide and replant them as soon as new shoots
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from the small trees or blast them apart with a forceful stream of water from the garden hose. DO NOT try to burn them out of the tree. Another useful control is to spray them with an oil spray or Bacillus thuringiensis (BT). BT is a naturally occurring bacterium that is sold as Dipel. It provides effective control if applied when the caterpillars are very young. It is also great on bagworms, which appear in late May. The key to control is to apply BT early, when the critters are small. Late April is a good time to plant dahlia tubers in the f lowerbed. Stake or provide support or the emerging foliage and blooms at the time of planting to avoid injury to tubers. If you dug up and stored dahlia tubers over the winter, one easy way to determine if they have survived storage is to sprout them indoors in a warm, well-lit spot. Fill the bare spots in the f lowerbed with moss roses (Portulaca) and feed regularly to encourage blooms into the summer. In addition to planting annual and perennial flowers to attract
‘Minn Ruby’ are also late blooming. With the warmer temperatures of April come the insects. One pest that we always see is the Eastern tent caterpillar. Found in webs in the branch crotches of fruit trees, especially wild cherries, these white nests can contain hundreds of hungry caterpillars. Although they can defoliate wild cherries, they are not a serious pest. If control is desired, you can simply pull the nests down
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hummingbirds, think about adding some woody plants to the yard to provide nectar for these smallest native birds. Some common trees visited by hummingbirds are buckeye, horse chestnut, catalpa, apple, crabapple, hawthorn, silk tree, redbud and tulip poplar. Shrubs include azalea, beauty bush, coralberry, honeysuckle, lilac, New Jersey tea and red weigela. If you received a hydrangea as a gift plant for Easter, you could transplant it into the garden after its flowers fade. When the weather warms, plant in well-drained soil in full sun to partial shade. Don’t be surprised if the next year’s flowers are a different color than the first year. Blue or pink hydrangea color
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Dorchester Points of Interest bridge in Maryland after the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. A life-long resident of Dorchester County, Senator Malkus served in the Maryland State Senate from 1951 through 1994. Next to the Malkus Bridge is the 1933 Emerson C. Harrington Bridge. This bridge was replaced by the Malkus Bridge in 1987. Remains of the 1933 bridge are used as fishing piers on both the north and south bank of the river. HERITAGE MUSEUMS and GARDENS of DORCHESTER - Home of the Dorchester County Historical Society, Heritage Museum offers a range of local history and gardens on its grounds. The Meredith House, a 1760’s Georgian home, features artifacts and exhibits on the seven Maryland governors associated with the county; a child’s room containing antique dolls and toys; and other period displays. The Neild Museum houses a broad collection of agricultural, maritime, industrial, and Native American artifacts, including a McCormick reaper (invented by Cyrus McCormick in 1831). The Ron Rue exhibit pays tribute to a talented local decoy carver with a re-creation of his workshop. The Goldsborough Stable, circa 1790, includes a sulky, pony cart, horse-driven sleighs, and tools of the woodworker, wheelwright, and blacksmith. For more info. tel: 410-228-7953 or visit dorchesterhistory.org.
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DORCHESTER COUNTY VISITOR CENTER - The Visitors Center in Cambridge is a major entry point to the lower Eastern Shore, positioned just off U.S. Route 50 along the shore of the Choptank River. With its 100foot sail canopy, it’s also a landmark. In addition to travel information and exhibits on the heritage of the area, there’s also a large playground, garden, boardwalk, restrooms, vending machines, and more. The Visitors Center is open daily from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information about Dorchester County call 410-228-1000 or visit www.visitdorchester.org or www.tourchesapeakecountry.com. SAILWINDS PARK - Located at 202 Byrn St., Cambridge, Sailwinds Park has been the site for popular events such as the Seafood Feast-I-Val in August and the Grand National Waterfowl Hunt’s Grandtastic Jamboree in November. For more info. tel: 410-228-SAIL(7245) or visit www. sailwindscambridge.com. CAMBRIDGE CREEK - A tributary of the Choptank River, runs through the heart of Cambridge. Located along the creek are restaurants where you can watch watermen dock their boats after a day’s work on the waterways of Dorchester. HISTORIC HIGH STREET IN CAMBRIDGE - When James Michener was doing research for his novel Chesapeake, he reportedly called Cambridge’s High Street one of the most beautiful streets in America. He modeled his fictional city Patamoke after Cambridge. Many of the gracious homes on High Street date from the 1700s and 1800s. Today you can join a historic walking tour of High Street each Saturday at 11 a.m., April through October (weather permitting). For more info. tel: 410-901-1000. High Street is also known as one of the most haunted streets in Maryland. join a Chesapeake Ghost Walk to hear the stories. Find out more at www. chesapeakeghostwalks.com. SKIPJACK NATHAN OF DORCHESTER - Sail aboard the authentic skipjack Nathan of Dorchester, offering heritage cruises on the Choptank River. The Nathan is docked at Long Wharf in Cambridge. Dredge for oysters and hear the stories of the working waterman’s way of life. For more info. and schedules tel: 410-228-7141 or visit www.skipjack-nathan.org. CHOPTANK RIVER LIGHTHOUSE REPLICA - The replica of a six-sided screwpile lighthouse includes a small museum with exhibits about the original lighthouse’s history and the area’s maritime heritage. The lighthouse, located on Pier A at Long Wharf Park in Cambridge, is open daily, May through October, and by appointment, November through April; call 410-463-2653. For more info. visit www.choptankriverlighthouse.org. DORCHESTER CENTER FOR THE ARTS - Located at 321 High 97
Dorchester Points of Interest Street in Cambridge, the Center offers monthly gallery exhibits and shows, extensive art classes, and special events, as well as an artisans’ gift shop with an array of items created by local and regional artists. For more info. tel: 410-228-7782 or visit www.dorchesterarts.org. RICHARDSON MARITIME MUSEUM - Located at 401 High St., Cambridge, the Museum makes history come alive for visitors in the form of exquisite models of traditional Bay boats. The Museum also offers a collection of boatbuilders’ tools and watermen’s artifacts that convey an understanding of how the boats were constructed and the history of their use. The Museum’s Ruark Boatworks facility, located on Maryland Ave., is passing on the knowledge and skills of area boatwrights to volunteers and visitors alike. Watch boatbuilding and restoration in action. For more info. tel: 410-221-1871 or visit www.richardsonmuseum.org. HARRIET TUBMAN MUSEUM & EDUCATIONAL CENTER - The Museum and Educational Center is developing programs to preserve the history and memory of Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad. The museum is open Tuesday through Saturday. Local tours by appointment are available. The Museum and Educational Center, located at 424 Race St., Cambridge, is one of the stops on the “Finding a Way to Freedom” self-guided driving tour. For more info. tel: 410-228-0401 or visit www. harriettubmanorganization.org. SPOCOTT WINDMILL - Since 1972, Dorchester County has had a fully operating English style post windmill that was expertly crafted by the late master shipbuilder, James B. Richardson. There has been a succession of windmills at this location dating back to the late 1700’s. The complex also includes an 1800 tenant house, one-room school, blacksmith shop, and country store museum. The windmill is located at 1625 Hudson Rd., Cambridge. For more info. visit www.spocottwindmill.org. HORN POINT LABORATORY - The Horn Point Laboratory offers public tours of this world-class scientific research laboratory, which is affiliated with the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. The 90-minute walking tour shows how scientists are conducting research to restore the Chesapeake Bay. Horn Point Laboratory is located at 2020 Horns Point Rd., Cambridge, on the banks of the Choptank River. For more info. and tour schedule tel: 410-228-8200 or visit www.umces.edu/hpl. THE STANLEY INSTITUTE - This 19th century one-room African American schoolhouse, dating back to 1865, is one of the oldest Maryland schools to be organized and maintained by a black community. Between 98
1867 and 1962, the youth in the African-American community of Christ Rock attended this school, which is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Tours available by appointment. The Stanley Institute is located at the intersection of Route 16 West & Bayly Rd., Cambridge. For more info. tel: 410-228-6657. OLD TRINITY CHURCH in Church Creek was built in the 17th century and perfectly restored in the 1950s. This tiny architectural gem continues to house an active congregation of the Episcopal Church. The old graveyard around the church contains the graves of the veterans of the American Revolution, the War of 1812, and the American Civil War. This part of the cemetery also includes the grave of Maryland’s Governor Carroll and his daughter Anna Ella Carroll who was an advisor to Abraham Lincoln. The date of the oldest burial is not known because the wooden markers common in the 17th century have disappeared. For more info. tel: 410-228-2940 or visit www.oldtrinity.net. BUCKTOWN VILLAGE STORE - Visit the site where Harriet Tubman received a blow to her head that fractured her skull. From this injury Harriet believed God gave her the vision and directions that inspired her to guide so many to freedom. Artifacts include the actual newspaper ad offering a reward for Harriet’s capture. Historical tours, bicycle, canoe and kayak
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BLACKWATER NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE - Located 12 miles south of Cambridge at 2145 Key Wallace Dr. With more than 25,000 acres of tidal marshland, it is an important stop along the Atlantic Flyway. Blackwater is currently home to the largest remaining natural population of endangered Delmarva fox squirrels and the largest breeding population of American bald eagles on the East Coast, north of Florida. There is a full service Visitor Center and a four-mile Wildlife Drive, walking trails and water trails. For more info. tel: 410-228-2677 or visit www.fws.gov/blackwater. EAST NEW MARKET - Originally settled in 1660, the entire town is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Follow a self-guided walking tour to see the district that contains almost all the residences of the original founders and offers excellent examples of colonial architecture. For more info. visit http://eastnewmarket.us. HURLOCK TRAIN STATION - Incorporated in 1892, Hurlock ranks as the second largest town in Dorchester County. It began from a Dorchester/ Delaware Railroad station built in 1867. The Old Train Station has been restored and is host to occasional train excursions. For more info. tel: 410943-4181. VIENNA HERITAGE MUSEUM - The museum displays the last surviving mother-of-pearl button manufacturing operation in the country,
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Easton Points of Interest Historic Downtown Easton is the county seat of Talbot County. Established around early religious settlements and a court of law, today the historic district of Easton is a centerpiece of fine specialty shops, business and cultural activities, unique restaurants and architectural fascination. Tree-lined streets are graced with various period structures and remarkable homes, carefully preserved or restored. Because of its historical significance, Easton has earned distinction as the “Colonial Capital of the Eastern Shore” and was honored as #8 in the book, “The 100 Best Small Towns in America.” Walking Tour of Downtown Easton Start near the corner of Harrison Street and Mill Place. 1. HISTORIC TIDEWATER INN - 101 E. Dover St. A completely modern hotel built in 1949, it was enlarged in 1953 and has recently undergone extensive renovations. It is the “Pride of the Eastern Shore.” 2. THE BULLITT HOUSE - 108 E. Dover St. One of Easton’s oldest and most beautiful homes, it was built in 1801. It is now occupied by the Mid-Shore Community Foundation. 3. AVALON THEATRE - 42 E. Dover St. Constructed in 1921 during the heyday of silent films and vaudeville entertainment. Over the course of its history, it has been the scene of three world premiers, including “The First Kiss,” starring Fay Wray and Gary Cooper, in 1928. The theater has gone through two major restorations: the first in 1936, when it was refinished in an art deco theme by the Schine Theater chain, and again 52 years later, when it was converted to a performing arts and community center. For more info. tel: 410-822-0345 or visit avalontheatre.com. 4. TALBOT COUNTY VISITORS CENTER - 11 S. Harrison St. The Office of Tourism provides visitors with county information for historic Easton and the waterfront villages of Oxford, St. Michaels and Tilghman Island. For more info. tel: 410-770-8000 or visit tourtalbot.org. 5. BARTLETT PEAR INN - 28 S. Harrison St. Significant for its architecture, it was built by Benjamin Stevens in 1790 and is one of Easton’s earliest three-bay brick buildings. The home was “modernized” with Victorian bay windows on the right side in the 1890s. 6. WATERFOWL BUILDING - 40 S. Harrison St. The old armory is 105
Easton Points of Interest now the headquarters of the Waterfowl Festival, Easton’s annual celebration of migratory birds and the hunting season, the second weekend in November. For more info. tel: 410-822-4567 or visit waterfowlfestival.org. 7. ACADEMY ART MUSEUM - 106 South St. Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, the Academy Art Museum is a fine art museum founded in 1958. Providing national and regional exhibitions, performances, educational programs, and visual and performing arts classes for adults and children, the Museum also offers a vibrant concert and lecture series and seasonal events. The Museum’s permanent collection consists of works on paper and contemporary works by American and European masters. Mon. through Thurs. 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday, Saturday, Sunday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. First Friday of each month open until 7 p.m. For more info. tel: (410) 822-ARTS (2787) or visit academyartmuseum.org. 8. CHRIST CHURCH - St. Peter’s Parish, 111 South Harrison St. Founded in 1692, the Parish’s church building is one of the many historic landmarks of downtown Easton. The current building was erected in the early 1840’s of Port Deposit granite and an addition on the south end was completed in 1874. Since that time there have been many improve-
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14. THOMAS PERRIN SMITH HOUSE - 119 N. Washington St. Built in 1803, it was the early home of the newspaper from which the StarDemocrat grew. In 1911, the building was acquired by the Chesapeake Bay Yacht Club, which occupies it today. 15. ART DECO STORES - 13-25 Goldsborough Street. Although much of Easton looks Colonial or Victorian, the 20th century had its inf luences as well. This row of stores has distinctive 1920s-era white trim at the roof line. It is rumored that there was a speakeasy here during Prohibition. 16. FIRST MASONIC GR AND LODGE - 23 N. Harrison Street. The records of Coats Lodge of Masons in Easton show that five Masonic Lodges met in Talbot Court House (as Easton was then called) on July 31, 1783 to form the first Grand Lodge of Masons in Maryland. Although the building where they first met is gone, a plaque marks the spot today. This completes your walking tour. 17. FOXLEY HALL - 24 N. Aurora St., Built about 1795, Foxley Hall is one of the best-known of Easton’s Federal dwellings. Former home of Oswald Tilghman, great-grandson of Lt. Col. Tench Tilghman. (Private) 18. TRINITY EPISCOPAL CATHEDR AL - On “Cathedral Green,”
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Easton Points of Interest Goldsborough St., a traditional Gothic design in granite. The interior is well worth a visit. All windows are stained glass, picturing New Testament scenes, and the altar cross of Greek type is unique. For more info. tel: 410-822-1931 or visit trinitycathedraleaston.com. 19. 202 DOVER - Built in 1874, this Victorian-era mansion ref lects many architectural styles. For years the building was known as the Wrightson House, thanks to its early 20th century owner, Charles T. Wrightson, one of the founders of the S. & W. canned food empire. Locally it is still referred to as Captain’s Watch due to its prominent balustraded widow’s walk. The Inn’s renovation in 2006 was acknowledged by the Maryland Historic Trust and the U.S. Dept. of the Interior. 20. TALBOT COUNTY FREE LIBRARY - Housed in an attractively remodeled building on West Street, the hours of operation are Mon. and Thurs., 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., Tues. and Wed. 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Fri. and Sat., 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit tcf l.org. 21. U. of M. SHORE MEDICAL CENTER AT EASTON - Established in the early 1900s as the Memorial Hospital, now a member of University of Maryland Shore Regional Health System. For more info.
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tel: 410-822-100 or visit umshoreregional.org. 22. THIRD HAVEN FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE (Quaker). Built 1682-84, this is the earliest documented building in MD and probably the oldest Quaker Meeting House in the U.S. William Penn and many other historical figures have worshiped here. In continuous use since it was built, today it is still home to an active Friends’ community. Visitors welcome; group tours available on request. thirdhaven.org. 23. TALBOT COMMUNITY CENTER - The year-round activities offered at the community center range from ice hockey to figure skating, aerobics and curling. The Center is also host to many events throughout the year, such as antique, craft, boating and sportsman shows. Near Easton 24. PICKERING CREEK - 400-acre farm and science education center featuring 100 acres of forest, a mile of shoreline, nature trails, low-ropes challenge course and canoe launch. Trails are open seven days a week from dawn till dusk. Canoes are free for members. For more info. tel: 410-822-4903 or visit pickeringcreek.org. 25. WYE GRIST MILL - The oldest working mill in Maryland (ca. 1682), the f lour-producing “grist” mill has been lovingly preserved by The Friends of Wye Mill, and grinds f lour to this day using two massive
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Easton Points of Interest grindstones powered by a 26 horsepower overshot waterwheel. For more info. visit oldwyemill.org. 26. W YE ISL A ND NATUR AL RESOURCE MA NAGEMENT AREA - Located between the Wye River and the Wye East River, the area provides habitat for waterfowl and native wildlife. There are 6 miles of trails that provide opportunities for hiking, birding and wildlife viewing. For more info. visit dnr.state.md.us/publiclands/eastern/wyeisland.asp. 27. OLD WYE CHURCH - Old Wye Church is one of the oldest active Anglican Communion parishes in Talbot County. Wye Chapel was built between 1718 and 1721 and opened for worship on October 18, 1721. For more info. visit wyeparish.org. 28. WHITE MARSH CHURCH - The original structure was built before 1690. Early 18th century rector was the Reverend Daniel Maynadier. A later provincial rector (1764–1768), the Reverend Thomas Bacon, compiled “Bacon’s Laws,” authoritative compendium of Colonial Statutes. Robert Morris, Sr., father of Revolutionary financier is buried here.
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On the broad Miles River, with its picturesque tree-lined streets and beautiful harbor, St. Michaels has been a haven for boats plying the Chesapeake and its inlets since the earliest days. Here, some of the handsomest models of the Bay craft, such as canoes, bugeyes, pungys and some famous Baltimore Clippers, were designed and built. The Church, named “St. Michael’s,” was the first building erected (about 1677) and around it clustered the town that took its name. 1. WADES POINT INN - Located on a point of land overlooking majestic Chesapeake Bay, this historic inn has been welcoming guests for over 100 years. Thomas Kemp, builder of the original “Pride of Baltimore,” built the main house in 1819. For more info. visit www.wadespoint.com. 117
St. Michaels Points of Interest 2. LINKS AT PERRY CABIN - Located on the scenic Miles River with an 18 hole golf course - Links at Perry Cabin. For more info. visit www. innatperrycabin.com. 3. MILES RIVER YACHT CLUB - Organized in 1920, the Miles River Yacht Club continues its dedication to boating on our waters and the protection of the heritage of log canoes, the oldest class of boat still sailing U. S. waters. The MRYC has been instrumental in preserving the log canoe and its rich history on the Chesapeake Bay. For more info. visit www.milesriveryc.org. 4. INN AT PERRY CABIN - The original building was constructed in the early 19th century by Samuel Hambleton, a purser in the United States Navy during the War of 1812. It was named for his friend, Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry. Perry Cabin has served as a riding academy and was restored in 1980 as an inn and restaurant. For more info. visit www.innatperrycabin.com. 5. THE PARSONAGE INN - A bed and breakfast inn at 210 N. Talbot St., was built by Henry Clay Dodson, a prominent St. Michaels businessman and state legislator around 1883 as his private residence. In 1877, Dodson,
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St. Michaels Points of Interest hosts temporary exhibitions, special events, festivals, and education programs. Docking and pump-out facilities available. Exhibitions and Museum Store open year-round. Up-to-date information and hours can be found on the Museum’s website at www.cbmm.org or by calling 410-745-2916. 8. THE CRAB CLAW - Restaurant adjoining the Maritime Museum and overlooking St. Michaels harbor. Open March-November. 410-7452900 or www.thecrabclaw.com. 9. PATRIOT - During the season (April-November) the 65’ cruise boat can carry 150 persons, runs daily historic narrated cruises along the Miles River. For daily cruise times, visit www.patriotcruises.com or call 410-745-3100. 10. THE FOOTBRIDGE - Built on the site of many earlier bridges, today’s bridge joins Navy Point to Cherry Street. It has been variously known as “Honeymoon Bridge” and “Sweetheart Bridge.” It is the only remaining bridge of three that at one time connected the town with outlying areas around the harbor. 11. VICTORIANA INN - The Victoriana Inn is located in the Historic District of St. Michaels. The home was built in 1873 by Dr. Clay Dodson, a druggist, and occupied as his private residence and office. In 1910 the property, then known as “Willow Cottage,” underwent alterations when acquired by the Shannahan family who continued it as a private residence for over 75 years. As a bed and breakfast, circa 1988, major renovations took place, preserving the historic character of the gracious Victorian era. For more info. visit www.victorianainn.com. 12. HAMBLETON INN - On the harbor. Historic waterfront home built in 1860 and restored as a bed and breakfast in 1985 with a turn-ofthe-century atmosphere. For more info. visit www.hambletoninn.com. 13. SNUGGERY B&B - Oldest residence in St. Michaels, c. 1665.The structure incorporates the remains of a log home that was originally built on the beach and later moved to its present location. www.snuggery1665.com. 14. LOCUST STREET - A stroll down Locust Street is a look into the past of St. Michaels. The Haddaway House at 103 Locust St. was built by Thomas L. Haddaway in the late 1700s. Haddaway owned and operated the shipyard at the foot of the street. Wickersham, at 203 Locust Street, was built in 1750 and was moved to its present location in 2004. It is known for its glazed brickwork. Hell’s Crossing is the intersection of Locust and Carpenter streets and is so-named because in the late 1700’s, the town was described as a rowdy one, in keeping with a port town where sailors 120
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St. Michaels Points of Interest would come for a little excitement. They found it in town, where there were saloons and working-class townsfolk ready to do business with them. Fights were common especially in an area of town called Hells Crossing. At the end of Locust Street is Muskrat Park. It provides a grassy spot on the harbor for free summer concerts and is home to the two cannons that are replicas of the ones given to the town by Jacob Gibson in 1813 and confiscated by Federal troops at the beginning of the Civil War. 15. FREEDOMS FRIEND LODGE - Chartered in 1867 and constructed in 1883, the Freedoms Friend Lodge is the oldest lodge existing in Maryland and is a prominent historic site for our Black community. It is now the site of Blue Crab Coffee Company. 16. TALBOT COUNTY FREE LIBRARY - St. Michaels Branch is located at 106 S. Fremont Street. For more info. tel: 410-745-5877 or visit www.tcfl.org. 17. CARPENTER STREET SALOON - Life in the Colonial community revolved around the tavern. The traveler could, of course, obtain food, drink, lodging or even a fresh horse to speed his journey. This tavern was built in 1874 and has served the community as a bank, a newspaper office, post office and telephone company. For more info. visit www. carpenterstreetsaloon.com. 18. TWO SWAN INN - The Two Swan Inn on the harbor served as the former site of the Miles River Yacht Club, was built in the 1800s and was renovated in 1984. It is located at the foot of Carpenter Street. For more info. visit www.twoswaninn.com. 19. TARR HOUSE - Built by Edward Elliott as his plantation home about 1661. It was Elliott and an indentured servant, Darby Coghorn, who built the first church in St. Michaels. This was about 1677, on the site of the present Episcopal Church (6 Willow Street, near Locust). 20. CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH - 301 S. Talbot St. Built of Port Deposit stone, the present church was erected in 1878. The first is believed to have been built in 1677 by Edward Elliott. For more info. tel: 410-745-9076. 21. THE OLD BRICK INN - Built in 1817 by Wrightson Jones, who opened and operated the shipyard at Beverly on Broad Creek. (Talbot St. at Mulberry). For more info. visit www.oldbrickinn.com. 22. THE CANNONBALL HOUSE - When St. Michaels was shelled by the British in a night attack in 1813, the town was “blacked out� and lanterns were hung in the trees to lead the attackers to believe the town was on a high bluff. The houses were overshot. The story is that a can122
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St. Michaels Points of Interest nonball hit the chimney of “Cannonball House” and rolled down the stairway. This “blackout” was believed to be the first such “blackout” in the history of warfare. 23. AMELIA WELBY HOUSE - Amelia Coppuck, who became Amelia Welby, was born in this house and wrote poems that won her fame and the praise of Edgar Allan Poe. 24. ST. MICHAELS MUSEUM at ST. MARY’S SQUARE - Located in the heart of the historic district, offers a unique view of 19th century life in St. Michaels. The exhibits are housed in three period buildings and contain local furniture and artifacts donated by residents. The museum is supported entirely through community efforts. For more info. tel: 410745-9561 or www.stmichaelsmuseum.org. 25. GR ANITE LODGE #177 - Located on St. Mary’s Square, Granite Lodge was built in 1839. The building stands on the site of the first Methodist Church in St. Michaels on land donated to the Methodists by James Braddock in 1781. Between then and now, the building has served variously as a church, schoolhouse and as a storehouse for muskrat skins. 26. KEMP HOUSE - Now a country inn. A Georgian style house,
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St. Michaels Points of Interest constructed in 1805 by Colonel Joseph Kemp, a revolutionary soldier and hero of the War of 1812. For more info. visit www.oldbrickinn.com. 27. THE OLD MILL COMPLEX - The Old Mill was a functioning flour mill from the late 1800s until the 1970s, producing f lour used primarily for Maryland beaten biscuits. Today it is home to a brewery, distillery, artists, furniture makers, and other unique shops and businesses. 28. CLASSIC MOTOR MUSEUM - Located at 102 E. Marengo Street, the Classic Motor Museum is a living museum of classic automobiles, motorcycles, and other forms of transportation, and providing educational resources to classic car enthusiasts. For more info. visit classicmotormuseum.org. 29. ST. MICHAELS HARBOUR INN, MARINA & SPA - Constructed in 1986 and recently renovated. For more info. visit www.harbourinn.com. 30. ST. MICHAELS NATURE TRAIL - This 1.3 mile paved walkway winds around the western side of St. Michaels starting at a dedicated parking lot on South Talbot Street. The path cuts through the woods, San Domingo Park, over a covered bridge and ending in Bradley Park. The trail is open all year from dawn to dusk.
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Oxford Points of Interest Oxford is one of the oldest towns in Maryland. Although already settled for perhaps 20 years, Oxford marks the year 1683 as its official founding, for in that year Oxford was first named by the Maryland General Assembly as a seaport and was laid out as a town. In 1694, Oxford and a new town called Anne Arundel (now Annapolis) were selected the only ports of entry for the entire Maryland province. Until the American Revolution, Oxford enjoyed prominence as an international shipping center surrounded by wealthy tobacco plantations. Today, Oxford is a charming tree-lined and waterbound village with a population of just over 700 and is still important in boat building and yachting. It has a protected harbor for watermen who harvest oysters, crabs, clams and fish, and for sailors from all over the Bay. 1. JOHN WESLEY METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH - Built on a tiny patch of land outside Oxford, this unassuming one-room building without a steeple and without indoor plumbing, once served as
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Oxford Points of Interest an important place of worship and gathering for generations of Talbot County African-Americans. It was an abolitionist and integrated church community in a county which was slave-holding since 1770. Talbot County was at the center of both legal manumission (the freeing of a slave) and Fugitive Slave Act enforcement. The African American community was 50% free and 50% enslaved. It was also the center of Union recruitment of slaves for the U.S. Colored Troops. For more info. visit johnwesleychurch.org. 2. OXFORD CONSERVATION PARK - The park’s 86 acres stretch out on the southern side of state Route 333, near Boone Creek Road, and features walking trails, wetland viewing areas, native bird species, and open landscapes. 3. TENCH TILGHMAN MONUMENT - In the Oxford Cemetery the Revolutionary War hero’s body lies along with that of his widow. Lt. Col. Tench Tilghman, who was Gen. George Washington’s aide-de-camp, carried the message of Cornwallis’ surrender from Yorktown, VA, to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia. Across the cove from the cemetery may be seen Plimhimmon, home of Tench Tilghman’s widow, Anna Maria Tilghman.
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Oxford Points of Interest 4. THE OXFORD COMMUNITY CENTER - This former, pillared brick schoolhouse was saved from the wrecking ball by the town residents. Now it is a gathering place for meetings, classes, lectures, and performances by the Tred Avon Players and has been recently renovated. Rentals available to groups and individuals. 410-226-5904 or visit oxfordcc.org. 5. THE COOPERATIVE OXFORD LABORATORY - U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Maryland Department of Natural Resources located here. 410-2265193 or visit dnr.state.md.us/fisheries/oxford. 6. U.S. COAST GUARD STATION - 410-226-0580. 7. CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY - Founded in 1851. Designed by esteemed British architect Richard Upton, co-founder of the American Institute of Architects. It features beautiful stained glass windows by the acclaimed Willet Studios of Philadelphia. 410-226-5134 or visit holytrinityoxfordmd.org 8. OXFORD TOWN PARK - Former site of the Oxford High School. Recent restoration of the beach as part of a “living shoreline project”
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Oxford Points of Interest created 2 terraced sitting walls, a protective groin and a sandy beach with native grasses which will stop further erosion and provide valuable aquatic habitat. A similar project has been completed adjacent to the ferry dock. A kayak launch site has also been located near the ferry dock. 9. OXFORD MUSEUM - Morris & Market Sts. Devoted to the preservation of artifacts and memories of Oxford, MD. Admission is free; donations gratefully accepted. For more info. and hours tel: 410-2260191 or visit oxfordmuseum.org. 10. OXFORD LIBRARY - 101 Market St. Founded in 1939 and on its present site since 1950. Hours are Mon.-Sat., 10-4. 11. BRATT MANSION (ACADEMY HOUSE) - 205 N. Morris St. Served as quarters for officers of the Maryland Military Academy. Built about 1848. (Private residence) 12. BARNABY HOUSE - 212 N. Morris St. Built in 1770 by sea captain Richard Barnaby, this charming house contains original pine woodwork, corner fireplaces and an unusually lovely handmade staircase. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places. (Private residence) 13. THE GRAPEVINE HOUSE - 309 N. Morris St. The grapevine over the entrance arbor was brought from the Isle of Jersey in 1810 by Captain William Willis, who commanded the brig “Sarah and Louisa.” (Private residence) 14. THE ROBERT MORRIS INN - N. Morris St. & The Strand. Robert Morris was the father of Robert Morris, Jr., the “financier of the Revolution.” Built about 1710, part of the original house with a beautiful staircase is contained in the beautifully restored Inn, now open 7 days a week. Robert Morris, Jr. was one of only 2 Founding Fathers to sign the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the United States Constitution. 410-226-5111 or visit robertmorrisinn.com. 15. THE OXFORD CUSTOM HOUSE - N. Morris St. & The Strand. Built in 1976 as Oxford’s official Bicentennial project. It is a replica of the first Federal Custom House built by Jeremiah Banning, who was the first Federal Collector of Customs appointed by George Washington. 16. TRED AVON YACHT CLUB - N. Morris St. & The Strand. Founded in 1931. The present building, completed in 1991, replaced the original structure. 17. OXFORD-BELLEVUE FERRY - N. Morris St. & The Strand. Started in 1683, this is believed to be the oldest privately operated ferry in the United States. Its first keeper was Richard Royston, whom the 130
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Oxford Points of Interest Talbot County Court “pitcht upon” to run a ferry at an unusual subsidy of 2,500 pounds of tobacco. Service has been continuous since 1836, with power supplied by sail, sculling, rowing, steam, and modern diesel engine. Many now take the ride between Oxford and Bellevue for the scenic beauty. 18. BYEBERRY - On the grounds of Cutts & Case Boatyard. It faces Town Creek and is one of the oldest houses in the area. The date of construction is unknown, but it was standing in 1695. Originally, it was in the main business section but was moved to the present location about 1930. (Private residence) 19. CUTTS & CASE - 306 Tilghman St. World-renowned boatyard for classic yacht design, wooden boat construction and restoration using composite structures. Some have described Cutts & Case Shipyard as an American Nautical Treasure because it produces to the highest standards quality work equal to and in many ways surpassing the beautiful artisanship of former times.
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Tilghman’s Island “Great Choptank Island” was granted to Seth Foster in 1659. Thereafter it was known as Foster’s Island, and remained so through a succession of owners until Matthew Tilghman of Claiborne inherited it in 1741. He and his heirs owned the island for over a century and it has been Tilghman’s Island ever since, though the northern village and the island’s postal designation are simply “Tilghman.” For its first 175 years, the island was a family farm, supplying grains, vegetables, fruit, cattle, pigs and timber. Although the owners rarely were in residence, many slaves were: an 1817 inventory listed 104. The last Tilghman owner, General Tench Tilghman (not Washington’s aide-de-camp), removed the slaves in the 1830s and began selling off lots. In 1849, he sold his remaining interests to James Seth, who continued the development. The island’s central location in the middle Bay is ideally suited for watermen harvesting the Bay in all seasons. The years before the Civil War saw the influx of the first families we know today. A second wave arrived after the War, attracted by the advent of oyster dredging in the 1870s. Hundreds of dredgers and tongers operated out of Tilghman’s Island, their catches sent to the cities by schooners. Boat building, too, was an important industry. The boom continued into the 1890s, spurred by the arrival of steamboat service, which opened vast new markets for Bay seafood. Islanders quickly capitalized on the opportunity as several seafood buyers set up shucking and canning operations on pilings at the edge of the shoal of Dogwood Cove. The discarded oyster shells eventually became an island with seafood packing houses, hundreds of workers, a store, and even a post office. The steamboats also brought visitors who came to hunt, fish, relax and escape the summer heat of the cities. Some families stayed all summer in one of the guest houses that sprang up in the villages of Tilghman, Avalon, Fairbank and Bar Neck. Although known for their independence, Tilghman’s Islanders enjoy showing visitors how to pick a crab, shuck an oyster or find a good fishing spot. In the twentieth century, Islanders pursued these vocations in farming, on the water, and in the thriving seafood processing industry. The “Tilghman Brand” was known throughout the eastern United States, but as the Bay’s bounty diminished, so did the number of water-related jobs. Still, three of the few remaining Bay skipjacks (sailing dredgeboats) can be seen here, as well as two working harbors with scores of power workboats. 135
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To counter the image of a serene island, you can’t beat a picture of the Navy’s one-time practice of bombing Bloodsworth Island with car bodies. This peculiar exercise involved helicopters hovering over Maryland shoreline, rising with old clunkers dangling on chains, and dropping them onto Bloodsworth in configurations mimicking either a target bull’s-eye or a 3,000-foot airstrip. Both simulated target patterns were designed to be bombed or strafed on practice runs by combat f liers. Before being lifted from the beach at Chance, Maryland, the cars were spray-painted white to make them more ref lective on night attacks. Enlisted personnel tasked with spraying clunkers on a wind-swept beach may have cursed this duty for making them as ref lective as the targets, but setting up the exercise on-site would have been worse. As a spokesperson for the Helicopter Combat Support Squadron explained, “Helicopters are ideal for this purpose, because Bloodsworth Island is so full of undetonated shells and bombs from previous bombardments, it’s dangerous for men to work on the island.”
Bloodsworth lies in Dorchester County waters about five miles west of Chance. Patuxent Naval Air Station’s operations include the Bloodsworth Island Range (BIR), comprising Bloodsworth, Pone, Adam and Northeast islands, plus the now-submerged Great Cove Island. For more than five decades, 1942 to 1996, the 6,000-acre BIR was used, to quote the Navy, “as a shore bombardment and bombing range for firing and dropping live ordnance from ships and aircraft. This included bombs, small and large caliber ammunition, rockets, and missiles that contained explosives, propellants, and other energetics.” Planes were sent in advance to buzz a warning to any hapless watermen trying to work near the islands, costing them their livelihood at certain times of the year. One named Sammy recalled a spring when he was scraping for
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Bloodsworth Island peelers among bottom grass, his workboat dragging a twine bag that gathered crabs about to shed their hard shell. Sammy’s was among a number of workboats circling off Hawk Nest Shore. After they’d tried other, usually productive locations, the only catch to be found that spring was in this spot northeast of Bloodsworth Island. As crabbers continuously hauled their scrapes and culled out muchsought-after peelers, naval airplanes roared in alarmingly low, swooping down to signify an exercise was scheduled. Sammy and most others collected their gear and resigned themselves to quit-
ting the only worthwhile work they’d found. A few reluctant crabbers who didn’t immediately head out noticed a helicopter circling overhead. Shortly after, shells began exploding on the bank ~ near enough to send clumps of mud pelting into the boats. The helicopter had radioed coordinates on their location, so initial shelling would send them packing. Finally, in 1996, with eco-conscientiousness rising, the Navy announced it would cease fire “voluntarily.” Subsequent proposals for renewed, redesigned operations in BIR received more scrutiny than those in the past. If no notable consideration was given to the seasonal occupations of water-
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men, avian life cycles proved inviolate. No activity would be considered while designated bird species were tending nesting chicks. One year after bombardments stopped, naval officials announced plans for a new use for BIR’s area: commandos storming the beaches, setting off explosives and shooting live bullets. A spokesman at the Seals’ Norfolk base stressed, “There could absolutely, positively be no danger to anybody unless they got out on the range.” An educator at the Karen Noonan Memorial Center on Bishops Head differed, saying, “You don’t have to be a mathematician to realize we ought to be concerned.” The Chesapeake Bay Foundation
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Bloodsworth Island tomac, Maryland, high school student and aspiring teacher who died tragically in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. *** Today, trespassing on BIR’s islands or straying into immediately surrounding waters violates federal law. For the thrill of the hunt, by Maryland law, licensed waterfowlers may anchor offshore in-season to hunt, but the Department of Natural Resources advises licensees not to set foot on land or stray from specific sites “swept” by the Navy and reserved for duck hunters. Since the Navy ceased fire, Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD)
units periodically detonate unexploded ordnance. Watermen and pleasure boaters are warned to keep their distance. Previous naval miscues make one wonder, though, what might lie outside the immediately designated areas. In June of 1951, two Coast Guardsmen assigned to Holland Island Bar Light south of BIR came under friendly fire from Skyraiders out of Patuxent. The pilots
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Bloodsworth Island mistook their six-sided screwpile lighthouse for the hulk of USS Hannibal, a decommissioned warship seven times the beacon’s size. For target practice, the Navy had sunk USS Hannibal 15 miles away, to the southwest of the lighthouse. Fortunately, the bombs missed their mistaken target, but they sent the terrified keepers rushing to their radio-telephone to stop the attack. Six years later, the assault resumed. Jets from the Naval Air Station outside Atlantic City, New Jersey, dropped f lares over the lighthouse and then unleashed rockets, several of which struck. Fortunately, this time the rockets were unarmed. Shards f lying from
their strikes did no irreparable damage to keepers or lighthouse. In 1960, the Coast Guard surrendered. The battered lighthouse was cut up and replaced with an unmanned automatic light. Not far away, Phillips’ Gunning Club members still hunted duck blinds on Spring Island and a smaller, marshy island they called Chintz. Navy and Air Force fighter pilots literally sank Chintz. An apologetic commander from Patuxent explained, “Our pilots report that your duck blind looks just like a submarine conning tower.” The Navy ultimately paid the club $25,000 and took ownership of the sunken island. Farther north, in Talbot County, Orval Jones was barely back home
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Bloodsworth Island from the Second World War when he came under attack outside Wittman. His father, a boatbuilder, had built his workshed in their backyard. When interviewed by Brice Stump, war veteran Orval said, “We were in the shop dressing lumber and saw the side of the shop coming in, so I ran for the door.” Suddenly interrupted at work, only a recently discharged war veteran might react as Orval did: “I knew that a bomb would suck all the oxygen out of the air, so I fell to the ground and slid out the door.” Orval learned later that, on a naval test f light, two 1,000-pound
bombs were released 10,000 feet over the Pot Pie community on Harris Creek. Shackles holding the bombs to the plane had fallen off. Though the bombs were armed only with sand and water to simulate the weight of explosives, they were damaging enough to blast two ten-foot craters and badly mangle the boat shop. As for Orval, he said only, “A lump of dirt hit me in the back of the head.” *** Sited on 20 acres of land on the tip of Bishops Head, the Karen Noonan Memorial Environmental Educational Center is a facility based on Colonel Albanus Phillips’ hunting club. The (honorary) Colo-
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Bloodsworth Island nel would never recognize the revamped “green building” that was once his rustic lodgehouse, now expanded and outfitted with alternative energy sources and composting waste systems. Once a getaway for prominent businessmen roughing it for a few days of sport, the site now boasts a state-of-theart facility that gives students a taste of eco-friendly living as they explore the various ecosystems of Dorchester County, including Blackwater Wildlife Refuge and Chesapeake Bay. In June 2016, in its 20th year of operation, the center hosted a class of fourth-graders from Ches-
tertown, Maryland, an annual part of their Bay studies science curriculum. The educational program included a trip on the foundation’s 40-foot boat, Karen N. There were 23 people aboard when the Coast Guard received a distress call, “Mayday! Mayday! Mayday! This is the motor vessel Karen N. We have sunk off of Bloodsworth Island.” The signal stopped abruptly but included a GPS locator heard by several watermen working in the general area. Knowing that the coordinates placed the boat inside the restricted area, they automatically thought it must have struck some submerged debris off the island. Though concerned for their
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own safety and workboats, they sped to the scene while the Coast Guard and Maryland Department of Natural Resources scrambled to respond. “I ran my motor a little hot to get there to them.. . . When a man’s in distress, you want to get there as fast as you can,” Jeremy Dawson said. The watermen found Karen N fully submerged, with 23 adults and children sitting atop her cabin and canopy: the captain, two crewmen, and 14 children and their chaperons. “It looked like they were sitting on top of the water,” said Jeremy Shockley. They were all taken aboard Shockley’s 35foot workboat, Lady Ka-Kee. “It
was unreal how the kids acted,” he credited them. Lady Ka-Kee brought them to shore at the small harbor of Wingate, where alerted volunteers waited with local ambulances. All associated with the school were taken to the hospital, treated and released. The captain had suffered a head wound from the impact. A Coast Guard spokesperson reported all were wearing life preservers, which “greatly enhanced their survivability.” Chesapeake Bay Foundation President William Baker said they had run trips into the general area for years. Not without irony, he said the foundation aimed to give students a sense of what the
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Bay was before becoming polluted. “It’s one of the most beautiful parts of Chesapeake Bay.” A casual boater, if new to the area, might not expect to encounter a tank in this most beautiful part of the Bay, but the local watermen immediately assumed that a tank had sunk the Karen N. “There’s a lot of stuff there that the Navy used to shoot at that they just left there. There’s tanks down there. Yes, military tanks.” Watermen took risking the rescue all in stride. As Shockley said, “If it would happen to me, I would hope someone would do the same for me.” *Excerpted from Foley’s upcoming book, Chesapeake Island Hopping. After co-writing pictorial histories for Arcadia Publishing with Gloria Johnson (Cambridge and Dorchester County), Ann Foley wrote Having My Say: Conversations with Chesapeake Bay Waterman Wylie “Gator” Abbott; A Dorchester County Scrapbook: “That Reminds Me of a Story” (with Terry White); and, most recently, Holland Island: Lost Atlantis of the Chesapeake (with P. Smith Rue).
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Kent County and Chestertown at a Glance Kent County is a treasury of early American history. Its principal towns and back roads abound with beautiful old homes and historic landmarks. The area was first explored by Captain John Smith in 1608. Kent County was founded in 1642 and named for the shire in England that was the home of many of Kent’s earliest colonists. When the first legislature assembled in 1649, Kent County was one of two counties in the colony, thus making it the oldest on the Eastern Shore. It extended from Kent Island to the present boundary. The first settlement, New Yarmouth, thrived for a time and, until the founding of Chestertown, was the area’s economic, social and religious center. Chestertown, the county seat, was founded in 1706 and served as a port of entry during colonial times. A town rich in history, its attractions include a blend of past and present. Its brick sidewalks and attractive antiques stores, restaurants and inns beckon all to wander through the historic district and enjoy homes and places with architecture ranging from the Georgian mansions of wealthy colonial merchants to the elaborate style of the Victorian era. Second largest district of restored 18th-century homes in Maryland, Chestertown is also home to Washington College, the nation’s tenth oldest liberal arts college, founded in 1782. Washington College was also the only college that was given permission by George Washington for the use of his name, as well as given a personal donation of money. The beauty of the Eastern Shore and its waterways, the opportunity for boating and recreation, the tranquility of a rural setting and the ambiance of living history offer both visitors and residents a variety of pleasing experiences. A wealth of events and local entertainment make a visit to Chestertown special at any time of the year. For more information about events and attractions in Kent County, contact the Kent County Visitor Center at 410-778-0416, visit www. kentcounty.com or e-mail tourism@kentcounty.com. For information about the Historical Society of Kent County, call 410-778-3499 or visit www.kentcountyhistory.org/geddes.php. For information specific to Chestertown visit www.chestertown.com. 151
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A report published on July 20, 1878 in the Denton Journal remains a timely piece of advice, but I suspect that wives, daughters and other children might urge the good doctor to underline “everybody” in his last sentence and skip the emphasis on them, which might be construed as giving a pass to hubbies and big brothers. Dr. Noble, of the Federalsburg, Maryland, Courier, gives the following advice in regard to bathing: “With the mercury well up in the nineties, one’s thoughts naturally turn to the subject of baths, their utility and comfort. Without bathing it is simply impossible to keep clean, and unless dirt and impurities are removed and the action of the skin promoted, health is impossible. Every house, whether in town or country, should be supplied with a bathtub. They can be made of wood lined with zinc and be placed in the dwelling house, wash house or wherever it is most convenient. A small suction pump costing about $3.00, attached to the bathtub and made to communicate by means of leaden pipe fastened to wooden stock let down into a well, completes the necessary arrangement for a supply of cold water. Warm
water may be added from the teakettle or boiler to make the bath either tepid or hot. The cleanliness, comfort and health of everybody, especially of wives, daughters and children, would be promoted by the erection of bath houses and the introduction of bathing facilities.” I wonder if “old man Lord” and “gay and dashing Mrs. Hicks” read a copy of this January 26, 1878 article. Old man Lord, who at the age of eighty-three or eighty-four married the gay and dashing Mrs. Hicks, of half that age, the other day, is said to be worth about $88,000,000. [In 1878, that figure almost has to be a typo.] He is not young and stout as he used to be and may drop off at any moment. Mrs. Lord may be happy yet, but then, again, she may not. Once upon a time, another girl married just such a wealthy old booby of some seventy odd years, confident that he would do her the kindness to die in a few years and leave her a rich, young widow, but she was fooled. In the whole of his superannuated anatomy there was not one solitary bowel of compassion for his wife, who nursed him
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so fond of, it not being sufficiently up-to-date, perhaps. I wish to say publicly that I am under no obligation to such members, nor can I longer affiliate with those responsible for such public and unmerited rebuff suffered at their instigation. I cannot overlook such unchristianlike interference with an act of praise. The pastor, Rev. Mr. Price, was in no wise to blame. ~ Hebron Outten And another card.
I’ve been toying with the math on what must have been some other winter/spring marriages. March 3, 1897 ~ Seven women are still drawing pensions as the widows of men who saw active service in the war of the Revolution, women whose husbands served under Washington more than a hundred and twenty years ago.
March 22, 1879 ~ Some people have the vulgar habit of calling me Bill. That is not my name, nor any part of it. My name is William Palmer. I forgive past offences, but if any person ever calls me Bill again after the publication of this letter, I shall take it as a downright insult, and just as much of an insult as though he had called me by any other hateful name that is not my own.
It was fairly common practice at one time for citizens who felt the need to set some record (or someone) straight to purchase space in their community newspaper. The following “Card” was posted on August 1, 1914 in the Denton Journal. To the certain few members of the fine old Wesley M. E. Church at Burrsville, who objected so strongly and unexpectedly and publicly to my singing, on July 19th, the grand old piece of music my mother was
I suspect that Max O’Rell, who was quoted on September 1, 1900 under the headline “Good Temper of Americans,” must have led a very sheltered life. “I have never seen an American lose his temper, not even under the most trying and provoking circumstances. If in a railway station you were to lose your temper with the baggage man, for instance, you would get the crowd to gather around you and have a good time.
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Once a baggage man threw a valise of mine on the platform with such force that it broke open and spread my belongings about. I gave that man a piece of my mind, but I was sorry I had not set more value on my time than that. A crowd of baggage men and passersby gathered to bet whether I was going to be able to put all my things together or not. I felt I was giving a free show. I collected my goods and chattels and went to buy a new trunk.” I remember my mother telling me as a child to be careful around bunches of bananas because a tarantula might be lurking there. Fascinated by the possibility, I wasted a lot of time looking and eventually came to discount the threat, but apparently she was right. July 2, 1898 ~ H. E. Aldrick, of Easton, was bitten on the hand by a tarantula, which jumped out of a bunch of bananas a few days ago, and in a few minutes his hand was swelled to thrice its natural size. Here is a movement reported in
the August 31, 1897 Journal that apparently never got up to speed. Mrs. Charlotte Smith has started a crusade against bachelors. “Bachelors,” she says, “have always been failures as chief magistrates and legislators in this and every other country. Bachelor politicians are narrow minded, selfish, egotistical and cowardly. “It is about time to organize antibachelor clubs. It should be the purpose of every young woman to look up the record of each and every man who is looking for votes, and should his moral character be such as would unfit him for office; his shortcomings should then be the point of attack by the antibachelor women. With too many men practicing bachelorhood, it stands to reason there will probably be some virgins around, and what young woman wants to risk the kind of disgrace proposed in a news clip posted on July 1, 1893. But will someone please expand on the penalty: “her light will go out?”
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Potpourri Something new is advertised by the pastor of the colored M. E. Church at Marydel for Independence Day. “On the Fourth of July,” the handbills say, “there will be a contest of thirty virgins. Every virgin who fails to raise $10, her light will go out and she will be numbered among the foolish.” And I thought it was only mothers-in-law that behaved like this. November 5, 1898 ~ A man in Sussex County sold to his sonin-law one-half interest in a cow and then refused to divide the milk, maintaining that it was only the front end of the cow that he sold, and he obliged his son-inlaw to provide food and water the cow twice a day. Recently the cow hooked the old man and he is now suing his son-in-law for damages. Some July 15, 1893 health advice, when “excessive ice water indulgence” was apparently a national health threat. One good way to lessen the risk of excessive ice water indulgencies is to have only a small glass at the cooler. A wine glass is recommended. You have to admire those old reporters for getting out in the field and turning over every stone for the news, and for being so succinct about it.
April 26, 1902 ~ The quartet of crate makers, Harry Noble, Alfred Fisher, Fred Harlow and John Meluney are turning out between 200 and 300 crates a day for the Hickman Manufacturing Company. Mrs. Mary Harlow, while preparing basket stock last Wednesday, drove a large splinter through the fleshy part of her little finger and had to have it taken out at the White Front Drug Store. The Hickman brass band serenaded Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stevens last Saturday night and were in turn pleasantly entertained. A number of dwellings in our town are being improved by the addition of front porches. Mr. Rufus Noble is having his storehouse painted. He was absent in Baltimore during the week. After the adjournment of the extra session, Comptroller Herring discovered that a few members of the legislature had collected $26 for stationery. He at once put a stop to it. The Comptroller is to be congratulated. Trackmen on the P. W. & B Road and branches now receive $1.42 per day. They heretofore received $1.10. The Rev. A. W. Lightbourn of Easton has bought the pacer Lady Russell. Mr. Harry Frampton is now a clerk in Mr. John L. Evergreen’s store. The Wicomico News says “haul
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out of their holes or down from the trees, and though at first showing some timidity, sit and listen intently and apparently with enjoyment. I remember one day, however, when, after singing them various songs ~ ragtime and others ~ I tried ‘Old Hundred’ [a hymn first published in the Anglo-German Psalter of 1561] on them. Would you believe it, the instant they heard it they scampered off, nor could I induce them to return that day? And to this day I can’t understand why.” The clergyman, a far-away look in his eye, suggested very briefly: “Probably they were afraid you would next proceed to take up a collection.” March 1, 1906 ~ Public attention
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Potpourri is being directed to the wholesale manner in which the materials that keep us warm during the day and the blankets that cover us at night are adulterated. The silk dress of the lady of a hundred years ago rustled as she moved on account of the genuineness of the fabric. Now it rustles with 36 percent of salts of tin used to commercialize it. The lady of the period in her silk dress is, indeed, a sort of “woman in armor.� Epsom salts, instead of being used for medicinal purposes, as formerly, are now employed for loading flannel. The so-called table linen of today is not pure linen such as delighted the hearts of the housewives of olden times, but is made largely of cotton filled with china clay and starch. So, too, collars are often of cotton merely faced with linen. In a word, nearly every kind of fabric sold is adulterated in some form or other, and the public, in blissful ignorance of the truth, finding how poorly the things wear, lays the blame upon the laundryman, the dyer or the cleaner instead of upon the real culprit, the manufacturer. It is believed that there is some danger of the skin being attacked by disease as a result of the really poisonous substances which are set free by the action of perspiration
upon the metallic compounds contained in apparently innocent wearing apparel. February 26, 1881 ~ The astrologers who predicted devastation, death and revolution during the year 1881, because of the malefic planetary conjunctions, are warranted in feeling a certain complacency since the new year has opened so satisfactorily for them with floods and storms and wars and disasters on land and sea. And now it seems likely that the pestilence that stalks amid the frosts and flourishes in the winter season ~ small pox ~ will claim its share in fulfilling these prophesies. During the past year this disease has prevailed in Europe, and it has lately reached this country, establishing itself in many of our seaboard cities. May 16, 1885 ~ A good story is told in which former Dorchester people figure. Two young men, one a six footer and the other but little over four feet in height, though born and reared together, were deadly enemies because they loved the same woman. She was a comely lass living on the banks of the Choptank River, and she was the sister of a schooner captain, a bachelor who hated marriage. She kept house for him, and the old seadog swore a great oath that he would kill any man who went to his house a-courting her. The people in the neighborhood believed he meant it, and young men were in mortal fear of him.
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One day the captain sailed away for Baltimore. The lovers resolved to take advantage of his absence. The little chap was the first to reach the girl’s house in the evening. Soon the big man knocked on the door. To prevent trouble, the young lady made the little fellow get in an empty flour barrel and covered it over. In a minute or so after the big lover was seated, the captain entered with the scowl of a thundercloud on his face. The big man hastened to explain that he wanted to send some potatoes to a friend in Baltimore and came over to borrow an empty barrel. The captain was not altogether satisfied, but he pointed to the barrel in the room and reminded his guest that it was getting time to turn
in, stating that he had met a dead calm on the river and had walked five miles to sleep in his own house. The big lover shouldered the barrel and hastened out of the house. It was heavy, but he walked briskly, for he had great strength. When he had proceeded about a quarter of a mile, he put the barrel down, saying, as he wiped his perspiring face: “Good old barrel, you saved my life!” “And mine, too!” said the little chap, raising himself out of the barrel. They shook hands on the spot and vowed eternal friendship. Reprinted from April 2007.
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by Roger Vaughan Previously: The year is 1998. Andy Thomas made an ill-advised tactical call during a race in 50foot sailboats that nearly caused a dangerous collision. His father, Mitchell (at the helm), was livid. Later, at the awards dinner, a drunken Andy delivered a public declaration that made it virtually impossible for Mitchell Thomas, a well-known amateur sailor, not to mount a Volvo Round the World Race challenge. Mitchell is CEO of Moss Optical, a company inherited by his wife, Deedee Moss. Mitchell was thoroughly outraged by his son’s gaffe. At a board meeting of Moss Optical held in the company’s planetarium-boardroom, a proposal for the company to sponsor the first American boat in the Volvo Race was presented, and accepted, much to Deedee’s delight. Colorful two-time America’s Cup winner Jan Sargent held one of his high-intensity press conferences to announce he had been asked by Mitchell Thomas to skipper the Moss boat, All American. In his office at Moss, Andy is distraught,
having learned his father has made him part of All American’s crew. He agonizes over this to his friend Jeff Linn, a Moss opticist. Linn jokingly suggests Andy shoot himself in the foot. Gloria, Andy’s secretary, buzzes to tell him his father wants to see him. After an unpleasant meeting with his father, who is adamant about Andy going on the Volvo Race, he drives to see his mother, Deedee, on the Long Island estate, hoping she will intervene. Andy has a very pleasant sail with his mother ~ her favorite thing to do ~ but is distraught to find her conviction about him going on the Volvo Race is set in concrete. When pressed, Ossie, the old Norwegian who has run the family’s boathouse for 40 years, says Andy’s mother has very good reasons for insisting he go on the race. * * * * The idea of having the team spend a couple weeks on Hurricane Island, one of the Outward Bound School sites, was Jan Sargent’s. For all his gung-ho affect with the media, Sargent had the goods.
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inane to him. Infantile. Like the rap of some inspirational speaker You don’t win America’s Cups and you were meant to buy into. Get the Olympic medals with media affect. book and the video. Improve your That helps. But before the media life. Evangelize. Not Andy’s cup of buys into your act, no matter how tea. In fact, the whole thing was a entertaining it might be, you have pain in the ass. Up at 5:30, roll out to win a few biggies. It was to Sar- of bed into a 2.5-mile run around gent’s credit that he could put to- the island, and oh, yeah, wear gether an engaging media game in your bathing suit because the run addition to the impressive record ends at a small cove and you will he had compiled. And now he was be expected to swim to the other doing this Outward Bound School side. The swim was well under a session with the crew. minute, but this is Maine, where A friend of an old friend of Sar- the water is goddam cold enough gent’s had apparently suffered the to stop your freaking heart and incredibly bad luck of having three make you unable to breathe. At 6 ships torpedoed out from under o’clock in the morning. him during the war. Then breakfast, up at 5:30, roll out In a lifeboat the first and a morning sestwo times, he nosion on the various of bed into a 2.5 mile ticed the people who run around the island challenging obstadidn’t make it had cles Outward Bound just curled up in a wet corner of the had built in the woods, like slipboat and quit. So when he ended pery, 60-foot logs suspended 20 up in a life boat the third time, feet up to walk along. You’re clipped he quickly removed the plugs and to an overhead wire. But still, a fall threw them over the side before is uncomfortable, not to mention anyone got wise to what he was do- humiliating as you dangle there in ing. It wasn’t until after they had the air with the harness crunchcleared the mess of burning debris ing your crotch. Then lunch, and that the sailors in the boat real- off to the mini-mountain of granized they were ankle deep in water. ite boulders you’re meant to scale. You’d better start bailing, Sargent’s Every other day it was pulling life old friend’s friend told them: ev- boats, rowing old 30-foot wooden eryone. That time, everyone made scows that weighed a ton. Everyit, and the Outward Bound concept thing was competitive, of course, was born. which ran against the Outward Andy had tried to digest all this Bound philosophy that the more like a good camper, but it sounded capable “students” were meant to 162
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from yesterday’s lunch was brilliant on his khaki shorts, right help the less capable get through. above the All-American logo. So be “Everyone makes it” was the Out- it. He stepped onto the end of the ward Bound unofficial motto. As crew lineup. The presenter started with SarSargent had said, better get used to that idea. He had a point. Round gent, who was his usual smooth the World boats had come back self, talking about the race, 30,000 missing a crewman. And it would miles in 9 months with freezenever be more competitive than the dried food, four-on, four-off, and afternoons when they would race all that. Then he was plugging the Sonars Outward Bound owned, Moss Optical like a good employee, and that Sargent had asked (paid) and managing to throw in a few them to get in shape. Then dinner, impressive stats about himself and what? ~ is Jan gonna read in- without seeming like an egomanispirational bedtime stories? Andy ac. Then it was crew time. Sargent had instructed everyone to say his wouldn’t have been surprised. This was just the beginning. name and one fact, the way the starting offensive Day Two of fourteen, nothing compared to Andy's prison term had and defensive teams begun. It was even on do during televised the 30 to 40 days it would take to cross a an island, like Alcatraz NFL games. Sargent would then add 6,000-mile expanse of open water. Day Two and already another comment. Andy figured this was a serious drag. Andy’s he’d better listen. He hadn’t gotprison term had begun. It was even ten any of their names, this group on an island, like Alcatraz. How of strangers he was meant to go to hell with. fitting. The routine started from the end Andy checked his watch and realized it was time for the press opposite to where Andy was, givconference Sargent had called. No ing him time to come up with some way to get out of it. So he walked dumb fact about himself. “Stu Samuels, born a Prisoner of over to where the media was set up in front of the main building, a Mother England, retired.” “Stu may be our oldest guy,” Jan rustic, hand-built log building, of course. The rest of the “boys,” as said, “but his bronze medal in the Sargent called them, were already Finn class ~ for America ~ wasn’t there, looking proper in clean team that long ago, was it, Stu?” “Who can remember, mate.” Stu shorts and T-shirts. Andy realized he hadn’t changed. The beet juice smiled. 164
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could be at their mercy. RD has done a lot of self less research.” The Stu had set the aw-shucks tone. presenter loved it. He looked at the next man. “Who’s that tight end next to “Joe Dugan, sawbones. Ithaca, you?” New York.” “Richard Crouse. Maintenance.” “Joe’s an emergency paramedic,” Richard did look like a tight end, Jan said. “For me, if it’s an MD or well over six feet, but lean and powJoe, I’ll take Joe every time. Don’t erful. He was a rower, meaning he leave the dock without a doc. Joe’s was a serious person. Andy knew also a veteran. He did the last race.” about Crouse. He had two Olympic “Don’t tell ’em where we fin- medals, pairs with cox, probably ished,” Joe said. the most difficult classification in Unlike the rest of the guys, who a killer sport. Impressive. looked a little rough cut, Roger “Everyone helps with the boat,” Davis had a more polished, Holly- Sargent said, “but Richard is in wood look. charge. He knows where all the “RD here. Female specialist.” bugs live.” The boys chuck“And what kills knowing about the led. ‘em...Larry Koligari, “Roger Davis,” nature of the women in that’s with one ell, Jan said. “RD is also these ports is important grinder, Knoxville, our sail designer Tennessee.” and on-board sail maker. He’s an“Hold on…Linebacker, New York other veteran.” Jets, 1995?” the presenter asked. “RD. . .” ~ it was the presenter ~ “That’s me.” “can you elaborate about your fe“Didn’t know you sailed.” male specialty?” “He doesn’t.” It was Sargent get“Someone has to do it…” Davis ting the laugh this time. “Actually, shrugged and got another round of Larry was one of the grinders on chuckles. the last Cup I won. That’s how he “It is an important role,” Sargent learned to sail.” said, not wanting to drop a good “Caskie Koligari, Larry’s broththread. He knew what they would er, also a grinder, also one ell.” run on evening television. “We’ll be “Twins! Identical.” stopping in seven different ports. “Twins, although we don’t like to Knowing as much as possible about admit it.” Another chuckle. the nature of the women in these “You also play some ball?” foreign ports is very important,” “Just college. The NFL wasn’t Sargent said with a poker face. “We big enough for both of us. If we got 166
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but American raised, and I think what Peter was going to mention on different teams we were both was that night in Manhattan when it took us two hours to find our car gonna die.” “Caskie is a sailor,” Sargent said. at 3 a.m.” “Alcohol was involved. Teddy “He’s been Stu’s trial mate in the Finn for many years. Won a few Boswick, also Kiwi born, but a longtime citizen, and I can attest cups himself along the way.” “Eric Menici, I’ll be doing the to the fact that we were definitely lost.” video in my spare time.” “And last but not least…” “Eric’s a sailor first. Done well in “I’m Andy Thomas, in charge of Etchells. Has to be that way,” Sargent said. “No room for riders on naps.” “Maps?” this little trip. But he’s also good “Naps, n as in narcolepsy.” with the camera.” “Good old MT,” someone said “Anybody who can make Jan look good has to be good,” Larry at the other end of the line, loud enough to carry. chimed in. “Napping is important,” Sargent Sargent’s smile indicated he’d said, “and we’ve get even. “Dave Zimmer, that night in Manhattan got the right guy when it took us two in charge. Andy is head trimmer.” a vice president at “Dave is our gohours to find our car Moss, our sponsor, fast guy,” Sargent said. “We don’t change a sail with- and I’m told he can sail. We’ll find out running it by Dave ~ and RD ~ out tomorrow when we have our first boat race.” even when they’re asleep.” The presenter was putting a “We get to sleep?” Dave asked. “Dave had to put an addition on closer on it, but Andy’s attention his house for his one design tro- had wandered. He was wondering phies,” Sargent added. “A small ad- who had said “MT,” and what it meant. MT? Empty? Map Technidition.” cian? Mother Theresa? Me too? He “Peter Dimaris, navigator.” “This will be Peter’s third race,” didn’t like the sound of it. “We’ll be going off to the boulder Sargent said, “and he hasn’t been course,” Sargent said to the group. lost yet.” “‘Boulder Problems,’ they call “Actually...” Peter began. “Never mind…” Sargent cut him it, and I’ve invited the film crew along. They should get some good off. “Dick Hooper, sailor, Kiwi born, stuff.” 168
the same as being up the mast in a * * * * To a climber, the Outward Bound nice, secure chair. Landing on rocks boulder course was a chuckle. But would be a little more painful than for those who had never thought of landing in the water. a quarter-inch irregular niche on a Andy cursed silently that he rock face as a large step one might found himself half way up some be grateful to come across, the 60- stupid rock wall on an island in foot wall of granite was formidable. freaking Maine. His fingertips were The plan was to pair off. One part- already burning. He knew Mitchell ner minded the safety line clipped would get a laugh out of this. Basto a harness worn by the climber, tard. He looked up and found himwhile the climber tried to find his self staring into the camera man’s way up the face, niche by niche. lens. Of course. Shoot the Moss guy. Except for RD, who was an accom- Christ! He rested, put his forehead plished amateur, none of the boys against the cold granite while the had any experience. It was slow go- rest of him was fastened to the rock ing. A couple of the Outward Bound by the ends of three fingers and a instructors were there to remind couple toes. There wasn’t much to everyone of the safety rules and do but go up unless he wanted to offer advice. Andy just say screw it and had ended up with Andy cursed himself as hope Teddy had a Teddy Boswick tend- he found himself half way grip on the safety ing his line that went up some stupid rock wall rope. No thanks. He from his harness to kept on. a block anchored at the top, and At around the 50-foot mark, down to Teddy on the ground. That there was a decent ledge to stand was good. Teddy had 20-30 pounds on, maybe three inches wide and on him. a couple feet long. Above him, the Two climbers at a time attacked rock was f lat and shiny in the late the wall. Larry, one of the twins, morning sun. Not an irregularity another heavy guy, was on his to be seen. He looked up. He could left. Lighter and more agile, Andy see RD’s face over the edge of the found himself doing surprisingly top. “Okay, here’s the deal, MT,” well, finding little toe- and finger- RD said. “Look to your right and holds to move himself up the wall a you’ll see a red hunk of half-inch few inches at a time. He made the rope dangling down with knots in mistake of taking a look over his it. It’s about a foot or two beyond shoulder when he was half way up your reach, so you’ll have to make and almost lost it. Thirty feet down this little leap of faith. Once you looked like a bloody mile. It wasn’t grab the red line, you’ll find anoth169
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the red rope that danced out of reach just as his fingers were about er little ledge under your feet, and to close on it. Andy free-fell ten feet, enough you’ll have easy access to the top. to make him feel certain that So let’s go. Go for it.” Andy looked at the rock a few something had gone very wrong. inches from his face. A leap of Christ… Then sudden resistance, faith. He wanted to laugh, he really the harness cutting into his shouldid. It was all safe. Teddy was down ders, his helmet connecting with there on the job. If he missed, he’d a solid crunch to the rock as he just be dangling up there until Ted- swayed into the wall. He was dy gave him a nice safe ride to the stunned with fright, unable to bottom. But it was still terrifying. breathe for a moment, like diving The backs of his knees were tin- into Maine water. He was moving, gling. He wanted to pee. What in being lowered down, slowly. He hell was he doing on this damned used his hands to keep his body rock. He thought about Deedee, off the wall. When his feet touched immovable in her conviction that the ground, his legs felt useless. he had to go on this race. And He collapsed on the ground. He Ossie, what the hell had he meant was also just about frozen with anger. He knew he by saying she had damn good rea- the harness cutting into would have had the if someone sons? Damn Ossie. his shoulders, his helmet rope Damn Mitchell. connecting with a crunch hadn’t moved it. If RD hadn’t moved it. Damn everybody. One of the Outward Bound inHe needed a time-out with Jeff, have a look at that red head with structors was helping him up and the scarf a mile away. With him unbuckling his harness, asking gone from work, he wondered who if he was okay, suggesting a banGloria was abusing. How could you dage or two for the bloody scrapes not like Gloria. Again he had to on his knees and elbows. Andy shrugged him off. Teddy was a few laugh. “Shake a leg, MT, no napping.” feet away, looking at him with just It was RD, getting a laugh from the hint of a grin. “Okay?” Teddy asked. the boys. Andy looked up, saw RD Andy looked at him. “I think it’s getting a big kick out of this, and exchanging a look with someone on your turn on the wall.” “Lunch time!” It was Sargent, the ground. Jackass, Andy thought, as he left the ledge and lunged to who’d witnessed the whole thing, his right, never taking his eyes of deciding that was enough boulder 170
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“Whoa, look at those bandages. Anything broken?” RD asked with problems for one day. a grin. “Next time,” Andy said to Teddy, “I got a question,” Andy said. who shrugged. “My pleasure,” RD said. Conversation slowly stopped. It was real * * * * Andy was a little late for lunch. quiet in the dining room. Joe Dugan had insisted on wash“During introductions, I heard ing Andy’s scrapes and bruises you call me MT, pretty sure it was and applying some bandages. Part your voice. I wondered what that of Sargent’s deal with Outward meant.” Bound was for their staff to provide “What did you think it meant?” meals for the boys. Healthy stuff “Well, I thought maybe Mafor a crew in training. When Andy cho Toughguy was one possibilwalked into the dining room, it had ity.” Andy postured. “Or maybe already started. Meanass Thug. I thought that was “Hey, what the hell, no chees- cool.” bourger!” It was Larry doing his “Aww, no, none of those. Sorry to best Bronx brogue. “Hey Dave, you disappoint.” get cheesbourger? They don’t got “Then Mitch Thomas occurred no cheesbourger.” to me, MT, but that’s Dave: “I got the Andy dropped his hands, definitely not me. emptying the contents of So, what did you last one.” Larry: “You’re have in mind?” his tray on RD's lap kiddin’ me, Dave, RD smiled again, right? You gonna share?” enjoying the moment. “Meal TickAndy grabbed a tray, took a bowl et, man. You’re our meal ticket. of mixed fruit, a couple glops of That’s what MT means – to me yogurt, a dish of cole slaw, added at least. I don’t want to speak for a ham and cheese sandwich, and the boys…” A little chuckle went poured himself a large cup of club around the room. soda. Joe was behind him. They “Ohhhh, right, now I get it.” were the only two in line. The rest Andy laughed. “That’s pretty funof the boys were already at tables. ny. Very funny, actually. Well shit Andy headed for an empty seat man, if it’s a meal you’re after…” where Peter Damaris and Dick Very calmly, Andy dropped his Hooper were eating. His path took hands, emptying the contents of him by the table where RD was sit- his tray on RD’s chest and lap. RD ting. He stopped, waited until RD jerked away when the combinalooked up. tion of fruit, coleslaw, yogurt, and 172
the pint of cold club soda hit him, causing him to fall over backwards in his chair, landing with a crack! on the f loor. Andy gave his tray a shake, making sure nothing was left. RD lay there for a moment, then slowly got up, being careful not to slip in the mess of food. He stood, brushing off the big pieces clinging to his shirt. Then he took a step towards Andy with fists clenched by his side. No one else in the dining room moved except Joe Dugan, who’d been behind Andy with his tray, which he slid onto a table as he quickly stepped between Andy and RD. “Oh no,” Dugan said to RD, getting in the bigger man’s face. “All’s fair. Right? All is fair!” RD glared at Dugan. “Am I right?” Dugan glared at RD, then panned the room, addressing each sailor with his eyes. “I’m talking love and war here boys, and I’m right, am I not? All… is…fair.” One after the other, the boys nodded. “Right,” RD said quietly, as he turned and walked slowly out of the lunchroom, heading for the showers. Roger Vaughan lives, works and sails in Oxford, Maryland. Earlier chapters of All-American can be found at www.tidewatertimes.com 173
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impulse control. Advance registration required. For more info. tel: 410-226-5904. 1–30 The Working Artists Forum of Easton showcases members’ art at the Tidewater Inn. The featured artist for April is Abby Ober. Ober’s work will be available for viewing and purchase during Tidewater Inn hours in the Library Room off the lobby entrance. 2 Pet Loss Support Group at Talbot Hospice, Easton. Monthly support group for those grieving the loss of a beloved pet, hosted jointly by Talbot Humane and Talbot Hospice. 1st Thursday, 6–7
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1:30–2:45 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-819-3395 or visit www. evergreeneaston.org. 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 Kent Island Farmer’s Market, 3:30–6:30 p.m. every Thursday at Christ Church, 830 Romancoke Rd., Stevensville. For more info. visit www.kifm830. wixsite.com/kifm. 2 , 9, 16, 23, 30 Men’s Group Meeting at Evergreen: A Center for Balanced Liv ing, Easton. Weekly meeting where men can deal frankly and openly w ith issues in their lives. Thursdays, 7:30–9 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-819-3395 or visit www.evergreeneaston.org. 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 Mahjong at the St. Michaels Community Center. Open to all who want to learn this ancient Chinese game of skill. Thursdays, 10 a.m.–noon. Free; drop-ins welcome. For more info. tel: 410-745-6073 or visit www. stmichaelscc.org. 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 Caregivers Support Group at Talbot Hospice. Weekly support group for caregivers of a loved one with a life-limiting illness. Thursdays, 1 p.m. Free and open to the public. For more info. tel: 410-822-6681. 2, 11 Dog Walking, Adkins Arboretum, Ridgely. 1st Thursday and
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3, 4, 10, 11, 17, 18, 24, 25 Rock ’n’ Bowl at Choptank Bowling Center, Cambridge. Unlimited bowling, food and drink specials, blacklighting, disco lights and jammin’ music. Every Friday and Saturday, 9–11:59 p.m. Rental shoes included. For more info. v isit www.choptankbowling. com. 3, 6, 10, 13, 17, 20, 24, 27 Food Distribution at the St. Michaels Community Center. Open to all Talbot County residents. Must provide identification. Each family can participate once per week. Every Monday: dinner buffet at Union United Methodist Church, 4–7 p.m. Every Friday: lunch
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April Calendar 4 Nanticoke Historic Preservation A l lia nce Spr ing Soiree F undraiser at A lgonquin Manor, Cambridge, 5–8 p.m. Appetizers, wine, beer and signature cocktail. Proceeds to benefit the restoration of Handsell, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. For more info. tel: 410228-7458 or visit www.restorehandsell.org. 4 Moonlight Blues Concert at the Oxford Community Center. 7 p.m. Five-member band playing blues favorites. $20, cash bar. For more info. tel: 410-226-5904. 4–5 Eastern Shore Sea Glass & Coastal Arts Festival at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. Sunday. More than 70 artisans exhibiting coastal and sea glass-related jewelr y, home décor, ar t and more. Also includes live music and lectures about sea glass and its history along the shores of the Chesapeake. Food, drink and scenic boat tours available for purchase. For more info. and tickets visit www.seaglassfestival.com. 4–5 Sip & Savor, an extraordinary tasting event in downtown Cambridge. Featuring distilleries, wineries, breweries and
more “taste makers” from across the region. Special menus, chef demos, special events and live music throughout the weekend. For more info. tel: 443-477-0843 or v isit www.downtowncambridge.org. 4, 11, 18, 25 Anahata Yoga with Cavin Moore at the Oxford Community Center. Saturdays, 8 and 10 a.m. In Sansk r it, anahata means “unhurt, unstruck and unbeaten.” $12/class, drop-ins welcome. For more info. tel: 410226-5904. 4–26 Retrospective, a show featuring 25 years of oil paintings by Anne Allbeury-Hock, at the Dorchester Center for the Arts, Cambridge. Reception April 11, 5–7:30 p.m. 5 Chesapeake International Chamber Music concerts. AYA Piano Trio at Temple B’Nai Israel in Easton at 1 p.m. Iceberg String Quartet at Church of the Holy Trinity in Oxford at 2 p.m. Colores Trio at St. Mark’s United Methodist Church in Easton at 3 p.m. Dior Quartet at Trinity Cathedral in Easton at 4 p.m. Soma Quartet at Christ Church in Oxford at 4 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-819-0380 or visit www. chesapeakemusic.org. 6 Poetry and the Power of Place
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Lunch & Learn at the St. Michaels Library. Noon. In honor of National Poetry Month, awardwinning poet, editor and teacher Meredith Davies Hadaway will discuss how poetry of place can help us reimagine our world by engaging our creative energies, honing our voices and enacting a universa l interconnec t ion. Sponsored by t he Fr iends of the Library. Coffee and dessert provided. For more info. tel: 410745-5877 or visit www.tcfl.org. 6 HomePorts Benefit Dinner at Luisa’s Cucina Italiana, Chestertown. Seatings at 5:30 and 7:30 p.m. Proceeds benefit HomePorts, which provides services to those over 55 to help them remain content, safe and confident in their own homes. $50. For more info. tel: 443-380-0940 or email karen@homeports.org.
6 Meeting: Cambridge Coin Club at the Dorchester County Public Library. 1st Monday, 7:30 p.m. Annual dues $5. For more info. tel: 443-521-0679. 6 Meeting: Live Playwrights’ Society at the Garfield Center, Chestertown. 1st Monday, 7:30–9 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-810-2060. 6 Meeting: Tidewater Camera Club at the Talbot Community Center, Easton. 7–9 p.m. Speaker John Maggio of Hawk Marketing will present “Marketing Your Photography Business in 2020.” For more info. visit www.tidewatercameraclub.org. 6, 13, 20, 27 Meeting: Overeaters Anonymous at UM Shore Medical Center, Easton. Mondays, 5:15–6:15 p.m. For more info. visit www.oa.org.
6 Meeting: Bereaved Parents group, Compass Regional Hospice, Grief Support Services Wing, Centreville. 1st Monday, 6–8 p.m. For more info. visit www.compassregionalhospice.org.
6, 13, 20, 17 Monday Night Trivia at the Market Street Public House, Denton. 7:30–9:30 p.m. Join host Norm Amorose for a fun-filled evening. For more info. tel: 410479-4720.
6 Bluegrass Jam at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, 303 Main St., Hurlock. 1st Monday, 7–10 p.m. Bluegrass musicians and fans welcome. Donations accepted for
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410-822-1000 x 5700 or visit www.shorehealth.org. 7, 21 Cancer Patient Support Group at the Cancer Center at UM Shore Regional Health Center, Idlewild Ave., Easton. 1st and 3rd Tuesdays, 5–7 p.m. For more info. tel: 443-254-5940 or visit www. umshoreregional.org. 7, 21 Grief Support Group at the Dorchester County Library, Cambridge. 1st and 3rd Tuesdays, 6 p.m. Sponsored by Coastal Hospice & Palliative Care. For more info. tel: 443-978-0218. 7, 14, 21, 28 Free Blood Pressure Screening. Tuesdays, 9 a.m.– noon at University of Maryland Shore Regional Health Diagnostic and Imaging Center, Easton. For more info. tel: 410-820-7778. 7, 14, 21, 28 Healing Through Yoga a Talbot Hospice, Easton. Tuesdays, 9–10 a.m. Participants will learn empowering techniques to cope with grief and honor their loss in this complementary therapy that emphasizes mindfulness and poses that direct healing in positive ways. No previous yoga experience necessary. Mats provided; walk-ins welcome. Free and open to the public. For more info. tel: 410-822-6681. 7, 14, 21, 18 Story Time at the Tal-
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bot County Free Library, Easton. Tuesdays, 10 a.m. (program repeats at 11 a.m.). Ages 5 and under accompanied by an adult. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit www.tcfl.org. 7, 14, 21, 28 Meeting: Bridge Clinic Support Group at the UM Shore Medical Center at Dorchester. Free, confidential support group for individuals who have been hospitalized for behavioral reasons. Tuesdays, 6–7:30 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-228-5511, x 2140. 7, 14, 21, 28 Dorchester Swingers Square Dancing Club meets Tuesdays, 7–9:15 p.m., at Maple
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April Calendar Painting Class at The Treasure Chest, Oxford. 5:30–8:30 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-924-8817. 11 Fr iends of the Librar y Second Saturday Book Sale at the Dorchester County Public Library, Cambridge. 9 a.m.–2 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-228-7331 or visit www.dorchesterlibrary. org. 11 Easter Egg Hunt at Emily’s Produce, Cambridge. Hunt times are 11 am., 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. $10/ child. Register by April 6 for a guaranteed spot. For more info. tel: 443-521-0789 or visit www. emilysproduce.com. 11 Who Laid That Egg? Adkins Arboretum, Ridgely, 2–3:30 p.m. In this new twist on the classic egg hunt, families will navigate wetland, forest and meadow habitats in Amazing Race style on a wildlife scavenger hunt. Finish in an hour to be entered in a raffle for cool prizes! $10/family. For more info. tel: 410-634-2847 x 0 or visit www.adkinsarboretum.org. 11 Second Saturday at the Artsway, 401 Market St., Denton. 1–5 p.m. Interact with artists as they demonstrate their work. For more info. tel: 410-479-1009 or visit www.carolinearts.org.
11 Second Saturday and Art Walk on Race, Poplar, Muir and High streets in Historic Downtown Cambridge. Shops will be open late. Galleries will be opening new shows and holding receptions. Restaurants will feature live music. 5–9 p.m. For more info. visit www.CambridgeMainStreet.com. 11 Second Saturday Art Night Out in St. Michaels. Take a walking tour of St. Michaels’ six fine art galleries, all centrally located on Talbot St. For more info. tel: 410 -745- 9535 or v isit www. townofstmichaels.org. 12 Pancake Breakfast at the Oxford Volunteer Firehouse. 8–11 a.m. $10/$5 children. For more info. tel: 410-226-5110. 13 Meeting: Caroline County AARP Chapter #915 meets at noon with a covered dish luncheon at the Church of the Nazarene in Denton. New members welcome. For more info. tel: 410-482-6039. 13 Caregiver Support Group at the Talbot County Senior Center, Easton. 2nd Monday, 1 p.m. For more info. tel: 443-746-3698 or visit www.snhealth.net. 14 Advance Healthcare Planning at Talbot Hospice, Easton. Hospice
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April Calendar at Evergreen: A Center for Balanced Living, Easton. 2nd and 4th Tuesdays, 6:30–8 p.m. Open to the public. For more info. tel: 410-819-3395 or visit www.evergreeneaston.org. 15 Meeting: Dorchester Caregivers Support Group at Pleasant Day Adult Medical Day Care, Cambridge. 3rd Wednesday, 1–2 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-228-0190 or visit www.pleasantday.com. 15 Child Loss Support Group at Ta lbot Hospic e, Ea ston. 3rd Wednesday, 6:30 p.m. This group is for anyone grieving the loss of a child of any age. Free and open to the public. For more info. tel: 410-822-6681. 15, 22, 29 Photography Part 2: Beyond Digital with Sahm DohertySefton at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. 6–8 p.m. Widen your repertoire of approaches so you can effectively make the pho-
tographs you envision. For more info. tel: 410-822-2787 or visit www.academyartmuseum.org. 16 Class: Composition and Design for the Artist with Cid Collins Walker at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. 10 a.m.–1 p.m. This class will focus on the application of creative techniques in drawing, with students working from both still life and images from the history of art and cinema. Class also meets April 23 and 30 and May 7. For more info. tel: 410-822-2787 or visit www.academyartmuseum.org. 16 Stroke Survivor’s Support Group at Pleasant Day Adult Medical Day Care, Cambridge. 3rd Thursday, 1–2 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-228-0190 or visit www. pleasantday.com. 16 Third Thursday in downtown Denton. Shop for one-of-a-kind f loral arrangements, gifts and home décor, dine on a porch with view of the Choptank River or
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April Calendar stroll around town as businesses extend their hours. 5–7 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-479-0655. 16 Meet ing: Gr ief Suppor t for Overdose Loss Group at Compass Regional Hospice, Grief Support Services Wing, Centreville. 3rd Thursday, 6–8 p.m. For more info. visit www.compassregionalhospice.org. 16 Film: St ill Dreaming at the Ta lbot C ount y Free L ibra r y, Easton. 6–8 p.m. When people in a retirement home decide to stage A Midsummer Night’s Dream, they’re in for a struggle. Still, creativity is magical! Presented in partnership with the Chesapeake Film Festival. Free and open to the public. For more info. tel: 410822-1626 or visit www.tcfl.org. 16 Learn Painting & Transfers at The Treasure Chest, Oxford. 6–8 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-924-8817.
16 “Gems from Vienna,” Easton Choral Arts Society annual spring concert, at Christ Church Easton. 7:30 p.m. Music by Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn and Schubert. $15. For more info. or tickets tel: 410-200-0498 or visit www. eastonchoralarts.org. 17, 18 Continuum Dance and Allegra! Women’s Chorus present All Together at the Oxford Community Center. 7 p.m. on Friday, 2 p.m. on Saturday. Voice and modern dance at their best! 7 p.m. For more info. or tickets visit www.continuumdance.com. 18
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homelessness on the Mid-Shore. For more info. visit www.talbotinterfaithshelter.org. 18 From Stage and Screen, Queen Anne’s Chorale’s spring concert at the Todd Per for ming A r ts Center, Chesapeake College, Wye Mills. 7 p.m. Songs from The Lion King, La La Land, Les Misérables, Aladdin and others you know by heart. $20, children through high school admitted free. For more info. tel: 443-262-8146 or visit www.qachorale.org. 18–19 Class: Plein Air Landscape Painting w ith Brad and Bernie at t he Ac ademy A r t Museum, Easton. 10 a.m.–3:30 p.m. Join instructors Brad Ross and Bernard Dellario to paint the beautiful spring scenery around historic Easton. For more info. tel: 410-822-2787 or visit www. academyartmuseum.org. 19 Annual Meeting: St. Michaels Museu m at t he St. Michaels Library. 2 p.m. Dale Green, as-
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Talbot County Senior Center, Easton. 3rd Monday, 1 p.m. For more info. tel: 443-746-3698 or visit www.snhealth.net. 22 Meeting: Diabetes Suppor t Group at UM Shore Regional Health at Dorchester, Cambridge. 4th Wednesday, 5:30 p.m. Free and open to the public. For more info. tel: 410-822-1000 x 5196. 23 Richard III at the Talbot County Free Library, Easton. 5–8 p.m. Imagine an England that went fascist in the 1930s. Add one gleefully murderous psychopath plotting to take down the crown. Presented in partnership with the Chesapeake Film Festival. Free and open to the public. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit www.tcfl.org. 24 Benedictine Spring Gala Benefit reception at the Tidewater Inn, Easton. 5:30–7 p.m. Mingle with friends, family and Benedictine staff for heavy hors d’oeuvres and cocktail hour. $25. For more info.
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2 4 , 25 C on s ider ing Mat the w Shepard, an inspirational oratorio performed by the Tidewater Singers and an expanded choir from the Chesapeake College and surrounding communities, in the Todd Per forming A r ts Center at Chesapeake College, Wye Mills. 7:30 p.m. The piece honors Shepard, a young, gay University of Wyoming student who was kidnapped, beaten and left to die in 1998. Tickets are $18 and are available at Crackerjacks in Easton, Edwards Pharmacy in Centreville, at www.tidewatersingers.org or by mailing a check
24–26 Spring Native Plant Sale at Adkins Arboretum, Ridgely. Shop the region’s largest selection of native trees, shrubs, perennials, ferns, vines and grasses. Discount for members. Presale orders accepted through April 2 at www. adkinsarboretum.org. For more info. tel: 410-634-2847 x 0 or visit www.adkinsarboretum.org. 24 thru July 8 Antonio McAfee: Legacy at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. A visual Germanborn artist based in Baltimore, McAfee was fi rst-prize winner in the AAM New Photography Inau-
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Tom Baril, Aaron Siskind and more. Public opening reception April 24, 5:30 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-2787 or visit www. academyartmuseum.org. 25 Oxford Day. Parade at 11 a.m. Vendors, demos, dog show, food and more! 25 Oxford Museum Opening Day. Photographer Jay Fleming will be at the museum to open the new exhibit of his work Working the Water. For more info. visit www. oxfordmuseummd.org. 25 Oxford Community Day offerings at Oxford Community Center. 11 a.m.–1 p.m. Linger after the parade to enjoy a car show, jamming on the patio, hot dogs and shaved ice. Beer and Bloody Marys available after noon. Free and open to all. For more info. tel. 410-226-5904. 25 Paperback Book Sale at the Oxford Library, 101 Market St. 10 a.m.–4 p.m. For more info. tel:
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25 Concert: C.E.S.’tival to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Center for Environment & Society at Washington College. Wilmer Park, Chester tow n, 4–8 p.m. Music by the High & Wides and the Pat McGee band, local food and drink. $15, free for children under 12 and Washington College students with ID. For more info. visit www.washcoll.edu/ centers/ces. 25 A Night to Remember: Benedictine Spring Gala Benefit at the Tidewater Inn, Easton. A dazzling evening of gourmet cuisine and cocktails in support of the children and adults served by Benedictine. $150. For more info.
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26 Book signing by local author Don Parks and mystery writers Maya Corrigan and Debra Goldstein at Mystery Loves Company, 202 S. Morris St., Oxford. 11 a.m.–2 p.m. 27 Oxford Book Club at the Oxford Community Center. 4th Monday, 10:30 a.m.–noon. All are welcome. For more info. tel: 410226-5904. 28 Monthly Grief Support Group at Talbot Hospice. 4th Tuesday, 5:30 p.m. This group is for anyone in the community grieving the death of a loved one, regardless of whether they were served by Talbot Hospice. Free and open to the public. For more info. tel: 410-822-6681. 28 Meeting: Breast Cancer Support Group at UM Shore Regional Cancer Center, Idlew ild Ave., Easton. 4th Tuesday, 6–7:30 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-1000 x 5411 or visit www.umshoreregional.org. 28 Meeting: Women Supporting Women breast cancer support group at Christ Episcopal Church,
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