Tidewater Times
August 2015
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West Chestnut Street, Circa 1810 - Sited on a prominent point overlooking the Harbor, this magnificent 4 bedroom home has been masterfully restored and renovated. This is a “Wow!” house! For boating, there are 4 boat slips, one large enough to accommodate yachts up to 70 feet. $2,995,000
Water Street, Circa 1878 - St. Michaels’ Historic District. Tastefully renovated w/care to preserve the 19th century charm, this 4 BR house features a new gourmet kitchen, waterside breakfast & family rooms, LR, study & “River Room.” Dock accommodates yachts up to 40 feet. $1,395,000
“Bentley Hay” Farmhouse, Circa mid 1800’s - Shaded by majestic trees, this 150-yearold farmhouse is absolutely charming inside and out! Modern kitchen and baths, spacious wrap-around waterside deck overlooking the Harbor and swimming pool! Guest apartment over the two-car garage. $1,195,000
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Since 1952, Eastern Shore of Maryland Vol. 64, No. 3
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About the Cover Photographer: Fran Saunders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Golden Hour: Helen Chappell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Solving World Issues in Style: Dick Cooper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Taters, Scrapple & Diet Coke: Kathi Ferguson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Tidewater Kitchen: Pamela Meredith-Doyle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Mildred Crane Comes Through: Cliff Rhys James . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Lighthouse Launch: Wayne Brown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Tidewater Gardening: K. Marc Teffeau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 The Secret Master: Gary D. Crawford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 Tidewater Review: Anne Stinson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 The Monty Alexander Jazz Festival . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 2nd Annual Legacy Day in Chestertown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Departments: August Tide Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Dorchester Points of Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Easton Points of Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 St. Michaels Points of Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Oxford Points of Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 Tilghman - Bay Hundred . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 Caroline County - A Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177 Queen Anne’s County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 Kent County and Chestertown at a Glance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 August Calendar of Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 David C. Pulzone, Publisher · Anne B. Farwell, Editor P. O. Box 1141, Easton, Maryland 21601 102 Myrtle Ave., Oxford, MD 21654 410-226-0422 FAX : 410-226-0411 www.tidewatertimes.com info@tidewatertimes.com
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About the Cover Photographer Fran Saunders Fran’s lifelong love of photography began in childhood in her native New York, and she still remembers her first Kodak Brownie camera with great fondness. Fran is always looking for new ways to process her images and finds that by manipulating images she can display her best creativity. Many of her images resemble paintings rather than photographs. The photo below is an example. Since 2007, her images have received over 30 awards and honors from venues such as the Ward Foun-
dation, the Maryland Federation of Art and Chesapeake College, in addition to various local arts councils. She has exhibited work at the Academy Art Museum in Easton, Maryland Hall for Creative Arts in Annapolis, Women in Photography International in Los Angeles, and several galleries in Maryland, Delaware and Virginia. The picture on the cover is titled “Say, ah!” Fran and her husband are retired and live in Cambridge. To view more of her work v isit f ransaundersphotography.com.
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The Golden Hour by Helen Chappell
There used to be a time between dinner and when the streetlights came on, when kids went outside to play. Summer evenings were long and full of light that lasted until nine. That light is considered so perfect that filmmakers refer to it as the Golden Hour, a time when the world is bathed in the perfect natural light of a low sun. It was a time when the world was settling down after a long, hot day. Drawn by the illusion of cool after a long, humid day, lawn mowers would roar all over the neighborhood, a sound of summer. Adults sat on porches and decks,
impossibly old and weighted down with adult problems, too tired to move, too hot. Go get me another iced tea. Get Daddy’s cigarettes (in those days, people smoked). If you wanted to throw a ball or climb a tree or prog around on the river shore, they would protest that they were just too exhausted, that it was too hot to move, and they just wanted to sit there, go away so they could talk about boring old adult stuff. So you went away and hung out with the neighborhood kids. Somehow, someone had the wise idea that they were a superhero and, armed with a cape, could jump off
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Golden Hour the barn roof and f ly. There was someone in every group who believed this was possible, and there was someone in every group, every single summer, who broke a leg or worse trying to sail off the outhouse roof. No one ever flew like Superman, and yet, every single year, someone would try it. Then the adults would get off the porch and all hell would break loose. Another time all hell broke loose was when a bunch of us, for reasons I’m still not perfectly clear on, decided it would be great fun to use stones from the road to break all the windows in the neighbor’s barn. Hefting a good-sized rock and hurl-
ing it into a window in that crumbling structure was a thrill beyond compare. The crash, the smash, the tinkling of glass. It was intoxicating, as only some kind of mindless, stupid vandalism can be when you’re a bored kid. At that moment, when I broke my first pane of glass, I understood the Visigoths and
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the glass falling onto the dirt f loor inside the barn, where it lay in the smell of rotting hay and long gone horses. Lord of the Flies had nothing on us. We were little savages and proud of it. Smashing glass is one of the most satisfying things you can do. It is a revolt against the god of organization, of stuffy piety, priggish morality and the tyranny of adults against kids. There may have been other, more occult family issues I wasn’t aware of among our jolly crew. Maybe I was acting out my own rebellion against the ladysmithing that was being worked on me. Even then I had a finely honed sense of what was candor and what was a façade. All I
Huns. Everybody builds up, but tearing down is just so much fun! We were all in elementary school, and we all had plenty of home training. Involved parents, church, hot meals, clean clothes, all the benefits of civilization. We knew what we were doing was dead certain wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong, but the crash and tinkle of that shattering glass was just intoxicating to our little gang of pint-sized criminals. If Sartre was right, and all revolutions are against God, then we were the youngest band of sansculottes Satans on the Mid-Atlantic coast. Crash and more panes of glass shattered. We could hear
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and recriminations and punishments. There was restitution to be made, and shame-faced apologies that we were able to make with a good show of contrition and humiliation. I don’t think even the best citizen among us felt really bad. That lovely splintering of those wonderful panes of glass was as heady as a drug. The lovely explosion of those translucent sheets was worth any punishment. Glazers came and replaced the glass. Because the adults thought handling broken glass was dangerous, we weren’t forced to clean up the debris. Instead we were lectured and humiliated and reminded for the rest of our lives just how bad we were.
can say is I was not without sin, and I was pitching stones with the best of them, thrilled to the marrow as those panes of glass shattered and cracked into shards with the most satisfying sound in the world. When the firef lies began to glow, and the streetlights came on, we finally smashed the last pane to lovely smithereens. We didn’t even bother to survey our work like a gang of good little Goths. We just wandered to our various homes, and thought no more about it. Until, of course, the adults found out. Then, of course, there was hell to pay. There were tears
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Of course it was mad, bad and dangerous. And we were all underaged juvenile delinquents who should have been hauled up before juvenile court and even spanked. (No one was, fortunately. That I know of, anyway.) But to this day, I, for one, would do it all over again. But I still wouldn’t try to fly off the barn roof. That’s for sissies. 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 name, Rebecca Baldwin, she has published a number of historical novels.
We accepted our fate with resignation and went without allowances and treats for a while. But it was worth it. It was just so worth it.
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Solving World Issues in Style is a Shore Thing by Dick Cooper The directions to the Eastern Shore campus of the internationally acclaimed Aspen Institute are quite simple: Head south off the busy Route 50 onto a country road, the golf course and pristine white church are on the right, continue down a winding stretch through woods and turn left just past the cows. For almost 35 years, this path to an elegant retreat on the banks of the Wye East River has been followed by presidents and prime min-
isters, warriors and peacemakers, scholars and students, all in search of answers, and if not solutions, at least some agreeable resolutions. It is hard to argue in a place so beautiful. The gardens of the Georgian mansion stretch off to the haze on the water’s edge. Osprey circle overhead, deer dart across the tilled fields and foxes scurry along the edge of the woods. While it is just an hour away from the Beltway and BWI, the Institute’s Wye Campus
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Solving World Issues has a tranquil and remote feel; even the cellphone coverage is spotty. The Aspen Institute was founded in 1950 in the Colorado mining village to “provide a nonpartisan venue for dealing with critical issues.” That mission is played out daily on the Eastern Shore.
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Elliot Gerson “In a time of hyper-partisanship, finding common ground is more challenging than ever. We feel that makes our mission more important than ever,” says Elliot Gerson, the Aspen Institute’s Executive Vice P re sident of Pol ic y a nd P ubl ic Programs. “We find that some of the extreme views of partisanship are due in part to the fishbowl of the media. If you get people in the same room, as we do, and you focus on the key issues and problems, it is remarkable how often people can find agreement.” The Wye Campus gained internat iona l rec og n it ion a l most 17 years ago when then and future Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
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According to a New York Times Magazine article by Ted Conover, Elizabeth “Pussy” Paepcke, of Chicago, wife of Container Corporation of America President Walter Paepcke (pronounced PEP-key), took some visitors to their Colorado ranch on a ski excursion in 1939 to the playedout Victorian town of Aspen. In a time before lifts, they herring-boned their way up the mountain and were overwhelmed by the beauty of the wilderness. She and her husband returned after World War II and set about building a “new Chautauqua,” Conover wrote. “A ssisted by her brot her, t he arms-control adviser Paul Nitze, and friends like Robert Hutchins, president of the University of Chicago, and the philosopher Mortimer Adler, the Paepckes soon laid the foundation for a ski town with a highbrow cultural life, an ‘Athens of the West,’ Adler liked to call it. The Aspen idea, in Walter’s words, was to create a place ‘for man’s complete life . . . where he can profit by healthy, physical recreation, with facilities at hand for his enjoyment of art, music and education.’” The Paepckes started with a 1949 festival in Aspen celebrating the 200th birthday of the German philosopher Johann Wolfgang Goethe that attracted 2,000 visitors, great writers and world dignitaries including Albert Schweitzer. It has grown into an international nonprofit with partnerships in nine countries. The
Benjamin Netanyahu, Madeline Albright and Yasser Arafat in a meeting at the Aspen Institute. Netanyahu and Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat sat down there with Secretary of State Madeline Albright and worked out the “Wye River Memorandum” in the ever-elusive search for Middle East peace. It drew the spotlight again a few years later when a young Elian Gonzalez and his father were whisked there to avoid the public while the U.S. and Cuba worked out the details of the boy’s return home. But for the most part, the 1,100acre campus on a historic colonial farm is the site of low-key conferences, academic gatherings, chamber music concerts, an annual Fourth of July party and the home of the Aspen Wye Fellows. The histories of the Aspen Institute and the Wye Campus are intertwined with the stories of wealthy families from big cities who were interested in using their resources for more than power and fame. 26
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he served as president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the New York Philharmonic. At one point in his career, he was the Rare Book Curator for the Smithsonian. Before moving full-time to the Wye, he donated his New York City townhouse, a 13-room mansion built by J. P. Morgan for one of his daughters, to the United Nations to be the home of the Secretary General. Houghton (pronounced HOE-ton) and his wife, Nina Rodale Houghton, built Houghton House after they were married in 1972. The Georgian mansion with its formal gardens was converted into a conference center and guest quarters after it was donated to the Institute. A second mansion, River House, is just down the lane on the Wye East River and also has conference and meeting
Walter and Elizabeth Paepcke mountain campus features music festivals and the annual Ideas Festival. This year, the Ideas Festival attracted more than 3,000 who attended seminars that ranged from global health issues to violence in America to the scientific exploration of the oceans. In 1979, A rthur A. Houghton, Jr. donated much of his Wye River estate to the Institute to become its East Coast campus. Houghton, who was the president of Steuben Glass and an heir to the Corning Glass fortune, had maintained homes in Manhattan and on the Wye River for 40 years. He raised prize-winning cattle on the Eastern Shore while
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Solving World Issues space as well as guest rooms. An adjacent building, The Inn, has 12 guest rooms and a three-story meeting area used for concerts. Judy Price, manager of the Wye Campus, says that when the Institute is not using its facilities they are rented to out for meetings, conferences, special events and weddings. During a recent tour, a group of managers from the YMCA of Central Maryland in Baltimore County was conducting a two-day seminar at Houghton House. “It is so gorgeous here,” said the group’s leader, Gail Reich. “The rural setting on the Eastern Shore makes it feels like it is a long way away, but it is just over the bridge.”
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“I said we have a whole group of intellectually curious folks here on the Eastern Shore who have some interesting jobs and backgrounds, and I thought they would benefit from the product of the Aspen Institute and would be willing to contribute to it in return,” Webster says. “They said go and form it, and we agreed to call it the Aspen Wye Fellows. Our first speaker was Queen Noor of Jordan. She kicked it off, and now, after almost 10 years, we have had Cabinet Secretaries, ambassadors and every kind of leader of human endeavor that I can think of. “What we try to do is provide fellows with an overview of the major world issues by bringing in world thought leaders and the best available experts, and we do that every month from September through May,” he says. He said the organization has grown to more than 200
Phil Webster and Judy Price. It was the Aspen Institute’s small directional sign on Route 50 that a decade ago piqued the interest of Phil Webster of St. Michaels. The public relations executive had been to the Aspen, Colorado, campus for concerts and seminars and wondered what might be down the road. He says he met with Aspen President Walter Isaacson and administrators.
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Solving World Issues members and they also offer programs at the Aspen Institute’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. He said in September, they are sponsoring a two-day Washington Ideas Forum where “the best and the brightest” of American politics, business, technology and other fields will participate in seminars. “To us on the Eastern Shore, it is an intellectual window on the world. We are very fortunate to have the Aspen Institute here and to have use of the campus.” Cindy Buniski, Vice President and Executive Director of the Aspen Wye Campus, credits Webster with being the moving force behind the Fellows. “If Phil hadn’t suggested this,
it wouldn’t have happened. We were hiding back here in the woods with the cows. We haven’t reached our peak yet. We have a lot of places to go.” The Aspen Institute also administers more than 30 programs that focus on far-ranging and disparate topics that include health, poverty, justice, finance and homeland security. Each program has its own mission, but they are all centered on the Institute’s rigorous adherence to a non-partisan approach to finding solutions. “We never lobby. We can certainly advocate some positions, but we are not perceived as a lobby,” Gerson says. “People trust that what we do is going to be intellectually and r igorously balanced. We like to
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Turn left at the cows... think that we provide a haven for intellectually serious conversations to solve problems. We have done that for more than 60 years, and because of our political climate, as dysfunctional as it is today, there is even more demand for what we do.” Gerson says that the locations of the two campuses also play roles in its long list of successes. “People love coming to our venues. They are beautiful places designed for contemplation and problem solving. To tell you the truth, it is part of our secret sauce.” For more information about Aspen Institute, visit aspeninstitute.org. Dick Cooper is a Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist. An eBook anthology of his writings for the Tidewater Times and other publications, “East of the Chesapeake: Skipjacks, Flyboys and Sailors, True Tales of the Eastern Shore,” is now available at Amazon. com. Dick and his wife, Pat, live and sail in St. Michaels, Maryland. He can be reached at dickcooper@ coopermediaassociates.com.
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Taters, Scrapple & Diet Coke by Kathi Ferguson
Every once in a while we take delight in meeting someone who, for whatever reason, leaves us with an immediate and lasting impression. Most often, it seems, that person is an adult. But occasionally it turns out to be a really cool kid who grabs our attention and takes us in. On a lazy July morning, as I enjoyed a last sip of coffee at Tilghman Island’s Two if by Sea Restaurant before paying my bill, I could not help but notice a sandy-haired boy walk by, head straight for the counter, sit down, and order break-
fast. “Chocolate chip pancakes today?” asks the server. “Yeah, and a Diet Coke, please,” answers 11-year old Hayden Wilson. “Sometimes he comes in with his mom and dad or his friend Kadan,” the owner tells me. “Mostly he’s by himself.” Intrigued that Hayden is quite comfortable dining solo (and a smart phone is nowhere in sight!), I decide to introduce myself and am quick to discover that this young Islander is a regular customer. “I was probably like five when I started to come in here,” he informs me.
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Taters, Scrapple & Diet Coke “I used to ride my bicycle up from the house to get chocolate chip muffins. And this is my seat. I always sit on this stool, every time.” Needless to say, Hayden is also a fan of chocolate. As a “regular” at the restaurant myself, chats with Hayden become more frequent until I am ultimately acknowledged with the familiar Eastern Shore greeting “Hey, Miss Kathi” on a regular basis. Son of Jason and Joy Wilson, Hayden is the younger of two children. “My older sister is Jozie,” says Hayden. “I’m the only ‘H’!” His mom and dad come from a long line of Eastern Shore farmers and commercial fishermen and have lived in Tilghman since they were first married. “It’s a different kind of life here, but we love it,” Joy smiles. “Things are more laid back and friends and family are close by.” I learn that Hayden is the son of a fourth generation waterman and, if he has his way, will most likely follow suit by being the fifth. “If the crabs come up and things are good on the water, I’ll be a waterman,” he says. “But I’m not sure my mom really wants me to.” Like most kids his age, Hayden has a short attention span and an insatiable taste for adventure. He is quick to tell you his favorite subject in school is “nothing,” and that
Hayden hard at work at Dogwood Harbor in Tilghman. he would rather be fishing, boatdocking, hunting, or riding his four-wheeler more than just about anything. “I don’t watch much television,” he says. “I like movin’ around and stuff. When I go out crabbing or oystering with my dad, it’s a lot of work but it’s really fun.” Hayden was six when he started fishing with his father. “He couldn’t wait to get out there,” says Jason. “When we first started going out, I could barely see him over the console he was so short. Now he gives me a run for the money. The kid is a natural.” Out on the water by 3 in the morning, father and son would be back in unloading their catch by noon before heading down to Kool Ice Seafood in Cambridge with the morning’s delivery. “I learned to pull up the crab nets and take out all the little rockfish, the croaker, bluefish and everything. We use a pound net for crabs and fishing,” Hayden informs 40
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Taters, Scrapple & Diet Coke me. “I don’t usually do the conch pot, though, ‘cause that’s when I’m in school. But I get paid for all the crabs I catch ~ just like the crew. Dad says it’s on-the-job training.” Docked at Dogwood Harbor, Buck Wild is Hayden’s pride and joy. “I’ve had my boat since I was nine,” he tells me. “Even paid for half of the motor with the money I saved from crabbing. Dad told me as long as I stayed out of trouble and kept it up good, it would be all mine when I turn 18. I could take you out sometime if you want,” he says with a smile. “It’s kinda dirty now, though. Normally I have it so you can eat off the f loor; but I
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Taters, Scrapple & Diet Coke the “Water Rodeo,” began in the town of Crisfield in 1971 and rapidly expanded to other Delmarva locations such as Taylors and Solomons Islands, Hooper’s Island, Deal Island and, of course, Tilghman. Work boats and charter boats compete within their divisions to go from point “A” to get to point “B” (the dock) before lassoing the poles for a timed competition. This popular activity is now considered a water sport for captains of all ages, and young Captain Wilson can most assuredly compete with the best of them. The boat docking event is always a highlight on Tilghman Island
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After just two years of competition, Hayden has been known to dock his craft in the same amount of time as some of the veterans ~ and has the trophies to prove it. “We really enjoy sponsoring kids like Hayden in these competitions,” says Tommy Collins, owner and president of Kool Ice. “He’s a remarkable young man and comes from a good family with good values. And he’s an amazing little waterman. When he and his father bring in crabs, Hayden’s got his in a separate basket with his name on it and makes sure he gets the best price.” He grins. “Not to mention that he can tell tall tales with the best of ’em.” Carrying on the watermen’s tra-
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Bring a Fabulous Dish! The next time you have a potluck, picnic, or family gathering, pick one of these terrific recipes to bring. It is guaranteed to be a hit! Some of these covered dishes are from dear Oxford friends, and they will have the group clamoring for second and third helpings. Deviled eggs are a picnic favorite, but can be a disaster to transport. There are containers available that securely hold two layers of eggs, and the handle on top makes carrying it a breeze. I highly recommend using one of these as opposed to trying to carry the slippery little devils on a f lat plate. I have included three egg recipes with distinctly different flavors and styles. Start with the Spicy Southwest Deviled Eggs. Minced pickled jalapeno peppers provide the heat, and cumin lends a smoky Southwest f lavor. If you branch out from traditional deviled eggs with this version, they will be a hit. The Macaroni and Ham Salad has a touch of Cajun seasoning,
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Mash the yolks with a fork and stir in mayonnaise, jalapenos, mustard, cumin and salt. Spoon or pipe the egg yolk mixture into egg halves. Cover and chill at least one hour or until ready to serve. Garnish with cilantro or top with a thin slice of jalapeno.
Prep the eggs as above and remove the yolks. Mash yolks with a fork and stir in the rest of the ingredients. Spoon or pipe the egg yolk mixture into the egg halves. Cover and chill for at least one hour.
JOAN SNYDER’S DEVILISH EGGS 6 large eggs, hard-boiled and peeled 1 T. Dijon mustard 3 T. mayonnaise 3 T. sweet pickle juice Salt and pepper to taste
MACARONI HAM SALAD 3 cups elbow macaroni, uncooked 1 cup cooked ham, chopped 1 cucumber, peeled and diced 1 tomato, diced 1 small red pepper, diced 1 small yellow pepper, diced 1 small green pepper, diced 1-1/2 cups mayonnaise 1 t. Cajun seasoning 1 T. fresh lemon juice Sea salt to taste
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cooled macaroni with the remainder of the ingredients. Cover and chill for at least 4 hours before serving to your guests. PEA SALAD The sweet pop of the pea, creamy mayonnaise dressing, crunchy onion and crispy bacon taste great right after being stirred together, but they taste even better after their flavors have married in the refrigerator for a day. This is an easypeasy dish to serve!
1 loaf white sandwich bread 1 onion (the size of an orange) 1/2 pint jar Kraft Real Mayonnaise Salt and cayenne pepper to taste Spread all slices of bread on a table. With a butter knife, spread each with a generous amount of mayonnaise. Chop onions finely. Salt and mix well. Spread every other slice of bread with a small amount of chopped onions. Lightly dust with cayenne pepper. Spread a small amount of mayonnaise on bread with onions. Put the two slices together and cut as desired.
1 lb. pkg. frozen peas 1 onion, finely chopped 2 ribs celery, chopped 1/2 lb. bacon, cooked, drained and crumbled 1/4 to 1/2 cup mayonnaise (to taste) Stir together all of the ingredients and put in a tightly covered container in the refrigerator to give the flavors a chance to meld for a day. Give it a gentle stir from top to bottom before serving.
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4 cups boiling water 4-5 regular-size tea bags 1/4 to 1 cup sugar (according to your preference) 4 cups cold water Sliced lemons for garnish
Make a simple syrup by bringing 1/2 cup water and sugar to a boil. Boil for 3 minutes, making sure the sugar is completely dissolved. Remove from heat and cool. Using a microplane, zest 1 lemon and set aside. Squeeze the juice from 8 lemons. Add the juice to a 2-quart pitcher along with the zest and plain cold water. Whisk in the syrup to taste and refrigerate for at least 8 hours.
Pour boiling water over tea bags, cover, and let steep for about 5 minutes. Gently squeeze and remove tea bags. Add sugar and stir until dissolved. Add cold water. Serve over ice and garnish with lemons. HOMEMADE FRESHSQUEEZED LEMONADE To me, a special reunion calls for something extra-special like fresh, homemade lemonade. This one begins with simple syrup, which helps to provide that perfect balance between tart and sweet. Your friends will be very impressed.
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Mildred Crane Comes Through by Cliff Rhys James
It had been t hree days since fourteen-year-old Billy James and his booming Indian motorcycle had completed their high-speed rendezvous with a telephone pole near the intersection of East Washington and Beckford streets. Like all of his accidents, this one had been a spectacularly noisy affair involving sirens in the night, f lying bodies, charred ruins, destruction of city property, firefighters and tow trucks ~ not to mention stunned witnesses and an ambulance ride to the hospital. Once again he’d heard the beating sound of leathery wings and been singed by the heat of the Angel of Death. But, as in all of the boy’s narrow escapes, the grim reaper would f ly from the scene alone and disappointed. It would have to wait to lay claim to Billy James who had once again demonstrated an uncanny ability to cheat as well as tempt death. The commotion had also resurrected a lingering question: “How could a fourteen-year-old kid own, operate and wreck a high powered motorcycle on the public streets of New Castle, Pa., not once, not twice, but four times?” But on that calm morning three days after the accident, Billy was content to let
the city fathers ponder the riddle as he lay recuperating in his upstairs bedroom. The nice t hing about post-ac cident rec over y per iod s was that they afforded him rare interludes of peace and quiet during which he could plot future adventures. Downstairs in the kitchen below, his parents were lingering over a last sip of morning coffee before depar ting for work when Billy’s mother told her husband that she’d received a call the day before about Billy’s motorcycle accident. The ver y mention of the subject was like an electric shock sending a visible shudder through Billy’s father. Slowly, ver y deliberately, Cliff lowered his cup to the saucer. “Please, Myrtle,” he began, “it’s only eight in the morning. I just want to have one normal day. Can’t this 63
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wait?” Experience, that toughest of all teachers, had taught him that “normal days” were a rare and precious commodity because so few of them trailed in the wake of his son’s antics. “Normal,” it seemed, was an entirely foreign concept to Billy. “But it’s not bad news,” she said in a reassuring way. “It’s not?” Cliff was incredulous. How could a phone call about Billy’s latest motorcycle accident involving the New Castle Police, ambulance services, Jamison Hospital emergency room doctors and a towing company from Slippery Rock, Pa., ~ all generating a fresh raft of expenses and bad publicity ~ not be bad news? “Who was it?” “A young lady named Mildred Crane,” Myrtle said. “She wants to come by on Saturday with a friend for a serious discussion.” “About what?” “About the accident,” Myrtle said as she cleared the table. “Her friend’s not a lawyer?” “Now stop it, Cliff, these girls know Billy. They’re friends of his.” “She isn’t pregnant, is she?” Cliff shook his head slowly side to side as he asked the question. It seemed he was forever shaking his head in resignation when discussing his son. “It ’s not h i ng l i ke t hat ,” sa id Myrtle. “Well hell, how do you know? She mentioned an accident and God 64
only knows what kind of accident she’s referring to. She knows Billy and she wants to speak to both of us,” Cliff shrugged his shoulders. “Maybe that friend is her father coming to invite us all to a shotgun wedding.” “Oh, for Pete’s sake, Cliff, stop it. It’s about Billy’s motorcycle accident and her having some information that might be helpful.” Mildred Crane and her girlfriend wer e Bi l ly ’s c la s sm ate s at B en Franklin Jr. High. The evening of the motorcycle accident they were walking along East Washington Street and by pure coincidence happened to be between Beckford and Adams streets when things went sideways at high speed. The girls had gasped in horror as they watched an eastbound sedan pull out to pass a slower-moving vehicle. From their angle they could see what the driver of the passing car could not; namely that a motorcycle hurtling west with two people on board was entering the same block
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~ his very own, if the wild rumors could be believed. “This is my friend Eileen,” Mildred said to Cliff and Myrtle as they entered the Jameses’s living room. “How’s Billy doing?” “ Muc h b e t t e r,” My r t le s a id , “thanks for asking. He’s upstairs asleep.” “We saw the ambulance take him away that night, so I was worried he’d been hurt bad ~ the newspaper article didn’t say. If you want I can stop by each day after school to go over the homework assignments he’ll miss while he heals up.” “That’s ver y kind of you, Mildred,” Myrtle said as she motioned for them to take a seat. “They set his wrist in a cast,” said Cliff. “And somehow a wheel spoke pu nc t u red h is a n k le be tween the tendon and bone ~ he was sure luck y there. Oh, yeah, and he suffered a mild concussion along with some cuts, scrapes and bruises. But they stitched him all back together and he’ll be f ine. This wasn’t his first wreck, and I’ll be shocked if it’s his last. So you
in the same lane, headed in the opposite direction. In the hallways at Ben Franklin, Mildred had noticed the roguish boy w ith a shock of curly black hair and lively green eyes. He’d even f lashed his ornery grin in her direction several times. But she also noticed that he’d had a series of “run-ins” with school officials over his tendency to get sidetracked between home and school. It seemed that on an average of four days per month throughout the semester, Billy James left home in the morning headed for school but somehow never made it. He’d arrive instead at Bob Boyd’s motorcycle shop, or Cascade Amusement Park, or the Strand movie theater, or any of a half-dozen other destinations that he deemed far more suitable for a boy of his talents and interests. And despite the fact that he was still years short of his sixteenth birthday, she’d seen him roaring around town gripping the handlebars of a very loud and powerful motorcycle
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toot a couple times,” Mildred said. “You know how they do when someone’s about to pass?” Cliff and Myrtle both nodded. “I guess the driver of the passing car couldn’t see the oncoming motorcycle until it was too late,” she continued, “but once he was next to the slower car there was no place to go for anybody.” “How fast do you think the passing car was going?” “He was probably speeding a little bit to get around the slower car,” said Eileen. “Yeah, maybe a little bit,” Mildred agreed. “I see,” Cliff nodded and pinned his wife with a long look, “and then what happened?” “Everything happened so fast, but basically that’s when we saw the motorcycle, and you know there was a passenger on the back ~ right?” “Yes,” Myrtle said. “Billy’s friend Dick Ridenbaugh.” “Exactly,” said Mildred, “and so suddenly the motorcycle is coming toward us, you know, trying to avoid a head-on collision with the passing car that’s in his lane. And anyway, Eileen and I, we both of us jump back into a store entryway for safety. Not in the store. We’re still outside but between the front window displays next to the door ~ follow?” Clif f and Myr tle both nodded again. Mildred paused for a breath and
ladies saw the whole thing, huh?” “Yes, sir, we sure did. And that’s why Eileen and I thought we should spe a k to you bec au se it wa sn’t Billy’s fault.” “It wa sn’t?” Clif f wa s unpre pared for this comment. Until that moment, he’d assumed Billy had concocted a story to help fade the heat. “Well, then please go on. Tell us what you saw.” “We were strolling toward Casc ade Pa rk on E a st Wa sh i ng ton Street,” Mildred began. “It was a beautiful warm early evening. The light was fading, but it wasn’t dark either.” “Dusk,” said Eileen. “That’s right, dusk,” repeated Mildred, “and anyway, we had just crossed at the Beckford intersection and…” “So you were between Beckford and Adams heading east ~ correct?” Cliff wanted to know. “That’s right, and we had just stepped back up on the sidewalk when first we heard, then we saw, a motorcycle coming west. There was a wide gap with no traffic in the westbound lane and then there was this motorcycle coming.” “Was it speeding?” asked Cliff as he glanced sideways at his wife. “That’s hard to say,” Eileen piped up. “It might have been a little over the speed limit.” “But then we heard a car horn 68
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that it was a four-door sedan.” She turned toward Eileen, “or was it a two-door?” “How about color?” asked Myrtle. “Well, like I said, it was just getting dark and I thought it was white, but Eileen here thinks it might have been light tan or a cream color of some sort.” “Could you identify the driver?” Cliff asked The girls looked at each other brief ly before shaking their heads “no” side to side. “Only that it was a man and not a woman,” Eileen said. “Well, listen, ladies,” Cliff rose from his chair. “I want you to know that my wife and I really do appreciate…” “But then it hit me,” Mildred interrupted, “You see, Eileen was wearing…” “I was wearing a shiny light jacket, the kind with a slick surface.” “Exactly,” Mildred said, “so I yank out my lipstick, spin Eileen around and write down the license plate number across her back. Right on her jacket ~ big as day in bright red lip stick.” Mildred turned and motioned to Eileen, who dug into a shoulder bag on the f loor and pulled out the jacket. “I should have transferred the number onto a piece of paper and had this cleaned,” said Eileen as she held up the garment for inspection, “but then I thought what if there’s a court case or something? Then, you know, I might be tampering with legal evidence.”
then continued. “So the motorcycle hits the curb, goes airborne and f lies past us over the sidewalk until it lands all wobbly, veers off to one side just missing a bench and ends up running along the top of the curb until it... until it slammed into the telephone pole.” Myrtle’s hands f lew up to cover her mouth. Billy had already recounted this tale, and the newspaper article contained many of the same basic details, but somehow hearing it now from an eyewitness sent a fresh shiver through her. Cliff winced and solemnly shook his head. “But then I see the car isn’t stopping,” Mildred continued. “He’s not even slowing down. In fact, he’s speeding away as fast as he can. And I’m thinking Dear God and…” “Could you see what kind of car it was?” Cliff asked “I don’t know cars well at all, Mr. James. A ll I can tell you is 70
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“No problem Mr. James. You can keep it as long as you need it.” All rose to leave. “I’m very impressed with your presence of mind,” Cliff said as they moved toward the front door. ”We want to thank you for doing the right thing. I think I’ll be able to resolve this matter while keeping it out of court.” And indeed he did. Through a contact at City Hall, Billy’s father matched up the license plate number to a pillar of the community, a long established and highly respected local physician, which Cliff and Myrtle found not only infuriating but puzzling. It just didn’t make sense that a medical doctor of his reputation and stature would f lee the scene of an accident, even if he
“That’s the license plate number of the car that ran Billy of f the road?” Myr tle asked in stunned disbelief. Both girls wore proud grins nodding their heads. “Yes ma’am,” said Eileen, “it sure is.” Cliff had already pulled a pen and note pad from a drawer and was copying down the number. He looked up again at the jacket being held up by the shoulders and then back at the paper, double checking his figures. “I’ll be damned.” He smiled at the girls. “You ladies are really something. Eileen, do you mind if I borrow that jacket? I’ll return it in a few days.”
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with the identical set of numbers and let ters scrawled across t he back in red lipstick, the physician squirmed uncomfortably in his seat then asked his secretary to hold all calls during his meeting with Mr. James. Twenty minutes later, the two men reached an agreement: The doctor would pay for all of Billy James’s medical, ambulance and tow company bills, as well as provide $500 in cash to Mr. James. In return, Cliff James agreed to refrain from doing two things. He would not file a complaint with the police against the physician, who was highly regarded in the community as a respected family man. And he would never speak publicly about the doctor’s mistress, whose presence in the car the evening of the accident is what prompted him to speed away from the scene. Cliff added the $500 to his selfinsurance fund to help defer the costs of his son’s future calamities. It was 1941, when $500 went a long way. Still, it proved woefully insufficient.
might have contributed to its cause. It was contrary to the level of moral conduct expected of anyone, let alone a physician who had sworn an oath. “Welcome as a new patient to my practice,” the doctor said while motioning for the stern-looking man to take a seat. “How can I help you today?” The man removed a paper from his pocket, unfolded it and shoved it across the desk. Printed across it was a series of numbers and letters. “What’s that?” asked the doctor. “That,” said Cliff James, “is a license plate number. More specif ic a lly, it’s your license plate number.” Launching into his explanation, Cliff watched as the color drained f rom the doctor’s face. When he held up Eileen’s jacket
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curved deck planking. There was no ship’s wheel, nor engine controls, nor seating. But the hull carried a normal-looking propeller and rudder mounted at the transom. A man walked over and said, “There’s no engine or anything inside. It is going on display with the Lighthouse.” The man, who turned out to be Christopher Clark, said he had worked on the boat. When he originally offered to help they asked him if he was a boatbuilder. “I told them I was a tool and die maker.”
In April, on a visit to Cambridge, I spotted a well-proportioned power boat with lines suggesting a cabin motorboat of the 1930s era being painted in a shed at Ruark Boatworks. Walking around the 22’ boat on its cradle, with the name Miss Polly on the bow, I could almost see it cutting through the Bay with a joyful crew. Because the deck was above eye level, I climbed a step ladder for an overhead look at the cockpit and cabin ~ but nothing was there. Just
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usually in a shed, or winterized with heav y plastic, this launch would be exposed to the weather all year, so it would need heavy protection. Following a coating of fiberglass compound, he and others applied a primer and heavy coats of paint. The initial lofting work began in January, and building started in early February 2014. Martinsen explained why the construction took longer than usual. “We are an allvolunteer organization. There was a cadre of four or five volunteers here two or three times a week.” Among the builders were Peter Zukoski, Ken Guelta and Bill Bilodeau. Oc-
Head Boatbuilder Steve Martinsen asked if he could do the metal parts like the propeller, rudder and lifting rings. Clark agreed to do this. Steve Martinsen of the Richardson Museum’s Ruark Boatworks built the 22’ lighthouse launch using U.S. Coast Guard construction plans. “One of our goals was to keep the weight down,” he said. Instead of frames, he constructed bulkheads that were lighter. “The hull was strip-planked with 2- to 2½-inch cedar strips.” Unlike recreational boats that are
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“We also dedicated the Lighthouse launch. We’re the only lighthouse in the state of Maryland that has a lighthouse launch boat.” The Choptank Lighthouse keeper used the launch every two weeks for the two-mile trip to Cambridge to collect his mail, food, and whatever supplies he could fit into the boat. On returning, he hoisted the launch up to the cottage level where he stepped out. “If somebody was in distress he could use the boat to go out and try to help,” Wright said. The new boat is na med Mi ss Polly, as a tribute to Pauline Foxwell Robbins of the funding foundation. Member and major cont r ibutor Leonard Foxwell remembered that ever yone called his sister “Miss Polly.” He is enthusiastic about the new exhibit after years of planning and sixteen months of building. “I think it’s a fine thing to have a lighthouse with a boat. It might be the only one in the country.” He said that Steve Martinsen, Peter Zukoski and other builders “worked on a volunteer basis only. I think that they deserve a multitude of thanks.”
casionally, others from the Ruark Boatworks would show up to help. The original Choptank Lighthouse sat off Oxford and Benoni Poi nt on t he Tr e d Avon R iver. Many Eastern Shore natives know that in 1918 huge ice f loes swept it off its pile foundation. The U.S. Coast Guard moved the Cherrystone Lighthouse from Norfolk and set it on a new foundation, where it began operating on June 9, 1921. The USCG dismantled the Lighthouse in 1964, and installed an automated light. William David Robbins and the Robbins Foundation planned the C a mbr id ge L ig ht hou s e e x h ibit that builders from Salisbury constructed. This exact replica of the last Choptank Lighthouse opened September 2012 at Long Wharf Park in Cambridge. Stuart Wright, president of the Choptank Lighthouse Foundation, said that they used existing plans from the National Archives. “It was the smallest hexagonal cottage-style lighthouse on the Bay.” The new launch was hoisted up on the Lighthouse on May 1, 2015, a few days before an official dedication ceremony. “We dedicated the Fresnel lens that we have in the Lighthouse,” Stuart Wright said. They also dedicated a new bell from Maine, “similar to the bell used in the original lighthouse. And it was made by the same foundry,” he said.
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Planting for Pollinators Outside, off of my back patio, I have a very large purple coneflower plant. It is at least five feet tall and has multiple f lower stems with at least 54 individual blossoms! I have really enjoyed seeing all the bumblebees, solitary bees and flies visiting the f lowers and collecting the pollen. Recently, the fence for our backyard was completed so I am now in the landscape design phase. Being old school, I will take out the graph paper and put pencil to paper to come up with various designs and uses for this small area. No CAD design stuff for me! One of the plantings that I am definitely going to do is a pollinator garden of perennial f lowers like the purple conef lower. We are aware of the current situation with the major decline in the honeybee population from colony collapse disorder and other causes. Any plantings that we can add to our landscapes to provide food sourc-
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below 60掳 to maintain their vigor and f lower production. Locate them where they receive sunlight equivalent to what they received outside for optimum bloom. If you are planning to take some garden plants indoors to provide for early fall bloom, use a sharp knife to root prune them now to a size a little smaller than the pot. Remove all buds and flowers and cut back the top growth severely. Now is the time to plant bulbs of the hardy amaryllis or magic lily. They will produce foliage in the spring that dies down in late summer. Clusters of six to nine lily-like pink flowers borne on three-foot stalks will appear in August of next year. It is best to plant these bulbs
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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
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Dorchester Points of Interest 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 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 98
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Dorchester Points of Interest 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
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American schoolhouse, dating back to 1865, is one of the oldest Maryland schools to be organized and maintained by a black community. Between 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
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Dorchester Points of Interest so many to freedom. Artifacts include the actual newspaper ad offering a reward for Harriet’s capture. Historical tours, bicycle, canoe and kayak rentals are available. Open upon request. The Bucktown Village Store is located at 4303 Bucktown Rd., Cambridge. For more info. tel: 410-901-9255. HARRIET TUBMAN BIRTHPLACE - “The Moses of her People,” Harriet Tubman was believed to have been born on the Brodess Plantation in Bucktown. There are no Tubman-era buildings remaining at the site, which today is a farm. Recent archeological work at this site has been inconclusive, and the investigation is continuing, although there is some evidence that points to Madison as a possible birthplace. 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: 410-943-4181. VIENNA HERITAGE MUSEUM - The museum displays the last surviving mother-of-pearl button manufacturing operation in the country, as well as artifacts of local history. The museum is located at 303 Race, St., Vienna. For more info. tel: 410-943-1212 or visit www.viennamd.org. LAYTON’S CHANCE VINEYARD & WINERY - This small farm winery, minutes from historic Vienna at 4225 New Bridge Rd., offers daily tours of the winemaking operation. The family-oriented Layton’s also hosts a range of events, from a harvest festival to karaoke happy hour to concerts. For more info. tel. 410-228-1205 or visit www.laytonschance.com. 102
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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 preser ved 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 www. 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 www.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. 105
Easton Points of Interest 6. WATERFOWL BUILDING - 40 S. Harrison St. The old armory is 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 www. 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 an annual craft festival, CR AFT SHOW (the Eastern Shore’s largest juried fine craft show), featuring local and national artists and artisans demonstrating, exhibiting and selling their crafts. 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 www.academyartmuseum.org.
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Easton Points of Interest 8. CHRIST CHURCH - St. Peter’s Parish, 111 South Harrison St. The Parish was founded in 1692 with the present church built ca. 1840, of Port Deposit granite. 9. TALBOT HISTORICAL SOCIET Y - Located in the heart of Easton’s historic district. Enjoy an evocative portrait of everyday life during earlier times when visiting the c. 18th and 19th century historic houses, all of which surround a Federal-style garden. For more info. tel: 410-822-0773 or visit www.hstc.org. Tharpe Antiques and Decorative Arts is now located at 25 S. Washington St. Consignments accepted by appointment, please call 410-820-7525. Proceeds support the Talbot Historical Society. 10. ODD FELLOWS LODGE - At the corner of Washington and Dover streets stands a building with secrets. It was constructed in 1879 as the meeting hall for the Odd Fellows. Carved into the stone and placed into the stained glass are images and symbols that have meaning only for members. See if you can find the dove, linked rings and other symbols. 11. TALBOT COUNTY COURTHOUSE - Long known as the “East Capital” of Maryland. The present building was completed in 1794 on the
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Easton Points of Interest site of the earlier one built in 1711. It has been remodeled several times. 11A. FREDERICK DOUGLASS STATUE - 11 N. Washington St. on the lawn of the Talbot County Courthouse. The statue honors Frederick Douglass in his birthplace, Talbot County, where the experiences in his youth ~ both positive and negative ~ helped form his character, intellect and determination. Also on the grounds is a memorial to the veterans who fought and died in the Vietnam War, and a monument “To the Talbot Boys,” commemorating the men from Talbot who fought for the Confederacy. The memorial for the Union soldiers was never built. 12. SHANNAHAN & WRIGHTSON HARDWARE BUILDING 12 N. Washington St. It is the oldest store in Easton. In 1791, Owen Kennard began work on a new brick building that changed hands several times throughout the years. Dates on the building show when additions were made in 1877, 1881 and 1889. The present front was completed in time for a grand opening on Dec. 7, 1941 - Pearl Harbor Day. 13. THE BRICK HOTEL - northwest corner of Washington and Federal streets. Built in 1812, it became the Eastern Shore’s leading hostelry. When court was in session, plaintiffs, defendants and lawyers
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all came to town and shared rooms in hotels such as this. Frederick Douglass stayed in the Brick Hotel when he came back after the Civil War and gave a speech in the courthouse. It is now an office building. 14. THOMAS PERRIN SMITH HOUSE - 119 N. Washington St. Built in 1803, it was the early home of the newspaper from which the Star-Democrat 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 influences as well. This row of stores has distinctive 1920s-era white trim at the roofline. 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
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Easton Points of Interest Oswald Tilghman, great-grandson of Lt. Col. Tench Tilghman. (Private) 18. TRINITY EPISCOPAL CATHEDR AL - On “Cathedral Green,” 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. 19. INN AT 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., except during the summer when it’s 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit www.tcf l.org. 21. MEMORIAL HOSPITAL AT EASTON - Established in the early
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1900s, now one of the finest hospitals on the Eastern Shore. Memorial Hospital is part of the Shore Health System. www.shorehealth.org. 22. THIRD HAVEN MEETING HOUSE - Built in 1682 and the oldest frame building dedicated to religious meetings in America. The Meeting House was built at the headwaters of the Tred Avon: people came by boat to attend. William Penn preached there with Lord Baltimore present. Extensive renovations were completed in 1990. 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 www.pickeringcreek.org. 25. W YE GRIST MILL - The oldest working mill in Maryland (ca. 1682), the f lour-producing “grist� mill has been lovingly preserved by
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Easton Points of Interest The Friends of Wye Mill, and grinds f lour to this day using two massive grindstones powered by a 26 horsepower overshot waterwheel. For more info. visit www.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 www.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 www.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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St. Michaels Points of Interest 2. HARBOURTOWNE GOLF RESORT - Bay View Restaurant and Duckblind Bar on the scenic Miles River with an 18 hole golf course. For more info. visit www.harbourtowne.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. THE 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.perrycabin.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 along with Joseph White, established the St. Michaels Brick Company, which later provided the brick for the house. For more info. visit www. parsonage-inn.com. 6. FREDERICK DOUGLASS HISTORIC MARKER - Born at Tuckahoe Creek, Talbot County, Douglass lived as a slave in the St. Michaels area from 1833 to 1836. He taught himself to read and taught in clandestine schools for blacks here. He escaped to the north and became a noted abolitionist, orator and editor. He returned in 1877 as a U.S. Marshal for the District of Columbia and also served as the D.C. Recorder of Deeds and the U.S. Minister to Haiti. 7. CHESAPEAKE BAY MARITIME MUSEUM - Founded in 1965, the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum is dedicated to preserving the rich heritage of the hemisphere’s largest and most productive estuary - the Chesapeake Bay. Located on 18 waterfront acres, its nine exhibit buildings and floating fleet bring to life the story of the Bay and its inhabitants, from the fully restored 1879 Hooper Strait lighthouse and working boatyard to the impressive collection of working decoys and a recreated waterman’s shanty. Home to the world’s largest collection of Bay boats, the Museum regularly
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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
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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
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St. Michaels Points of Interest 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
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St. Michaels Points of Interest 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 cannonball 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. TOWN DOCK RESTAURANT - During 1813, at the time of the Battle of St. Michaels, it was known as “Dawson’s Wharf” and had 2 cannons on carriages donated by Jacob Gibson, which fired 10 of the 15 rounds directed at the British. For a period up to the early 1950s it was called “The Longfellow Inn.” It was rebuilt in 1977 after burning to the ground. For more info. visit www.towndockrestaurant.com. 25. 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
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St. Michaels Points of Interest supported entirely through community efforts. For more info. tel: 410745-9561 or www.stmichaelsmuseum.org. 26. KEMP HOUSE - Now a country inn. A Georgian style house, constructed in 1805 by Colonel Joseph Kemp, a revolutionary soldier and hero of the War of 1812. For more info. visit www.kemphouseinn.com. 27. THE OLD MILL COMPLEX - The Old Mill was a functioning flour mill from the late 1800s until the 1970s, producing flour used primarily for Maryland beaten biscuits. Today it is home to a brewery, distillery, artists, furniture makers, and other unique shops and businesses. 28. ST. MICHAELS HARBOUR INN, MARINA & SPA - Constructed in 1986 and recently renovated. For more info. visit www.harbourinn.com. 29. ST. MICHAELS NATURE TRAIL - The St. Michaels Nature Trail is a 1.3 mile paved walkway that winds around the western side of St. Michaels starting at a dedicated parking lot on S. Talbot St. across from the Bay Hundred swimming pool. The path cuts through the woods, San Domingo Park, over a covered bridge and past a historic cemetery before ending in Bradley Park. The trail is open all year from dawn to dusk.
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Oxford Points of Interest cemetery may be seen Plimhimmon, home of Tench Tilghman’s widow, Anna Marie Tilghman. 2. 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 www.oxfordcc.org. 3. THE COOPERATIVE OXFORD LABORATORY - U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Maryland Department of Natural Resources located here. 410-226-5193 or www.dnr.state.md.us/fisheries/oxford. 3A. U.S. COAST GUARD STATION - 410-226-0580. 4. 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. www.holytrinityoxfordmd.org. 5. OXFORD TOWN PARK - Former site of the Oxford High School.
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Oxford Points of Interest Recent restoration of the beach as part of a “living shoreline project” 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. 6. 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: 410-226-0191 or visit www.oxfordmuseum.org. 7. OXFORD LIBRARY - 101 Market St. Founded in 1939 and on its present site since 1950. Hours are Mon.-Sat., 10-4. 8. BRATT MANSION (ACADEMY HOUSE) - 205 N. Morris St. Served as quarters for officers of the Maryland Military Academy. Built about 1848. (Private residence) 9. 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
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Oxford Points of Interest the National Register of Historic Places. (Private residence) 10. 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) 11. 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 www.robertmorrisinn.com. 12. 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. 13. TRED AVON YACHT CLUB - N. Morris St. & The Strand. Founded in Tidewater Residential Designs since 1989
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Oxford Points of Interest 1931. The present building, completed in 1991, replaced the original structure. 14. 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 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. 15. 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) 16. 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. 143
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The Secret Master by Gary D. Crawford
Have you ever done something really extraordinar y, something completely beyond your abi lit y and expectations? I mean a onetime triumph of some sort, never to be repeated and scarcely to be believed, something that witnesses will remember for years? Let me give you an example. Some years back, Trivia was a popular social game like Charades or Twister. People asked one another unimportant but interesting questions, like: What did Lincoln have in his pocket when he was assassinated? (A Confederate $5 bill.) Most of the material was from pop culture; lists of questions and answers circulated freely. I was never much good at it. One night some young people were playing Trivia and one guy asked me to give it a try. Reluctantly, I agreed. Then it happened. He asked three questions in a row and I knew the answers to all three. First it was Donald Duck’s license plate number (303), then name of The Shadow’s girlfriend (Margo Lane). Heck, those were easy; I grew up on that stuff. I wanted to walk away with everyone impressed, but the guy stopped me by saying, “OK, here’s a tough
one. Nobody has gotten this.” Now, the chances of me hitting three for three were a million to one, but the trifecta was tempting. So I nodded. Gleef u l ly, he pou nc ed. “W ho played the first Tarzan?” Bingo! By dumb luck, I had read an article in the barber shop about the dozen or so actors who had played Tarzan over the years. I knew about Buster Crabbe and Johnny Weismuller, but after reading the article I would never forget the very first one. The guy was perfect for the part, very buff, with a page-boy wig and a rather sweet smile. He made a real impression on me, as I am certain he did on the female moviegoers back in 1918. I found his name equally memorable.
I pretended to think. “Hmm, let’s see. Wasn’t that Elmo Lincoln?” Four jaws, and a dead silence, fell.
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The Secret Master I slipped away before another question could be asked. Of course, I never played again, and they didn’t want me to, really. I retired as a trivia legend. Anyway, you get the idea. That’s the kind of bogus triumph I mean. It was a happy (and very lucky) coup, but compared to this one I’m going to tell you about now it was, well, trivial. It was also a long time ago, fifty years ago this year. Maybe it’s that 50th anniversary that makes me feel like finally “fessing up.” Here’s what happened. Back in 1965 I was an obscure and virtually unknown chess genius, a player of such wondrous ability that my capabilities were close to miraculous. (I say this in all modesty, of course.) Only a handful of chess aficionados ever knew of me, for my reputation was based entirely on a single encounter. In fact, my entire glory flowed from just one dazzling demonstration of my uncanny powers, though I’ll wager the legend persists among those who witnessed it and has been passed on down the years. I picture a family sitting around a hearth, chatting and reminiscing. Suddenly Brian, the precocious t welve-year- old, pipes up and says, “Tell us about the Chess Master you met, Grandpa.” A hush falls; the fire crackles. All look up expectantly as the old gentleman
smiles and his eyes take on a shine. “Well, yes, now that was really something. But haven’t you heard the story before?” “Yeah, but the others haven’t. Tell it again, please?” he said beseechingly. “Well, let’s see if I still remember. This was a long time ago, you understand, because I wasn’t all that much older than some of you. I was in my first year at the Ohio State University and had joined the chess club right away. All through high school I had been fascinated by the game. We all were big fans of Bobby Fischer, t he A mer ican boy who played the Russian grandmaster for the world championship ~ and won! Anyway, I read lots of books, played with friends, and got pretty good at it ~ or so I thought! “Experts were invited to the OSU chess club to give demonstrations. We had some really good players, and my game slowly improved. But others were far better, way out of my league. One guy in particular, named Martin, was head and shoulders above everyone else. He’d drop in the chess club to meet the visiting experts and occasionally have a game with one of our best players. But none of us could give him any competition. He was the best chess player I had ever seen in person and I was really in awe of him. “Martin outgrew the chess club and went his own way ~ studying the game, reading, learning different at-
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tacks and defenses by analyzing past games by chess masters. Their games are published in books, move by move, you know. Martin lived somewhere off campus, but sometimes he would show up at Charbert’s. “Now Charbert’s was an all-night restaurant on High Street right across from the university. By day it was a fast-paced diner where you could grab a quick meal before the next class. But by night, it was a hang-out for a strange collection of night-owls, especially the back room. Three steps led down to a ha llway where t here were restrooms. Off to the left was a little room w ith a low ceiling and six booths, three on each side of a short aisle. It felt like sitting on a bus, back there. In the daytime it was a way to escape some of the hustle and bustle. At night, it was a good place to study alone.
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The Secret Master could always take a break at Charbert’s. They served French fries in a cereal bowl ~ hot, tasty, and cheap. “So this one night on my way home after a long Chess Club meeting. I stopped in for a little snack. After ordering my fries and a coffee, I headed for the restroom. I glanced into the “bus” and saw Martin sitting in one of the booths, hunched over a chess board with books on the table.” “So, was this Martin the guy you called the Master?” asked Linda, now getting interested. “Well, up until that night, I sure thought he was! Another guy was with him on the other side of the booth. Martin was deep in thought, poring over a chess book; nobody was talking. I was pleased to see him sitting there and went over and said hello, hoping he’d remember me. “Martin looked up, nodded, and said hello back but immediately returned to his book and chessboard. ‘What’s the book?’ I asked. ‘Some of Alekhine’s games,’ he said. ‘Oh, yeah, A lexander A lekhine,’ I responded brightly, remembering the name of one of the legendary world champs from the 1930s. “I glanced at a guy sitting with Martin. I’d seen him in Charbert’s before, a few times late at night, but had no idea who he was. ‘So, are you guys playing?’ I asked. “Martin just chuckled. ‘Not like150
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The Secret Master ly,’ he said, with a sort of wry look at the other guy. I didn’t understand, but decided not to be too nosy. So I went back up the steps to get my fries and coffee. Then I came back and sat in the booth across the aisle from them. Two others from the chess club joined me a few minutes later. “Mar tin t hen said somet hing to him which really surprised me. ‘Say, Gar y, would you give me a game?’ He asked politely and very earnestly. I was amazed because it sounded like he wasn’t expecting to get a yes. Sure enough, the guy just smiled and sort of shrugged. Martin asked again. ‘Please, just one game?’” At this juncture, Gentle Reader, we are going to leave Grandpa ~ whose name I never knew ~ in the midst of his memorable story to the kids. It was all made up, anyway. (But you’ll meet him again in a couple of minutes. Promise.) But now, we’re going to switch to my story, which really did happen. It began two nights earlier. I was working on my Masters degree and not enjoying it much. I did lots of late-nighters and became a regular in Charbert’s wee hours crowd. We drifted in and out from midnight to dawn carrying an armload of books, a pile of exhaustion, a load of frustration, or all of the above. Some nights it got pretty lonely back t here i n t he “ bus.”
Several of my papers were written there in that back room. The waitresses didn’t mind as long as I bought something every hour or so. One night I found Martin, whom I’d seen around, seated in the back with a book and a boxed chess set, deep in thought. I knew he was the local chess guru, and he knew I wasn’t. I brought over my bowl and coffee. “Want some fries?” I asked. He smiled and nodded for me to sit down across from him. As he munched a few fries, he began setting up the board. I knew he wasn’t offering me a game, but I helped get the pieces out of the box. He was well aware that I was just an interested bystander and an admirer of Bobby Fischer. I watched as he proceeded to work through one of the games in the book, between the Russian Alexander Alekhine and a Dutchman, Max Euwe, with Alekhine playing the White pieces.
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The Secret Master Martin was studying Alekhine’s play. He’d consider the board, then make a move. Then he’d read White’s move in the book and smile, well, usually. Sometimes he’d let out a big “Huh?” Then he’d try to figure out why A lek h i ne had n’t made the move. Eventually he’d look up Black’s move and make it. Then the process would begin again, pondering what Alekhine decided to do next. It took him at least 45 minutes to work through the game, what with all the pondering and having to look up all the moves. “Amazing,” he said. “There are several places where Alekhine does things which must have completely confused Euwe. Wow. What a great game.” Then he began setting up the board again. “Can I help?” I offered. Mar t in looked at me. “If you can read chess moves, sure.” He
handed me the book. “You play Black and help me with White if I get stumped.” So off we went, zipping along for a while. After I made Black’s move No. 7, he stopped. “So Black brings out his Queen to c7. OK, now right here is one of those tricky places.” Martin thought for a few minutes, then said, “I think this is when Alekhine jumps his Knight over to e5, right?” “Nope,” I said. “No?” exclaimed Martin. “But I know he does go there, though.” I glanced ahead in the book and agreed, “You’re right, he does. But not yet. White’s Move No. 8 is pawn to g3.” “Right!” exclaimed Martin. “Oh, that’s brilliant!” I wasn’t sure why, exactly, but then it didn’t matter. We plunged ahead, going through the whole game with Martin needing coaching only three more times. “Wow,” I said. “That’s pretty neat.” “Yeah.” Then he looked up. “Say, want to do it again?” So we set up the board and ran through the game a third time. This time Martin only mistook the sequence once. We did the game yet again, this time without a hitch. By now I had the moves pretty well in mind, too, though of course I didn’t grasp the beauty of it as Martin did. “Let me try playing Black,” Martin suggested. So we set up the board and turned it around. We got through it with only a couple of
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The Secret Master references to the book. Again we did it, this time nearly perfectly. We’d been at it steadily for 90 minutes or more, but both of us were pumped. “Man, I’ve got this game down cold,” said Martin. “I can play it forward and backwards.” I gr inned at him. “Oh, yea h? Backwards?” He stared at me. “Wow. I wonder…”
So we tried it. He played White, beginning with move No. 30, after which Euwe had conceded. I then played Euwe’s last move, Black No. 29. And so on. It was tricky at times because we began with just 19 pieces on the board; the other 13 were in the box. We worked backwards, consulting the book regularly. Pieces came out of the box onto the board, pawns moved backwards, White’s attack folded up backwards. Finally we arrived back at move No. 1. We sat there, looking at the board
in its “final” position with all 32 pieces in place ~ two rows facing two rows. And we laughed out loud. Now we were really hooked. We played the game forward again, then turned the board around and I tried playing White backwards. We probably spent another hour, trying all the combinations. Finally we sat back, happy and exhausted. “Man, I’ve got to get some sleep,” I said. “But it sure was fun finally beating you at chess, Martin.” He laughed. “Yeah, it was great. Thanks for the help, man.” Two nights later, I wander into Charbert’s early, around 11:30. I snag a cup of coffee and head down the steps to see who might be in the back room. There’s Martin again with his chess set and the Alekhine book. We nod and I join him. He’s deep into his reading, so I get out my book, too. This time we don’t talk. Around midnight, some young guy comes by heading for the restroom. On the way back, he glances over and sees Martin. He says, “Hi, Martin. What’s the book?” Martin shows him. The kid says, “Wow, Alekhine was something, wasn’t he!” Mar tin says, “Not bad. World Champion in 1934.” “Yeah. So you’re studying some of his games, huh?” “Right.” Martin goes back to his book and I continue reading. The kid goes up the steps, gets his food, returns and sits down across the aisle from us. Suddenly, Martin
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looks up at me and says, “Gary, I know you don’t like to play around here anymore, but wouldn’t you consider giving me a game?” I look up in surprise, but he taps his foot against mine under the table. I catch on to what he’s doing, so I try to look uninterested. “ Ple a s e? ” M a r t i n b e g s .“O ne ga me? You haven’t sa id yes for months.” I sigh. “Oh, all right. Just one game.” Then, as an afterthought, I add, “If you’ll get me some fries.” Martin brightens up immediately. He turns to the kid w ith a huge smile. “Wow, he’s going to give me a game!” The kid stares at me, his mout h open, wonder ing who is this guy? “Well, get him some fries, man!” shouts Martin. The kid dashes up the stairs, and by the time he gets back we have the board set up. Martin holds out his hands; I tap the left. “Black!” crows Martin. He turns the white pieces toward himself and pushes a pawn out to d4. I counter quickly with Euwe’s first move, and off we go. We play quickly for several moves, then Martin stops. He sits hunched over the board, in deep concentration before finally making his move. The kid is very impressed. He has never seen Martin defer to anyone or struggle so hard. He gapes at the casual way I am playing. Scanning the board for a few seconds after each of Martin’s moves, I smile and 157
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The Secret Master then move with confidence ~ then pick up another French fry. I wondering how Martin wants to wind this up, when suddenly he claps his hands to his head. “Uh-oh” he says. The kid leans in to look at the board. I reach for the catsup. After four minutes hunched over the board, Martin moves. We r un on for another dozen moves each, sometimes quickly, sometimes Martin hesitating. After my move No. 13, Martin suddenly gasps, “Oh, my God. That’s it, isn’t it?” “What? What?” exclaims the kid. “What do you mean?” I yawn and stretch. Martin shakes his head. “I just don’t believe it. I’m cooked.” “Huh? Why?” says the kid. “Don’t you see? Oh, he’s got me good!” The kid stares at the board while Martin just sits there shaking his head like he’s dumb-struck. “OK, show him, Gary” he says finally. I sip my coffee and nod at the board. “It’s checkmate in, let’s see, 17 moves.” “Seventeen moves!? You can see that far ahead? But Martin, I see all kinds of possibilities. What about here, or here?” Martin just keeps shaking his head. “Okay, son, let me show you,” I say finally. “My next move is here. (I move a piece.) His best counter
would be there (I move a white piece), but I can counter here…” Then Martin jumps in and says, “Exactly! And then he does this and I try to block him here….” And so we run through the rest of the game, all the way to Move No. 30 ~ gaily tossing pieces into the box. The kid takes it all in. He knows some chess and just can’t believe what he’s seeing. “Yeah,” he mumbles. “I guess I see it now.” Martin looks at me and sighs. “I didn’t have a chance, did I?” I just smile. About this time, some other chess club people come in. The kid says, “You guys should have been here twenty minutes ago. This guy just whipped Martin in about a dozen moves!” Everyone looks at me like I had just landed from the moon. Then suddenly Martin looks up at me, intently. “Hey, could you do that thing you did for me once? You know, a year or so ago?” I smile and come back with, “You mean go the other way?” Everyone looks puzzled. “What other way?” asks someone. Martin grins. “Backwards, man. Backwards. He can play the game backwards!” “Huh? That’s impossible. Nobody could do that. You mean this game, the one he just played against you?” Martin nods and leans toward me with an intense look. “Do it, man!” I said, “Um, can I get a drink?” A Coke appears at my elbow in a flash. And then Martin and I play the
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game again, backwards, at high speed. Pieces f ly out of the box and into position on the board. When that last pawn goes neatly back into line, you can hear a pin drop. I yaw n and say, “OK, Mar tin, gotta go. See you. Nice game.” That was the last chess game I ever played in Charbert’s. I never spoke with the chess geeks, and they left me alone. Sometimes I could hear whispers when someone new was in their group. So now you know. Sometimes I wonder if one of those “kids” may have retired to the Eastern Shore and will drop in for a book some weekend. I really enjoy being the Secret Master, but there’s no way I could lie about it if someone were to recognize me and ask me about it. Of course, I’ve changed a lot, so it’s pretty unlikely. Still, I worry. I wonder if this is how people in the Federal Witness Protection program feel? Gary Crawford and his wife, Susan, own and operate Crawfords Nautical Books, a unique bookstore on Tilghman’s Island. 159
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How I Shed My Skin ~ Unlearning the Racist Lessons of a Southern Childhood by Jim Gr imsley. A lgonquin Book s of Chapel Hill. 275 pp. $23.95. Shortly before the killing spree in Charleston, South Carolina’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church that took the lives of nine worshipers, Jim Grimsley’s book came out, a soul search for the origin of his lessons in prejudice. Before he even entered the first grade, he was confused about the reason not to play with black children. That was a mystery to the little boy, inasmuch as his family was poor, moved often, but nearly always next to black neighbors, and in the same old, dilapidated houses, often with no bathrooms, only outhouses, and under-the-bed pots. His mother emphasized the importance of being polite, but rarely gave a reason for her order to not speak to and to avoid the “colored children,” as “polite” people spoke of them. The “N” word was only used by men, and especially drinkers. Jim’s father was an alcoholic with a fiery temper who lost one arm in an
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Tidewater Review other and laughed as easily as if he weren’t in the center of their group. When the classroom filled, the boys in the rear of the room became noisy, taunting the black girls as well as their usual insults to Jim. To improve his status with the bullies, Jim turned to one of the new girls and said in a loud voice, “You’re a black bit**.” Not losing her smile or her gumption, she repeated the rudeness, saying the same words to him. He was stunned by her poise. A black girl had shamed a white boy. They still had the same seats and became close friends as the year settled into the routine of school. Jim was more puzzled than before about
the white defense of supremacy. By this time, his father was in a better financial state. He had his own business now, having learned to repair refrigerators and air conditioning machines with only one arm and hand. The family moved to town and rented a house with indoor plumbing and joined a church. An early chapter that Grimsley w r ites he calls “ The L earning.” Every girl he played with or was too young to be in the games recited it in clapping games and jump rope. N, N, black as tar Stuck his head in a molasses jar. Jar broke, N. choked And went to heaven in a little rowboat.
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One more rhyme he heard when he was no older than three years was indelibly glued onto his brain as if he were a toddler again. Eeny, Meeny, Miney, Moe. Catch a [N-word] by his toe; If he squeals, let him go, Eeny, Meeny, Miney, Moe. Grimsley’s partial list of the N word in jokes by adults (mostly men - women thought it impolite, remember?) in the South is representative of how firmly they accepted their own prejudice. The intended jokes were unabashed contempt for Ns. “The theme of inferiority played out in many ways,” the author says, adding that he heard his father sharing the
jokes with his uncles, and men at a country store or a service station. The jokes served whites as proof that Ns were never very smart and got even the simplest facts mixed up. People who danced with too much hip action were doing N dances. Clothing that was too loud or too colorful was something that a N would wear. If food was not perfect, it was something even a N wouldn’t eat. A white person with big lips had N lips, just as too curly hair was N hair. A sloppy repair job was N rigging. If a house fell into bad repair it was a place not even fit for a N to live in. Putting on deodorant instead of bathing was a N bath. White men waiting outside before church nodded when the conversation went in that direction.
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Tidewater Review It was in church that Jim was further instructed in skin colors. To be washed white as snow by giving himself to Christ; otherwise he would be black as sin. The reward for embracing the brightness of heaven was eternal life, streets of gold, many mansions and choirs of angels. Along with darkness would come a lake of fire and eternal torment. The lessons boiled down to the belief that cleanliness was whiteness. Dirt was dark. Good triumphed over evil. White won out over black. Jim was still very young at his first encounter with Sunday School and church, and it was another lesson into white people’s low worth of black people. The black elementary school became the only junior high school, and the former all-white high school became the only high school in the county. Both schools became completely integrated. Jim was an eighth grader and for the first time would have a lesson in what it would be like to be in the minority. Black students outnumbered white students nearly two to one. “My hometown was hardly extraordinary,” Grimsley writes, “certainly neither better nor worse than any other part of the country. It had, of course, one part that had once held the other part as slaves, and Jones County had endured lynchings, murderous gangs and a war. The white
adults around me fretted that soon we would have to share restaurants and bathrooms with black people. They blamed it on something called integration... “All this remained abstract to me until African American students started attending my elementary school. Suddenly the world came into focus, and I began to understand. “I set out to write a book covering that era because of what I learned about myself and my town in the subsequent years... I learned harsh prejudice against A frican Americans, supported by a carefully constructed system of racist laws. I was born into a racist society, and though I thought of myself as a ‘good’ person, I was as much a racist as anyone I knew.” After college, Jim Grimsley left his birthplace permanently, only returning for the 40th anniversary celebration of his high school graduation. It was a crowded party at which he and a white classmate were the only two whites to attend. He had “Shed his Skin.” A lot of “good people” are still working to shed theirs. It’s about time. Anne Stinson began her career in the 1950s as a freelancer for the now defunct Baltimore News-American, then later for Chesapeake Publishing, the Baltimore Sun and Maryland Public Television’s panel show, Maryland Newsrap.
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6th Annual Monty Alexander Jazz Festival to Showcase Alicia Olatuja by Amy Blades Steward and Beth Schucker
The Monty Alexander Jazz Festival will celebrate its sixth anniversary at the intimate Avalon Theatre in Easton on Labor Day weekend, September 3 to 6. The extraordinary energy and virtuosity of Artistic Director Monty Alexander have vaulted the Festival into a four-day event showcasing both new talent and jazz greats. One of the new artists to be featured at this year’s Festival is Alicia Olatuja, whose solo with the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir’s Battle Hymn of the Republic reached millions of viewers at President Obama’s 2013 inauguration. According to Olatuja, “Success just exploded.” Growing up in Saint Louis, Olatuja sang in churches, seeding her passion for gospel, which in turn was her springboard for jazz. Up against New York’s demanding jazz scene, she’s performed at legendary venues such as Minton’s and The Jazz Standard. She’s also classically trained as a mezzo-soprano. She made her recital debut at Carnegie Hall. DownBeat underscores Olatuja’s tone, precise pitch and personal engagement at the lowest whisper or highest wail. Other critics emphasize her instinctive harmony
Alicia Olatuja and her ability to synchronize her vocals with the plucked beats of the acoustic bass, as well as her gift of fusing the dividing lines between generations and genres.
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Monty Alexander That’s exactly what Olatuja is trying to do with her music ~ transcend genres. “I’m more than a singer on stage,” she says. “I am a live instru-
ment t hat respec t s, move s a nd whets appetites. I have the opportunity to grow my instrument and tell stories of human experience.” Olatuja recently released her solo debut album, titled Timeless. It features music ranging from Somewhere over the Rainbow, to Michael Jackson’s pop tune Human Nature, to Amazing Grace. Critics say the album demonstrates her rich R&B/ soul register and an elegant style similar to Natalie Cole’s. Others liken her voice to Joan Baez and Nancy Wilson. Olatuja’s voice picks up the beat as she outlines plans for her September 6 concert at 2 p.m. at the Avalon Theatre. She’ll be accompanied by two bassists: Christian
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McBr ide, a three-time Grammy winner, and her husband, Michael Olatuja. A pianist and drummer will round out her quintet. “We’ll expand and contract on Timeless,” she says. “Definitely expand and contract,” she emphasizes as her mind wanders off onto the Avalon stage. In addition to Olatuja, this year’s Festival will feature jazz vocalist René Marie, a 2015 Grammy nominee for her recent tribute album to Eartha Kitt. She will open with her quintet at the Avalon Theatre on Friday night, September 4 at 8 p.m. In addition to Marie’s concert on Friday night, New York-based tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander will lead Saturday afternoon’s concert at 2 p.m. Monty Alexander and Friends take the stage on Saturday night at 8 p.m. Monty’s eclectic musical offerings will include ref lections on his time with Frank Sinatra at t he legendar y Jilly ’s Saloon in Manhattan. A Festival tradition will continue this year on Saturday morning with a free New Orleans jazz concert at 10:30 a.m. in Thompson Park by
The Conservatory Classic Jazz Band. The band will then lead a second line parade to the Tidewater Inn, where a jazz brunch at 11:30 a.m. will precede the afternoon showcase. A returning favor ite vocalist, Caterina Zapponi, will perform in an intimate nightclub-style concert on Thursday night with an All-Star ensemble, including Yotam Silverstein, Lorin Cohen, and Chuck Redd at the Academy Art Museum. This concert will not be a part of the Festival Pass, and the number of seats available will be limited. This year’s lineup of world-class artists makes the Monty Alexander Ja zz Fest iva l an Easter n Shore destination for Labor Day weekend. Presented by Jazz on the Chesapeake, the Festival is a program under the auspices of Chesapeake Chamber Music. For further information on the Monty Alexander Jazz Festival, visit ChesapeakeJazz.org.
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Chestertown Celebrates 2nd Annual Legacy Day Chestertown will celebrate its Second Annual Legacy Day on Saturday, August 15. The celebration of Legacy Day is sponsored by the Historical Society of Kent County, with the support of the Monica Graves Fa mi ly Foundat ion, t he Arts Council of Kent County, the Hedgelawn Foundation, and the C.V. Starr Center of Washington College. Legacy Day celebrates the contributions of African-Americans to the rich history of Chestertown and Kent County. Last year more than 1,000 people attended, and while Ferguson, MO, was erupting in interracial violence, a racially diverse public was dancing in the street in Chestertown! Legacy Day 2014 recognized the contributions of Charlie Graves and his Uptown Club to our history in the mid-20th century. Mr. Graves was a businessman and community activist who began his first restaurant in Chestertown in 1946. Eight years later he opened the Uptown Club, which over the next two decades brought to Chestertown some of the major African-American performers of what was then called the Chitlin’ Circuit. These included B.B. King, Fats Domino, Ray Charles, Patti LaBelle and the Blue Bells, Sam Cooke, the Platters,
Charlie Graves the Impressions, Little Richard and Aretha Franklin, among others! According to his daughter Monica Graves, he was also an advocate for voter registration and for equal r ights. He volunteered to dr ive voters to the polls on election day throughout the ‘60s and ‘70s. The Uptow n C lub pr ov ide d sp e c i a l lunches to those who were waiting to go to the polls. He worked actively on behalf of the Democratic Party in Kent County. When the March on Washington occurred in Washington, in 1963, he brought together a group of men and
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Legacy Day boys to attend. He supported local churches and the volunteer f ire department in their fundraising. This year the theme of Legacy Day is “Dancing in the Street to Motown Sounds - Celebrating Our Community Bands and Beer Gardens.” The historical exhibit will also include the African-American beer gardens such as Sam Hoxter’s, Calvin Frazier’s, Chippy’s Inn, Jeffers Tavern and others.
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The event will begin at 5 p.m. with a parade of antique cars and other units dow n Chester tow n’s H ig h S t r e e t to Fou nt a i n Pa rk . Par ticipating units, in addition to t he C or vet te Club a nd Cla ssic Cars, include two units of the Buffalo Soldiers, the Kent County Volunteer Fire Co., the Diversity Dialogue Group, and musical units. The parade units will be judged and prizes awarded. D.J. Stansbury will begin playing music on High Street by the Fountain Park at 5 p.m. At 6 p.m. the Larry Tucker Band will perform. They are part of the regular sum-
mer line-up of Chestertown’s Music in the Park program. There will be plenty of space for dancing, and the program will include a dance contest with prizes awarded. Several vendors will offer a wide variety of food and other items. A historical exhibit in the Historical Society’s Bordley History Center on the corner of High and Cross streets will be devoted to this year’s theme of local musicians and musical venues of the ‘50s and ‘60s. Music and dancing will continue until 10 p.m. This is a free event open to all. Legacy Day is just one of several programs intended to highlight African-American history and culture in Chestertown. A cooperative
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effort between the town’s Diversity Dialogue Group and the Historical Society resulted in a walking tour map of African-American historical sites in the town in 2013. The map is now available in the tourist office and will be available at the Historical Society’s newly refurbished Bordley History Center soon. In 2013 and again in 2015 the Historical Society of Kent County devoted its publication Key to Old Kent to articles on Black history. November 1, 201 4 ma rked t he 100th anniversary of Maryland’s Emancipation Day, and the Historical Society plans annual observances of that event. The focus last year was on the anti-slavery work of Henry Highland Garnett, who
was born a slave in Kent County and went on to become an internationally known abolitionist and the first African-American to speak in the chambers of the United States House of Representatives. Members of the Community History Committee of the Historical Society of Kent County have been and are cont inuing to research the history of Kent County’s Free Black communities, dating in some cases to the late 18th century. These include Morgnec (formerly known as Caulktown), Butlertown, Broad Neck, Johnsontown and Big Woods. For more information tel: 410778-3499 or visit kentcountyhistory.org.
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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. 177
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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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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. 181
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“Calendar of Events” notices - Please contact us at 410-226-0422, fax the information to 410-226-0411, write to us at Tidewater Times, P. O. Box 1141, Easton, MD 21601, or e-mail to info@tidewatertimes.com. The deadline is the 1st of the preceding month of publication (i.e., August 1 for the September issue). Daily Meeting: Mid-Shore Intergroup A lcoholics A nony mous meetings. For places and times, call 410-822-4226 or visit midshoreintergroup.org.
D’ Troika Show at Troika Gallery, Easton. 16 world-renowned artists in one show. For more info. tel: 410-770-9190 or visit troikagallery.com.
Daily Meeting: Al-Anon. For meeting times and locations, visit EasternShoreMD-alanon.org.
Thru Aug. 30 Exhibit: Montana Paint at the Main Street Gallery, Cambridge, featuring a collection of plein air paintings by East Coast artists including Joanna McCoy, Nancy Tankersley, Barbara Watson, Elinor Peterson, Na nc y Dav is, Ca rol Sa rgent, Polly Tonsetic and Judy Bittorf. Receptions on July 25 and Aug. 8 from 5 to 8 p.m. For more info. visit mainstreetgallery.org.
Every Thurs.-Sat. Amish Country Farmer’s Market in Easton. An indoor market offering fresh produce, meats, dairy products, furniture and more. 101 Marlboro Ave. For more info. tel: 410-822-8989. Thru Aug. 25 Exhibit: Concours
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August Calendar Thru Aug. 30 Boat Rental Program at t he Chesapea ke Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. Wednesdays through Sundays. Hourly rates are $30 for sailing vessels and $20 for rowing vessels for non-members, with a $10 hourly discount given to CBMM members. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-745-4941 or e-mail aspeight@cbmm.org.
Thru Sept. 7 Annual Members’ Exhibition at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. Each member will have the opportunity to show one piece. Judge for this year’s competition will be Dennis O’Neil, Professor of Art at the Corcoran College of Art and Design. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit academyartmuseum.org. Thru Nov. 20 Exhibit: The Un-
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s ee n C he sap ea ke ~ C apt uring the Bay’s Wild, Forgotten Landscapes by Jay Fleming at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. For more info. tel: 410-745-2916 or visit cbmm.org. Thru Feb. 2016 Exhibit: A Broad Reach ~ 50 Years of Collecting at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. Artifacts ranging from gilded eagles to a sailmaker’s sewing machine, a log-built bugeye to an intimate scene of crab pickers. Entry to the exhibition is free for Museum members and children under 6, or $15 for adults, $12 for seniors and students with ID, and $6 for
children 6-17. For more info. tel: 410-745-2916 or visit cbmm.org. 1 The Great Chesapeake Balloon Fe s t iv a l at M i s t le to e D r ive , Easton. 8 a.m. 1 F ir st Sat u rday g uided wa l k . 10 a.m. at Adkins Arboretum, Ridgely. Free for members, $5 admission for non-members. For more info. tel: 410-634-2847, ext. 0 or visit adkinsarboretum. org. 1 Tink Collins Memorial Cornhole Tournament at the LinkwoodSa lem V FC. Reg ist rat ion for team of 2 is $40. Check-in begins at 11:30 a.m. Music, food and
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Farm Tour at Hoopers Island Oyster Aquaculture Co., Fishing Creek. Come spend a day and learn what it takes to be an oyster aquaculture farm. Saturdays, $30 per person from 10 a.m. to noon. Wednesdays, $15 per person from 1 to 2 p.m. For more info tel: 410-397-3664 or visit hioac. com/tours.
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1 Tidewater Inn Concert Series featuring Amy Black ~ The Music of Muscle Shoals Revue with special guest Sarah Borges. 7 p.m. Free outdoor street concert on Harrison St., Easton. For more info. tel: 410-822-7299 or visit avalonfoundation.org. 1,2,8,9,15,16,22,23,29,30 Apprentice for a Day Public Boatbuilding Program at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. Pre-registration required. 10 a.m. Saturday to 4 p.m. Sunday. For more info. tel: 410-745-2916 and ask to speak with someone in the boatyard. 1,5,8,12,15,19,22,26,29 Oyster
1,8,15,22,29 Easton’s Farmer’s Ma rket held e ver y Sat u rd ay until Christmas from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the town parking lot on N. Ha r r ison St reet. O ver 20 vendors. Live music from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Easton Farmer’s Market is the work of the Avalon Foundation. For more info. tel: 410-253-9151 or visit avalonfoundation.org. 1,8,15,22,29 St. Michaels FRESHFARM Market from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. Farmers offer fresh fruits and vegetables, meats, cut flowers, potted plants, breads and pastries, cow’s milk cheeses, orchids, eggs and honey. Events and activities throughout the season. For more info. e-mail StMichaels@freshfarmmarkets. org. 1,8,15,22 Adult Classes: The Impressionist Landscape ~ Mini Workshops Series w ith K atie Cassidy and Diane DuBois Mullaly at the Academy Art Museum,
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Easton. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. $60 per workshop for members, $90 nonmembers. For more info. visit dianeduboismullaly.com. 1,8,15,22,29 Historic High Street Walking Tour ~ Experience the beauty and hear the folklore of Cambridge’s High Street. Onehour walking tours are sponsored by the non-prof it West End Citizens Association and are accompanied by Colonial-garbed docents. 11 a.m. Fee. For more info. tel: 410-901-1000. 1,8,22,29 Skipjack Sail aboard the Nathan of Dorchester from 1 to 3 p.m. from Long Wharf, Cambridge. Adults $30, children
6-12 $10. Reservations online at skipjack-nathan.org or tel: 410228-7141. 3 Read to Latte, a certified therapy dog, at the Talbot County Free Library, Easton. 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. For more info. tel: 410-8221626 or visit tcfl.org. 3 Meeting: Live Playwrights’ Society at the Garfield Center for the Arts, Chestertown. 7:30 to 9 p.m. For more info. visit liveplaywrightssociety.org. 3-7 The Art Studio Summer Camp for ages 8 to 12 with Susan Horsey at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. 10 a.m. to noon. $125
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members, $135 non-members. Students will work with a variety of media including drawing, painting, weaving, collage and more. For more info. tel: 410822-ARTS (2787) or visit academyartmuseum.org.
3,10,17,24,31 Meeting: Overeaters Anonymous at UM Shore Medical Center in Easton. 5:15 to 6:15 p.m. For more info. visit oa.org.
3,10 Family Monday Movies at Noon at the Talbot County Free Library, St. Michaels. 3rd is Lego Movie, 10th is Big Hero 6. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit tcfl.org.
3 ,10,17, 2 4 , 31 Mond ay Nig ht Trivia at the Market Street Public House, Denton. 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Join host Norm Amorose for a fun-filled evening. For more info. tel: 410-479-4720.
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August Calendar Ages 10 to 14. Lunch included. Sponsored by 4-H, University of Maryland Extension - Talbot County. Pre-registration is required. For more info. tel: 410822-1626 or visit tcfl.org. 4 Meeting: Breast Feeding Support Group from 10 to 11:30 a.m. at U M Shore Medical Center in Easton. For more info. tel: 410822-1000 or visit shorehealth. org. 4 ,6,11,1 3 ,18, 20, 25 , 27 Adu lt Ballroom Classes with Amanda Showel l at t he Ac ademy A r t Museum, Easton. Tuesday and T hu r s d a y n i g ht s . Fo r m o r e info. tel: 410-482-6169 or visit dancingontheshore.com. 4,7,11,14,18,21,25,28 Free Blood P r e s su r e S c r e en i ng f r om 11
a.m. to 1 p.m. at University of Maryland Shore Medical Center at Dorchester in Cambr idge. Screenings done in the lobby by DGH Auxiliary members. Tuesdays and Fridays. For more info. tel: 410-228-5511. 4,11,18,25 Tour of Horn Point Lab from 10 to 11:30 a.m. The community is invited to visit the fascinating world of a world-class scientific research laboratory. Best suited for ages 10 and older. No pre-registration necessary for groups less than 10. For more info. tel: 410-221-8383 or e-mail tours@hpl.umces.edu. 4,18 Grief Support Group at the D or c he s ter C ou nt y L i br a r y, Cambridge. 6 p.m. For more info. tel: 443-978-0218. 5 140th St. Joseph Jousting Tournament and Horse Show at historic
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August Calendar St. Joseph’s Church in Cordova. Jousting tour nament in four classes, along with a horse show of eleven classes. Feast on a buffet of barbecued chicken and country ham. Gate charge is $1 for adults. Horse show begins at 9 a.m., jousting begins at 1;15 p.m. For more info. tel: 410 822-6915. 5 Nature as Muse at Adkins Arboretum, Ridgely. 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Enjoy writing as a way of exploring nature. For more info. tel: 410-634-2847, ext. 0 or visit adkinsarboretum.org.
5 Meeting: Nar-Anon at Immanuel United Church of Christ, Cambridge. 7 p.m. For more info. tel: 1-800 -477- 6291 or v isit naranon.org. 5 Reik i Share at Evergreen: A Center for Balanced Living in Easton. 7:15 to 9:15 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-819-3395 or visit evergreeneaston.org. 5-8 Caroline-Dorchester County Fair at the Caroline County 4-H Park, Denton. Fun for the whole family, including the Dress a Goat Contest, the Greased Pig Contest, amusement rides, pet shows, live entertainment, food, and much more! The Fair serves
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Youngsters chase after a pig during the 2013 Caroline-Dorchester County Fair Greased Pig Contest. Photo by Dustin Holt
as a showcase for agricultural life and as a means to educate children about the importance of the profession of farming. $2 for adults/ FREE for children under 13. For more info. visit Caroline-Dorche s terCount yFair.org.
5,12,26 Story Time at the Talbot Count y Free Librar y, St. Michaels. 10:30 a.m. For children 5 and under accompanied by an adult. For more info. tel: 410822-1626 or visit tcfl.org. 6 Stitch and Chat at the Talbot Count y Free Librar y, St. Michaels. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Bring your ow n projects and stitch with a group. Limited instruction available. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit tcfl.org.
5,12,19,26 Meeting: Wednesday Morning Artists. 8 a.m. at Creek Deli in Cambridge. No cost. All disciplines and skill levels welcome. For more info. visit Facebook or tel: or 410-463-0148. 5,12,19,26 Social Time for Seniors at the St. Michaels Community Center, 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-745-6073. 5,12,19,26 Oxford Farmer’s Market - Get local produce, f lowers,
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August Calendar quilts, door prizes and more. $3. Just blocks from the firehouse will be an antique quilt display at Caroline County’s Rural Life Museum. For more info. tel: 410634-2742. 6 Thursdays in the Park Concert in Millstream Park, Centreville, featuring Hot Tub Limo. 7 p.m. Pack a picnic basket and enjoy the show. For more info. visit queenannescountyarts.com. 6,13,20,27 Men’s Group Meeting at Evergreen: A Center for Balanced Living in Easton. 7:30 to 9 a.m. Weekly meeting where men can frankly and openly deal with issues in their lives. For more info. tel: 410-819-3395 or visit evergreeneaston.org. 6,13,20,27 Dog Walking with Vicki A r ion at Ad k ins A rboret um, Ridgely. 9 to 9:45 a.m. For more info. tel: 410-634-2847, ext. 0 or visit adkinsarboretum.org.
6,13,20,27 Cambridge Main Street Farmers Market from 3 to 6 p.m. More than 20 vendors sell locally grown and made products from mid-May to mid-October at the beautiful Long Wharf Park at the end of historic High Street. For more info. e-mail cambridgemktmgr@aol.com. 6,13,20,27 Summer Concerts at Muskrat Park, St. Michaels. 6:30
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to 8 p.m. Bring your lawn chairs, blankets, friends, family, neighbors and picnic baskets (alcoholic beverages are prohibited). Concer ts w ill be cancelled if weather conditions are unfavorable. Call 410-745-6073 after 3 p.m. for the announcement. Visit st michael scc.org/f iles/ Summer_Concerts_20152.pdf for schedule.
6,13,20,27 Open Mic & Jam at R AR Brewing in Cambridge. 7 to 11 p.m. Listen to live acoustic music by local musicians, or bring your own instrument and join in. For more info. tel: 443225-5664. 7 Monthly Coffee and Critique with Katie Cassidy and Diane DuBois Mullaly at the Academy Art Mu-
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and good times! Bring your dinner and snacks to complete the night. Wine available at the bar. For more info. tel: 410-228-1205 or visit laytonschance.com. 7 Dorchester Sw ingers Square Dance from 7:30 to 10 p.m. at Maple Elementary School, Egypt Rd., Cambridge. Refreshments provided. For more info. tel: 410-221-1978. 7 Concer t: Judy Collins at t he Avalon Theatre, Easton. Rachel Sage will open for Ms. Collins. 8 p.m. $60. For more info. tel: 410-822-7299 or visit avalonfoundation.org. 7-9 55th Annual Wheat Threshing Steam and Gas Show on Rt. 313 between Denton and Federals-
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Come by land or by sea to enjoy a town-wide theme party you will not forget! Some of the pirate performers offering up music and mayhem will include The Brigands, Pirates for Sail, Pyrates Royale, Salty Dogs, Calico Jenny and the infamous Vallhallas Pirates. Artisans, crafters, pirate tale-tellers and more will invade the town. For more info. and a schedule of events visit rockhallpirates.com.
burg. Get a glimpse of antique farm equipment in action. This event features antique car and equipment parades, a f lea market, a blacksmith shop, steam and gas engines, tractor games, refreshments, live entertainment and more. Free! For more info. visit Threshermen.org. 7-9 Pirates and Wenches Fantasy Weekend in Rock Hall. Sponsored by the Rock Hall Business Association’s Events Committee.
7-22 Crab Week at the Hyatt Chesapeake, Cambridge. Crabbing lessons, crab cooking demonstrations, crab feasts, crab-inspired activities for kids and more. For more info. tel: 1-800-633-7313 or visit ChesapeakeBayHyatt. com. 7,14 Friday Film at One O’Clock at the Talbot County Free Library, Easton. 7th is Despicable Me 2, 14th is The Wizard of Oz. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit tcfl.org. 7,14,21,28 Meeting: Friday Morning Artists at Denny’s in Easton. 8 a.m. All disciplines welcome. Free. For more info. tel: 443955-2 49 0 or v i sit pa ss por ttothearts.org/friday-morningartists/. 7,14,21,28 Bingo! every Friday night at the Easton Volunteer
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to noon at the Antioch United Methodist Church, Cambridge. For more info. tel: 410-228-4723. 8 Bet he sd a Un ite d Met hod i st Church 14th Annual Peach Festival at the Preston Fire House. 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Vendors, local peaches, baked goods, ice cream, and so much more. Music by Reminiscing. For more info. tel: 410-673-7288. 8 Fr iend s of t he L ibra r y S ec ond Saturday Book Sale at the Dorchester County Public Library, Cambridge. 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-228-7331 or visit dorchesterlibrary.org.
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8 Second Saturday Nursery Walk at Adkins Arboretum, Ridgely. 1 to 3 p.m. Explore the tremendous diversity of plant material at the Arboretum’s Native Plant Nursery with Eric Wittman. $5 for non-members, free for members. For more info. tel: 410-634-2847, ext. 0 or visit adkinsarboretum. org. 8 36th annual Rescue Fire Company Seafood Feast-I-Val from 1 to 6 p.m. at Sailwinds in Cambridge. Menu to include steamed crabs, crab soup, fried fish, fried clams, bbq chicken, hot dogs, sliced tomatoes, corn-on-the-
cob, watermelon, ranch fries, sweet potato fries, sodas and beer. Music a l enter ta inment by Golden Touch. Adults $40, children 5 to 12, $10. For more info. tel: 410-228-1211 or visit seafoodfeastival.com. 8 Second Saturday at the Artsway from 2 to 4 p.m., 401 Market Street, Denton. Interact w ith a r t i s t s a s t he y demon s t r ate their work. For more info. tel: 410-479-1009 or visit carolinearts.org. 8 Second Saturday and Art Walk in Historic Downtown Cambridge
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Faith Chapel & Trappe United Methodist churches in Wesley Ha l l, Trappe. 7:30 to 10:30 a.m. TUMC is also the home of “Martha’s Closet” Yard Sale and C om mu n it y O ut re ach Store, open during the breakfast and every Wednesday from 8:30 a.m. to noon.
on Race, Poplar, Muir and High streets. Shops will be open late. Galleries will be opening new shows and holding receptions. Restaurants w ill feature live music. 5 to 9 p.m. For more info. visit cambridgemainstreet.com. 8 Concert in the Country featuring Bad Mojo at Lay ton’s Chance Winery, Vienna. 6 to 9 p.m. Bring your lawn chairs and a picnic dinner to spend a comfortable evening listening to countr y music. $5 cover for anyone over 21, under 21 free. Food available for purchase. For more info. tel: 410-228-1205 or visit laytonschance.com. 8 Tidewater Inn Concert Series featuring Sunny Isle Blues Band. 7 p.m. Free outdoor street concert on Harrison St., Easton. For more info. tel: 410-822-7299 or visit avalonfoundation.org. 8,22 Country Church Breakfast at
9 Firehouse Breakfast at the Oxford Volunteer Fire Company. 8 to 11 a.m. Proceeds to benefit the Oxford Volunteer Fire Services. $8 for adults and $4 for children under 10. For more info. tel: 410226-5110. 9 Cambridge Wheels Car Show from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in downtown Cambridge. Dozens of the highest qualit y show cars on display. Trophies awarded for various categories. For more info. tel: 410-228-5874. 9 6th Annual Watermen’s Appreciation Day and Crab Feast at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. 10 a.m. to
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5 p.m. Featuring the boat docking contest, guest appearances from the Deadliest Catch’s Edgar Hansen, live music with Bird Dog & the Road Kings, kid’s activities and much more. Food and drink are extra cost. $18 for adults, and $8 for children 6-17, with all children under six years of age admitted free. For more info. tel: 410-745-2916 or visit cbmm.org. 10 Stitching Time at the Talbot County Free Library, Easton. 3 to 5 p.m. Bring projects in progress (sewing, knitting, cross-stitch, etc.). Limited instruction for beginners. For more info. tel:
410-822-1626 or visit tcfl.org. 9 Julia Child’s Birthday Cooking Class at Two If By Sea Restaurant, Tilghman. Watch and taste as celebrity chef Henry Miller prepares a 7-course meal from around the world. Classes are $35 which includes food and beverage. 4 to 9 p.m. Class size is limited to 20. For more info. tel: 410-886-2447 or visit twoifbysearestaurant.com. 11 Flute Circle at Justamere Trading Post, St. Michaels. 6 p.m. Come and enjoy the native flute. Learn to play, or just listen. Free. For
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August Calendar more info. tel: 410-745-2227. 11,25 Buddhist Study Group at Evergreen: A Center for Balanced Living, Easton. 6:30 to 8 p.m. Open to the public. For more info. tel: 410-819-3395 or visit evergreeneaston.org. 11,25 Meeting: Tidewater Stamp Club at the Mayor and Council Building, Easton. 7:30 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-1371. 12 Summer Reading Celebration at the Talbot County Free Library, Easton. 10 to 11:30 a.m. Participants in the Every Hero Has a Story and Unmask summer reading programs are invited to meet local heroes and join us for refreshments. Pre-registration is required. For more info. tel: 410822-1626 or visit tcfl.org. 12 Meeting: Talbot Optimist Club at the Washington Street Pub, Easton. 6:30 p.m. For more i n fo. e -ma i l r vanemburgh@ leinc.com. 12-13 Boater Safety Course at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. Individuals and families with children over age 12 are welcome to participate and learn the basics needed to operate a vessel on Maryland wa-
terways. MD boaters born after July 1, 1972 are required to have a Certificate of Boating Safety Education. Pre-registration is required. 6 to 10 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-745-4941 or visit cbmm.org. 12,26 Chess Club from 1 to 3 p.m. at the St. Michaels Community Center. Players gather for friendly competition and instruction. For more info. tel: 410-745-6073. 12,26 Meeting: Choptank Writers Group from 3:30 to 5 p.m. at t he Dorchester Center for the Arts, Cambridge. Everyone interested in writing is invited to participate. For more info. tel: 443-521-0039. 13 Blood Drive by the Blood Bank of Delmarva at Immanuel United
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Church of Christ, Cambridge. 1 to 7 p.m. For more info. tel: 301-354-7416 or visit delmarvablood.org. 13 Family Unplugged Games for all ages at the Talbot County Free Library, St. Michaels. Children 5 and under must be accompanied by an adult. 3 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit tcfl.org. 14 Concert: Kenny Knopp and the Miles River Band in the Stoltz Listening Room, Avalon Theatre, Easton. 8 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-7299 or visit avalonfoundation.org. 14,28 Meeting: Vets Helping Vets at VFW Post 5246 in Federalsburg. 9 a.m. Meeting to help vets find services and information. For more info. tel: 410-943-8205 after 4 p.m. 15 Crab cake and soft crab sandwich sale at the Salvation Army in Cambridge. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sandwiches are $6 each, drinks available. For more info. tel: 410228-2442. 15 Legacy Day in downtown Chestertown. Dance in the streets to the music of the Larry Tucker Band. The Historical Societ y will once again celebrate history and community while we explore 207
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August Calendar the African-American musical legends of Kent County and the places where they performed. For more info. tel: 410-778-3499 or visit kentcountyhistory.org. 15 Concert: Flutist Ashley Watkins at the Dorchester Center for the Arts, Cambridge. 5 p.m. $10 DCA members, $12 non-members. For more info. tel: 410-228-7782. 15 Tidewater Inn Concert Series fe at u r i ng t he D el m a r v a Big Band. 7 p.m. Free outdoor street concert on Harrison St., Easton. For more info. tel: 410-822-7299 or visit avalonfoundation.org.
the Talbot County Free Library, Easton. Robinson won the Pulitzer for literature in 2005. 6:30 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-8221626 or visit tcfl.org. 19 Meeting: Dorchester Caregivers Support Group from 3 to 4 p.m. at Pleasant Day Adult Medical Day Care, Cambridge. For more info. tel: 410-228-0190. 20 Meeting: Stroke Survivors Support Group at Pleasant Day Medical Adult Day Care, Cambridge. 1 to 2 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-228-0190.
15 Concert: Liz Queler and Seth Farber in the Stoltz Listening Room, Avalon Theatre, Easton. 8:30 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-7299 or visit avalonfoundation.org.
20 Third Thursday in downtown Denton from 5 to 7 p.m. Shop for one-of-a-kind floral arrangements, gifts and home decor, dine out on a porch with views of the Choptank River, or enjoy a stroll around town as businesses extend their hours. For more info. tel: 410-479-0655.
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20 Thursdays in the Park Concert in Millstream Park, Centreville,
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Anne Harrington Annapolis Church Circle RESIDENTIAL BROKERAGE
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Where Golf Meets Boating Cove Creek on Eastern Bay 1011 Penny Drive, Stevensville, MD Magnificent custom-built contemporary home with wide vistas of Eastern Bay. Sophisticated open floor plan with grand entertaining space inside and out. Water views from all rooms. Bamboo travertine floors, elevator, wine cellar, outdoor grilling kitchen, sunroom with additional kitchen, high-end appliances in kitchen with teak cabinets. Heated salt system pool and hot tub. 110 ft. pier. A short boat ride to St. Michaels. This community has it all ~ golf course, tennis courts, marina and community center. Resort-style living with easy distance to Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis. Offered at $2,200,000
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sionist Br yan Clark performs “Sinatra 2 Soul,” a concert to benefit Talbot Mentors. Guests will relive a Las Vegas evening of hits by legendary artists while enjoy ing complimentar y hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar. For more info. tel: 410-822-7299 or visit avalonfoundation.org.
featuring the Sunnyland Band and the Rock Candy Cloggers. 7 p.m. Pack a picnic basket and enjoy the show. For more info. visit queenannescountyarts.com.
21 Pro Bono Legal Clinic at the Dorchester County Public Library. 1 to 3 p.m. on the third Friday of each month. For more info. tel: 410-690-8128. 21 Concer t: Miss Tess and the Talkbacks in the Stoltz Listening Room, Avalon Theatre, Easton. 8 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-8227299 or visit avalonfoundation. org. 20 Talbot Mentors present Bryan Clark at the Ava lon Theatre, Easton. 7:30 p.m. $50. Easton becomes Vegas for one evening as Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Ray Charles, Elvis and more appear on stage when singing impres-
21-22 Pit Barbecue at the Linkwood-Salem VFC in Linkwood. 10 a.m. until... Eat in or carry out. For more info. tel: 410-2210169. 21-22 Caroline Summerfest Goes
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August Calendar to the Big Leagues in downtown Denton. Fri. from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. and Sat. from noon to 9 p.m. This family entertainment festival features three stages of regional and local entertainment, a Fr id ay Pede st r ia n Pa rade, Saturday fireworks show, strolling performers, artisans, free KidzArt activities, the Choptank R ivah Run, gaming and food vendors and more! For more info. tel. 410-479-8120 or visit CarolineSummerfe st.com. 21-23 The Avalon Foundation’s Underground Actors present The 25th Annual Put nam Count y Spelling Bee at the Avalon Theatre, Easton. Fri. and Sat. at 8 p.m., Sun. at 2 p.m. Adults $25, students $15. For more info. tel: 410-822-7299 or visit avalonfoundation.org. 22 The Great Eastern Shore Tomato Festival on the banks of the Nanticoke River in Vienna. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Celebrate the tomato during this family-friendly festival. Heritage demonstrators, canning industry memorabilia, vendors, tomato games, entertainment, food and more. Sponsored by the Dorchester County Historical Society. For more info. tel: 410-228-7953.
22 3rd Annual Sea Plane Splash-In at the Hyatt Regency Chesapeake Bay Resort, Cambridge. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Come meet the pilots of these magnificent planes and learn about this exciting sport. For more info. tel: 410-901-1234. 22 St. Michaels Museum’s “Frederick Douglass, a slave, in St. Michaels 1833-36” Walking Tour will give a detailed view of the early life of St. Michaels’ most famous 19th centur y resident and probably the most important African American Abolitionist in the Civil War era. 10 to 11:30 a.m. For more info. tel: 410-745-0530. 22 Murder Mystery Dinner Cruise ab o a r d t he C hoptan k Riv e r Queen. 6 to 9 p.m. leaving from Suicide Bridge Restaurant in Hurlock. Show by Footlight Entertainment. For more info. tel: 410-943-4689 or info@suicidebridge.com. 22 Concert in the Country featuring
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HILLS COVE FARM Remarkable, almost 100 acre farm is a hunter’s paradise with ponds, secluded woods and open fields. The gracious five bedroom main house features a gourmet kitchen with granite counters and center island, formal living and dining room, exceptional great room with fireplace, large barn and waterside pool. $1,950,000
WILLOW OAK Situated on private point of land with unsurpassed views of Duck Cove and the Tred Avon River. This newly built home offers 4-ensuites, additional guest room, remarkable kitchen with a breakfast porch, pre-existing 3 car garage, waterside pool and deep water dock with a 13,000 lb. boat lift. $3,900,000 213
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of October Project) in the Stoltz Listening Room, Avalon Theatre, Easton. 8 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-7299 or visit avalonfoundation.org. 24 Family Summer Crafts for children 8 and older at the Talbot Count y Free Librar y, St. Michaels. 3 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit tcfl.org.
The Tom Larson Band performing at Layton’s Chance Winery. the Tom Larson Band at Layton’s Chance Winer y, Vienna. 6 to 9 p.m. Bring your lawn chairs and a picnic dinner to spend a comfortable evening listening to country music. $5 cover for anyone over 21, under 21 free. Food available for purchase. For more info. tel: 410-228-1205 or visit laytonschance.com. 22 Concert: Mary Fahl (formerly
25 Meeting: Breast Cancer Support Group at UM Regional Breast Center, Easton. 6 to 7:30 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-1000, ext. 5411. 25 Meeting: Women Supporting Women, lo c a l bre a st c a nc er support group, meets at Christ Episcopal Church, Cambridge. 6:30 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-463-0946. 28 Concert: Robbin Thompson in the Stoltz Listening Room, Avalon Theatre, Easton. 8 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-7299 or visit avalonfoundation.org.
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29 Porch Book Sale sponsored by the Friends of the Queen Anne’s C ount y L ibra r y at t he C entreville branch. 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Members-only preview night on Friday, August 28 from 5 to 8 p.m. No admission charge and bargain books available for all ages and reading levels. Light refreshments available. Proceeds to benefit the library’s programs and services. For more info. tel: 410-758-0980. 29 Tidewater Inn Concert Series featur ing Mule Train. 7 p.m. Free outdoor street concert on Harrison St., Easton. For more info. tel: 410-822-7299 or visit avalonfoundation.org.
30 Taylors Island Boat Docking Challenge at Slaughter Creek Marina. Practice runs begin at noon, contests begin at 1 p.m. Raff le draw ings all af ternoon, w ith pr izes and trophies awarded following the contests. Benefits Taylors Island Volunteer Fire Department. For more info. tel: 443-521-4659.
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La Trappe Creek/Choptank River 31 acre Talbot County farm with sandy beach, deep water dock, panoramic southwest view, caretaker’s house, small barn, pool and charming brick manor house. Total privacy. Offered at $1,599,000 to settle an estate.
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