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Vol. 69, No. 3
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August 2020
Features:
About the Cover Photographer: Carl Mayford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 If I Had Just Learned to Type: Helen Chappell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Gibson's Getaway ~ Sandaway Suites & Beach: Bonna Nelson . . . . 21 Caroline Culinary Arts: Mike Valliant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 August Tide Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Dastardly Deeds: A.M. Foley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Tidewater Kitchen: Pamela Meredith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Tidewater Gardening: K. Marc Teffeau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Dorchester Map and History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Tiny Towns: James Dawson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 St. Michaels Map and History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Oxford Map and History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Easton Map and History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Tilghman ~ Bay Hundred . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Queen Anne’s County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Caroline County ~ A Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Changes ~ All American (Part XI): Roger Vaughan . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 Chesapeake Film Festival . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 Anne B. Farwell & John D. Farwell, Co-Publishers Proofing: Jodie Littleton & Kippy Requardt Deliveries: Nancy Smith, April Jewel & Brandon Coleman Social Media Liaison: Mary Farwell P. O. Box 1141, Easton, Maryland 21601 3947 Harrison Circle, Trappe, Maryland 21673 410-714-9389 FAX : 410-476-6286 www.tidewatertimes.com info@tidewatertimes.com
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About the Cover Photographer Carl Mayford Carl Mayford, a resident of Baltimore, Maryland, and member of the Maryland Nature Photographers, began taking pictures when he was in high school. He remembers watching television shows on PBS and getting the inspiration to take his camera outside and use a magnifying glass for close-ups. As his interest in photography blossomed, he took classes at the Maryland Institute to tune his skills. Although he never strayed too far from his camera, his deep interest in nature photography was rekin-
dled during the COVID-19 Stay-atHome. Instead of spending time in the gym, he now is spending time out in nature taking photos of birds and landscapes. During a recent drive out to Goldpetal Farms in Chaptico, St. Mary’s County, Mayford took our cover photo, Gold on Gold. Goldpetal Farms is Southern Maryland’s only living maze. They design, plant and manage several unique sunflower mazes and pick-your-own flower gardens.
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If I Had Just Learned to Type by Helen Chappell
I was lucky. I wrote my first novel when I was sixteen and sent it, as juvenile and unedited as it was, off to a slightly older friend who was a newly minted literary agent in a large well-established company. For better or worse, she took enough of a liking to it to show it to a couple of young and hungry editors. They, in turn, took it seriously enough to suggest some edits and rewrites. I didn’t take it seriously enough to do those edits and rewrites. I was sixteen and had the attention span of a newt, but my lifetime ambition to hack out a career in The Arts was set. Talk about your unrealistic career goals. I knew how to pick ’em, even back in my unhappy adolescence. Other kids I knew wanted to be flight attendants (then known as stewardesses), hairdressers and future farmers. I was not exactly raised among people burning with ambitions that stretched farther than our town limits. We made provincial look urbane and sophisticated. Rolling the bowl was the chief entertainment for teens in my town. With my less than inspiring grades and surly attitude, our overworked and unimaginative guidance counselor thought I’d make
a great secretary for some tomato canning magnate, if I’d just take typing. Now, I knew even then that if I learned to type, I’d be stuck in someone’s typing pool for the rest of my life. I was still young and stupid enough to have the ambition of a genius and the common sense of a mosquito. So, here I am, a writer who never learned to type. But I’ve never ended up in the typing pool, although I’ve had the kinds of jobs any aspiring creative person should have. Too numerous to list here, but trust me, I’ve worked some unusual places. All grist for the writer’s mill. If you wanted to be a creative type and you read On The Road and Cannery Row when you were about seventeen, you knew blue col9
Learned to Type lar jobs were where you honed your artistic skills. Or at least that’s what my generation was led to believe. In the summers between college, I did things like pack apples in an orchard, sort roses in a greenhouse, drive a tractor with a hay wagon, clean houses, pick tomatoes and strawberries, work in a shoe factory and even a polyester mill. I picked crabs for a week before I figured out that being paid by the pound meant I would earn about fifty cents. If I had just learned to type, I’d probably be retiring now after fifty years of faithful service to some ancient booze-hound attorney who still tells clients, “The gal will type that up and send it to you.” Gal being me. I’d also probably be a hopeless booze-hound myself with a business wardrobe that smells faintly of mothballs and stale Guerlain. And
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my job to lace up brogans as they came down the line. Sure, it was boring, but I wasn’t charming and cute enough for waitress work in the tourist industry, and, again, I couldn’t type. But I could inhale the stories of working-class heroes in the White Mountains, and believe me, when they say live free or die, they’re serious, especially when they found out about marijuana. We hippie students didn’t look so bad then. When I landed in New York and started going to art school, I worked part time for my literary agent. I fetched and carried, proofread and went for coffee and made nice with some bestselling writers who treated me worse than my own mother treated our housekeeper. Bylines you’d still recognize today, authors who felt so entitled and special they wouldn’t urinate on a lowly assistant if she was on fire. If you don’t think I have Eastern Shore Alzheimer’s ~ I can forget anything but a grudge ~ then you don’t know me at all. But then my agent moved to California and I couldn’t type, so
career. Coulda done better, coulda done worse. But all those odd jobs were far more interesting than the typing pool, for sure. When I went to school, you got a part-time job to make some money. A job like packing apples in an orchard may be repetitive, but you’ll never forget the heady fall aroma of an apple barn or the rugged individuals you meet whose interesting lives give you an education no staid middle-class upbringing could. I worked in a rose growing greenhouse, sorting roses into lengths on a conveyor belt. The pay wasn’t much, but I didn’t have to type, and I was able to bring home buckets of beautiful “seconds” that looked and smelled heavenly. And if I kept my mouth shut and didn’t act as if I was someone special, I learned an awful lot about the kind of lifestyle they only write about in country songs. When I went to college, I picked up summer work in a New Hampshire shoe factory where it was
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them ready to send back to the distributors. The people I worked with were, in the main, nice, and I stay in touch with many of them still. The register punching and the cashing out of the drawer were a challenge for the math-challenged, but I only left when the writing started taking up more and more of my time. And I still didn’t know how to type. Then along came newspapering, which was then in the dawn of the computer age, and I basically learned what computer literacy I possess in over-the-phone lessons from my editor in Cambridge. I have had carpal tunnel, but I probably would have had that if I learned to type. I went on to work for the Baltimore Sun and the Washington Post. I wrote a fairly successful series of mysteries and thrillers, and now I write a monthly column for Tidewater Times. That I have managed to come this far without learning to type either speaks to the foolish stupidity of this writer or the truth that somehow, I have never been trapped in a typing pool.
I supplemented my career hacking out potboiler novels by working at Macy’s Herald Square, where, this being New York, there were a lot of struggling artists and actors and writers waiting on Bridge and Tunnel housewives. So, I learned retail. Punching a register is about as close to typing as I ever got, and I took a lot of remedial register punching classes. So, when I washed up back on the Eastern Shore, I started working at the News Center. I loved the part where I got to unpack boxes of books and put them out on the shelves, and pack up boxes of books and get
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Gibson’s Getaway Sandaway Suites and Beach by Bonna L. Nelson
If you are looking for a nearby getaway, look no further than this inviting Oxford beach resort, positioned like no other and overlooking the Chesapeake Bay, Choptank River and Tred Avon River. When I toured the historic property of Sandaway Suites and Beach with owners Ken and Wendy Gibson, I envied the scattering of couples lounging in Adirondack chairs on the grass and sandy beach and enjoying the beautiful waterfront view complete with
graceful sailboats. Gigantic ancient trees, brilliantly colored flowers and gentle light breezes were whispering to me, “stay, sit, relax, enjoy.” You will arrive at Sandaway after driving through the quaint town of Oxford, one of the oldest towns in Maryland (founded before 1683), past historic shops and homes on tree-lined Morris Street. Making a right on East Strand Road will take you past The Robert Morris Inn (RMI) (circa 1710), the Oxford-
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sons left their careers, he a psychologist/teacher and she a surgical nurse from the Baltimore area and jumped at the chance to own and manage Sandaway and, just down the street, the Robert Morris Inn. One look at the spectacular views and they fell in love with both properties as well as with the charming town of Oxford. I told Ken that about six months prior to my visit I was sharing coffee with Wendy at the Chesapeake Y MCA . Wendy and I seemed to cross paths when she was waiting in the Y lounge for her tennis match to begin and I was waiting for my Spin class. One thing led to another, and we began to share our stories. The Gibson and Sandaway story sounded like one that I thought the community and visitors to our wonderful Eastern Shore would find of interest. From Wendy and the Sandaway website, I learned that the main house was built between 1873 and 1876 by Colonel Samuel Wetherill,
Bellevue Ferry Dock (oldest privately operated ferry in the U.S, circa 1683) and a long t he beach c a lled t he Strand. Making a left on West Strand Road will take you past the Tred Avon Yacht Club and the little Oxford Custom House and will lead you to the welcoming Sandaway Suites and Beach entrance on the left. Drive through the gate and up the circular driveway to the main house, which is surrounded by a plush green lawn, swaying trees and lush landscapes. I was warmly greeted by Ken Gibson, who invited me to join him on the graceful porch that wraps entirely around the historic and elegant main house. Wendy was with a guest and joined us soon thereafter. As I took in the mesmerizing waterfront views from the porch, I was transported to another world ~ one of peace, tranquility and nature. No wonder the twenty-something Gib-
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father, George White, Jr. Mr. White had frequented the Eastern Shore on waterfowl hunting forays and had purchased the property during his hunting days. In 2010, after 40 years of renovating and managing the Robert Morris Inn with its own lodging, restaurant and tavern, the Gibsons decided to sell the RMI to the current owners, Chef Mark Salter and Ian Fleming, and concentrate their efforts on continuing to manage, renovate and expand Sandaway Suites and Beach. Wendy shared with me that “In the early days when we started renting rooms there (as they were), they had shared baths and everyone came to the RMI for a paid breakfast. As Sandaway (Annex) became more popular because of its location and beach, we wanted folks to know it was part of the RMI, so we gave it the name of Robert Morris Lodge.” “In 1977, we started a renovation of all rooms to include private bathrooms, king beds, and as many
Ken and Wendy Gibson Sr. on land that he purchased for $450. After his death, it was owned by the Sinclair family, who operated it as a hotel until 1902, when Mr. J. Edward bought it and occupied it as a private home. After Mr. Edward, Sandaway was occupied by a succession of owners until 1965. For a brief time, it was the anchorage for the Chesapeake Bay Yacht Club and, later in the ‘60s, the Kirkland Junior College for Men. Wendy and Ken Gibson came on the Sandaway scene in 1971 when they bought the nearby historic Robert Morris Inn and Sandaway (then known as the Annex) from Wendy’s
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porches as possible with a common sitting room/library for earlymorning coffee. There are ten rooms in Sandaway and eight more on the property…We owned the RMI for forty years. The dining room seated 150, and it had 16 rooms. When we sold the RMI, we kept the Sandaway property and changed the name to Sandaway Waterfront Lodging.” “About four years ago, it was
changed to Sandaway Suites and Beach, as many of our accommodations are larger than normal and have luxurious bathrooms. It was in 2010 that Sandaway went from being waterfront rooms to a bed and breakfast. We started serving breakfast in hand painted half-bushel crab baskets. We give a choice of time for delivery and put it outside the door without a knock. Guests can enjoy it
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Gibson says his parents joined the Country Inns and Brick Roads association to meet with other B&B ow ners a nd sha re ex per ience s. They were the youngest members a nd wer e r e c og n i z e d by Nor m Simpson, author of the Country Inn and B ac k ro ad s b o ok s, for adding “zest, verve and taste” to the RMI and Sandaway. Now the association is known as the Select Registr y, Distinguished Inns of North America. It represents more than 300 country inns, B&Bs and boutique hotels in the U.S. and Canada. The Select Registry brand represents shared common values such as quality, authenticity and community, and each facility must pass a comprehensive quality inspection. The Gibsons have been
in their room, porch or on the lawn.” Wendy recently received the prestigious Douglas Hanks, Jr. Oxford Preser vation Award for 2019. A Star Democrat article dated June 7, 2020 noted the award was given “in recognition of her long-time dedication to Oxford and its visitors. For almost fifty years Mrs. Gibson has worked with her family and staff to preserve, improve and run two of Oxford’s most distinctive inns.” Wendy said that the award made her feel gratified and appreciated. It was a wonderful way to celebrate the Gibsons’ 50th anniversary as inn owners. I n r e g a r d s to t he S a nd aw ay Select Registry membership, Ben
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regional and national conferences for the group. Wendy and Ken live in a house on Sandaway property. They have two grown sons, Kent and Ben. Kent has two boys, Kade and Shane, and Ben became the Sandaway innkeeper ten years ago with the help of his wife, Santy, a professional photographer, artist and gardener who hails from Indonesia. According to Wendy, Ben has been essential to managing Sandaway, enhancing their digital presence on t he web, Facebook and Instagram as well as creating and managing Sandaway changes to comply with COVID-19 requirements. Santy creates beautiful photographs of the property. Over the years, Sandaway has
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modern luxury baths, sitting areas, cable, WiFi and mini fridges. Restaurants, shops and museums are within walking distance. There are also opportunities to bike, kayak, boat, fish, SUP, paint, take photographs, visit nearby towns or just relax in chairs on the porch, grass or sand and enjoy the stunning views and sunsets. Sandaway is a member of the Trip Advisor Hall of Fame and has received the Certificate of Excellence for multiple years from the popular traveler opinion website. The guest comments reflect the rating of excellence, including “A sunset to remember,” “Beautiful, warm peaceful place, awesome view” and “A beautiful escape.” Google rated Sandaway a 4.8 out of 5 with one reviewer
been mentioned in numerous media publications, including Frommer’s, Martha Stewart Living, the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times as well as the Select Registry as a charming, romantic and private, Chesapeake Bay getaway. The property was also featured on the cover of Maryland’s Official Visitors Guide 2019 and is on the back cover of the July 2020 issue of the Maryland Public Television cover. The resort is an adult-only getaway. The property includes Sandaway’s Victorian mansion, cottages and several deluxe suites in separate villas, most with private screened porches with unique water views. Sandaway offers luxurious beds,
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Sandaway stating, “We really enjoyed the setting, the amenities and the service.” Booking.com rated the resort 9.3 out of 10 with comments including “The Innkeeper couldn’t have been more kind. A perfect place for an anniversary,” and “Breakfast was outstanding.” This successful third-generation family business attracts guests from all over the U.S. Wendy told me about a particularly memorable and dear couple who spent two weeks a year at Sandaway for many years and became like family. Sandaway staff became very excited when the couple stayed at the resort. When the guests could no longer drive, the Gibsons stayed in touch v ia telephone and visits to their retirement home. Wendy said one of her favorite comments in the guestbook was “Sandaway is a place to fall in love again.” She said that she and her staff never get tired of checking people in and out. “People are so happy to be here and always want to stay longer,” she added. The Gibsons greatly appreciate the support of a dedicated staff. Wendy said they are committed, loyal, value the guests and love their jobs. Many of her staff also worked with the family at the RMI. One 35year employee said, “I’ve always got your back.” Another said, “Till death us do part.” Sandaway employees
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in an open ice chest. Wendy said that rooms remain empty for 24 hours between guests and are thoroughly cleaned and disinfected. Mattress covers and quilts are washed in addition to sheets and towels. Common indoor spaces are now assigned by room and are not available to all guests for prevention purposes. See their website for more about precautions and waivers. Safety for both you and the staff is important at Sandaway. They have passed the industry’s leading inspection program implemented during the pandemic. If you long for a place of peace and quiet, a place to get away from the troubles of the world, a place to de-stress, a place for total relaxation and bliss, a place for romance, a place of breathtaking views and sunsets or a base camp for enjoying water adventures and exploring the Eastern Shore of Maryland, then Sandaway Suites and Beach in Oxford is for you. To learn more about Sandaway and to make reservations call 1-888726-3792, email sandaway@live. com or visit sandaway.com. They are open until November. (Note: When my husband read this story, he said that Sandaway sounds very enticing, let’s visit soon!)
are like family to the Gibsons. They all look out for each other and the guests. As of this writing, the Gibson family is preparing for a July opening during the COVID-19 pandemic using all government and Select Registr y guidelines. Wendy said they worked harder getting ready under the pandemic while closed than they do when they are open. Ben developed plans to reconfigure rooms and meeting spaces. Ken and Wendy showed me some of the operational changes made during the months of COVID-related isolation. As with all businesses, changes and adaptations were necessary to ensure conformance to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, state and local regulations, all for the safety of guests and staff during the challenging, difficult and continuing pandemic. Ken said, for example, that ice for guests is bagged and in an ice chest with hand wipes nearby rather than
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by Michael Valliant When David Murray started as a student in the culinary program at North Caroline High School, he knew he was going to stick with it. Fifteen years and a degree from the Culinary Institute of America later, Murray is a chef and instructor for the Chesapeake Culinary Center and the Assistant Food Service Operations Manager for Caroline County. He is kind of a poster child for the success of a program that Beth Brewster put in place in 2005. Brewster is the supervisor for food services for Caroline County Public Schools and the founder of Caroline Culinary Arts at the Caroline Schoolhouse. CCA is a cooperative partnership between the Chesapeake Culinary Center, Shore Gourmet Market and Caroline County Public Schools, dedicated to creating workforce opportunities and supporting small businesses and family farms. The Caroline Schoolhouse, which is owned by the Town of Denton, is where it all happens. “We started out with no home ~ we were working out of a van and
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school, Murray worked in restaurants for a few years before attending the Culinary Institute of America. He graduated from CIA in 2012. What made him want to come back? “There was a sign on the schoolhouse building for years that said ‘coming soon,’” Murray said. I knew that Beth was working on it and that she was going help make something happen. She let me know that I was welcome and would have a place there, and I loved the idea of giving something back to the community.” Murray has done everything from washing dishes to making desserts and salads, to working as a line cook, to helping grow the catering program and teaching the ins and outs of catering to students. A typical week for him (before COVID-19) often included: meeting
then work at the Emerson House, a restaurant in Denton. “We were able to do practical classroom stuff during the day and then put it into practice in the afternoon at the restaurant,” Murray said. “I have always loved to cook, and once I took the class I knew I was going to stick with it.” After graduating from high
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Shore Gourmet is a public cafĂŠ and retail store that serves breakfast, lunch and the popular Wednesday dinners, which are prepared and sourced from local farmers and producers. They also provide educational and training opportunities to students and adults interested in culinary careers. In addition, CCPS offers its culinary arts education program through the Caroline Career and Technology Center, where students participate in classroom and in-the-field learning that prepares them to either enter the workforce directly after high school or go on for additional education and training. Students are offered the opportunity to gain real-world expe-
with clients to set up special events; assisting with any catering events that are going on throughout the school system; placing orders and organizing food; teaching classes to students and presenting evening and weekend programs for families and the community. But the idea behind CCA and all the work that begins in the schoolhouse goes far beyond job and career training and special events. Through the Chesapeake Culinary Center, they offer a community kitchen as well as incubator services for small food-based businesses, which helps both entrepreneurs and family farms.
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year, where the food served is local.” CCA has been responsive and forward thinking about community needs from the beginning. Addressing food insecurity and hunger is a critical need that they have responded to in force, from creating one-sheet meals from locally sourced produce and products that can be easily heated and eaten, to a backpack program that provides children with nutritious meals over weekends and the summer months, to reaching out to understand community poverty and hunger and working collaboratively with other agencies, including the Maryland Food Bank.
rience by working for Chesapeake Culinary Center and/or internship placement with local businesses. Brewster and her team have created a blueprint for innovation career training and local business that has her fielding calls and inquiries from throughout Maryland and from other states as well. Through the efforts of CCA, CCPS is working with local farmers to take their fruits and vegetables, process them and serve them in school cafeterias throughout the county. “The broad picture of this is how to get processing centers in all the areas of the state so they could do what we are doing,” Brewster said. “We need to make it easier for schools to work with local farmers, but they are growing when we aren’t in school, so it needs to be processed. So one of the goals is to make us more food sustainable all
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lining is that it pushed us to be able to do something we hadn’t done before, and now we have the capability; we know we can feed seniors and families who need us.” As of June 1, CCPS had served more than 140,000 meals to children and more than 36,000 meals to senior citizens during the COVID-19 crisis. An incredible online video shows the behind-the-scenes efforts and the people who have made everything happen. And CCA is still moving forward and evolving. Upcoming projects include a mobile farmer’s market, which will take their work on the road through a partnership with the Maryland Department of Transportation, which donated a bus, and with funding from the Mid-Shore Community Foundation. “Farming 4 Hunger,” is a CCA initiative to create healthy, economically stable families through food equity, job training, youth prevention, economic development and education. And it all emanates from the Caroline Schoolhouse, a building that sat vacant for more than 20 years. CCA took a historically significant
And then COVID-19 hit the Eastern Shore, and residents and families were told to stay home. The organization’s responsiveness, flexibility and readiness have enabled Brewster and CCA to feed Caroline County through the pandemic’s most difficult months so far. Murray and CCPS Food Operations Manager Samantha Figueroa were both able to move out of the schoolhouse building and lead a community response to feed at-risk children and senior citizens. “Sam and David were awesome,” Brewster said. “I took them out of the culinary center and made feeding the community their focus. In less than 72 hours, we were feeding more than 1,000 people. The silver
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Dastardly Deeds by A.M. Foley
Before the American Revolution, settlers around the Chesapeake Bay were more or less left alone to practice the ancient art of smuggling. Along coastal regions in Britain, from which many Bay-side settlers had emigrated, smuggling was a reputable way of life. British historians estimate that one-third to one-half of their nation’s commerce had relied on smuggled goods. Often, the tax collector was a
partner in crime, requiring a cut to look the other way. As British immigrants settled the New World, old habits sailed along. Attempts to avoid import taxes were inevitable. In addition to smuggling being in many a seaman’s blood, a larcenous heart sometimes beat as high as the colonial treasurer or governor. Smuggling was usually a successful, nonviolent crime, but in 1719 the British Parliament decreed that
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from run-of-the-mill smuggler to armed smuggler, to privateer, to outright pirate, could be a short trip. Without earlier records, the fi rst known maritime theft on Chesapeake Bay dates from the Starving Time in Jamestown. In 1610, the Virginia Company’s ship Swallow sailed off with relief supplies meant for desperate settlers, its crew opting to “go upon account,” that is, turn to piracy. In Maryland’s waters, the fi rst act of piracy was perpetrated in 1638 by William Claiborne, who claimed “his” Kent Island to be part of Virginia. Claiborne also claimed a satellite trading post farther north, near the mouth of the Susquehanna River, on Palmers (Garrett) Island.
those convicted of armed smuggling would be sentenced to transportation. Thus, more dangerous offenders found themselves on colonial shores. Meanwhile, back in Europe, the British Civil War shifted power from Royal to Parliamentary rule, then back again to the king. This upheaval divided loyalties in colonial administrations, created enemies and introduced religious persecution where none had existed. Complaints of “Taxation without Representation” put it mildly. Settlement of the New World roughly coincided with the golden age of piracy. The slippery slope
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There, in the upper Bay, Maryland fur traders sailed near Palmers Island and Claiborne’s forces seized their ship. The fractious Claiborne would surely differ as to which was the innocent merchantman and which the pirate, but Maryland’s Governor Leonard Calvert charged him with “grevious crimes of pyracie and murther.” The incident led to the Bay’s first naval battle, which took place on Pocomoke Sound, where it’s truly difficult to determine which ships were in home waters. Regardless, victory went to the Calverts, as did Kent and Palmers islands. A fine line ran between a buccaneer, freebooter, brigand, pica-
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of peace. He was knighted by King Charles II and made lieutenant governor of Jamaica. More than larceny lured seamen to “go on account.” Ordinary seamen toiled under severe conditions, at the mercy of sometimessadistic officers. Pirates, on the other hand, selected their own captain, sat in councils and earned shares of the voyage profits. Numerous homegrown freebooters and infamous high-seas pirates marauded on the Chesapeake, leading to legends of buried treasure. Alas, as far as is known, no legend has borne fruit, but one unburied treasure bore a tree of knowledge. The roots of the College of William and Mary grew from an endowment of pirate loot, essentially a bribe that saved three henchmen of Bartholomew “Black Bart” Roberts from the gallows. Black Bart had been pressed unwillingly from a merchantman to a pirate ship. He took to the life so well that within months he was elected captain. “A merry life and a short one” became his motto. In under four years, he became history’s richest and most feared pirate. Able to assemble a f leet of ships and a thousand men, he terrorized both sides of the Atlantic before being killed in action. Three of Black Bart’s crewmen returned to their starting point, Hampton Roads, Virginia, aiming to retire. Sailing down Chesapeake
roon and pirate, all criminals in any case. A privateer, on the other hand, carried a Letter of Marque, a government-issued commission authorizing an armed civilian merchantman to attack enemy shipping for personal profit. Communications lagged behind news of who currently was the enemy. Was an English privateer’s prime enemy French? Dutch? Spanish? Regardless, an Englishman plundering Spanish ships exiting the Caribbean was more likely to become a knight than a convict (witness Sir Francis Drake). Henry Morgan, before being immortalized on rum bottles, violated his Letter of Marque by attacking Spanish Panama in a time
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Bartholomew “Black Bart” Roberts Bay, they aroused suspicion hefting three trunks of priceless loot. Leakage from their treasure began with the arresting naval officer, Captain Rowe, and they eventually left a trail of booty from Virginia to London. King James II had offered clemency to pirates who retired, but reforming from the life proved difficult. Their arrest began a four-year process that spanned two reigns, attracted many offers of legal assistance, outlasted two rival claimants’ lives and involved ambassa60
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were British deserters. Two months later, the Boston merchantman Othello, under Captain Russel Glover, crossed from Liverpool undisturbed, bound for Baltimore with dry goods on order for the upcoming fall season. A pilot met her outside the Virginia Capes and filled Glover in on tensions prevailing on the Bay. Indignation still simmered over the Chesapeake affair. Three French warships on the Bay would presumably take America’s side should outrage boil over into another Anglo-American war. The captain and pilot successfully evaded the Royal Navy blockade that was interfering with traffic in and out of the Bay and then proceeded toward Baltimore. With contrary winds, the Othello and another merchantman, Three Sisters, anchored off the Patuxent River at Drum Point, joining a French 74-gun warship, Patriote, already there. Boats were put over and visitors passed among the former allies, soon joined by other Frenchmen arriving from Baltimore on a pilot schooner, General Massena, supposedly bound for Santo Domingo. A relaxed Glover surely enjoyed the gathering, so near his voyage’s end, but Three Sisters Captain Rich found the crew of the swift pilot schooner unnaturally inquisitive about the Othello’s cargo. Next day, the merchantmen were able to
dors from several lands plundered by the trio. After being jailed in Jamestown, sent to London, paroled with no means of support and filing countless petitions on both sides of the Atlantic, the trio succeeded. King William III ordered their “Money Plate, Jewells and Cloathing, seized as pirats goods in the year 1688 by Capt. Rowe” be returned to them. The ex-pirates agreed that “three hundred pounds of the goods belonging unto them and now lying in their Majesties Warehouse,” plus one-fourth of anything recovered from the resistant Captain Rowe, would establish a “Colledg or free Schoole in Virginia.” The resultant college was named in honor of their majesties, William and Mary. Appropriately, four years of legal wrangling over ill-gotten goods led to our nation’s first law school. Many clearly illegal acts were later committed by British and Tory “privateers,” but the last foreign act of pure piracy on Chesapeake Bay was committed under the supposedly friendly f lag of France. At the time, the United States was neutral during war between Britain and Napoleonic France. Nevertheless, a crisis arose in June 1807 when the USS Chesapeake was attacked by a British warship. Four of Chesapeake’s crewmen were taken under a mistaken claim the four 62
His pilot was asked to guide them all through the blockade but refused, even when offered a $400 bribe. Under threat of death, he agreed. Apparently the novice pirate was ill suited for the trade. Becalmed and indecisive near the Patuxent, he came to realize his nimble pilot schooner could not tow the heavily laden Othello through the blockade undetected, nor could he outrun any Americans sent in pursuit. He opted to free Othello, telling Glover it was all a misunderstanding. When a relieved Glover reached Baltimore the next day, news of the piracy scandalized the nation and nearly caused an international incident. Wild rumors spread that
weigh anchor and proceed before nightfall as far as Sharps Island, off the Choptank River. While Captain Glover slept below in his cabin, General Massena quietly appeared and anchored under the stern. The night watch’s call, “What do you want?” was answered by pistol fire. By the time Glover reached deck, Othello had been boarded. “Are you a pirate?” he asked the French commander. “No, I’m a French privateer from Guadaloupe,” he was told. Demanding the ship’s papers, the Frenchman falsely claimed Othello was legally his for the taking because she carried cargo from Britain. Some pirates readied the merchantman for towing, while others plundered Glover’s cabin.
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strong. A shipowner donated his (aptly named) schooner Volunteer, which was hastily armed with four cannon and manned with fifty armed militiamen, seamen and fifteen masters of vessels, a total of 100 men, under U.S. Navy Captain David Porter. A militiaman described sailing down the Bay and finding the pirate ship, still off Drum Point. “Capt. Porter then hailed, telling them, that if the least resistance was made to the Boats Crew going
the French warship Patriote had abetted the pirates. Authorities wasted little time sending ships and troops down the Bay to discover the truth and arrest the guilty. The public, still smarting from the British insult in June, now suspected the French might be violating their new nation’s sovereignty. The U.S. Navy was undeveloped, but patriotism ran
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on board, that no quarters should be given. Our boat took possession of . . . 50 Muskets ready loaded, about 18 Boarding Knives, etc.” All that was missing were the pirates. “Only 3 men were found on board.” He believed twenty-five men had crewed the pirate. Five were seen f leeing onto Drum Point, perhaps the five later jailed in Annapolis. Five were found in chains aboard the French 74-gun Patriote, averting an awkward quarrel with France. An unknown number of villains escaped. The men of the Volunteer received a hero’s welcome back in Baltimore. After delivering their three captives to the fort, “We
After co-writing pictorial histories for Arcadia Publishing with Gloria Johnson (Cambridge and Dorchester County), Ann Foley wrote Having My Say: Conversations with Chesapeake Bay Waterman Wylie “Gator” Abbott; A Dorchester County Scrapbook: “That Reminds Me of a Story” (with Terry White); and, most recently, Holland Island: Lost Atlantis of the Chesapeake (with P. Smith Rue).
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On-The-Go! and fries is a complete meal, but who needs all that fat and salt? Not the kids, and certainly not Mom or Dad. Choose your shortcuts wisely. Sneak vegetables into sauces or a pie (like the zucchini pie), soups, tacos or enchiladas, maybe a meatloaf or a sheet pan supper. The following recipe is one that children should like, as it has plenty of familiar ingredients. These tacos are going Asian, with soy sauce, ginger and lime.
We are nearing the end of summer, and who wants to spend all their time in a hot kitchen? Also, school will be starting soon (we hope), so you’ve got to get organized and get dinner on the table fast. There will be practices, extracurricular activities, clubs, tutoring and sports. Most chefs are trained to produce meals that contain a protein, vegetables and some sort of carbohydrate, So, technically, a burger
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CHICKEN TACOS with BROCCOLI SLAW This recipe comes from Alexa Lawrence, a mom and blogger at Key to the Cucina. If you prep the coleslaw the night before, it requires about 10 minutes of cooking!
For serving: 8 soft tortillas Fresh cilantro, minced Sriracha (optional) Make the slaw by whisking together the soy sauce, lime juice, garlic and ginger in a large bowl. While whisking, slowly drizzle in the olive oil, then the sesame oil. Add the slaw and toss to coat. Refrigerate while cooking chicken. Heat the rest of the sesame oil in a medium frying pan over medium-high heat until shimmering. Add the chicken, breaking it up with a wooden spoon. Season with garlic powder, ginger and cayenne. Cook until the chicken is cooked through, about 10 minutes. Drizzle on the soy sauce and toss to combine. Warm the tortillas, then spoon the cooked chicken into them and top with slaw. Garnish with cilantro and hot sauce, if desired. Note: If you don’t want this in taco form, cook some rice while assembling the other ingredients and serve over that. A tasty side dish could be a cucumber and sour cream salad or a bean salad. Or you could do a simple fruit salad with watermelon, cantaloupe and blueberries, drizzled with a little plain Greek yogurt mixed with a teaspoon of honey.
1 (12 ounce) bag of broccoli slaw 1/4 cup tamari or soy sauce Juice of 1 lime 1/8 t. garlic powder 1/8 t. ground ginger 1/4 cup olive oil 1 T. toasted sesame oil For the chicken: 1 T. toasted sesame oil 1 pound ground chicken 1 t. garlic powder 1 t. ground ginger 1/2 t. cayenne pepper
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BAKED CHICKEN TENDERS Serve the tenders with cut-up carrots, celery, broccoli, cucumbers, peppers, etc. You can make up some dipping sauces, too! This is a great way to get the children to graze There are also things the children can help with. They can mix the mayonnaise, f lour and egg mixture in the plastic bag. Once the chicken is in the bag, the kids can mush it around to coat it completely, and after you transfer the chicken pieces to the bag of bread crumbs, they can toss to coat. 2 cups panko bread crumbs 3/4 cup mayonnaise 2 T. f lour
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Season the chicken with ½ teaspoon salt. Transfer to the bag with the mayonnaise mixture, seal the bag and massage to coat each strip with the mixture. Transfer the panko to another gallon-sized zip-lock bag. Using tongs, transfer the chicken to the panko bag. Seal and shake until the chicken is evenly coated. Use tongs to transfer the chicken to the baking sheet you toasted the bread crumbs on. Spray the strips with cooking spray. Bake until golden brown and cooked through, 15-20 minutes. While the chicken cooks, mix the dips and serve with the vegetables as well as the cooked chicken. Sprinkle the cooked chicken with salt.
1 large egg, lightly beaten 1/2 t. sea salt 2 pounds chicken tenders Cooking spray Fresh vegetables for the dip Arrange a rack in the middle of the oven and heat to 400°. Spread the panko crumbs in a thin layer on a rimmed baking sheet. Bake until golden brown, about 4 minutes. Set aside to cool on the baking sheet while you prepare the chicken. Place the mayonnaise, f lour and egg in a gallon-sized zip-lock bag. Seal the bag and massage until the ingredients become a mostly homogenous mixture.
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MAYONNAISE-KETCHUP DIP 1/4 cup ketchup 3 T. mayonnaise
Sea salt and pepper to taste Dollop of sherry Dash of nutmeg Chopped cilantro for garnish
CREAMY HONEY MUSTARD DIP 1/4 cup Greek yogurt 1 T. Dijon mustard 1 t. honey
In a large pot, melt the butter and add the leeks to sautĂŠ until they are soft. Add the carrot, potato, zest and juice of the orange, ginger and brown sugar. Cook for 5 to 7 minutes, or until softened. Add the broth and coconut milk and simmer for 20 minutes. Transfer the soup to a blender or food processor and puree in batches. Return to the soup pot. Season with salt, sherry and nutmeg to taste. Serve garnished with chopped fresh parsley.
YOGURT RANCH DIP 1/4 cup plain Greek yogurt 1 T. ranch dressing powder GINGER CARROT SOUP Makes 4-6 servings 1/4 stick butter 2 leeks, chopped 1 pound carrots, peeled and diced 1 pound potatoes, peeled and diced 1 orange, zested and juiced 2 t. fresh grated ginger 1 t. brown sugar 4 cups vegetable broth 1 cup coconut milk
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1 red bell pepper, sliced very thin 1/2 cup red wine vinegar 1/3 cup sugar 1/4 cup olive oil 1/2 t. salt 1 large garlic clove, minced and smashed
SWEET AND SOUR SUMMER VEGETABLES 3 small zucchini, sliced very thin 3 small yellow squash, sliced very thin
In a quart jar with a tight-fitting lid, combine the zucchini, squash, bell pepper and onion. In a saucepan, combine the vinegar, sugar, oil and salt. Bring the mixture to a boil and stir in the garlic. Pour the mixture over the vegetables, close the jar and turn it upside down to coat the vegetables with the marinade every hour for 6 hours. Drain the vegetables and serve them chilled or at room temperature.
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MRS. RAMSBERG’S BERRY JAM So easy and delicious! This is a recipe from my dad’s high school teacher’s wife.
1 onion, sliced 2 cups mozzarella cheese 2 large eggs, beaten 1 clove garlic, smashed 1 T. chopped basil 1 t. fresh chopped oregano
4 cups favorite in-season berries:
Add butter, olive oil and onion to sauté in a pan until tender. Then add the zucchini and sauté until translucent. Take off the heat and cool. In a bowl, mix the eggs, garlic, basil, oregano, mozzarella, onion and zucchini. Spray pie pan with your favorite cooking spray and pour ingredients in. Bake at 350° for 40 minutes.
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strawberries, blueberries or blackberries 2-1/2 cups sugar 1 t. vinegar
1-1/2 cups cooked rice Juice of 1 lemon Shaved Parmesan cheese for topping
Mix all ingredients together. Bring to a boil on medium-high heat for 15 minutes. Set aside in glass container. Cool, then put in refrigerator and the next day put in jars. Make 1 recipe at a time.
Cut off and discard the top 1/2� of large firm tomatoes and squeeze out the seeds. Scoop out the pulp, chop it and put it into a sieve to drain. Sprinkle insides of the tomatoes with salt and pepper and
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4 T. coarsely chopped fresh Italian parsley 3 cups halved and slivered onions Shaved Parmesan for topping
invert tomatoes on paper towel to drain. In a skillet, sauté garlic in butter. Add mushrooms and sauté until golden. Add parsley and basil, sauté mixture for 1 minute. Transfer to a mixture and add rice, the chopped tomato pulp, and salt and pepper and lemon juice to taste. Fill tomatoes with rice mixture, arrange in baking dish and sprinkle with Parmesan cheese. Bake at 350° for 10 to 15 minutes.
Heat 1/4 cup olive oil in saucepan over low heat. Add garlic and cook until just softened, 1-1/2 to 2 minutes. Do not brown. Add fresh and canned tomatoes, nutmeg, salt and pepper. Stir and cook, uncovered, for 10 minutes. Add 2 tablespoons parsley and keep warm. Preheat broiler. Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil. Spread onions on foil and sprinkle with remaining olive oil and black pepper to taste. Toss well. Place onions 3 to 4 inches from broiler and cook until wilted and brown, 5 to 6 minutes. Stir around while cooking. To serve, divide tomato sauce among 4 bowls and place a serving of very thin pasta in center. Top with onions and Parmesan cheese.
QUICK COOKED TOMATO SAUCE 1/2 cup olive oil 2 cloves garlic, finely slivered 2 cups diced fresh plum tomatoes 2 cups diced drained canned plum tomatoes Pinch of nutmeg Salt and pepper to taste
MOM’S CUCUMBER and SOUR CREAM SALAD This is always a favorite. 1 t. salt 4 good-size cucumbers 1 T. lemon juice 1 cup sour cream 1/2 cup vinegar 1/4 cup sugar 1 Vidialia onion, sliced Peel and slice cucumbers and put in a bowl with salt on top. Place 76
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2 T. fresh dill 1 t. thyme 1 cup rice (not Minute Rice) 1 can chicken broth (Campbells) 1 can water
Heat the butter in a saucepan, add the scallions and sauté them for a few minutes without letting them brown. Add the rest of the ingredients and combine well. Bring to a boil and simmer for 20 minutes on low heat with the cover on (do not stir or take off cover). Turn off the heat and let stand for another 5 minutes. Note: the rice can be cooked earlier or the day before if necessary. For reheating, put the rice in an oven-proof dish, cover it with foil and reheat in a 350° oven for 20 minutes, depending on the quantity you make.
a plate over them and refrigerate for 2 hours, then drain. Mix together, sour cream, lemon juice, sliced onion, vinegar, sugar and cucumbers. The longer it stays in the refrigerator the better. You can eat this after it’s been refrigerated for two hours, but it’s even better the next day. HERBED RICE This is my mom’s yummy rice. My son LOVES it!
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BERRY POPSICLES These are easy to make, healthy and refreshing. The perfect treat to cool down for any summer gettogether. 1 cup vanilla yogurt 1 cup hulled strawberries 1 cup blueberries 2 t. lemon juice, divided Set yogurt aside. Add strawberries to high powered blender. Blend until smooth. Add lemon juice to taste (I added 1 tsp). Pour into bowl, set aside. Rinse blender out. Add blueberries to blender, blend until smooth. Add lemon juice to taste (I added about 1 tsp). Pour into bowl and set aside.
Bring to boil and simmer on low heat for 20 minutes. (Turn burner on high ~ as soon as it boils ~ turn off heat. (Don’t lift the lid) and let stand for another 5 minutes. Perfect every time!
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Run mold under warm water to release popsicles. Enjoy immediately. If you’re taking these to a picnic and traveling for more than 20 or so minutes I’d suggest placing the pops in their mold in a cooler with some ice in it. If it’s less than 20 minutes, and you have access to a freezer, they’ll refreeze pretty quickly to be ready to eat after dinner.
Layer blueberry puree, then yogurt, then strawberry puree into each popsicle mold. Fill almost to the top. Place popsicle sticks in each mold and swirl ingredients to get some marbling if desired. Place mold in the freezer for at least 5 hours. Remove mold from freezer immediately before serving.
A longtime resident of Oxford, Pamela Meredith, formerly Denver’s NBC Channel 9 Children’s Chef, now teaches both adult and children’s cooking classes on the south shore of Massachusetts. For more of Pam’s recipes, visit the Story Archive tab at tidewatertimes.com.
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by K. Marc Teffeau, Ph.D.
Steamy August “Stay”cation Activities August is the height of the vacation season, but most of us, I imagine, will be doing “stay”cations because of the COVID-19 virus. Our landscapes and gardens don’t take vacations, so they will need some attention. August is also the height of insect and disease problems in both the garden and the landscape.
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With the hot, humid weather come disease problems in the vegetable garden. Two different kinds of mildew ~ downy and powdery ~ will affect vine-type vegetable crops at this time of year. The first of these, downy mildew, will be a problem on beans, cucumbers and cantaloupes. This fungal disease causes yellow to dark areas on the upper surface of older leaves. Turn the leaf over and you will see a whitish or gray-colored mold in patches on the underside. The mold may also occur on bean pods. Affected vines may be scorched and killed. Powdery mildew appears as a white or brownish talcum-like growth on leaves and young stems
gal diseases should be removed and placed in the trash can for removal. The longer disease- and insect-infested plants are left lying around in the garden, the greater the chance for carrying over problems to next year.
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of squash, pumpkins, cantaloupes and cucumbers. Look for it on the upper surface of leaves, especially. It will also sometimes affect fruit. Severely infected plants will turn yellow, wither and die. To control either downy or powdery mildew, use resistant varieties, practice crop rotation within your garden, avoid watering the plant’s foliage and maintain good weed control. It also helps to space plants properly. Overcrowding keeps the humidity high around the plants and favors development and spread of disease. Destroy residues of affected crops in the fall, as they may serve as a source of new infections next year. For control, it is also necessary to use fungicides. Chlorothalonil (Bravo) 75% WP or Daconil 2782 will work on cucumbers and cantaloupes. Ortho has a fungicide called “Multi-purpose Fungicide” that contains Chlorothalonil. Be sure to read the label before using it. Powdery mildew also affects a
number of ornamental plants including lilacs and annual f lowers. This occurs when the days are hot and the nights cool. As with control in the vegetable garden, growing mildew-resistant cultivars of plants is your first line of defense. Good culture and sanitation are also important. Avoid using a high-nitrogen fertilizer at this time of year, as they promote lush foliage that is very susceptible to mildew. Treat the plants with a fungicide on an asneeded basis. When it comes to weeds, proper mulching will help. Controlling weeds before they go to seed can also reduce your weeding time. Every weed that has a ripened seed head means more trouble next year. Do not add weeds with ripened seed heads to the compost pile. Many weed seeds can remain viable and germinate next year when 86
the compost is used. Most home compost piles do not reach the high temperatures needed to kill weed seeds. The best time to weed is after your garden has received some rain, as the soil is wet and loose. Weeds will be easier to pull out. During hot, dry August days, avoid deep cultivation in your f lower beds. Loosening the soil under these conditions reduces water uptake by increasing loss of soil water and damaging surface roots. Plants often look much worse after cultivation than before. Correct watering of plants in the landscape and garden is critical in August. Many plants look wilted on hot afternoons, even when there is
moisture in the soil. Their roots cannot take up water fast enough to compensate for the water being lost through the leaves. If there is enough soil moisture, plants will recover by late afternoon. If they do not perk up, water deeply. It is also important to water shrubs deeply once a week in August if there is not adequate rain-
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the leaves will be more concentrated and may burn the leaves. The beginning of August is a good time to start seeds of coolweather vegetables like broccoli, cabbage, caulif lower, collards and lettuce to be transplanted to the garden in early September. Wait until the first of September to direct seed lettuce, kale, turnips, beets and other cool-season crops. You can get in one more planting of green beans the first of August for a fall crop.
fall. Many f lowering shrubs like azaleas, lilacs and rhododendrons are forming f lower buds for next year’s spring f lowering.
To keep your garden attractive, continue to dead head (trim off) spent f lowers. Whenever you apply pesticides, adhere strictly to the directions on the package. Do not spray when temperatures are over 85° or when it is windy. Water your plants several hours before applying pesticides, especially during dry weather. Drought-stressed plants have less water in their plant tissues. Consequently, the chemicals that enter
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Strawberry beds should be fertilized in August. On plants that you set out this past spring, apply 4 to 6 ounces of ammonium nitrate or 12 to 18 ounces of a 10-10-10 complete fertilizer per 25 linear foot of row. Spread the fertilizer uniformly in a band 14 inches wide over the row when the foliage is dry. Brush the fertilizer off the leaves to avoid leaf
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burn. For plants in the second year of growth, increase the application rate to 6 to 8 ounces ammonium nitrate or 18 to 24 ounces of 10-1010 per 25 feet of row. Strawberries set their fruit buds in the late summer/early fall for the next year, so they need a lot of fertilizer at this time.
adequate water about two weeks before the tree is to be harvested. After harvesting the fruit, reduce the number of pests on your trees next year by picking up and composting all fallen fruit. Worms hide in the fallen fruit and then pupate in the soil, ready to lay eggs the next year. Disease spores overwinter in fruit “mummies” left on the trees and on the ground.
Don’t forget to prop up the branches of fruit trees that are threatening to break under the increasing weight of ripening fruit. Be sure to make a mental note now to thin next year’s fruit crop in June to reduce the number of fruits the tree is carrying to improve the size and quality of the remaining fruit. Watering is also critical for fruit trees, especially for peaches. To get the f lesh to swell and to produce large fruit, be sure the tree gets 91
Tidewater Gardening Late summer is not the time to be pruning ornamental trees and shrubs. The removal of large branches, unless they are dead, at this time of year will tend to stimulate new branch growth. Because of their late start, these new branches will not be able to acclimate themselves for the first frost and subsequent cold weather. As a result, winter injury and dying of these new branches, as well as injury to the entire plant, can occur. However, if your hedge is beginning to look a little shaggy, there is still time left to do light summer pruning or shearing. If you did not get around to pruning your plants
this spring or early summer, forget about them until next March or April. Now is also not the time to do any extensive fertilizing of your trees and shrubs. Like late-season pruning, late-summer fertilizing will stimulate late growth that will be soft and easily killed by the first frost. In addition to producing soft growth, fertilizing now can stimulate the plants into growth if we have an Indian summer later this fall. If this happens, you can almost guarantee that your plants will not be able to survive the winter. If you neglected to fertilize your trees and shrubs this past spring, continue to neglect them until sometime around the first of November or after the first or second hard frost. Happy Gardening!
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Talbot’s Tiny Towns Past and Present by James Dawson T i ny tow n s a re sc at tere d a l l around Talbot County. Whatever you choose to call them, whether it be village, hamlet, settlement, community, one-horse town, place or townlet, they are an interesting and unusual part of our history and culture. There used to be lots of them. The heyday of Talbot’s tiny towns was probably 1870 to 1910. Dr. Laurence Claggett lists more than 150 in his illustrated gazetteer of Talbot County From Pot Pie to Hell and Damnation. Most blinked out of existence years ago, but there are still more around than you might think: Barber, Bellevue, Bozman, Br uc e v i l le , Ch ap el, C l a ib or ne , Cordova, Fairbanks, Hambleton, Hinsontown, Ivytown, Longwoods, Mc D a n ie l , Mat t he w s , Ne av it t , Newcomb, Newtown, Royal Oak, Sherwood, Skipton, Tilghman, Tunis Mills, Trappe Landing, Trappe Station, Unionville, Walkertown, Williamsburg, Willey ville, Wittman, Windy Hill and Wye Mills. And, I’m sure I’ve probably missed a few. Note t h at I ’m not i nc lud i ng Easton, St. Michaels, Trappe or
Oxford, as I don’t consider these sprawling metropolises to be tiny towns, as least not by Talbot County standards. Getting an exact count is difficult. Another article could probably speculate whether Stumptown and Williamsburg were two different places adjacent to each other or just two different names for the same place, or if Ivytown (which, to further complicate things, was also called Ivorytown) and Maynadier 97
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Lednum, to mega-sized tiny towns that actually had a few streets, like Neavitt. But many never grew large enough to be noted on maps, or even have a road sign. Some of the more amusing tiny town names were Hooktown, Old Swamp, Pincushion, Pot Pie, Purgatory, Rabbittown, Scrappletown, Skunktown and Stumptown. Imagine living catty corner across the intersection from Kitty’s Corner. Pincushion was at the intersections of Glebe, St. Michaels and Unionville roads. Pot Pie, near Wittman, was mentioned as far back as 1805 by Dr. John Barnett in his diary. It is said the name came from a Methodist preacher riding the circuit being served a succession of pot
were one place or two. Likewise for Pot Pie and Wittman, and also Backtown and Jacktown. Another complication was that sometimes tiny town names changed. Hole in the Wall became Middletown and finally Hambleton. Manassas was Hughlett and then Barber. Tiny towns were most plentiful in the days before automobiles and improved roads made travel difficult and convenient crossroads often formed the nucleus for a store, church or a few houses ~ they’d be well on their way to tiny towndom. Size could be anything from Lednum’s Corner, which in 1877 had a population of one, presumably a
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pies when invited to local homes for Sunday dinner. Locally the name is pronounced Puh-Pye. One of my favorites is Nicetown. Unfortunately, for us, while Nicetown was planned, it never got off the ground, as it were, which is a great loss. Who wouldn’t have wanted to live in Nicetown? The ver y name makes you smile and want to lead a better life. The origin of the name is not known. Maybe it was named for someone from the Nice family. Harr y W. Nice was governor of Maryland from 1935 to 1939 and had a ferry boat and a bridge named for him. On the opposite end of the civility spectrum was Purgatory, where perhaps the residents of Nicetown were
to be banished if they were bad. An article in an 1884 issue of the Easton Star Ledger located Purgatory at t he intersect ion of Washing ton Street and Point Road. Apparently
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Talbot's Tiny Towns some sort of den of iniquity there in Colonial days formed the nexus for a colony of wastrels and reprobates. Not any of your ancestors, of course. And let’s not forget the so-called ghost towns of Talbot from the 1600s and 1700s: Doncaster, Dover, Kingston and York. York was Talbot’s first county seat from 1674 to 1707. Despite what many people think, the historic marker on Route 50 for Hole in the Wall is not for the nearby ruins of White Marsh church, despite all the big holes it has in its walls, but for the hamlet across the highway, presumably named for a famous Hole in the Wall tavern in England. Its name was changed to Middleton and then Hambleton in the late 1800s when a local politico of that name got it a post office. More than one place was named for a loc a l notable like Barber, Bentleyville, Bozman, Bruceville, Brummelstown, Copperville, Delahay, Di xon, Dodsontow n, Hammondtown, Hambleton, Hooktown, Jenkintown, Lewistown, Martin-
stown, Matthewstown, Maynadier aka Ivytown, Melson (now called Trappe Station), Neavitt, Newcomb, Probasco, Salisbury, Sanderstown, Sherwood, Tilghman, Trimblevile, Walkertown, Webbtown, Willeyville and Wittman. Barber was once named Manassas. The biblical-sounding name was likely because it was home to one of the first Methodist churches in the county. By the late 1800s there were three different varieties of Methodist churches in its immediate vicinity. Its name was changed to Barber, when it got a post office in the late 1800s. Barber was Dr. Isaac Barber a homeopathic physician who became a U.S. Congressman. Some tiny towns grew up around mills, like the best k now n Wye Mills, Eben Mills a.k.a Potts Mill, Double Mills and Tunis Mills. Or boat landings like Covey’s a.k.a Grundy’s, Powell, Ralph’s, Skipton, Sherwood’s, Barker’s, Forest, Lloyd’s and Trappe. Easton Point was originally named Cow Landing. Some were stations along railroad tracks: Bloomfield, Chapel, Harp-
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On the broad Miles River, with its picturesque tree-lined streets and beautiful harbor, St. Michaels has been a haven for boats plying the Chesapeake and its inlets since the earliest days. Here, some of the handsomest models of the Bay craft, such as canoes, bugeyes, pungys and some famous Baltimore Clippers, were designed and built. The Church, named “St. Michael’s,” was the first building erected (about 1677) and around it clustered the town that took its name. For a walking tour and more history of the St. Michaels area visit https://tidewatertimes.com/travel-tourism/st-michaels-maryland/. 103
Talbot's Tiny Towns er’s, Trappe Station and Woodland. Or at corners of intersections like Diamond’s, Hopkins a.k.a Freetow n, K itt y’s Corner, Lednums, Price’s, Tapper’s, Taverner’s, Todd’s. Or points like Easton Point and wharves like Todd’s. But there was only one bottom ~ Persimmon Bottom. There were ones that grew up around T-shaped intersections of t wo roads which included Jacktown, Martinstown, Powell, Skinnertown, Salisbury, Thimbleville (not to be conf used w ith Tr imbleville) and TT. TT was probably most quixotic place name in Talbot County, or
anywhere. Just two capital letter Ts side by side with no punctuation. The earliest mention of it I have found is in the May 19, 1795 issue of the Maryland Herald in an article about roads, one being “From James Tobin’s shop to Mackay’s fence from the fork of the road TT until it intersects the road leading from Abbott’s Mill to Chancellor’s Point.” Claggett locates TT about a mile south of Trappe at the T in the road at the intersection of Beaverdam Road and Route 50, but where the other T came from is a mystery. About 23 of these tiny tow ns were for African Americans. Even in slave times, the increasing numbers of free blacks needed places to live. At least four locations in Trappe
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Talbot's Tiny Towns District on the 1858 Dilworth map of Talbot County, Mar yland, are labeled “Negro Lots.� A few black families bought or were given property. Others lived on land rented or provided to them by employers who needed sources of labor nearby, like Jarreltown and Kirbytown, whose residents worked in local canning houses. A few communities were the result of former slaves who had gained their freedom by joining the Union
Army and now needed places to live. Unionville is the best known and still survives near Tunis Mills. The town dates from 1867, when Col. John Cowgill leased land to 17 or 18 black Civil War veterans for one dollar a year. It was almost called Cowgillstown. By 1900, Unionville had a population of 75 with a school, a general store and a church where many of the black vets are buried. Two more were Freedomtown and Newtown. Bellevue had been intended to be a resort community, but when
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that didn’t happen it proved to be a practical place for local blacks to live who worked in Wm. Valliant’s cannery and packing house. They worked at other area businesses, and some were watermen. Other black settlements around
the county were Backtown, Chestnut Lane, Copper v ille, Hinsontow n, Iv y tow n, Jack tow n, K ingsda le, K itty’s Corner, K irkham, Lobb’s Corner, New Chapel, Stumptown aka Williamsburg, and the ironically named Whitetown so named because many of the black folks living there were named White. The Hill, now par t of Easton, dates from as far back as 1670 ~ long before Easton was called Easton or even had a court house. By 1790, the Hill was home to over 400 free blacks, some of whom owned land there and whose descendants, 16 generations later, still do. It is considered to be the oldest continuously inhabited black community in the country.
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Then there was the wonderfully named Screamersville, which survives on a road sign on Oxford Road. Dr. Claggett recorded that in 1900, it was a small African American village with a church and a store run by a blind white man. The origin of the name is unknown. Although Screamer can be someone’s last
name, I haven’t found any in Talbot County. Some thought that the name came from uninhibited services in the church there. Some tow ns changed color. I was told that Barber was first predominantly white, then black, then turned white again. Bellevue was first black but is now mostly white. Nathan “Nace” Hopkins, a former slave who was a mover and shaker in local politics and who had established a parade to celebrate the emancipation of Maryland slaves, took out a $575 loan in 1884 to purchase 23 acres of Money Make Farm near Trappe to establish a black settlement there called East Field, also called Money Make. He even got the county to put in a road.
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Talbot's Tiny Towns Odd Claims to Fame: Lazyman’s Corner got its name because its resident was said to have been almost too lazy to breathe. Hopkins Corner was not far from Skipton, so it’s a shame there wasn’t also a settlement at Jump’s Cove. Royal Oak was not only named for a tree, but in the 1890s, Dr. Chancellor of the Maryland State Board of Health proclaimed that a 10-mile radius around Royal Oak was “the most healthful spot in the country.” By 1910, ten miles had grown to twelve miles. Queen Anne (the hamlet, not the county), is where the first silk stockings were made in Maryland. Before and during the Civil War,
Methodists broke into nor thern a nd sout her n fac t ions over t he question of slaver y, so it wasn’t unusual that Easton and Trappe would have one of each church, but in Cordova, they were directly across the street from one another. Fortunately, hostilities never broke out. Wye Mills has always been called Wye Mills, despite the fact that it only ever had one mill at a time t here. Windy Hi ll got its na me presumably because it is on a hill that is windy when the wind blows. And finally, we return to Pot Pie near Wittman. It is distinguished by its accidentally being bombed in 1947 when t wo 1,000 -pound dummy bombs f illed w it h sand
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and water broke loose from a Navy plane f lying overhead. The bombs nearly demolished Jones’ boatyard near the Tilghman Pack ing Co. where half a dozen women were picking crabs. Fortunately, no one was hurt, but it inspired the ladies to celebrate the event with the epic poem: The Bombardment of Wittman (Pot Pie) “We were working calm and peaceful On the second of July When the rumors began to spread That bombs are falling in Pot Pie. It was told to us by our employer,
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Not a murmur nor a sigh. Suddenly a plane flew over, and The bombs dropped from the sky.
~ By the Colored Claw Workers of Tilghman Packing Co.: Marie Ennele, Conra Copper, Celestine Caldwell, Eunice McNair and Lottie Pickney.”
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Oxford Business Association August Calendar The Picket Fences of Oxford are returning. Come wander through the historic streets of Oxford to see them all, grab a bite to eat at one of our fine restaurants or the market (dine in, outdoors or take away), do some shopping in our unique shops, sit in the park and watch the boats in the Tred Avon or take a ride on the Ferry. What a way to spend an afternoon! Coming Soon - Bidding for the Picket Fences will be online at portofoxford.com and will close on September 26. All profits from the sale of the fences go to local charities/non-profits. Stay tuned for more info! Aug. 1 – Cars and Coffee is back! Oxford Community Center, 9:30 a.m. Come and wander around some beautiful classic cars and chat with the owners over a cup of coffee. Social distancing and masks required. Aug. 3 – Painting and Transfers Class. Learn about using Dixie Belle chalk mineral paints by painting a plaque and applying an inspirational word transfer. 5:30-7:30 p.m.; $36; The Treasure Chest, 111 S. Morris St. Limit 3 participants, social distancing will be in place, mask required. For more details on each class and to sign up, go to www.treasurechestoxford.com/shop/events/2 Aug. 4, 20 OR 24 – Bring Your Own Piece Furniture Painting Class. Bring your own piece of furniture to this painting class, learn how to use chalk mineral paint to paint and seal it! The class price includes an 8-oz. jar of paint and an 8-oz. jar of sealer for you to keep and take home after the class. Furniture piece should be on the small side, such as a plant stand, stool, bread box, medium size mirror or picture frame. The Treasure Chest, 111 S. Morris St; 5:30-8:30 pm; $65; Each class is limit 3 participants, social distancing will be in place, mask required. For more details and to sign up, go to www.treasurechestoxford.com/shop/events/2 Aug. 14 – Beginner Chalk Mineral Painting Class. Learn how to use Dixie Belle Chalk Mineral Paint and sealers to paint furniture, picture frames, Home decor items too! 5:30 – 8:30 p.m.; $45, includes supplies. Limit 3 participants, social distancing will be in place, mask required. The Treasure Chest, 111 S. Morris St. For more details on each class and to sign up, go to www.treasurechestoxford.com/shop/events/2 Aug. 20 - Virtual Mixology Class on Facebook Live at 5 p.m. Join G.L. Fronk, Sales Consultant for Opici Family Distributing as he demonstrates several summer drinks you can make at home. Recipes will be on OxfordCC.org in advance, ingredients available at The Oxford Market. Tasting at the Oxford Community Center is welcome with face coverings and social distancing mandatory. Limited to first 10 people to RSVP by calling OCC at 410-226-5904. Aug. 21 – Rosewood Band Outdoor Concert, 7 – 8:30 p.m. at Oxford Community Center. $10. Based on the Eastern Shore, Rosewood draws deep and wide from traditional Americana music. From country to blues to contemporary rock, Rosewood has developed their own unique approach and arrangements to the great standards from the 60′ s to present. Bring your own lawn chair. Cash bar available as well as free non-alcoholic beverages. Social distancing and masks required. Get your tickets at oxfordcc.org/events/. Check www.portofoxford.com calendar for event updates ONGOING… at OCC: Core & More Fitness Rx with Mark Cuviello – every Mon & Wed, 10:30 am; classes will be held outdoors; $12/class Steady & Strong Virtual Exercise Class w/Janet Pfeffer - Tues. & Thurs; 10:15 am; Registration required to get zoom link. Call 410.226.5904; $60/10 classes; $10 drop-in Intermediate Yoga with Suzie Hurley - Saturdays 9:30 – 11 am; Socially distanced or outdoors; bring your own equipment. Advance registration required, 410.226.5904 Beginner/Adv. Beginner Yoga with Suzie Hurley - Mondays 1 – 2:45 pm; Socially distanced or outdoors; bring your own equipment. Advance registration required, 410.226.5904
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Easton Map and History The County Seat of Talbot Count y. Established around early religious settlements and a court of law, Histor ic Dow ntow n Easton is today a centerpiece of fine specialt y shops, business and cultural activ ities, unique restaurants, and architectural fascination. Treel i ne d s t r e e t s a r e graced with various per iod str uctures and remarkable home s , c a r e f u l l y preser ved or re stored. Because of its histor ic a l significance, historic Easton has earned distinction as the “C olon ia l C apitol of the Eastern Shore” and was honored as number eight in the book “The 100 Best Small Towns in America.” With a population of over 16,500, Easton offers the best of many worlds including access to large metropolitan areas like Baltimore, Annapolis, Washington, and Wilmington. For a walking tour and more history visit https:// tidewatertimes.com/travel-tourism/easton-maryland/. © John Norton
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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. 119
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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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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. 123
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by Roger Vaughan Previously: The year is 1988. Andy Thomas made an ill-advised tactical call during a race in 50foot sailboats that nearly caused a dangerous collision. His father, Mitchell (at the helm), was livid. Later, at the awards dinner, a drunken Andy delivered a public declaration that made it virtually impossible for Mitchell Thomas, a well-known amateur sailor, not to mount a Round the World Race challenge. Mitchell is CEO of Moss Optical, a company inherited by his wife, Deedee Moss. He was thoroughly outraged by his son’s gaffe. At a board meeting held in Moss’s planetarium-boardroom, a proposal for the company to sponsor the first American boat in the Race was presented, and accepted, much to Deedee’s delight. Colorful two-time America’s Cup winner Jan Sargent held one of his entertaining press conferences to announce he had been asked by Mitchell Thomas to skipper the Moss boat, All American. In his office at Moss, Andy is distraught, having learned his father has made
him part of All American’s crew. He agonizes over this to his friend Jeff Linn, a Moss opticist. Linn jokingly suggests Andy shoot himself in the foot. Gloria, Andy’s secretary, buzzes to tell him his father wants to see him. After an unpleasant meeting with his father, who is adamant about Andy going on the Race, he drives to see his mother, Deedee, on the Long Island estate, hoping she will intervene. Andy has a very pleasant sail with his mother ~ her favorite thing to do ~ but is distraught to find her conviction about him going on the Race is set in concrete. When pressed, Ossie, the old Norwegian who has run the family’s waterfront for 40 years, says Andy’s mother has very good reason for insisting he go on the race. Andy spends two weeks with the crew doing an Outward Bound course for training and bonding. He is subjected to hazing from this fraternity of professional sailors, and he hits back. At home, seated at his powerful telescope, Andy’s proclivity for astronomy is revealed. His eye-candy girlfriend, Isha, is
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less innocent. A smooth move for a change, just getting up, pushing his discovered being nosy about a se- chair in to indicate it was terminal, cret project of Andy’s. A visit with and not a bad exit line: “Enjoy your his mother Andy hopes will result dinner.” Alone, he could have added, in her reconsidering his partici- and hope you choke on it, but probpation in the Race reveals family ably more effective left unsaid. The secrets. After a crew meeting with eyes. He remembered Mitch’s eyes designer Gibb Frey to learn about and how they burned, mean, vicious their new boat, Andy gets excit- eyes out of some bad movie where ing news about his secret project they had used monster filters on the ~ an astronomy-themed hotel and camera lens. They wouldn’t have observatory campus. Andy has an- needed filters if they’d had Mitch. other difficult meeting with his fa- And those eyes again as Andy delivered that enjoy your dinner line, ther over his mother’s illness. those eyes with just that tiny flicker *** of concern that blipped across the he deep hum of the band saw cold landscape of hate. That was a woke Andy. He opened his eyes but win, wasn’t it? Not much of one, but didn’t move otherenough to sustain Mitch's eyes, how they him, enough to buoy wise. He struggled to get his bearings. burned ~ mean Andy on the rocky, He was on a boat, unfamiliar path of vicious eyes. lying on a narrow confrontation. bench with a thin cushion. He had Okay, he was in the boat shop, a moth-eaten lap robe pulled over Ossie’s shop, having crashed on the him. It was not comfortable, and it big old Elco electric launch that had also smelled quite musky, the mix been parked in there for a decade, of dust, wood, mildew and fuel that maybe two, ever since Randolph, accumulates when a boat is on the his grandfather, had died. He had hard for a long time. ended up on the Elco after hitting His head felt heavy, the typical a couple bars on Newport’s Thames morning after too many drinks. He Street just to dim the lights a lithad to think. Dinner with his father, tle more, after eating some fried, or no dinner, actually. What a bas- greasy junk, after driving like hell tard, Mitch, so casually dismissive to get the last ferry out of New of his wife, Andy’s mother. Andy London to Orient Point, where he had walked out on him, no hyster- had downed another couple drinks ics, no yelling that would have upset for the ride and after negotiating the other diners who were more or the back roads to the estate. Those
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where the runabout was moored inside the shed’s overhang, emptied weren’t exactly the sharpest memo- the cup into the water and stuck it ries, although he did remember in his jacket pocket. He rather liked getting on the ferry because Chris, the cup. No need leaving it on the the deck hand, had recognized his Elco. He’d polish it. Porsche drifting with squealing Andy walked over to the electritires into the parking lot and had cal outlets, waiting until the cut held the gate for him. They were just Ossie was making was finished, and facts because it was the only way he pulled the plug on the band saw. could have ended up on the Elco, Ossie froze, looked around, saw the auto pilot having taken over the lights were still on, turned and once again. saw Andy. Then he did something His bladder was about to burst. Andy hadn’t expected. He laughed. He sat up slowly, stood and waited “I’ll be damned,” the old man said. for a moment until his gyro stabi- “What are you doing here?” lized, his hair brushing the can“I spent the night,” Andy said. vas overhead. He began looking “On the Elco.” through the compartments under “Of course you did,” Ossie said, the benches until he and laughed again. found a container, a "I'll be damned," the old “You’re in a good very tarnished ster- man said. "What are you mood.” ling silver mint julep “Why shouldn’t doing here?" cup with its enamel I be? I woke up this yacht club burgee still intact. It was morning.” engraved with his grandfather’s iniAndy laughed. “Me, too.” tials. Perfect. “Plug me in, please.” The band saw was humming “Nope. Not until we talk.” away, singing its tune as wood was Something about Andy’s tone maneuvered against the blade, re- caused Ossie’s shoulders to slump minding Andy why the autopilot slightly in resignation. He grabbed had taken him to the shop for the his coffee and walked to his “office,” night. Ossie was 30 or 40 feet away, a couple old leather easy chairs that engaged in his work. Andy lowered had been retired from the house, himself carefully over the side of the and put his well-worn boots on a Elco, wondering how the hell he’d sturdy wooden chest piled with maever climbed up there last night. He rine catalogs. carefully retrieved the brimming “Buy me a coffee?” cup he’d placed on the narrow deck Ossie motioned to the table where outside the coaming. He walked to the pot was. Andy filled a cup. 132
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he was approaching 90. Maybe the end game was loosening him up a “Any food?” little. “Knekkebrod in the cabinet.” “She’s sick, I guess.” Andy knew it all too well. Taste“Yes, she is.” less little crackers tough as wood “You know why, what it is?” chips. Norwegian snacks. Better “I’m no doctor.” than nothing. Barely. Andy grabbed Andy recognized that sound of a handful. a door shutting. The band saw was “Hurry it up,” Ossie said. “I’ve got calling, along with the warnings of stuff to do. If it’s about the race, I some ages-old confidences Ossie can’t help you. I told you to go. Just had agreed to keep under penalty of go. It won’t kill you. If it does, well, some dire consequence. He’d take so what?” He chuckled again. what he knew to the grave. That’s “My mother is an alcoholic.” how he was. Andy sat in the other leather chair. “You coming to the launching? “Yeah.” You get my invite?” “You know?” “Yeah. Thanks. Naw. Don’t travel. “Yeah.” Getting from my cabin over there to “Jesus, am I the the shop is enough only fool who didn’t He would take what he adventure. Good know this until a knew to the grave, that's boat?” week or so ago?” Andy reached in how he was. “Yeah.” his jacket, pulled Andy took a sip of coffee. It was some folded 8 x 10 sheets from an awful, this bitter, murky stuff that inside pocket and handed them to Ossie drank. But it was doing the Ossie. “These are crummy copies, job, softening up the knekkebrod. but you’ll get the idea.” “It’s a disease, they tell me,” Ossie Ossie put on his glasses, unfolded said. “Okay, but if anyone’s got rea- the sheets and studied the drawson, it’s your mum. I mean, some ings. Andy sipped his coffee, feeling people just drink, and you wonder the unpleasant prickling behind his why. Not your mum. She don’t make eyes as sensation returned. Ossie a fuss. She’s a mannerly alcoholic. was shaking his head. The beginShe gets around. She lives in a man- nings of a smile were rearranging ageable daze.” the wrinkles of his weathered face. Since Ossie had turned 70, Andy He was gently shaking his head, couldn’t recall ever hearing him say chuckling silently. He finally found more than three or four words at a his voice. time. Especially about family. Now “You’re gonna sail this thing 134
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plated the actual boat, all red, white and blue, polished like a new car in a showroom, All American, in the travel lift, ready to get wet for the first time. In one of his expansive younger moments, Ossie had told Andy that boats have a certain human quality about them in that they are conceived and launched into an adventure full of unknowns.
Track the life of most sailboats, and you’ll find a tale of success and failure, love and abuse, care and neglect, a reflection of those who own them. Special purpose boats like All American are more akin to the way greyhounds were scientifically bred for speed. There are no placid days ahead for them, no comforting walks with their master in the sundappled woods, no treats, no winter evenings curled up by the fire. They race until their legs go. A few are taken in by good-hearted rescue people. The rest are put down. So it would be with All American, a boat that would be sailed to the edge of destruction for 30,000 miles. Depending on how well it finished, and if it even survived, it might have a second life as a trial horse for a crew awaiting a new boat. Or it would be scrapped. What an odd thing to do, this race, Andy thought as he studied All American looking fast in the travel lift slings. All the money, all the talent to design and build this thing that would be a throwaway before it was a year old. Compared to drag-
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sters, whose entire careers could end in under five seconds, maybe a year wasn’t so bad. But still, there was something disturbing about All American sitting there looking so bloody gorgeous, knowing it had been born to be abused. He hoped Ossie was wrong, that it wouldn’t kill him in the process. The launching turned out to be a festive occasion with 100 people in attendance plus reporters and a TV crew, with all the men in blazers and ties and all the ladies trying to look cheerful in bright summer colors, many with hats. The sound track was a riot, with Lester Lanin’s society orchestra stomping out its endless medleys of dance music ~ Cheek to Cheek, The Best Things in
Life are Free, Takin’ a Chance on Love, Fly Me to the Moon, Easy to Love ~ all merged together one after the other to the same identical beat. It was a brilliant thing Lanin had hit on, outrageous, but also quite infectious. Andy knew it was Deedee’s work, getting Lanin. Her generation loved him. She knew him personally, of course. He’d played at her deb party. And there was the old man himself, well over 80 years old, leading the band with his tarnished trumpet, liberally lasering his classic society smile at the guests. Oddly enough, Lanin was the right choice because it was difficult to be anything but silly happy when Lanin’s band played. Some people were ac-
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“The crew is having a little prelaunch get-together,” Dugan said. tually dancing because they simply “Come on.” Looking sharp in blazers and couldn’t help it. “The moon belongs to everyone”. . . boom chika, boom All American neckties, everyone was there, skipper Jan Sargent inchika, boom chik. Mitch wasn’t dancing. Like any cluded, in a private area to one side politician, he was making the of the yard where several carefully rounds with his best walking-and- arranged containers of gear (one a talking routine, shaking hands and workshop) ensured privacy. There exchanging vacuous one-liners with was a little table in front of Sarpeople he thought were important. gent with several bottles of Gosling Isha was doing her own dance, Black Seal rum on it. “We’ve got a prancing about in her own socially problem it’s going to take all of us to scripted world, putting moves on solve,” Sargent was saying. “Some the wealthier men as if she had a list, wise guy has opened these bottles, and maybe she did. Andy wouldn’t and you know the rule: once a bottle of rum is opened have put it past her. The wealthier men’s Isha was doing her own on or near a boat, it wives definitely had dance, putting moves on has to be finished. Sorry, guys, but this a list, a very short the wealthier men. requires a team efone. He was on Isha’s list, but he wasn’t sure he was on the fort.” With that Sargent lifted a top anymore. Her snooping around bottle, took a swig and passed it his Mountain View stuff when he on. Soon all the bottles were makwas in the shower continued to ing the rounds. Someone lit a joint, haunt him. What was that all about? and soon several of those were also Andy was looking around for making the rounds. “I just want to say this is one big Deedee when Joe Dugan, the paramedic on the crew, grabbed his arm. boss of a day,” Sargent said. “Our
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the boss’s son, a lightweight. But, and I have everyone’s nod on this, we’ve looked him over, and we think he’s okay. He’s not the boss’s son, he’s Andy, one of our drivers. So here’s to our Andy, asshole no more!” Bottles and fists were raised. “Asshole no more!” the group growled seriously, several times, sounding a bit like a Kiwi pre-game haka. In the silence that followed, Andy looked around for a bottle, took the one Zimmer offered and raised it. “I just want to say,” Andy said, “fuck you guys.” The crew cracked up as one, cheering and whistling. “I told you,” Zimmer said to no one in particular.
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he travel lift was in position, ready to lower All American into the water with the push of a button. The yard guys had built a handsome set of steps leading to a small platform where the VIPs could wax eloquent about the program and where Deedee Moss could christen the boat with the breakaway bottle of champagne wrapped in protective netting. Safety first. And there was Deedee on the arm of Sam Cotton, the longtime Moss attorney who had made the initial presentation about
this project to the board. Sam had been at Moss from the beginning. Andy greeted them, shook hands with Sam while Deedee straightened her son’s tie. Andy thought his mother looked quite happy. Lanin’s band was tearing into Fascinating Rhythm (“You’ve got me on the go”), and one could sense Deedee moving to the familiar sound. A very striking young woman came up behind Sam and gave him a hug. She was tall, with soft red-blonde hair in a long braid. A few freckles saved her face from perfection. Sam hugged her back, then turned to Andy. “My daughter, Becky, you remember her.” “Hi, Andy,” Becky Cotton said. “Oh, and this is Robert Hamlin.”
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All American Andy was already over-stimulated from the gathering at the containers, and the sudden appearance of this old teenage family friend looking so incredibly lovely ~ so . . . ideal ~ rendered him speechless for much too long. It was one of those electrifying moments. Becky’s “Hi, Andy” had stirred a dormant nerve that was still vibrating. Desperate, he glanced at his mother, who gave him the I-told-you-so look in return. And Robert. The boyfriend? “Becky, yes, hi, it’s been a while wow, uh, now,” he managed to mumble, just this side of incoherence, and much too late he stuck out his hand to Robert, who took it in a
slightly too manly grip. “We used to sail together,” Andy blurted to Robert, and immediately thought he could not have said anything more inane. Robert’s smile was wan. Becky looked away, then started talking with her father. Isha picked this moment to interrupt, draping a possessive arm around Andy as she began whining about not being invited to the platform. Mitch barged in and said it was time for Deedee, Sam and him to get the show started. They headed for the stairs. Andy turned away as Sargent called for the crew to line up under the bow of the yacht. As he did, he cast a look in Becky Cotton’s direction and immediately wished he hadn’t. Isha was still clinging to
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him. The impact of Becky’s dismissive smile was staggering. The boys lined up. The band went quiet. Sam introduced Mitch. Mitch pontificated, praising the round the world race, praising the boat, praising the crew, praising Moss Optics, and managing to praise himself. Then Sam introduced Deedee, whose job was to swing the bottle of champagne into the end of the boat’s spinnaker pole that had been extended within easy reach. Deedee was handed the bottle. She looked distracted. The Lanin band began playing America the Beautiful (in dance tempo, of course). On cue, Deedee swung the bottle. . . and missed. Mitch saved her from fl inging herself off the platform. Andy
gasped, thought he might collapse. The bottle swayed back and forth on its line, intact. The crowd held its breath as Deedee pulled herself away from Mitch, grabbed the line and hauled in the bottle. Andy watched what for him was a replay as his mother grabbed the neck of the bottle in both hands and, with eyes that suddenly blazed, smashed it into a million pieces on the end of the spinnaker boom with a backhand that was defi nitely not returnable. The applause was deafening. Roger Vaughan lives, works and sails in Oxford. Previous chapters of All American are available at tidewatertimes.com.
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