St. Michaels Map and History

© John Norton

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.

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The Marsh Road Clubs used to spend a few summer days on Maryland’s College Park there. In addition to unfamiliar campus. While others studied accents, I was hampered by my cooking or needlework, Nora took inability to identify people and elocution. In addition to reciting places mentioned. Everyone went poetry at church functions, she by more than one name, depend- aimed to practice a mainstream ing on circumstances. As for a version of English on strangers story’s locations, as my friend who happened into her store. OthEva “Casey” Thomas used to say, erwise, among neighbors congre“Around here, near ’bout every gated there, Nora spoke her native tree’s got a name.” With time and tongue. guidance, my ear adjusted to the Scorchy once came in the store local tongue and I got to know to interview Miss Nora. One of many of the quick and the dead by many questions he asked was: both given names and aliases. “How many young’uns have you

Nora Foxwell presided over had?” When he and cameraman our last general store well into Charles Paparella finished tapher nineties. Nora spoke two lan- ing and drove away, Nora boasted guages. In the 1950s, Homemaker about Scorchy’s use of dialect: “He

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The Marsh Road roads. Homebound on Elliott Island Road, his bus would need to turn right six miles below Vienna at the Crossroads. There was no exit from the dozen remaining miles of road. As he recalled, “The world changed just a few yards south after crossing that junction of country roads. For some, mostly mature outsiders, the road ahead was a sweet adventure. It was a route that took them through pine forests and cattails into a sea of Scorchy Tawes lush green marshland . . . ” Actually, beyond the pine forests said young’uns. . . . I didn’t say of Hurley’s Neck, calling what you young’uns. He did.” traveled a “road” is something of

In his youth, author Brice Stump an overstatement. Crossing eight rode a school bus to Griffiths Neck, miles of marsh, Elliott Island farmland west of Henry’s Cross- Road is more accurately described

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