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Tidewater Times
Since 1952, Eastern Shore of Maryland Vol. 68, No. 1
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June 2019
Features: About the Cover Artist: Scott Sullivan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Auntie Bad Example: Helen Chappell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 The Worst-Kept Store in America: James Dawson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 You Can Own the Chesapeake’s Riches: Tom Horton . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Chamber Music Festival Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 A Reward for Harriet Tubman: Hal Roth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Tidewater Kitchen: Pamela Meredith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Tidewater Gardening: K. Marc Teffeau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Global Links: Gary D. Crawford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 Changes ~ Only Cat: Roger Vaughan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Departments: June Tide Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Dorchester Points of Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Easton Points of Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 St. Michaels Points of Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Oxford Points of Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Tilghman ~ Bay Hundred . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 Caroline County ~ A Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 Queen Anne’s County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 Kent County and Chestertown at a Glance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 June Calendar of Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 David C. Pulzone, Publisher · Anne B. Farwell, Editor P. O. Box 1141, Easton, Maryland 21601 102 Myrtle Ave., Oxford, MD 21654 410-226-0422 FAX : 410-226-0411 www.tidewatertimes.com info@tidewatertimes.com
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About the Cover Artist Scott Sullivan Scott Sullivan has been fascinated with dramatic, exciting visual images since his early days watching Disney characters. He went to college and st udied graphic design and computer graphics. Armed with just a pencil, camera and bachelor’s degree in graphic design, he became an art director and creative director in the advertising and corporate world and then a freelance photographer and illustrator.
For the past ten years he has lived in St. Michaels continuing to do graphic design and computer graphics as well as traditional oil and watercolor painting. He is a member of the St. Michaels Art League, The Working Artists Forum in Easton and the Academy Art Museum. This month’s cover is titled The Patriot. This year marks the 50th anniversary of Patriot Cruises, a 65- to 75-minute narrated historical cruise out of St. Michaels.
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Auntie Bad Example by Helen Chappell
I’m single and childless, this is true, but I do have two nieces, four grand-nieces and nephews plus five godchildren, so it’s not like I’m averse to kids. In fact, in some circles, I am known as Auntie B.E. for Bad Example because I taught a couple of grand-godchildren how to make rude noises and, also, how to cheat at Clue. I am the fun aunt, and proud of it. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it. At our age, a lot of my friends are starting to have grandchildren, and if you think new parents act as if they invented having babies, you haven’t been around grandparents lately. Helicopter parents have nothing on helicopter grandparents, who record, document and share every little thing the kids do with anyone who will stand still long enough hear all about Little Susie’s third word or Johnny’s collection of Legos. Okay, I realize grandchildren are your reward for your kids’ horrible adolescence, and you get to a) spoil them rotten, b) feed them all sorts of sugary junk, c) get them tired, cranky and dirty so you can d) hand them back to their parents when they’re too much. I’m good with all of that and, in fact, quite good
at the spoiling, getting them tired and dirty and handing them back to their parents to deal with the fallout part. It’s just not the center of my universe, or indeed anyone’s universe. And if that makes me an evil Grinch, so be it. I’m an evil Grinch. All of this grandparenting is just fine, and more power to you. Most of your friends think your grandkids are cute, but they don’t share your obsession with your rug rats, and believe me, the kids may be all right, but they’re not the constant 9
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cause I don’t want to go to a birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese or I don’t seem riveted by a phone full of pix of a baby with pizza smeared all over her face, you’re in the wrong. I do care. It’s just that I don’t care as much as you do, and nothing is going to change that. It’s biology. It’s your DNA, not mine and your expectation that everyone should care as much as you do is, well, off-putting. So, go ahead and be offended. I’ll just sit here and wait.
or practice their softball pitch just isn’t in my cards anymore. I’m old, I’m tired and as a recent trip to California proves, the idea of hanging around while your grands practice their spelling or play with their thousand and one toys just doesn’t do it for me anymore. I’m glad you’re a grandparent and involved in the grands’ lives. I just don’t have the same obsessive interest in their every bowel movement and diaper change that you do. In fact, no one does, not even other grandparents, who are waiting for you to stop bragging about your fair-haired, practically perfect young ’uns so they can brag about theirs. Okay, fine. I appreciate that you’re involved in the kids’ lives and I applaud you for it, because there’s no such thing as too many people loving a kid. But when you sulk be-
But just remember, it’s Auntie Bad Example they’re going to look to for someone who doesn’t talk down to them, cheats at their level in board games and lets them watch R-rated stuff when no one else is looking. Auntie Bad Example is there to help these kids learn to rebel and break the rules, because God knows, someone has to, and 16
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Auntie Bad Example frankly, grandparents just aren’t up to the task. Auntie Bad Example will let you eat those cookies. Auntie Bad Example will teach you how to make armpit fart sounds. Auntie Bad Example will let you stay up late and not snitch on you when you hide your brother’s trucks. Kids need an Auntie Bad Example just as much as they need good parents and grandparents. And because Auntie B.E. isn’t around all the time, the time she does spend with your kids is all the more special. Auntie B.E. will unironically watch SpongeBob with you. Auntie Bad Example will buy you that toy no one else wants you to have, because that’s what we do. We’re the fifth column of grandparenting, the Auntie Mames of this world who reassure you it’s okay to not like broccoli. We’re as necessary to good childhood development as air. We’ll let you see The House with a Clock in the Walls, even if you haven’t read the book yet. In fact,
we’ll read the book for you and deliver a synopsis of the plot and how it fits into the movie. So, maybe you shouldn’t have a hissy fit if we don’t always seem to be paying attention. When we’re around the kids, we give them our
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full-bore attention and are more than willing to let them act out a little, but not too much, because Auntie Bad Example is best in short, sweet doses. So, let’s hear it for the Aunties and Uncles of this world. We may not be parents, but we’re part of that village it takes to raise your kids. And whether or not you think we do, we love those kids dearly. Helen Chappell is the creator of the Sam and Hollis mystery series and the Oysterback stories, as well as The Chesapeake Book of the Dead. Under her pen name, Rebecca Baldwin, she has published a number of historical novels.
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The Worst-Kept Store in America by James Dawson Sa m Jone s’ store, nat iona l ly known as the worst-kept country store in America, was located in Church Creek, six miles west of Cambridge, Md. A huge inventory of everything from meats and cheeses to old clothes and shoes was piled in a tumbledown barn-like building that hadn’t tumbled down yet only because all the clutter jammed inside was holding it up. The store received statewide at-
tention when an article by Carol W h a r ton t it le d S am H. Jone s: Mackerel-Barrel Philosopher appeared in the Aug. 4, 1946 issue of the Baltimore Sun. Wharton wrote that this ramshackle old building sagged in the middle like a tired old horse and the sheds added on either side to house the overf low of oddments threatened to collapse in the gentlest breeze. The gray, weathered building had
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Worst-Kept Store been propped up with poles on the west side ever since the wind blew down the tree that the structure was leaning against. The building, a former undertaker’s establishment, might have been painted red at one time. Sam had been running the place since the early 1900s. Inside was a Sam’s Club of a different sort. A maze of narrow paths sna ked t hroug h t he chaos. Old clothing hung from hooks or was piled in random stacks along with most ever y thing else, including baby chicks, shoes, motor oil, bags of animal feed, horse collars, treadle sewing machines, tires, cabbages, meat, salted mackerel in barrels and stalks of bananas. Whatever Sam had gotten a good deal on. Jones had his own ideas about sales believing that customers would be attracted to something if they just saw a corner of it sticking out of a pile but would ignore it if it were laid out prettily in a box. Signs posted around the store pointed to all the bargains. The clothing had been up on display for so long that it was covered with cobwebs and spots of mold. No one could agree if the place had a dirt f loor or a wooden f loor covered with a thick layer of dirt, as the effect was the same. Nor were the interior dimensions of the store easy to establish because of all the piles. Sam straightened up the place by shoving piles against piles
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it was astonishing all the prominent people who came in search of bargains, apparently assuming that the more mess there was, the more bargains there must be, which may or may not have been true. Sam did not miss a trick. He bought old, stale candy cheap from other stores to resell in his. The few intact w indow panes were so dirty that no light came through, and those that were broken or missing had been repaired with cardboard or old rags stuffed in the openings. The single light bulb hanging from the ceiling was so dim, it was said, that it did not cast a shadow. A cat patrolled the rodent-filled store when not napping on a wheel of cheese. It was hard to tell the cat from the cheese, as both were
and then on top of other piles. And some of the piles had spilled out into the yard. Outside, overcoats and dresses were hung up year-round in the sun and rain on a rusty pipe held up by cut-off forked saplings. Shoes were piled on tables. To discourage theft, only one shoe from each pair was on display. You had to ask Sam for the other one, which was inside. Somewhere. The road was not paved then, so everything was covered with a thick layer of dust, except for the side of beef hanging nearby, which was covered with big green-headed flies. Locals said that if you can’t find it in Cambridge, go down and see Sam Jones. Jones was thought to have at least one of everything, and
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Worst-Kept Store covered with a growth of fur and wh isker s. The c at a nd t he rat s must have had a truce, as one of the many legends about Sam’s store had it that once when Sam took the cover off a wedge of cheese, a horrified customer saw a rat jump out. Another had it that when Sam was cutting meat with a big knife, a rat got in the way and was accidentally sliced in two. Hal Roth wrote in his Conversations in a Country Store that once when a first-time customer startled a bunch of rats, they scurried away through holes everywhere. “My God, look at them rats go there!” exclaimed the man. “Oh, don’t worry none about them,” Sa m said, “ You’re just st ra nge. They don’t know you.” Roth also recorded that once when Jones set a crab trap inside baited with cheese, he caught nearly 70 rats. An article in the Oct. 23, 1951 Salisbur y Daily Times by Lloyd Pa rker de scr ib e d t he che ckout process a first-timer would need to find his way to the cash register.
“It would go like this. Three steps in and you turn right. Follow this course past the mackerel barrels and a shelf displaying meat in the open until your head strikes an old boot or a wire holding caps. Then turn left and go between a counter loaded with ‘most everything’ and shelves of canned goods. It will be easy to identify the canned goods shelves because hewn logs have
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The awfulness of the store became its ow n adver tisement, as people came from out of state just to see if it was as bad as they’d heard. Presumably, no one was ever disappointed. A nice-looking store would have been ignored. Jones’ store got national attention when Parker sold the story to Look magazine, which sent a correspondent and photographer for more information and photos for the story titled The Worst-Kept Country Store by Jack Wilson in its March 25, 1952 issue. This led to an invitation and an all-expense-paid trip for Sam to go to New York City to appear on the NBC television show We The People with David Yunich, senior vice president of Macy’s, the world’s largest department store. The two traded advertising tips and promised to visit each other’s stores. Sam refused to eat city food and took his own supplies with him, including jugs of mineral water from nearby Mardela Springs and fruit and oranges. He threw the orange peels under the bed in the expensive hotel room, just like he was at home. Advertising executives from Macy’s and Gimbels wanted to know how he got all that free advertising when they had to spend millions of dollars a year. Sam told them he wrote his own ads, which began with weekly updates about Lizzie and her new beau or Tom’s big black dog. Then, when readers were hooked,
been cut and set in line to hold up a sagging ceiling. Seven or eight paces farther and you will see a light. That’s where Sam is located and where purchases are usually made. Beyond this point or in any direction you will have to climb over boxes, under shelves or through an accumulation of unused or forgotten articles.” [Daily Times, Salisbury, MD. Oct. 23, 1951] If an earthquake had hit, it might have straightened up the place a bit. One of Sam’s favorite expressions was “Ought to be here somewhere, that’s certain” when a customer asked for something. 34
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your boy. It will do him good. S.H. Jones, Church Creek, Md.” (Democrat & News, Cambridge, MD. Feb. 10, 1944).
Jones went on to list the latest bargains. A sample ad read:
One April day in 1953, a big car with New York license plates pulled up and radio and TV star Arthur Godfrey and some friends came to visit. Jones said that he didn’t pay Godfrey no mind, as he just came to look around and Sam had customers to tend to. Unfortunately, when syndicated columnist Walter Winchell came, it was on a Sunday, so Winchell never got in and had to leave a note on the door. Deeply religious, Sam would not have opened on a Sunday for Winchell or even the President of the United States, for that matter. Perhaps the most remarkable
“-SAY JOHN! What are you studying about? ~ You have to study when someone gets your best girl. ~ Oh! John, forget it and go to S.H. Jones’ store for Jones’ Best Flour; it is so soft and nice. Your trouble will end. Cigarettes 10¢ per package. Plenty of Hard Candy at 8¢ per quarter pound. 6 cups, 6 saucers; 60¢, John B. Stetson hats, $1.75. Charlie your hogs are growing. ~ Yes, I use S.H. Jones’ Hog Feed. ~ Try some. It will make your hogs grow. Stoves $1.75. Books written by S.H. Jones, 10¢, 25¢, 50¢. New Book just out; “Soldier Boy.” 10¢. Buy one for
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in a nice-looking house across the road that was unchanged inside since the day that his wife died. But he was never lonely because of the voices in his head bidding him to bring the word of God to all the poor sinners, which he stayed up late at night writing, after working 15 hours a day in his store. The old store had ever y thing from hominy to homilies, as Jones sold his religious prose under such titles as A Book of Inspiration To Lead A Better Life, which stated on the cover, “I don’t know why I wrote this book, but in God’s mercy I wrote it for you,” and A Book of Love For You to Meet God and others. In one of them, Sam preached “People, are you going to give your soul for the things
thing in the store was the blueeyed, white-mustached Sam Jones himself. His eyeglasses were his own idea. He bought them four or five at a time at the 5 and 10 cent store. The ear pieces annoyed him, so he snapped them off, reshaped the nose piece by heating it over a candle and let the glasses dangle from a length of shoe string anchored to a button on his checkered vest until he needed them. He never removed his hat until he went to bed. Sam did not smoke, drink, chew tobacco, sniff snuff, cuss or say a bad word about anybody. A widower with no children, Sam lived alone 38
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on hand, which was a masterpiece of understatement. Sam’s store is long gone, and with it a fascinating part of Dorchester County history. The Church Creek Volunteer Fire Department owns the site now.
of this world, or are you going to save it for God alone? The things of earth are only junk.” Doubtless, Sam was not aware of the irony. He once told a patron that he had books “writ” by Mr. Shakespeare and Mr. Dickens on his shelves and they didn’t sell, so he wrote some of his own. Sam also wrote about politics, cheese and how to raise chickens. Sam Jones died at the age of 95 on March 11, 1962 after running his store for some 60 years. He clanged the cash register drawer shut for the last time just a few days before he died. His obituary stated that he kept a vast amount of merchandise
Many thanks to Brice Stump for the use of the Hank W. Montgomery photographs and the drawing by Claude Thomas Brooks from his booklet It Happened in Dorchester, published in 1969. And to Hal Roth for the quote from his Conversations in a Country Store, 1995. James Dawson is the owner of Unicorn Bookshop in Trappe.
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You Can Own the Chesapeake’s Riches Without Acquiring Property by Tom Horton
I grew up middle class but land rich: roaming hundreds of acres of woods and marsh, hunting properties owned by my dad’s poultry company and his best friend. And I always dreamed that someday I’d be wealthy enough to afford my own wonderful, big chunk of the Chesapeake, a dream that receded after I stopped pursuing chicken moguldom for newspapering.
But there are a lot of ways to “own” land, as it has turned out ~ and many ways to become “rich.” The most obvious way is to know and support the lands you already own ~ your nearby national treasures, which for me include Assateague National Seashore and the Chincoteague and Blackwater national wildlife refuges. Despite the millions who visit
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willing to ditch those skinny racing tires. With Google Earth and similar mapping apps, and some scouting of ground truth maps, which woodland roads are really there ~ or sometimes there and not apparent, even from the apps ~ I’ve been able to “acquire” thousands of acres of land around the Delmarva Peninsula where I live. Farther afield, there’s massive back countr y access in Pennsylvania’s state forests ~ Michau x in south-central Pennsylvania is one beloved by off-road bikers. Its 85,000 acres sprawl through sev-
its beaches, Assateague’s remote, hike-in or paddle-in campsites are underused, partly because so many people focus only on summertime visits, when the sites are deadly buggy. Cool- and cold-weather adventuring is a taste easily acquired and opens up all sorts of territory. I’m as averse as any greenie to more roads, but the need to access lands for logging and fire control means our region’s forestlands are full of roadways. Most are off limits to cars, but accessible for walkers, horseback r iders and bic yclists
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I’ve several times driven up to a private landowner’s place and asked permission to explore or camp. Many have been quite cooperative. I now have “anytime access” to a wonderful patch of riverine forest where you can see what Eastern Shore woods might have been like hundreds of years ago. Last year, I decided to explore the Chesapeake shoreline of Virginia’s r ural Accomack Count y, simply turning onto every little road that ran west toward the Bay. There are a lot of those, and to my surprise I found more public access to little beaches, scenic views and launch
eral counties and are convenient to central Marylanders. Many off-the-beaten paths also traverse private lands, or lands owned by private nonprofits like The Nature Conser vancy. I f ind most aren’t much used by their owners, with the major exception of firearms deer season, which in most places occupies only a few weeks per year. Similarly, those who paddle marshways may want to know when it is duck season. As a Salisbury University professor who runs a lot of field trips,
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winter cornfields means the farmer is using cover crops to stop nitrogen fertilizer from running into the Bay. I also notice where farmers are plowing on the contour, installing grass swales and natural buffers to improve water quality. Beware, though: A keen appreciation for the land also risks heartbreak whenever you see the pipes and survey markers that mean field and forest will soon be stripped and paved for development. Lately, I’ve been looking at the big power lines and gas pipeline rights-of-ways that arrow across the landscape and wondering why we can’t make these do double duty as hiking-biking corridors. The possibilities came home to
spots for paddlecraft than most any other tidewater county I know of in Maryland or Virginia. As my ecological comprehension of my region has grown, I’ve come to “own” the landscape wherever I travel. Riding through farmland, I notice the deep drainage ditching that makes agriculture possible; I know also that here, pre-drainage, a great cedar-cypress swamp once covered 60,000 acres; and know beyond that, the underlying wetland soils would immediately head toward swampiness if we could plug those ditches. And while I favor swamps, I can appreciate where a green gloss on
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barrier islands that are off limits to overnight stays. Last year, he took a whole high school class along for a week with tents lashed to a barge. I suppose if I’d gotten rich, I’d own more land than the tenth of an acre behind my home. But think how much time acquiring that wealth might have taken from a lifetime spent roaming the Chesapeake.
me after some happy weeks roaming the Netherlands with lifelong Dutch friends. While that peopledense nation hasn’t 1 percent of the untrammeled landscapes of the United States, it is so interlaced with trails, that there is scarcely a single citizen who cannot quickly hop onto a trail network that connects them to everywhere in the country. Even where access is restricted, there are ways to push the edge. A friend, who loves f ishing and progging the remote seaside edges of Virginia’s Eastern Shore, has outfitted his skiff with a foldout platform so he can pitch a tent on the bow while anchored alongside
Reprinted with permission from the Bay Journal. Tom Horton has written about the Chesapeake Bay for more than 40 years, including eight books. He lives in Salisbury, where he is also a professor of Environmental Studies at Salisbury University.
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A Reward for Harriet Tubman by Hal Roth
With the exception of recent immigrants, there are few Delmarva residents who do not know the story of Harriet Tubman, the Dorchester County slave who fled to Pennsylvania in 1848 and returned to lead other slaves to freedom. School children learn from their textbooks that Harriet conducted nineteen excursions on the Underground Railroad, leading nearly 400 souls out of the bonds of slavery. She became such a menace to plantation owners, we are informed, that a reward of $40,000 was collected and offered for her capture. One source cites a sum of $70,000. It seems that I have known Harriet Tubman’s story all of my life, and I have also heard her detractors, the most extreme of whom claim the entire narrative is nothing more than a myth invented by the abolitionist movement. Recently I decided to examine newspapers published during Harriet’s lifetime to see what contemporary journalists had said about this remarkable woman. To avoid dealing with anything like the 1,530,000 entries posted under her name on the Internet’s Google site, I limited
my search to articles published prior to 1900, thirty-five years after the Civil War ended and thirteen years before Harriet’s death. Imagine my surprise when, from the nearly thirty million pages preserved online by Newspaper Archive, I was rewarded with a single hit ~ containing a casual claim that
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That’s it! Searching thirty million pages of newsprint, I found a single sentence ~ which happens to be erroneous. Harriet was not a participant in Brown’s raid but was privy to its planning, and she lived for forty-eight years after the Civil War ended. It must be recognized that imperfections in newsprint, especially old newsprint, often make it difficult for scanning software to recognize a name, and while they are constantly adding to the library, Newspaper Archive offers far from a complete collection. I did discover, elsewhere, an interesting article about Harriet published in the Brooklyn Eagle on October 23, 1865:
she had died during the Civil War. The article appears in The News (Frederick, MD) dated December 12, 1885 and is a follow-up to John Brown’s raid of October 16, 1859. It begins: “John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry was directly participated in by twenty-three persons. There were several others who expected to be present. The fate is known of all but Francis Jackson Merriam, grandson of Francis Jackson, fi rst and only president of the American Anti-Slavery Society.” Deep in the list of participants and their fortunes is this sentence: “Harriet Tubman, colored, died during the war.”
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from bondage. This was nearly 14 years ago. Since then she has assisted hundreds to do the same. Her narration of her sickness, previous to her escape, was filled with negro phrases and elicited shouts of laughter from the congregation, the whites entering most heartily into it. “Mrs. Tubman stated that she was known as ‘Moses,’ having received that name from [abolitionist] Lloyd Garrison, and she went on to speak of her experience in the hospitals and of the sufferings of the soldiers.
“Last evening an immense congregation, fully half consisting of whites, was present at the African M. E. Church in Bridge Street, to listen to the story of the experiences of Mrs. Harriet Tubman, known as the South Carolina Scout and Nurse, as related by herself.” After offering details of Harriet’s introduction to the congregation, the reporter continues: “Mrs. Tubman is a colored lady of 35 or 40 years of age. She appeared before those present with a wounded hand in a bandage, which wound she stated was caused by maltreatment received at the hands of a conductor on the Camden and Amboy Railroad on her trip from Philadelphia to New York, a few days since. Her words were in the peculiar plantation dialect and at times were not intelligible to the white portion of her audience. There was nothing particularly impressive in her remarks: She was born, she said, in the eastern part of the State of Maryland and wanted it to be distinctly understood that she was not educated, nor did she receive any ‘broughten up.’ She ‘came up.’ Therefore, she concluded, she was not fit to mix in political matters. John Brown was one of her particular friends. Her master was a good man, but she knew that God had directed her to perform other works in this world, and so she escaped
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riet Tubman home, penniless, to end her days. Her age is past 90 years. She was born in slavery but ran away from her Maryland home about the year 1848, and between that time and the outbreak of the civil war piloted nearly 400 escaped slaves to the Northern States and Canada. She was befriended by William H. Seward, Gerrit Smith, Wendell Phillips, William Lloyd Garrison and other distinguished abolitionists and was an aid and admirer of John Brown. Harriet Beecher Stowe planned to write a story of Harriet Tubman’s life. Since the civil war she has resided in a small house on the outskirts of Auburn and devoted her interests to the work of establishing an institution for aged colored men and women, and upon this home she is now dependent. The trustees have asked for funds to pay for a nurse to care for Harriet in her declining days. Harriet’s name was originally Arimenia [Other sources say it was Araminta] Ross. At the age of 24 she married a free Maryland colored man named Tubman. When Harriet escaped from slavery, she lost track of Tubman, but learned afterward that he had married again. Harriet also married. Her second husband was an Auburn colored man named Nelson Davis. She is known as Harriet Tubman Davis, but more familiarly as Harriet Tubman, the name she bore during the time of her activity in the South.
cles. Harriet lived her final years in Auburn, New York. It is interesting to note that during her lifetime, apparently little was published about her on her native Eastern Shore. Syracuse Herald, November 10, 1906: “Harriet Tubman, the aged ex-slave and founder of the Tubman home for aged colored people, is suffering from a dislocated knee. She was feeding her pigs when one of them made an attack upon her. She started to run and fell, causing the injury.” Syracuse Post Standard, March 6, 1911: “A small barn fire on the Harriet Tubman home farm in South Street burned yesterday afternoon, together with its contents. The damage was not heavy.” Syracuse Herald, June 4, 1911: “Harriet Tubman, the aged negress known as the ‘Moses of her people,’ was last Thursday taken to the Har-
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war broke out she had made nineteen trips across the Mason and Dixon line and escorted between 300 and 400 slaves to freedom. A high price was set upon the head of the mysterious colored woman who appeared occasionally on the plantations and always managed to disappear in company with a band of valuable slaves. “Among these people she led away were her mother and father and nine of their children. One of her sisters died in the South. During the war she was sent South by Governor Andrews of Massachusetts as a spy and scout for the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts colored infantry. During this time she received no pay and drew but twenty rations from the government in four years, yet a plan to secure a pension for her was rejected as coming under no recognized law. She worked in the army hospitals as an attendant by day and at night....[Several mostly illegible sentences refer to collecting information behind Confederate lines.] Harriet is deeply religious and is a firm believer that the Lord will provide for the deserving. When in deepest distress she said she never lost hope, ‘but just got down an’ prayed hard, an’ something was boun’ to turn up.’ She is an interesting storyteller and relates many thrilling tales in her matter of fact way of slavery days and the times of John Brown and the great war which followed.
“She was born about 1820 in Dorchester county, on the eastern shore of Maryland, near Cambridge. She has all the characteristics of the pure African race strongly marked upon her and is believed to be directly descended from a tribe of [the word appears to be Felietas or Fellitas] on the Guinea coast. She is naturally shrewd and blunt of speech, but her simplicity and ignorance have caused her in many cases to be imposed upon. For years her household has consisted of several old black people and some forlorn and wandering women. From the effects of a blow upon her head received in childhood, she has a stupid, halfwitted look, but she also has a pair of sharp black eyes and a ready wit that have carried her through many trying places. “Her flight from slavery was occasioned by the belief that she was about to be sold and separated from her mother and father and ten brothers and sisters. After undergoing severe privations, she reached the free states, obtained work and saved her wages with the idea of going back South eventually to lead more of her people out of bondage. She became acquainted with many white people interested in the ‘underground railroad,’ as the system of passing escaped slaves from house to house on the way North was called, and up to the time the 66
N.Y. ~ Harriet Tubman, a colored woman, ninety-five years old, who is said to have been a friend of Abraham Lincoln and Secretary of State William H. Seward, and who was associated with John Brown in anti-slavery work, is dying here of pneumonia.” The News (Frederick, MD), March 18, 1913: “HARRIET TUBMAN-DAVIS DEAD ~ Harriet Tubman-Davis, a negress, and regarded as one of the most noted negro women in the nation and a native of Maryland died at her home at Auburn, N.Y. on March 10. This woman was aged from 90 to 95 years, was born in slavery. During her long life she played a most important part in the affairs of the nation and
“The Tubman ‘home’ consists of one brick and two frame cottages on twenty-five acres of ground on South street, on the outskirts of Auburn. The matron is Mrs. Charles Smith and her husband, a retired minister who served in the Fiftyfourth Massachusetts colored infantry as chaplain. There are now three other aged colored women at the home with Aunt Harriet. Aunt Harriet is cared for by a nurse, Frances Richardson, a graduate of the Douglas hospital at Philadelphia, whose services are paid for by funds raised by the trustees of the home.” Gettysburg Times (Pennsylvania), March 11, 1913: FRIEND OF LINCOLN’S DYING ~ Auburn,
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riet Tubman was probably the only woman who served through the war as scout, army nurse and spy, taking her life in her hands many times in the last capacity. She was proud of the fact that she had worn ‘pants’ and carried a musket, canteen, haversack and accoutrements. Her services were subsequently recognized by Congress, which issued her a pension.” Newspaper articles often contain inconsistencies and errors, and we never have the time to track down and verify all the “facts,” but I became especially interested in the hundreds of claims on the Internet and in modern books and news reports about posters offering large rewards for Harriet’s capture. Typical of these are the following two statements: “By 1856 a reward of $40,000 was being offered for Tubman’s capture. Wanted posters dotted the landscape of hundreds of small southern towns, making Tubman’s dangerous missions even more dangerous. These posters included portraits, a description of Tubman’s
conducted the Underground Railroad. It is said that she personally conducted 300 slaves to Canada and freedom and assisted in sending 3,000 through to the North. “So many slaves did this woman spirit away from the South that at one time the Maryland legislature offered a reward of $12,000 for her capture, and private planters raised a sum of $40,000. Har-
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small farms and plantations had been financially capable of offering such a figure or how they could have known about Harriet and her connection to the disappearance of any slaves. I became determined to find some concrete evidence. If posters had been scattered across hundreds of Southern towns, some must have survived. Michael B. Chesson is a Civil War historian, author, editor and a professor at the University of Massachusetts. His scholarship has been called “impeccable” by The Journal of Military History. In The Textbook League’s Textbook Letter, Volume 12, Number 1, Chesson writes: “Among all the American legends that are touted as history in schoolbooks, none is promoted more extravagantly than the story of the Underground Railroad. In textbook after textbook, students read that, in the time before the Civil War, abolitionists established an extensive network of secret routes and hideouts for conducting fugitive slaves to freedom; and in text after text, students find elaborate descriptions of this network and of some of the people who allegedly were associated with it. Unfortunately for the students, very few of the ‘facts’ that appear in schoolbook accounts of the Underground Railroad have any historical foundation, and most of the ‘facts’ are demonstrably false.” About Harriet he says: “The salient points that occur again and
‘crimes’ against society, and reward information.” The following anecdote is repeatedly told with several variations: “Once slave catchers were close to catching Harriet. She was at a railroad station where a wanted poster of her was displayed. Not being able to read, she overheard men talking about the poster and wondering if Harriet was the woman they could capture for a reward. She quickly opened a book she had been carrying~ hoping she was not holding it upside down since she couldn’t read the words ~ and the slave catchers walked by. One of the men said she couldn’t be Tubman because the poster said she couldn’t read or write.” The many narrators of this tale fail to explain why an illiterate woman on a dangerous mission would be carrying a book and, more importantly, ignore the fact that she would surely have been taken into custody under such circumstances until her identity could be verified. Forty thousand dollars was an enormous sum of money in the middle years of the nineteenth century. I have not attempted, myself, to translate the figure into today’s currency, but one individual has informed me that the amount would exceed $2,000,000. It was hard for me to imagine that the owners of Delmarva’s 70
again in the textbooks’ accounts of Tubman ~ such as the claim that she made nineteen trips to liberate slaves, and the claim that slaveowners put a huge price on her head ~ are not historical facts. “To believe that slave-holders offered an extravagant rewards for Tubman, one must believe that they knew of her, knew that she was taking slaves, and attributed their losses specifically to her. There is no evidence to support any of those notions, and the notions don’t even make sense. How would slave-owners know whether their slaves were being spirited away by Tubman, or were being taken by some other individual or individuals, or were simply fleeing by themselves?” Although research has been exhaustive, no one has ever found a poster, a newspaper advertisement or any other document offering a large amount of money for Harriet’s capture. The only posted reward is contained in an ad purchased by Eliza Ann Brodess in the Cambridge (Maryland) Democrat on October 3, 1849, in which a total of $300 was offered for the return of Harriet and two of her brothers, Ben and Harry Ross. It asks The Delaware Gazette to copy the text for a period of three weeks and charge the Cambridge office. “THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD. “RAN AWAY from the subscriber on Monday the 17th ult., three ne-
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Harriet Tubman groes, named as follows: HARRY, aged about 19 years, has on one side of his neck a wen [tumor], just under the ear, he is of a dark chestnut color, about 5 feet 8 or 9 inches hight [sic]; BEN, aged about 25 years, is very quick to speak when spoken to, he is of a chestnut color, about six feet high; MINTY [Harriet’s given name was Araminta], aged about 27 years, is of a chestnut color, fine looking, and about 5 feet high. One hundred dollars reward will be given for each of the above named negroes, if taken out of the State, and $50 each if taken in the State. They must be lodged in Baltimore, Easton or Cambridge Jail, in Maryland. “ELIZA ANN BRODESS, Near Bucktown, Dorchester County, MD. “Oct. 3d, 1849.” For those seeking reliable information about Harriet, I recommend two books: Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero is Kate Clifford Larson’s doctoral dissertation at the University of New Hampshire, published in 2004 by Ballantine Books, and Harriet Tubman: The Life and the Life Stories by Jean M. Humez, professor of women’s studies at the University of Massachusetts, published in 2003 by the University of Wisconsin Press. Both conclude that the number of trips made by Tubman and the
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number of slaves she escorted to freedom can never be known with certainty. Larson estimates that Tubman made about thirteen trips, assisting perhaps seventy slaves. Humez believes that Tubman completed eight or nine trips by the summer of 1860, making her final journey in December of that year. When researching historical personalities who operated largely in the shadows, one is always faced with a frustrating intermingling of fact and fiction. It is simply not within our power to throw light into all the corners, but we need to be as honest as we are capable of being. Harriet Tubman was a powerful figure, and she led a remarkable life. There is no need to fabricate events to make her place in history secure. We only weaken our history and our credibility when we choose to do that.
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As much as I love to cook, I don’t like being in the kitchen when the sun and fun are outside. I would rather be tending my garden or taking walks along the beach with my friends. Luckily, I can still fit in easy meals that celebrate the f lavors of this delightful season. In fact, I have a strategy for making summer cooking a breeze. Like most of my menus, the ones I have included this month are ready in 30 minutes or less. Give these a try ~ they may help you make the most of your day. One recipe that is simple and easy to prepare, and offers a treasure trove of fresh vegetables, is a spinach, Swiss cheese and bacon salad. It appeals to just about everybody and tastes like quiche Lorraine without the effort. It pairs well with orange-beef teriyaki, my favorite anytime stir-fry. It seems every week there is a new study showing how healthy it is to have more fish in our diets. Seafood tends to be low in fat, and
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2 T. chopped parsley 1/4 t. dried basil 1/4 t. oregano Mix beef with salt and pepper, and pat into a 9-inch pie plate. Spread tomatoes over the meat and sprinkle with remaining ingredients. Refrigerate. When ready, bake in a 375° oven for a good 20 minutes. Cut in wedges.
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In a large bowl, combine the spinach, cheese and bacon. Drizzle with dressing and toss to coat. Top with croutons and serve immediately. CALIFORNIA GREEN SALAD Serves 6 This truly represents California, since avocados and almonds are grown in abundance there. I also use this dressing for the spinach Swiss cheese salad. Dressing: 1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil 2 T. white vinegar 2 T. lemon juice 1/4 t. sea salt 1/4 t. Dijon mustard 1/4 t. paprika Salad: 1 bunch Romaine lettuce, torn 1 medium ripe avocado, diced 4 green onions, sliced 1/4 cup slivered almonds, toasted 1/4 cup crumbled blue cheese In a jar with a tight-fitting lid,
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combine cornstarch and 2 tablespoons reserved juice. Stir until smooth and set aside. In a large skillet or wok, stirfry beef in oil. Add the soy sauce, honey, ginger, garlic and remaining mandarin orange juice. Cover and cook over medium heat for 5 minutes, or until beef is tender. Stir cornstarch mixture into the beef mixture. Bring to a boil, cook and stir for 2 minutes, or until thickened. Stir in the oranges. Serve over hot rice.
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1/8 t. pepper 6 catfish fillets (about 6 ounces each) 2 T. olive oil 2 T. butter, melted Mix the first 6 ingredients in a gallon plastic bag. Brush the fish fillets with the oil and butter mixture and place them in the bag. Shake to coat well. Place fillets in a greased 13- x 9-inch baking dish. Bake uncovered at 350° for 25 minutes, or until fish f lakes easily with a fork. ORANGE BROCCOLI Serves 6 2 pounds fresh broccoli f lorets 1/3 cup butter, cubed
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2 garlic cloves, minced 1 t. chili powder 1/2 t. sea salt 1 16-oz. can kidney beans, rinsed and drained 1 14.5-oz. can diced tomatoes, undrained 1 cup water 2/3 cup uncooked long grain rice 1/3 cup sliced ripe olives 1/2 cup shredded cheddar or Mexican cheeses
1/4 cup orange juice 1 t. grated orange peel 1/2 t. sea salt 1/3 cup slivered almonds, toasted Place one inch of water in a saucepan; add broccoli. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 5 minutes or until tendercrisp. Drain and keep warm. In the same pan, combine the butter, orange juice, orange peel and salt; heat until butter is melted. Return the broccoli to the saucepan; toss to coat. Transfer to a serving bowl and sprinkle with almonds.
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Spread fillets lightly with mustard on both sides. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Roll in cracker crumbs. Refrigerate. Heat oven to 500°. Grease f lat baking dish and heat thoroughly. Lay fish in dish and bake for 10 minutes. Garnish with sprigs of parsley and serve with lemon wedges. CURRIED SHRIMP Serves 4 This is a quick and tasty dish. Have plenty of chutney on hand when serving curry! 1 can cream of mushroom soup 1 small can mushrooms, undrained 1/2 t. Worcestershire sauce
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by K. Marc Teffeau, Ph.D.
Gardening in June After enjoying the first burst of full-color spring and busy gardening efforts, we gardeners tend to take a little bit of a break. But don’t relax too much! There’s a lot to be done going into June, depending on the extent of our gardening activities and landscape. Don’t put your pruning shears away. Some trees and shrubs have made rampant growth this spring. They may need a little “tidying up.” There may be a lot of water sprouts on the trunks of f lowering cherries, plums and crabapples that should be removed. Crepe myrtles tend to send out side branches from the base of the plant that should be cut so that the larger multiple trunks can be maintained. You can still prune spring-f lowering shrubs like azaleas, rhododendrons, forsythia, spirea and lilacs after they f lower in June. Head back and thin over vigorous shrubs to the desired size. Is that forsythia in your yard totally out of control? Prune back
the entire plant to two feet above ground and cut out the large old stems to rejuvenate the plant. Cuts on trees and shrubs made at this time will heal quickly. Remember, however, not to cover the pruning cuts on trees with pruning paint. This is no longer a recommended practice. If you did shrub or tree plantings this spring, make sure to water correctly. Transplants are particularly susceptible to droughts. This is especially important for the container-grown plants that you have established in the landscape. Because container-grown plants have been grown in a peat/ bark media, their root balls dry out quicker in the landscape than the 85
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Continue to plant warm season crops such as tomatoes, peppers and eggplant. Seed summer and winter squash and green beans. Make successive plantings of green beans every two weeks through the end of July to have season-long bean production. In the perennial garden, it is time to divide and replant German iris. Cut back the leaves and divide the clumps into single plants with one or two sections of a healthy rhizome. Discard any diseased plants. If rot disease has been a problem with your iris, it may be wise to try a new location for them.
surrounding, heavier soil. To make sure that the root ball is thoroughly watered, I like to recommend that you direct the water from the hose to the inside and base of the shrub. Make sure that the root mass does not dry out, but at the same time, be sure not to over water, especially in heavy clay soils.
June is continuing veggie time. The cool season crops like spinach and lettuce will be starting to bolt with the warmer temperatures. Broccoli plants should be ready to harvest as will other cole crops like caulif lower. After cutting out the main f lowering head of the broccoli plants, don’t rush to pull them out if you don’t need the space in the raised bed or garden. Little broccoli f lower side shoots that you can harvest will be produced for a month or so.
Dutch irises, sometimes called the “year-round iris” because of their availability as a cut f lower, is a great garden performer. Dutch irises are hybrids whose parentage can include many species. The garden-variety Dutch irises bloom much later than the earlier springf lowering dwarf iris, adding rich 86
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as the plant slips into dormancy. Foliage may be removed at this point. Your iris will rest for a few months before beginning the next growing cycle. Prune out the spent f lowers of
color to the “transition” garden. It is safe to say they are not used nearly often enough in the landscape. Reaching around two feet tall, they should now be showering well-planned gardens with their blue, yellow, white, deep purple and some two-color blossoms. After blooming has finished for the season, leave the foliage in place; don’t cut it off. The leaves will gather sunlight and provide nourishment for next year’s show. Water as needed during active growth periods, but Dutch irises prefer not to be watered while dormant. At the end of the summer, the leaves will yellow and die back
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the spring-f lowering perennials to maintain a vigorous plant and good f lower production for next spring. Disbud chrysanthemum f lowers to secure large, beautiful blooms on straight, strong stems in the fall. To disbud, remove the small side buds that form in the angles of the leaves along the stems. This allows all food reserves to be used for one large f lower rather than many smaller ones. Other spring- and early summer-f lowering perennials can be divided now, after their blooms fade. Instead of severing the clump in half, try jiggling the roots apart with two sharp spading forks. This takes more time but damages fewer roots than cutting the clump apart.
Weeds are the number-one garden problem in June. Mulching greatly aids in their control in f lower and shrub beds and in the vegetable garden. Even if you haven’t mulched your plants, it’s not too late. First, clean up the bed of existing weeds. If you use a hoe, be sure not to cultivate too deeply
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Tidewater Gardening around shallow-rooted plants. This is a good place to use a swan, scuff le or rocker hoe, as they do not penetrate the soil deeply. Azaleas and boxwood are two shallowrooted shrubs that are especially vulnerable to careless cultivation. Do not mulch too deeply. Two inches is adequate in the landscape. Over-mulching is one of the main causes of death of plants in the landscape. Avoid “volcano” mulching, mulch piled high around tree trunks. This is an awful mulching practice, but unfortunately, I see it a lot in commercial landscape plantings. I DO NOT recommend using
black plastic in landscape beds. Use of black plastic will result in the soil holding more moisture than necessary and will not allow the soil to “breathe.” Active oxygen and carbon dioxide gas exchange is required in the soil for healthy plant growth. Black plastic inhibits that gas f low. Roses have already reached their peak spring bloom. To make sure they continue to bloom all summer, keep to a regular spray schedule. Also, break off old f lowers as soon as the petals drop.
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1-2-1 ratio fertilizer now that their first blooming period is coming to an end. Do not remove the foliage of spring-f lowering bulbs. Let the foliage naturally die down and then clean up. The bulbs need to have their green leaves to produce sugars, which will translocate back into the bulb for additional nutrient sources for next spring’s f lowering. Top-dress the bulbs with 5-10-5 fertilizer to help the bulbs store up food reserves for next year. If your spring bulb planting seems to have been declining in flower production, you may need to thin and replant this fall. Make a note on the home calendar to do this. I like to move some of my houseplants from the dining room to the front porch in May and June. Many of the houseplants you placed outside for the summer will be making vigorous new growth now. Pinch and shape them as they grow to produce beautiful symmetrical full plants to bring back into the house next fall. If need be, repot overgrown houseplants before setting them outside for the summer. Be sure to keep the insects under control so you don’t bring them into the home in the fall. Many home gardeners have discovered lumpy protrusions or galls on the branches, twigs, and leaves of certain trees and shrubs. Most of these galls result from the activity of tiny insects and mites
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galls. Control for these gall makers is often difficult. Where practical, prune out and destroy the galls. I haven’t seen the galls kill a plant, but it might make it so unattractive in the landscape that it loses its landscape value. Spraying is usually not recommended, especially on the oak galls, as the timing of the spray is almost impossible. Fertilize infected plants to encourage new growth. Sometimes galls are caused by bacteria or fungi. Common examples include cedar apple gall on red cedar, crown gall on roses and leaf gall on azaleas. These galls are best controlled by removing and destroying them. June is a time to look out for
that “sting” the branch, twig or leaf surface. The sting of the insect is the depositing of eggs in the plant tissue. The galls that form safely house the developing insects or mites. Several types of insects are responsible for galls on garden plants. For example, most oak galls are caused by small wasps. Aphids produce spruce galls. The dogwood club gall is formed by a tiny f ly, and a mite causes maple bladder gall, which frequently affects certain kinds of maples. Most of the gall problems seem to be on oaks. Several oak trees in Easton have severe infestations of
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Dorchester County is known as the Heart of the Chesapeake. It is rich in Chesapeake Bay history, folklore and tradition. With 1,700 miles of shoreline (more than any other Maryland county), marshlands, working boats, quaint waterfront towns and villages among fertile farm fields – much still exists of what is the authentic Eastern Shore landscape and traditional way of life along the Chesapeake. FREDERICK C. MALKUS MEMORIAL BRIDGE is the gateway to Dorchester County over the Choptank River. It is the second longest span 95
Dorchester Points of Interest bridge in Maryland after the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. A life-long resident of Dorchester County, Senator Malkus served in the Maryland State Senate from 1951 through 1994. Next to the Malkus Bridge is the 1933 Emerson C. Harrington Bridge. This bridge was replaced by the Malkus Bridge in 1987. Remains of the 1933 bridge are used as fishing piers on both the north and south bank of the river. HERITAGE MUSEUMS and GARDENS of DORCHESTER - Home of the Dorchester County Historical Society, Heritage Museum offers a range of local history and gardens on its grounds. The Meredith House, a 1760’s Georgian home, features artifacts and exhibits on the seven Maryland governors associated with the county; a child’s room containing antique dolls and toys; and other period displays. The Neild Museum houses a broad collection of agricultural, maritime, industrial, and Native American artifacts, including a McCormick reaper (invented by Cyrus McCormick in 1831). The Ron Rue exhibit pays tribute to a talented local decoy carver with a re-creation of his workshop. The Goldsborough Stable, circa 1790, includes a sulky, pony cart, horse-driven sleighs, and tools of the woodworker, wheelwright, and blacksmith. For more info. tel: 410-228-7953 or visit dorchesterhistory.org.
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DORCHESTER COUNTY VISITOR CENTER - The Visitors Center in Cambridge is a major entry point to the lower Eastern Shore, positioned just off U.S. Route 50 along the shore of the Choptank River. With its 100foot sail canopy, it’s also a landmark. In addition to travel information and exhibits on the heritage of the area, there’s also a large playground, garden, boardwalk, restrooms, vending machines, and more. The Visitors Center is open daily from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information about Dorchester County call 410-228-1000 or visit www.visitdorchester.org or www.tourchesapeakecountry.com. SAILWINDS PARK - Located at 202 Byrn St., Cambridge, Sailwinds Park has been the site for popular events such as the Seafood Feast-I-Val in August and the Grand National Waterfowl Hunt’s Grandtastic Jamboree in November. For more info. tel: 410-228-SAIL(7245) or visit www. sailwindscambridge.com. CAMBRIDGE CREEK - A tributary of the Choptank River, runs through the heart of Cambridge. Located along the creek are restaurants where you can watch watermen dock their boats after a day’s work on the waterways of Dorchester. HISTORIC HIGH STREET IN CAMBRIDGE - When James Michener was doing research for his novel Chesapeake, he reportedly called Cambridge’s High Street one of the most beautiful streets in America. He modeled his fictional city Patamoke after Cambridge. Many of the gracious homes on High Street date from the 1700s and 1800s. Today you can join a historic walking tour of High Street each Saturday at 11 a.m., April through October (weather permitting). For more info. tel: 410-901-1000. High Street is also known as one of the most haunted streets in Maryland. join a Chesapeake Ghost Walk to hear the stories. Find out more at www. chesapeakeghostwalks.com. SKIPJACK NATHAN OF DORCHESTER - Sail aboard the authentic skipjack Nathan of Dorchester, offering heritage cruises on the Choptank River. The Nathan is docked at Long Wharf in Cambridge. Dredge for oysters and hear the stories of the working waterman’s way of life. For more info. and schedules tel: 410-228-7141 or visit www.skipjack-nathan.org. CHOPTANK RIVER LIGHTHOUSE REPLICA - The replica of a six-sided screwpile lighthouse includes a small museum with exhibits about the original lighthouse’s history and the area’s maritime heritage. The lighthouse, located on Pier A at Long Wharf Park in Cambridge, is open daily, May through October, and by appointment, November through April; call 410-463-2653. For more info. visit www.choptankriverlighthouse.org. DORCHESTER CENTER FOR THE ARTS - Located at 321 High 97
Dorchester Points of Interest Street in Cambridge, the Center offers monthly gallery exhibits and shows, extensive art classes, and special events, as well as an artisans’ gift shop with an array of items created by local and regional artists. For more info. tel: 410-228-7782 or visit www.dorchesterarts.org. RICHARDSON MARITIME MUSEUM - Located at 401 High St., Cambridge, the Museum makes history come alive for visitors in the form of exquisite models of traditional Bay boats. The Museum also offers a collection of boatbuilders’ tools and watermen’s artifacts that convey an understanding of how the boats were constructed and the history of their use. The Museum’s Ruark Boatworks facility, located on Maryland Ave., is passing on the knowledge and skills of area boatwrights to volunteers and visitors alike. Watch boatbuilding and restoration in action. For more info. tel: 410-221-1871 or visit www.richardsonmuseum.org. HARRIET TUBMAN MUSEUM & EDUCATIONAL CENTER - The Museum and Educational Center is developing programs to preserve the history and memory of Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad. The museum is open Tuesday through Saturday. Local tours by appointment are available. The Museum and Educational Center, located at 424 Race St., Cambridge, is one of the stops on the “Finding a Way to Freedom” self-guided driving tour. For more info. tel: 410-228-0401 or visit www. harriettubmanorganization.org. SPOCOTT WINDMILL - Since 1972, Dorchester County has had a fully operating English style post windmill that was expertly crafted by the late master shipbuilder, James B. Richardson. There has been a succession of windmills at this location dating back to the late 1700’s. The complex also includes an 1800 tenant house, one-room school, blacksmith shop, and country store museum. The windmill is located at 1625 Hudson Rd., Cambridge. For more info. visit www.spocottwindmill.org. HORN POINT LABORATORY - The Horn Point Laboratory offers public tours of this world-class scientific research laboratory, which is affiliated with the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. The 90-minute walking tour shows how scientists are conducting research to restore the Chesapeake Bay. Horn Point Laboratory is located at 2020 Horns Point Rd., Cambridge, on the banks of the Choptank River. For more info. and tour schedule tel: 410-228-8200 or visit www.umces.edu/hpl. THE STANLEY INSTITUTE - This 19th century one-room African American schoolhouse, dating back to 1865, is one of the oldest Maryland schools to be organized and maintained by a black community. Between 98
1867 and 1962, the youth in the African-American community of Christ Rock attended this school, which is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Tours available by appointment. The Stanley Institute is located at the intersection of Route 16 West & Bayly Rd., Cambridge. For more info. tel: 410-228-6657. OLD TRINITY CHURCH in Church Creek was built in the 17th century and perfectly restored in the 1950s. This tiny architectural gem continues to house an active congregation of the Episcopal Church. The old graveyard around the church contains the graves of the veterans of the American Revolution, the War of 1812, and the American Civil War. This part of the cemetery also includes the grave of Maryland’s Governor Carroll and his daughter Anna Ella Carroll who was an advisor to Abraham Lincoln. The date of the oldest burial is not known because the wooden markers common in the 17th century have disappeared. For more info. tel: 410-228-2940 or visit www.oldtrinity.net. BUCKTOWN VILLAGE STORE - Visit the site where Harriet Tubman received a blow to her head that fractured her skull. From this injury Harriet believed God gave her the vision and directions that inspired her to guide so many to freedom. Artifacts include the actual newspaper ad offering a reward for Harriet’s capture. Historical tours, bicycle, canoe and kayak
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BLACKWATER NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE - Located 12 miles south of Cambridge at 2145 Key Wallace Dr. With more than 25,000 acres of tidal marshland, it is an important stop along the Atlantic Flyway. Blackwater is currently home to the largest remaining natural population of endangered Delmarva fox squirrels and the largest breeding population of American bald eagles on the East Coast, north of Florida. There is a full service Visitor Center and a four-mile Wildlife Drive, walking trails and water trails. For more info. tel: 410-228-2677 or visit www.fws.gov/blackwater. EAST NEW MARKET - Originally settled in 1660, the entire town is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Follow a self-guided walking tour to see the district that contains almost all the residences of the original founders and offers excellent examples of colonial architecture. For more info. visit http://eastnewmarket.us. HURLOCK TRAIN STATION - Incorporated in 1892, Hurlock ranks as the second largest town in Dorchester County. It began from a Dorchester/ Delaware Railroad station built in 1867. The Old Train Station has been restored and is host to occasional train excursions. For more info. tel: 410943-4181. VIENNA HERITAGE MUSEUM - The museum displays the last surviving mother-of-pearl button manufacturing operation in the country,
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Dorchester Points of Interest as well as artifacts of local history. The museum is located at 303 Race, St., Vienna. For more info. tel: 410-943-1212 or visit www.viennamd.org. LAYTON’S CHANCE VINEYARD & WINERY - This small farm winery, minutes from historic Vienna at 4225 New Bridge Rd., offers daily tours of the winemaking operation. The family-oriented Layton’s also hosts a range of events, from a harvest festival to karaoke happy hour to concerts. For more info. tel. 410-228-1205 or visit www.laytonschance.com. HANDSELL HISTORIC SITE - Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008, the site is used to interpret the native American contact period with the English, the slave and later African American story and the life of all those who lived at Handsell. The grounds are open daily from dawn to dusk. Visitors can view the exterior of the circa 1770/1837 brick house, currently undergoing preservation work. Nearby is the Chicone Village, a replica single-family dwelling complex of the Native People who once inhabited the site. Special living history events are held several times a year. Located at 4837 Indiantown Road, Vienna. For more info. tel: 410228-745 or visit www.restorehandsell.org.
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Easton Points of Interest Historic Downtown Easton is the county seat of Talbot County. Established around early religious settlements and a court of law, today the historic district of Easton is a centerpiece of fine specialty shops, business and cultural activities, unique restaurants and architectural fascination. Tree-lined streets are graced with various period structures and remarkable homes, carefully preserved or restored. Because of its historical significance, Easton has earned distinction as the “Colonial Capital of the Eastern Shore” and was honored as #8 in the book, “The 100 Best Small Towns in America.” Walking Tour of Downtown Easton Start near the corner of Harrison Street and Mill Place. 1. HISTORIC TIDEWATER INN - 101 E. Dover St. A completely modern hotel built in 1949, it was enlarged in 1953 and has recently undergone extensive renovations. It is the “Pride of the Eastern Shore.” 2. THE BULLITT HOUSE - 108 E. Dover St. One of Easton’s oldest and most beautiful homes, it was built in 1801. It is now occupied by the Mid-Shore Community Foundation. 3. AVALON THEATRE - 42 E. Dover St. Constructed in 1921 during the heyday of silent films and vaudeville entertainment. Over the course of its history, it has been the scene of three world premiers, including “The First Kiss,” starring Fay Wray and Gary Cooper, in 1928. The theater has gone through two major restorations: the first in 1936, when it was refinished in an art deco theme by the Schine Theater chain, and again 52 years later, when it was converted to a performing arts and community center. For more info. tel: 410-822-0345 or visit avalontheatre.com. 4. TALBOT COUNTY VISITORS CENTER - 11 S. Harrison St. The Office of Tourism provides visitors with county information for historic Easton and the waterfront villages of Oxford, St. Michaels and Tilghman Island. For more info. tel: 410-770-8000 or visit tourtalbot.org. 5. BARTLETT PEAR INN - 28 S. Harrison St. Significant for its architecture, it was built by Benjamin Stevens in 1790 and is one of Easton’s earliest three-bay brick buildings. The home was “modernized” with Victorian bay windows on the right side in the 1890s. 6. WATERFOWL BUILDING - 40 S. Harrison St. The old armory is 105
Easton Points of Interest now the headquarters of the Waterfowl Festival, Easton’s annual celebration of migratory birds and the hunting season, the second weekend in November. For more info. tel: 410-822-4567 or visit waterfowlfestival.org. 7. ACADEMY ART MUSEUM - 106 South St. Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, the Academy Art Museum is a fine art museum founded in 1958. Providing national and regional exhibitions, performances, educational programs, and visual and performing arts classes for adults and children, the Museum also offers a vibrant concert and lecture series and seasonal events. The Museum’s permanent collection consists of works on paper and contemporary works by American and European masters. Mon. through Thurs. 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday, Saturday, Sunday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. First Friday of each month open until 7 p.m. For more info. tel: (410) 822-ARTS (2787) or visit academyartmuseum.org. 8. CHRIST CHURCH - St. Peter’s Parish, 111 South Harrison St. Founded in 1692, the Parish’s church building is one of the many historic landmarks of downtown Easton. The current building was erected in the early 1840’s of Port Deposit granite and an addition on the south end was completed in 1874. Since that time there have been many improve-
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Easton Points of Interest ments and updates, but none as extensive as the restoration project which began in September 2014. For service times contact 410-822-2677 or christchurcheaston.org. 9. TALBOT HISTORICAL SOCIET Y - Located in the heart of Easton’s historic district. Enjoy an evocative portrait of everyday life during earlier times when visiting the c. 18th and 19th century historic houses, all of which surround a Federal-style garden. For more info. tel: 410822-0773 or visit hstc.org. Tharpe Antiques and Decorative Arts is now located at 25 S. Washington St. Consignments accepted by appointment, please call 410-820-7525. Proceeds support the Talbot Historical Society. 10. ODD FELLOWS LODGE - At the corner of Washington and Dover streets stands a building with secrets. It was constructed in 1879 as the meeting hall for the Odd Fellows. Carved into the stone and placed into the stained glass are images and symbols that have meaning only for members. See if you can find the dove, linked rings and other symbols. 11. TALBOT COUNTY COURTHOUSE - Long known as the “East Capital” of Maryland. The present building was completed in 1794 on the site of the earlier one built in 1711. It has been remodeled several times.
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Easton Points of Interest 11A. FREDERICK DOUGLASS STATUE - 11 N. Washington St. on the lawn of the Talbot County Courthouse. The statue honors Frederick Douglass in his birthplace, Talbot County, where the experiences in his youth ~ both positive and negative ~ helped form his character, intellect and determination. Also on the grounds is a memorial to the veterans who fought and died in the Vietnam War, and a monument “To the Talbot Boys,” commemorating the men from Talbot who fought for the Confederacy. The memorial for the Union soldiers was never built. 12. SHANNAHAN & WRIGHTSON HARDWARE BUILDING 12 N. Washington St. It is the oldest store in Easton. In 1791, Owen Kennard began work on a new brick building that changed hands several times throughout the years. Dates on the building show when additions were made in 1877, 1881 and 1889. The present front was completed in time for a grand opening on Dec. 7, 1941 - Pearl Harbor Day. 13. THE BRICK HOTEL - northwest corner of Washington and Federal streets. Built in 1812, it became the Eastern Shore’s leading hostelry. When court was in session, plaintiffs, defendants and lawyers all came to town and shared rooms in hotels such as this. Frederick
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Douglass stayed in the Brick Hotel when he came back after the Civil War and gave a speech in the courthouse. It is now The Prager Building. 14. THOMAS PERRIN SMITH HOUSE - 119 N. Washington St. Built in 1803, it was the early home of the newspaper from which the Star-Democrat grew. In 1911, the building was acquired by the Chesapeake Bay Yacht Club, which occupies it today. 15. ART DECO STORES - 13-25 Goldsborough Street. Although much of Easton looks Colonial or Victorian, the 20th century had its inf luences as well. This row of stores has distinctive 1920s-era white trim at the roofline. It is rumored that there was a speakeasy here during Prohibition. 16. FIRST MASONIC GR AND LODGE - 23 N. Harrison Street. The records of Coats Lodge of Masons in Easton show that five Masonic Lodges met in Talbot Court House (as Easton was then called) on July 31, 1783 to form the first Grand Lodge of Masons in Maryland. Although the building where they first met is gone, a plaque marks the spot today. This completes your walking tour. 17. FOXLEY HALL - 24 N. Aurora St., Built about 1795, Foxley Hall is one of the best-known of Easton’s Federal dwellings. Former home of Oswald Tilghman, great-grandson of Lt. Col. Tench Tilghman. (Private)
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Easton Points of Interest 18. TRINITY EPISCOPAL CATHEDR AL - On “Cathedral Green,” Goldsborough St., a traditional Gothic design in granite. The interior is well worth a visit. All windows are stained glass, picturing New Testament scenes, and the altar cross of Greek type is unique. For more info. tel: 410-822-1931 or visit trinitycathedraleaston.com. 19. INN AT 202 DOVER - Built in 1874, this Victorian-era mansion ref lects many architectural styles. For years the building was known as the Wrightson House, thanks to its early 20th century owner, Charles T. Wrightson, one of the founders of the S. & W. canned food empire. Locally it is still referred to as Captain’s Watch due to its prominent balustraded widow’s walk. The Inn’s renovation in 2006 was acknowledged by the Maryland Historic Trust and the U.S. Dept. of the Interior. 20. TALBOT COUNTY FREE LIBRARY - Housed in an attractively remodeled building on West Street, the hours of operation are Mon. and Thurs., 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., Tues. and Wed. 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Fri. and Sat., 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit tcf l.org. 21. U. of M. SHORE MEDICAL CENTER AT EASTON - Established in the early 1900s as the Memorial Hospital, now a member of
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Easton Points of Interest The Friends of Wye Mill, and grinds f lour to this day using two massive grindstones powered by a 26 horsepower overshot waterwheel. For more info. visit oldwyemill.org. 26. W YE ISL A ND NATUR AL RESOURCE MA NAGEMENT AREA - Located between the Wye River and the Wye East River, the area provides habitat for waterfowl and native wildlife. There are 6 miles of trails that provide opportunities for hiking, birding and wildlife viewing. For more info. visit dnr.state.md.us/publiclands/eastern/wyeisland.asp. 27. OLD WYE CHURCH - Old Wye Church is one of the oldest active Anglican Communion parishes in Talbot County. Wye Chapel was built between 1718 and 1721 and opened for worship on October 18, 1721. For more info. visit wyeparish.org. 28. WHITE MARSH CHURCH - The original structure was built before 1690. Early 18th century rector was the Reverend Daniel Maynadier. A later provincial rector (1764–1768), the Reverend Thomas Bacon, compiled “Bacon’s Laws,” authoritative compendium of Colonial Statutes. Robert Morris, Sr., father of Revolutionary financier is buried here.
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On the broad Miles River, with its picturesque tree-lined streets and beautiful harbor, St. Michaels has been a haven for boats plying the Chesapeake and its inlets since the earliest days. Here, some of the handsomest models of the Bay craft, such as canoes, bugeyes, pungys and some famous Baltimore Clippers, were designed and built. The Church, named “St. Michael’s,” was the first building erected (about 1677) and around it clustered the town that took its name. 1. WADES POINT INN - Located on a point of land overlooking majestic Chesapeake Bay, this historic inn has been welcoming guests for over 100 years. Thomas Kemp, builder of the original “Pride of Baltimore,” built the main house in 1819. For more info. visit www.wadespoint.com. 117
St. Michaels Points of Interest 2. LODGE AT PERRY CABIN - Located on the scenic Miles River with an 18 hole golf course - Links at Perry Cabin. For more info. visit www. belmond.com/inn-at-perry-cabin-st-michaels/. (Now under renovation) 3. MILES RIVER YACHT CLUB - Organized in 1920, the Miles River Yacht Club continues its dedication to boating on our waters and the protection of the heritage of log canoes, the oldest class of boat still sailing U. S. waters. The MRYC has been instrumental in preserving the log canoe and its rich history on the Chesapeake Bay. For more info. visit www.milesriveryc.org. 4. INN AT PERRY CABIN BY BELMOND - The original building was constructed in the early 19th century by Samuel Hambleton, a purser in the United States Navy during the War of 1812. It was named for his friend, Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry. Perry Cabin has served as a riding academy and was restored in 1980 as an inn and restaurant. For more info. visit www.belmond.com/inn-at-perry-cabin-st-michaels/. 5. THE PARSONAGE INN - A bed and breakfast inn at 210 N. Talbot St., was built by Henry Clay Dodson, a prominent St. Michaels businessman and state legislator around 1883 as his private residence. In 1877, Dodson,
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St. Michaels Points of Interest along with Joseph White, established the St. Michaels Brick Company, which later provided the brick for the house. For more info. visit www. parsonage-inn.com. 6. FREDERICK DOUGLASS HISTORIC MARKER - Born at Tuckahoe Creek, Talbot County, Douglass lived as a slave in the St. Michaels area from 1833 to 1836. He taught himself to read and taught in clandestine schools for blacks here. He escaped to the north and became a noted abolitionist, orator and editor. He returned in 1877 as a U.S. Marshal for the District of Columbia and also served as the D.C. Recorder of Deeds and the U.S. Minister to Haiti. 7. CHESAPEAKE BAY MARITIME MUSEUM - Founded in 1965, the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum is dedicated to preserving the rich heritage of the hemisphere’s largest and most productive estuary - the Chesapeake Bay. Located on 18 waterfront acres, its nine exhibit buildings and floating fleet bring to life the story of the Bay and its inhabitants, from the fully restored 1879 Hooper Strait lighthouse and working boatyard to the impressive collection of working decoys and a recreated waterman’s shanty. Home to the world’s largest collection of Bay boats, the Museum regularly
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St. Michaels Points of Interest hosts temporary exhibitions, special events, festivals, and education programs. Docking and pump-out facilities available. Exhibitions and Museum Store open year-round. Up-to-date information and hours can be found on the Museum’s website at www.cbmm.org or by calling 410-745-2916. 8. THE CRAB CLAW - Restaurant adjoining the Maritime Museum and overlooking St. Michaels harbor. Open March-November. 410-7452900 or www.thecrabclaw.com. 9. PATRIOT - During the season (April-November) the 65’ cruise boat can carry 150 persons, runs daily historic narrated cruises along the Miles River. For daily cruise times, visit www.patriotcruises.com or call 410-745-3100. 10. THE FOOTBRIDGE - Built on the site of many earlier bridges, today’s bridge joins Navy Point to Cherry Street. It has been variously known as “Honeymoon Bridge” and “Sweetheart Bridge.” It is the only remaining bridge of three that at one time connected the town with outlying areas around the harbor. 11. VICTORIANA INN - The Victoriana Inn is located in the Historic District of St. Michaels. The home was built in 1873 by Dr. Clay Dodson, a druggist, and occupied as his private residence and office. In 1910 the property, then known as “Willow Cottage,” underwent alterations when acquired by the Shannahan family who continued it as a private residence for over 75 years. As a bed and breakfast, circa 1988, major renovations took place, preserving the historic character of the gracious Victorian era. For more info. visit www.victorianainn.com. 12. HAMBLETON INN - On the harbor. Historic waterfront home built in 1860 and restored as a bed and breakfast in 1985 with a turn-ofthe-century atmosphere. For more info. visit www.hambletoninn.com. 13. SNUGGERY B&B - Oldest residence in St. Michaels, c. 1665.The structure incorporates the remains of a log home that was originally built on the beach and later moved to its present location. www.snuggery1665.com. 14. LOCUST STREET - A stroll down Locust Street is a look into the past of St. Michaels. The Haddaway House at 103 Locust St. was built by Thomas L. Haddaway in the late 1700s. Haddaway owned and operated the shipyard at the foot of the street. Wickersham, at 203 Locust Street, was built in 1750 and was moved to its present location in 2004. It is known for its glazed brickwork. Hell’s Crossing is the intersection of Locust and Carpenter streets and is so-named because in the late 1700’s, the town was described as a rowdy one, in keeping with a port town where sailors 122
would come for a little excitement. They found it in town, where there were saloons and working-class townsfolk ready to do business with them. Fights were common especially in an area of town called Hells Crossing. At the end of Locust Street is Muskrat Park. It provides a grassy spot on the harbor for free summer concerts and is home to the two cannons that are replicas of the ones given to the town by Jacob Gibson in 1813 and confiscated by Federal troops at the beginning of the Civil War. 15. FREEDOMS FRIEND LODGE - Chartered in 1867 and constructed in 1883, the Freedoms Friend Lodge is the oldest lodge existing in Maryland and is a prominent historic site for our Black community. It is now the site of Blue Crab Coffee Company. 16. TALBOT COUNTY FREE LIBRARY - St. Michaels Branch is located at 106 S. Fremont Street. For more info. tel: 410-745-5877 or visit www.tcfl.org. 17. CARPENTER STREET SALOON - Life in the Colonial community revolved around the tavern. The traveler could, of course, obtain food, drink, lodging or even a fresh horse to speed his journey. This tavern was built in 1874 and has served the community as a bank, a newspaper office, post office and telephone company. For more info. visit www. carpenterstreetsaloon.com.
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St. Michaels Points of Interest 18. TWO SWAN INN - The Two Swan Inn on the harbor served as the former site of the Miles River Yacht Club, was built in the 1800s and was renovated in 1984. It is located at the foot of Carpenter Street. For more info. visit www.twoswaninn.com. 19. TARR HOUSE - Built by Edward Elliott as his plantation home about 1661. It was Elliott and an indentured servant, Darby Coghorn, who built the first church in St. Michaels. This was about 1677, on the site of the present Episcopal Church (6 Willow Street, near Locust). 20. CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH - 301 S. Talbot St. Built of Port Deposit stone, the present church was erected in 1878. The first is believed to have been built in 1677 by Edward Elliott. For more info. tel: 410-745-9076. 21. THE OLD BRICK INN - Built in 1817 by Wrightson Jones, who opened and operated the shipyard at Beverly on Broad Creek. (Talbot St. at Mulberry). For more info. visit www.oldbrickinn.com. 22. THE CANNONBALL HOUSE - When St. Michaels was shelled by the British in a night attack in 1813, the town was “blacked out” and lanterns were hung in the trees to lead the attackers to believe the town was on a high bluff. The houses were overshot. The story is that a can-
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St. Michaels Points of Interest nonball hit the chimney of “Cannonball House” and rolled down the stairway. This “blackout” was believed to be the first such “blackout” in the history of warfare. 23. AMELIA WELBY HOUSE - Amelia Coppuck, who became Amelia Welby, was born in this house and wrote poems that won her fame and the praise of Edgar Allan Poe. 24. ST. MICHAELS MUSEUM at ST. MARY’S SQUARE - Located in the heart of the historic district, offers a unique view of 19th century life in St. Michaels. The exhibits are housed in three period buildings and contain local furniture and artifacts donated by residents. The museum is supported entirely through community efforts. For more info. tel: 410745-9561 or www.stmichaelsmuseum.org. 25. GR ANITE LODGE #177 - Located on St. Mary’s Square, Granite Lodge was built in 1839. The building stands on the site of the first Methodist Church in St. Michaels on land donated to the Methodists by James Braddock in 1781. Between then and now, the building has served variously as a church, schoolhouse and as a storehouse for muskrat skins. 26. KEMP HOUSE - Now a country inn. A Georgian style house,
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Oxford Points of Interest Oxford is one of the oldest towns in Maryland. Although already settled for perhaps 20 years, Oxford marks the year 1683 as its official founding, for in that year Oxford was first named by the Maryland General Assembly as a seaport and was laid out as a town. In 1694, Oxford and a new town called Anne Arundel (now Annapolis) were selected the only ports of entry for the entire Maryland province. Until the American Revolution, Oxford enjoyed prominence as an international shipping center surrounded by wealthy tobacco plantations. Today, Oxford is a charming tree-lined and waterbound village with a population of just over 700 and is still important in boat building and yachting. It has a protected harbor for watermen who harvest oysters, crabs, clams and fish, and for sailors from all over the Bay. 1. JOHN WESLEY METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH - Built on a tiny patch of land outside Oxford, this unassuming one-room building without a steeple and without indoor plumbing, once served as an im-
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Oxford Points of Interest portant place of worship and gathering for generations of Talbot County African-Americans. It was an abolitionist and integrated church community in a county which was slave-holding since 1770. Talbot County was at the center of both legal manumission (the freeing of a slave) and Fugitive Slave Act enforcement. The African American community was 50% free and 50% enslaved. It was also the center of Union recruitment of slaves for the U.S. Colored Troops. For more info. visit johnwesleychurch.org. 2. OXFORD CONSERVATION PARK - The park’s 86 acres stretch out on the southern side of state Route 333, near Boone Creek Road, and features walking trails, wetland viewing areas, native bird species, and open landscapes. 3. TENCH TILGHMAN MONUMENT - In the Oxford Cemetery the Revolutionary War hero’s body lies along with that of his widow. Lt. Col. Tench Tilghman, who was Gen. George Washington’s aide-de-camp, carried the message of Cornwallis’ surrender from Yorktown, VA, to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia. Across the cove from the cemetery may be seen Plimhimmon, home of Tench Tilghman’s widow, Anna Maria Tilghman.
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Oxford Points of Interest 4. THE OXFORD COMMUNITY CENTER - This former, pillared brick schoolhouse was saved from the wrecking ball by the town residents. Now it is a gathering place for meetings, classes, lectures, and performances by the Tred Avon Players and has been recently renovated. Rentals available to groups and individuals. 410-226-5904 or visit oxfordcc.org. 5. THE COOPERATIVE OXFORD LABORATORY - U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Maryland Department of Natural Resources located here. 410-226-5193 or visit dnr.state.md.us/fisheries/oxford. 6. U.S. COAST GUARD STATION - 410-226-0580. 7. CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY - Founded in 1851. Designed by esteemed British architect Richard Upton, co-founder of the American Institute of Architects. It features beautiful stained glass windows by the acclaimed Willet Studios of Philadelphia. 410-226-5134 or visit holytrinityoxfordmd.org 8. OXFORD TOWN PARK - Former site of the Oxford High School. Recent restoration of the beach as part of a “living shoreline project” created 2 terraced sitting walls, a protective groin and a sandy beach with
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Oxford Points of Interest native grasses which will stop further erosion and provide valuable aquatic habitat. A similar project has been completed adjacent to the ferry dock. A kayak launch site has also been located near the ferry dock. 9. OXFORD MUSEUM - Morris & Market Sts. Devoted to the preservation of artifacts and memories of Oxford, MD. Admission is free; donations gratefully accepted. For more info. and hours tel: 410-226-0191 or visit oxfordmuseum.org. 10. OXFORD LIBRARY - 101 Market St. Founded in 1939 and on its present site since 1950. Hours are Mon.-Sat., 10-4. 11. BRATT MANSION (ACADEMY HOUSE) - 205 N. Morris St. Served as quarters for officers of the Maryland Military Academy. Built about 1848. (Private residence) 12. BARNABY HOUSE - 212 N. Morris St. Built in 1770 by sea captain Richard Barnaby, this charming house contains original pine woodwork, corner fireplaces and an unusually lovely handmade staircase. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places. (Private residence) 13. THE GRAPEVINE HOUSE - 309 N. Morris St. The grapevine over the entrance arbor was brought from the Isle of Jersey in 1810 by
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Oxford Points of Interest Captain William Willis, who commanded the brig “Sarah and Louisa.” (Private residence) 14. THE ROBERT MORRIS INN - N. Morris St. & The Strand. Robert Morris was the father of Robert Morris, Jr., the “financier of the Revolution.” Built about 1710, part of the original house with a beautiful staircase is contained in the beautifully restored Inn, now open 7 days a week. Robert Morris, Jr. was one of only 2 Founding Fathers to sign the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the United States Constitution. 410-226-5111 or visit robertmorrisinn.com. 15. THE OXFORD CUSTOM HOUSE - N. Morris St. & The Strand. Built in 1976 as Oxford’s official Bicentennial project. It is a replica of the first Federal Custom House built by Jeremiah Banning, who was the first Federal Collector of Customs appointed by George Washington. 16. TRED AVON YACHT CLUB - N. Morris St. & The Strand. Founded in 1931. The present building, completed in 1991, replaced the original structure. 17. OXFORD-BELLEVUE FERRY - N. Morris St. & The Strand. Started in 1683, this is believed to be the oldest privately operated ferry in
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Oxford Points of Interest the United States. Its first keeper was Richard Royston, whom the Talbot County Court “pitcht upon” to run a ferry at an unusual subsidy of 2,500 pounds of tobacco. Service has been continuous since 1836, with power supplied by sail, sculling, rowing, steam, and modern diesel engine. Many now take the ride between Oxford and Bellevue for the scenic beauty. 18. BYEBERRY - On the grounds of Cutts & Case Boatyard. It faces Town Creek and is one of the oldest houses in the area. The date of construction is unknown, but it was standing in 1695. Originally, it was in the main business section but was moved to the present location about 1930. (Private residence) 19. CUTTS & CASE - 306 Tilghman St. World-renowned boatyard for classic yacht design, wooden boat construction and restoration using composite structures. Some have described Cutts & Case Shipyard as an American Nautical Treasure because it produces to the highest standards quality work equal to and in many ways surpassing the beautiful artisanship of former times.
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Tilghman’s Island “Great Choptank Island” was granted to Seth Foster in 1659. Thereafter it was known as Foster’s Island, and remained so through a succession of owners until Matthew Tilghman of Claiborne inherited it in 1741. He and his heirs owned the island for over a century and it has been Tilghman’s Island ever since, though the northern village and the island’s postal designation are simply “Tilghman.” For its first 175 years, the island was a family farm, supplying grains, vegetables, fruit, cattle, pigs and timber. Although the owners rarely were in residence, many slaves were: an 1817 inventory listed 104. The last Tilghman owner, General Tench Tilghman (not Washington’s aide-de-camp), removed the slaves in the 1830s and began selling off lots. In 1849, he sold his remaining interests to James Seth, who continued the development. The island’s central location in the middle Bay is ideally suited for watermen harvesting the Bay in all seasons. The years before the Civil War saw the influx of the first families we know today. A second wave arrived after the War, attracted by the advent of oyster dredging in the 1870s. Hundreds of dredgers and tongers operated out of Tilghman’s Island, their catches sent to the cities by schooners. Boat building, too, was an important industry. The boom continued into the 1890s, spurred by the arrival of steamboat service, which opened vast new markets for Bay seafood. Islanders quickly capitalized on the opportunity as several seafood buyers set up shucking and canning operations on pilings at the edge of the shoal of Dogwood Cove. The discarded oyster shells eventually became an island with seafood packing houses, hundreds of workers, a store, and even a post office. The steamboats also brought visitors who came to hunt, fish, relax and escape the summer heat of the cities. Some families stayed all summer in one of the guest houses that sprang up in the villages of Tilghman, Avalon, Fairbank and Bar Neck. Although known for their independence, Tilghman’s Islanders enjoy showing visitors how to pick a crab, shuck an oyster or find a good fishing spot. In the twentieth century, Islanders pursued these vocations in farming, on the water, and in the thriving seafood processing industry. The “Tilghman Brand” was known throughout the eastern United States, but as the Bay’s bounty diminished, so did the number of water-related jobs. Still, three of the few remaining Bay skipjacks (sailing dredgeboats) can be seen here, as well as two working harbors with scores of power workboats. 139
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by Gary D. Crawford Link One: The Ocean and the Atoll If you approach Earth from outer space at just the right angle, you’ll see why the gods dubbed it the water planet. One side of the globe is almost entirely covered by water. It’s the Pacific side, of course, and those of us who have lived out there are forever awed by its immensity. Here and there in that vast ocean are thousands of tiny specks of land. Like a handful of sand grains scattered across a basketball court, those bits of land are minute and very far apart. One of those specks is a circular coral reef just 3½ miles long, quite small even by Pacific standards. Some of the reef is above water, but much is not. The total land area is no more than one square mile. There is no harbor and no pass through the reef into the lagoon. It lies in the far southern reaches of the Tuamotu Archipelago, part of French Polynesia, though there is no indication it has ever supported a population of any thing but seabirds. The first recorded sighting by a westerner was when Captain Samuel Grimwood of the Discoverer, spotted it in January of 1828 and promptly dubbed it “Grimwood’s Island.” Four years
later, the American whaling captain Nathaniel Cary also reported it; he called it “Barstow’s Island” af ter his ship, the Gideon Barstow. Follow ing local tradition, the French government named it Morane (mo-rah-ney). On some maps, however, this island appeared as “Cadmus,” referring to an American whale-ship of
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The crew had no warning before the lookout cried out in the darkness, “Breakers ahead!” Captain Edwin Mayhew tried to steer away, but she “missed stays” (failed to come around to take the wind on the other side of her sails) and crashed hard onto the coral rocks. As the ocean swells were pounding Cadmus to death, the captain managed to get one whaleboat lowered; others clung to debris or simply swam ashore. All but one made it safely to dry land, what there was of it. In the morning they saw that Cadmus was hopelessly wrecked, so they collected the items that had washed ashore. They reckoned the casks contained fresh water and provisions for 60 days at most, but there was little chance that a vessel would pass near enough to that remote location. They had the one boat, but it could carry only eight men. The closest island was about 100
miles away, but they knew that it, too, was uninhabited. The nearest inhabited island was Pitcairn, which they had passed several days earlier and which now lay 360 miles upwind. After discussion, they agreed that their best chance was for the captain to sail the boat north to Tahiti, where the American Consul could render assistance. All was quickly made ready, and the next day the captain set off accompanied by his first mate and six crewmen. A gale blew them off course and damaged their supplies, but they got some assistance from a passing ship and after eleven days managed to arrive safely in Papeete, the capital of Tahiti. A fast schooner was immed iately d ispatched to retrieve the remaining men waiting on Morane Atoll. The crew was reunited two weeks later, having lost only John Turner, the man who drowned on the night of the wreck. One of the six men who sailed in Captain Mayhew’s boat to Tahiti was a young Eastern Shoreman who called himself Charles Rochester. Oddly, it wasn’t his real name. Link Two: The Atoll and the Eastern Shore On the other side of the world from these events ~ and 175 years later ~ I wrote a story about an interesting fellow named Thompson, born and raised in the Bay Hundred, Talbot County. My article was titled Abby ~ The Boy with Six Names,
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and the editors of this fine magazine published it in their February 2016 issue. You can read the whole thing at tidewatertimes.com, but here’s a brief summary of that piece. His father, Dr. Absalom Thompson, once owned all of Tilghman’s Island, for just four years, which had led me to learn about him. For some reason, the good doctor gave his son the extraordinary name of Absalom Chr istopher Columbus A mer igo Vespucius Thompson, which I facetiously shortened to “Abby.” When the lad was about 16 years of age, he attended a medical school in Baltimore, completing the program in 1841. Then, at the tender age of 20, Abby suddenly disappeared from the face of the earth. Dr. Thompson, a widower, was bereft. He made inquiries, but the authorities could find no trace of Abby. He never gave up hope that his only child was still alive somewhere, and in his will, he left everything to the boy “if he should return.” Ju s t a fe w mont h s a f ter D r. Thompson passed away in 1842, a letter arrived from the Pacific with
stunning news. Abby was alive! He explained that he had gone awhaling and would be back in a year or two. For reasons we may never know, when school was over he left Baltimore and traveled to Fairhaven, Massachusetts, a whaling town near New Bedford. (Fairhaven is also where, some decades later, Capt. Joshua Slocum would spend 13 months rebuilding a derelict local boat, the Spray ~ and then sail it around the world singlehanded, the first man ever to do so.) There in Fairhaven, Abby signed aboard the whaler Cadmus, Capt. Edwin Mayhew. He registered as “Charles Rochester of Easton, Maryland, aged 22.” The register reveals that Abby stood less than 5’4” tall, which may be why he added two years to his age. But why he sailed away u nder a n a ssu med na me, without letting anyone in his family know, we may never know. Event u a l ly A bby d id r e t u r n, via South America, to the Eastern Shore. Here he met Sarah Haddaway of Bay Hundred. On May 3, 1844, they were married.
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Abby then began a new career as a schoolteacher, taking a position in Wilmington, Delaware, where their first two children were born ~ first Anna, then Sarah. Their third daughter arrived after the family returned to Wittman, in 1847. She was given the wonderful name of Atlantis. In 1852, Abby (who now called himself “Absolom C. C. Thompson”) moved the family south to Talberton, Georgia, where George, their fourth and last child, was born. When war came, Thompson made use of his medical training, serving as a surgeon in the Confederate Army. He was wounded in 1862, fell sick in 1865 and left the service in that year. He became a Methodist 144
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kid run off to sea without saying a word to friends or family? Why just skip out, leaving his father to wonder whether his only son was alive or dead? Yes, he did come back ~ but not until his father was dead. It seems, to me, a callous and cruel thing to do. To my dismay, Joseph said he d id n’t k now, e it he r. W h ate ve r ex pla nat ion for h i s d i sappe a r ance Abby might have offered to the family, apparently it was not passed down the generations. We speculated. Did Abby have a falling out with his dad? Did he feel he
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was being pushed into the medical profession against his will? Was a woman involved? Or was he just thoughtless, like many young people unable to imagine his father might suddenly pass away? Did the family have any idea about all that? Joseph said they hadn’t a clue. Abby seems to have been a rocksolid citizen down in Georgia for the last 25 years of his life, so there is no hint of instability or f lightiness. There was a pause in our conversation as we both mulled it over. Suddenly Joseph said, “You know what? I suspect it may simply have been wanderlust. I think the guy just wanted to get away and see the world. Especially the Pacific…”
Link Four: Joseph to Me Hey, I thought, maybe so. After all, it had happened to me. After teaching high school in Ohio for two years, I had chucked it all and joined the Peace Corps. Why? Because volunteers were being recruited to serve in a different part of the world ~ in Micronesia ~ way out in the far western Pacific. Anyway, I signed up and went out in 1967. It changed my life, but this isn’t about me. I just need to explain that after my two-year hitch as a volunteer, I began training incoming Peace Corps volunteers in a whole lot of island locations throughout the Pacif ic: Palau, Saipan, Yap, Truk, Ponape, Funafuti, Hawaii and Tonga. In other words, Joseph’s sug-
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It got even stranger when Joseph mentioned his interest in music. He plays the violin and had carried one all around the Pacific. In Samoa he spent some weeks stretching a shark skin over a coconut shell to make a three-string ukulele he called Leroy, then set sail for Tonga in a very leaky boat. It soon became clear the boat was in need of serious repair, so they put in to Nuku’alofa, the capital of the Kingdom of Tonga. (Tonga? Oh my.) Link Five: Me to Tonga At one time in the ’70s, I was employed training Peace Corps volunteers in Hilo, Hawaii. There I met Soane Hurrell, who was doing the same. He was working in another program preparing people to serve in his home country, the Kingdom of Tonga (in the South Pacific), while I was helping train volunteers for service in Micronesia (in the North Pacific). We soon discovered we had other interests in common, especially a love of music. Soane played classical guitar ~ seriously, from music. I played the recorder, and we located some duet music that we could enjoy playing together. Months later, the training center in Hilo closed and left us both out of work. By now fast friends, Soane and I decided to follow our most recent trainees to Tonga, where Soane had not been for many years and I had never been. So we f lew from Hilo to Honolulu to Samoa. A fancy
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essary place on the earth where the date switches. Consider: When it’s 5 a.m. Tuesday here in Maryland, it’s 2 a.m. Tuesday in California, right? Hawaii is three hours earlier yet, so in Honolulu it’s 11 p.m. and still Monday. But you can’t keep doing that all the way around the world, because sooner or later you’re back here in Mar yland with the right time but the wrong day. In other words, somewhere in the world it is necessary to “jump” the date ahead to Tuesday ~ and that’s what happens at the International Date Line. It was put way out in midPacific to avoid causing problems in populated areas. So the IDL, running from the North Pole to the South Pole and
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The lobby floor. passing just to the east of Tonga, is what suggested a name for this new hotel back in 1964. A map of the island is inlaid in the lobby floor; I liked to imagine that one side of the room was in “tomorrow.” Another reason I liked the Dateline Hotel was that they sometimes had a Tongan band playing live music in the bar. My stay in Tonga came to an end when I was called back to work in the North Pacific, training more Peace
Link Six: Soane to Brian Later, Soane came to the States to visit friends in San Mateo, CA, where many Tongans now live and work. After some months, he decided to visit my parents in San Diego, whom he had never met. I was told they welcomed him as a third son. When my brother Brian finished some adventures of his own, down in Norfolk Harbor, he went back to San Diego for the first time in a few years. When he showed up at my parents’ apartment, Brian was surprised to find a Tongan man had taken his place. All quickly became good friends. Brian and Soane soon got jobs (sandblasting road equipment) to earn money for airfare. They wanted to go to Tonga, where my work had taken me for the second time. That was all in the 1970s, you understand, when we were all young and footloose.
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Brian and Soane, with Brian’s son Nathan, on Soane’s 69th birthday, circa 2010. Link Seven: Joseph to Tonga With that background, let’s return to the present day. During our telephone chat, Joseph mentioned that he had really enjoyed his month in Tonga. Not only did they get their boat fixed so they could sail on, but he made friends with some memorable Tonga ns. One evening he dropped into the Dateline Hotel and immediately was attracted to the music playing in the bar. (Oh, yes!) The band was a much-liked group of local musicians who called themselves “The Oldtimers.” They were led by an older fellow named Peni Filimoehala, who sang and played the viola. When Joseph produced his Samoan ukulele, they asked him to play with them. They were playing mostly familiar American standards, so he was able to join in fairly easily. Another time, Peni invited Jo-
seph to join them at another gig, at the Friendly Islands Motel. There, however, it was mostly Tongan folk songs, which captivated Joseph. Mesmerized, he refused to contaminate their music with his bad ukulele play ing. Instead, he got their permission to do some tape recording. I wa s l isten i ng to a l l t h is i n stunned silence. “Wow,” I exclaimed. “Now there’s a coincidence!” After all, just a few years earlier, I had stood in the Dateline Hotel and listened to the music there. Joseph then promised to send me some of his recordings and, sure enough, two days later an e-mail arrived with two MP3 recordings attached. Wow, indeed. It took me back.
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Link Eight: Soane to Joseph A week or so later, I got a phone call. It was Soane, calling from h i s home i n Sa n L e a nd ro, C A , just wanting to wish me a happy birthday. I told him about Joseph, my Abby story, the wreck of the Cadmus,and Joseph’s visit to Tonga. Soane listened intently. When I mentioned the Tongan music, he suddenly interrupted. “Hey, I’ll bet that was Peni’s band!” “It was!” I said with delight. “I wondered if you’d know who he was talking about. Did you know Peni Filimoehala?” “You bet I knew him. He played at all our family’s weddings. He was my mother’s uncle.” So, yes, the Pacif ic is vast. It
is very far from Wittman on the Eastern Shore to Nuku’alofa in the South Pacific. There is half a world between Tilghman and Tonga. Even so, sometimes lines of destiny and interconnection do exist below the sur face. A nd miraculously, once in a great while, we are lucky enough to learn about them. We can only wonder about the links still to be discovered ~ links that we will never discover. Gary Crawford and his wife, Susan, own and operate Crawfords Nautical Books, a unique bookstore on Tilghman’s Island.
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by Roger Vaughan Every time you lose a pet cat or dog, you ask yourself why you keep having them and getting so bloody attached to them, only to have them leave you after 8 to 12 years (dogs) or 12 to 20 years (cats). We’re told there are approximately 90 million dogs and 96 million cats living in American households, so roughly two-thirds of our population must consider it worth the sad and all-too-frequent trauma of pet loss to have these delightful, furry
creatures enriching our lives. I’m one of those people, one who just lost a great kitty. I’ve had four dogs. One was a townie, a mutt that looked sort of like a shorter-haired English sheep dog. He cruised the village where I lived in Rhode Island, making his rounds on many a day, but always coming home to eat, sleep and hang out. The two Goldens we had in Oxford, one after the other, were candidates for the best dogs who
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Only Cat ever lived: magazine-quality beauties with a reddish cast, and totally polite boys, always considerate and affectionate. It seemed they lived to please us. An older, threetime rescue chocolate Lab was the fourth and last, and he, too, was a good guy to have around. We’ve always had cats, too, but the dogs ruled the roost. After the Lab left, we held back on getting a new dog because we like big dogs and, among other things, we decided that big dogs require too much work for our aging bodies. Too much walking them in the rain and snow storms, too much washing off mud and wiping them
down. And these days it’s leash time all the time. The Goldens and the Lab could do leash, but it was infrequent. As Bob Dylan wrote, “to each his own, it’s all unknown, if dogs run free.” That left our two cats: Shark, a big gray drape cat with a white underbelly, and Sweetie, a feisty little round-faced tabby with some white and orange patches. Sweetie had an extraordinary set of whiskers, given that Shark, an older boy who had helped raise her at the Talbot Humane Society, had bitten them off when she was a kitten. Shark had been our choice, but the Humane Society persuaded us to also take the young tabby since the two had been together for so long.
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Sweetie We were never sure that was okay with Shark. When we brought him home we sensed some relief as he strolled out of the carrier with a “free at last” expression that slowly turned incredulous as he spotted Sweetie exiting the other carrier with an unrestrained leap. But the Shark was cool. A drape cat is sonamed because he never seems fully awake, and he can drape himself over just about anything soft he can find, including your shoulder, and fall asleep in a f lash. Shark only lasted a few years before succumbing to feline diabetes. For the first time ever, that left us with an only cat, a situation that turned out to be an education and
an immense pleasure. When there is a cat community consisting of two or more, the cats will establish their own dynamic. Depending on individual personalities, they will interact with their humans some of the time. Maybe they’ll chase the red laser dot, or play with the feather strung on the wand, or skid around in the tub with the ping pong ball. But the majority of the time will be spent fussing, playing, sparring, cuddling up with the other cats, or taking dares, or venting their frustrations on the furniture, the toilet paper, or the fringe on the table cloth. When there is only one cat, the humans become that animal’s only opportunity for social intercourse. When that situation exists, as I found out, we are talking about establishing a much deeper and more satisfying relationship with a cat. Cats are often bad-mouthed by the dog fraternity for their apparent disinterest, their disdain, their confounding independence. Dog owners want instant obedience and devotion, damn it. Anything else rankles or indicates (heaven forbid) incompetent ownership. Cat cartoons obviously drawn by dog fanciers often depict cats as heartless little bird killers with murder in their hearts for their humans. They don’t come when they are called, they do what they want when they want, and they want you to do what they want when they
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Only Cat want. They can be testy, demanding, and can draw blood just when you think they are enjoying that belly rub. The only cat is different. Away from the constant inf luence of his peers, he (or she, in the case of Sweetie) can become a whole different animal. I hedge that bet slightly because there are certainly bad-to-the-bone cats who will be unpleasant regardless of the situation ~ witness Blofeld’s unnamed prissy white armload in From Russia With Love. But that grumpy princess was a thoroughbred, which makes a difference. Sweetie was just a cat, an American alley. She must have had extrakeen hearing because she never lost the extreme startle ref lex she had as a youngster. In her later years, her response to the softest strange noise went from a full body ref lex to a little head jerk, but it was there. She was a retriever, a fool for a sheet of paper being crunched into a ball and then thrown. At first she wasn’t much of a snuggler. She had a five- to tensecond tolerance for being held, always seeming too busy for a longer hug. But a combination of age and the loss of her partner, Shark, brought about changes. Cat owners have never figured out if they are training their pets into a comfortable routine, or if the cat is training
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How could you not love a face like that? What a sweetie! them. I submit that both things are going on. One suggests, the other accepts, or rejects and starts over. Sweetie, even though she had a well-used cat door, liked going out all the various doors to the outside (there are four we use) depending on time of day, wind direction, weather and noises only she could hear. She trained us to open those doors. She also worked on our nonverbal communication skills. If you found her sitting up in a certain place on the kitchen f loor, front feet planted together at attention, staring at you, she was definitely out of food. At first she would meow once or twice to get your attention. After she figured we got it, she cancelled
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Only Cat the meow part and just stared. She was very good at eye contact. She did meow for treats, but she also learned this word: “busy!” spoken briskly. We trained her to use the great outdoors as her cat box, and also trained her to respond like Pavlov’s dog to a shake of the treat bottle. We could always find her that way. Mainly she liked to be with us, to go where we were going, to hang out where we were moving wood, planting plants, reading, or watching TV. Best of all, she talked. When
I would come in from the office, Sweetie would often be lying asleep on the top edge of a couch pillow. She’d open her eyes and give me a big hello meow. It was a different sound from I’m hungry, or I want to go out. It was definitely hello, and it always hit me in the heart. When she became part of the human dynamic in our house, Sweetie became much more entertaining. Jackie Kennedy Onassis, who loved cats, once said that cats were like sculpture pieces one encountered around the house. Sweetie had a great way of surprising you by assuming some clas-
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Ahhh ~ nap time. sic or perhaps amusing position. When I would come upon her, the sight would often make me laugh out loud. One of my favorites was when she stretched out on the top of the couch back on the porch, sound asleep. Her body would be supported, but all four legs would be sticking out in mid air. Like all cats, she had a fondness for sun spots, especially in winter. There she would suddenly be, frozen in place, spot lit like a diva on stage at the Met. These encounters went on many times every day and provided immense pleasure. Sweetie also liked our friends, or most of them. When they arrived, she would appear and make friendly, welcoming gestures. She did bite one friend who came in to feed her when we were away. All I
could figure is that Sweetie knew right away the friend was a committed dog person. Guess she never heard that caution about biting the hand that feeds you. But she knew we weren’t pleased. I can’t say I ever got Sweetie to respond instantly to commands, like a dog, but it was close. I have to admit I did spend a lot of time talking with her. While I realized that tone of voice and repeated sounds were all that was being communicated, I did ramble on at times. But it seemed to work. I think animals like to hear our voices, much as we like to hear theirs. I talk with the hens, too. It assures identification if nothing more. I’d often invite Sweetie to “go out” with me, and more than half the time, after a moment to consider the idea, she’d come running. The rest of the time she’d sit there motionless, either pondering the offer or rejecting it (it’s raining, dummy), which I thought was her right. Cat people are different from dog people in that they are willing to let the animal have its life as long as it falls within basic house rules. I also taught Sweetie “no,” for those times when she would try to sample a cocktail or have a snooze on the dining room table. “No” didn’t work with the many small snakes she brought in that were irresistible to her. Frogs, too. And a baby owl one time. She didn’t kill them, just brought them
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in as “presents.” I did okay with the frogs and the owl. The snakes I left to Kippy, much, she thought, to Sweetie’s satisfaction. There was some jealousy involved. Best of all was when Sweetie became affectionate, happy to loll across my lap while I watchedsports playoffs or movies on television. And the minute she heard me setting the timer for a nap, she would show up, eager to zonk out on my chest after a long moment of eye contact. After 15 great years, Sweetie left us. It’s amazing she lasted as long as she did. We knew she was the sole survivor of her litter. Our
great vet, Ed Coulston, helped keep her alive with a regular supplement of kitty prednisone. In retrospect, I should have seen it coming. Her coat had lost its luster, and she was sleeping a lot more than usual. But she was cool to the end. When it was time, she simply walked outside during the night and found a place on the lawn where she curled up and went into the big sleep. Roger Vaughan’s new book, Arthur Curtiss James, Unsung Titan of the Gilded Age, is available on Amazon.
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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. 169
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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. 171
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Kent County and Chestertown at a Glance Kent County is a treasury of early American history. Its principal towns and back roads abound with beautiful old homes and historic landmarks. The area was first explored by Captain John Smith in 1608. Kent County was founded in 1642 and named for the shire in England that was the home of many of Kent’s earliest colonists. When the first legislature assembled in 1649, Kent County was one of two counties in the colony, thus making it the oldest on the Eastern Shore. It extended from Kent Island to the present boundary. The first settlement, New Yarmouth, thrived for a time and, until the founding of Chestertown, was the area’s economic, social and religious center. Chestertown, the county seat, was founded in 1706 and served as a port of entry during colonial times. A town rich in history, its attractions include a blend of past and present. Its brick sidewalks and attractive antiques stores, restaurants and inns beckon all to wander through the historic district and enjoy homes and places with architecture ranging from the Georgian mansions of wealthy colonial merchants to the elaborate style of the Victorian era. Second largest district of restored 18th-century homes in Maryland, Chestertown is also home to Washington College, the nation’s tenth oldest liberal arts college, founded in 1782. Washington College was also the only college that was given permission by George Washington for the use of his name, as well as given a personal donation of money. The beauty of the Eastern Shore and its waterways, the opportunity for boating and recreation, the tranquility of a rural setting and the ambiance of living history offer both visitors and residents a variety of pleasing experiences. A wealth of events and local entertainment make a visit to Chestertown special at any time of the year. For more information about events and attractions in Kent County, contact the Kent County Visitor Center at 410-778-0416, visit www. kentcounty.com or e-mail tourism@kentcounty.com. For information about the Historical Society of Kent County, call 410-778-3499 or visit www.kentcountyhistory.org/geddes.php. For information specific to Chestertown visit www.chestertown.com. 173
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June Calendar Visitor Center. The two-day symposium focuses on the research about Harriet Tubman and the Underg round R a i lroad. This year’s theme is “It Ran on Faith.” For more info. tel: 410-228-1000 or e-mail info@harriettubmanbway.org. Thru June 2 A Garden of Quilts quilt show sponsored by t he Bayside Quilters of the Eastern Shore. The main event will be held in the Oxford Community Center. Antique quilts will be displayed in St. Paul’s Church, and there will be a Vendors Mall in the Oxford Fire Hall, all on Oxford’s main street. Admission is
$10, and tickets will be available at the front door of the Oxford Community Center. For more info. visit baysidequilters.org. Thru June 23 Exhibit: Conundrum by Deborah Colburn at Main Street Gallery, Cambridge. The St. Michaels painter works in her Wittman studio, WittA ire A r t ist s. There w i l l b e a Second Saturday reception at the gallery on June 8 from 5 to 8 p.m. A ll are invited; light refreshments will be served. For more info. visit mainstgallery.org or tel: 410-330-4659. Thru June 29 Exhibition: Beach Finds of the Chesapeake at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Mu-
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seum, St. Michaels. For more info. tel: 410-745-2916 or visit cbmm.org. Thru July 10 Exhibition: Richard Diebenkorn ~ Beginnings, 1942-1955 at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. The exhibition and its accompanying catalogue aim to present a comprehensive view of Diebenkorn’s evolution to maturity, focusing solely on t he pa i nt i ng s a nd d r aw i ng s that precede his 1955 shift to figuration at age 33. Free docent tours every Wednesday from 11 a.m. to noon. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit academyartmuseum.org. Thru Sept. 28 Exhibit: Honoring WWII Veterans of Talbot County at the Talbot County Historical Societ y, Easton. This exhibit honors the men and women who served in the military, both in this country and overseas, with specia l t r ibute to t hose who sacrificed their lives in WWII. Open to the public every Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and by appointment. For more info. tel: 410-822-0773.
Henr y Stansbur y and by t he world’s leading decoy auction firm, Guyette & Deeter. Entry is free for CBMM members or with general admission. For more info. tel: 410-745-2916 or visit cbmm.org. Thru March 1, 2020 Exhibition: On Land and On Sea ~ A Century of Women in the Rosenfeld Collection at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. The exhibition features the work of Morris and Stanley Rosenfeld, who created the world’s largest and most significant collection of maritime photography. This exhibition is sponsored by the Mar yland State Arts Council.
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June Calendar For more info. tel: 410-745-2916 or visit cbmm.org. 1 FREE learn to row clinic the first Saturday of the month. 9 to 10 a.m. No prior experience needed. Come learn to row or refresh your rowing skills with the Eastern Shore Community Rowers on the Tred Avon River. For more info. tel: 410-924-6621 or e-mail director@escrowers.org. 1 C elebrate t he Easter n Shore strawberr y har vest w ith over 50 artisans displaying quality crafts of all kinds and strawberries to eat and take home at St. Luke’s United Methodist’s 30th Annual Strawberry Festival and Craft Show at St. Luke’s Church, St. Michaels. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Crafts, lunch, bake sale, with food and fun for everyone. Free. For more info. tel: 410-745-2534
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admission for non-members. For more info. tel: 410-634-2847, ext. 0 or visit adkinsarboretum.org. 1 Secret Gardens of Oxford Tour and Shed Sale. Tour of gardens from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and shed sale from 9 a.m. to noon at the Oxford Town Park. $15 in advance, $20 day of. For more info. visit oxfordmdgc.org. 1 Lecture: Gretchen Diebenkorn Gra nt ~ My Fathe r Ric hard Diebenkorn at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. 11 a.m. Gretchen Diebenkorn Grant shares her insights and thoughts on the life and art of her famous father. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit academyartmuseum.org. 1-2 Journaling with Lee D’Zmura at Adkins Arboretum, Ridgely. Learn techniques for recording plants, animals, places, and experiences quickly and spiritedly, from initial sketches to f inal renderings. Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 3 p.m. $95 members, $100 non-members. For more info. tel: 410-634-2847, ext. 0 or visit adkinsarboretum.org. 1,7,8,14 ,15 ,21,22 ,28,29 Rock ’N’ Bowl at Choptank Bowling Center, Cambridge. Fridays and Saturdays from 9 to 11:59 p.m.
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June Calendar Unlimited bowling, food and drink specials, blacklighting, disco lights and jammin’ music. Rental shoes included. $13.99 every Friday and Saturday night. For more info. visit choptankbowling.com. 1,8,15 , 22 , 29 Easton Fa r mers Ma rket ever y Sat urday f rom mid-April through Christmas, from 8 a.m. until 1 p.m. Each week a different local musical artist is featured from 10 a.m. to noon. Town parking lot on Nor t h Har r ison Street. O ver 20 vendors. Easton’s Farmers Market is the work of the Avalon Foundation. For more info. visit avalonfoundation.org. 1,8,15,22,29 Anahata Yoga with Cavin Moore at the Oxford Community Center. Saturdays at 8 and 10 a.m. $12/class ~ drop-ins welcome. In Sanskrit, anahata means “unhurt, unstruck and unbeaten.” For more info. tel: 410-226-5904 or visit oxfordcc.org. 1,8,15,22,29 The St. Michaels Farmers Market is a communitybased, producer-only farmers market that runs Saturday mornings, rain or shine, from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m., April-November, at 204 S. Talbot St. in St. Michaels. For more information contact:
stmichaelsmarket@gmail.com. We do accept SNAP. 1,8,15,22,29 Cars and Coffee at the Classic Motor Museum in St. Michaels. Saturdays from 9 to 11 a.m. For more info. tel: 410-7458979 or visit classicmotormuseumstmichaels.org. 1,8,15,22,29 Historic High Street Walking Tour ~ experience the beauty and hear the folklore of Cambridge’s High Street. Onehour walking tours on Saturdays, sp on s or e d by t he We s t E nd Citizen’s Association. 11 a.m. at Long Wharf. Reservations not necessary, but appreciated. For more info. tel: 410-901-1000 or visit cambridgemd.org. 2 Annapolis Decoy Show from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Annapolis Elks Lodge, Edgewater. Buy, sell and trade antique duck decoys, contemporary carvings, hunting and fishing items, sporting art and books. Free admission, free parking and free appraisals. For more info. tel: 703-593-3024 or visit elks622.com.
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3 Meeting: Bereaved Parents group from 6 to 8 p.m. on the 1st Monday of the month at Compass Regional Hospice, Grief Support Services Wing, Centreville. For more info. visit compassregionalhospice.org. 3 Movie Night at Evergreen: A Center for Balanced Living in Easton. 1st Monday from 7 to 9 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-819-3395 or visit evergreeneaston.org.
the day of the program). For more info. tel: 410-634-2847, ext. 0 or visit adkinsarboretum.org. 2 47th annual W.T. Ruark Fishing Tournament at the Hoopers Island Volunteer Fire Company. Doors open at 1 p.m. Fish judging and registration from 3 to 5 p.m. Tickets are $5 and are good for all fishing categories and/or door prizes. Cash and trophy prizes. For more info. tel: 410-397-3142 or 443-205-3042. 3
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3 Bluegrass Jam at St. Andrew’s Episcopa l Church, 303 Main St., Hurlock. 1st Monday from 7 to 10 p.m. Bluegrass musicians and fans welcome. Donations accepted for the benefit of St. Andrew’s food bank. 3 Meeting: Cambridge Coin Club at the Dorchester County Public Library. 1st Monday at 7:30 p.m. Annual dues $5. For more info. tel: 443-521-0679. 3 Meeting: Live Playwrights’ Societ y at t he Ga r f ield C enter, Chestertown. 1st Monday from 7:30 to 9 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-810-2060. 3 , 5 ,10,1 2 ,17,19 , 2 4 , 2 6 Fo o d Distribution at the St. Michaels C om mu n it y C enter on Mondays and Wednesdays from 1 to 2 p.m. Open to a ll Ta lbot County residents. Must provide
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identification. Each family can participate once per week. For more info. tel: 410-745-6073 or visit stmichaelscc.org. 3,10,17,24 Meeting: Overeaters Anonymous at UM Shore Medical Center in Easton. Mondays from 5:15 to 6:15 p.m. For more info. visit oa.org.
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4,6,11,13,18,20,25,27 Tai Chi at the Oxford Community Center. Tues. and Thurs. at 9 a.m. with Nathan Spivey. $75 monthly ($10 drop-in fee). For more info. tel: 410-226-5904 or visit oxfordcc. org.
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June Calendar and Strong exercise class at the Oxford Community Center. Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10:15 a.m. $60/10 classes or $8 per class. For more info. tel: 410-226-5904 or visit oxfordcc.org. 4,6,11,13,18,20,25,27 Mixed/ Gentle Yoga at Everg reen: A Center for Balanced Living in Easton. Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1:30 to 2:45 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-819-3395 or visit evergreeneaston.org. 4,7,11,14,18,21,25,28 Free Blood Pressure Screenings from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Tuesdays and Fridays at University of Maryland Shore Medical Center, Cambridge. 4,11,18,25 Free Blood Pressure Screening from 9 a.m. to noon, Tuesdays at University of Maryland Shore Regional Health Diagnostic and Imaging Center, Easton. For more info. tel: 410820-7778. 4,11,18,25 Meeting: Bridge Clinic Support Group at the UM Shore Medical Center at Dorchester. Tuesdays from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Free, confidential support group for individuals who have been hospitalized for behavioral reasons. For more info. tel: 410-2285511, ext. 2140.
4,11,18,25 Healing Through Yoga at Talbot Hospice, Easton. Tuesdays from 9 to 10 a.m. This new complementary therapy guides participants through mindfulness and poses that direct healing in positive ways. Participants will learn empowering techniques to cope with grief and honor their loss. No previous yoga experience necessary. Yoga mats will be provided, and walk-ins are welcome. Free and open to the public. For more info. tel: 410-822-6681 or bdemattia@talbothospice.org. 4,18 Meeting: Breast Feeding Support Group, 1st and 3rd Tuesdays from 10 to 11:30 a.m. at UM Shore Medical Center, 5th floor meeting room, Easton. For more info. tel: 410-822-1000, ext. 5700 or visit shorehealth.org. 4,18 Afternoon Chess Academy at the Talbot County Free Library, Easton. 4:30 p.m. Learn and play chess. For ages 6 to 16. Snacks ser ved. Limited space, please pre-register. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit tcfl.org. 4,18 Cancer Patient Support Group at the Cancer Center at UM Shore Regional Health Center, Idlewild Ave., Easton. 1st and 3rd Tuesdays from 5 to 7 p.m. For more info. tel: 443-254-5940 or visit umshoreregional.org.
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4,18 Grief Support Group at the Dorchester County Library, Cambridge. 1st and 3rd Tuesdays at 6 p.m. Sponsored by Coastal Hospice & Palliative Care. For more info. tel: 443-978-0218. 4-July 30 Story Time at the Talbot County Free Librar y, Easton. Tuesdays at 10 a.m., with program repeating at 11 a.m., for ages 5 and under accompanied by an adult. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit tcfl.org. 5 Chamber Music Festival open rehearsal at the Academy Art
Museum, Easton. 10 a.m. Free. For more info. visit chesapeakemusic.org. 5 We are Builders at the Talbot Count y Free Librar y, St. Michaels. 3:30 p.m. Enjoy STEM and build with Legos and Zoobs. For ages 6 to 12. For more info. tel: 410-745-5877 or visit tcfl.org. 5 Meeting: Nar-Anon at Immanuel United Church of Christ, Cambridge. 7 to 8 p.m. 1st Wednesday. Support group for families and friends of addicts. For more info. tel: 800-477-6291 or visit nar-anon.org. 5,12,19,26 Meeting: Wednesday Morning Artists. 8 a.m. at Creek Deli in Cambridge. No cost. All disciplines and skill levels welcome. Guest speakers, roundtable discussions, studio tours and other art-related activities. For more info. tel: 410-463-0148. 5,12,19,26 Chair Yoga with Susan Irwin in the St. Michaels Housing Authority Community Room, Dodson Ave. Wednesdays from 9:30 to 10:15 a.m. Free. For more info. tel: 410-745-6073 or visit stmichaelscc.org.
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meal from Upper Shore Aging. For more info. tel: 410-745-6073 or visit stmichaelscc.org. 5,12,19,26 Acupuncture Clinic at Evergreen: A Center for Balanced Living in Easton. Wednesdays from noon to 1 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-819-3395 or visit evergreeneaston.org. 5,12,19,26 Meeting: Choptank Writers Group at the Dorchester Center for the Arts, Cambridge. Wednesdays from 3 to 5 p.m. Everyone interested in writing is invited to join. For more info. tel: 443-521-0039. 5,12,19,26 Yoga Nidra Meditation at Evergreen: A Center for Balanced Living in Easton. Wednesdays from 6:45 to 7:45 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-819-3395 or visit evergreeneaston.org. 6 Dog Walking at Adkins Arboretum, Ridgely. 1st Thursday at 10 a.m. For more info. tel: 410-6342847, ext. 0 or visit adkinsarboretum.org. 6 Arts & Crafts at the Talbot County Free Library, St. Michaels. 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Bring your own needlework projects, Zentangle pens, coloring books or anything else that fuels your imagina-
6 Forest Music at Adkins Arboretum, Ridgely. Musicians from Chestertown’s National Music Festival will present a unique improvisatory performance in t he fore st. The se innovat ive musicians will respond to one another’s playing in a music conversation that winds through the trees. A brief concert will follow at the Visitor’s Center. Light refreshments served; cash wine and beer bar. 4 p.m. Forest Music is free; donations are welcome. For more info. tel: 410-634-2847, ext. 0 or visit adkinsarboretum.org. 6 Chamber Music Festival concert at the Academy Art Museum, Easton 5:30 p.m. For more info. visit chesapeakemusic.org.
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6 Pet Loss Support Group on the 1st Thursday from 6 to 7 p.m. at Talbot Hospice, Easton. Monthly support group for those grieving the loss of a beloved pet. Hosted jointly by Talbot Humane and Talbot Hospice. Free and open to the public. For more info. contact Linda Elzey at lwelzey@ gmail.com or Talbot Humane at 410-822-0107. 6,13,20,27 Men’s Group Meeting at Evergreen: A Center for Balanced Living in Easton. Thursdays from 7:30 to 9 a.m. Weekly meeting where men can frankly and openly deal with issues in their lives. For more info. tel: 410-819-3395 or visit evergreeneaston.org. 6,13,20,27 Mahjong at the St. Michaels Communit y Center. 10 a.m. to noon on Thursdays. Open to all who want to learn this ancient Chinese game of skill. Drop-ins welcome. Free. For more info. tel: 410-745-6073 or visit stmichaelscc.org. 6,13,20,27 Caregivers Support Group at Talbot Hospice. Thursd ay s at 1 p.m. Th i s ongoi ng we ek ly suppor t g roup i s for caregivers of a loved one with a life-limiting illness. Free and open to the public. For more info. tel: 410-822-6681 or e-mail
6,13,20,27 Cambridge Farmer’s Market: Browse and buy fresh (a nd mo s t ly lo c a l) pr o duc e , meats, eggs, f lowers, plants, crafts and more every Thursday from 3 to 6 p.m. at Long Wharf in Cambridge. Free parking. For more info. visit facebook.com/ CambFarmMarket/. 6,13,20,27 Kent Island Farmer’s Market from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. every Thursday at Christ Church, 830 Romancoke Rd., Stevensville. For more info. visit kifm830.wixsite.com/kifm. 6,20 Meet ing: Samplers Quilt Guild from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Christ Episcopal Church, Cambridge. The Guild meets on the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of every month. Provide your own lunch. For more info. tel: 410-228-1015. 6,20 Classic Yoga at Evergreen: A Center for Balanced Living in Easton. 12:30 to 2 p.m. on the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of every month. For more info. tel: 410819-3395 or visit evergreeneaston.org. 7
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explore the fine talents of local artists. 5 to 8 p.m. 7 First Friday reception at Studio B Gallery, Easton. 5 to 8 p.m. For more info. tel: 443-988-1818 or visit studioBartgallery.com. 7 First Friday in downtown Chestertown. Join us for our monthly progressive open house. Our businesses keep their doors open later so you can enjoy gallery exhibits, unique shopping, special performances, kids’ activities and a variety of dining options. 5 to 8 p.m.
Vienna. 6 to 10 p.m. Singing, dancing and all-around good times! Bring your dinner and snacks to complete the night. Wine available at the bar. No registration is required. Table reservations taken by phone on the day of the event only. For more info. tel: 410-228-1205 or visit laytonschance.com.
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June Calendar 7 Dorchester Sw ingers Square Dancing Club meets 1st Friday at Maple Elementary School on Egypt Rd., Cambridge. $7 for guest members to dance. Club members and observers are free. Refreshments provided. 7:30 to 10 p.m. For more info. tel: 410221-1978, 410-901-9711 or visit wascaclubs.com. 7-8 Native Strawberries with Kelly Sverduk at Adkins Arboretum, Ridgely. Begin with sketching the plant and its surroundings, then learn watercolor technique and process. Intermediate level. 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. $110 member, $135 non-member. For more info. tel: 410-634-2847, ext. 0 or visit adkinsarboretum.org. 7,14,21,28 Meeting: Friday Morning Artists at Denny’s in Easton. 8 a.m. All disciplines welcome. Free. For more info. tel: 443955-2490.
7,14,21,28 Gentle Yoga at Evergreen: A Center for Balanced Living in Easton. Fridays from 10:30 to 11:15 a.m. For more info. tel: 410-819-3395 or visit evergreeneaston.org. 7,14,21,28 Jeannie’s Community Café soup kitchen at the St. Michaels Community Center. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Menu changes weekly. Pay what you can, if you can. Eat in or take out. All welcome. For more info. tel: 410-745-6073 or visit stmichaelscc.org. 7,14,21,28 Bingo! every Friday night at the Easton Volunteer Fire Department on Creamery Lane, Easton. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and games start at 7:30 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-4848. 8
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Queenstown. Proceeds will be dedicated to the purchase of a n MR I Br e a s t C oi l for U M Shore Regional Health’s Clark Comprehensive Breast Center. Registration begins at 8 a.m. with the shoot beginning at 9:15 a.m. Registration fees are $125 per individual or $500 for a team of four. For more info. tel: 410822-1000, ext. 5763 or e-mail alowe@umm.edu. 8
Friends of the Librar y Second Saturday Book Sale at the Dorchester County Public Library, Cambridge. 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. $10 adults and children ages 3+. For more info. tel: 410-228-7331 or visit dorchesterlibrary.org.
8 4th annual Chesapeake Children’s Book Festival at the Talbot County Free Library, Easton. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Meet authors and illustrators of some of today’s best children’s books. Please visit chesapeakechildrensbookfestival. com/sponsors.html for a full list of our community sponsors. For
more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit tcfl.org. 8 Celebration of Life, The Healing Garden at the Easton Club. The Child Loss Support Group and Talbot Hospice will host a Celebration of Life commemorating Mother’s and Father’s Day. 10 a.m. Parents and family members who have lost a child, regardless of the child’s age, are invited to attend. Parking is on Clubhouse Drive, just past the Easton Club entrance. In case of a storm, the Celebration of Life will be held at St. Mark’s Church Fellowship Hall. For more info. tel: 410822-6681 or e-mail bdemattia@ talbothospice.org. 8 Second Saturday at the Artsway from 1 to 5 p.m., 401 Market Street, Denton. Interact w ith artists as they demonstrate their work. For more info. tel: 410-4791009 or visit carolinearts.org. 8 Second Saturday and Art Walk in Historic Downtown Cambridge
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Light and Life to Your Evening Skies! with Diane DuBois Mullaly at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. $98 members, $118 non-members. For more info. tel: 410 -822ARTS (2787) or visit academyartmuseum.org.
on Race, Poplar, Muir and High streets. Shops will be open late. Galleries will be opening new shows and holding receptions. Restaurants w ill feature live music. 5 to 9 p.m. For more info. visit CambridgeMainStreet.com. 8 Second Saturday Art Night Out in St. Michaels. Take a walking tour of St. Michaels’ six fine art galleries, all centrally located on Talbot Street. For more info. tel: 410-745-9535 or visit townofstmichaels.org. 8 John Wesley Preservation Society Dance at the Oxford Community Center from 7 to 10 p.m. with DJ Jason Bailiff. Mostly Motown. Advance tickets available at johnwesleychurch.org. Tickets are $25 and include light refreshments. Cash bar. For more info. tel: 443786-9835. 8 Chamber Music Festival concert at the Prager Family Auditorium, Easton. 7:30 p.m. For more info. visit chesapeakemusic.org. 8 Concert: The Subdudes at the Avalon Theatre, Easton. 8 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-7299 or visit avalonfoundation.org. 8-9 Workshop: Glowing Sunset, Shimmering Moonrise ~ Bring
8-9 Delaware Restoration Work Days at t he Chesapea ke Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. $50 for a single day, $90 for a weekend or $170 for two weekends, with a 20% discount for CBMM members. For more info. tel: 410-745-4980 or visit cbmm.org. 8,22 Country Church Breakfast at Fa it h Ch ap el a nd Tr app e United Methodist churches in Wesley Hall, Trappe. 7:30 to 10:30 a.m. TUMC is also the home of “Martha’s Closet” Yard Sale and Community Outreach Store, open during the breakfast and every Wednesday from 8:30 a.m. to noon.
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9 Chamber Music Festival concert and buffet reception at Temple B’nai Israel, Easton. 4 p.m. For more info. visit chesapeakemusic.org. 10 Meeting: Caroline County AARP Chapter #915 meets at noon, with a covered dish luncheon, at the Church of the Nazarene in Denton. Join us for a fun game of BINGO, with many prizes! New members are welcome. For more info. tel: 410-482-6039. 10 Caregiver Support Group at the Talbot County Senior Center, Easton. 2nd Monday, 1 p.m. For more info. tel: 443-746-3698 or visit snhealth.net. 10 Stitching Time at the Talbot County Free Library, Easton. 3 to 5 p.m. Work on your favorite
project with a group. Limited instruction for beginners. Newcomers welcome. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit tcfl.org. 11 Chamber Music Festival open rehearsal at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. 10 a.m. Free. For more info. visit chesapeakemusic.org. 11 Advance Healthcare Planning at Talbot Hospice, Easton. 2nd Tuesday at 11 a.m. Hospice staff and trained volunteers will help you understand your options for advance healthcare planning and complete your advance directive paperwork, including the Five Wishes. Free and open to the public. For more info. tel: 410822-6681 to register. 11 Family Craf ts at t he Ta lbot Count y Free Librar y, St. Michaels. 3:30 p.m. Spring crafts. For more info. tel: 410-745-5877 or visit tcfl.org. 11 Grief Support Group Meeting ~ Healing after a Traumatic Loss at Talbot Hospice, Easton. 2nd Tuesday f rom 6:30 to 8 p.m. This ongoing monthly support group is specifically for anyone impacted by a traumatic death, including accident, overdose, suicide or homicide. For more info. tel: 410-822-6681 or e-mail bdemattia@talbothospice.org.
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June Calendar 11 Meeting: Us Too Prostate Cancer Support Group at UM Shore Regional Cancer Center, Idlewild Ave., Easton. 2nd Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-820-6800, ext. 2300 or visit umshoreregional.org. 11 Meeting: Tidewater Stamp Club at the Mayor and Council Building, Easton. 2nd Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-8226471 or visit twstampclub.com. 11,25 Bay Hundred Chess Class at the Talbot County Free Library, St. Michaels. 2nd and 4th Tuesdays from 1 to 3 p.m. Beginners welcome. For all ages. For more info. tel: 410-745-5877 or visit tcfl.org. 11,25 Meeting: Buddhism Study Group at Evergreen: A Center for Balanced Living, Easton. 2nd and 4th Tuesdays from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Open to the public. For more info. tel: 410-819-3395 or visit evergreeneaston.org. 12 Meeting: Bayside Quilters, 2nd Wednesday from 9 a.m. to noon at the Easton Volunteer Fire Department on Aurora Park Drive, Easton. Guests are welcome, memberships are available. For more info. e -mail mhr2711@ gmail.com.
12 Mosaic Stepping Stone at the Ta lbot C ount y Free L ibra r y, Easton. 10 a.m. to noon. Make a mosaic stepping stone. Space is limited. Please pre-register. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit tcfl.org. 12 Challenge Island: Lunar Landing (STEM Learning Program) at the Talbot County Free Library, Easton. 4 p.m. Learn about Apollo 11’s lunar module, its mission, purpose and design. For ages 6 to 12. Please pre-register online. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit tcfl.org. 12 Chamber Music Festival concert at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. 5:30 p.m. For more info. visit chesapeakemusic.org. 12 Peer Support Group Meeting ~ Together: Positive Approaches at Talbot Par tnership, 28712 Glebe Rd., Easton. 2nd Wednesday from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Peer support group for family members currently struggling with a loved one with substance use disorder, led by trained facilitators. Free. For more info. e -ma i l mar iahsmission2014@gmail.com. 12 Meeting: Grief Support for Suicide group from 6 to 8 p.m. on the 2nd Wednesday of the month at Compass Regional Hospice, Grief Support Ser vices Wing,
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Centreville. For more info. visit compassregionalhospice.org. 12 Meet ing: Bay water Ca mera Club at the Dorchester Center for the A rts, Cambridge. 2nd Wednesday from 6 to 8 p.m. All are welcome. For more info. tel: 443-939-7744. 12 Me et i ng: O pt i m i st Club at Washington Street Pub, Easton. 6:30 to 8 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-310-9347. 12 Concert: The Talbott Brothers in the Stoltz Listening Room, Avalon Theatre, Easton. 8 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-7299 or visit avalonfoundation.org. 12,26 Story Time at the Talbot Count y Free Librar y, St. Michaels 10:30 a.m. For children ages 5 and under accompanied by an adult. For more info. tel: 410-745-5877 or visit tcfl.org. 12,26 Bay Hundred Chess Club, 2nd and 4th Wednesdays from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Talbot County Free Library, St. Michaels. Players gather for friendly competition and instruction. All ages welcome. For more info. tel: 410-745-9490. 12,26 Meeting: Choptank Writers
12 ,26 Dance Classes for NonDancers at Evergreen: A Center for Balanced Living in Easton. 2nd and 4th Wednesdays from 6 to 7:30 p.m. $12 per person, $20 for both classes. For more info. tel: 410-200-7503 or visit continuumdancecompany.org. 13 Mid-Shore Pro Bono Legal Clinic at the Caroline County Senior Center, Denton. 2nd Thursday from 10 a.m. to noon. For more info. and to schedule an appointment tel: 410-690-8128 or visit midshoreprobono.org. 13 Interview and book signing with award-w inning author Sujata Massey, author of Widows of Malabar Hill and the soon-tobe-released Satapur Moonstone, at the Oxford Community Center at 5:30 p.m. Sponsored by Mystery Loves Company. For more info. and to reserve books visit mysterylovescompany.org. 13 Chamber Music Festival concert at Christ Church, Cambridge. 5:30 p.m. For more info. visit chesapeakemusic.org.
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13,27 Memoir Writers at the Talbot Count y Free Librar y, St. Michaels. 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Record and share your memories of life a nd fa mi ly. Pa r t icipa nt s a re invited to bring their lunch. For more info. tel: 410-745-5877 or visit tcfl.org.
ow ner of Ship’s Coy Forge in Lyman, N.H., demonstrates how to forge metal tools using traditional blacksmithing techniques like the hammer and anvil. 5 to 7 p.m. Free to CBMM members. For more info. tel: 410-745-4991 or visit cbmm.org.
14 Mid-Shore Pro Bono Legal Clinic at the Dorchester County Public Library, Cambridge. 2nd Friday from 10 a.m. to noon. For more info. and to schedule an appointment tel: 410-690-8128 or visit midshoreprobono.org.
14 Chamber Music Festival concert at Trinit y Cathedral, Easton. 7:30 p.m. For more info. visit chesapeakemusic.org.
14 Member Night: Metal Forging Demonstration at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. Learn as Med Chandler,
14-15 32nd Annual Antique and Classic Boat Festival and the Arts at Navy Point, Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. Friday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wooden and fiberglass classics,
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June Calendar vintage racers and other antique a nd Che sapea ke Bay-related boats on display. Hosted by the Chesapeake Bay Chapter of the Antique and Classic Boat Society. For more info. visit cbmm.org. 15 Rummage Sale at the Oxford Volunteer Fire Company from 9 a.m. to noon. Drop-off on June 14 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-226-5110. 15 Work shop: Ed ible A r t! The Decorated Ca ke w it h Mag g ii S a r f at y at t he A c ademy A r t Museum, Easton. 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. $65 members, $78 non-members. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit academyartmuseum.org. 15 Medieval Forest Faire at Adkins Arboretum, Ridgely. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Entertainment will include falconr y demonstrations and per for mances by the A llegro Women’s Chorus, A mpersand and the Sammati Dance Company. Stout-hearted revelers may sample porridge at the outlaws’ hide-out or take part in foraging, archery and building with wattle and daub. Adults and children ages 6 and up $10. Children 5 and under free. For more info. tel: 410-634-2847, ext. 0 or visit adkinsarboretum.org.
15 Chamber Music Festival concert and reception at the Oxford Community Center. 4 p.m. For more info. visit chesapeakemusic.org. 15 Concert: Tranzfusion at Layton’s Chance Vineyard and Winery, Vienna. 6 to 9 p.m. Tranzfusion, t he 2009 Enter t a i ner of t he Year, will perform classic rock jams. Bring your lawn chairs and picnic blankets for a comfortable evening in the country listening to local tunes. $7 advance tickets, $10 at the door. Food available for purchase. For more info. tel: 410-228-1205 or visit laytonschance.com. 15 Concert: Pierce Edens in the Stoltz Listening Room, Avalon Theatre, Easton. 8 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-7299 or visit avalonfoundation.org. 15-16 Workshops: Blacksmithing at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Participants will learn the basics of blacksmithing and bring home their own projects. Cost for each day is $100, with a 20% discount for CBMM members. For more info. visit cbmm. org/shipyardprograms. 17 Caregiver Support Group at the Talbot County Senior Center, Easton. 3rd Monday at 1 p.m. For
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For more info. tel: 410-745-5877 or visit tcfl.org. 18-20 Workshop: Fundamentals of Drawing with Katie Cassidy at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. $110 members, $132 non-members. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit academyartmuseum.org. 19 Me et i ng: Dorche ster C a re g ivers Suppor t Group. 3rd Wednesday from 1 to 2 p.m. at Pleasant Day Adult Medical Day Care, Cambridge. For more info. tel: 410-228-0190. 19 Child Loss Support Group at Ta lbot Hospic e, Ea ston. 3rd Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. This support group is for anyone grieving the loss of a child of any age. Free and open to the public. For more info. tel: 410-822-6681 or e-mail bdemattia@talbothospice.org. 19 Open Mic at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. Theme: Juneteenth. Share and appreciate t he r ich t ape st r y of creat ivity, skills and knowledge that thrive here. All ages and styles of performance are welcome. The event is open to all ages. 7 to 9 p.m. Admission is free. Snacks provided; nominal charge for beverages. For more info. e-mail RayRemesch@gmail.com.
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20 Ecology Cruise aboard the Winnie Estelle at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. 10 to 11:30 a.m. Children and adults are invited to join CBMM educators for an up-close and personal exploration of the Miles River and its unique habitat and ecology. $20, with a 20% discount for CBMM members. Registration is required. For more info. visit cbmm.org/onthewater. 20 S t roke Su r v ivor ’s Supp or t Group at Pleasant Day Medical Adult Day Care in Cambridge. 3rd Thursday of the month. 1 to 2 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-2280190 or visit pleasantday.com. 20 Sing the Clarinet ~ Music and Words of Summer and Water with Susan Jones at the Talbot Count y Free Librar y, St. Michaels. 2 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-745-5877 or visit tcfl.org. 20 Third Thursday in downtown Denton from 5 to 7 p.m. Shop for one-of-a-kind floral arrangements, gifts and home dÊcor, dine out on a porch with views of the Choptank River or enjoy a stroll around town as businesses extend their hours. For more info. tel: 410-479-0655. 20 Author Christopher Tilghman presentation and book signing of ne w r ele a s e Thoma s and
Beal in the Midi at the Robert Morris Inn, Oxford. 5 to 7 p.m. Sponsored by Myster y L oves Company. For more info. and to reserve books visit mysterylovescompany.org. 20 Container Gardening with Kacey Martin (Ms. Fancy Plants) at the Talbot County Free Library, Easton. 5:30 p.m. Let Kacey walk you through the basics of container gardening. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit tcfl.org. 20 Death is but a Dream at the Avalon Theatre, Easton. 6 p.m. 4th annual outreach featuring Dr. Christopher Kerr, a hospice and palliative care physician who is producing a documentary based on his research of dreams of patients nearing the end of life. Free and open to the public. Registration is required and can be made at TalbotHospice. org/events or by calling 410822-6681. 20 Meeting: Grief Support for Overdose Loss group from 6 to 8 p.m. on the 3rd Thursday of the month at Compass Regional Hospice, Grief Support Ser vices Wing, Centreville. For more info. visit compassregionalhospice.org. 2 0 - 21 DN R-A ppr ove d B o ater Safety Course at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Mi-
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Needed with Diane DuBois Mullaly at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. $48 members, $58 non-members, plus $5 materials fee payable to instructor. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit academyartmuseum.org. 22 2019 Juneteenth Celebration at the Academy Art Museum, Easton, to feature the History of Black Music. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The free community celebration will feature a full range of family activities, street vendors and artwork by African-American artists. Afternoon concert on S out h S t r e e t fe at u r i ng p er for mances by Daande L enol, Brooks Long, the Capitol Jazz E xper ience, Kentav ius Jones and others. Presented in conju nc t ion w it h t he F r e der ick Douglass Honor Societ y and B u i ld i n g A f r i c a n -A m e r i c a n Minds. For more info. tel: 410822-ARTS (2787) or visit academyartmuseum.org. 22 Concer t: Roland Comtois ~ Spiritual Medium in the Stoltz Listening Room, Avalon Theatre, Easton. 8 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-7299 or visit avalonfoundation.org. 22-23 Workshop: Oil Painting ~ Color Crash Course with Bradford Ross at the Academy Art
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June Calendar 24 Reading/Book Signing by Casey Cep, author of Furious Hours, at the Talbot County Free Library, Easton. 6 p.m. Cep graduated Easton High School in 2003. The book tells the story of Harper Lee’s obsession w ith a ser ial killer’s crimes in A labama in the years after she wrote To Kill a Mockingbird. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit tcfl.org. 24-28 Class: Animal Art Adventures and Visit from the Salisbur y Zoo! with Dawn Malosh at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. Ages 6 to 9. 9:30 a.m. to noon. $175 members, $185 non-members. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit academyartmuseum.org. 24-28 Class: Clay Work s w ith Dawn Malosh at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. Ages 8 to 13. 1 to 3 p.m. $120 members, $130 non-members. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit academyartmuseum.org. 24-July 26 Oxford Kids Camp at the Oxford Community Center. For more info. tel: 410-226-5904 or visit oxfordcc.org. 25 Tuesday Movie at Noon ~ Green Book ~ at the Talbot County Free Library, St. Michaels. Free. For
more info. tel: 410-745-5877 or visit tcfl.org. 25 Meeting: Grief Support Group from noon to 1:15 p.m. on the 4th Tuesday of the month at Caroline County Public Library’s Federalsburg branch. This is a lunch group, so participants are encouraged to bring a lunch. Sponsored by Compass Regional Hospice. For more info. v isit compassregionalhospice.org. 25 Monthly Grief Support Group at Talbot Hospice. This ongoing monthly support group is for anyone in the community who is grieving the death of a loved one, regardless of whether they were served by Talbot Hospice. 4th Tuesday at 5 p.m. Free and open to the public. For more info. tel: 410-822-6681 or e-mail bdemattia@talbothospice.org. 25 Paddle with the President at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. Join CBMM president and avid kayaker Kristen Greenaway in a relaxed evening paddle along the Miles River. 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. $20 without kayak rental; $35 w ith kayak rental; 20% discount for CBMM members. For more info. tel: 410-745-4980 or visit cbmm.org. 25-27 Workshop: Introduction to Pastels with Katie Cassidy at the
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June Calendar Academy Art Museum, Easton. 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. $90 members, $108 non-members (plus $15 materials fee for all supplies, paid to the instructor). For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit academyartmuseum.org. 26 Kindness Rocks! at the Talbot County Free Library, Easton. 4 to 5 p.m. Paint your positive vibes on a kindness rock. For all ages. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit tcfl.org. 26 Meeting: Diabetes Suppor t Group at UM Shore Regional Health at Dorchester, Cambridge.
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4th Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. Free and open to the public. For more info. tel: 410-822-1000, ext. 5196. 26-28 Class: Design and Print Your Own T-Shirt! with Chris Pittman at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. For grades 6 to 12. 10 a.m. to noon. $105 members, $115 non-members. (Price includes 2 T-shirts per student.) For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit academyartmuseum.org. 27 Volunteer Fair at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. 10 a.m. to noon. CBMM would not be the success it is today without the generous commitment of its dedicated volunteers. To hear more about CBMM volunteer opportunities, visit our first ever Volunteer Fair ~ this will also be a great chance to mix and mingle with current volunteers and staff. For more info. tel: 410-745-4947 or visit cbmm.org. 27 Reptile Wonders at the Talbot County Free Librar y, Easton. 10:30 a.m. Discover the wonder of water turtles, the bearded dragon, a mighty Burmese python and more. For all ages. Sponsored by the Friends of the Library and the Talbot County Arts Council, with funding from Talbot County and the Towns of Easton, Oxford and St. Michaels. For more info.
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tel: 410-822-1626 or visit tcfl.org. 27 Family Unplugged Games at the Talbot County Free Library, St. Michaels. 3:30 p.m. Bring the whole family for an afternoon of board games and f un. For all ages (children 5 and under accompanied by an adult). For more info. tel: 410-745-5877 or visit tcfl.org. 27 Marvelous Movie Afternoon at the Talbot County Free Library, Easton. 4 p.m. Title TBD. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit tcfl.org.
Easton. 8 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-7299 or visit avalonfoundation.org. 29-30 Cruise aboard the Winnie Estelle to watch Miles River log canoe races at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. This is the Miles River Yacht Club 4th of July Series. Saturday from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. and Sunday from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. $35, with a 20% discount for CBMM members. Registration required. For more info. tel: 410-745-4947 or visit cbmm.org.
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