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June 2021

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Vol. 70, No. 1

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June 2021

Features:

About the Cover Photographer: Donna Tolbert-Anderson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Making a Spectacle of Myself: Helen Chappell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Vaxcation Traveling During COVID-19: Bonna L. Nelson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 5-Year-Old's Brush with History: James Dawson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Making Travel Easy - The Salisbury Cruise Club: Michael Valliant . . . . . 49 Tidewater Kitchen - Family Meals: Pamela Meredith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Tidewater Gardening: K. Marc Teffeau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Lives Under Sail: A.M. Foley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival: James M. Carder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Secrets of Sea Glass: Adam Larson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 Caroline County's Compassion: Meg McDermott . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 Changes ~ All American (Part XXI): Roger Vaughan . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Departments: June Tide Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Easton Map and History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Caroline County ~ A Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Queen Anne’s County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Tilghman ~ Bay Hundred . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Dorchester Map and History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 St. Michaels Map and History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Oxford Map and History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Kent County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 Anne B. Farwell & John D. Farwell, Co-Publishers Proofing: Jodie Littleton & Kippy Requardt Deliveries: Nancy Smith, April Jewel & Brandon Coleman Social Media Liaison: Mary Farwell P. O. Box 1141, Easton, Maryland 21601 3947 Harrison Circle, Trappe, Maryland 21673 410-714-9389 www.tidewatertimes.com info@tidewatertimes.com

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About the Cover Photographer Donna Tolbert-Anderson Donna Tolbert-Anderson is an outdoor enthusiast and a passionate photographer of the natural world. T h r oug h her photog r aphy, she shows not only the beauty of wildlife throughout the different seasons, but their behavior and varied habitats. The majority of her imagery comes from the Mid-Atlantic region, prized by nature photographers for its abundant wildlife. Her love of gardening and f lowers attracts common songbirds to her yard, where they can be easily photographed. On trips to Florida, she is able to photograph many of the same bird species found here on the Delmarva Peninsula.

Her work has been published in various local magazines, She also has exhibited at the Waterfowl Festival and was juried into an exhibit at the Academy Art Museum. Tolber t-A nderson has worked with Chesapeake Wildlife Heritage, providing stock images used in their publications. She has been a weekly vendor for over ten years at the Saturday Easton Farmers Market, of fer ing canvases, metal pr ints and fine ar t prints of her work. The cover photo is titled American Goldf inch on Giant Conef lower. Her artwork can also be purchased directly from her website, www. whiteegretstudio.com.

Making a Spectacle of Myself by Helen Chappell

We, the vision impaired, have been wearing some of kind of contraption over our eyes for hundreds of years. If you look at some 400- or 500-year-old paintings of the Great and the Good, you’ll note that a few of them have some form of spectacles perched on their beaks or clutched in their long bony hands, usually with a book. A prop, I assume, to show their nearsightedness came from reading too

much, as well as to convey the idea they were real smart guys. Or at least rich enough to have a portrait painted. When it was discovered in second grade that I am as blind as the proverbial bat and needed glasses, my mother was so horrified or bored or dramatic that she dragged me around to all my aunts’ houses going, “Do you believe she needs glasses?” as if I’d suddenly grown

Making a Spectacle a horn or turned into a werewolf. This is something that I never let her forget until the day she died, even though she denied it. The fact was that both my mother and my father wore glasses, as did most of my aunts. So why this was a cause for drama, I still don’t know. So began a lifetime of glasses. As a kid, I wore some of the most hideous frames the Eisenhower era could produce. Cat’s eyes, red plastic, lenses so thick they could pass for dessert plates. I managed to break them all, sooner or later. I wasn’t the only kid walking around with Scotch-taped hinges or a wad of adhesive tape on

the broken nose bridge or even a cracked lens. Glasses were not just breakable; they were ugly and a sign that you were an outcast in the way only kids can make an outcast. I could also lose them without even half trying. The wail of mothers of children who have lost their glasses could be heard all over the land. In high school and many years after, I suffered with hard plastic contact lenses. Maybe I believed “Stationed in Time” 24” x 30” Landscape Painting Award of Excellence in Oil Painters of America Winner National Juried Exhibition

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Making a Spectacle the size of saucers, tiny rectangulars, cat’s eyes again, Mad Man retro frames . . . I’ve been through ’em all. About the same time, frames suddenly became fashionable. Celebrities and designers started bringing out their own lines. The cat’s eyes and round tinted frames of my youth were in style again. I could spend hours in the glasses store trying on frames. The trouble was, I was too farsighted to actually see myself in the mirror. If I found a frame I actually liked, it either came only in some shade of nausea purple or the frame alone cost $400. So, I was back to the rack and more endless searching for something that f lattered my pie-plate face. Now, when you realize my lenses were as thick as coke bottles and

had to be thinned, that I had to have progressives because bifocal lenses made me seasick, and I wanted a tint and heaven only knows whatever bells and whistles the ophthalmologist added on, the cost came to nearly $900. It’s no wonder that place is out of business. I could have taken a trip to the islands for that. But for $900 a freelance writer hangs on as long as she can ~ maybe hoping to win the lottery! I won’t bore you with an organ recital, but the time had come for cataract surgery, and while the doctor was in there, he made some magic adjustments to my vision et voila! My eyesight improved! New glasses were on the menu. While I was there, one of the ladies who keep the place running suggested I try one of those mail order places. 16

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into my camo. After years of sterile, stark frames, I want horn rims. Nice earth-tone horn rims in a nice classic shape. When you can’t see the broad side of a barn door bald faced, glasses become very important to you, especially if you want to drive and recognize people across the street. So, friends, wish me luck. I really want to see again.

Now this opened a whole new world. Like Iris Apfel or Edith Head or Doc Ock, I could make a Fashion Statement with some outrageous frames! People would see my glasses coming before they saw me, and I would have loved that, but frankly, I’m too chicken at my age to go that far. I want glasses that kind of blend

Helen Chappell is the creator of the Sam and Hollis mystery series and the Oysterback stories, as well as The Chesapeake Book of the Dead. Under her pen names, Rebecca Baldwin and Caroline Brooks, she has published a number of historical novels.

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Vaxcation Traveling During COVID-19 by Bonna L. Nelson

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A Five-Year-Old’s Brush with History by James Dawson When little five-year-old Sammy Seymour went to the Big City, he never dreamed that he would witness one of the most dramatic and tragic events in U.S. history. Even when he was an old man, he would never forget his first trip away from home when he was a little shaver and w itnessed a tr ue A mer ican tragedy. This article is based in part on his recollections when he was an elderly man. Sammy was the son of George and Susan Seymour. His father worked as an overseer on the “Ashby” estate just north of Easton. “Ashby” was owned by George R. Goldsborough and was located in Goldsborough Neck on the Goldsborough branch of the Miles River in Talbot County, Maryland. When Mr. G oldsborough and Sammy’s father, his overseer, had to go to Washington D.C. to see about the legal status of his 150 slaves, they were accompanied by Mr. Goldsborough’s wife, Eleanor. Eleanor had asked to take Sammy and his nurse, Sarah Cook, along with them for a nice holiday. Eleanor doted on Sammy and was his godmother. They made the 150-mile trip by

Samuel J. Seymour a coach pulled by a team of horses. Sa mmy remembered how st ub bornly the horses resisted being loaded onto a steamboat to cross the Chesapeake Bay. Good Friday, April 14, 1865 was a beautiful early-spring day. The temperature was in the mid-60s, and the scent of dogwoods and lilacs hung in the air, but by night, the weather had turned foggy and misty. 35

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was shaking so hard from fear that when Sarah accidentally stabbed him with the pin he hollered out that he’d been shot! Finally, Sammy was taken upstairs to their room. After he was scr ubbed a nd d re ssed in clea n clothes, Mrs. Goldsborough told

It was nearly suppertime when they reached Washington, D.C., and pulled up to the biggest house that Sammy had ever seen in his life. It was so big it looked a thousand farm houses had all been pushed together, but his father told him it was a hotel. Sammy was scared to death because the streets were lined with men carrying guns and he thought that every gun was pointed at him! He stubbornly complained that he could not get out of the coach because his shirt was torn ~ anything to keep him away from these scary men with the guns. His ever-resourceful nurse found a safety pin in her bag, but as she began to repair the tear, Sammy

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Brush with History him she had a wonderful surprise. They were going to see a play ~ a real play, and Abraham Lincoln would be there! Sammy didn’t know what a play was, but thought it must be a game like tag, which he liked. They waited outside the theater for tickets and then went upstairs and sat in hard rattan-backed chairs. From their seats in the balcony, Mrs. Goldsborough pointed to a colorful box draped with flags and told Sammy that was where President Lincoln would sit. The theater was crowded with more than a thousand people, and

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Seymour remembered that when everyone sat down and the actors bega n mov ing a nd ta l k ing, t he scared feeling he’d had ever since they arrived in Washington, D.C., was finally starting to lift. But, as it turned out, that was a mistake. Then something happened that Sammy would always remember. Suddenly, a gun shot rang out, and he saw President Lincoln slumped forward in his seat and somebody screamed. Then Sammy thought there’d been another accident when a man seemed to fall out of the box onto the stage. Sammy begged them to hurry and go help the poor man who fell down, but then John Wilkes Booth, who had just assassinated

everyone seemed to be in a festive mood, eager to see the silly play, happy that the terrible war was finally over. Almost everyone, that is, except for one disgruntled actor. The performance started about 8 p.m., but it was about 8:15 when President and Mrs. Lincoln arrived and the orchestra played Hail to the Chief. Mrs. Goldsborough lifted Sammy high up so that he could see the President. Sammy thought he was a tall, stern-looking man, but maybe he just looked that way because of his whiskers, because he was smiling and waving to the crowd.

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This article led to Seymour’s being invited on the popular TV show “I’ve Got A Secret,” hosted by Gary Moore, on Feb. 8, 1956, in which blindfolded celebrity panelists would try to guess a mystery guest’s secret by asking leading questions. You can watch Jayne Meadows guess his secret on YouTube. This show required Seymour, now 95, to make another trip to a big city, this time New York City, and to stay in another big hotel. Unfortunately, Seymour, now very frail, fell down some steps in the hotel and gave himself a shiner, but he was a trouper and insisted on appearing on the show, for which he was paid $80. The tragedy never left Seymour. Sometimes he relived the horror of that night as he dozed in his rock-

Abraham Lincoln, got up and ran off the stage, something that few others saw in all the commotion. Then, as pandemonium broke loose, people started yelling that Lincoln was shot! The President is dead! Mrs. Goldsborough grabbed Sammy in her arms, held him close, and somehow they got out of the theater. That night, Sammy thought that he had been shot about fifty times in his dreams. Much later, Sam Seymour’s story “I saw Lincoln shot,” as told to Frances Spatz Leighton, was published nationally in the Feb. 7, 1954 American Weekly newspaper supplement for the Hurst newspaper chain. You can read it now on newspapers.com.

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have so much topography named for them. Sammy must have been confused that Mr. Goldsborough was going to Washington, D.C., to see about his slaves, since Maryland had freed its slaves on Nov. 1, 1864, just about three months before Congress passed the 13th amendment on Jan. 31, 1865, which prohibited slavery in the U.S., although it wasn’t ratified until Dec. 6, so perhaps Mr. Goldsborough went to Washington to see what the status of that was. Sammy might have been on one of the Baltimore Steam Packet steamers that provided service up and down the Chesapeake Bay. It was known as the Old Bay Line. It is assumed that Sammy crossed the Bay to Annapolis,

ing chair, even when he was an old codger. He died on April 12, 1956 at the age of 96, two months and four days after his TV appearance, and two days shy of the 91st anniversary of the Lincoln assassination. He was one year and fifteen days old when the Civil War started on April 12, 1861 when Ft. Sumpter was attacked, and he died 95 years to the day after the War started, which was also three days after the 91st anniversary of Gen. Lee’s surrender on April 9, 1865 at Appomattox, which effectively ended the war. Samuel James Seymour’s life had been bracketed by the awful war and that terrible night. He had been the last living witness who saw Booth shoot Lincoln. Notes: “Ashby” is considered the only true Italianate building in Talbot Co. Built in 1858, it replaced an older structure that dated from the 1600s. Obviously, the Goldsboroughs were one of the most inf luential families in Talbot County to 46

then over to D.C. by land. His saying that it was 150 miles seems high, but that would be about right for the round trip. The crowds of soldiers Sammy saw in the streets were there to celebrate Lee’s surrender three days previously. Sammy probably stayed at the Willard Hotel, which was the biggest and most luxurious hotel in Washington, D.C., at that time. It had 150 rooms and was just a few blocks from the theater, which was, of course, Ford’s Theater, and the play he saw was Our American Cousin. Ford’s Theater National Historic Site is now a museum restored to its April 1865 appearance. Run by the U.S. National Park Service, it is open for tours. A sign in the lobby reads “WARNING: Firearms Prohibited,” which probably should have been there in 1865. John Wilkes Booth, the assassin, shot Lincoln with a .44 caliber derringer during Act III Scene 2, firing the small handgun while the audience was laughing at a joke in the play to mask the sound. Booth was on the loose for 12 days before he was

cornered and shot dead in a barn in Southern Maryland. His bold act to avenge the South and revive the war did not have quite the effect he expected. Booth’s derringer is now on display in Ford’s Theater in a locked case. Booth’s weapon was made by the inventor Henry Deringer in Philadelphia, whose name had only one “r” in it, unlike the derringer itself, which has two. Sammy safely returned to Talbot County and, when he grew up, worked as a carpenter and building contractor, married Mary Rebecca Twilley of Cambridge and later moved to Baltimore, about 1910, where he would live out his many years. He had been in failing health ever since his fall in the hotel, which may have contributed to his death. His obituar y in the Baltimore Evening Sun for April 13, 1956 stated that Seymour had survived five nearfatal accidents: he fell off a steamboat in the Choptank River and sank 20 feet; he fell off an oyster boat in the dead of winter; a ship he was on was struck by lightning and split in two; a falling brick struck him on the head when he was working in a well and he once used arsenic instead of flour in some muffins. But despite all that plus the assassination, he lived a long life and was survived by three children, 13 grandchildren and 35 great-grandchildren. James Dawson is the owner of Unicorn Bookshop in Trappe. 47

Taking All the Worry Out of Travel the Salisbury Cruise Club by Michael Valliant

The first cruise that Kelly Shannahan went on was for his honeymoon in 1994. He and his wife, Tracy, went on a Caribbean cruise and absolutely loved it. Five years later, they were leading a group of 97 people from the Salisbury Jaycees on a seven-day excursion. And that was the beginning of the Salisbury Cruise Club, which has led more than 30 cruises over the course of 22 years.

The Shannahans go on each of the trips with their groups. Kelly’s love for travel goes back even further. “I have always had a love for travel. My parents kind of gave me that bug early on when they allowed me to plan our summer vacations ~ they let me plan the itinerary,” he said. “That gave me a love for planning trips.”

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government for Worcester County. His background as a planner goes into putting together itineraries, organizing details and trying to create the best travel and cruise experiences possible. Kelly and Tracy take the worry out of traveling for anyone who goes on their trips. That’s what the Salisbury Cruise Club is all about. “What we offer is a cruise experience where once you show up to the bus, you can leave all your worries behind and we handle the rest,” he said. “With the cruise experience, your home moves with you and you are in a different port every day. It’s a great way to explore a particular area of the world.” The cruise club has indeed explored the world ~ from the Caribbean, to Alaska, England and Ireland, Hawaii, the Mediterranean, various European river cruises, the

2010 Alaskan cruise with Kelly, Tracy and their boys. Planning things took root professionally as well. Kelly received his bachelor’s degree in geography from Salisbury University in 1984, took some time to travel and then earned his master’s degree in city planning in 1987. He used his planning knowledge working in local

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to allow for the unscripted experiences. Kelly recalls a 2018 cruise to Hawaii. “We took a whale-watching excursion out of Maui, and if a whale comes close to the boat, the captain has to stop the engine until they move on,” he said. “We had three whales that surfaced and hung around our boat for over an hour and put on a show ~ breeching, pectoral fin slaps, tail slaps ~ it was an incredible treat.” When they first formed the club, they led one trip each year. In 2007, Kelly got his travel agent license so they could handle all the details themselves, and by 2008, they were leading two trips per year. After

Panama Canal and Central America, just to name a few. Kelly and Tracy plan trips for their groups to see as much as they can, but also

Salisbury Cruise Club Kelly retired from his government job, they began leading four trips per year. Going on each trip limits how many trips they can lead in a year, but it makes each cruise more worry free for the group. Even with the best planning, unexpected things can happen. On their last trip before COVID-19, a trip to southern Italy and Sicily, Kelly and Tracy had to react quickly to an impending airline strike. “We were planning to spend the night in Sicily, fly the next day to Rom, and then fly home from Rome,” Kelly said. “We got word that the airline was going on strike at midnight. We got everyone with

Island of Capri us re-booked to a flight that night to avoid the strike, and got everyone to Rome a day early, got a hotel for an extra night, and a bus to the hotel. We were touring when we got word; no one knew anything about it until we announced it. No one had to worry about it ~ we handled it all.” Like everyone in the travel industry, the Salisbury Cruise Club halted all activities when COVID-19 struck. They had a cruise planned for March 2020, which was the first they had to reschedule, and another set for October, as well as four cruises in 2021. They are rescheduling the cancelled trips and hoping that their trip this October to Portugal will be their first cruise since the pandemic began. A possible silver lining to everyone having to stay home for a year and a half is that they are seeing an incredible demand for travel.

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Salisbury Cruise Club “People want to go places, safely, and so we are seeing a lot of people interested ~ as we open registrations, our trips are selling out quickly,” Kelly said. “And our members have been able to save up a little money while not traveling.” They have found that hosting virtual cruise nights on Zoom, where they can gather and show travel videos and photos of upcoming cruises, has been at least one way to get people together. Once cruises begin again this fall, the club will be on the move. For a planned trip to Ireland, they are looking into adding a “Game of Thrones” tour in Belfast, where much of the filming was done for HBO’s hit show; they were able to

reschedule an Alaska cruise for 2022, for the same price people had previously signed up for; and they are adding a fifth cruise for 2022. All told, there will be five ocean cruises, three river cruises and two tours over the next two years. “The European river cruises that we do are so much fun,” Kelly said. “We go on small ships, there are only 150 passengers on board and we become like part of the ship’s

Kelly said. “After a new couple or individual joins us on a trip, they feel like a part of the family as well. We have some members who join us on every cruise that we offer.” For more information on upcoming cruises and activities, please visit the club’s website at www. salisburycruiseclub.com. Membership to the club is free. family. I’m looking forward to the Danube river cruise that was rescheduled for next year.” “Family” describes how the Shannahans think about the Salisbury Cruise Club and their experiences together. “It’s our cruise club family ~ I really do feel that way about them,”

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In a large pot or Dutch oven, melt the butter and sauté the onions and carrots over medium-low heat for 10 minutes. Add the f lour and cook over low heat, stirring constantly, for 2 minutes. Add the chicken stock mixture and simmer over low heat for one minute, stirring constantly, until thick. Add 1 teaspoon salt, ½ teaspoon pepper and the cream. Stir in the chicken, carrots, peas and parsley. Spoon into a pie pan or individual pie pans and place the dish on a sheet pan lined with aluminum foil. Unfold the pie crust on top of the chicken and vegetable mixture and cut the pastry to fit the dish. I like to crimp the edges with a fork.

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Wash potatoes, then peel and cut into quarters. Spread potatoes on jelly roll pan and drizzle with olive oil, garlic, salt and pepper. Optional: Sprinkle your favorite dried herbs. Roast at 425° for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown. ROASTED ASPARAGUS Serves 6 2-1/2 pounds fresh asparagus 2 T. olive oil 1/2 t. kosher salt 1/4 t. freshly ground black pepper 2 lemons cut in wedges, for serving

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3 T. unsalted butter 2 T. good olive oil 4 cloves garlic cloves smashed 1 pound large shrimp (about 16 shrimp), peeled and deveined Pinch of salt and pepper 1/3 cup chopped fresh parsley leaves 1/2 lemon, zest grated 2 zested lemons and freshly squeezed juice 1/8 t. hot red pepper flakes, optional for heat Add the linguine to a large pot of boiling salted water and cook for 7 to 10 minutes, or according to the directions on the package. Meanwhile, in a large (12-inch), heavy-bottomed pan, melt the

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butter and olive oil over mediumlow heat. Add the garlic. Sauté for 1 minute. Be careful, as you don’t want the garlic to burn. Add the shrimp, a pinch of salt and the pepper, and sauté until the shrimp have just turned pink, about 5 minutes, stirring often. Remove from the heat, add the parsley, lemon zest and lemon juice. Toss to combine. When the pasta is done, drain the cooked linguine and then put it back in the pot. Immediately add the shrimp and sauce, toss well and serve. MEATLOAF 1/4 cup unsalted butter 2 cups white onion, finely chopped 1 cup chopped green bell pepper

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1 t. salt 1 t. freshly ground pepper 2 pounds lean ground beef 2 large eggs, beaten to blend 1 cup fine dry breadcrumbs 3/4 cup ketchup 2 t. Worcestershire sauce Preheat oven to 375°. Melt butter in heavy medium skillet over medium-low heat. Add next 4 ingredients and cook until vegetables are tender, stirring frequently, about 10 minutes. Combine meat, egg, breadcrumbs, ½ cup ketchup and Worcestershire sauce in medium bowl. Blend in sautéed vegetables. Place the mixture in an 8 1/2 x 4 1/2 x 2 1/2-inch loaf pan. Spread the ketchup over the top of the meat-

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to taste. Mash the potatoes with a hand masher or mixer until you reach your favorite mashed potato consistency. Set aside. In a large skillet, brown the ground beef along with the onions

1/4 cup sour cream 1/4 to 1/2 cup milk Salt and pepper to taste Filling: 1 pound ground beef 1 small onion, diced 2 cloves of garlic, minced 2 cups of frozen peas 2 T. f lour 1/2 cup beef broth 1 T. tomato paste 1 T. Worcestershire sauce 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese Boil the potatoes in enough water to cover until fork tender. Drain, then add the butter, sour cream, milk, and salt and pepper

and garlic. Drain any excess grease. To the same skillet, add 2 cups of frozen vegetables, then cook for about 5 to 7 minutes, stirring occasionally. Sprinkle the flour over the meat and peas, and stir to mix. Add the tomato paste, and stir to mix it in. Then add the beef broth and Worcestershire sauce. Bring to a simmer and then reduce heat to low. Cook uncovered for 10 minutes, adding additional broth if necessary to prevent the meat from drying out. Remove from heat. Spread the meat mixture in an even layer in a 9×13 dish that has been sprayed with nonstick spray. Top the meat with the mashed potatoes, making an even layer of potatoes and cheddar cheese on top. Line a baking

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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. 75

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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. 77

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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. 79

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June Transitions June is a transition month in the landscape. Spring-flowing trees and shrubs have finished blooming. Daylilies are starting to flower in abundance, and many perennials are starting to bud and flower. The vegetable garden is also in a time of transition. The early edible pod peas you planted in the garden should be ready for harvest, along with greens like lettuce and spinach. If you have

not done so already, it is time to plant warm-season crops like peppers, tomatoes, eggplants, cucumbers, sweet corn and squash. I always have a problem with squash vine borer in the zucchini, even though I spray with an organic repellent. To compensate for some damage, make additional squash plantings about three weeks apart through mid-July. This planting schedule works well if you have cole

Tidewater Gardening crops like broccoli, cauliflower and Brussels sprouts in the vegetable garden. When you finish harvesting these plants and they start to bolt (flower), pull them out and replant with zucchini or yellow necked squash, or do a seeding of green snap or bush beans. Do successive plantings of green beans every two weeks until the middle of July. This will give you a continued harvest before the first frost. To enhance the growth of green beans, coat them with a pea and bean bacteria inoculant. Beans are legumes and can “fix” atmospheric nitrogen from the air if rhizobium bacteria are present in

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If you have an asparagus bed, stop cutting the stalks in mid- or late June when the spears become thin. After the last cutting is made, fertilize by broadcasting a 10-1010 formula at the rate at 2 lbs. per 100 sq. ft. Allow the tops to grow during the summer to store food in the crowns (roots) for the crop next spring. Vegetable crops need a steady supply of water and nutrients for the best production. For a very efficient, steady feeding of vegetables, sink a large can or bucket with many holes in its sides into the soil and fill it about two-thirds full of rotted manure or compost. Rain or occasional watering will keep a rich supply of nutrient seeping out to feed plants in a circle several feet wide.

vegetable seeds are sold, or you can order it online from seed catalogs. Coat the bean seed with the inoculant before planting. Follow the directions on the package for best results. When thinning the emerging bean seedlings to the recommended 3” spacing, watch for “snake heads,” seedlings that have lost one or both of their cotyledons and produce poor, weak sprouts. Also, watch for “bald heads,” seedlings that have the growth point damaged so severely that they cannot develop. Both types of seedlings will be weak and delayed in growth and should be removed.

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ter will seep out, providing a slow, deep irrigation for plants. Sweet corn is wind pollinated. To ensure pollination of sweet corn, plant several rows together in a block, rather than in one long row. This practice will help reduce partially filled cobs. Sweet corn is also a heavy nitrogen feeder. Side-dress with 3 tablespoons of 10-10-10 per 10 feet of row when the corn plants are 12 to 18 inches high. Tomato leaf diseases like early blight will start to show up in late June. To reduce early blight problems, do not water the tomato plant foliage, as the disease is spread by water. Early blight is a soil-borne fungus that infests the lower plant leaves by being splashed on the fo-

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warm, humid conditions, fruits on the vine may remain in prime condition for less than 12 hours. For the best-tasting cukes, pick early and often. The fruits can be stored for up to two weeks at 45 to 50° and 95 percent relative humidity. Lower temperatures cause chilling damage, and higher temperatures encourage yellowing. Yellowing is also accelerated if cucumbers are stored with tomatoes or apples. Remove cucumbers by turning fruits parallel to the vine and giving a quick snap. This prevents vine damage and results in a clean break. If you have trouble mastering this, take a sharp knife to the garden for harvesting. Cut or pull cucumbers, leaving a short stem on each fruit.

Remember that the time of day when vegetables are harvested can make a difference in the taste and texture. For sweetness, pick peas and corn late in the day. That’s when they contain the most sugar, especially if the day was cool and sunny. Other vegetables, such as lettuce and cucumbers, are crisper and tastier if you harvest them early in the morning, before the day’s heat has a chance to wilt and shrivel them.

Yellow crook neck or straight neck squash tastes best when 4 to 7 inches long. Pick when pale yellow (rather than golden) and before skin hardens. Scalloped (patty pan) squash is best when grayish or greenish white (before it turns ivory white) and is still small, even silver dollar size. Cucumbers have a noticeably short “vine storage time.” Under

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ished blooming, 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. Dutch irises prefer not to be watered while dormant. At the end of the summer, the leaves will yellow and die back as the plant slips into dormancy. Foliage many be removed at this point. Your iris will rest for a few months before beginning the next growing cycle. In the perennial bed, don’t forget to divide spring- and early summerflowering perennials such as lilies 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.

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Tidewater Gardening be sure to stake them before they grow tall. Lightly side dress perennials, including spring bulbs, with a 5-10-10 or 10-10-10 fertilizer, being careful to avoid placing the fertilizer in the center or crown of the plant. When the foliage of the spring-flowering bulbs yellows, you can cut it out and dispose of the spent foliage. If you are growing chrysanthemums, June is the time to disbud the flowers if you want to secure large, beautiful blooms on straight, strong stems. 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 flower rather than many smaller ones. It is still not too late to divide the

tiana, portulaca, zinnia, impatiens or celosia. Before planting, rework and enrich the soil with compost.

chrysanthemum plants to produce more plants in the garden. Carefully lift the clumps and divide out the individual plants. Replant them in the landscape where you want to expand your planting. After transplanting, give the plants a watering with a liquid fertilizer at half strength to give them a little “kick” and get them over the transplanting shock. If they have gotten too tall, they can be cut back by about one half now to reduce their fall height. When the early summer heat starts to take out the cool-season pansies, snapdragons and any ornamental cabbage and kale that might have overwintered, replace them with summer annuals, such as nico-

If you haven’t done it yet, remove all old flower heads from your rhododendrons and lilacs. The rhododendron flower heads are best broken out by hand. Do this now to increase growth and the develop-

Tidewater Gardening ment of flower buds for next year. I recommend pruning out the spent lilac flower heads rather than breaking them out. Prune off sprouts that are growing from the base of crape myrtles. June is also when you can selectively prune or thin spring-flowering shrubs to get fuller plants. Do not prune these plants after the middle of July.

The best “organic” control method for this pest is hand picking and destroying the bags before June 1. Treat the bags you can’t reach with an insecticide. Early in the hatch, spraying the plant with Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis) is the best control. Sold under the trade names of Dipel, Bt or Biotrol, this naturally occurring bacterium is effective for caterpillars in the early stages of growth. Keep an eye out for aphids and other insects on roses. Spray if necessary. Begin spraying to control blackspot at least twice a month. Removing and replacing last year’s mulch under roses in the spring will cut down greatly on black spot problems. Happy Gardening!

In the pest area, be on the lookout for the bagworm. This insect scourge of cedar trees and other narrow-leafed evergreens hatches out around the first of June. Each little “Christmas ornament” hanging on your cedar tree, if it had contained a female bagworm, now contains between 200 and 1,000 eggs ready to hatch when the temperatures are correct. Bagworms are best controlled as soon as they hatch: the older and bigger they get, the harder they are to control with insecticides.

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memory was Thomas W. Lawson, the largest-ever schooner, passing Hoopers Island. Perhaps sighting the seven-masted Lawson helped lure the youngster to leave Honga River waters and pursue coastal freighting. To plan the Lawson, financier and yachtsman T. W. Lawson had commissioned B. B. Crowninshield, previously known for

Fifty years ago, Captain William T. Hooper of Hoopersville, Maryland, was working on his memoir. Captain Hooper had begun his offshore career at seventeen, coastal freighting as cook aboard the schooner Annie Hodges. At eightyfive years of age, he looked back on a lifetime “following the water,” with many sights and experiences to recall. One sight etched in his

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week, Sunday through Saturday. Though totally wind dependent, Lawson pushed other technologies in new directions. An electric plant provided incandescent lighting throughout. Crew’s quarters were heated by steam. Unsurprisingly, though she predated radio communication, a telephone circuit connected the wheelhouse and engine rooms. Before founding his shipyard, Thomas Watson received what’s generally accepted as the first telephone call in his role as Alexander Graham Bell’s assistant (“Mr. Watson, come here...” Realities of steel construction and costs gradually forced the

designing small wooden racing schooners. This schooner would be 404 feet overall, constructed in 1902 of steel plate, built by Thomas Watson’s Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts. The Lawson’s concept was so original, no designations even existed for seven masts. Crowninshield’s blueprints show them as the Fore, Main, Mizzen, No. 4, No. 5, No. 6 and Spanker. In practice, this caused unworkable confusion between the Fore and No. 4 masts. Some used numerals 1 through 7, but the masts became known popularly as days of the

yachtsmen to strip eye-pleasing aspects from their plans, but apparently Captain Hooper and his island neighbors didn’t notice the fine points missing from Lawson. He writes, “We saw the Lawson once from here on the island. As she sailed up the Bay, word spread around the community of her presence, and many came out to look and admire this beautiful ship . . . People stood on their steps or lined the shore to watch. The ship was a magnificent sight to behold . . . ” When he wrote those lines around 1970, engines had largely replaced the sails that had lured him from his Hoopers Island home. Looking westward, no doubt his mind’s eye still visualized grace-

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Lives Under Sail ful outlines of wind-dependent wooden vessels gliding past Hoopersville. Unless the wind had been westward when Lawson passed, he couldn’t have heard the cacophony of hoops clanging against seven masts, metal against metal. “Of course, she was rather far away ~ in the channel of the Bay,” wrote Captain Hooper. On her seemingly majestic sail to Baltimore, she may have been under tow. In less-than-ideal conditions, the behemoth was extremely cranky and frequently ran aground. The tug Paraquay shadowed her at all times. Her designer asked an early skipper how long it took to tack and

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Lives Under Sail was told, “Well, you go below and eat your dinner and when you come on deck she may be off on the other tack.” Headed to Baltimore, she likely carried coal, cargo she freighted for five years along the East and Gulf coasts. Her huge, engine-less cargo hold made this trade profitable, especially with steam-driven donkey engines enabling two men per mast to raise twenty-five various sails: a full acre of canvas. When coal prices dropped, though, profits declined. A decision was reached to send her to Newport News, to have the hold fitted with seven pairs of bulk-f lu-

id tanks. The repurposed Lawson was also reassigned, from coastal to ocean freighting, the first “supertanker.” At Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, in 1907, Lawson loaded 2.25 million gallons from Sun Oil Company, bound for London. Superstition was rife along the waterfront. Often aground, she was known as an unlucky ship, with a name containing thirteen letters. For one reason or another, the Lawson’s usual captain and crew declined to join her first transatlantic voyage. Instead, Captain George Dow, with years under sail, mostly on squareriggers, took command. The year before, Dow’s favorite first mate, Ben Libby, had re-

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tired and settled into family life with his wife and five children. At Dow’s pleading, he signed for one more trip. Dow also retained Engineer Edward Rowe, who had twice saved Lawson from nearly capsizing while loading. Otherwise, the captain scrambled to the last minute patching together eighteen crewmen. In Thomas Hall’s book T. W. Lawson, Hall describes the resultant crew as warm-bodied, rather than able-bodied, seamen. Some spoke little English, further complicating mast designations. Leaving port November 19, 1907, Lawson immediately ran aground in Delaware River. Once tugged free, she proceeded downriver to deep water, for what should have

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Lives Under Sail been about a fifteen-day, 3,000mile voyage. Three days later, she was sighted clearing Grand Banks in good shape. Thereafter, an unseen Lawson barely survived three separate severe gales. Captain Dow must have dreaded Friday, the 13th of December, their twenty-fourth day at sea. The foggy afternoon of the 13th, in a neargale, he reached English waters, six remaining sails in tatters, lifeboats shattered and crew exhausted. Gradually, off the pitching starboard bow, Bishop’s Rock Lighthouse emerged. The captain’s heart surely sank. They were landward of the lighthouse, inside the Western

Rocks, headed even deeper into the granite minefield of the Isles of Scilly, slayers of hundreds of ships and thousands of lives. Dow dropped two anchors, fifty tons each, planning to allow the crew some rest, while hoping a tugboat would be dispatched. The lightkeeper, alarmed by the location of what “looks like a picket fence,” signaled for Royal National Lifeboats. The St. Agnes Isle crew, one mile east of Lawson, launched a thirty-eight-foot open lifeboat into waves breaking eight feet high. Reaching the towering schooner after an hour’s toil, they shouted advice to a skeptical Dow: He and his crew had best come with them to safety, or else attempt escaping

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their position. Off the gale-blown Atlantic, no anchors could hold on such rocky bottom. Captain Dow had undoubtedly heard old tales of “wreckers” preying along English shores. For whatever reason, he opted to trust his huge anchors and chains, rather than these would-be life-savers. He asked if they had a local pilot with them. Billy Cook Hicks, with twenty-five years’ pilot’s certification around his native Scillys, volunteered to risk scaling the schooner’s swaying ladder. With one of his own boat’s crewmen rendered unconscious, they had to return to St. Agnes. Hicks stayed to assist Dow, likely from a mixture of duty, local pride and potential reward if

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Lives Under Sail lot and ship’s officers watching helplessly. Nearing Annet Rock, one eighty-pound link of port anchor chain snapped, its rif le-like crack resounding into the storm, followed thirty minutes later by a starboard link. Lawson sprang free. All aboard scrambled upward to tie themselves into rigging and await their fate. From below, the odor of spreading oil rose from Lawson’s battered tanks. At first light on St. Agnes, the pilot’s twenty-year-old son, Freddie, could smell oil. He searched the horizon for Lawson, but she

was gone. Not waiting for a lifeboat crew to assemble, Freddie found enough men to launch the smaller Slippen into heavy sea. Rowing frantically through gore and debris, they ultimately rescued three survivors: Seaman George Allen was alone on Annet, grievously wounded, and died the next day; Captain Dow and Engineer Rowe had been thrown onto Hellweathers rock and were spotted there in a crevice. Slippen dared not come too near the rock. Rowe, able to extract himself, swam to a rope and was pulled aboard. Dow was frozen in shock, stranded fifty feet above the

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tained thirteen letters. Earlier, the ship’s owner and namesake, highly superstitious himself, had actually authored a book titled Friday, the Thirteenth. On Hoopers Island, Captain Hooper’s daughter Gladys lovingly compiled and edited his memoir, privately published as My Years Before the Mast. He himself had survived several near-misses. Nevertheless, he was a contented man, looking back on his career with “keen satisfaction and happy serenity.” He wondered “in awe what great marvels would be done next by the hand of man.” Unlike Captain Hooper, Captain Dow left no memoir. No record shows how haunted Dow may have

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Behind the Scenes at the Chamber Music Festival by James N. Carder

Much goes into the planning of the annual Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival, but the true backbone of a successful Festival is the engagement of world-class musicians and the selection of inspiring musical programming that creates an intimate bond between the performers and the audience. This is the responsibility of the Festival’s artistic co-directors, cellist Marcy Rosen and violinist Catherine Cho. The 36th annual Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival will be held June 4 through 12 at its new home, the Ebenezer Theater at 17 South Washington Street in Easton. The Festival’s two-week program of six concerts featuring 15 artists will be presented live as well as streamed on the web. For this year’s Festival, Marcy and Cathy have created a compelling program of chamber music masterworks by Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms and Schumann, among others, as well as intimate duo performances of music by Joseph Bologne, William Grant Still, William Bolcom and Amy Beach.

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Chamber Music and Schubert’s Fantasia for Piano, Four Hands, in F minor. “I really, really wanted to play the Mozart piano trio in C major! ~ but I needed to give it to another cellist [Timothy Eddy],” Marcy exclaimed in a recent interview. “It’s important, after all, to distribute the repertoire fairly evenly among the performers at a festival. It’s going to be beautiful! ~ I don’t get to play it, but I get to listen. Fortunately, I do get to play in the Mozart G Major piano trio at the opening concert. So, I’m happy with that.” After choosing the Festival participants, Marcy and Cathy ask the

musicians what they would like to perform, and from those suggestions, they endeavor to create concert programs that are both audience pleasing and interesting for the artists to work on. Given time constraints, the musicians aren’t able to rehearse together until they come to Easton on May 31. They then spend their time in day-long rehearsals in preparation for the Festival. This was not always the case, as Marcy recalled, “In the early years of the Festival, we only had one or two concerts, so there was time for sailing on the rivers or the bay, but with these expanded concerts, we don’t have time to do that now! It’s the growth of the Festival that is

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11. “This was one of the first pieces we played way back when,” Marcy explained, “and we will play that piece together again, bringing it full circle from when we were kids!” All chamber music festivals are almost certain to include some of the great masterworks, and this year’s Festival is no exception. However, Marcy and Cathy have also included some little-known compositions as well as compositions by women and composers of color, who historically have been underrepresented in chamber music programming. “Diversity is very important to classical music,” Marcy stated, “and diverse and inclusive programming is now much

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more prevalent in classical music organizations.” Marcy and Cathy hope to be able to include interesting new works and premiers in future Festival programming. The live-streaming of the Festival concerts from the Ebenezer Theater is also new for Chesapeake Chamber Music. Marcy is very interested in this opportunity. “I think that virtual concerts ~ like the Virtual Virtuosi! concert last year ~ helped Chesapeake Chamber Music broaden its exposure tremendously. So, we now will reach more people than we ever have. The Virtual Virtuosi! concert was really one of the first to make the necessary shift during the pandemic from live to

virtual. And it was all due to the musicians’ willingness to make ‘home movies’ or stream available pre-recorded concerts. But that was low-tech, and now everything is wonderfully high-tech. There’s been a quick learning curve on everybody’s part to make virtual concerts better and better. I believe that concerts will continue to be live before an audience as well as live-streamed as we go forward. I hope Chesapeake Chamber Music will continue to do both, and I think the new theater will make this possible. But I do think that people are still most interested to attend concerts in person.” “We have programmed a lot of really exciting music for this

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greatly looking forward to being able to share this music with as many people as possible this summer.” Festival Schedule Week One: June 4, 7:30 p.m. ~ Festival Opening Extravaganza! - Mozart’s Piano Trio in G Major, Anton Webern Langsamer Satz (Slow Movement) and Dvořák’s Piano Quartet in E-f lat Major June 5, 7:30 p.m. ~ Bologne’s Chevalier de Saint-Georges Sonata No. 3 in A Major for two violins, Still’s “Mother and Child” from the Suite for violin and piano, Bolcom’s Graceful Ghost Rag, Beach’s Romance for violin and

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C Major, Beethoven’s Serenade in D Major, Beethoven’s Serenade in D Major, Opus 25 for f lute, violin, viola and Schubert’s Fantasia for Piano, Four Hands, in F minor June 12 ~ Festival Finale ~ Beethoven’s Clarinet Trio in Bf lat Major, Opus 11, Prokofiev’s Sonata in D Major for f lute and piano in D Major, Opus 94 Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor (Orion String Quartet) Sponsors of this year’s Festival include Talbot Arts, the Maryland State Arts Council and Paul and Joanne Prager. For further information or to purchase tickets, visit chesapeakemusic.org.

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Sea Glass Secrets by Adam Larson

It’s amazing what archaeologists can learn from a single artifact, telling a whole story from a single coin or trinket. Most of us don’t have their amount of education and experience, but a piece of sea glass I found showed me that laymen can use their own powers of deduction (aided immensely by internet search engines) to pull off similar feats of discovery. I wasn’t looking for sea glass the day I stumbled across the piece in question. I was focused on collecting as many kinds of seashells as I could on a particularly productive stretch of beach on Delmarva until I passed another beachcomber who remarked about the amount of sea glass he was finding that day and shared a piece he found with me. Alerted to the presence of sea glass, I had the good fortune to stumble across a piece in the sand a few minutes later. It was a square piece about two by two inches, curved along one axis and with a lip extending concave on one side. The edges of the seafoam green piece were smooth, like most sea glass, but this piece had something that most don’t have: an embossed design with legible lettering. This was a fragment

that could tell a story. Within some sort of circular design read “GISTERED”; around part of the outside of the circle was “COMPANY” and below the circle was “IMORE, MD.” It doesn’t take much sleuthing to infer that “GISTERED” is part of “REGISTERED” and “IMORE, MD.” is short for “BALTIMORE, MD.” Of course, there have been a lot of breweries that made green beer bottles in Baltimore, but thanks to the power of search engines and what remained of the logo, I was able to determine the maker of the bottle: GottliebBauernschmidt-Straus Brewing Company.

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Sea Glass Secrets Never heard of Gottlieb-Bauernschmidt-Straus? You’re not the only one. The limited sources that mention it don’t even agree on how to spell Straus (or is it Strauss?). All sources say that it was a brewery based in Baltimore that opened in 1901, although there is disagreement over the year it ceased production (either 1910 or 1920). As the company registered two trademarks in 1913 and one in 1915, closure in 1920 is a much more likely date, especially since Prohibition came into effect on January 17 of that year. 100 Years of Brewing: A Complete History of the Brewing Industry of the World, published in 1903, described GBS as follows: “On March 1, 1899, an organization was formed, including sixteen of the breweries of Baltimore, and called the Maryland Brewing Company. The business was reorganized August 7, 1901, as the GottliebBauernschmidt-Straus Brewing Company, with officers as follows:

George J. Obermann, president; Frederick H. Gottlieb, vice-president, and James Barkley, secretary and treasurer. Of the sixteen plants at first forming the combination the Helldorfer, Baltimore, Germania, J.B. Berger, Mount, J.F. Wiessner & Brother, Oriental and the original Bay View breweries were closed.” I guess even in 1901, mergers led to plants closing. Eight breweries remained after the consolidation. “The combined annual capacity of the plants named above is one million five hundred thousand barrels.” For comparison, Maryland’s 121 craft breweries produce a total of 278,640 barrels of beer each year. “The general offices of the Gottlieb-Bauernschmidt-Straus Brewing Company are at the southwest corner of Fayette street and Park avenue (sic), Baltimore.” Today, that corner in downtown Baltimore is occupied by Ingerman & Horwitz, personal injury attorneys. The book goes on to describe the company’s officers in detail, starting with company president George Obermann. Obermann was born

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Caroline County’s Compassion Odette Boyce-Galvez by Meg McDermott

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ignated for them. Lots of work was going on. Each crew had created a semi-private base by the strategic placement of containers full of gear, or that had been fitted out as workshops. “Yo, Andy! Here!” It was Sargent hailing him from a nearby dock. All American was in the water. They walked over. The crew was on board getting the boat ready for an afternoon sail. “You normally show up for work at noon?” Sargent asked. “Where I’m from, it’s yesterday,” Andy said. “So I’d say I’m early.” “Well?” Sargent looked at him, then at Becky, then back to him. “Oh, right. Excuse me. Guys, this is Becky Cotton. I’d introduce you,” Andy said to Becky, “but I’ve forgotten their names.” One by one, the boys stepped up, introduced themselves and shook Becky’s hand. “There’ll be a test,” Joe Dugan, who was last up, said to Becky. “Care for a tour?” Becky and Dugan went below. “Fast worker,” Andy said, shrugging. “Dugan. Who knew?” Not a minute later, Becky stuck

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She had her hair pinned up. “Well, I dunno,” Sargent said. “That’s breakher head up the companionway. ing the rules. But if someone flies She was aghast. “You all are sailing twenty hours to go for a sail, I guess around the world . . . in this?! You we’d better break the rules. We’ve must be crazy.” got some extra hats.” He raised his “That helps,” Sargent said. voice a notch. “All right. Off we go.” “It’s quite com“If you want to tow fortable,” Andy said. You all are sailing around the little RIB,” Andy “And safe,” Stu said, “Becky can the world . . . Samuels added. The shoot some pictures in this? crew chuckled. of the sails.” “We’re going out, “Good idea,” Sarhave a look at the new main,” Sar- gent said. Teddy Bosworth jumped gent said to Andy. “Coming?” onto the dock and brought the RIB “Yeah, sure. Okay to bring around, tied it to All American’s Becky?” stern. Sargent looked at Becky, who They had a pleasant sail in a modhad on shorts, deck shoes and one erate breeze. The new main looked of Andy’s All American polo shirts. good. Becky did her thing, running

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away. There have been some other ‘issues’ having to do with our sponaround in the rib and shooting sail sor, Moss Optics. Mitchell Thomas shape with different trim combina- is in jail for several reasons. The tions, and with several jibs. They bottom line is that our Andy is now were out until dusk. CEO and chairman of the board of Back at the dock, the crew read- Moss. That means he owns, among ied the boat for getting hauled other things, this boat. That also again the next day. There were still means he, Andy, is our sponsor. As five days to the start, and a few jobs such, and because of another issue, remained to be done on the bot- he has the right to fire RD ~ or any tom. Andy walked down the deck one of us nutty bastards he wants to to where RD was securing the sail get rid of. As you can see, he has his cover. “Roger,” Andy said, “I need a own way of doing that. Any quesword.” Davis stepped back, joined tions? No, just kidding. No quesAndy next to the lifelines. He tions. But just to be clear” ~ Sargent looked a little puzzled. Andy needed looked at Andy ~ “I am still the a “word?” Really? skipper of this here boat.” “Mitch wanted me “Yes, you are,” He hit Davis hard to tell you he’s disAndy said. “Mitch with open hands appointed in you,” got one thing right. Andy said to RD. And there’s no one to the shoulders “Here’s some adelse I need to fire. vice. When you want to get rid of We are here right now on this boat someone, just fucking do it.” With in Fremantle, Western Australia, that, he hit Davis hard with open because a couple years ago at a rehands to the shoulders. Davis, to- gatta dinner at the New York Yacht tally unsuspecting, went over the Club, I got very drunk and basically side. Andy stared down at the dis- said if Mitchell Thomas didn’t enter turbance where Davis had gone an American boat in this race he into the water. Davis surfaced and was a chickenshit, or words to that looked up at Andy. His face was effect. That was after our friend blank. Davis held Andy’s eyes for a Koonce over on Ram Bunctious had long moment before he turned and done one of his patented standup swam slowly away. ‘gotcha!’ routines at our table, one The crew was mesmerized, star- of those Kiwi-magic raps where he ing at Andy in disbelief. puts his foot on your neck while he’s “Okay, guys,” Sargent said. supposedly buying you a friendly “Gather ’round. Let me fill you in. beer. One result of that memorable You all know Andy’s mother passed moment was me being forced to be 146

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On we go, around Cape Horn. Is there a better way to see the world? “In the interest of fun, I hope everyone can make dinner over at the compound. First, we’ve got this case of rum we need to dispose of. It’s much too heavy to bring on board. Manuka Restaurant, Fremantle’s best, is closed tonight, so they are sending a crew over to cook for us. Should be good. You got any friends, bring ’em, but tell them to hurry up because it is happening. Dinner is served.” “What about Willie and the shore crew?” Richard Crouse asked. “Done,” Sargent said.

part of this crew. I hated that idea, hated it with a passion. I did everything in my power to get out of it. Everything I could think of. And I was pretty good at getting out of things back then. But I failed. I was pissed. You know how I was at the beginning. You guys resented me as much as I hated being here. Andy the meal ticket. Now, I plan to do everything in my power to win this race. There’s nothing I want to do more than buy Captain Koonce a friendly beer while I have my foot on his neck. “Just to relieve any anxiety you might have, Becky *** I plan to do here was a crowd will not be replacing RD on the next everything in my power of twenty-five at dinner, including several leg. She’s very capato win this race women some of the ble, but she doesn’t care for the accommodations. Dick boys had made friends with durHooper, who’s been with us as an ing the ten days they had been in alternate from the beginning, will Fremantle. Willie, his shore crew join us. He’ll handle Davis’s duties. and several of the sailors had set Like RD, Dick knows quite a bit up a tight circle of tables in the about women in addition to sails. compound, where there was plenty of room with the boat being in the He’s arriving tomorrow. “My only request, given the new water. The Manuka staff provided order of things, is that we try to candles with hurricane shades and have more fun. We definitely want brought a delicious sampling from to win this thing. That’s a priority. their wood-fired restaurant that But so is having fun. We’re sailing. included a spread of bone-marrow Sailing is fun. We’re lucky bastards, butter with black garlic for their sailing the world’s oceans with a homemade flatbread, eggplant baba bunch of cool mates. And getting ghanoush, slow-roasted lamb and paid to do it. Here we are in Freo. In a confit of duck rolls with sweet a few weeks, we’ll be in Auckland. potatoes. The chefs grilled sirloin

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I agree, it is pretty damn perfect. What matters is we have a good BN said, “so I thought I’d better boat and a crew to match, and we point out that we are in it right this are ready for whatever awaits us freaking minute.” More applause. over the next twenty thousand “That’s the first thing. I want to miles. It doesn’t matter because it toast our new owner, our new is coming out all right. It doesn’t sponsor, formerly just a driver, matter that Mitchell Thomas and an overweight pain in the butt be- Isha turned out to be bad actors. fore that, whom we need to thank You remember Isha . . . ” The crew for this sensational dinner. Andy, groaned as one, then laughed. “It you have, in fact, become our meal doesn’t matter because they will ticket.” Applause and laughter. get their just desserts. And I’ll tell “And for our sensational boat, not you one thing: it won’t be darkchocolate parfait to mention the cool topped with baked strategy that gave I have a strong meringue.” Big apus a win by just suspicion that plause and more six freaking minBecky matters laughter. utes here in Freo.” “One more toast.” Big applause and cheering. “I dunno what happened It was Stu standing up. “A toast to back home, but here’s the thing, it Becky, because I have a strong susdoesn’t matter. Because I think we picion that Becky matters.” Everyone stood up. “Becky mathave stepped in it big time.” Big ters,” Stu said, raising his glass. applause. Andy stood up. “I’m glad you “Becky matters,” the boys chanted said it doesn’t matter, because several times before emptying you’re right, it doesn’t. What mat- their glasses. Becky was blushing. ters is that we are here right now Andy took her hand. Becky kissed in this moment, and like you say, him on the cheek. More big ap-

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“You’re only off by two hours.” “Sorry. I’m a little distracted. plause and cheering echoed into Finding a new windscreen for the boat is like the proverbial needle the Australian night. in a haystack. But I might be on the trail of one. Gonna cost a fortune.” *** “You should get that guy who tartled out of a deep sleep, Andy grabbed the telephone on the broke it to pay for it.” fourth ring. He looked at his watch “He’ll pay, all right. Listen, here’s a piece of news: Isha as he mumbled a hello. It was six thirty in has escaped.” Listen, here's a the morning. “What??!!” Andy piece of news: sat bolt upright. “For The voice on the Isha has escaped phone asked if he chrissakes, Sam, are you kidding?” was up yet. “Sam! Of course I’m up. Just re“Sorry. Classic screw-up. They were transferring her, stopped for turned from the gym.” Sam laughed. “Hope I haven’t gas. She had to pee. They took off called too early. It’s eight-thirty the cuffs, guarded the door. Five there, right?” minutes later, they broke the door

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face somewhere with a whole new schtick, hair to toenails; new name, new game. But it is goddamn infuriating. The oldest trick in the book. Leave it to Isha. Damn. “But here’s the thing. Isha doesn’t matter. Like Stu and the boys said last night, Becky matters.” Becky rolled toward Andy. “I should show you how I took that bad little girl down. First, I got her around the neck, like this . . . ”

down. No Isha. How she managed to get out the very small window, they still can’t figure out. She must be part octopus. Anyway, she was long gone.” Andy fell back on the pillow with a curse. Becky was awake. “My dad?” “Yeah.” “Andy?” Sam said. “Yeah, I’m here, just stunned. Bloody speechless.” *** “Rebecca there?” ome time later, Andy regained “Who?” “If she’s not, you’re dumber than consciousness. “I’ve been dreaming about Mountain View,” he said to I thought.” Becky. “Isha’s escaped,” “Really?” Andy said to Becky, "I've been dreaming about “Yeah, I want to Mountain View," Andy handing her the do it. I love this idea. phone. He got up, said to Becky We’d made quite a lot went into the bathof progress. We had room. When he returned, Becky was hanging up. He flopped on the land picked out in Western Masbed. The two of them stared at the sachusetts for a nice campus, and some great drawings. I’ll have to ceiling. “He’s all over that windscreen. I show you. It’s a very cool campus, very outer-spacial, all round corknew he’d be pissed.” ners on the buildings like in those “Isha,” Andy said. sci-fi movies, a little spooky, with “Should we be worried?” “Maybe you should. You’re the this great-granddaddy of a teleone who took her down for the count scope at the center. Everything is in the flyweight division. Me, naw.” themed around outer space and Becky laughed. “That surprised the universe. Lots of technology involved. And some great little deeven me.” “No worries about Isha. You saw tails, like the airlock sounds when how fast she threw Mitch under the doors are opened and shut. Even bus. She wants as far away from the drinks at the bar have planetary this scene as possible. She’ll resur- names.”

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“Why on earth . . . ” “George has a degree in planetary science. And he was totally into Mountain View. He seemed really decent. He had good ideas, enthusiasm, good connections. He believed in the idea. I think we’ll find out Mitch tripped him up, sucked him in somehow. And, of course, Isha reduced him to silly putty. That’s a mistake anyone could have made.” “Ah-huh.” Andy laughed. “George has got some hefty jail time coming. Get that forgiven, put him on probation, and you’d have one dedicated lieutenant. He has a wife and kids. We’ll see. I’ll have a chat with George.” “You know,” Becky said, “I think you’ll do the right thing. But I’d

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wo days later, the Fremantle docks were jammed with people come to see the boats off on their 5,500-mile jaunt to Auckland, New Zealand. Jan and Andy had just fi nished doing interviews when Becky jumped on board. She’d been busy photographing the animated scene of boats, crews and people. She indicated three crewmen from other boats talking with a tall older man with a short beard and a head of curly gray hair. In his mid-sixties,

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All American ragged fluffy clouds had been gorgeous, constantly changing dramatic visions of light and shadow, each one more captivating than the last. Now the moon was ten o’clock high, casting a silvery path on the waves for All American to follow. The wind was abeam at fifteen knots. The seas were moderate. The boat was dashing along at twelve knots, feeling light as a feather on the helm, the wake a pleasant whoosh of barely disturbed water. It reminded Andy of a cat purring. Sargent was steering. Andy should have been below getting sleep, but he found it impossible to leave the compelling scene on deck. Sailing at

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