The Night the Stars Fell The Great Meteor Storm of 1833 by James Dawson The skies of the Eastern Shore are often full of unexpected wonders. We are far enough from big cities to have nice dark starry skies, and being on the east edge of the East Coast, we have a front-row seat to get a good view, as it were. You never know what you might see here, or when it might happen: comets, eclipses, fireballs, auroras, meteor showers and more. Sometimes even
a rare meteor storm, which is like the more common meteor shower, but on steroids. One such outstanding astronomical event occurred 187 years ago, and an 11- or 12-year-old slave girl in Dorchester County was one of the first to witness it. After working for her master all day, young Araminta “Minty� Ross, accompanied by one of her brothers,
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