News from the Shores of the Chesapeake Bay
EASTON, MD: University of Maryland Shore Medical Group – Nephrology recently welcomed a new provider, Mohamed Ahmed, MD. Dr. Ahmed is seeing patients at UM Shore Medical Pavilion in Denton. Dr. Ahmed joins the nephrology practice after completing a residency in internal medicine at Rochester Regional Health’s Unity Hospital in Rochester, N.Y. Previously, he completed […]
Continue ReadingFiber Arts Center of the Eastern Shore, located in Denton, Maryland will be offering A Beginning Knitting Series and Angel Wall Hanging Class this fall. The Beginning Knitting Series (8 classes) will be on October 5th, October 19th, November 2nd, November 16th, November 30th, December 14th, January 4th, and January 18th from 10am – 12pm. […]
Continue ReadingFrom now to September 3, 2022 the Fiber Arts Center is showcasing the work of Laura Waggner Boehl. Quilting is Laura’s passion and fabric her artistic medium. The quilts she makes are what is in her head or what suites her fancy at the time. She is always open to inspiration and new techniques to […]
Continue ReadingOn a nice sunny late April Day, April 30th, the General Perry Benson Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution unveiled a new Historical Marker in Denton to Honor Caroline County Revolutionary War Patriot Thomas Carney. Research, much of it done by Helen Seymour, shows that Thomas Carney was born free on the Eastern […]
Continue ReadingStudents will celebrate their patriotism by learning techniques of how to sew patchwork and paper pieced quilt blocks as well as machine applique at Fiber Arts Center of the Eastern Shore in Denton, MD. There are four patchwork and five paper pieced blocks in the sampler. This is a great way to learn a myriad […]
Continue ReadingFiber Arts Center of the Eastern Shore Presents, Becoming A Fiber Artist – Jeanne Bosse Hechmer. Jeanne is a lifelong resident of Easton, Maryland. She graduated from Salisbury State College and went on to teach middle school in Queen Anne’s County until retiring in 1998. Jeanne’s mother, an accomplished seamstress, taught her how to sew […]
Continue ReadingA super easy wash/dish cloth pattern will be the finished product of Knitting 101 with FAC Board Member (ex-officio) Kathleen McCulloch. The class is intended for the brand new knitter, giving him/her the opportunity to practice their new skills –casting on, knitting, purling, and binding off – while completing a project they can use with […]
Continue ReadingAs I was doing my journey on the Harriet Tubman Byway and the history of the years before the civil war it occurred to me how the Choptank River is an important part of the journey from force servitude to freedom and played a huge part in the Underground Railroad. From colonial times until the […]
Continue ReadingRenata Philippe, the artist behind Black Squirrel Company, looked to her past endeavors for inspiration in her first exhibit “Her Path to Afro-Futurism”. With pieces from various mediums like gouache, gold gild, and hand appliquéd quilts, Renata felt set free from the restriction that once bound her as a network engineer. Each piece stands independent […]
Continue ReadingLast week I posted about a monument to President Franklin D. Roosevelt located in Cambridge. Did you know that on Labor Day, September 5, 1938, President Franklin D. Roosevelt came to Maryland’s Eastern Shore where he delivered a nationally broadcast speech from Denton, Caroline County. Newspaper accounts said that were 5000 to 10,000 people in […]
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