News from the Shores of the Chesapeake Bay
A vibrant mew mural was dedicated on August 13, 2022 in Downtown Cambridge. The Dorchester Women’s Mural featuring a dozen women from the past and present that have made a difference in Dorchester County and far beyond was dedicated on August 13, 2022. The 12 women featured are: Yogananda Pittman, former Acting Chief of the […]
Continue ReadingKenneth Herlihy, a Fund Manager in Philadelphia, PA, who moved to Georgetown, MD where he worked as a sculptor in marble and bronze died on August 20, 2021. He was 92. The statues of baseball greats Jimmie Foxx in Sudlersville and Bill “Swish” Nicholson in Chestertown, and the Oysterman Memorial in Rock Hall are three […]
Continue ReadingBetween the burning of Washington and the attack on Fort McHenry was the Battle of Caulk’s Field on the Delmarva Peninsula in Kent County, MD. Taking place on the night of August 30, and early morning hours of August 31, 1814, Captain Sir Peter Parker, commander of the frigate HM Menelaus, learning of a a […]
Continue ReadingMuch of the economy of Maryland’s Eastern Shore is from agriculture. So it’s natural that County Fairs are a big part of life here. Beginning just after the 4th of July leading up to the Maryland State Fair (Aug 26 – Sep 6), and a few after, it’s fair season. I have been part of […]
Continue ReadingWhen one thinks of the history of Town on the Chester, Chestertown, it’s usually its Colonial History. It also has a touch of Civil War history, or more precisely Post Civil War. George Vickers was one of Kent County’s most prominent citizens. In early 1868 he was selected by the Maryland Legislature as a US […]
Continue ReadingBetterton is a small town on Maryland’s Eastern Shore of around 400 on the Chesapeake Bay. Looking at it today one would hardly guess that it was once a major Victorian summer resort at the end of the 1800s through the 1st half of the 20th century. It was a major stopping point for ships […]
Continue ReadingThe Kennard African American Cultural Heritage Center (KAACHC) chronicles African American life in both Queen Anne’s County and the nation, with an emphasis on the period that the Kennard High School (KHS) operated, 1936-1966. Twenty years ago it was the goal of a few individuals, the Kennard Alumni Association, to restore the degrading building. From […]
Continue ReadingRidgely and Sudlersville on Maryland’s Eastern Shore are just two of the towns that holds a piece of their heritage to the Railroads of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. Delaware and Virginia’s Eastern Shore has many, including the Delaware town of Harrington. When you mention Harrington, many think of the Casino or the […]
Continue ReadingFor many Memorial Day weekend is associated with Chestertown and the Tea Party Festival that celebrates the town’s colonial past. It takes a great deal of planning and preliminarily work to put on the festival every year. Planning begins more than 6 months and when the decision was made to cancel the festival, for the […]
Continue ReadingThere have been many different reasons that cities and towns have been established. In the case of Ridgely in Caroline County Maryland the town was planned. The town was planned to be a regional trading city as the railroad system was expanding after the Civil War. As a spur off of the Delmarva Railroad that […]
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