Recently I was asked for a couple of locations on MD Eastern Shore to take Day Trips. I recommended Chesapeake City in Cecil County. I looked through my photos that I captured on trips to Chesapeake City. I discovered that nearly all of them was of views of the canal, like this one, and not […]
Continue ReadingIt doesn’t take a study to know that agriculture is a big part of life on the Delmarva. ______ Delmarva Scenes is a photo project of SG Atkinson, Publisher and Editor of ChesaDel Crier, where he Photographs the Usual, Unusual, Beautiful and No So Pretty scenes of the Delmarva Peninsula. Photos of the Week can […]
Continue ReadingHow much do you actually know about what happened on and around July 4, 1776? We all know that July 4th is the birthday of the United States, but is it really? Events that lead up to the birth of the United States started in 1774 when 56 representatives from 12 of the British Colonies […]
Continue ReadingIn a normal year, we would be getting ready to attend one of the many Independence Day Firework shows. But 2020 is not a usual year and many of these annual events have been cancelled or postponed for later in the year. Over the years I have only photographed a couple of shows. And this […]
Continue ReadingThis year life is so much different. It’s Summer. With everything that has been happening these past 3 months it doesn’t really feel like it. Yes, the days are long. The sun rises long before I get up in the morning and it sets not that long before I go to bed. Life abounds all […]
Continue ReadingMemorial Day Weekend for me for the past few years has been the Annual Chestertown Tea Party. For more than 40 years it has been held on the during Memorial Day Week. That is until this year subduing to the Covid-19 Virus. In honor of the Chestertown Tea Party, this week’s Photo of the Week […]
Continue ReadingIt has been nearly three years for the case for toplessness on Ocean City Beaches. A federal judge has dismissed a civic case challenging a June 2017 Ocean City ordinance prohibiting women from being able to go topless in the same areas that men are allowed to go shirtless on the beach and boardwalk. The […]
Continue ReadingAs we move into the third week so Self-Isolation, I am reminded of a big snow storm. We are inside and working the best that we can to be productive. The biggest difference is that with snow we have an idea when it’ll be over and safe to get out. Presently we don’t have an […]
Continue ReadingMaryland formally recognizes March 25th, as the day of its founding. It was on that day in 1634 that the first settlers sent by Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Lord Baltimore established the first settlement in land chartered to the Calvert’s. Mathias de Sousa, listed in records as a Mulatto, was of probable African and Portuguese descent. […]
Continue ReadingBeginning around March 11, 2020 organizations have been cancelling events and have closed their doors. Life on the Delmarva Peninsula and the United States has changed everyone’s life. But we still want to see arts and be entertained. But there isn’t a lot of Art and Entertainment news to share. You may have noticed that […]
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