It’s Labor Day, September 5, 1938. President Franklin D. Roosevelt visited Denton, MD. Their is a marker on the spot, across from the Court House, that he gave his speech. The photo is from one of my visits to Denton in 2019. More information on President Roosevelt’s visit to Denton and MD Eastern Shore is […]
Continue ReadingBeginning in the evening of August 30, 1814, Maryland Militia and British Troop meet in battle on Caulk’s Field near the town of Fairlee, then called Bel Air, in Kent County Maryland. The War of 1812 battle was a victory for the American at a time that a victory was desperately needed. The burning of […]
Continue ReadingEaston, the county site of Talbot County on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, has been involved lately in controversy. In the early part of the 20th Century, there was a movement to install statues to those who fought for the Confederacy. The Talbot Boys statue was one of those. For a number of years there has been […]
Continue ReadingEvery once in a while you’ll go somewhere and see a sight that really doesn’t make sense. This was the case with these steps in Betterton that really seem to go nowhere. Well they do actually lead into the town’s community park, but the sidewalk just end. I just found out that on the location […]
Continue ReadingThe 147′ Feadship “Harle” traveled up the Chester River and spent a couple of days in Chestertown, at dock at the Chestertown Marina. I would consider as an unusual Delmarva Scene, since it’s unusual to see a boat this size on the Chester River. ——– Delmarva Scenes is a photo project of SG Atkinson, Publisher […]
Continue ReadingRecently 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 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 ReadingI call this photo Missing Pieces since 4 years ago I captured this silo. Only that time there was also a barn. In that photo the barn was beginning to be overtaken by nature. Since then the barn has been removed. I can only hope that some of the barn was repurposed. The 2016 Photo […]
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