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Tidewater TimesOctober 2012
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Tidewater TimesSince 1952, Eastern Shore of Maryland
Features:About the Cover Artist: Nancy Hammond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7Summer Storm: Helen Chappell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9Historic Sawmill: Dick Cooper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21Dynamic Chesapeake Duo: Philip J. Webster . . . . . . . . . . . . 35Academy Art Museum Craft Show & Sale: Amy Blades-Steward . . . 47Savannah and Tybee Island, Georgia: Bonna Nelson . . . . . . . . . . 51Tidewater Review: Anne Stinson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67Tidewater Gardening: K. Marc Teffeau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77Island Redux: Gary D. Crawford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141Tidewater Kitchen: Pamela Meredith-Doyle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159Tidewater Traveler: George W. Sellers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
David C. Pulzone, Publisher · Anne B. Farwell, EditorP. O. Box 1141, Easton, Maryland 21601
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Vol. 61, No. 5 October 2012
Departments:October Tide Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43Kent County and Chestertown at a Glance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89Queen Anne’s County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91Caroline County - A Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93Dorchester Points of Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95Easton Points of Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105St. Michaels Points of Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115Oxford Points of Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131Tilghman - Bay Hundred . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139October Calendar of Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
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for in-person sales, the entire day of the release. The next day the poster price will begin to increase, starting at $150, and phone and internet sales will be accepted. There are 500 signed and numbered limited edition posters available with the price increasing as the poster sells. It’s a festive day with homemade foods offered all day.
Nancy Hammond Editions pub-lishes Nancy Hammond’s work ex-clusively. All her prints and original paintings can be seen at her gallery, located at 102 Turpins Lane in Cen-treville, Maryland. Open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
For more information and direc-tions to the gallery visit www.nancy-hammondeditions.com or call 410-758-6612.
This month’s cover is titled Alert and is center print of the Catch Alert Refuge triptych. Sold together or sep-arately.
Nancy Hammond is a painter who loves water life. Boat yards, black labs, crab feasts, tropical ports, irides-cent fish are all scenes from her life of living near the water.
She grew up in Schenectady and Skaneateles, one of the Finger Lakes in upstate New York. For many years, she cruised the Chesapeake on the sloop Northern Spy.
Majoring in painting at the Rhode Island School of Design, her work has since been chosen to be exhib-ited in many galleries including the Baltimore Museum of Art and Mary-land Institute of Art.
Hammond began her Chesapeake work with a series of silkscreen prints. Since then she has produced custom-designed scarves, jewelry, shirts, place mats, ties and a series of etched crystal. Archival giclee prints are col-or-matched to her original works.
A phenomenon was created when Nancy Hammond began offering an annual lithograph poster, signed and numbered of Annapolis. The re-lease of this poster caused long lines every year that stretched for blocks through the night.
The tradition of a limited edition annual poster, now Chesapeake post-er, continues today. The release of the Chesapeake 2013 poster is Saturday, October 20 at 10 a.m. For the first time, the poster will be priced at $65,
About the Cover ArtistNancy Hammond
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Summer Stormby
Helen ChappellAs I write this, the evening air
is as still as glass, and in the dis-tance I can hear the disgruntled rumbling of thunder as a summer storm approaches. Far away to the west there are distant flashes of lightning. The western sky is filled with black thunderheads, huge and threatening, like an es-pecially dramatic movement in a Beethoven symphony.
There’s a thunderstorm com-ing. The question today is, will it pass over us and drop a ton of much-needed rain on this parched landscape, or will it split in two, passing us by?
One of my earliest memories of the Shore is storms. To a small child, the crack of lightning and the cannon roar of thunder were ter-rifying. I used to cry and hide un-der the covers. To little ones, loud noises are as scary as the monster who lives under the bed, waiting to grab your hand or foot and drag you down. And those sudden flashes of lightning – like fire! My aunt told me thunder was angels rolling bar-rels in heaven, but I wasn’t having any of it, little heathen that I was.
I can remember once being caught on the Bay in just such a sudden squall. The family’d been
fishing, way down the Bay, and we were beating back into Fishing Creek with the wind at our backs. All of a sudden, the sky clouded up, waves roiled and rolled and bolts of lightning the size of tree trunks dove into the Bay around us. You couldn’t hear much of the thunder above the roar of that big old Mer-cury V-8 Marine, but you could feel the rumble.
My father and his friend Jess Dean were in charge of the show, and even as waves washed over the gunnels, I don’t recall feeling afraid. It was my first experience with one of those squalls that come up the Bay, but not the last. I had
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to be commanded to sit in the cabin with my mother, because I really wanted to be out on deck where the guys were being manly men against the elements.
I doubt that with Jess, who was practically born on the water, and my father, the mighty outdoors guy, we were ever in real danger. In fact, I suspect they were enjoying the ad-venture. I could only see it through the open cabin door, but the expe-rience cured me of being afraid of thunderstorms. No one, save an idiot, is ever unafraid of hurricanes, I have to add.
They tell me that because of the combination of wind, land, water,
Summer Storm and weather, the Shore is an ideal breeding ground for thunderstorms.
When I was a kid, a thunder-storm routinely knocked out the power. All you had to get was one lightning bolt and the whole Neck District was plunged into darkness, and the power could stay down for a day to a day and a half while they struggled to fix it. One drunk hit-ting a pole and that was that!
So we’d get out the old kerosene lamps and huddle around listen-ing to the wind and the rain batter the old house. Sometimes, in the winter, we’d actually light a fire in the fireplace and pop popcorn in an old-fashioned shaker. I don’t think any other popcorn has ever tasted so good since.
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The kids, and whatever adults we could round up, would retreat to the other room and play games. Cards were a favorite. We played Old Maid, Fish, Pit, Authors, and some primitive forms of poker. Since card playing is second only to softball as a Shore way of life, we were certainly not the only people down the Necks sitting in the dark playing cards.
Sometimes, my mother would delight and horrify me with the tale of how she once witnessed a
herd of cattle gathered under a tree in a thunderstorm. Lightning hit the tree and killed all the cattle. My youthful gothic mind wanted to know what they all looked like. Were they blown to bits? My moth-er was vague on the answer. She wanted to give her audience a good story about cows killed by light-ning, but she didn’t want to stretch the truth into gore territory, either. I thought she was censoring it when she said the cows were just lying there, as if they were asleep, but I’ve since found out that except for some singeing, that’s pretty much what happens. Not that I care to experience it first hand, mind you.
All my life, I was told not to stand under a tree in a thunderstorm, and
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so far, I’ve managed not to do that. The other day, I did see a lightning strike hit the steeple of the church next door, but it’s grounded, so it was just a split second of light and magic. Lightning does strike the highest point. It’s just another rea-son to keep a low profile and stay out of the line of fire, if you ask me.
To this day, I enjoy watching a storm. I like the static charge, the ions in the air, the feeling of an-ticipation as this huge thing rolls across a flat landscape. I like the wind, and the power of the rain, the flash of lightning and the roll of thunder, the drama of it all. Which is, of course, very nice if you’re snug
Summer Storm inside with plenty of batteries and your electronic tablet full of videos, books and music to keep you enter-tained. Or if you’re sitting on the porch and it’s been a hot day, and that cool, cool rain is blowing in on your hot skin.
Right now, I just wish some of these famous Shore thunderstorms would bring us some rain and lots of it. Heaven knows, we need it!
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Historic Sawmill Still Making Its Mark
byDick Cooper
Kurt Gant pulls the lever and the log heads toward the spinning saw blade.
You just know things are going to happen when Kurt Gant puts on the hard hat with the full-face shield. The big loblolly log is firmly in place on the carriage, the Detroit Diesel is roaring in its covered shed and the saw blade is spinning so fast it is just a blur. Dustin Horney and Glen Towers are in place on the receiving end of the track as Gant grabs the wooden control lever
and pulls. Sawdust fills the air as the blade and log meet in a high-pitched wail. Pass after pass, the saw transforms the pine log into barn siding. It is another day in the woods north of Ridgely for the “Tuckahoe Saw Mill Boyz.”
“There has been a sawmill here on this spot for more than 100 years,” Gant says. It is not hard to believe. The mill “building” is
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Historic Sawmill
Gant and the giant poplar log that will be used to side the Daffin House Farm in Caroline County.
a rustic structure open on three sides surrounded by piles of logs and mounds of wood scraps and sawdust.
Gant, who has been in the con-struction business for more than 20 years, says he bought the mill in 2005 to augment a sideline putting up outbuildings on farms through-out the region.
“We have built more than 350
farm buildings,” he says. The saw produces a board favored for its vintage, rough-cut surfaces. “I have a customer who was going to build a steel barn, but decided to use our planks for siding because he liked the look,” Gant says.
“We have property owners who lost trees in a storm and wanted them cut into lumber,” Gant says. “It is hard to find a mill that will custom cut wood these days. In the old days these mills used to
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be every where, but in the 1960s and ’70s they all just disappeared.”
National chains such as Home Depot and Lowe’s changed the face of the lumber business across the country. Lumber mills switched from the old circular saws to com-puterized band saws and automated equipment that could vastly out-produce small operations such as Gant’s. “We can cut 3,000 board-feet a day. They can cut 300,000.”
Gant’s mill itself is a history les-son that goes back to the mid-1800s and the start of the industrialization of American farming. It is a Frick Mill designed and built by George Frick, a one-time Pennsylvania
mil lwright who began building machinery using hand-made parts. His goal was to reduce the back-breaking labor needed to maintain small family farms. He went on to dev ise steam engines, early refrigeration and air-conditioning equipment, but the Frick Saw was one of his most popular products. They were originally powered by steam engines that spun the blade using a series of belts to transfer energy from a f lywheel on the en-gine to the saw.
“It is amazing to look at this sawmill and realize the technol-ogy is that old,” Gant says. “The railroads used to give these saws to farmers near their right-of-ways so they would have a steady supply of
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A small book titled Celebrating A Century Of Engineering Service: The Story of Frick Refrigerating, Air Conditioning, Farm and Saw-mill Machinery was commissioned by the Frick Company in 1952 to mark its centennial. Frick himself is hailed as one of the great innovators of the Industrial Revolution.
The book’s author writes, “Thus George Frick’s work has had a di-rect influence on the betterment of farming, manufacturing, and lum-bering. His products are essential to the great food industries, nearly every other phase of civilized life
has been benefited to some extent. He could hardly have chosen four fields of endeavor with more far-reaching usefulness.
“George Frick heard the guns at the battles of Antietam and Get-tysburg, saw the pony express su-perseded by the trans-continental railroad, supplied machines which helped open the Great West, and ushered in the era of refrigera-tion. When he died in 1892, Frick equipment was in use from Coast to Coast. The history of the Company he founded thus parallels the story of America.”
Gant says that when he bought the mill, it was intended to be a supplemental business, but the crash of the housing market has
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Glen Towers stacks the planks as they come out of the mill.
Historic Sawmillmade it his fallback occupation. “We run the mill about three days a week,” he says. “I built houses, and for 20 years I moved right from one job to the next.” When the recession hit that stopped.
One big project that will keep the Tuckahoe mill singing for the next year is the construction of a big two-story wooden barn on the grounds of the historic Daffin House Farm in Caroline County. “A Pennsyl-vania company will put together the mortise and tenon frame of the barn and we will cut and install the roofing and siding,” Gant says. For that job, Gant says he is going to cut boards from massive sections of
an ancient poplar tree from Talbot County that now stand as guardians to the gate of the mill. He says that before the tree toppled it was part of the scenery in the 2005 movie Wedding Crashers.
Gant has a lso been work ing with shipwrights Marc Barto and Mike Gorman from the Chesa-p e a ke B ay Ma r i t i me Mu s e u m to cut wood for the repair and reconstruction of the museum’s f loating f leet of Bay workboats. The white oak ribs for the ongoing rebuilding of the famous skipjack Rosie Parks were cut on his saw. His next project for the museum will be to cut 45-foot-long planks for the planned rebuild of Martha, the classic Hoopers Island launch.
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Historic Sawmill
Paddles on a chain take the sawdust away from the mill.
Recently, Gant and Gorman se-lected a century-old loblolly from a Talbot County woodlot to replace Martha’s sides. Gant says he had read that Bronza Parks, who built Martha in 1934, used to size up a standing tree using rudimentary geometry. He had a staff cut to
match his height. He would pace off a precise distance from the tree and lie on his back with his feet toward the tree. Parks’ daughter would stand the staff at her father’s feet, and he would sight across the tip of the staff up the tree trunk to measure how tall it was.
Gant repeats the maneuver to see if the first branches of the tree
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Sawdust clouds the air as Dustin Horney takes a fresh-cut plank off the saw.slated for the Martha rebuild are high enough to get 45-foot-long planks without any knots. “This should work, but you can never be sure until you cut it down,” he says.
Back at the mill, the Tuckahoe Saw Mill Boyz are finishing a barn-siding job. The planks have all been trimmed to size and neatly stacked, waiting to be delivered to the cus-tomer. “We have 150 boards at 16 feet each and 150 at 12 feet,” Gant says. “All of our wood is harvested locally. Customers like to know that their wood comes from right here.”
Dick Cooper is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. He and his wife, Pat, live and sail in St. Michaels, Maryland. He can be contacted at [email protected].
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TALBOT COUNTY WATERFRONT FARM Adjoining Easton’s town limits. 356+/- acres. Mixture of woods & tillable
acreage. 3,730 +/- feet of frontage on Dixon Creek. 7 approved building lots; 19 additional DU’s; 3 BR, 2 BA farmhouse and numerous outbuildings.
$3,250,000 - Offers Encouraged
PEACEFUL and PRIVATE5 bedroom brick Cape on 19+/-
rolling acres with paved drive, in-ground swimming pool, 30 x 40 shop
with separate electric and well, and a pond in northern Talbot County. Easy commute to the Bay Bridge.
Reduced to $625,000
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Schuyler BensonBenson & Mangold Real Estate, LLC
27999 Oxford Road, Oxford, MD(c) 410-310-3251 or (o) 410-822-1415
Custom built home on 18 acres with room for horses. Property consists of a 5,000 sq. ft. main house with in-law suite and a four car drive-in basement. A guest house features two bedrooms with room for two more on second floor. Additional amenities include three bay barn with electric, water and dog kennel, bar area, 6’ wide dock with water, electric and 3 boat lifts, 3’ MLW, and beautiful wide open views of the Choptank River. Offered at $995,000.
Dramatic Chesapeake Bay SunsetsThis 2003 custom home enjoys spec-tacular water views from almost every room. Features include great room with 2-story vaulted ceilings, gas fireplace, gourmet kitchen, sunroom, finished bonus room, oversized 2-car garage & community pier.
Chancellors Point BeautyLocated near Trappe in a quiet 2 acre wooded setting this home has lots to of-fer. First floor master bedroom, country kitchen, full finished basement with home theatre and entertaining area, three second floor bedrooms, detached work shed and detached barn with finished room. Offered at $525,000.
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A Dynamic Chesapeake Duo:The Artist and the Sailor
byPhilip J. Webster
Chesapeake Bay maritime artist Marc Castelli gains unique insight into his art by sailing and working with the sailors and watermen he depicts.
(Photo by David Policansky)
What do a world-acclaimed mar-itime artist and a record-setting ocean explorer have in common?
Both are from the Chesapeake Bay region, both visualize their world in totally new ways, and both will be honored by a sure-to-sellout crowd at the MRYC Foun-dation’s second Awards Dinner
on Friday, October 5 at the Miles River Yacht Club in St. Michaels. The Dinner supports hundreds of Chesapeake Bay children involved in competitive swimming, sailing, rowing, canoeing, kayaking and other maritime-oriented educa-tional programs.
The gala event honors acclaimed
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Craig Linthicum410-726-6581(D) · 410-770-9255(O)
Benson & Mangold Real Estate24 N. Washington Street, Easton, MD 21601
[email protected] · www.craiglinthicum.com
Kathy Christensen410-924-4814(D) · 410-770-9255(O)
Benson & Mangold Real Estate24 N. Washington Street, Easton, MD 21601
[email protected] · www.kathychristensen.com
Peachblossom Creek Waterfront · $945,000
Gracious Choptank River Estate · $995,000
Chesapeake Bay Waterfront · $349,500
Brannocks Bay · Dorchester County · $1,395,000
McKeil Pointe · Dorchester County · $749,000
Oxford · Boone Creek Water Access · $639,000
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Sarah E. KaganPortraits · Landscapes · Still Life
410-822-5086 · www.KaganGallery.com
Tidewater Inn Library Gallerypresents
Portraits - Oil & Pastel
ReceptionThursday, October 11, 5 to 7 p.m.
ShowOctober 11 - November 12
Photo by Sarah Ann Ju
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Matt Rutherford of Annapolis approaches the finish line off Norfolk, com-pleting the first solo non-stop circumnavigation of North and South Ameri-ca last April aboard Saint Brendan, his 27’ Albin Vega sailboat.
(Photo by Mark Duehmig)
Dynamic Chesapeake DuoChesapeake Bay maritime artist Marc Castelli of Chestertown, and Matt Rutherford of Annapolis, the first person to ever sail solo non-stop around North and South America.
Marc Castelli is being honored for a long career of chronicling through his art those who sail and work on the Chesapeake Bay; for being one of America’s pre-eminent maritime artists; for being a pow-erful advocate for the watermen of
the Chesapeake; and for his gener-osity in supporting the activities of many of the region’s non-profit or-ganizations. His award will be pre-sented by Pete Lesher, Chief Cura-tor of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, which holds the largest collection of Castelli’s art in a pub-lic institution and is a MRYC grant recipient himself.
Matt Rutherford will be lauded for his world record as the first mariner to ever sail solo and non-stop around North and South Amer-
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Call Elizabeth Y. FouldsCRS, GRI, SRES, e-PRO, Realtor®
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Serene Setting on Harris CreekExceptional 8+ ac. estate close to St. Michaels. The 5,484 sq. ft. brick Colonial is in pristine condition and boasts a heated in-ground pool, private dock, 4’+ MLW.
$1,650,000Planning to Buy or Sell? – Call Elizabeth
St. Michaels - Rio Vista WaterfrontImpressive 3,000+ sq. ft. home with deck, pool and wide views of the Miles River. 4 bedroom, 4.5 bath and beautiful landscaping.
$1,300,000
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Exquisite Eastern Shore Waterfront EstateMagnificent custom-built 8,053 sq. ft. Colonial with breathtaking waterfront views offers every conceivable amenity including attached guest house, outdoor entertaining area, pool, hot tub, screened porch and private pier. Sited on 5.38 acres of lush landscaping and close to historic St. Michaels. $2,495,000
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Opening Reception:Friday, October 5
5 to 8 p.m.
Easton’s PromiseArt Gallery
Easton’s Promise
Featured ArtistsRichard Whitely
acrylicsTed Mueller
photography
107 Goldsborough St.Easton, Maryland
410-820-9159 www.eastonspromiseartgallery.com
Thurs.-Sun. Noon to 4 p.m. and by appointment
TALBOT COURTHOUSERichard Whitely©
Dynamic Chesapeake Duoica through the now open North-west Passage. Rutherford in April completed the 314-day, 27,077-mile circumnavigation of the Americas in his 27-foot Albin Vega sailboat. He is being honored for his courage and steadfastness in accomplishing this world record, while supporting through his voyage the sailing pro-gram of Chesapeake Region Acces-sible Boating (CRAB), a non-profit sailing program for individuals with physical and developmental challenges. Don Backe, Founder and Executive Director of CRAB, a MRYC Foundation grant recipient, will present the award.
The MRYC Foundation’s first
Awards Dinner in 2011 honored Gary Jobson of Annapolis, Presi-dent of U.S. Sailing, the govern-ing body of American competitive sailing, and an internationally-renowned yachtsman, racing com-mentator, and author.
Marc Castelli paints from a differ-ent viewing point than most artists. “I like to do my paintings from a unique perspective” he says, “often using the distortion, for example, of a wide angle lens. The distortion is extraordinarily inclusive in that it draws the viewer into the painting, almost as a participant.” His paint-ings are remarkably varied, rang-ing from action scenes of log canoe racers on the verge of capsizing and watermen balancing long oystering
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tongs, to still-life images such as a view of a net from a fish’s perspec-tive or a derelict workboat settling into the marsh grass for all eternity.
Castelli has the unique ability to capture the heart and soul of his subject matter by being one with it, viewing it not as an observer but as a participant in the scenes he cap-tures on paper. “As an actual par-ticipant,” he explains, “I have more of an intimate point of view that at times contrasts sharply with the standard images of the marine art genre. This hands-on experience lends a veracity to the non-classical viewpoints that I favor.”
Matt Rutherford’s experiences are no less compelling. “Ultimate-ly,” he says, “I am trying to ac-complish something that is greater than myself … I consider myself a bit of an explorer. I’ve spent the last ten years either saving money for trips, planning trips or doing trips all over the world. Being an explorer is a form of financial sui-cide. You can only do it for the ed-ucation.” Much of that education, Rutherford explains, is increased self-awareness. “I like being out … far from land and shipping lanes. I feel safer – that, and if I get heavy weather, I can use any technique I like as I have all the sea room in the world. It’s peaceful here. I have my own world.”
But it’s a dangerous world filled with icebergs, freighters that don’t see a small sailboat in their path,
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Chris Young111 E. Dover StreetEaston, Maryland 21601410-310-4278 · [email protected]
NIRVANA ON NEWCOMB CREEK Sited on 3.7 acres overlooking Newcomb Creek, this 4BR, 3.5 BA contemporary includes high ceilings, gourmet kitchen, party-sized deck, octagonal river room, pier with boat lift and lovely gardens.
Easton $949,000
OXFORD CORRIDORCozy 3 BR, 3 BA Cape Cod offers open floor plan, vaulted ceiling, fireplace, wood flooring, screened porch, deck, 2 car garage and 3 acre wooded lot.
Easton $349,000
COUNTRY SETTINGRefreshing 18’ x 36’ in-ground pool enhances the charm of this 4 BR, 2.5 BA Colonial with fireplace, family room, formal dining, 2-car garage and 2 acres.
Easton $359,000
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AntiquesON TALBOT
211 N. Talbot Street | St. Michaels, MD 21663410-745-5208 | www.antiquesontalbot.com
Dynamic Chesapeake Duoand heavy weather. “I had just fall-en asleep,” says Rutherford, “when a wave [in 45 knot winds] hit my boat on the port beam so hard that … I was woken up by a rain shower of gear, clothes and cans of food and random equipment to the point I was buried.”
The Awards Dinner will benefit the MRYC Foundation’s grant-mak-ing to Chesapeake Bay youth mari-time activities. These have most recently included Sultana Projects of Chestertown, Freedom Rowers of Easton, MRYC Marlins Swim Team of St. Michaels, Chesapeake Region Accessible Boating (CRAB) of An-napolis, Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum of St. Michaels, Phillips Wharf Environmental Center of Tilghman Island, Girl Scouts of the Chesapeake Bay of the Sassafras River, YMCA of the Chesapeake of Easton, and MRYC Junior Sail Camp of St. Michaels.
The event will feature presentations by the two award recipients, cocktails and hors d’oeuvres, a Live and Silent
Auction, and a gourmet dinner of Chesapeake specialties. Tickets may be ordered ($100 Individual, $200 Patron or $300 Benefactor) by calling the MRYC Foundation at 410-921-6792 or by contacting Dinner Chair Carolyn Martin at [email protected].
The Awards Dinner is being sponsored by Wells Fargo Financial Network and its Annapolis-based representative, Vantage Wealth Management, Inc.
The Miles River Yacht Club Foundation was founded in 2010 as an independent 501(c)3 non-profit foundation focused on sup-porting youth-oriented competitive sailing and swimming, and other maritime educational programs in the Chesapeake Bay region. The Foundation carries out its mission through grants of facilities, equip-ment, scholarships and general support to non-profit organizations whose programs are consistent with its mission. For more information visit www.mrycfoundation.org.
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Janet Larson410-310-1797 · 410-770-9255
24 N. Washington St., [email protected] www.shoremove.com
5 acres, deep water on Quarter Creek off Wye River. Custom architectural design.
Superb elevation, 7’ mlw on Tred Avon. Adjacent 3.6 ac. waterfront point $1,595,000.
$1,995,000
$1,695,000
NEW LISTING$409,000$825,000
$50 K REDUCTION! Cooke’s Hope 4600+/- fsf w/award-winning
� oor plan, 1st � oor master suite, pool!
Stunning 3,200+ sf 4 BR home includes Master Suite w/sitting room & luxurious bath, open � oor plan, full basement. 5 mins. from downtown Easton.
Spectacular home with broad Miles River sunset views and 4 ft. +/- mlw. Waterside
pool on 3+ acres in Doncaster between Easton & St. Michaels.
Beautiful brick 1 story in superb condition with 3 � .+ mlw on Grove Creek in Recovery area of Centreville. Sunset views, spacious
full basement w/rear walkout.
REDUCED!$1,399,000
NEW!$775,000
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Academy Art Museum Craft Show & SaleFeatures Premier Jewelry Artist
byAmy Blades Steward
The 15th annual Academy Art Museum Craft Show and Sale in Easton is the most prestigious juried craft show on the Eastern Shore. This year’s show, to be held October 19 through October 21, will feature 65 exhibitors, both established and emerging artists, more than 20 of whom are new to the show. Featured items will include unusual and hand-made home accessories, furniture, wear-able art and jewelry, and gifts.
Among this year’s new artists is Harriet Forman Barrett (hfor-manbarrett.com), an artist whose body of work includes jewelry, sculpture, paintings and mixed media. Barrett says about her jewelry, in which the human form often appears, “My work is a personal, individual statement that connects those of us with the same spiritual needs. It is not just jewelry but a statement of one’s self. The figures repre-sent dancers, athletes, and spirit, which are all an expression of the joy of life. The floral work carries the same kind of energy as the figures and therefore can be mixed and matched as ‘sets’.
They wonderfully complement each other. I take great pride in the longevity of my theme, both spiritually and physically.”
Barrett creates her work by sculpting, using traditional jew-elry techniques in sterling silver and 14k gold. Her jewelry is said to work for the woman of the new millennium with its feminine, bold and sensuous look – appro-
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Marguerite BeebeBenson & Mangold Real Estate
27999 Oxford Rd.
Oxford, MD 21654
(c) 410-310-2304 (o) 410-822-1415 [email protected]
www.bensonandmangold.com
Beautifully restored 3 bedroom, brick historic home Circa 1790. In quiet, quaint town on Tuckahoe River. Lots of storage, big workshop & carport. Perfect for canoeing or kayaking. Convenient location with easy access to Bay Bridge and Easton. $575,000.
“� e John Corrie House”Premier Jewelry Artistpriate for the boardroom but ca-sual enough to wear with a pair of jeans.
In the July/August 2012 issue of Art Times, Raymond J. Stein-er writes, “– Harriet’s figures, in paintings, jewelry or sculpture – carry a potent impact.” He goes on to say, “To possess a work of her art – an original ‘Harriet’ – to adorn either yourself or your home is to share in the artist’s spiritual journey.”
The Academy Art Museum Craft Show & Sale will be held Satur-day, October 20 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, October 21 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Daily admis-sion is $10. There will be special lunches and snacks each day from the Gourmet Café, as well as craft demonstrations.
The Preview Party on Friday, October 19 from 6 to 9 p.m. will include music, food stations and bars located throughout the show. The ticket price for the Preview Party is $75 per person and al-lows the ticket holder unlimited re-entry to the show on Saturday and Sunday. To register for the Preview Party, call 410-822-2787. For more information about the Craft Show, visit www.academy-craftshow.org.
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Savannah and Tybee, GeorgiaHistory, Nature, Beaches, Sunsets & Food!
byBonna L. Nelson
The Georgia Queen
Juicy, tender smoked barbecue chicken and hand-pulled pork, collard greens and iced sweet tea at Blowin’ Smoke BBQ welcomed us to Savannah, Georgia, early last spring. The melt-in-your-mouth meats are marinated in a mixture of pureed vegetables, vinegar and molasses and slow smoked daily at the restaurant. The collard greens simmer all day with bits of chopped pork and onion and a hot pepper sauce. Oh my, honey, it was tasty and served with Southern hospital-ity. This was our delightful intro-duction to Savannah!
Cool winds blew through bare trees and over brown lawns and fields when we left Maryland. By the time we crossed over the spar-kling blue Savannah River on the Talmadge Memorial Bridge, we witnessed spring blooming in the warming South. Brilliant green grass and trees complimented aza-leas and rhododendrons showing off flowers in electric shades of pink, lavender, peach and fuchsia.
Having satisfied our hunger for BBQ, our next stop on the same street was the Savannah Visitor In-formation Center located in a reno-
vated brick train station. A friendly volunteer filled my arms with maps, booklets and brochures and my head with ideas about what to see and do. Ample parking, food and rest facilities, as well as the head-quarters for trolley tours, make this an important site.
River Street positioned us be-tween the Riverwalk and Savannah River on the left and restored 19th century warehouses, now shops, restaurants and night spots, on the right. Large, old-time white and red-trimmed riverboats floated be-side the dock waiting for guests to board for a cruise down river.
Suddenly the traffic came to a screeching halt for a parade. Police
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Savannah and Tybeeblocked all car movement. People of all ages, dressed in green and carrying flags, crossed the street to a grassy park along the river led by bagpipers and drummers.
St. Patrick’s Day was fast ap-proaching, and Savannah cel-ebrates in a big way, beginning with the greening of the fountains in the historic squares. The group we encountered was celebrating the Celtic Cross Ceremony, which be-gan with a church mass followed by a ceremony at Emmet Park.
Savannah’s first St. Patrick’s Day Parade was celebrated in 1813 by a small group marching through town to remember their patron saint, St.
Patrick, and to celebrate their Irish heritage. Today, Savannah claims to have the second largest St. Pat-rick’s Day celebration in the nation!
The 2012 parade of 350 floats, marching units, bands, politicians and celebrities was expected to en-tertain a crowd of 300,000 lined up along Savannah’s streets. We planned to leave town just before the crowds arrived for the festivi-ties, green beer, bands along River Street, games, and Southern delica-cies, but we enjoyed the pre-cele-bration a week before.
We would come back to tour and dine in Savannah the next day, but we wanted to get to Tybee Island, eighteen miles and twenty minutes east, the easternmost point in the
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410-820-0531 www.piercehomebuilders.com
Easton, MD MHIC #89255 · MHBR #4095
Savannah and Tybeestate of Georgia and our home base for the next few days. When the cel-ebrants moved on, we headed out.
Oft called “Savannah’s Beach,” Tybee Island is situated at the mouth of the Savannah River and the Atlantic Ocean. The word Tybee came from an Indian word mean-ing salt, most probably due to the acres of bronze-tinted salt marshes stalked by snow white egrets that we passed when approaching the Island. Three miles of sandy shore-line and waterfront seafood restau-rants, as well as historic sites, are the attractions for today’s visitors.
We are beach people, so we passed on the many attractive ac-
Sunset overlooking Tybee Inlet.commodation options available in Savannah for the chance to stay at the ocean. Tybee has a Key West, Ocean City, Chincoteague funky, honky tonk, ’70s look and feel to it – a relaxing, refreshing experience. Like Savannah, it has a variety of accommodations and restaurants,
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Benson & Mangold Real Estate, LLC220 N. Morris St., Oxford, MD 21654
410-310-6060 · [email protected] · www.oxfordmdrealestate.com
Ray Stevens
Tred AvonBeautiful sunsets over the Tred Avon River. Screened porch and deck within sight of a marina. Two BRs and 2.5 baths. Perfect weekend or re-tirement home.
$750,000.
OxfordOxford waterfront cottage with westerly views over the Tred Avon. New bulkhead, dock, deck with hot tub, large trees in the historic district.
$1,195,000.
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Roger W. Bass, A.I.A. Architect
St. Michaels, MD
410-745-8136www.bassarchitects.com
residential commercial institutional
Savannah and Tybee
The shrimp and grits at A-J’s restau-rant were amazing!but on a smaller scale. Also, like Savannah, it is a walking and biking town. Beaching, kayaking and fish-ing are popular too, as are parades, festivals with costumes and pirate anything.
After settling in, we walked to A-J’s Dockside Restaurant for dinner and a breathtaking sunset on the deck overlooking Tybee Inlet. Pelicans and a guitarist singing admirable Jimmy Buffett ballads entertained the mix of couples and families.
It was at A-J’s that we learned that in the tidal creeks, rivers and flats, the tide rises 6 to 8 feet every 6 hours, every day. It was the tide line on the piers and boat docks that gave it away.
For dinner I chose a Georgia dish so scrumptious that we revisited this restaurant a few more times during our stay to enjoy it again. It was blackened shrimp and grits (created with wild Georgia shrimp).
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Saturday, October 13TRADITIONAL CRAFTS FAIR
10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Rain or Shine
� e Historical Society of Talbot County25 S. Washington St., Easton · 410-822-0773 · www.hstc.org
Friday, October 12Talbot County -
A Special PlaceDisplay of youth art 6 to 8 p.m.
Admissionis
FREE
Savannah and Tybee
Old Savannah Tours provided a great overview of the city.
Need I say more? How about Ty-bee fried oysters and conch fritters? Yes, we are foodies!
We drove back to Savannah the next day for a city trolley tour with the popular Old Savannah Tours. The white and gold open trolleys afforded us an overview of the charming coastal city, including the historic district; flower-, tree- and sculpture-filled squares; River Street and City Market. We learned that James Oglethorpe founded the city in 1733 and is credited with de-signing the lush, lovely squares.
The Savannah Historic Foun-dation states that more than 40 percent of 2,500 buildings that
they inventoried have architec-tural and/or historic significance from simple Colonial styles, to Medieval-influenced cathedrals, to gingerbread accented Victorians. Examples of most of the nation’s 18th and 19th century architec-tural styles can be found in Savan-nah. And many of the private his-
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Robert D. Mielke, Assoc. Broker
Benson & Mangold Real Estate24 N. Washington Street, Easton, MD 21601
410-310-0500(C) · 410-770-9255(O)
Charming English inspired Cape Cod on 3.55 waterfront acres +/- on deep water of La Trappe Creek. Built by local cra� sman Joe Balderson, this 4 bed-room, 5 full, 2 half bath house has custom woodwork throughout. Living room with � replace and bookshelves. First � oor master suite with his and her walk-in closets and baths. Enjoy beautiful sunrises and sunsets ! $2,200,000
Call Bob Mielke for an appointment today to see this fabulous home.410-310-0500
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Europa Tile & Stone“renew, refresh ... relax”
fine tiles & natural stonedesign, sales & installation
410.822.6828 · 342 N. Aurora St., Easton | M-F 9-5
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Martha Witte Suss, Realtor410-310-4856 (c) 410-820-7077 (o)www.lacazemeredith.com111 E. Dover St., Easton, MD 21601
Private 6 ac. waterfront enclave in Royal Oak: Waterside sunroom across back of home, 1st floor master suite, 2 bedrooms each with en suite baths, 2 fireplaces, gorgeous park-like setting, deck. Views from every room on Plaindealing Creek. Very close to Oxford and St. Michaels. $1,295,000
Savannah and Tybeetorical homes surround the over 20 squares of jewel-colored flowers, pansies, tulips, azaleas and emerald green trees.
One of my favorite historic homes was the Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace, now owned and oper-ated by the Girl Scouts of America, which she founded in 1912. Girl Scouts draped with green sashes were greeting visitors, selling cook-ies, earning badges and celebrating their 100th birthday at the house on the day that we visited. Span-ish moss-draped trees shadow the white multi-storied home.
The lively City Market is called “The Art & Soul of Savannah.” The
four blocks of restored warehouses contain art galleries and studios, restaurants, cafes, shops and out-door entertainment. The hop-on/hop-off tours allow guests to dis-embark to explore and then hop on when ready for more travel. So we browsed the famous market, picking up a few treasures along the way.
Horse-drawn carriage, car and walking tours are also available as well as harbor tours via riverboat.
We finished our day with, guess what? Did you say dinner on the riverfront? You would be right.
We went to Tubby’s Seafood on a second floor River Street bal-cony overlooking the Savannah River, with riverboats and peo-ple watching for entertainment.
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Light Up the HolidaysLight Up the Holidays
27th aNNual festival of trees
n Dinner at Martini’s...Oct. 9 n Festival Fashion Show...Oct. 23 n Santa’s Got a Different Bag...Nov. 10 n Dinner at the Crab Claw...Nov. 13n Run/Walk for Hospice...Nov. 24 n Preview Gala...Nov. 23
November 23-27, 2012the tidewAter inn
Festival Events and Activities n Candy Cane Lane...Nov. 24 n Festival of Homes Tour...Nov. 24 & 25n Mother-Son Dance...Nov. 24n Daddy-Daughter Dance...Nov. 24 n Community Holiday Bingo...Nov. 25n The Christmas Elves Shop... Nov. 23-27
Dinner at Martini’s Restaurant tuesday, october 9 5pm-9pm.
10% of your dinner check at Martini’s restaurant,
in easton, will benefit the Festival of trees and
talbot hospice Foundation. Call 410-820-4100
to make a reservation.
oNliNe tickets at www.festival-of-trees.orgFor information, call 410-819-FEST or visit www.talbothospice.orgPresented by the Friends of Hospice to benefit The Talbot Hospice Foundation
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Benson & Mangold Real Estate, LLC220 N. Morris St., Oxford, MD 21654410-476-7493 (c) · 410-226-0111 (o)
Cindy Browne
Oxford WaterfrontMinutes to the heart of the village, totally renovated in 2011, 4 bedroom, 3 full and 2 half bath Cape with fabulous top-of-the-line kitchen, 3 fireplaces, 3.2 acres, 600’ +/- stabilized shoreline, dock with lift, licensed duck blind, heated pool, and separate 2-car garage/barn. $1,775,000
Savannah and TybeeBlackened snapper and southern grilled asparagus were my treat that night with a “to-go” cocktail. Savannah is one of only a handful of cities that allow cocktails “to-go.” Bartenders will pour drinks in 16-ounce cups to take while strolling the historic and water-front districts.
The following day we toured Ty-bee hotspots – the Tybee Island Lighthouse, Fort Screven’s build-ings, and the Marine Science Cen-ter. The 145-foot-tall lighthouse is Georgia’s oldest and tallest and is still in operation, welcoming ships from around the world to the thriving port of Savannah. The
original was completed in 1736, one of the earliest lighthouses in U.S. history. The base dates from 1773 and the top from 1867. Across from the lighthouse on the waterfront, Fort Screven was established in the 1890s to provide coastal defense at the strategic location where river meets ocean.
The Tybee Island Marine Sci-ence Center offers a coastal Geor-gia gallery of aquariums, with na-tive marine life, talks, beach walks, marsh treks, and a turtle conserva-tion program, as well as a nifty gift shop. Nearby, the Tybee Pier and Pavilion offers spectacular views of the taupe-colored beach dotted with people and seagulls. People watch, have an ice cream or fish, listen to
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music or dance. The surf is calm on this barrier island off of Geor-gia’s coast. We walked the beach and sunned and enjoyed the warm, salty air on the free-spirited island.
After a dinner of local mussels, clams, oysters and hush puppies at Sting Rays Seafood Restaurant, we sat on the outdoor deck with our niece and her husband who live nearby.
We made an early morning stop for a tour of the 5,700-acre Fort Pulaski National Monument with its moat with a resident alliga-tor, drawbridge and cannons, and found a well-preserved military fort
Savannah and Tybee still guarding the Savannah River.We noticed as we headed south
that the tech world has come to the biker world. We passed a young lady on the back of a Harley. She was reading an e-reader strapped onto her hand. We can relate, and now always travel with our e-read-ers as well as a GPS to guide us to the best local eateries!
Bonna L. Nelson is a Bay-area writer, columnist and photogra-pher. She resides with her hus-band, John, and her two dogs in Easton, Maryland.
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Tidewater Reviewby
Anne Stinson
A Dorchester County Scrap-book: “That reminds me of a story” by Terry L. White and A. M. Foley. Dogwood Ridge Books, 215 pp. $18.95
Local histories are routinely written by amateurs who want to create homage to their own small towns or regions. The books have a certain charm, especially for the residents of the place, the elderly who still live there or to those who have moved away but enjoy stories and photographs that recreate their childhood memories.
In truth, the books usually are of dubious interest to the ordinary reader who is more accustomed to professional writers. Finding a local author who can come up with a broader reach is a delicious discovery. This critic cannot re-member the last time she encoun-tered so delightful a paperback with such warmth that included collections of family portraits to illustrate the way things were in former generations.
Terry White and Ann Foley have
collaborated to author a gem of a record with all the features and none of the shortcomings of this genre. Its excellence is not hap-penstance; White has a list of five previous books and Foley has the same number to her credit. The result is an almost flawlessly pro-fessional account of how a part of the Eastern Shore once was, and still is, to a remarkable degree.
The major focus of the book is directed to South Dorchester, with its relatively isolated small fishing villages with names like Bucktown, Bestpitch, Wingate, Bishops Head and Crocheron, Hoopers Island and Elliot Island and the one town that come-heres giggle over, mispronouncing its name: Crapo. Most of them are nestled on Dorchester waterfronts or in-county where there’s enough high ground among acres and acres of marshes.
For decades, nay centuries, lo-cals made a living from both wet spots – crabs in summer, oysters and/or muskrats in winter. Most
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houses had vegetable gardens in the backyard and many also had fruit trees. Who needed the city?
Blacksmiths were ava i lab le to replace broken teeth on oys-ter dredges, and any reasonably skilled man could raise a house or build a fishing boat in a shed or outside the back door. Cash was scarce, to be sure, but a family was self-sufficient as a rule.
Kids were loose in what some called Tom Sawyer and Huckle-berry Finn territory. Boys at an early age went out on their fathers’ boats and learned the craft from their dads. One-room schools were the pattern, and if the boys and girls could stick it out, they could leave school with a seventh grade diploma. Church attendance was universal and the ladies found social respite in the choir and church clubs. Music played a big part in their lives, with banjos or guitars for the menfolk when they weren’t playing baseball.
C h a n g e w a s s l o w i n S o u t h Dorchester. Cars were few before 1925, but they began to show up on local roads that were still dirt, mud or oyster shells until 1949, when the first blacktop road was laid down-county.
World War II brought real dis-ruption to the old ways. Young men, who in times past would most likely have followed their
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Tidewater Reviewfathers with their own workboats, discovered a bigger world as they left home for military duty.
Those who stayed behind for a while found plenty of opportuni-ties for cash away from home. Wire Cloth and Phillips Packing House were hiring. The latter had huge government contracts for canned goods to feed our boys in the services. After World War II and the Korean War, some veterans and regulars at Phillips Packing left to work for DuPont for the raise in salary from 88 cents an hour to one dollar an hour. The exodus from the home town was well underway.
Luckily, the authors had access to several large photograph col-lections. As a youngster, White’s father carried a box camera with him wherever he went and got a picture of everything he saw. “He took pictures of his house, his dogs, his baseball team, his rela-tives, anything that was standing still,” White writes. “In fact...among Dad’s treasures are photos of his mother’s people dating back to the Civil War.”
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cannot overestimate the value of photography to modern civiliza-tion, for it touches the lives of each of us and plays an important role in every phase of human activity.” In addition, the family albums of many people lent il-lustrations of the past history of Dorchester County.
Cambridge, the county’s only big town, has only a minor role in this scrapbook, probably in view of the fact that Foley has previously written “Cambridge, A Pictorial History.” References toward the e n d o f t h e b o o k q u o t e i n t e r -views with townspeople whose families are closely related with
earlier generations that lived in the county.
The title and subtitle are pre-cisely accurate views of the book’s contents. They are wise and truth-ful labels as a “Scrapbook” and “That Reminds Me of a Story,” told with admiration for a way of life, a rare exhibit of slow changes since colonial times.
This is a first rate record of the many people whose family solidar-ity, strong work ethic and dogged determination made a good life. I loved it and predict that readers will recognize experiences related to their own families, even if their backgrounds are rooted in other parts of the country.
Don’t miss it. It can be ordered directly from the publisher: Dog-wood Ridge Books, 2336 Elliott Island Road, Elliott Island, MD 21869.
Anne Stinson began her career in the 1950s as a free lance for the now defunct Baltimore News-American, then later for Chesapeake Publishing, the Baltimore Sun and Maryland Public Television’s panel show, Maryland Newsrap. Now in her ninth decade, she still writes a monthly book review for Tidewater Times.
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TIDEWATERGARDENINGby K. Marc Teffeau, Ph.D.
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Time to Plant Deciduous Trees & Shrubs
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In last month’s column I briefly mentioned that the fall is a good time to plant deciduous trees and shrubs. Most homeowners think of spring as the best time to plant trees and shrubs in the landscape. Reasons for this are the general spring gardening push and the availability of a number of balled and burlaped and container grown woody ornamentals available in the garden centers and nursery lots. However, October and No-vember are generally considered the best time for moving plants in the landscape.
After the drought and heat prob-lems of this past summer, a number of landscape shrubs and trees have died and are in need of replace-ment. Garden centers and nurser-ies usually stock a good selection of woody plants at this time of year.
The rains that we got at the end of August and the first week in
September went a long way to help reduce the drought conditions that we experienced but we are still in a soil water deficit going into the winter. So you need to make sure, if we do not get adequate rainfall, that you water the newly trans-planted trees and shrubs.
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The same fact applies to digging up and transplanting established evergreens in the landscape in the fall. Wait until early next spring to do this type of transplanting.
As you drive around the area, you might notice dead or dying maple trees, especially red and Norway maples. Many of these trees have been showing wilt disease infesta-tion (branch and limb dieback) over the last few years and have finally succumbed to the wilt because of the drought stress this past sum-mer. Verticillium wilt is caused by several species and strains of a common soil fungi Verticillium alboatrum and V. dahliae. This fungus is present in our soils and affects a broad array of woody or-namental trees and shrubs as well as herbaceous ornamentals, field crops and vegetables.
Infected plants may appear yel-lowed or off-color. Scattered branch-
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es may suddenly wilt and die at any time, but most often in July and August. With a severe infection, the entire plant may wilt and die. Sunken cankers and split bark may appear on the trunk.
Many times wilt symptoms are often mistaken for transplanting, winter injury, salt damage or even drought damage. The wilt fungus in the soil invades the fine roots of susceptible plants. Roots wounded by transplanting or construction damage are more easily invaded.
The fungus grows up through the water conducting tissues (xylem). Once the xylem is infected, the fun-gus can spread upward and outward
each year. The plant responds to the presence of the fungus by pro-ducing substances which plug the xylem, causing discoloration and wilting. If the tree is under severe drought stress, its entire “plumbing system” will collapse resulting in death of the tree.
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Laboratory culture of the fungus from the discolored sapwood can provide positive identification of Verticillium wilt. If you are plan-ning to replace the dead or dying maple tree do not replant maples in that area. Choose another tree species. The soil in infested with the wilt fungus and a transplanted maple in that area has a good pos-sibility of picking up the disease.
October is a good time to do main-tenance of the trees and shrubs in the landscape. While you can still identify them easily, prune dead and diseased branches from trees and shrubs. Remember, however, that spring flowering shrubs like azaleas, rhododendrons, forsythia and spireas have already set or are forming their flower buds for next spring’s flower display. To prevent reducing next year’s bloom, don’t prune spring flowering shrubs until after they bloom next spring.
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Mulch is used to keep soil tem-peratures constant and prevent frost heaving, not to keep it warm. In October the trees and shrubs start to harden for the upcom-ing cold weather. To encourage this process, remove mulch from around the stems of shrubs and trees. This will also discourage mice and vole damage to the stems during the winter.
Keep your trees healthy by water-ing deeply, pruning out all wilted and dead branches and fertilize in the fall or late winter with a bal-anced fertilizer with a N:P:K ratio of 2:1:2. Avoid damaging the roots with salt from sidewalks and road-ways during the winter and avoid cultivation around the trees.
Conifers that are exhibiting poor color or weak growth may respond to fertilizer applied between mid-October and mid-March. Light pruning of both needled and broad-leafed evergreens is recommended in the late fall to encourage a strong framework to help the plant over-come any snow damage. Remove any weak or crowded branches.
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shrubs thoroughly before the ground freezes, especially if we have a dry fall. Evergreens con-tinue to lose water by transpiring during the winter, but when the ground is frozen, the roots cannot replenish the water lost through the leaves or needles.
Hold a bagworm picking party in October to remove the bags from the trees. This will help reduce the amount of spring hatch from over-wintered eggs in the bags and help to reduce the amount of spraying you may have to do next year.
I have already mentioned in my September column about the need for a good clean-up of the vegetable
garden. If the ground in your veg-etable garden is dry and workable, and the garden site is not subject to soil erosion, consider doing a fall plowing and letting the ground lay exposed over the winter. Late-fall tilling can help control insects, such as corn borer, corn earworm, cucumber beetle, squash bug, and vine borer, because it exposes over wintering insects to winter condi-tions. It also makes soil prepara-tion easier in the spring.
Another alternative is to mulch the entire garden in the fall with straw to a depth of 4 to 6 inches. Then in the spring, only pull back the mulch in the areas that you plan to plant. You will need to do this a couple of weeks before plant-
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And don’t forget to add fall color to landscape! Buy your pansies and mums now and set them out in the flower beds to add to the already colorful display of fall leaf foliage. Pansies, when planted in the fall, will become established and survive the winter to bloom again in early spring. You can then remove them when they begin to decline in the early summer heat.
Also consider planting asters. They are colorful in the late sum-mer and throughout the fall. “Flowering” cabbage and kale are also good additions for color. The color in these plants comes from the red, purple and white pigments
of the foliage. The colors intensify as the weather gets colder and they usually provide a lasting presence through the end of December.
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Kent County and Chestertown at a Glance
Kent County is a treasury of early American history. Its principal towns and back roads abound with beautiful old homes and historic landmarks.
The area was first explored by Captain John Smith in 1608. Kent County was founded in 1642 and named for the shire in England that was the home of many of Kent’s earliest colonists. When the first legislature assembled in 1649, Kent County was one of two counties in the colony, thus making it the oldest on the Eastern Shore. It extended from Kent Island to the present boundary.
The first settlement, New Yarmouth, thrived for a time and, until the founding of Chestertown, was the area’s economic, social and religious center.
Chestertown, the county seat, was founded in 1706 and served as a port of entry during colonial times. A town rich in history, its attractions include a blend of past and present. Its brick sidewalks and attractive antiques stores, restaurants and inns beckon all to wander through the historic district and enjoy homes and places with architecture ranging from the Georgian mansions of wealthy colonial merchants to the elaborate style of the Victorian era.
Second largest district of restored 18th-century homes in Maryland, Chestertown is also home to Washington College, the nation’s tenth oldest liberal arts college, founded in 1782. Washington College was also the only college that was given permission by George Washington for the use of his name, as well as given a personal donation of money.
The beauty of the Eastern Shore and its waterways, the opportunity for boating and recreation, the tranquility of a rural setting and the ambiance of living history offer both visitors and residents a variety of pleasing experiences. A wealth of events and local entertainment make a visit to Chestertown special at any time of the year.
For more information about events and attractions in Kent County, contact the Kent County Visitor Center at 410-778-0416, visit www.kentcounty.com or e-mail [email protected]. For informa-tion about the Historical Society of Kent County, call 410-778-3499 or visit www.kentcountyhistory.org/geddes.php. For information specific to Chestertown visit www.chestertown.com.
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Queen Anne’s County The history of Queen Anne’s County dates back to the earliest Colonial
settlements in Maryland. Small hamlets began appearing in the northern portion of the county in the 1600s. Early communities grew up around transportation routes, the rivers and streams, and then roads and eventually railroads. Small towns were centers of economic and social activity and evolved over the years from thriving centers of tobacco trade to communities boosted by the railroad boom.
Queenstown was the original county seat when Queen Anne’s County was created in 1706, but that designation was passed on to Centreville in 1782. It’s location was important during the 18th century, because it is near a creek that, during that time, could be navigated by tradesmen. A hub for shipping and receiving, Queenstown was attacked by English troops during the War of 1812.
Construction of the Federal-style courthouse in Centreville began in 1791 and is the oldest courthouse in continuous use in the state of Maryland. Today, Centreville is the largest town in Queen Anne’s County. With its relaxed lifestyle and tree-lined streets, it is a classic example of small town America.
The Stevensville Historic District, also known as Historic Stevensville, is a national historic district in downtown Stevensville, Queen Anne’s County. It contains roughly 100 historic structures, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is located primarily along East Main Street, a portion of Love Point Road, and a former section of Cockey Lane.
The Chesapeake Exploration Center, located in Chester at Kent Narrows, houses a hands-on interactive exhibit providing and overview of the Chesapeake Bay region’s heritage, resources and culture. The Exploration Center serves as Queen Anne’s County’s official welcome center.
Queen Anne’s County is also home to the Chesapeake Bay Environmental Center (formerly Horsehead Wetland Center), located in Grasonville. The CBEC is a 500-acre preserve just 15 minutes from the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. Over 200 species of birds have been recorded in the area.
Embraced by miles of scenic Chesapeake Bay waterways and graced with acres of pastoral rural landscape, Queen Anne’s County offers a relaxing environment for visitors and locals alike.
For more information about Queen Anne’s County, visit www.qac.org.
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Linchester Mill Fall FestivalSaturday, October 20th 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
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Haunted Tales Candle-Lit Walk
Friday, October 26th & Saturday, October 27th Museum of Rural Life,16 N 2nd Street, Denton
Tours depart at 6:30 pm and 8:00 pmGet your spook on at this candle-lit walk through downtown Denton. Hear scary stories culled from the town’s history,
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Caroline County is the very definition of a rural community. For more than 300 years, the county’s economy has been based on “market” agriculture.
Caroline County was created in 1773 from Dorchester and Queen Anne’s counties. The county was named for Lady Caroline Eden, the wife of Maryland’s last colonial governor, Robert Eden (1741 - 1784).
Denton, the county seat, was situated on a point between two ferry boat landings. Much of the business district in Denton was wiped out by the fire of 1863.
Following the Civil War, Denton’s location about fifty miles up the Choptank River from the Chesapeake Bay enabled it to become an important shipping point for agricultural products. Denton became a regular port-of-call for Baltimore-based steamer lines in the latter half of the 19th century.
Preston was the site of three Underground Railroad stations during the 1840s and 1850s. One of those stations was operated by Harriet Tubman’s parents, Benjamin and Harriet Ross. When Tubman’s parents were exposed by a traitor, she smuggled them to safety in Wilmington, Delaware.
Linchester Mill, just east of Preston, can be traced back to 1681, and possibly as early as 1670. The mill is the last of 26 water-powered mills to operate in Caroline County and is currently being restored. The long-term goals include rebuilding the millpond, rehabilitating the mill equipment, restoring the miller’s dwelling, and opening the historic mill on a scheduled basis.
Federalsburg is located on Marshyhope Creek in the southern-most part of Caroline County. Agriculture is still a major portion of the industry in the area; however, Federalsburg is rapidly being discovered and there is a noticeable influx of people, expansion and development. Ridgely has found a niche as the “Strawberry Capital of the World.” The present streetscape, lined with stately Victorian homes, reflects the transient prosperity during the countywide canning boom (1895-1919). Hanover Foods, formerly an enterprise of Saulsbury Bros. Inc., for more than 100 years, is the last of more than 250 food processors that once operated in the Caroline County region.
Points of interest in Caroline County include the Museum of Rural Life in Denton, Adkins Arboretum near Ridgely, and the Mason-Dixon Crown Stone in Marydel. To contact the Caroline County Office of Tourism, call 410-479-0655 or visit their website at www.tourcaroline.com.
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Dorchester County is known as the Heart of the Chesapeake – and not just because it’s physically shaped like a heart. It’s also rich in Chesapeake Bay history, folklore and tradition. With 1,700 miles of shoreline (more than any other Maryland county), marshlands, working boats, quaint waterfront towns and villages among fertile farm fields – much still exists of the authentic Eastern Shore landscape and traditional way of life along the Chesapeake.
FREDERICK C. MALKUS MEMORIAL BRIDGE is the gateway to Dorchester County over the Choptank River. It is the second longest span
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LAGRANGE PLANTATION - home of the Dorchester County Historical Society, LaGrange Plantation offers a range of local history and heritage on its grounds. The Meredith House, a 1760’s Georgian home, features artifacts and exhibits on the seven Maryland governors associated with the county; a child’s room containing antique dolls and toys; and other period displays. The Neild Museum houses a broad collection of agricultural, maritime, industrial, and Native American artifacts, including a McCormick reaper (invented by Cyrus McCormick in 1831). The Ron Rue exhibit pays tribute to a talented local decoy carver with a re-creation of his workshop. The Goldsborough Stable, circa 1790, includes a sulky, pony cart, horse-driven sleighs, and tools of the woodworker, wheelwright, and blacksmith. For more info. tel: 410-228-7953 or visit dorchesterhistory.org.
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DORCHESTER COUNTY VISITOR CENTER - The Visitors Center in Cambridge is a major entry point to the lower Eastern Shore, positioned just off U.S. Route 50 along the shore of the Choptank River. With its 100-foot sail canopy, it’s also a landmark. In addition to travel information and exhibits on the heritage of the area, there’s also a large playground, garden, boardwalk, restrooms, vending machines, and more. The Visitors Center is open daily from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information about Dorchester County call 800-522-8687 or visit www.tourdorchester.org or www.tourchesapeak-ecountry.com.
SAILWINDS PARK - Located at 202 Byrn St., Cambridge, Sailwinds Park has been the site for popular events such as the Seafood Feast-I-Val in August, Crabtoberfest in October and the Grand National Waterfowl Hunt’s Grandtastic Jamboree in November. For more info. tel: 410-228-SAIL(7245) or visit www.sailwindscambridge.com.
CAMBRIDGE CREEK - a tributary of the Choptank River, runs through the heart of Cambridge. Located along the creek are restaurants where you can watch watermen dock their boats after a day’s work on the waterways of Dorchester.
HISTORIC HIGH STREET IN CAMBRIDGE - When James Michener was doing research for his novel Chesapeake, he report-
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edly called Cambridge’s High Street one of the most beautiful streets in America. He modeled his fictional city Patamoke after Cambridge. Many of the gracious homes on High Street date from the 1700s and 1800s. Today you can join a historic walking tour of High Street each Saturday at 11 a.m., April through October (weather permitting). For more info. tel: 410-901-1000.
SKIPJACK NATHAN OF DORCHESTER - Sail aboard the authentic skipjack Nathan of Dorchester, offering heritage cruises on the Choptank River. The Nathan is docked at Long Wharf in Cambridge. Dredge for oysters and hear the stories of the working waterman’s way of life. For more info. and schedules tel: 410-228-7141 or visit www.skipjack-nathan.org.
DORCHESTER CENTER FOR THE ARTS - Located at 321 High Street in Cambridge, the Center offers monthly gallery exhibits and shows, extensive art classes, and special events, as well as an artisans’ gift shop with an array of items created by local and regional artists. For more info. tel: 410-228-7782 or visit www.dorchesterarts.org.
RICHARDSON MARITIME MUSEUM - Located at 401 High St., Cambridge, the Museum makes history come alive for visitors in the form of exquisite models of traditional Bay boats. The Museum also offers a collection
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of boatbuilders’ tools and watermen’s artifacts that convey an understanding of how the boats were constructed and the history of their use. The Museum’s Ruark Boatworks facility, located on Maryland Ave., is passing on the knowl-edge and skills of area boatwrights to volunteers and visitors alike. Watch boatbuilding and restoration in action. For more info. tel: 410-221-1871 or visit www.richardsonmuseum.org.
HARRIET TUBMAN MUSEUM & EDUCATIONAL CENTER The Museum and Educational Center is developing programs to preserve the history and memory of Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad. The museum is open Tuesday through Saturday. Local tours by appointment are available. The Museum and Educational Center, located at 424 Race St., Cambridge, is one of the stops on the “Finding a Way to Freedom” self-guided driving tour; pick up a bro-chure at the Dorchester County Visitor Center. For more info. tel: 410-228-0401.
SPOCOTT WINDMILL - Since 1972, Dorchester County has had a fully operating English style post windmill that was expertly crafted by the late master shipbuilder, James B. Richardson. There has been a succession of windmills at this location dating back to the late 1700’s. The complex also includes an 1800 tenant house, one-room school, blacksmith shop, and country store museum. The windmill is located at 1625 Hudson Rd., Cambridge.
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tours of this world-class scientific research laboratory, which is affiliated with the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. The 90-min-ute walking tour shows how scientists are conducting research to restore the Chesapeake Bay. Horn Point Laboratory is located at 2020 Horns Point Rd., Cambridge, on the banks of the Choptank River. For more info. and tour schedule tel: 410-228-8200 or visit www.umces.edu/hpl .
THE STANLEY INSTITUTE - This 19th century one-room African American schoolhouse, dating back to 1865, is one of the oldest Maryland schools to be organized and maintained by a black community. Between 1867 and 1962, the youth in the African-American community of Christ Rock attended this school, which is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Tours available by appointment. The Stanley Institute is located at the intersection of Route 16 West & Bayly Rd., Cambridge. For more info. tel: 410-228-6657.
BUCKTOWN VILLAGE STORE - Visit the site where Harriet Tubman received a blow to her head that fractured her skull. From this injury Harriet believed God gave her the vision and directions that inspired her to guide so many to freedom. Artifacts include the actual newspaper ad offering a
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Dorchester Points of Interestreward for Harriet’s capture. Historical tours, bicycle, canoe and kayak rentals are available. Open upon request. The Bucktown Village Store is lo-cated at 4303 Bucktown Rd., Cambridge. For more info. tel: 410-901-9255.
HARRIET TUBMAN BIRTHPLACE - “The Moses of her People,” Harriet Tubman was believed to have been born on the Brodess Planta-tion in Bucktown. There are no Tubman-era buildings remaining at the site, which today is a farm. Recent archeological work at this site has been inconclusive, and the investigation is continuing, although there is some evidence that points to Madison as a possible birthplace.
BLACKWATER NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, located 12 miles south of Cambridge at 2145 Key Wallace Dr. With more than 25,000 acres of tidal marshland, Blackwater Refuge is an important stop along the Atlantic Flyway. In addition to more than 250 species of birds, Blackwater is currently home to the largest remaining natural population of endangered Delmarva fox squirrels and the largest breeding population of American bald eagles on the East Coast, north of Florida. The refuge features a full service Visi-tor Center as well as the four-mile Wildlife Drive, walking trails and water trails. For more info. tel: 410-228-2677 or visit www.fws.gov/blackwater.
EAST NEW MARKET - Originally settled in 1660, the entire town is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Follow a self-guided walking tour to see the district that contains almost all the residences of the original founders and offers excellent examples of colonial architecture.
HURLOCK TRAIN STATION Incorporated in 1892, Hurlock ranks as the second largest town in Dorchester County. It began from a Dorchester/Delaware Railroad station built in 1867. The Old Train Station has been restored and is host to occasional train excursions. For more info. tel: 410-943-4181.
VIENNA HERITAGE MUSEUM The Vienna Heritage Museum displays the Elliott Island Shell Button Factory operation. This was the last surviving mother-of-pearl button manufacturer in the United States. Numerous artifacts are also displayed which depict a view of the past life in this rural community. The Vienna Heritage Museum is located at 303 Race St., Vienna. For more info. tel: 410-943-1212 or visit www.viennamd.org.
LAYTON’S CHANCE VINEYARD & WINERY - This small farm winery, minutes from historic Vienna at 4225 New Bridge Rd., opened in 2010 as Dorchester County’s first winery. For more info. tel. 410-228-1205 or visit www.laytonschance.com.
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Historic Downtown Easton — the county seat of Talbot County. Es-tablished around early religious settlements and a court of law, Historic Downtown Easton is today a centerpiece of fine specialty shops, business and cultural activities, unique restaurants and architectural fascination. Tree-lined streets are graced with various period structures and remark-able homes, carefully preserved or restored. Because of its historical significance, Easton has earned distinction as the “Colonial Capital of the Eastern Shore” and was honored as #8 in the book, “The 100 Best Small Towns in America.”
Walking Tour of Downtown EastonStart near the corner of Harrison Street and Mill Place.
1. HISTORIC TIDEWATER INN - 101 E. Dover St. A completely modern hotel built in 1949, it was enlarged in 1953 and has recently undergone extensive renovations. It is the “Pride of the Eastern Shore.”
2. THE BULLITT HOUSE - 108 E. Dover St. One of Easton’s oldest and most beautiful homes, it was built in 1801. It is now occupied by the Mid-Shore Community Foundation.
3. AVALON THEATRE - 42 E. Dover St. Constructed in 1921 during the heyday of silent films and Vaudeville entertainment. Over the course of its history, it has been the scene of three world premiers, including “The First Kiss,” starring Fay Wray and Gary Cooper, in 1928. The theater has gone through two major restorations: the first in 1936, when it was refinished in an art deco theme by the Schine Theater chain, and again 52 years later, when it was converted to a performing arts and community center. For more info. tel: 410-822-0345 or visit www.avalontheatre.com.
4. TALBOT COUNTY VISITORS CENTER - 11 S. Harrison St. The Talbot County Office of Tourism provides visitors with county informa-tion for historic Easton and the waterfront villages of Oxford, St. Michaels and Tilghman Island. For more info. tel: 410-770-8000 or visit www.tourtalbot.org.
5. BARTLETT PEAR INN - 28 S. Harrison St. Significant for its ar-chitecture, it was built by Benjamin Stevens in 1790 and is one of Easton’s earliest three-bay brick buildings. The home was “modernized” with Victorian bay windows on the right side in the 1890s.
6. WATERFOWL BUILDING - 40 S. Harrison St. The old armory is
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Easton Points of Interestnow the headquarters of the Waterfowl Festival, Easton’s annual celebration of migratory birds and the hunting season, the second weekend in Novem-ber. For more info. tel: 410-822-4567 or visit www.waterfowlfestival.org.
7. ACADEMY ART MUSEUM - 106 South St. Accredited by the American Association of Museums, the Academy Art Museum is a fine art museum founded in 1958. Providing national and regional exhibitions, performances, educational programs, and visual and performing arts classes to adults and children, the Museum also offers a vibrant concert and lecture series and an annual craft festival, CRAFT SHOW (the Eastern Shore’s largest juried fine craft show), featuring local and national artists and artisans demonstrating, exhibiting and selling their crafts. The Museum’s permanent collection consists of works on paper and contemporary works by American and European masters. Mon. through Fri. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Sat. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.; extended hours on Tues., Wed.and Thurs. until 7 p.m. For more info. tel: (410) 822-ARTS (2787) or visit www.art-academy.org.
8. CHRIST CHURCH - St. Peter’s Parish, 111 South Harrison St. The Parish was founded in 1692 with the present church built ca. 1840, of Port Deposit granite.
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Easton Points of Interest9. HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF TALBOT COUNTY - 25 S. Washing-
ton St. Enjoy an evocative portrait of everyday life during earlier times when visiting the c. 18th and 19th century historic houses and a museum with changing exhibitions, all of which surround a Federal-style garden. Located in the heart of Easton’s historic district. Museum hours: Thurs., Fri. & Sat., 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. (winter) and Mon. through Sat., 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. (summer), with group tours offered by appointment. For more info. tel: 410-822-0773 or visit www.hstc.org. Tharpe Antiques and Decorative Arts located at 30 S. Washington Street. Hours: Tues.-Sat. 10-4 and Sun. 11-4. Consignments accepted on Tues. or by appointment 410-820-7525 Proceeds support HSTC.
10. ODD FELLOWS LODGE - At the corner of Washington and Do-ver streets stands a building with secrets. It was constructed in 1879 as the meeting hall for the Odd Fellows. Carved into the stone and placed into the stained glass are images and symbols that have meaning only for members. See if you can find the dove, linked rings and other symbols.
11. THE TALBOT COUNTY COURTHOUSE - Long known as the “East Capital” of Maryland. The present building was completed in 1794
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on the site of the earlier one built in 1711. It has been remodeled several times over the years.
12. SHANNAHAN & WRIGHTSON HARDWARE BLDG. - 12 N. Washington St. Now Lanham-Hall Design & Antiques, it is the oldest store in Easton. In 1791, Owen Kennard began work on a new brick building that changed hands several times throughout the years. Dates on the building show when additions were made in 1877, 1881 and 1889. The present front was completed in time for a grand opening on Dec. 7, 1941 - Pearl Harbor Day.
13. THE BRICK HOTEL - northwest corner of Washington and Fed-eral streets. Built in 1812, it became the Eastern Shore’s leading hostelry. When court was in session, plaintiffs, defendants and lawyers all came to town and shared rooms in hotels such as this. Frederick Douglass stayed in the Brick Hotel when he came back after the Civil War and gave a speech in the courthouse. It is now an office building.
14. THOMAS PERRIN SMITH HOUSE - 119 N. Washington St. Built in 1803, it was the early home of the newspaper from which the Star-Democrat grew. In 1912, the building was acquired by the Chesapeake Bay Yacht Club, which occupies it today.
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15. ART DECO STORES - 13-25 Goldsborough Street. Although much of Easton looks Colonial or Victorian, the 20th century had its influences as well. This row of stores has distinctive 1920s-era white trim at the roofline. It is rumored that there was a speakeasy here during Prohibition.
16. FIRST MASONIC GRAND LODGE - 23 N. Harrison Street. The records of Coats Lodge of Masons in Easton show that five Masonic Lodges met in Talbot Court House (as Easton was then called) on July 31, 1783 to form the first Grand Lodge of Masons in Maryland. Although the building they first met in is gone, a plaque marks the spot today.
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Other Sites in Easton17. FOXLEY HALL - Built about 1795 at 24 N. Aurora St., Foxley Hall
is one of the best-known of Easton’s Federal dwellings. Former home of Oswald Tilghman, great-grandson of Lt. Col. Tench Tilghman. (Private)
18. TRINITY EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL - On “Cathedral Green,” Goldsborough St., a traditional Gothic design in granite. The interior is well worth a visit. All windows are stained glass, picturing New Testament scenes, and the altar cross of Greek type is unique.
19. INN AT 202 DOVER- Built in 1874, this Victorian-era mansion reflects many architectural styles. For years the building was known as the Wrightson House, thanks to its early 20th century owner, Charles T. Wrightson, one of the founders of the S. & W. canned food empire. Locally it is still referred to as Captain’s Watch due to its prominent balustraded widow’s walk. The Inn’s renovation in 2006 was acknowledged by the Maryland Historic Trust and the U.S. Dept. of the Interior.
20. TALBOT COUNTY FREE LIBRARY - Housed in an attrac-tively remodeled building on West Street, the hours of operation are Mon. and Thurs., 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., Tues. and Wed. 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Fri. and Sat., 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., except
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Easton Points of Interestduring the summer when it’s 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit www.tcfl.org.
21. THIRD HAVEN MEETING HOUSE - Built in 1682 and the oldest frame building dedicated to religious meetings in America. The Meeting House was built at the headwaters of the Tred Avon: people came by boat to attend. William Penn preached there with Lord Baltimore present. Extensive renovations were completed in 1990.
22. MEMORIAL HOSPITAL - Established in the early 1900s, now one of the finest hospitals on the Eastern Shore.
23. EASTON POINT MARINA & BOAT RAMP - At the end of Port Street on the Tred Avon River
24. TALBOTTOWN, EASTON PLAZA, EASTON MARKET-PLACE, TRED AVON SQUARE and WATERSIDE VILLAGE- Shop-ping centers, all in close proximity to downtown Easton.
24A. TALBOT COUNTY VISUAL ARTS CENTER, INC. - The Talbot County Visual Arts Center provides Talbot County artists with a venue to exhibit artwork to the public. Thurs.-Sat., 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-0966 or visit www.talbot-art-center.org.
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25. HOG NECK GOLF COURSE - 18 hole Championship course, 9 hole Executive course. Full service pro shop. For more info. tel: 410-822-6079.
26. TALBOT COMMUNITY CENTER - The year-round activities offered at the community center range from ice hockey to figure skating, aerobics and curling. The Center is also host to many events throughout the year, such as antique, craft, boating and sportsman shows.
27. EASTON AIRPORT - 29137 Newnam Rd., just off Rt. 50.28. PICKERING CREEK - 400-acre farm and science education center
featuring 100 acres of forest, a mile of shoreline, nature trails, low-ropes challenge course and canoe launch. Trails are open seven days a week from dawn till dusk. Canoes are free for members. For more info. tel: 410-822-4903 or visit www.pickeringcreek.org.
29. TALBOT COUNTRY CLUB - Established in 1910, the Talbot Country Club is located at 6142 Country Club Drive, Easton.
30. WHITE MARSH CHURCH - Only the ruins remain, but the churchyard contains the grave of the elder Robert Morris, who died July 22, 1750. The parish had a rector of the Church of England in 1690.
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On the broad Miles River, with its picturesque tree-lined streets and beautiful harbor, St. Michaels has been a haven for boats plying the Chesa-peake and its inlets since the earliest days. Here, some of the handsom-est models of the Bay craft, such as canoes, bugeyes, pungys and some famous Baltimore Clippers, were designed and built. The Church, named “St. Michael’s,” was the first building erected (about 1677) and around it clustered the town that took its name.
1. WADES POINT INN - Located on a point of land overlooking ma-jestic Chesapeake Bay, this historic inn has been welcoming guests for over 100 years. Thomas Kemp, builder of the original “Pride of Baltimore,” built the main house in 1819.
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2. HARBOURTOWNE GOLF RESORT - Bay View Restaurant and Duckblind Bar on the scenic Miles River with an 18 hole golf course.
3. MILES RIVER YACHT CLUB - Organized in 1920, the Miles River Yacht Club continues its dedication to boating on our waters and the protection of the heritage of log canoes, the oldest class of boat still sailing U. S. waters. The MRYC has been instrumental in preserving the log canoe and its rich history on the Chesapeake Bay.
4. THE INN AT PERRY CABIN - The original building was con-structed in the early 19th century by Samuel Hambleton, a purser in the United States Navy during the War of 1812. It was named for his friend, Commodore Oliver Hazzard Perry. Perry Cabin has served as a riding academy and was restored in 1980 as an inn and restaurant. The Inn is now a member of the Orient Express Hotels.
5. THE PARSONAGE INN - A bed and breakfast inn at 210 N. Talbot St., was built by Henry Clay Dodson, a prominent St. Michaels business-man and state legislator around 1883 as his private residence. In 1874, Dodson, along with Joseph White, established the St. Michaels Brick Company, which later provided the brick for “the old Parsonae house.”
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6. FREDERICK DOUGLASS HISTORIC MARKER - Born at Tucka-hoe Creek, Talbot County, Douglass lived as a slave in the St. Michaels area from 1833 to 1836. He taught himself to read and taught in clandestine schools for blacks here. He escaped to the north and became a noted abolitionist, orator and editor. He returned in 1877 as a U.S. Marshal for the District of Columbia and also served as the D.C. Recorder of Deeds and the U.S. Minister to Haiti.
7. CHESAPEAKE BAY MARITIME MUSEUM - Founded in 1965, the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum is dedicated to preserving the rich heritage of the hemisphere’s largest and most productive estuary - the Chesapeake Bay. Located on 18 waterfront acres, its nine exhibit buildings and floating fleet bring to life the story of the Bay and its inhabitants, from the fully restored 1879 Hooper Strait lighthouse and working boatyard to the impressive collection of working decoys and a recreated waterman’s shanty. Home to the world’s largest collection of Bay boats, the Museum regularly hosts temporary exhibitions, special events, festivals, and education programs. Docking and pump-out facilities available. Exhibitions and Mu-seum Store open year-round. Up-to-date information and hours can be found on the Museum’s website at www.cbmm.org or by calling 410-745-2916.
8. THE CRAB CLAW - Restaurant adjoining the Maritime Museum and overlooking St. Michaels harbor. Open March-November. 410-745-2900 or www.thecrabclaw.com.
9. PATRIOT - During the season (April-November) the 65’ cruise boat can carry 150 persons, runs daily historic narrated cruises along the Miles River. For daily cruise times, visit www.patriotcruises.com or call 410-745-3100.
10. THE FOOTBRIDGE - Built on the site of many earlier bridges, today’s bridge joins Navy Point to Cherry Street. It has been variously known as “Honeymoon Bridge” and “Sweetheart Bridge.” It is the only remaining bridge of three that at one time connected the town with outlying areas around the harbor.
11. VICTORIANA INN - The Victoriana Inn is located in the Historic District of St. Michaels. The home was built in 1873 by Dr. Clay Dodson, a druggist, and occupied as his private residence and office. In 1910 the property, then known as “Willow Cottage,” underwent alterations when acquired by the Shannahan family who continued it as a private residence for over 75 years. As a bed and breakfast, circa 1988, major renovations took place, preserving the historic character of the gracious Victorian era.
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12. HAMBLETON INN - On the harbor. Historic waterfront home built in 1860 and restored as a bed and breakfast in 1985 with a turn-of-the-century atmosphere. All the rooms have a view of the harbor.
13. MILL HOUSE - Originally built on the beach about 1660 and later moved to its present location on Harrison Square (Cherry St. near Locust St.).
14. FREEDOMS FRIEND LODGE - Chartered in 1867 and con-structed in 1883, the Freedoms Friend Lodge is the oldest lodge existing in Maryland and is a prominent historic site for our black community. It is now the site of Blue Crab Coffee Company.
15. TALBOT COUNTY FREE LIBRARY - St. Michaels Branch is located at 106 S. Fremont Street. For more info. tel: 410-745-5877.
16. CARPENTER STREET SALOON - Life in the Colonial commu-nity revolved around the tavern. The traveler could, of course, obtain food, drink, lodging or even a fresh horse to speed his journey. This tavern was built in 1874 and has served the community as a bank, a newspaper office, post office and telephone company.
17. TWO SWAN INN - The Two Swan Inn on the harbor served as the former site of the Miles River Yacht Club, was built in the 1800s and
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18. TARR HOUSE - Built by Edward Elliott as his plantation home about 1661. It was Elliott and an indentured servant, Darby Coghorn, who built the first church in St. Michaels. This was about 1677, on the site of the present Episcopal Church (6 Willow Street, near Locust).
1 9 . C H R I S T E P I S C O P A L CHURCH - 301 S. Talbot St. Built of Port Deposit stone, the present church was erected in 1878. The first is believed to have been built in 1677 by Edward Elliott.
20. THE INN - Built in 1817 by Wrightson Jones, who opened and operated the shipyard at Beverly on Broad Creek. (Talbot St. at Mulberry).
2 1 . T H E C A N N O N B A L L HOUSE - When St. Michaels was shelled by the British in a night at-tack in 1813, the town was “blacked out” and lanterns were hung in the tree tops to lead the attackers to be-lieve the town was on a high bluff. Result: The houses were overshot. The story is that a cannonball hit the chimney of “Cannonball House” and rolled down the attic stairway. This town “blackout” was believed to be the first such “blackout” in the history of warfare.
22. AMELIA WELBY HOUSE - Amelia Coppuck, who became
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Amelia Welby, was born in this house and wrote poems that won her fame and the praise of Edgar Allan Poe.
23. TOWN DOCK RESTAURANT - During 1813, at the time of the Battle of St. Michaels, it was known as “Dawson’s Wharf” and had 2 cannons on carriages donated by Jacob Gibson, which fired 10 of the 15 rounds directed at the British. For a period up to the early 1950s it was called “The Longfellow Inn.” It was rebuilt in 1977 after burning to the ground.
24. ST. MICHAELS MUSEUM at ST. MARY’S SQUARE - Located in the heart of the historic district, offers a unique view of 19th century life in St. Michaels. The exhibits are housed in three period buildings and contain local furniture and artifacts donated by residents. The museum is supported entirely through community efforts. Open May-October, Mon., 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Fri., 1 to 4 p.m., Sat., 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sun., 1 to 4 p.m. Other days on request. Admission is $3 for adults and $1 for children with children under 6 free. 410-745-9561 or www.stmichaelsmuseumcom.
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26. THE OLD MILL COMPLEX The Old Mill was a functioning flour mill from the late 1800s until the 1970s, producing flour used primarily for Maryland beaten biscuits. Today it is home to a brewery, winery, art-ists, furniture makers, a baker and other unique shops and businesses.
27. ST. MICHAELS HARBOUR INN, MARINA & SPA - Construct-ed in 1986 and recently renovated, it has overnight accommodations, conference facilities, marina, spa and Pascal’s Restaurant & Tavern.
28. ST. MICHAELS NATURE TRAIL - The St. Michaels Nature Trail is a 1.3 mile paved walkway that winds around the western side of St. Michaels starting at a dedi-cated parking lot on South Talbot Street across from the Bay Hundred swimming pool. The 8-foot-wide path is a former railroad bed and is popular with walkers and cyclists who want to stay away from traffic. The path cuts through the woods, San Domingo Park, over a covered bridge and past a horse farm and historic cemetery before ending in Bradley Park. The trail is open all year from dawn to dusk.
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OxfordPoints of Interest
Oxford is one of the oldest towns in Maryland. Although already settled for perhaps 20 years, Oxford marks the year 1683 as its official founding, for in that year Oxford was first named by the Maryland General Assembly as a seaport and was laid out as a town. In 1694, Oxford and a new town called Anne Arundel (now Annapolis) were selected the only ports of entry for the entire Maryland province. Until the American Revolution, Oxford enjoyed prominence as an interna-tional shipping center surrounded by wealthy tobacco plantations.
Today, Oxford is a charming tree-lined and waterbound village with a population of just over 700 and is still important in boat build-ing and yachting. It has a protected harbor for watermen who harvest oysters, crabs, clams and fish, and for sailors from all over the Bay.
1. TENCH TILGHMAN MONUMENT - In the Oxford Cemetery the Revolutionary War hero’s body lies along with that of his widow. Lt. Tench Tilghman carried the message of Cornwallis’ surrender from
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Oxford Points of InterestYorktown, VA, to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia. Across the cove from the cemetery may be seen Plimhimmon, home of Tench Tilghman’s widow, Anna Marie Tilghman.
2. THE OXFORD COMMUNITY CENTER - 200 Oxford Road. The Oxford Community Center, a pillared brick schoolhouse saved from the wrecking ball by the town residents, is a gathering place for meetings, classes, lectures, dinner theater and performances by the Tred Avon Players and has been recently renovated. Rentals available to groups and individuals. 410-226-5904 or www.oxfordcc.org.
3. BACHELOR POINT HARBOR - Located at the mouth of the Tred Avon River, 9’ water depth.
4. THE COOPERATIVE OXFORD LABORATORY - U.S. Depart-ment of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Maryland Department of Natural Resources located here. 410-226-5193 or www.dnr.state.md.us/fisheries/oxford.
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Recent restoration of the beach as part of a “living shoreline project” cre-ated 2 terraced sitting walls, a protective groin and a sandy beach with native grasses which will stop further erosion and provide valuable aquatic habitat. A similar project has been completed adjacent to the ferry dock. A kayak launch site has also been located near the ferry dock.
6. OXFORD MUSEUM - Morris & Market Sts . Devoted to the memories and tangible mementos of Oxford, MD. The Museum is open on Mon., Wed., Fri. and Sat. from 10-4 and Sun. from 1-4. Admission is free; donations gratefully accepted. For more info. tel: 410-226-0191.
7. OXFORD LIBRARY - 101 Market St. Founded in 1939 and on its present site since 1950. Hours are Mon.-Sat., 10-4.
8. THE BRATT MANSION (ACADEMY HOUSE) - 205 N. Morris St. Served as quarters for the officers of a Maryland Military Academy built about 1848. (Private residence)
9. BARNABY HOUSE - 212 N. Morris St. Built in 1770 by sea cap-tain Richard Barnaby, this charming house contains original pine wood-work, corner fireplaces and an unusually lovely handmade staircase. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places. (Private residence)
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Oxford Points of Interest10. THE GRAPEVINE HOUSE - 309 N. Morris St . The grape-
vine over the entrance arbor was brought from the Isle of Jersey in 1810 by Captain Wil l iam Wil l is , who commanded the br ig “Sarah and Louisa.” (Private residence)
11. THE ROBERT MORRIS INN - N. Morris St. & The Strand. Robert Morris was the father of Robert Morris, Jr., the “financier of the Revolution.” Built about 1710, part of the original house with a beautiful staircase is contained in the beautifully restored Inn, now open 7 days a week. Robert Morris, Jr. was one of only 2 Founding Fathers to sign the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Con-federation, and the United States Constitution.
12. THE OXFORD CUSTOM HOUSE - N. Morris St. & The Strand. Built in 1976 as Oxford’s official Bicentennial project. It is a replica of the first Federal Custom House built by Jeremiah Ban-ning, who was the first Federal Collector of Customs appointed by George Washington.
13. TRED AVON YACHT CLUB - N. Morris St. & The Strand. Founded in 1931. The present building, completed in 1991, replaced the original structure.
14. OXFORD-BELLEVUE FERRY - N. Morris St. & The Strand. Started in 1683, this is believed to be the oldest privately operated ferry in the United States. Its first keeper was Richard Royston, whom the Talbot County Court ‘pitcht upon’ to run a ferry at an unusual subsidy of 2,500 pounds of tobacco. Service has been continuous since 1836, with power supplied by sail, sculling, rowing, steam, and modern diesel engine. Many now take the ride between Oxford and Bellevue for the scenic beauty.
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Oxford Points of Interest15. BYEBERRY - On the grounds of Cutts & Case Boatyard. It faces
Town Creek and is one of the oldest houses in the area. The date of construction is unknown, but it was standing in 1695. Originally, it was in the main business section but was moved to the present loca-tion about 1930. (Private residence)
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Tilghman’s Island“Great Choptank Island” was granted to Seth Foster in 1659. Thereafter
it was known as Foster’s Island, and remained so through a succession of owners until Matthew Tilghman of Claiborne inherited it in 1741. He and his heirs owned the island for over a century and it has been Tilghman’s Island ever since, though the northern village and the island’s postal designation are simply “Tilghman.”
For its first 175 years, the island was a family farm, supplying grains, vegetables, fruit, cattle, pigs and timber. Although the owners rarely were in residence, many slaves were; an 1817 inventory listed 104. The last Tilghman owner, General Tench Tilghman (not Washington’s aide-de-camp), removed the slaves in the 1830s and began selling off lots. In 1849, he sold his remaining interests to James Seth, who continued the development.
The island’s central location in the middle Bay is ideally suited for watermen harvesting the Bay in all seasons. The years before the Civil War saw the influx of the first families we know today. A second wave arrived after the War, attracted by the advent of oyster dredging in the 1870s. Hundreds of dredgers and tongers operated out of Tilghman’s Island, their catches sent to the cities by schooners. Boat building, too, was an important industry.
The boom continued into the 1890s, spurred by the arrival of steamboat service, which opened vast new markets for Bay seafood. Islanders quickly capitalized on the opportunity as several seafood buyers set up shucking and canning operations on pilings at the edge of the shoal of Dogwood Cove. The discarded oyster shells eventually became an island with seafood packing houses, hundreds of workers, a store, and even a post office.
The steamboats also brought visitors who came to hunt, fish, relax and escape the summer heat of the cities. Some families stayed all summer in one of the guest houses that sprang up in the villages of Tilghman, Avalon, Fairbank and Bar Neck. Although known for their independence, Tilghman’s Islanders enjoy showing visitors how to pick a crab, shuck an oyster or find a good fishing spot.
In the twentieth century, Islanders pursued these vocations in farming, on the water, and in the thriving seafood processing industry. The “Tilghman Brand” was known throughout the eastern United States, but as the Bay’s bounty diminished, so did the number of water-related jobs. Still, three of the few remaining Bay ‘skipjacks’ (sailing dredgeboats) can be seen here, as well as two working harbors with scores of power workboats.
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Island Reduxby
Gary D. Crawford
Sharp’s Island LightWe circle, motoring at dead slow.
As I work the boat back and forth over the designated position on the chart, we gaze off into the distance, northeast to Black Walnut Point on the southern tip of Tilghman’s Is-land, then due east to Cook Point in Dorchester County. We can make out Chesapeake Beach across the Bay to the west, and down south lies James Island.
Despite the landmarks all around, it is a strangely isolated spot. As we rock in the light chop, the haze makes every shore seem a long way off. One feels rather distant and alone in this place.
Yet suddenly, there just at hand but momentarily forgotten, looms a vast, rusting iron tower, as if about
to tap us on the shoulder to remind us of something long forgotten. It seems to be straining to free its massive Entish feet from the mud, in the hope of resuming a long in-terrupted march up the Bay.
The sense of isolation here is all the more curious since there’s an island just below us. It is wise to watch the depth-sounder here-abouts, if the tide is low and you have any draft at all. Actually, these are the remnants of an island, all the rest of it having washed down the Bay long since. It’s more ro-mantic, of course, to imagine it sinking slowly beneath the waves.
I begin to sense images of that now vanished island, whose name is kept alive only by the rusting and bird-whitened lighthouse – Sharp’s Island. Once upon a time, this lo-cation in the Bay was solid land. One could stroll through fields and forests, admiring the farms, the or-chards, and children at play. There used to be a land here, then.
Like our boat moves on the ebb-ing tide, my mind begins to drift back over the years and decades, to stories read and tales told. Just as Poplar Island away to the north is emerging once again from the Bay, so, too, Sharp’s Island now be-
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Island Redux
Sharp’s Island c. 1955.
gins to rise, Atlantis-like, from the waves of my fancy….
We slip back, into the past. It is February of 1963, and the Bay ice was just breaking up after a hard freeze. A waterman and his son headed out in the darkness of the Choptank and south down the Bay. By first light, they were hard at work. Hours later, running north-east into False Channel, they were headed back to Dogwood Cove on Tilghman’s Island and home. The father was catching a snooze be-low while his son, a skillful pilot of these waters, had the wheel. Sud-denly, the son called out, “Pop, bet-ter come up. I thought that was Beach Buoy away there, but I can’t find Sharp’s nowhere. I must have gotten turned around somehow.” Leaning on the hatch, his father gazed around then looked toward the buoy. “Nope, son, you’re OK,” he said in amazement. “Reckon Sharp’s is gone.”
And so it was. The Bay finally won its long struggle with the is-land when the recent freeze cut into the last few square yards of hummock. For that to happen just then was odd, too, for it spoiled a fine photograph. The boy’s grand-father had been contacted some months previously by a newspaper writer who said he’d heard that the old gentleman was the last child born on Sharp’s Island. Howard
Sinclair confirmed that fact, saying his father and mother had farmed the old island back in the 1880s be-fore moving to Poplar. There was a lot more of Sharp’s Island then, he noted, with good soil, too. One year his father’s wheat harvest was 3,000 bushels.
The reporter proposed that Mr. Howard accompany him out to the remains of Sharp’s Island and pose there for a picture, standing alone on a half-acre hummock in the mid-dle of the Bay. They agreed to do the stunt when the spring weather came, but the Bay had other ideas. The February ice had taken away the last remnant of marsh as neatly as slicing the top off a soft boiled egg.
Now we drift a bit further back, to WWII, when several acres of Sharp’s Island still remained. The military used it for target practice and the sounds of bombing and strafing could be heard clearly on Tilghman’s Island, three miles away. Those ex-plosions pocked the island with cra-
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Island Reduxters and accelerated the Bay’s effort to liquefy the soil and sweep it away.
We are told that one evening a PT boat captain once missed his marks and ran his fast patrol boat right up onto the island, slithering well past the shoreline. The next day, the authorities managed to pull the not too badly damaged vessel back into the Bay.
Slipping back further, and more quickly now, we come to 1910 as fifty acres come up through the waves. A tumbled-down old frame structure stands in the weeds, bleached by wind and sun, windows brooding vacantly. Exactly when the old building, once a handsome
Sharp’s Island Hotel c. 1905.
hotel, finally went down, I have not learned.
Some think it just collapsed and fell into the Bay during a storm; others say a fire was what really fin-ished it. It had been abandoned for years and picked clean by visitors; bits and pieces occasionally show up in Tilghman homes. A man
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Island Reduxonce showed me a pair of door-knobs from the hotel’s dining room; there’s a house here with a staircase whose railing is said to have come from the old place.
As our boat turns and turns again, I visualize a still larger chunk of land coming up through the waters. Sur-prisingly, the island is much larger than just five years later, over 90 acres. The erosion between 1900 and 1910 was terrific – 110 feet from the north shore per year.
But now it is 1905 and the old hotel stands deserted but intact in a field of weeds, waiting there for the Alfaretto Fishing Club to arrive. A dozen Easton men had arranged for a week-long fishing holiday on the island at summer’s end.
As Sunday, August 27 dawned warm and clear, the party left Easton Point in two boats crammed with passengers, gear, provisions,
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and two hired hands. Capt. John B. and Thomas Harrison of Tilgh-man towed them down-river with their 44-foot power launch and flags a-flying – one proclaiming the name of the vessel (the Iva) and the other the Stars and Stripes. The Bay was kicking up as they neared the island, but they arrived safely and promptly set up camp in the old hotel.
They spent a happy week on Sharp’s Island, fishing and eat-ing and sleeping and enjoying the escape from their hot and dusty offices in Easton. When the wa-termen returned to tow them back home, they may have been the last party of hotel guests to spend more than a single night on Sharp’s Island. Fortunately, one of them, William Meintzer, was a photographer, and he produced a delightful booklet to commemo-rate the event. It is called A Vaca-tion Symposium, a copy of which may be seen at the Easton Library. (Also, copies are for sale at fine nautical bookstores everywhere.)
Drifting back another ten years or so, to 1895…. I watch with a cu-rious sense of pride as the hotel, brand new, rises from the water, standing near the middle of the island, her paint bright and win-dows flashing in the morning sun. From the front steps, a path runs through a grassy field to the edge of the land. A stairway leads down to a boardwalk over the marsh, and
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Island Reduxthen to a long wharf running out to deep water. The western shore of Sharp’s is a steep embankment, seven feet high at places. A sizable marsh protects most of the eastern shoreline, down to the southern end where an alluvial hook maternally encloses a beach, protecting the gentle sands there from the harsh chop of the Bay only yards away.
Now rising from the Bay, a few hundred yards off Drum Point at the northwest corner of the island, is the brand-new Sharp’s Island Light-house. There she stands, tall (and straight), with a jaunty sun-deck and the light keeper’s boat hanging from davits just above the water. The new Sharp’s Island Light, ca. 1895.
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boat wharf had washed away and the hotel began to deteriorate.
Now, as the wind dies away, I let our boat drift. These gentler swells conjure up scenes of happier times. More of the island arises, dripping, now a sizable farm of over 300 acres. One day in 1885 little How-ard Sinclair, that last true Sharp’s Islander, put his ear to the sand at Drum Point and could actually hear the drum drumming. Ten years ear-lier, Captain Ed Stevens brought his wife and family to Sharp’s, where they lived and farmed and fished for four years. Even then, erosion was threatening. One of Stevens’s daughters, Margaret, remembered they lost ten feet of shoreline every winter. From her bedroom, she
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Island Reduxcould hear pine trees falling in the night.
Sharp’s Island then boasted a two-and-a-half-story farmhouse, two smaller dwellings, numerous outbuildings, livestock, extensive wheat fields, and the best crabap-ples in the county. I mentioned this recently to one senior Tilghman’s Islander, who looked up with a smile. He recalled visiting Sharp’s many years ago, when a few trees remained, just three. “All three were crabapples,” he said.
The light wanes; it’s getting time to head home. The island, fainter now, continues to emerge from the Bay, its shores now far and wide – 400, now 500 acres. The iron lighthouse dis-
Warren’s Chesapeake fleet, 1813.
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appears, and in a wink is replaced by a screw-pile light standing on spider legs, then it, too, is gone. The Civil War rushes by. A small lighthouse pops up on Drum Point.
Ships of the Royal Navy sudden-ly loom at anchor and I realize it is April of 1813; on board the HMS San Domingo, Admiral Warren is listening to the madcap owner of Sharp’s Island, one Jacob Gibson, who is insisting that he be paid for the livestock taken by the Navy. Astonishingly, Gibson obtains $225 and a safe-conduct pass.
The island grows dimmer. I can just make out the rush of water as yet more land emerges from the Bay, now 600 acres, and yet more. The names of the owners flash by: Bennett, Morrison, Viner, Eason. Then, quickly – for just 13 short years – Dr. Peter Sharpe’s name appears. He probably would be amused to learn that it is his name still lingering upon the waters here, not that of John Bateman, the man granted the original let-ters patent in February of 1659 and who sold the island to Sharpe.
(By the way, if you’d care to visit the Sharp’s Island Light, contact Capt. Mike Richards on Tilghman’s Island. He offers lighthouse tours in a vessel appropriately named Sharp’s Island.)
Reluctantly, I cease the musing and start the motor. While she warms and smoothes out, I glance over once again. Only the faintest
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away in the northwest, another vessel can be made out. It is the year 1626 and she is bound for the Isle of Kent. On her way north, she paused to take a look at this handsome and new-found island. Her master honored it with his own name: Claiborne’s Island.
Then I push the throttle for-ward and we curve away for home.
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Healthy Fall AppetizersMany of you have heard the say-
ing “life is about the journey, not the destination.” This is applicable when you are making changes to your diet to fit a healthy lifestyle. This is a journey that takes commit-ment and dedication.
As many of you know, I have worked for a company called Juice-Plus for the past 3½ years. A very dear high school friend of mine educated me on the importance of whole food nutrition. Growing up in Oxford, my mom was always gar-dening and getting the best produce from her friends who had the farm-ers stand, Bill Eason and Pat Lyons. So, I appreciate both Wendy Vance and my mom for always keeping me in line with better food choices.
About three weeks ago I got a scary call from my mom telling me that my dad had a heart attack and was having a quadruple bypass. Af-ter a long stay in the hospital and lots of good care, he is now home with my mom and sister. He was given strict instructions to add
more raw fruits and veggies for their healing powers so that he could regain his strength.
I am now on a mission to try to help educate as many people as possible through healthy eating, re-laxation, exercise and enjoying life. If you would like more information, feel free to e-mail me at [email protected].
I am going to share some of my favorite healthy appetizers to inspire you when you are having friends and family over for a fun fall evening.
SWEET or WHITE POTATO CHIPS
Slice as many potatoes as you would like, paper thin. Spread them on a microwave-safe dish and cook on high for about 7 minutes. This is a fast and easy appetizer that everyone loves!
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1 15-oz. can chickpeas, drained and rinsed3 green onions, chopped1 t. fresh ginger, grated1 T. soy sauce1 t. rice vinegar1 t. smashed fresh garlic1 t. Sriracha hot chili sauce1 t. agave sweetener1/2 t. sea saltground pepper to taste
Put all your ingredients in a food processor and puree to a smooth consistency. Refrigerate for at least 1 hour to allow the flavors to meld together and mellow.
HOMEMADE HUMMUS without oil
This is a very basic spread and a great dip with veggies! The usu-al recipe always calls for oil or the sesame paste called tahini that adds the fat content. I love making this on Sunday night so I can eat it for lunch for the rest of the week with my veggies, or make a healthy wrap using it
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with an interesting assortment of vegetables.
2 cans chickpeas,drained and rinsed4 cloves of garlic1 lemon, zest and juice3 t. Bragg liquid aminos 1/4 cup vegetable broth
Blend all the ingredients togeth-er until it is smooth and creamy.
Here are some ingredients that you can blend into this spread to make it fun and different:1 fresh jalapeno pepper, seeded and chopped1 cup edamame beans, shelled
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2 T. toasted sesame seeds1 cup Kalamata olives, pitted1 bunch fresh mint1 cup fresh eggplant1 cup fresh spinach or arugula1 cup roasted peppers (red or yellow)
PEA GUACAMOLE4 cups frozen peas, thawed1 small jalapeno pepper, diced2 cloves garlic, mashed2 T. finely chopped cilantro3 T. lemon or lime juice1/4 t. freshly ground pepperSalt to taste
Place all ingredients into a food processor and blend until smooth. Cover and refrigerate until chilled. Serve with blue corn chips.
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Healthy AppetizersGarnish with a red pepper. You
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EGGPLANT DIP1 1-pound eggplant1/3 cup golden raisins, chopped2 T. boiling water2 T. tahini2 T. chopped fresh basil2 T. fresh lemon juice and zest1/4 t. black pepper1/8 t. sea salt1 garlic clove, minced
Heat your oven to 400°. Roast the whole eggplant on a jelly roll pan, 40 to 50 minutes, or until it is tender soft. Let it cool. Scoop out the insides of the eggplant and put it into a bowl, discarding the peel.
Soak the raisins in very hot wa-ter for about 10 minutes to soften them, then put aside. To the egg-plant add the garlic, lemon juice, lemon zest, tahini, chopped basil, salt and pepper. Mix everything to-gether and add the chopped raisins.
Stir and serve on your favorite tor-tilla or pita chips.
TOFU-GREEN GODDESS DIP2 cups trimmed watercress (about 2 bunches)1/2 cup fresh basil leaves1/4 cup fresh flat-leaf parsley1/4 cup chopped green onions1 10½-oz. package of firm silken tofu, drained1 T. white wine vinegar1 t. anchovy paste1/2 t. freshly ground black pepper
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Steam the watercress for about 2 minutes. In a food processor, pu-ree all the ingredients until they are blended and smooth. Chill for 3 hours or more so the flavors can meld together.
This is a great dip with fresh vegetables, or as a spread to put on your favorite sandwich.
WHITE BEAN RED PEPPER SPREAD
1 whole garlic head1 cup water1 3.5-oz. package sun-dried toma-
toes, packed without oil1/2 t. chopped fresh rosemary1/4 t. kosher salt1/4 t. freshly ground black pepper1 15.8-oz. can Great Northern beans, drained and rinsed
Puree all ingredients together in the bowl of a food processor until smooth and creamy, then serve.
PUMPKIN DIP3/4 cup (6 oz.) firm silken tofu, drained1/4 cup packed brown sugar1/2 cup canned pumpkin1 T. maple syrup1/2 t. ground cinnamon
Blend together in a food proces-
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EDAMAME DIP1-1/2 cups frozen shelled edama-me (green soybeans), thawed and cooked1/2 cup water1/4 cup chopped red onion3 T. chopped fresh cilantro2 T. rice vinegar1 T. olive oil1/2 t. salt1-1/2 t. chili garlic sauce (such as Lee KumKee)1 16-oz. can cannellini beans or oth-er white beans, drained
Place all ingredients in your food processor and blend together. Re-
Edamame Dipfrigerate for 3 hours or more to meld the flavors together.
ASPARAGUS DIP2 cups
This is a great spread or dip! It can also be fat free. Dip into it with baked or regular tortilla chips, pita
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Healthy Appetizerschips or fresh vegetables. Use as a spread on turkey, ham or on a veg-etable sandwich.
1 bunch fresh asparagus, bottom 1 inch trimmed and discardedJuice of 1/2 large lime or lemon2 T. fat-free plain yogurt1 to 2 T. fresh chives or green on-ions, washed and roughly chopped1/4 t. sea salt1 small garlic clove, minced1 T. fresh dill weed, washed and chopped or 1 t. dried2 t. Dijon mustard2 t. finely chopped jalapeno (seeds removed)
Cut the asparagus into 1-inch pieces and steam or simmer in water for 6 to 8 minutes or until tender. Drain and run cold water over the cooked pieces until they are cooled. Drain well again, blotting with a pa-per towel to absorb all the water.
Place the asparagus and the rest of the ingredients into a food pro-cessor and pulse until smooth.
For a guacamole flavor, omit the mustard and fresh dill and add 1 teaspoon ground cumin.
Cover and chill in the refrigerator until ready to serve. May be made a day ahead.
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1/4 t. freshly ground black pepper1 15-oz. can tomato sauce1 9-oz. package frozen artichoke hearts, thawed and chopped2 T. chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley
Place all your ingredients in a food processor and blend until desired consistency (chunky or smooth). I like it a little chunky, and I serve it with pita chips and cut-up vegetables.
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Tidewater Travelerby
George W. Sellers, CTC
Neil Armstrong takes a walk on the moon.
Remember when the United States had a space program? Five decades ago, entire families gath-ered round tiny televisions to watch spectacular events unfold to the narration and explanation of Wal-ter Cronkite. Amazing undertak-
ings, thought to be impossible just a few years earlier, captured the at-tention of the entire nation.
Though fascinated by the accom-plishments of space travel, I never really dreamt of being an astronaut, as many youngsters did. Perhaps
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The Right Stuff?I knew instinctively that I did not have The Right Stuff, but that did not prevent me from developing an avid interest in the technology – the science and math – that made space travel a reality.
Spanning fifty years, from the first human space flight in April 1961, right up through the last space shuttle flight in June 2011, I have, like so many others, watched and marveled at the accomplishments of our NASA scientists and techni-cians. Along with my countrymen, I have shared the disappointment and grief of the few failures, and I have shared the pride of the many successes, even though I had no di- Space Shuttle Discovery.
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Today I find myself with a grand-son inspecting the underside of the left wing of Space Shuttle Dis-covery. I am in awe that this huge vehicle has been into space several times and has safely returned to earth. Now I am so close I can al-most touch it.
I can envision the massive cargo bay doors on top swinging open to make way for the famous robotic arm. I can imagine tethered as-tronauts floating about just above where I stand, risking their lives to inspect the heat shield tiles, over 24,000 of them covering the entire underside of the fuselage and both wings – those tiles alone are a mi-raculous scientific invention.
The tiles are a variety of shapes, most no bigger than a common paver brick. Like a mas-sive jigsaw puzzle, they interlock to form a protective shell for the
bottom of the spacecraft. I have read about the tiles being num-bered to identify their locations on the shuttle. Today, I can see those numbers – clearly. I have not yet figured out the pattern of the numbers, but I am sure there is a pattern and a catalog specify-ing their identity and location.
I first learned of the protective tiles and their special properties during a short seminar in the visi-tor’s gallery at the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida. It was in the late seventies. We were part of a small group in the
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This close-up view of the nose of Discovery shows the thermal tiles cover-ing the underside of the space shuttle
demonstration lab that morning.The technician was dressed in a
long lab coat, and he reminded me of Bill Nye the Science Guy. On a table in the front of the room were several brick-shaped objects that had the appearance of dark gray styrofoam. “Bill” (or whoever he was) explained to us the problem of super intense heat experienced by objects plummeting from space into the earth’s atmosphere.
He told us that a normal rocket or spacecraft would be inciner-ated in seconds unless it could be protected from the heat. He went
on to say that most materials that could be used to build a space craft absorb heat, and when they absorb heat they either melt or burn up. To demonstrate, he took a block of aluminum, placed it in a vice and heated it with a blow torch until it glowed red. Even after removing the flame, the chunk of aluminum continued to glow, and everyone there knew it would be foolish to even consider touching it.
He then subjected a piece of wood and a block of plastic to the same source of heat. The wood caught fire; the plastic melted into a puddle. The image of what he did next has been clearly retained in my
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Discovery was brought to the na-tion’s capital after its retirement to go on display.
The Right Stuff?memory for more than 35 years.
As I stand here now studying the tiles on the bottom of the wing, my recollection of that demonstration provides a powerful dimension of appreciation to what I am seeing. He picked up one of the brick-shaped pieces and passed it among the observers.
It looked and felt like plastic foam. He told us the composition is 95% ultra-high-grade silica fi-bers made from sand. He placed the piece in the vice and subjected it to the same intense heat from the blow torch. It glowed red, much like the aluminum, but it did not catch fire and it did not melt.
He held the heat on it longer. It continued to glow. He turned off the torch and immediately, with his bare hands, removed the chunk, be-ing careful not to touch the hot steel
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Discovery now sits in a huge hangar at the National Air and Space Mu-seum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center.
of the vice. He walked to the front row and handed the block to my five-year-old son. With some ap-prehension he took it and declared, “It’s not hot!” The thermal protec-tion system of the space shuttle is but one of the thousands of inven-tions and innovative solutions de-veloped by and for the American space program.
Discovery is retired here in this huge hangar attached to the Nation-al Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. This center, adjacent to Washington-Dulles In-ternational Airport, is locally known as the Annex to the National Air and Space Museum. The main museum
is, of course, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
This location first opened to the public in late 2003 and now dis-
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Neil Armstrong(August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012)
The Right Stuff?plays over 100 airplanes. Huge is the word that comes to mind upon first entering the Annex. The total complex exceeds three-quarters of a million square feet of display area.
Just a couple of the classic flying machines on display at the Annex are: an Air France Concorde-SST super-sonic passenger jet that tra-versed the Atlantic from Paris to Washington in three hours and for-ty-seven minutes; and Enola Gay, the B-29 Superfortress Bomber credited with ending World War II.
The Udvar-Hazy Center is easily reachable with a drive time of about two hours from the Mid-Shore – provided you choose the right two-hour window to avoid traffic con-gestion around D.C. How long to allow for a visit depends upon the depth to which the visitor chooses to become involved. For most folks the museum can be seen in a few hours, making this another conve-nient day trip from DelMarVa.
Viewing Discovery like this, I am a bit saddened and vividly remind-ed of the passage of time as I con-sider that this splendid vehicle has been relegated to the halls of histor-ical archives, along with the Wright Brothers’ airplane, The Spirit of St. Louis and the Douglas DC-3.
A note of happenstance – I titled and wrote this article in a couple of hours during the afternoon of Saturday, August 25, 2012. I com-
pleted the first draft, printed it out and then turned on the WBOC-TV evening news to catch the weather forecast. First news item – this afternoon at 2:45 p.m., Neil Arm-strong, first man to set foot on the moon, died at the age of 82.
For Neil, and all of us, may all of your travels be happy and safe!
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Thru Oct. 14 Exhibit: Pat Steir - A View will be on display at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. Her work is collected by major museums, including the Contem-porary Museum in Honolulu, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Museum of Mod-ern Art in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, The Solomon R. Guggen-heim Museum in New York, the Tate Gallery in London, and the
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Thru Oct. 14 Exhibit: The Tide-water Camera Club will hold its bi-annual exhibit at the Acad-emy Art Museum, Easton. The exhibit is entitled “1000 Words or Less.. .A Pictorial Essay.” Members challenged themselves to present their best work - well executed compositions with good photographic technical ele-ments. Eighteen photographers will represent the club with a va-riety of artistic visions. For more info. visit the club website at
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1-3 Accepting donations of gen-tly used fall/winter clothing and household items for Christ Church – St. Michaels Parish Fall Rummage Sale. 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-745-9076.
1-Nov. 30 Exhibit: Dance of the
Seasons, a show of Easton artist Katherine Allen’s unique botani-cal images at Adkins Arboretum, Ridgely. There will be a reception on Oct. 27 from 3 to 5 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-634-2847 or visit www.adkinsarboretum.org.
1,8,15 Academy for Lifelong Learn-ing: Financing the Civil War at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. 9 to 10:30 a.m. For more info. tel: 410-745-2916.
1,8,15,22,29 Academy for Life-long Learning: The Civil War - An Overview at the Chesapeake Bay Mar i t ime Museum, St. Michaels. 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
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1,8,22,29 Academy for Lifelong Learning: Public Perceptions of Science at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. 5:30 to 7 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-745-2916.
1,15,22,29 Family Crafts Tot Time at the Talbot County Free Library, St. Michaels. 10:15 a.m. Stories and crafts for children 5 and under accompanied by an adult. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit www.tcfl.org.
1,15 Meeting: Tidewater Camera Club in the Wye Oak Room, Tal-bot Community Center, Easton. 7
p.m. First Monday is a speaker or skills workshop. Third Monday is a photo competition. For more info. visit www.tidewatercam-eraclub.com.
2 Program: Collecting and Propa-gating Native Seeds at Adkins Arboretum, Ridgely. Discover the basics of harvesting, processing, cleaning, storing and propagating seeds with ecologist Dr. Sylvan Kaufman. 1 to 3 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-634-2847 or visit www.adkinsarboretum.org.
2,4,9,11,16,18,23,25,30 Dancing on the Shore every Tuesday and Thursday at the Academy Art Mu-seum, Easton. 7 to 9 p.m. Learn
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2,9,16 Class: Basic Drawing with Katie Cassidy from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit www.academyartmuseum.org.
2,9,16,23,30 First Step Storytime at the Talbot County Free Library, Easton. 10 to 10:30 a.m. For chil-dren 3 and under accompanied by an adult. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit www.tcfl.org.
2,9,16,23,30 Preschool Storytime at the Talbot County Free Library, Easton. 2 to 2:45 p.m. For 3- to 5-year-olds. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit www.tcfl.org.
2,9,16,23,30 Academy for Lifelong Learning: Great Decisions Dis-cussion Program at William Hill Manor, Easton. 10 to 11:30 a.m. For more info. tel: 410-745-2916.
2,9,16,23 Academy for Lifelong Learning: This I Believe at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Muse-um, St. Michaels. 3 to 4:30 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-745-2916.
3 Class: Still Life in Pastel with Katie
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3 Nature as Muse at Adkins Arbo-retum, Ridgely. Each month this writing group will follow a differ-ent winding path through the Ar-boretum to quietly observe nature in detail. 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-634-2847 or visit www.adkinsarboretum.org.
3,10 Academy for Lifelong Learn-ing: Benjamin Franklin - Not Your Usual Founding Father at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. 1 to 2:30 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-745-2916.
3,10,17 Class: Life Drawing and Basic Human Anatomy with Raphael Sassi from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit www.academyartmuseum.org.
3,10,17,24,31 Meeting: Wednes-day Morning Artists meet each Wednesday at 8 a.m. at Creek Deli in Cambridge. No cost. wednesdaymorningartists.com or contact Nancy at [email protected] or 410-463-0148.
3,10,17,24,31 The Farmers’ Market in Easton is held every Wednes-day, offering a variety of fresh fruits, organic vegetables, bison meat & products, sauces, baked goods, flowers, plants and craft items. 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Harrison Street Public Parking Lot, Easton. For more info. tel: 410-822-0065.
3,10,17,24,31 Social Time for Seniors at the St. Michaels Com-munity Center, every Wednesday from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The first Wednesday of the month is always BINGO, the second and fourth are varying activities, and the third is art class. For more info. tel: 410-745-6073.
3,10,17,24,31 St. Michaels Art League’s weekly “Paint Togeth-er” at the home of Alice-Marie Gravely. 1 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-745-8117.
3,10,17,24,31 Senior Games at the Talbot County Free Library, St. Michaels. 1 to 3 p.m. Enjoy Mahjong, Parcheesi, Mexican dominoes and other board games. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit www.tcfl.org.
3,10,17,24,31 Centreville Farmer’s Market from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Courthouse Square. For more info. tel: 410-758-1180 or visit www.townofcentr eville.org.
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3,10,17,24 Academy for Lifelong Learning: Ghosties, Ghoulies and Things That Go Bump in the Night Short Story at the Chesa-peake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. 3 to 4:30 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-745-2916.
3,17 Plant Clinic offered by the University of Maryland Co-operative Extension’s Master Gardeners of Talbot County at the Talbot County Free Library, Easton. 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-1244.
4 Stitch and Chat at the Talbot County Free Library, St. Mi-chaels. Bring your own projects and stitch with a group. 10 a.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit www.tcfl.org.
4 The Oxford Garden Club invites you to the Oxford Community Center for a lecture titled Botani-cal Art: A Continuing Tradition by Pennsylvania botanical artist
Fran Phaneuf. Free. Open to the public. For more info. tel: 410-226-5551.
4,11, Academy for Lifelong Learn-ing: The Windsor Chair - The Most Popular Seating Furniture of the American 18th Century at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. For more info. tel: 410-745-2916.
4,11,18,25 Cambridge Main Street Farmers Market will be open from 3 to 6 p.m. in downtown Cambridge.
4,11,18,25 Kent Island Farmer’s Market from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. at Christ Church, Stevensville. We are a producer-only market featuring raw milk artisan cheeses, yogurt made with local maple and honey, sustainable wild caught seafood, local wheat artisan breads, grass fed beef, local heirloom fruits & vegetables, and produced by farmers from the Chesapeake Bay region. For more info visit www.kentislandf armersmarket.co m.
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5 Opening Reception: Jonathan Shaw, wildlife artist, exhibit at The Artists’ Gallery in Chester-town. 5 to 8 p.m. Shaw is known worldwide for his meticulous renderings of wildlife in acrylic and oil. For more info. tel: 410-778-2425.
5 First Friday Gallery Walk in down-town Easton. 5 to 9 p.m. Easton’s art galleries, antiques shops and restaurants combine for a unique cultural experience. Raffles, gift certificates and street vendors! For more info. tel: 410-770-8350.
5 Chestertown’s First Friday. Ex-tended shop hours with arts and entertainment throughout
historic downtown. For a list of activities visit: www.kentcounty.com/artsentertainment.
5 Dorchester Swingers Square Dance from 7:30 to 10 p.m. at Maple Elementary School, Egypt Rd., Cambridge. Refreshments provided. For more info. tel: 410-820-8620.
5-6 Christ Church – St. Michaels Parish Fall Rummage Sale. Fri., 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Sun., 8 a.m. to noon. Find incredible bargains on fall/winter clothing, kitchen-ware, linens, jewelry, books, art, toys and furniture. For more info. tel: 410-745-9076.
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house Overnight Adventures at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. Program begins at 6 p.m. and ends at 7:30 a.m. the next day. Fees include a dedicated museum facilitator, the cost of program activities, two days admission, souvenir patch and a scenic river cruise aboard the Mister Jim. For more info. tel: 410-745-4941.
5,12,19, Academy for Lifelong Learning: 1783 to 1815 - The Trying Times. 9:30 to 11 a.m. at the Talbot Senior Center, Easton. For more info. tel: 410-745-2916.
5,12,19,26 Bingo! every Friday night at the Easton Volunteer Fire Department on Creamery Lane, Easton. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and games start at 7:30 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-4848.
5,19,26 Workshop: Nature-Inspired Clayworks with Paul Aspell at Ad-kins Arboretum, Ridgely. Check out the website for times and locations. For more info. tel: 410-634-2847 or visit www.ad-kinsarboretum.org.
5-7 A Women’s Event weekend in Easton. This weekend getaway encourages women to reconnect with other women and their own
interests, including enhancing their knowledge of the arts, na-ture and wellness. Along with an array of world-class speakers and classes, there will be time for personal pampering, boutique shopping and exquisite dining. For more info. visit www.awo-mensevent.com or e-mail [email protected].
5-7 30th Mid-Atlantic Small Craft Festival at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. Fri., 5:30 p.m., Sat. and Sun., 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. One of the nation’s premier small craft events with hundreds of amateur and profes-sional boat builders and enthu-siasts from all over the region. There will be demonstrations, workshops and a nautical swap meet on Sunday. For more info. tel: 410-745-5916 or visit www.cbmm.org.
5-7 Wee-Sale Children’s Consign-ment Event at Sailwinds Park, Cambridge. Huge seasonal chil-dren’s consignment sale with a wide selection of toys, clothes, baby gear, maternity clothes, books and more. Fri. & Sat., 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sun., 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. For more info. visit www.Wee-Sale.com.
6 Paint the Town - St. Michaels: Artists will paint throughout St. Michaels starting at 8 a.m. and
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ending at 12:30 p.m. At that time the artists will bring one finished painting and an easel to the middle of town, where judging will begin at 1 p.m. Cash prizes will be awarded and paint-ings will be exhibited and for sale until 2:30 p.m. 20% of all Paint the Town sales will benefit the St. Michaels Art League’s high school art scholarship fund. For more info. visit www.stmichael-sartleague.org.
6 Faith-Fest at St. Luke’s United Methodist Church and Muskrat Park, St. Michaels. Enjoy a day out with family and friends
for music and an arts festival with Christian bands, children’s games, a guest speaker, food vendors, faith-based organiza-tions and much more. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-829-3467 or e-mail [email protected].
6 First Saturday Guided Walk at Adkins Arboretum, Ridgely. Explore the Arboretum’s diverse plant communities on a guided walk led by an Arboretum docent naturalist. 10 a.m. For more info. tel: 410-634-2847, ext. 27.
6 Tails and Trails Dog Walk at Adkins Arboretum, Ridgely. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Celebrate dog
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ownership and help raise money for homeless animals helped by the Caroline County Humane Society. The day features local vendors, refreshments, search & rescue/agility rally course demonstrations, and sponsored dog walks. For more info. tel: 410-820-1600 or visit www.carolinehumane.org.
6 Trappe-toberFEST at the park in downtown Trappe from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Features a day of free family-oriented entertainment. A variety of food vendors pre-pare tempting food and treats to purchase. For more info. tel:
410-476-3170 or visit www.trappemd.net.
6 10th Annual East New Market Heritage Day at 11 a.m. Come cel-ebrate with East New Market by enjoying gospel music, liturgical dancing, ancestry presentations and sampling Pensacola Samp-son’s famous “Tomato Pudding,” as well as many other East New Market culinary specialties. Faith Community United Methodist Church is located on Shiloh-Rhodesdale Road, at the corner of Routes 14 and 392, in East New Market.
6 Kent County Waterman’s Crab Feast at the Rock Hall Volunteer Fire Company, Rock Hall. Noon to 5 p.m. $25/person, 10 and under free. All you can eat #1 crabs, corn on the cob, raw oys-ters, homemade crab soup, hot dogs, dessert. Beer, mixed drinks and sodas will be sold separately. Proceeds to benefit the Kent County Waterman’s Association Scholarship Fund. For more info. tel: 410-708-8648.
6 Oxford’s 4th Annual Picket Fence Auction at the Oxford Commu-nity Center from 4 to 6 p.m. All of the Oxford picket fences are painted by local artists and were on display throughout the Town of Oxford through mid-Septem-ber. Half of the profits from this
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6 MRYC Foundation Awards Din-ner Fundraiser at the Miles River Yacht Club, St. Michaels. “Champions of the Chesapeake” - honoring Chesapeake maritime artist Marc Castelli and the First Around the Americas sailor Matt Rutherford from 6 to 9:30 p.m. The event includes a reception, Chesapeake dinner, silent and live auctions and visual presenta-tions. $100 per person. Proceeds
to benefit grants for Chesapeake Bay youth-oriented maritime non-profit programs. For more info. tel: 410-921-6792.
6,13,20,27 The Farmers’ Market in Easton is held every Saturday un-til December. Over 20+ vendors offering a variety of fresh fruits, organic vegetables, bison meat & products, sauces, baked goods, flowers, plants and craft items. 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Harrison Street Public Parking Lot, Easton. Live music most Saturdays. For more info. tel: 410-822-0065.
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Farmers offer fresh fruits and vegetables, meats, cut flowers, potted plants, breads and pas-tries, cow’s milk cheeses, orchids, eggs and honey. We also host events and activities throughout the season, including our Chef at Market events and a community cook-off. For more info. e-mail: [email protected].
6,13,20,27 Historic High Street Walking Tour - Experience the beauty and hear the folklore of Cambridge’s High Street. Learn about the people who lived there, their homes, churches and com-mercial ventures. One-hour walking tours are sponsored by
the non-profit West End Citizens Association and are accompanied by colonial-garbed docents. $8 (children under 12 free). 11 a.m. at Long Wharf, Cambridge, weather permitting. For more info. tel: 410-901-1000.
6-7 The Nathan of Dorchester will give free boat rides all day during Patuxent River Apprecia-tion Days at the Calvert Marine Museum in Solomons Island, Maryland, the Nathan’s home-away-from-home on the other side of the Chesapeake Bay. For more info. tel: 410-228-7141 or visit www.skipjack-nathan.org.
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Apprentice for a Day Public Boat Building at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. Learn traditional Chesapeake boat building techniques under the direction of a CBMM ship-wright. For more info. tel: 410-745-2916.
7 Program: Foraging in Fall at Adkins Arboretum, Ridgely. Im-merse yourself in the exciting, sustainable, a nutritious world of foraging for wild plants with Bill Schindler. 1 to 3 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-634-2847 or visit www.adkinsarboretum.org.
7 The Talbot Cinema Society will present Sleeper (1973) at the Avalon Theatre, Easton. To join for the 2012-2013 season, simply send your check for $45 ($90/couple) to: Talbot Cinema Society, P.O. Box 222, Easton, MD 21601. For more info. e-mail [email protected].
7 Blessing of the Animals at 4 p.m. on the lawn of Christ Church, St. Michaels. All pets are welcome! For more info. tel: 410-745-9076.
8 Academy for Lifelong Learning: Memoir Writing Club at the Ches-apeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-745-2916.
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9 Tuesday Movie at Noon at the Talbot County Free Library, St. Michaels. The Vow. Bring your lunch or a snack and enjoy the film. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit www.tcfl.org
9,23 Meeting: Tidewater Stamp Club at the Mayor and Council Bldg., Easton. 7:30 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-1371.
10 Meeting: Talbot Optimist Club at the Washington Street Pub, Easton. 6:30 p.m. For more info. e-mail [email protected].
11 Dracula is Dead: Visit Romania through American Eyes with Jim Rosapepe, former US ambas-sador to Romania, at the Talbot County Free Library, Easton. 5:30 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit www.tcfl.org.
11 Book Club at the Talbot County Free Library, St. Michaels. 1493 by Charles C. Mann. 5:30 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit www.tcfl.org.
11 Concert: The Mid-Atlantic Sym-phony Orchestra will open its 2012-2013 season at the Easton Church of God with a pre-concert talk at 6:30 p.m. and concert at 7:30 p.m. For more info tel: 888-846-8600 or visit www.midatlanticsymphony.org.
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memoir writing class at the Talbot County Free Library, St. Michaels. 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Learn how to preserve your family’s stories. Patrons are invited to bring their lunch. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit www.tcfl.org.
12 Workshop: First Detector Train-ing for Insect and Disease Pests of Plants at Adkins Arboretum, Ridgely. 1 to 3 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-634-2847 or visit www.adkinsarboretum.org.
12-13 The Historical Society of Talbot County and Preservation Maryland join for Heritage Days. On Fri. from 6 to 8 p.m. there will be a free art reception in the HSTC Auditorium. Submissions will be by local youth depict-ing “Talbot County – A Special Place.” On Sat., the festivities will begin with the 2nd Annual Traditional Crafts Fair from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the garden of the Historical Society. The day will end with a fundraiser at historic Wheatlands, on the Miles River. For more info. tel: 410-822-0773 or visit www.hstc.org.
13,27 Country Church Breakfast at Faith Chapel & Trappe United Methodist Churches in Wesley Hall, Trappe. 7:30 to 10:30 a.m.
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Menu: eggs, pancakes, French toast, sausage, scrapple, hash browns, grits, sausage gravy and biscuits, juice and coffee. TUMC is also the home of “Martha’s Closet” Yard Sale and Community Outreach Store, which is always open during the breakfast and also every Wednesday from 8:30 a.m. to noon.
13 Horn Point Spat Dash race from 8 a.m. to noon. Walking, 5K and 10K races on the Horn Point cam-pus along the Choptank River will draw more than 250 racers. Pro-ceeds will benefit environmental education programs. For more info. tel: 410-221-8316 or visit www.active.com.
13 Landscape Design Workshop at Adkins Arboretum, Ridgely. 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. This workshop will address the typical challenges of homeowners in the Chesapeake Bay region. For more info. tel: 410-634-2847 or visit www.ad-kinsarboretum.org.
13 Horn Point Community Open House from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., in Cambridge. The Horn Point laboratory is renowned for its study of marine ecosystems. The theme of this year’s event is “The Bay and Beyond” and features investigations by the laboratory’s scientists in the Chesapeake Bay and coastal areas around the
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13 Holiday Shopping Galleria at the Kent County Community Center in Worton. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. $5 admission. 25 specialty bou-tiques from around the country and regional artisans offering unique gifts, clothing, pet goodies, scarves, food items, artwork, pot-tery, children’s toys, clothes and much more. Cafe lunch available. To benefit Kent Youth, Inc. and Shared Opportunity Service, Inc. For more info. visit www.kenty-outh.com/specialevents.htm.
13 Second Saturday Guided Walk at Adkins Arboretum, Ridgely. 1 p.m. Come on a unique journey toward understanding native plants and how they can become a greater part of your home garden. For more info. tel: 410-634-2847, ext. 0. or visit www.adkinsarbo-retum.org.
13 Second Saturday in Historic Downtown Cambridge on Race, Poplar, Muir and High streets. Shops will be open late. Galleries will be opening new shows and holding receptions. Restaurants will feature live music. For more info. visit www.cambridgemain-street.com.
13 2nd Saturday at the Foundry at 401 Market St., Denton. Watch local artists demonstrate their talents. 2 to 4 p.m. Free. For more info. tel: 410-479-1009.
13 Old-Fashioned Hymn Sing at Waters United Methodist Churh, Oxford. 3 p.m. Leading the ecumenical hymn sing will be the combined choirs of Waters and Holy Trinity Episcopal Churches. and an ensemble from the Union Baptist Church, Easton. For more info. tel: 410-226-5737.
13-14 Hot Sauce and Oyster Fes-tival in Cambridge, sponsored by Crabi Gras. Enjoy freshly shucked oysters and a variety
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13,20,27 Skipjack Sail on the Na-
than of Dorchester, 1 to 3 p.m., Long Wharf, Cambridge. Adults $30; children 6-12 $10; under 6 free. Reservations online at www.skipjack-nathan.org. For more info. tel: 410-228-7141.
14 Pancake Breakfast at the Oxford Volunteer Fire Dept. 8 to 11 a.m. Proceeds to benefit the Oxford
Volunteer Fire Services. $8. For more info. tel: 410-226-5110.
14 Copper Bracelet Workshop at Adkins Arboretum, Ridgely. Cre-ate your own power bracelet with instruction and guidance from renowned local artist Sue Stock-man. 1 to 3 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-634-2847 or visit www.adkinsarboretum.org.
14,21 One-Hour Skipjack Sails on the Nathan of Dorchester, 11 a.m. & 12:30 p.m., Long Wharf, Cambridge. Adults $15; children 6-12 $7; under 6 free. Reserva-tions online at www.skipjack-nathan.org. For more info. tel: 410-228-7141.
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15 Meeting: St. Michaels Art League at the Parish Hall of Christ Epis-copal Church, St. Michaels. 9:30 a.m. Presentation by Nancy Barch on mixed media and col-lage. For more info. visit www.stmichaelsartleague.org.
15 Stitching Time at the Talbot County Free Library, Easton. 3 p.m. Join a group and work on your needlecraft projects. Lim-ited instruction for beginners. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit www.tcfl.org.
17-19 Patient Art Show and Sale at the Eastern Shore Hospital
Center in Cambridge. The show will feature work of disabled and mentally ill children youth and adults. For more info. tel: 410-221-2358.
17-20 Hunter’s Safety Course at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. To pur-chase a hunting license or to hunt in Maryland, state law re-quires you successfully complete a hunter’s safety course. This course includes instruction in hunter responsibility, firearms and ammunition, firearm han-dling and safety, marksmanship and shooting fundamentals, principles of wildlife manage-ment, bow hunting, muzzleloader
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hunting, tree stand safety, first aid, water safety, and Maryland legal requirements. Firearms are provided. For more info. about times and registration tel: 410-745-4947.
17,24,31 Academy for Lifelong Learning: The Legal Process at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. 1 to 2:30 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-745-2916.
18 Academy For Lifelong Learning: A Real Field Trip to Easton/New-nam Field at the Easton Airport. 10 a.m. to noon. For more info. tel: 410-745-2916.
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18,25 Academy for Lifelong Learn-ing: Practicing the Presence - The Spiritual Art of Living in the Here and Now at Trinity Cathedral, Easton. 10:30 a.m. to noon. For more info. tel: 410-745-2916.
18-21,26-28, Nov. 2-4 The Tred Avon Players presents the comi-cal spoof of the spy thriller mov-ies of the Cold War era, Red Herring written by Michael Hol-linger. All performances are at the Oxford Community Center, beginning with the Thrifty Thurs-day Preview at 7 p.m. on October 18. Other performances are Fri-days and Saturdays, October 19, 20, 26, 27, and November 2 and 3 at 8 p.m., Sundays, October 21, 28, and November 4 at 2 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-226-0061 or visit www.tredavonplayers.org.
19 Academy for Lifelong Learning: Take a cruise to visit to Poplar Island. 9 a.m. to noon. Depar-ture from Tilghman Island. For
more info. tel: 410-745-2916.
19 Soup Day at the St. Michaels Community Center. Choose from three delicious soups for lunch. $6 meal deal. Choose from Chicken & Dumplings, Cheese & Broccoli or Vegetable Beef. Each meal comes with a bowl of soup, a roll and a drink. Take out or eat in! We deliver in St. Michaels. For more info. tel:410-745-6073.
19 Academy for Lifelong Learning: Meet the Author Series - Anne Colwell at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. 1 to 2:30 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-745-2916.
19 Maritime Monster Mash at Chesa-peake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. 6 to 9 p.m. Join the Museum for some spooky family fun with judging for the best cos-tumes, games, and trick or treats at various exhibits. Enjoy live music, a DJ for dancing, compli-mentary food and soft drinks and some storytelling about ghosts in
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19-20 33rd Annual Chestertown Wildlife Exhibition and Sale throughout downtown Chester-town with 40+ carvers, photog-raphers, painters and artists. There will be live music, regional foods, talks and demonstrations, and live raptors. There will be a Wine and Beer Tasting from 1 to 4 p.m. on Saturday in Fountain Park. For more info. tel: 410-810-4898 or visit www.chester-townwildlife.org.
19-21 2012 Craft Show at the Acad-emy Art Museum, Easton. The
15th annual show will spotlight many finely crafted items by more than 65 national artists. Fea-tured items will include unusual, handmade and unique decorative home accessories, furniture and wearable art items. There will be a Preview Party on Friday from 6 to 9 p.m. Show hours are Sat. from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sun. from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The show will be located in both the Academy Art Museum and the Waterfowl Building. This is one of the major fundraisers for the Academy Art Museum. For more info. tel: 410-822-2787 or visit www.academyartmuseum.org.
19-21 The 7th Annual Cambridge
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Schooner Rendezvous at Long Wharf, Cambridge. Try a dock-side tour aboard a schooner at this gathering of stately ships from all over the country. Take a day sail, and enjoy delicious local fare. Enjoy listening to maritime musical entertainment and pur-chasing one-of-a-kind maritime-related items. Sit down for a tasty Eastern Shore dinner with the Captain and crew on Saturday evening. For further info. tel: 410-221-1871 or visit www.cam-bridgeschoonerrendezvous.com.
19-21,26-28 Fall Into St. Michaels is an annual event dedicated to celebrating the fall season. There will be many family-oriented activities over a two-weekend period. Some of the events in-clude a pumpkin carving contest, Halloween parade, ghost tours of St. Michaels and much more. For more info. and schedule of events tel: 410-745-0411 or visit www.saintmichaelsmd.org.
20 Yard Sale sponsored by the Caro-line County 4-H from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Caroline County 4-H Park, Denton. For more info. tel: 410-310-8934.
20 The Power of Presence day or half-day of meditation at Third Haven Friends Meeting House, Easton. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-430-2005 or visit www.stillpointmeditation.org.
20 Bark in the Park - Talbot Hu-mane’s 3rd annual Bark in the Park family festival will feature even more activities for people and pets with a 10k run and 5k fun run/walk, a dog walk, fun dog show, a PAWrade of adopt-able dogs, police K9 units and much more. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Idlewild Park, Easton. For more info. tel: 410-822-0107 or visit www.talbothumane.org.
20 Fall Soup ’n Walk at Adkins Arboretum, Ridgely. 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Look for signs of fall along the meadow edges and
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seek out mushrooms in the cool fall forest. Menu: carrot ginger soup, asparagus and red pepper salad, barley oat wheat bread, and cranberry apple pie. For more info. tel: 410-634-2847 or visit www.adkinsarboretum.org.
20-21 An Arboretum Campout for children and families at Adkins Arboretum, Ridgely. Beginning at 5 p.m. on Saturday. Enjoy a fall campout under the stars. For more info. tel: 410-634-2847 or visit www.adkinsarboretum.org.
22 Book Discussion at the Talbot County Free Library, Easton.
5:30 p.m. True North: Exploring the Great Wilderness by Bush Plane by Dr. George Erickson. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit www.tcfl.org.
23 Academy for Lifelong Learning: Great Conservatives of the 19th Century at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. 10:30 a.m. to noon. For more info. tel: 410-745-2916.
23 Halloween Crafts at the Talbot County Free Library, St. Mi-chaels. 4 p.m. For all ages. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit www.tcfl.org.
24 Halloween Crafts at the Talbot
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County Free Library, Easton. 3 to 4:45 p.m. For all ages. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit www.tcfl.org.
25-27 1812 Graveyard Candlelight Tour sponsored by the Dorchester Center for the Arts. Tour a historic Cambridge graveyard by candle-light and learn about Dorchester County history from around the time of the War of 1812. 5 to 7 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. nightly. Get more details and reserve through the Dorchester Center for the Arts at 410-228-7782.
26-28 Sultana Projects Down-rigging Weekend Tall Ship & Wooden Boat Festival in Chester-
town. Downrigging Weekend is one of the largest annual wooden boat festivals on the East Coast, attracting thousands of visitors each fall to see and sail on a fleet of historic wooden ships, see performances by world-class mu-sicians, attend lectures and much more. For a full schedule and more details tel: 410-778-5954 or visit www.sultanaprojects.org.
27 Workshop: Designing for Wa-terfront Landscapes at Adkins Arboretum, Ridgely. 10 a.m. to noon. Join landscape designer and native plant enthusiast Chris Pax for a look at plants that are good for waterfront landscape conditions and to review some of the special
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rules and regulations that may ap-ply to your county. For more info. tel: 410-634-2847 or visit www.adkinsarboretum.org.
27 The Federalsburg Historical Soci-ety will sponsor its annual Heritage Day and Open House from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Federalsburg Area Heritage Museum featuring speakers John Creighton and Pat Lewis. For more info. visit www.historicfederalsburg.org.
27 All You Can Eat Pig Roast and Crab Feast at the St. Michaels Volunteer Fire Dept. Noon to 6 p.m. Food served until 5 p.m.
$30 in advance/$35 at the door. There will be hot steamed crabs, roasted pig, all the fixin’s, cold beer and soda, along with a DJ for entertainment. For more info. tel: 410-745-2079.
28 Bird Walk at Blackwater Nation-al Wildlife Refuge, Cambridge. 8 a.m. Join an experienced naturalist for a bird watching field trip around Blackwater. See songbirds, waterfowl, waders, birds of prey and more. Meet at the Blackwater Visitor Center. No charge. For more info. tel: 410-228-2677.
30 Puppet Show at the Talbot Coun-ty Free Library, St. Michaels, fea-
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turing an original production by Miss Carla. 4 p.m. For all ages. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit www.tcfl.org.
30-Dec. 4 Class: Brushing Up in Oils with Matthew Hillier on Tuesdays from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS(2787) or visit www.academyartmuseum.org.
30-Dec. 4 Class: Advanced Pot-ter’s Wheel with Paul Aspell on Tuesdays from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit www.academyartmuseum.org.
31-Dec. 5 Class: Introduction to Clay with Paul Aspell on Wednes-days from 3:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit www.academy-artmuseum.org.
31-Dec. 5 Class: Intermediate/Advanced Clay Extruder with Pa-mela Hagerhorst on Wednesdays from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit www.academy-artmuseum.org.
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