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Tidewater TimesSeptember 2011
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Tidewater TimesSince 1952, Eastern Shore of Maryland
Features:About the Cover Photographer: Middleton Evans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7Elvis at the Slots: Helen Chappell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9The Same Old Grind: Dick Cooper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25Memory Swims the Tuckahoe: Bill Peak . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47Eastern Neck National Wildlife Refuge: Bonna Nelson . . . . . . . . 59Tidewater Gardening: K. Marc Teffeau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77Tidewater Traveler: George W. Sellers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137Tidewater Kitchen: Pamela Meredith-Doyle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147Gifts from the Land and Water: Mary Syrett . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157The Curious Thing That Happened: Gary D. Crawford . . . . . 167Tidewater Review: Anne Stinson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
David C. Pulzone, Publisher · Anne B. Farwell, EditorP. O. Box 1141, Easton, Maryland 21601
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Vol. 60, No. 4 September 2011
Departments:September Tide Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43Caroline County - A Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71Kent County and Chestertown at a Glance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73Queen Anne’s County Invites You! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75Dorchester Points of Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89Easton Points of Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99St. Michaels Points of Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108Oxford Points of Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127Tilghman History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135September Calendar of Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
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Traveling to the continent’s wild perimeter in search of glorious North American waterbirds… this was the adventure of a lifetime. Maryland photographer, Middleton Evans, made 38 trips over a five-year period to complete his “wish list” of alluring species, captivating behaviors and pristine habitats.
In all, Evans encountered 180 spe-cies on trips to thirteen states and Canada, Mexico and the Bahamas. A remarkable trip to Florida in 1998 inspired the project with ten days of daily surprises, including a Great Blue Heron grappling a plump muskrat.
On a wing and a prayer, Evans dropped his current Baltimore project and dreamed up shots to fill a unique coffee table book celebrating North America’s waterbirds at their finest.
Highlights include: an unusually friendly King Eider, dancing West-ern Grebes, inquisitive Brown Boo-bies, a preening Roseate Spoonbill and huddling American Flamingo chicks. Yet nothing would eclipse climbing into a Bald Eagle nest on Middleton Island, Alaska! An intro-duction describes how Middleton’s odyssey became a spiritual journey, punctuated by arduous hikes, fre-quent perils, joyous camaraderie and moments of sheer epiphany.
About the Cover PhotographerMiddleton Evans
Middleton will be autographing copies of Rhapsody in Blue at the News Center in Easton on Friday, November 11th from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. during the first day of the Waterfowl Festival. The book may also be ordered from his website, www.ravenwoodpress.com which features galleries of his favorite im-ages of Maryland and beyond, as well as a handsome 2012 Maryland wall calendar.
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The Traveling Brushes will be exhibiting their paintings at
The Old Brick Inn, 401 S. Talbot Street, St. Michaels, July 11th through October 4th.
The Traveling Brushes came into being in 1984 when Martha Hudson, one of the artists, was offered a cottage in Tylerton on Smith Island in the Chesapeake Bay. The dwelling slept six, so she selected five other women
to share the painting trip. These artists, at the conclusion of their stay, dis-covered that when they had been painting, critiquing, sharing and laugh-ing together, something special had been happening... the rest is history!
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Elvis at the Slotsby
Helen Chappell
Doug Church as Elvis
So, anyway, my friend Terri won some tickets to see Doug Church, an Elvis tribute artist, at Midway Slots in Harrington, and she knew I would want to go. It’s not the first time we’ve been to see an Elvis
tribute artist; a few years ago, we saw Quentin (just Quentin) at the Avalon.
Elvis is a hobby of mine. I en-joy meditating on the deeper phi-losophy and zeitgeist of American
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culture reflected in the icon that is the King of Rock and Roll, and the morality play that is the life and strange times of America’s Protes-tant saint. I also enjoy his status as the God of Excess in his Vegas incarnation, as well as the great en-tertainer who brought us great rock ‘n’ roll.
Every five minutes in the world, someone is putting on a white spar-kly jumpsuit and a pair of aviator shades, the unmistakable icons of Elvising, recognizable to everyone. Classic in his ’70s rebel incarna-tion.
Since the King’s death, ironi-cally on his throne, he has become
all things to all people, as well as a cash machine for the heavily li-tigious Elvis Presley Enterprises, which owns his rights. Dying was the best career move Elvis could have made.
But, when you turn away from ponderous thoughts on the Deeper Meaning of Elvis in American Cul-ture, you may also enjoy the strange and endearing phenomenon of the Elvis tribute artist. It’s not my job to contemplate why people do this. It’s my self-appointed mission from God to see as many Elvis im-personators as I can conveniently fit into my budget before I die.
Impersonator. It’s an ugly word in the Elvising field. They prefer tribute artist. Some of them are
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pretty bad; some of them are very, very good. Accordingly, I’ve decid-ed to award them rankings. More Gracelands, more talent and ambi-ence.
Doug Church, from somewhere in New Jersey, was our targeted Elvis of this particular evening at Midway. With Terri’s husband, Tab, as our wheelman and personal security, we set off in high spirits across the peninsula.
I haven’t been in a casino in forty years, so I was in for some culture shock. The last time I went to the slots was in Atlantic City, a few years after the casinos were opened. They had the classic one-
armed bandits many people of a certain age will recall fondly from their Maryland youth.
Back in the day, almost every private club on the Shore, and a few public places around Laurel, had the classic slot. You dropped in a coin, pulled a lever and little pic-tures rolled into the viewfinder. If you got, say, two or more pictures of cherries, you won some money. Lemons, you lost. All quite easy, and quite hypnotic to play. Drop coin, pull arm, pictures come up, coins come out, or no coins.
Well, all that’s changed in today’s high tech computerized world. The slots, acres and acres of them, have beautiful cartoony graphics, but for the life of us, Terri and I couldn’t
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Terri and I won $3 and change. I think Tab won more.
We’re not high rollers, obviously, but we enjoyed the free buffet, and I spotted Cletus Spuckler from The Simpsons at the next table. Brush with greatness! Deep-fried every-thing! Margaritas!
So, anyway, Elvis/Doug Church was playing in the Gold Room. Why do people always name audi-toriums the Gold Room? It was a packed house, and I was fascinated to note that Tab and Terri were the youngest people there, and I was
Elvis at the Slots almost a young person. Most of the audience was comprised of helmet-coiffed blue-headed ladies of an age old enough to have swooned when the real Elvis was gyrating on the Ed Sullivan Show. Apparently, the casinos run buses from all the beach hotels to pick up the gam-blers. It’s a whole different world.
When Church took the stage, I was impressed. He had captured the essence of Elvis with the hair, the sideburns and the sneer. He had all the good Elvis moves, and a white, highly embroidered Elvis jumpsuit complete with chains and glittering studs.
Okay, so anyone can put on a white jumpsuit. But he also had a four piece band and backup sing-
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ers, and he sang live. I subtract four Gracelands for lip-synching. It’s cheesy. And his band was re-ally good. He had all the Elvis patter down, in the Elvis manner, and he chose many songs that weren’t quite hits, but hadn’t been done to death by other Elvisers.
My favorite part, after a cou-ple of margaritas, was when his stagehand brought out the scarves. Now, as any serious stu-dent of Elvis knows, the King al-ways gave out scarves. He’d drape ’em around his neck, get his sweat and makeup on them, then hand them out to fans. No self-respect-
Elvis with his jumpsuit and scarf.
Elvis at the Slots ing Elvis would skip this gesture. It was fun watching the older la-
dies come up to the stage and get their scarves, and they’d be so de-lighted when they got one, as if El-vis himself had come back from the dead just for them. That’s a fan.
So I’d give Doug Church five and a half Gracelands out of a possible six. And only Elvis would get six.
After the concert, we tried our hands at the slots, as I said. Tab was focused on his, but Terri and I got really bored, so we sat at the bar next to him. Then I got a wheelchair and wheeled myself around the casi-no for entertainment. I’m surprised the goons didn’t toss me out.
Now, these casinos are thick with security people in uniforms. And, of course, they have the eye in the sky, where bigger security monitors the action, looking for cheats, card counters and what-ever other sins you can try to com-mit while gambling. Then they have these guys who sort of walk purposefully around from time to time. They’re all huge, six feet and over, with shaved heads and huge jaws and ill-fitting black suits. And you just know, from watching too much TV, these are the goon squad, the real heavy lifters who take care of serious transgres-sions. When I saw them, I knew I wanted a goon or two of my own. A couple of tough guys who would just follow me around. No special reason. I just think it would be
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cool to have my own goon squad. One of the little old ladies at the
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I have a new mission. Go to Do-ver and check out their Elvis! It’s good to have a purpose in life.
Helen Chappell is the creator of the Sam and Hollis mystery series and the Oysterback stories, as well as The Chesapeake Book of the Dead. Under her pen name, Rebecca Bald-win, she has published a number of historical novels.
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The Same Old Grind at theWye Grist Mill
byDick Cooper
Jim Casey monitors the mill.
Jim Casey reaches into a small opening at the base of the spinning millstone and pulls out a sample of ground corn. He rubs the meal between his thumb and forefinger, testing its texture. “A miller can tell if it is too coarse or too fine by feel,” says Casey, a volunteer miller
at the Wye Grist Mill in historic Wye Mills. “That’s where you get the expression ‘Rule of Thumb.’” For Casey and the dozen other volunteers who bring the 329-year-old mill to life for visitors, it is more than an old building in an idyllic setting. It is a window into the past where you
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Grist Millcan catch a glimpse of a time when the Eastern Shore was a very remote part of a young nation.
“The mill was the center of in-formation,” says Casey, who lives near the Queen A nne’s Count y crossroads of Starr. “When the miller would receive a shipment of supplies from Annapolis or Balti-more, it would include broadsides and newspapers. That’s how local folks found out what was going on in the rest of the world.”
A mill has stood at this northern branch of the Wye River East since the earliest times of colonial Mary-land. Parts of the current white clapboard building that sits hard
on the edge of Old Wye Mills Road, just south of Chesapeake College, date to 1682 when the mill opened for business.
“See some of these beams,” Casey says, pointing to the thick wooden supports in the ceiling. “They were hand-hewn using an adz. Those over there show signs of being cut with a vertical saw and others have the marks of a circular saw.” The different cutting marks show the gradual progress of technology from hand tools to saws powered by the mill’s waterwheel.
The mill is now owned by the Friends of Wye Mill, Inc., a non-profit organization that keeps it open and operating to showcase the history of milling and its im-
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The Old Wye Mill and waterwheel in Wye Mills, MD.
portance to the community and the growth of the nation.
The ownership of the mill has changed hands numerous times through the ages, according to a time line documented by mill vol-unteers. During the colonial times the Bennett and Lloyd families, who were some of the largest landown-ers of the era, owned it. Frequently, the mill was leased out to master millers. By 1778, the Lloyds’ plan-tation manager, William Hemsley, took ownership of the mill and contracted with the Continental
Congress to supply f lour to General Washington’s troops.
Casey says that when the mill was built, the small shallow wood-land stream t hat r uns nex t to the mill was a navigable body of water. Bateaus were loaded with 200-pound wooden barrels of f lour and f loated downstream to Emer-son’s Landing, now Wye Landing, where they were loaded onto wait-ing sailing ships.
The Wye Mill is a local landmark in more ways than one. In 1706, Queen Anne’s County was cut out of Kent and Talbot counties and the mill is the remaining mark of
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Mural of the early mill showing the waterways to the Wye River.
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the Talbot-Queen Anne’s boundary.“The boundary is technically the
mill race,” Casey says, adding that it has f luctuated north and south as the raceway changes course.
To show how the mill has changed over time, Casey points out the steep set of stairs that leads to the attic. “A worker would carry a 100-pound sack of grain up the stairs, stopping at the fourth step from the top. There he would turn and pitch the sack into the attic.” That step is heavily worn, showing the effect of the mill worker’s thick boot as he pivoted on it.
But in 1790, that all changed, thanks to one of America’s great
inventors, Oliver Evans, who lived in Tuckahoe at the time. Casey says that the Wye Mill was an early adaptor of Evans’ revolutionary new method of moving grain around a mill. Instead of hauling the sacks to a bolter – a large sieve in the attic – and letting gravity feed it into the mill, the grain was dumped down a first-f loor trap into a basement bin. Scoops, attached to a continuous belt, carried the grain up to the attic, eliminating the need for the muscle-bound worker to climb the stairs.
Evans, a native of Newport, Dela-ware, patented his factory automa-tion techniques and holds Patent #3, issued by the newly formed United States of America. Among
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his inventions was the horizontal auger, a large screw-like device used to move grain in troughs around the mill. It is a design still in use and will be familiar to anyone with a refrigerator with an automatic ice cube dispenser in the door.
As Casey gives a guided tour of the mill, the constant whirring of the millstone adds historic back-ground noise. “Once the mill is operating, the miller can do other things, but you will hear it if some-thing is not right,” he says.
The mill is also a museum to the art of turning grains into soft breads. One exhibit is a hand-
cranked mill similar to one used by the Romans. Another is a simple stone-on-stone hand mill used by Native Americans to grind corn.
“These were found all over the Eastern Shore,” Casey says. “But these didn’t originally come from here. Most of these came from the
Indian grindstones
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Susquehanna River valley. How would you like to walk up there and carry these stones back with you?”
The mill’s waterwheel was used to harness power for other mechan-ical processes of the colonial days, he says. One of those was “fulling.” The wool and linen fabrics of the
day were often too stiff and coarse for human comfort. A fulling mill attachment was basically a couple of wooden hammers that pounded the fabrics until they were more pliable. The process was called full-ing, tucking or walking. The people who did the work became known as Fullers, Tuckers and Walkers. When a vertical saw was powered
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The “rule of thumb.”
by the mill, the workers who cut the lumber became known as Sawyers.
Casey says many common say-ings have their roots in the miller’s trade. “At harvest time, everyone would show up at the mill at the same time,” he says. “You would have to get in line and ‘wait your turn’ of the stone. People gathered
at the mill were said to be ‘milling about.’ If you wanted your f lour the same way as last time, you would tell the miller you wanted ‘the same old grind.’”
In a history of the mill, Casey wrote that the state acquired the mill and the 15-acre pond in the mid-1950s to preserve the mill and turn the pond into a fishing lake. Two hurricanes in 1955 broke the dam and damaged the mill. It was Flour sack from the old mill.
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rebuilt and began milling cornmeal again in 1959.
In 1996, the mill was turned over to the Friends of Wye Mill, Inc. by the state, and the group has been running it ever since.
Casey says area schoolchildren are frequent visitors. “Kids like to grind things,” he says. “We used to give them a small bag of f lour at the end of their visit, but we had to stop that. The bags turned into f lour bombs on the bus ride back to school.”
The Wye Grist Mill is at 14296 Old Wye Mills Road (Rt. 662) in Wye Mills, Maryland. It is open to the public from mid-April to
mid-November from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Saturday and from 1 to 4 p.m. on Sunday. A $2 donation is suggested. Fresh milled f lour and meal are for sale in the mill gift shop. For informa-tion about group tours, contact the mill office at 410-827-3850 or e-mail [email protected]. More information about the mill and its history are on its website at www.oldwyemill.org.
Dick Cooper is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. He and his wife, Pat, live and sail in St. Mi-chael s, Mar yland. He can be reached at [email protected].
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Memory Swims the Tuckahoeby
Bill Peak
Fishing was one of Dad’s favorite pastimes.
This morning I lost the last of Dad’s lures. I didn’t think of it that way at the time. When I cut the line, I said good-bye to a fa-vorite plug, nothing more. It was only after the fish had slipped back into the water, turned pale and vanished into the green depths, that I realized the lure still attached to its jaw was the
last of those I’d inherited from my father. It was a plug he must have cared for and used, taken off and put on, who knows how many times.
I’m not really much of a fisher-man. Dad was. Dad was a great fisherman. The last photograph we have of him before Alzheim-er’s robbed his looks of intelli-
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gence and personality shows him fishing – jaw set, eyes happy, the look of a man doing something he loves, something that requires all of his attention, all of his heart. Of course I looked up to him. He was, I suppose, for me, something of a minor god. I’ll never forget the thing our guide said about him that day, the way he said it, the way he looked not at me when he said it, but at my father.
He was a Native American, the guide, the first I had ever met – big, handsome, distant and taci-turn – everything, in other words, that a little boy in that day and age could have wanted in his first
real live Indian. It seemed per-fectly fitting to me that he should be our guide. Naturally enough, he would know about secret plac-es. Naturally enough, he would know about places hidden away in the forest that no white man could possibly know of. The only thing I found surprising (indeed remarkable) was that my father had managed to talk him into showing us one; somehow my father had convinced an Indian to lead us to a place only Indi-ans knew of, a secret lake where he said we might catch German brown trout.
All these years later, I can still remember the wild drive we took that day, the last mile or so over
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We stopped, as I remember it, beside a small stand of white birch – new growth, none of the
trees more than ten feet high. Before us the ground fell away steeply to form the nearer slope of a small valley. At the upper end of this valley stood the first beaver dam I had ever seen, the lake it enclosed, and, on the slopes surrounding the lake, a mixed woods of birch and some darker species of tree.
I think Dad said something. It would have been like him – by then he would have been regret-ting any doubts he’d had about our guide, would have wanted to make amends, maybe say some-thing about the beauty of the place he had led us to. But if he did speak, I don’t think the Indi-an answered him. In my memory
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he remains entirely silent. And it was then, I think, that a por-tion of the admiration I felt for my father was transferred to the man sitting beside him, the guide hunched forward over his steer-ing wheel, looking down at the valley as if seeing it for the first time.
We didn’t catch any trout that day, didn’t catch anything as I remember it. We were com-pletely skunked, but, still, it was a fine day. We fished from the top of the dam, the lake spread-ing out dark and mysterious be-fore us, the air full of the sound and smell of water moving fast, escaping here and there through the carefully constructed lattice-work beneath our feet.
A family of red-headed wood-peckers must have lived among the drowned trees protruding from the lake’s surface, for I seem to remember the flash of a head, the blue-black of a body, as one of the adults moved in grace-
ful parabola from tree to tree. After a while I think I grew
bored with fishing. I was only nine or ten at the time and, if there were any German brown in that lake, they were uninter-ested in what we had to offer. Still, characteristically, my father fished doggedly, contentedly on.
I don’t remember what games I played that day to entertain my-self, though war would certainly have figured among them. We were all children of war then, it being not long after the conclu-sion of World War II. Doubtless that beaver dam became in turn a mine-strewn beach, some famous gun emplacement, the crest of Mount Suribachi – indeed it may well have been my cries of victory that kept the fish away, skunking us so completely.
Anyway, whatever game I played, after a while I remem-ber noticing that our guide had stopped fishing. He wasn’t look-ing at me; he was looking at my father. Dad, in my memory, was drying out his fly, his line form-
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ing and unforming big lazy S’s in the air over his head. Suddenly, with a slight arch of his back, he signaled an end to this exercise, sending the fly unerringly into a gap between two of the drowned trees. He waited a moment and then, with a practiced movement of his hand, like a surgeon sewing one suture at a time, he began his retrieve – all attention focused on a tiny spot of movement sixty feet away. The Indian spoke. With-out ever looking at me, without ever even turning to check that I am still there, the Indian’s voice floated solemnly out over the wa-ter. “Your father,” he said, “has used a fly rod before.”
They were the only words I re-
member him speaking that whole long quiet fishless day.
I’m not really much of a fisher-man. I seldom get out on the wa-ter more than three or four times a year now. And, truth be told, even when I do go out it’s more for Dad’s sake than my own. He’s been dead nine years now, and, in a sense, he was taken from me long before that – the Alzheim-er’s, the inevitable decline and loss. So now, when I do go fish-ing, it’s not so much to catch fish as to commune with the memory of fishing with my father. Some-times it’s as if he’s beside me in the boat and I speak to him. I don’t say much – Dad taught me to be quiet when we fished – but I
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Memory Swimsdo tell him how much I miss him, how much I wish he were there.
All of which may go some way toward explaining why I bothered to read the pamphlet.
Nowadays, when you buy a Maryland fishing license, it comes with a little pamphlet, a three-fold brochure that, in ad-dition to listing catch limits and consumption advisories, offers advice to the novice fisherman. Thinking myself more and more of a novice every year, I read the thing cover-to-cover. Among its pointers was a section on catch and release. “Wet your hands be-fore handling a live fish.” “Care-
fully, but quickly, remove hooks.” “Never keep a fish out of water longer than fifteen seconds.” “Cut the line if you cannot care-fully or quickly remove hooks.” I have always fished catch and re-lease. It was something my father taught me.
Of course he was a veteran – it seemed all fathers were veterans in those days – but Dad had ex-perienced a particularly hellish war in Okinawa. I remember well how, when other fathers were tak-ing their sons hunting, my father gently declined my invitation to do likewise. He did give me a ri-fle (the same single-action .22 his father had given him at a similar age), but, after teaching me how
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to use it, for the first time in my life my father told me from there on I was on my own. Hunting was a sport he no longer enjoyed. He didn’t make a big deal of it, didn’t go into dramatics about how the battle for Wana Draw had changed him. “I just don’t like killing things anymore,” was all he said. For Dad, catch and re-lease embodied all that he loved about fishing.
Anyway, I’m hoping this will give you some idea why it was that, before I caught that catfish this morning, I had read the pam-phlet that came with my fishing license. The children of men like
my father find something familiar in such pamphlets, their tone, the patient repetition of their max-ims: we always read instructions, always follow directions.
You know, I’d love to claim it was a smallmouth. Dad loved smallmouth bass, thought them to be, pound-for-pound, one of the best game fish in North America. But he valued honesty even more than a good fish story, more than anything except love, so we’ll leave it a catfish. Which, truth be told, is good enough for an old spinbait fisherman like me.
I like catfish. Though I’ve nev-er seen one jump, they do strike hard, fight deep; there’s never
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any doubt you’ve got something alive on the other end of your line. So, I was feeling pretty good about myself this morning when, having boated my fish, I went to work with a pair of needle-nosed pliers on the hook embedded in its jaw. I’d been at it only a short time when, suddenly, I re-membered the pamphlet and the fifteen second clock. How long had the thing been out of water? I gave the pliers a quarter turn, watched the fish’s mouth twist cruelly, began a desperate count: one, two, three, four, five.... I cut the line.
I listen to authority, respect authority, it’s one of my father’s legacies – like that plug. And so
I cut the line. Now, as I sit here and think about it, I hope and pray that that catfish is working his way up the Tuckahoe River, decorated with a bit of hand-carved, hand-painted balsa wood. I also hope and pray that Dad is watching over him, delighted in his vigor, the beat of his tail, the omniscience of his lateral line. Now that I think about it, that makes me a better fisherman than I thought. For such hopes and prayers are what fishing is all about: every cast, every turn of the reel, a sort of prayer, an exer-cise in faith.
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Tidewater Day TrippingEastern Neck National Wildlife Refuge
byBonna L. Nelson
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Every word you can think of to describe the dog days of summer — sunny, hot, hazy, humid, muggy, buggy, sticky — could be used to describe the day we visited Eastern Neck (Island) National Wildlife Refuge, and despite the weather we enjoyed the island experience. We were somewhat concerned that it might be too hot and buggy for a waterfront refuge visit, but, thankfully, once out of the car and wandering down cool, tree-covered trails, we were not attacked by insects and never had to apply bug spray. Maybe they were too hot to bother us that day!
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to 240 bird species, including songbirds, shorebirds, raptors, bald eagles, turkeys, and soaring vultures. Shore mammals are plentiful too – white-tailed deer, beaver, red fox, raccoon, muskrat, opossum, woodchuck, endangered Delmarva Fox squirrels, Eastern gray squirrels and rabbits. Add in amphibians and reptiles including frogs, turtles, Diamondback ter-rapins and lizards, and you have a good chance of observing an abundance of wildlife.
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habitat for Eastern Neck National Wildlife refuge inhabitants.
The refuge is also a hot spot for fishing, crabbing, kayaking, canoe-ing, hiking, biking and picnicking in all seasons. Take the sunscreen, bug spray and water in the summer and you will be fine. And it’s all free.
Fall is one of the most popular times to visit the refuge, which was established in 1962. In autumn the waterfowl population swells with the arrival of Atlantic Flyway migra-tory birds, including white Tundra swan, Canada geese, and a variety of ducks. The refuge protects and provides habitat for migratory birds on the flyway. According to Refuge specialists, peak concentrations of swans, geese, and diving and puddle ducks occur from November to January.
Under a clearing baby blue sky filled with puffy cumulus clouds, we took a leisurely drive heading to the refuge. We traveled north on Route 301 after the Routes 50 and 301 split. Corn fields lined the road inter-mingled with giant, old oak trees and the sun was reflected off of striking green oak leaves. Though the oaks and pine trees were green, the corn was only as high as an elephant’s eye. The stalks were turning brown at the bottom, perhaps due to the dry, rainless weather. There was a slight breeze, though, enough to set the pines and oaks to gently swaying.
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Entrance to the Eastern Neck National Wildlife Refuge.
Eastern Neck
Located in Kent County on Mary-land’s Eastern Shore, Eastern Neck Island rests between the Chesa-peake Bay and the Chester River. If you look at it on a map, it appears to be more easily accessed from the water from either the Western or Eastern Shore of the Bay than by land. To reach the island by land you must travel up Route 213 North toward Chestertown, through the quaint town of Centreville, the county seat of Queen Anne’s County, with its attractive shops and cafes.
As you head toward Chestertown there are more farm fields, this time of wheat and soy. It is so good to see
working farm lands not yet turned into housing developments.
More interesting sights along the drive included several pastures of brown, dappled and camel-colored horses and fields of grape vines at Cassinelli Winery (a future trip?). Traveling past the town of Church Hill, we noticed more farm fields backing up to forests of varying pal-ettes of green. And before we knew it we were on the bridge leading into Chestertown, with its historic, three-story brick mansions lining the Chester River.
Visualize making a big loop, heading north through Chestertown and then going completely south for 12 miles to the waterman’s town of Rock Hall. Lastly, travel on Route
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445 for 7 miles down the middle of a peninsula (or neck) passing homes and farms leading to the Refuge entrance bridge. The little towns along the route are delightful day trip destinations too, but we were on a mission to explore the island with no time to spare for side trips.
Just on the right before the Ref-uge entrance, over a small, narrow bridge crossing Eastern Neck Nar-rows, was a little shack, a parking lot and piers. Business was boom-ing that day with people renting kayaks, canoes and motorized boats as well as buying water and sodas.
A short distance over the bridge on the right was our first stop, the
first official Refuge stop, the uni-versally accessible Tundra Swan Boardwalk. That day the Boardwalk was partially occupied by some seri-ous fishermen and offered benches and viewing scopes for those who just wanted to watch the fishing and crabbing action and the shorebirds stalking the shoreline. The area was flat and marshy. The Refuge bulletin board at this spot offered brochures about Eastern Neck and its famous inhabitants and visitors (birds and mammals) as well as trail maps.
Before heading down one or more of the five hiking trails (there are nearly nine miles of trails and roads) and exploring the other boardwalk, we wanted to stop at the
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Refuge Visitor Center and Friends of Eastern Neck Bookstore and Gift Shop. The Center is housed in a cedar-shake, slate-roofed hunting lodge built in 1933.
Friendly volunteers and staff greeted us in the multi-purpose center housing exhibits including his-toric artifacts, bird carvings, decoys, and maps. Also housed in the lodge were staff offices, a gift and bookshop, meeting rooms and restrooms. More free refuge literature was available, and assorted apparel, toys, giftware, nature items, books and guides were for sale. Include shopping on your list of things to do on this day trip. Bottled water is also available.
Next we hit the Tidal Marsh Over-look Trail located behind the Visitor
There were many butterflies along the trail.Center. Somewhat cooled by the whispering pine forest surrounds, it had a covered photo blind at the
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end of the boardwalk overlooking the Bay and the Chester River. We could see the red and white striped Love Point lighthouse on Kent Is-land in the distance and shorebirds prowling. It too has a universally accessible boardwalk. The golden sun glistened on the water that day. The water was as calm as a pond.
The folks at the Visitor Center said not to miss the Bayview-But-terfly Trail off Bayview Road – our next stop. Near a Refuge residence and wind turbine at that trail, we found a concentration of butterflies enjoying milkweed, Joe-pye weed and other native plants in the Bay-scape Butterfly Garden.
Eastern Neck From there we walked the loop trail through grassland to a deck overlooking the Chesapeake Bay. We could see the Bay Bridge in the distance. The deck has benches, free binocular viewers and is also wheelchair accessible. The views of the Bay from this point were amazing.
Due to rising temperatures and a fear of heat stroke, we skipped walking the other trails – Boxes Point Trail, Duck Inn Trail, Wildlife Trail and the Tubby Cove Boardwalk – saving them for a fall day trip to see the visiting waterfowl, when up to 100,000 migrating and wintering ducks, swans and geese seek sanctu-ary on the island. Instead we drove down Bogles Wharf Road (passing a
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Eastern Neckflock of wild turkeys on the way) to Bogles Wharf on the Chester River, from which we could launch our boat or kayaks or dock our boat at one of the piers if we motored to the island. Public fishing is also an option at this site graced by quak-ing aspen trees, and there is plenty of parking. Vultures and ospreys shared the airspace overhead.
According to Refuge specialists, Woodland Period Indians fished and gathered shellfish at Eastern Neck Island, eventually settling down and cultivating crops around 1300 AD. Mounds of discarded oys-ter shells, ceramic pots, stone tools, and spears and arrows have been found on the Island dating as far back as 1000 BC. The well-traveled Captain John Smith is said to have explored the area in 1608 when Ozinie Indians, related to the Nan-ticokes and known for their shell beadwork, inhabited the island.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Ser-vice saved the island from develop-ment in 1962 and now it is not only
a wildlife refuge but a refuge for us, a place of peace and tranquility, a treasure for us to enjoy.
In addition to hiking, biking, walking, fishing, crabbing, boating and picnicking (picnic tables are available); the Refuge conducts periodic white-tailed deer hunts. It also leads school and youth groups in environmental education programs and hosts kayaking trips and nature hikes. Washington Col-lege in Chestertown has taken an interest in the Refuge, and students volunteer for projects on the island and conduct scientific research. Also, the Refuge offers fantastic op-portunities for nature photography year round.
For more information, detailed directions, upcoming events and hours of operation visit www.fws.gov/northeast/easternneck/visit.html or call 410-639-7056.
Bonna L. Nelson is a Bay-area writer, columnist and photogra-pher. She lives in Easton with her husband, John, and two dogs.
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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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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 leg-islature 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 rang-ing 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.
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Queen Anne’s County Invites You!
Old workboats putter out of fog-shrouded marinas at dawn; bird-watchers keep eyes peeled for migrating wildfowl; friendly shopkeepers peddle ripe produce or showcase fine antiques. This is Queen Anne’s County, a world of scenic shoreline and fertile farmland.
Start your journey at the Chesapeake Exploration Center on beautiful Kent Narrows, home to “Our Chesapeake Legacy,” a hands-on interactive exhibit providing an overview of the Chesapeake Bay region’s heritage, resources and culture. The exhibit explores man’s relationship with the Bay, covers the early history including the settlement, importance of tobacco as a monetary staple, and explores the importance of the key industries of agriculture, commercial fishing, and current efforts to preserve the Bay.
While at the Chesapeake Exploration Center, pick up a free copy of our award-winning Heritage Guide Map. Visitors and residents can explore the entire span of Maryland’s history, and spend the day, or just a few hours, touring the historic treasures, from watching the heavy stones turned by a waterwheel at the Old Wye Mill, to helping uncover history in an archaeological dig. Those historic doors are tossed open during the Historic Sites Consortium’s Open House Weekends on the first Saturday of every month, May through October (second Saturday in July), when docents conduct tours of 14 of the county’s historic gems from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Also at the Exploration Center is the free map, Explore Our Great Outdoors, which directs you to our nature preserves and parks and helps you to identify native species of birds, insects, mammals, and reptiles.
Chesapeake Exploration Center is also a great starting point for the highly acclaimed Cross Island Trail that spans Kent Island from the Kent Narrows to the Chesapeake Bay. Bike, blade, walk, or jog through canopied trees, marshland abundant with wildlife, and fields that grow sweet corn.
Hungry? Our fabulous waterfront restaurants line the Kent Narrows, where the catch of the day moves from workboat to skillet.
Enjoy a restful night in a charming B&B or comfortable hotel, and treat yourself to some casual outlet shopping, or antiquing in our slow-paced, small towns.
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Turf TipsThe hot summer temperatures
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It is difficult to maintain a nice turf area on the Eastern Shore as we are in the “twilight zone” for turf grasses. It generally gets too hot here for cool-season grasses like bluegrass, and too cold for warm-season turfs like Zoysia.
So what is a turf aficionado to do? First, lower your expectations. If you moved here from above the
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There are three reasons why the early fall is the best time for put-ting down grass seed to patch bare
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spots, re-seeding the entire lawn and feeding the turf. Summer’s heat is abating and the coming warm days and cool nights are just right to stimulate the germination and growth of your grass plants. In addition, we get the fall rains after the summer dry spell to help with the germination process.
The second reason for fall seed-ing is that weed competition is starting to lessen. Many of our weed problems in turf are annual weeds such as crabgrass. At this time of year they are completing their life cycle and going to seed.
Finally, the third reason is that grass seed spread now will sprout
soon enough to provide lawn enjoy-ment this fall, and next spring the new seedlings will have a head start against the weeds.
Before you decide whether to spot seed to fill in bare areas or to start all over from scratch, take a close look at your present lawn. Why does it look the way it does? Has it suffered or failed because of poor drainage, too much shade, seeding the wrong grass types, or incorrect soil pH? Was it damaged by insects such as chinch bugs, Jap-anese beetle grubs, sod webworms or a disease problem like brown patch? Are the weeds present be-cause of improper mowing or fer-tilizing at the wrong time of year? You need to determine why the turf
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looks so poorly and then develop a plan of action to improve it.
If the lawn looks pretty good, with a minor broadleaf (like dande-lion) weed problem, then spot treat the turf with a broadleaf grass her-bicide. Annual grasses like crab-grasses cannot be controlled now. Wait until next spring to deal with the crabgrass.
If the turf is off color and looks hungry, then feed it. Fall is the best time to fertilize the cool-season turf like the turf type tall fescues that we grow on the Shore. Fertilizing three times in the fall (September, October and November) is usually recommended.
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winter and a healthy green-up next spring. The roots are also in active growth and having a strong, healthy root system is the best way for the grass plant to survive next sum-mer’s hot, dry weather.
To be accurate in your applica-tion of fertilizer and lime you will need to determine your lawn’s needs with a soil test. A list of soil testing laboratories can be found in the Maryland Extension’s Home and Garden Website at www.hgic.umd.edu as Home and Garden Mimeo #HG 101 - Selecting and Us-ing a Soil Testing Laboratory. Test, don’t guess your lawn’s fertility needs. To avoid or at least mini-mize fertilizer runoff use a “slow release” lawn fertilizer.
If your soil test comes back and recommends liming to increase the soil pH, fall is an excellent time to do it. The freezing and thawing of the soil during the winter helps work the lime down into the turf and root zone of the grass plants. You can use either the regular ground agricultural limestone or the newer “pelletized” form. The advantage of the pellets is that it is easier to spread and is not as dusty as the traditional ground limestone. Because it is pellets, it will take lon-ger to break down in the soil.
Many home lawns look bad be-cause the homeowner started off by seeding the wrong type of turfgrass. There are a lot of lawn grass variet-ies out on the market packaged in
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fancy boxes. Just remember the turf type tall fescues and forget anything else for our area.
When seeded at the rate of five to eight pounds per 1,000 square feet, mowed at 3 inches or more and given some fertilizer each year, you just can’t beat a turf type tall fescue lawn.
Kentucky 31 (KY31) was the origi-nal tall fescue turf developed for home lawn use. Now there are many improved cultivars on the market to choose from. Go online to the Maryland Home and Garden Center – www.hgic.umd.edu – and down-load publication TT 77 in the lawns section for a list of recommended
turf type tall fescue cultivars.I like to recommend that you find
a blend of a couple different culti-vars of improved turf type tall fes-cues. Don’t waste your money seed-ing straight KY31 when there are all these new and improved turf type tall fescue cultivars on the market. The improved cultivar means that they will cost a little bit more, but the additional expense is well worth the cost for the better looking lawn.
If your lawn area has bald patches or is over 50% undesirable weeds and grasses, my recommendation is to spray the entire area with Round-Up herbicide and reseed.
Inadequate seedbed prepara-tion is responsible for many lawn seeding failures. The soil must be
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broken up and worked completely down to a depth of six inches. The practice of working over the bare areas down to a depth of an inch or so with a steel garden rake and then seeding just doesn’t do the job. Get out the rototiller and do the job right the first time.
After you have tilled the soil, work in the lime and fertilizer ac-cording to the soil test results. Put half of the lime and fertilizer on and till down four to six inches. Put the other half on and work with the rake into the top one or two inches. To evenly spread the seed, sow half the seed in one direction and the rest at right angles. Cover the seed lightly by raking and firm the soil with a light tamping.
Protect the seed with a light cov-ering of clean straw or cover it with a fabric cloth like Re-may. The mulch maintains an even soil temperature and holds in the moisture.
Keep the new lawn moist until the seed germinates and the seed-lings have a good start. This may take two weeks for tall fescue seed. Lightly mist the seed three or four times a day to provide adequate moisture. This is the only time that a light misting of the grass is recommended.
After the grass has been up for three or four weeks, it can be cut. Make sure that your mower blade is sharp, as a dull blade can rip the ten-der young plants out of the ground.
If the lawn area is covered with
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the leaves from nearby deciduous trees shedding their leaves in the fall, be sure to remove them. If the newly seeded lawn goes into the winter covered with tree leaves, you will have to re-seed those areas again next spring as they will have died out.
With the fall tree fruit coming on now it is important that you harvest them correctly. When the figs on your fig bush are maturing, harvest them when they soften slightly. If you let them get fully ripe you will be fighting the hornets and yellow jackets for them.
Pears are one of the tree fruits that you do not let ripen on the tree. Most
pear cultivars are picked when their background color begins to light-en but fruits are still firm. Pears should be kept in the refrigerator and brought to room temperature to ripen. In contrast, Asian pears should be allowed to ripen on the tree.
For apples, it is a good idea to pick an apple every few days as they start to ripen to determine the peak harvest time.
For good garden sanitation and disease control, clean up and dispose of all rotted or fall-en fruits from trees, vines and bushes this fall.
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DorchesterPoints of Interest
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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bridge in Maryland after the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. A life-long resident of Dorchester County, Senator Malkus served in the Maryland State Senate from 1951 through 1994. Next to the Malkus Bridge is the 1933 Emerson C. Harrington Bridge. This bridge was replaced by the Malkus Bridge in 1987. Remains of the 1933 bridge are used as fishing piers on both the north and south bank of the river.
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 1760s 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 reportedly called Cambridge’s
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High Street one of the most beautiful streets in America. He modeled his fic-tional 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. Lo-cal 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 brochure 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. Richard-son. There has been a succession of windmills at this location dating back to the late 1700’s. The complex also in-cludes 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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HORN POINT LABORATORY - The Horn Point Laboratory offers public 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.hpl.umces.edu.
THE STANLEY INSTITUTE - This 19th century one-room African Ameri-can 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 reward
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for Harriet’s capture. Historical tours, bicycle, canoe and kayak rentals are available. Open upon request. The Bucktown Village Store is located at 4303 Bucktown Rd., Cambridge. For more info. tel: 410-901-9255.
HARRIET TUBMAN BIRTH-PLACE - “The Moses of her People,” Harriet Tubman was believed to have been born on the Brodess Plantation in Bucktown. There are no Tubman-era buildings remaining at the site, which today is a farm. Recent ar-cheological 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 Visitor 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 - Origi-nally settled in 1660, the entire town is listed on the National Register of
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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/Del-aware 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 win-ery, 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 remarkable homes, carefully preserved or restored. Because of its historical significance, historic 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.”
1. TALBOTTOWN, EASTON PLAZA, EASTON MARKETPLACE, TRED AVON SQUARE and WATERSIDE VILLAGE- Shopping centers, all in close proximity to downtown Easton.
2. THOMAS PERRIN SMITH HOUSE - 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.
3. THE BRICK HOTEL - Built in 1812, it became the Eastern Shore’s leading hostelry. It is now an office building.
4. THE TALBOT COUNTY COURTHOUSE - Long known as the “East Capital” of Maryland. The present building was completed in 1794 on the site of the earlier one built in 1711. It has been remodeled several times over the years.
5. SHANNAHAN & WRIGHTSON HARDWARE BUILDING - Now Lanham-Hall Design & Antiques, 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 1877-1881-1889. The present front was completed in time for a grand opening on Dec. 7, 1941 - Pearl Harbor Day.
6. FIRST MASONIC GRAND LODGE - 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.
7. TALBOT COUNTY FREE LIBRARY - In an attractive building on West St. Hours open: Mon. & Thurs., 9 to 8, Tues. & Wed. 9 to 6 and Fri. & Sat., 9 to 5, except during the summer when it’s 9 to 1 on Saturday. For infor-mation call 410-822-1626 or visit www.tcfl.org. Currently under renovation.
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8. HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF TALBOT COUNTY - Enjoy an evoca-tive 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., 10-4 p.m. (winter) and Mon. through Sat., 10-4 p.m. (summer), with group tours offered by ap-pointment. For more information, call 410-822-0773.
9. AVALON THEATER - 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. The Avalon has a year-round schedule of entertainment and cultural events. For information on current and upcoming activities, call 410-822-0345.
10. TALBOT COUNTY VISITORS CENTER - 11 S. Harrison St. The Talbot County Office of Tourism provides visitors with county information
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for historic Easton, and the waterfront villages of Oxford, St. Michaels and Tilghman Island. You can call the Tourism office at 410-770-8000 or visit their website at www.tourtalbot.org.
11. THE BULLITT HOUSE - One of Easton’s oldest and most beau-tiful homes, it was built in 1801. It is now occupied by the Mid-Shore Community Foundation.
12. 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.”
13. 28 SOUTH HARRISON STREET - Significant for its architec-ture, it was built by Benjamin Stevens in 1790, and is one of Easton’s earliest three-bay brick buildings.
14. ACADEMY ART MUSEUM -Accredited by the American Associa-tion of Museums, the Academy Art Museum is a fine art museum founded in 1958 and located in historic, downtown Easton. Providing national and regional exhibitions, performances, educational programs, and visual and per-forming 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 Shores largest juried fine craft show) featuring local and national artists and artisans demonstrating, exhibiting and selling their crafts. The
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Museum’s permanent collection consists of works on paper and contempo-rary works by American and European masters. Monday through Friday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.; extended hours on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday until 7 p.m. For more information, please call (410) 822-ARTS (2787) or visit www.art-academy.org.
15. 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. It is now home to a beautiful inn and restaurant.
16. CHRIST CHURCH - St. Peter’s Parish, 111 South Harrison Street. The Parish was founded in 1692 with the present church built ca. 1840, of Port Deposit Granite.
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18. 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.
19. EASTON POINT MARINA - At the end of Port Street on the Tred Avon River.
20. BOAT RAMP - At Easton Point, end of Port Street.21. TALBOT COUNTRY CLUB - Established in 1910, the Talbot
Country Club is located at 6142 Country Club Drive, Easton.22. WHITE MARSH CHURCH - Only the ruins remain, but the church-
yard 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.
23. 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)
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24. TRINITY EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL - On “Cathedral Green,” Goldsborough St., is one of 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.
25. HOG NECK GOLF COURSE - Rated FOUR STARS by “Golf Digest Places to Play.” 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 their web site at www.pickeringcreek.org.
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On the broad Miles River, with its picturesque tree-lined streets and beautiful landlocked harbor, St. Michaels has been a haven for boats plying the Chesapeake and its inlets since the earliest days. Here, some of the handsomest 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.
Today the shipyards are still active, and the harbor is used by oystermen, fishermen, clammers and pleasure seekers in large numbers.
1. WADES POINT INN - Located on a point of land overlooking ma-
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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.
2. HARBOURTOWNE GOLF RESORT - Bay View Restaurant and Duckblind Bar on the scenic Miles River with an 18 hole golf course and tennis courts.
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
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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.”
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
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8. THE CRAB CLAW - Restaurant adjoining the Maritime Museum and overlooking St. Michaels harbor. 410-745-2900 or www.thecrab-claw.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 outly-ing areas around the harbor.
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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.
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 Street near Locust Street).
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.
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St. has recently been remodeled. For more info. tel: 410-745-5877.16. CARPENTER STREET SALOON - Life in the Colonial community
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 was renovated in 1984. It is located at the foot of Carpenter Street in a central but secluded part of the historic district of town.
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).
19. CHRIST EPISCOPAL 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.
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operated the shipyard at Beverly on Broad Creek. (Talbot St. at Mul-berry).
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 believe 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 Amelia Welby, was born in this house and wrote poems that won her fame and the praise of Edgar Allan Poe.
23. 125 MULBERRY STREET 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 - Lo-cated in the heart of the historic
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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.
25. KEMP HOUSE - Now a country inn. A Georgian style house, constructed in 1805 by Colonel Joseph Kemp, a revolutionary soldier and hero of the War of 1812.
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 the St. Michaels Winery, artists, furniture makers, a baker and other unique shops and businesses.
27. BOB PASCAL’S ST. MICHAELS HARBOUR INN, MARINA & SPA - Located at 101 N. Harbour Road, was newly constructed in 1986 and recently renovated. It has overnight accommodations, conference facilities, marina, spa and Pascal’s Restaurant & Tavern.
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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 building 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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Yorktown, 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. The Center is currently under renova-tion. 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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5. OXFORD TOWN PARK - Former site of the Oxford High School. 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. Open Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Mondays from 10 to 4 and Sundays from 1-4. The Museum is open April through November. 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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10. 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
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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.
15. 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 dredge boats) can be seen here, as well as two working harbors with scores of power workboats.
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A few months ago, the Tidewater Traveler featured the role of animals in motivating people to travel to vari-ous parts of the globe. It stands to reason that such commentary should eventually be followed by a similar article featuring the opposite of the living things spectrum – plants.
I could devote several pages to the world’s various botanical des-tinations that attract tourists. I could. It would be easy to describe a visit to the beautiful Butchart Gardens near Victor ia, Br it ish Columbia; a river cruise along the tulip fields of the Netherlands; a
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stroll through Japanese gardens at the Irish National Stud Farm; or a Behind the Seeds tour at The Land in Epcot. Those are places I should write about. I should – and I might – someday.
I am just not a plant person. Plants t ur n brow n and w it her under my care. Yet I have sev-eral clients who travel exclusively because of plants. One consults nat u ra l re sou rc e m i n i s ter s of foreign nations regarding forestry practices. Another travels on be-half of soy beans. Irrigating des-erts to raise crops keeps another on the go. Don’t get me wrong – I enjoy an occasional visit to Long-
wood Gardens or Winterthur, but those are not destinations to which I would purchase an annual pass.
There is, however, a plant that has attracted my attention while traveling – bamboo. It started w it h simple chi ld hood f ishing trips to some of Dorchester Coun-ty’s quaint wooden bridges. On days that Dad’s shift work at the Vienna Power Plant permitted, he would tel l me to get things together so we could go fishing. This process started with finding a spade and an empty Cheez-Wiz jar from the smokehouse. It took only a few minutes to produce about two-thirds of a jar of earthworms from the garden.
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Moving on – the next step was to go to the back corner of the smokehouse to get t he f ishing poles – nothing fancy – very basic stuff. One of the poles was a long, rustic-looking tan shaft that Dad called bamboo. It had no reel. A piece of string was tied around the
end of the pole. Near the other end of the string were tied a bobber, a hook and a bent rusty nail for weight. This became my favorite fishing pole – and my first expo-sure to bamboo.
Fast-forward several decades. I am on a bus from the airport into the city of Bangkok. Along the way I notice unusual structures hugging the exteriors of tall build-ings. When I inquire, the host tells me it is construction scaf-folding. I feel silly to have asked, but it does not look anything at all like the steel scaffolding I am ac-customed to seeing in the States.
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Following another inquiry about the str ucture, I learn that the mater ia l is bamboo. Bamboo! You have got to be kidding! These buildings are dozens of stor ies high, and the bamboo framework goes all the way to the top. The uprights, cross pieces and diago-nal supports are all tied together w ith something that resembles rope. I am fascinated to learn that the strapping material is also bamboo – narrow, f lexible strips of bamboo. Until now my knowl-edge base regarding bamboo has not extended beyond the fishing pole from the smokehouse.
A nother fast-for ward – I am walking along a dirt path in rural southern China. The walkway is elevated about two feet above rice fields on both sides. Other paths form a tan grid laid across a sea of tender green sta lk s of r ice. Separate from the walking paths, a network of shallow ditches criss-crosses the field.
The purpose of the stroll is to see a waterwheel that takes water from the lower level of a ditch and delivers it up to the level where the rice is growing. I am captivated by the device as I observe that every part and piece of this waterwheel is fashioned from bamboo.
The f ramework of the wheel and the support structure are bamboo stalks about an inch in diameter, each of which could be my old fishing pole. The wheel is
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lashed together much like a child would assemble a summer camp craft project. The lashing mate-rial is similar to that used to hold together the scaf folding – thin f lexible strips of bamboo.
L arge d ia meter ba mboo has been cut laterally to form near-ly f lat blades t hat a re pushed by r unning water to ma ke t he wheel rotate. As the wheel turns, t roug h-shaped ba mboo pieces scoop up water and, because they are attached at a slight angle, when they reach a certain height on their
circular trip, the water spills out of the scoops. It falls into a long device shaped like a rain gutter, but made of – you guessed it – bamboo.
I started paying attention. I found bamboo furniture – both m e a ge r a n d up s c a l e ; t o o l s – scoops, shovels , ra kes, bowls, cooking utensils, baskets, steam-ers, decor, skewers and toothpicks. Bamboo is used for ut i l itar ian objects such as bicycles, carts, lad-ders, musical instruments, fences and weapons. Certain medicines, tex t i les and paper are der ived from bamboo. It is a food source
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for many. And, of course, all man-ner of fishing poles are bamboo.
An entire article could be de-voted to bamboo boats. Simple tied-together rafts of all sizes are common transportation in tropi-cal and subtropical regions. Bowl-shaped boats made from woven bamboo str ips and coated with pitch are sturdy enough to hold hundreds of pounds of product headed to market.
Lest you think bamboo is a sta-ple product prevalent only in less developed regions, consider that one of the highest quality and best looking interior f looring products is now bamboo. Bamboo has also become popular as an attractive and very durable product for ex-
terior decking. Bamboo f looring and decking are said to be three times harder than oak. Carpenters report that the product is brutal on saw blades, wearing them pre-maturely. From dirt-f loor huts to million-dollar mansions, bamboo f loors, cur tains, shades, mats, carpet, fans, decorative items, and yes, even clothes, can be found. Cloth woven from bamboo is luxu-riously soft and pliable.
I am not sure which of the 1,450 species of bamboo was used to make my childhood fishing pole. I am not sure where my pole was grown. Bamboo grows in a variety of climates, from cold mountains to hot tropical regions.
Imagine a wide belt that reaches
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around the earth extending as far north as Mid-Atlantic America or Eastern Asia, and as far south as Northern Australia, sub-Saharan Africa or the Argentina-Chile area of South America. Bamboo will be found growing within this zone. O n ly c ont i nent a l Eu r op e a nd Antarctica have no known native species of bamboo.
Bamboo grows fast, making it a quickly renewable resource. Full size can be achieved in a single growing season of three to four months. Though not the norm, it has been known to grow more t ha n t hree feet in heig ht in a 24-hour period, and has reached
heights exceeding one hundred feet.
I had no idea that bamboo has contributed so much to the world economy. I wonder what happened to that old fishing pole!
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Summer Squash Sautés
Summer squash is in abundance!
Most gardeners know that squash is a prolific and fast-growing mem-ber of the gourd family. Finding a myriad of palatable ways to prepare it is the key. The foolproof prescrip-
tion for summer squash enjoyment is frequent picking and quick cook-ing. Cooking it quickly preserves all the flavor.
There are several types and many
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varieties of summer squash. Most are long, cylindrical and green, but zucchini comes in other colors, too. There are yellow crooknecks, yel-low straightnecks, patty pan and the pale green Middle Eastern cou-sa type. They all have thin edible skins and soft seeds.
Choose firm summer squash with bright-colored skin free of spots and bruises. In general, the smaller the squash, the more tender if will be. Fresh is definitely best, so store them in a plastic bag in the refrig-erator for no more than 5 days.
The larger the squash, the tough-er it becomes, with seedy, watery flesh and a bland flavor. One way
to enhance an oversized squash is to dice or grate it, sprinkle with salt and drain in a colander for 20 min-utes. Rinse and press out the excess moisture.
Olive oil, basil, oregano, garlic, onion, corn, bell peppers and to-matoes are the most traditional ac-companiments. A more assertive Mexican recipe is included in this article.
Summer squashes can be sau-téed, steamed, stir-fried, deep fried, grilled, roasted, stewed, sim-mered in soups, baked, stuffed and pickled. Grated squash contributes moisture to breads and other baked goods.
For sautés, cut vegetables into small pieces of uniform size. The
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quickest cooking cuts are julienne, dice and angled slices.
To julienne the squash, cut it into 1/8” thick vertical slices. Stack the slices and cut them into 1/8” slivers and then 1½” long. To make angled slices, I cut longer squashes length-wise into quarters or smaller, de-pending on the size of the squash, then slice on the diagonal to equal lengths.
You will want to cook your squash quickly, so have all your ingredients ready – vegetables and herbs chopped, oil and sea-sonings at hand, etc. Use a large skillet or sauté pan to prevent a more steamed effect. Sauté means
“jump” in French, and that is what vegetables should do in the pan. Cook over medium-high heat to quickly seal in the flavors, and stir constantly.
MINTED ZUCCHINIServes 4
Mint and lemon juice add zest to this simple sauté. A proper julienne cut results in matchstick pieces, about 1½” long and 1/8” thick.
1 T. olive oil2 cups julienned carrot4 cups julienned green zucchini4 scallions, thinly sliced on the di-agonalFreshly ground pepperJuice of 1 lemon
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1/2 cup fresh mint, mincedSea salt to taste.
Add the oil to a large skillet or sauté pan over medium-high heat. Sauté the carrot for 3 minutes, un-til almost tender. Add the zucchini and scallion and continue to sauté for 3 minutes longer. Grind in the pepper to taste and remove the pan from the heat. Add the freshly squeezed lemon juice, mint and salt to taste. Serve immediately.
MEXICAN SUMMER SQUASHServes 4
Serve this sauté over long grain rice or rolled up in warm tortillas.
1 medium avocado
1 T. fresh lime juice1 T. olive oil1 medium onion, chopped5 large garlic cloves, minced1 small jalapeño, minced1 medium red bell pepper, cut into thin, short strips1 cup julienned summer squashFresh corn kernels from an ear of corn (1/2 cup or more)1 t. ground cuminSea salt to taste1/4 cup cilantro, chopped
Peel and seed the avocado and cut it into short slices about 1/4 inch thick. Toss them with the lime juice and cover tightly.
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Add the onion and sauté for about 3 minutes. Stir in the garlic and jalapeño. To maintain the heat, add the bell pepper and squash gradually, stirring constantly. Continue to sauté for several minutes, until the vegetables are almost tender. Add the corn and cumin and sauté briefly, just un-til the vegetables are cooked. Add the sea salt.
Stir in the avocado/lime mixture and remove from heat. Add the ci-lantro and serve immediately.
MIXED VEGETABLESServes 2
Any medley of colorful vegetables
in season can be used for this recipe.
2 T. olive oil1/4 pound green beans, trimmed1 small red bell pepper, cut into strips1 medium yellow squash, sliced1/4 t. sea saltFreshly ground black pepper to taste1 T. fresh basil, chopped1 T. water
Heat the oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the beans, red pepper and squash, stirring to coat with oil. Add the salt, pepper, basil and water. Cov-er, reduce heat to low, and cook for 4 to 6 minutes or until tender.
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ZUCCHINI with PICANTE SAUCE
Serves 4-6Here is another festive Mexican
side dish.
2 T. olive oil4 cups sliced zucchini3/4 cup chopped celery1 medium onion, chopped1 small green or red bell pepper, cut in strips1 T. fresh basil, chopped1 cup of your favorite picante sauce1 t. sea saltFreshly ground pepper to taste1 cup shredded Monterey Jack cheese
Heat oil in large skillet over
medium-high heat. Sauté all veg-etables at once for approximately 3 minutes, stirring constantly. Add basil, picante sauce, salt and pep-per; stir well. Cover and let the vegetables cook for 3 to 5 minutes. Add the Monterey Jack cheese and mix well. When the cheese is barely melted, serve immediately.
CARROTS and ZUCCHINI with GARLIC and GINGER
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1 T. fresh mint, minced1 T. rice wine vinegarSea salt and freshly ground pepper to taste2 t. sesame toasted seeds
Toast your sesame seeds in a dry pan over high heat until you just be-gin to smell them. Set aside.
Heat oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the gar-lic and ginger to the pan and toss for 30 seconds. Add the carrots and toss until they are half cooked, about 2 minutes. Add the zucchini and toss for 1 minute. Add the mint and the vinegar. If carrots are still too firm, cover and steam briefly.
Sprinkle with salt and pepper, toss and turn out onto a serving platter. Top with the sesame seeds.
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Mary SyrettEver since my teens, I have been
fascinated with wild food forag-ing. Helping members of my fam-ily learn about wild edibles that grow in the Tidewater area has developed into an intriguing hobby that has allowed us to experience, to some degree, how our ancestors lived off the land.
Foraging for plants and hunting wild game are ancient patterns of human subsistence. For thousands of years, people survived in this manner. In 1972, Richard Mabey published the book Food for Free; soon thereafter, the world began looking at ‘weeds’ in a new light.
Urban foraging emerged as a culture and the phrase “if you can’t beat them, eat them,” reflected people’s desire to cut costs and help conserve. Today, as some global resources run dangerously low and climate change and human impact compromise ecosystems, Mabey’s sentiments have taken on new meaning.
To survive, wild plants must cope with herbivores (plant-eat-ing animals), competing plants, weather and climatic changes. As a result, they’ve evolved to become species that contain high concen-trations of carbohydrates, fats and
proteins, as well as vitamins, min-erals and fiber.
Many of the tastes we appreci-ate, including sourness, pungency, sweetness, saltiness and bitterness are adaptations plants have devel-oped in an effort to discourage her-bivores. Many renewable herbs, greens, fruits, berries, nuts and seeds thrive in backyards, fields and trails in the Tidewater region. Although we can easily incorporate these tasty resources into meals the way our ancestors did, many
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people either ignore them or try to destroy them as weeds.
“Up until World War II, people ate ‘weeds’ regularly,” notes Peter Gail, author of The Dandelion Cel-ebration: A Guide to Unexpected Cuisine. “Dandelions, lambs-quarter – all sorts of wild plants – were part of a daily diet. The bias against wild edibles came af-ter World War II, in considerable part because of pesticide company advertising.” Gail continues: “The pesticide industry convinced con-sumers that they should value uni-formly green lawns, and the way to get a lawn green was by ridding it of ‘weeds.’”
Today, concerns over the health risks of pesticides, preservatives, additives and food-borne illnesses in commercially prepared foods make wild edibles particularly ap-pealing. As an added bonus for consumers concerned with pro-tecting the environment, many wild edibles are naturally renew-able food resources that thrive un-der harsh growing conditions.
Native foods encompass a vari-ety of cultures. There has only re-cently developed a broader aware-ness of what native food is. This is a cuisine from people whose food supply has oftentimes been what-ever they could find, wherever they found it.
In addition to wild black cher-
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Nuts are seeds, including tree seeds. While they are seasonal, seeds have the advantage of be-ing storable for long periods. The great advantage of nut-bearing trees is that, unlike animals, they can’t run away. The energy ex-pended by humans in gathering nuts is much less than the time and energy spent obtaining similar ca-loric value from hunting or fishing. Ground into flour, chestnuts, for example, pack a nutritional wal-
lop and contribute to savory dishes such as nutty-tasting crepes.
Fruits contain a variety of can-cer-suppressing chemicals, are a valuable energy source, and con-tain fibers whose health-promot-ing qualities have only recently begun to be understood.
Lambs-quarter, hyacinth beans, low-bush blueberries, wild cher-ries and dandelions are among my favorite wild foods. Tepary beans resemble flattened black-eyed peas. The black ones cook up creamy. Brown ones are best simmered like pinto beans. Home cooks pay as much as $10 a pound for teparies when ordered online. Creative Tidewater chefs love the little beans, too, turning them into
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Giftscassoulet (a bean stew of French origin), salads and tasty beds for braised pork dishes.
Dandelions taste great when added to salads or brewed as a tea. They contain calcium, potassium, iron, phosphorus and magnesium, as well as Vitamins A, B, C and D, along with health-enhancing bio-flavonoids, which are biologically active substances that nourish blood vessels. Dandelion flowers are sweetest when picked young and have a honey-like flavor. Young dandelion leaves taste great when steamed or tossed in salads.
The Eastern Prickly Pear Cactus, Opuntia humifusa, has long been
a part of Native American culture. It grows on granite outcroppings in shallow soil. In June, the cactus produces large yellow flowers that slowly develop into red berries that, in late autumn, fall from the plant. The berries provide nutritious food for insects, raccoons and opossums, as well as humans. The fruit can be eaten fresh or made into jam.
The pads of Opuntia, known as cladophylls, are also edible and are sold in some grocery stores. Clado-phylls can be boiled for several minutes, cut into smaller pieces, and eaten as part of a vegetable side dish.
Cattails grow in marshy ground almost anywhere. They’re tall, reed-like plants with sword-
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shaped leaves. Cattail roots can be ground into flour that’s ideal for making muffins, biscuits and pancakes. Young shoots are used in salads and sauteed with meats.
Species of the genus allium in-clude onion, garlic, chives, ramps, leeks and shallots. All members of the genus, which grow throughout the Tidewater, are edible.
Marigolds have a citrus flavor similar to that of saffron. Marigold petals can be sprinkled on open-faced sandwiches, pasta and rice. The flavor of Queen Anne’s Lace is
Gifts deliciously carrot-like, making this plant ideal for salads.
In the 19th century and earlier, native peoples collected wild blue-berries from along Maryland riv-erbanks. A very nutritious food, packed with antioxidants, blueber-ries can be eaten fresh, made into soup, or baked into cakes, muffins and bread.
Chesapeake Bay today has be-come overcrowded with cownose rays that swarm here every sum-mer, taxing the fragile ecosystem. The cownose is a species of eagle ray that is found throughout a large part of the Western Atlantic and
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Caribbean. It is the most common type of ray found in the Chesa-peake Bay, where sport anglers find it a nuisance. A mature speci-men can weigh 50 pounds or more. This marine menace tastes much like tuna. Eating it is an ideal, delicious solution for seafood lov-ers who try to live by sustainable principles.
A good way to begin looking for wild foods is to go with an expe-rienced forager who can demon-strate which plants are edible and what specific parts of plants are safe to eat. Experienced foragers can also point out the best time of year to harvest plants.
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Should you go it alone, start with just one plant, preferably an easily recognizable one. Of course, you should be able to identify any plant you plan to eat with abso-lute certainty. Avoid species that have poisonous look-alikes. Fol-low a few safe plants through the seasons and study them carefully, gradually adding new ones to your bring-home-and-eat list.
Here are other foraging tips provided by Robert K. Henderson, author of The Neighborhood For-ager: A Guide for the Wild Food Gourmet.
*Spit the pits. Many fruit pits, including apricots, enclose a poison-ous substance (think cyanide), so it’s wise to avoid them altogether.
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*Remember: Any plant is poi-sonous to persons who are allergic to it.
*Always observe the first-try protocol. When you have positive-ly identified a plant and its edible parts, taste it and then wait and see how your body reacts before consuming more. Also, be aware that some plants, which are fine to consume in moderate amounts, can cause digestive problems when ingested in large quantities.
*Eat wild foods only when they are in season. Know which time of year a plant is edible, and eat it only then.
Consuming foods that grow in the wild is an exciting way to add delicious variety to your meals,
boost your health, get some exer-cise and learn about the environ-ment. I will never again view the land the way I did before I began foraging. As a collector of wild edible foods, I have become more deeply appreciative of nature and have developed a better under-standing of where and how my food grows. The closer to home you find your food, the better it will be for your pocketbook, your health, and a survivability of the planet. En-joy, but please do so prudently.
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The Curious Thing That Happened in Talbot County on September 3rd, 1752
byGary D. Crawford
Julius Caesar
The year 1752 was an unusual one in terms of the calendar, not only in Talbot County but throughout the English world. In those days, Eng-land and her Dominions still were using the Julian calendar, while the rest of Europe had switched over, country by country, to a calendar put forward by Pope Gregory in 1582. England refused to get in step with the rest of the world. Undoubtedly it had something to do with the King being Anglican and the Pope being Catholic.
Even school children know there’s a problem with the calendar. The year isn’t exactly 365 days long. It’s a bit longer. After 365 “days” (i.e., 365 earth rotations, or sunrises), the earth hasn’t quite gotten back to the same point in its orbit around the sun. One full revolution isn’t quite complete.
But who cares? Well, the error puts the calendar ahead of the sun. And that throws off the solstices and equinoxes, which defines the seasons. And the seasons link to weather patterns that are used to govern plantings, harvests, holidays and all manner of things. So, yes, it’s a real problem.
In 46 BC, the old Roman calendar was in advance of the sun by a whop-ping 67 days. Julius Caesar was an amateur astronomer and had written a book on the subject. He also was head of the Roman Empire, so he decided to fix the calendar.
Caesar had his people contact the best expert they could find, a celebrated Greek astronomer in Alexandria (Egypt) by the name of Sosigenes. After careful measure-ment, Sosigenes announced that the
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earth went around the sun in 365 days and six hours, about a quarter of an extra day.
Fortunately (like the rest of us), Sosigenes disliked fractions. So, rather than add six hours every year, he suggested to Caesar that they just let things slip quietly until, after four years, the discrepancy would add up to 24 hours – one full day. Then they could simply add one day to that year, and bingo! – the calendar would be in synch with the sun again. Easy to remember: extra day every fourth year.
And Julius Caesar saw that it was good. He decreed that a 29th day would be added to February every fourth year, which we now call a Leap Year. And it was his calendar – the Julian calendar – that England was still using in 1752, nearly 1800 years later.
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Gregory XIII contributed to the papacy in myriad ways during the twelve years of his reign. Of great significance was the replacement of the inaccurate Julian calendar with what came to be known as the Gre-gorian System.
But there was still this little prob-lem. The earth doesn’t go around the sun in 365 days and 6 hours, exactly. It’s close to that, but in fact that is 11 minutes and 12 sec-onds too long – which is enough to throw the calendar off by more than a day every century. I’ll bet Caesar and Sosigenes knew perfectly well that six hours was a bit too long.
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Sensibly enough, however, they left it for future authorities to make adjustments every few centuries. They would never have imagined that their 365¼-day calendar would remain in use, unchanged, for over 16 centuries!
Amazingly enough, however, that is precisely what happened. Conse-quently, by 1582, the calendar was off again by ten whole days – more than enough to be troublesome. Pope Gregory did as Caesar had done before him: he called in the experts.
The astronomer Lilio reasoned that, if adding a day every four years was too much, then some Leap Years ought to be skipped. After careful calculation, he concluded that one Leap Year should be skipped in three out of every four centuries. Got that?
The rule can be expressed this way – every century there is a “century year,” like the year 1500 or 1700 or 1900, when the year is divisible by 100. Those years do not get an extra day, even though (being divisible by 4) they re Leap Years. But a “century year” which is also divisible by 400 (like the year 1600 or 2000) escapes
this restriction and remains a Leap Year, so February gets its extra day.
Pope Gregory saw that it was good and made it so. The Gregorian calendar and its century rule aren’t perfect, but they are very, very close.
Clear as mud? Anyway, this new calendar worked fine, and one by one the European countries adopted it, but not all. Finally, 170 years later, the English Parliament in 1752 threw in the towel and switched to the Gre-gorian calendar. By then, of course,
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their Julian calendar was off by 11 days. A correction was needed. Par-liament decreed that the correction should happen in September, when 11 days simply would be dropped.
By the way, Parliament that year also decreed that January 1st would be the first day of the new year. Until then, the Church, and hence the courts, said the new year didn’t begin until the Feast of the Annun-ciation on March 25th. This is why you sometimes see historians writ-ing dates like February 4, 1763/4; which means the date is in the year 1764 even though the contemporary record reads 1763.
So what happened on September
The Curious Thing 3rd, 1752 in Talbot County? Abso-lutely nothing, because there wasn’t one. That year, the first Wednesday in September was the 2nd. The next day was Thursday, naturally, but it wasn’t the 3rd. Suddenly it was the 14th of September. That must have been fun for the accountants calcu-lating compound interest.
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Something for Nothing by David Anthony. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. 384 pp. Paperback. $13.95.
Martin Anderson, the leading character in David Anthony’s debut novel, is an odd hero (or antihero) to carry the weight of 384 pages of skullduggery.
On the surface, Martin has it all and is doing well. He has a lovely wife and two children whom he loves, in spite of the fact that they’re annoying. Peter, who is eight, acts out in school, is over-weight and has no friends. Sarah’s 13 and on the brink of the dreaded stage of adolescence. Mom finds marijuana in Sarah’s purse, squeals on her daughter and both parents accompany the kid to a mandated lecture on the dangers of drug use.
On balance, things could be worse. The Andersons live in a posh suburb in a beautiful house with a swimming pool; Martin owns a deep sea fishing boat and a promising race horse.
His business, on the other hand,
is in a big slump. He sells small airplanes and the market is dead. It’s the early 1970s, gasoline is scarce and the economy has tanked. Customers? Zero.
In short, Martin blunders along in his usual fashion, anxious about his debts and paranoid about his
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own failures. Sentences, whole paragraphs, even entire chapters are a litany of his inability to live up to his upscale position in life.
In truth, the novel is a bit of a bore in the first few chapters. The sad sack of the main character fails to arouse interest. Martin is a liar, a big phony and still in middle age, a nervous kid. So far, the book reads like a tedious report from a psychia-trist’s notebook. The temptation to toss the novel aside and choose a different one for review was strong.
It would have been a big mistake. Martin’s life is about to become very interesting, indeed.
Martin has a naughty little secret.
He has no intention of cheating on his wife, but he lusts after a gor-geous woman a few houses down the block.
One night, when he realizes their house is empty, he sneaks across the back lawns, opens the sliding doors to their patio and prowls around their house, just to see how they live. He succumbs to the urge to inspect the bedroom she shares with her boorish oaf of a husband.
Martin is checking out the con-tents of her jewelry box when he hears her come in her front door and upstairs. Terrified of exposure, he flattens himself on the floor on the far side of the bed and scarcely breathes while she uses the bath-room and leaves.
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Martin waits until he hears the front door close and her car drive off and, although panicked, he can’t resist stealing her jewelry box as a keepsake. He plans to hide it in his closet until he has a chance to sneak it back into its owner’s house.
In the meantime, he needs to deal with his debts before the bank forecloses on him. His accountant fails to arrange a bank loan. Mar-tin is in big financial trouble.
What’s more, his neighbor alerts the police about the break-in and the theft of her jewelry box. Slater, the friendly cop who drops in, says he’s asking the neighbors if any of
Something for Nothing them have seen anyone suspicious on their quiet street. He recog-nizes Martin and his kids – he’s the same officer who delivered the drug lecture at Sarah’s unhappy incident.
He’s smooth with the kids, and Peter is fascinated to meet the man who started his lecture by saying he’s been a big-city narcotics cop who was wounded twice by drug-gies during arrests. His appear-ance puts Martin in another sweat. For good reason.
In a recent conversation with his horse trainer, Val, Martin is nudged for repayment of a loan Val made with him. Val wants his money back, and Martin doesn’t have it. What Martin does have is his unsold airplanes.
Val offers to set Martin up in a one-night job – a quick jaunt in darkness to Mexico. Martin can drop off a sack of money, wait until his plane is loaded with drugs and return. It will only take a couple of hours, Val says, and Martin can be home and in bed before daylight. The job pays $5,000, and all Mar-tin has to do afterward is keep his mouth shut.
Martin is reluctant to be in-volved, so he struggles with the offer. As the noose tightens on his business crisis, he weakens and finally agrees. He desperately needs the money.
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a day later, Martin is home with a terrible hangover and the taste of fear in his mouth.
Never again, he tells himself. The Mexicans were a rough bunch, all carrying big guns, and Martin doesn’t speak Spanish. When Val enlists him for another run, Martin balks. Val reminds him that he’s already part of an illegal scheme, and big boys are now shipping heroin. If he bails now, he’s as good as dead. Martin falls in line again.
His nerves are now really shot, no less so when the former Narc, Detect ive Slater, cal ls on him again, this time to identify the owner of a crashed airplane that Martin sold. The pilot is nowhere
to be found, but the plane is loaded with drugs. Martin produces his records and recognizes the buyer in Slater’s mug shot book. Now he’s more scared than ever. The missing pilot will want him killed before he is captured and comes to trial.
In for a dime, in for a dollar, reasons the miserable Martin. Val beckons with the date of another run below the border. Martin is summoned to Val’s house to pick up the sack of money to pay for the load. What he finds there raises his paranoia to an overwhelming level.
His wife and kids are out of town, so Mart in hides out on his boat, feeling desperate as a
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marked man. Too many people want him dead.
To outl ine the story further would be to spoil the climax of the tale, but it’s a shocker. No mat-ter how clever a sleuth the reader considers him/herself, the author has made the title apt. “Something for Nothing” is an expensive game.
The book is new, just published in June, and the publisher calls it “The Big Summer Read.” Your critic suggests that the reader slog through the first three chapters, nodding off for naps from time to time, but don’t toss it aside. You won’t want to sleep again until you’ve been as frightened as poor
blundering Martin is during his ordeal. Which he knows could be his demise. I’m not telling. Just be careful what you wish for.
Highly recommended!
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1 Concert in the Park featuring Black Jacks at Muskrat Park, St. Michaels. 6:30 to 8 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-745-6073.
1,8,15,22,29 Main Street Farmer’s Market in downtown Cambridge. 3 to 6 p.m. For more info. visit www.cambridgemainstreet.com.
2 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.
2 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.
2 Meeting: 4-H at the St. Michaels Community Center. 6 to 9 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-745-6073.
2 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.
2-3 The Monty Alexander Jazz Festival at the Avalon Theatre,
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October15 The Met: Anna Bolena29 The Met: Don Giovanni
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2-3,9-10,16-17,23-24,30-1 Light-house Overnight Adventures at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. The program begins at 6 p.m. on Friday night and ends at 7:30
a.m. on Saturday morning. Take a hands-on tour of the 1879 Hooper Strait Lighthouse, try on the chores (and clothes) of a traditional lighthouse keeper, discover facts and clues about living in a lighthouse through games and puzzles, and swear the oath of lighthouse allegiance and become an official Hooper Strait Light Keeper. For more info. tel: 410-745-2916 or visit www.cbmm.org.
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3 Historic Houses Open House - Wright’s Chance in Centreville will be open to the public from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The patio and gardens of Tucker House will also be open, weather permitting. For information, call 410-758-3011.
3 14th Annual Boat Auction Fun-draiser at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Free for mem-bers or with museum admission. Boating experts and novices alike have the same opportunity to bid
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3 1st Annual Nautical Festival and Flea Market at the Town Soccer F ie ld , Oxford . The event will promote the town’s maritime background. There will be nautical vendors, a flea market, crab feast, live music and much more. For more info. visit www.portofoxford.com.
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3-4 St. Michaels Art League Labor Day Art Show and Sale under the large tent on the lawn at St. Luke’s United Methodist Church, St. Michaels. Sat., 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Sun., noon to 5 p.m. Origi-nal paintings in a variety of me-diums, photography and three-dimensional artwork on display and for sale. For more info. tel: 410-745-0500, ext. 103 or visit www.stmichaelsartleague.org.
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3,10,17,24 The Artisans’ Market in Fountain Park in downtown Chestertown adjacent to the popular Chestertown Farmer’s Market from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Ample parking available in the city lots surrounding the park.
3,10,17,24 Historic High Street Walking Tour in downtown Cam-bridge. Experience the beauty and hear the folklore. One-hour walking tours are sponsored by the West End Citizens Associa-tion. $8 (children under 12 free). Meet at 11 a.m. at Long Wharf. For more info. tel: 410-901-1000.
3,17 Skipjack Sail on the Nathan of Dorchester, 1 to 3 p.m., Long
Wharf, Cambridge. Adults $30, children 6-12 $10; under 6 free. For reservations tel: 410-228-7141 or [email protected].
5 Piga-Figa-Licious Labor Day Picnic featuring roast pork and chicken with all the sides, many made with fresh figs. A fund-raiser for the Oxford Museum by the river on the grounds of Holy Trinity Church from noon to 4 p.m. Cost is $35 for adults, 1/2 price for children under 10. Cash bar for wine and beer. Music pro-vided by GroundHog. For more info. tel: 410-226-0191.
5,12,19,26 Meeting: Alcoholics
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Anonymous - Mid-Shore Inter-group at the St. Michaels Com-munity Center. 7 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-4226.
7 Nature as Muse—Walk and Re-flection with Nature Journaling at Adkins Arboretum, Ridgely. 10 a.m. to noon. Guided walk fol-lowed by journaling session - free with admission. Join one of the Arboretum’s docent naturalists for a walk through the forest. Enjoy the theme of the day and write/journal about your time in the woods. Registration required. For more info. tel: 410-634-2847, ext. 0.
7,14,21,28 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.
7,14,21,28 Social Time for Seniors
at the St. Michaels Community Center, every Wednesday from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-745-6073.
7,14,21,28 Oxford Farmer’s Market will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Church of the Holy Trinity, Oxford. For more info. tel: 410-226-5904.
7,14,21,28 Trivia at NightCat is held each Wednesday at 7 p.m. If you’ve got three friends with triple digit IQs, test yourselves against Talbot’s brightest. Pre-pare to be humbled! For more info. tel: 410-690-4544.
7,21 Plant Clinic offered by the Uni-versity of Maryland Cooperative 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.
8 Academy for Lifelong Learning Fall Social from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Van Lennep Auditorium, Chesa-
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8 St. Michaels Book Club at the Talbot County Free Library, St. Michaels. 6 p.m. This month’s book will be “Little Bee” by Chris Cleave. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626.
8 Concert in the Park featuring The Bog Band at Muskrat Park, St. Michaels. 6:30 to 8 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-745-6073.
8,15,22,29 Memoir Writing at the Talbot County Free Library,
St. Michaels. 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Learn how to preserve your fam-ily history by writing and sharing your stories. For more info. tel: 410-745-5877.
9 Relay for Life - Talbot County at the Talbot Agricultural Center, Hiners Lane, Easton. This event gives everyone in the community a chance to celebrate the lives of people who have battled cancer. For more info tel: 410-443-3371 or visit www.relayforlife.org/talbot.
10,24 Country Church Breakfast at Faith Chapel & Trappe United Methodist Churches in Wesley Hall, Trappe. 7:30 to 10:30 a.m. Menu: eggs, pancakes, French
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10 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.
10 Second Saturday Walk at Adkins Arboretum, Ridgely. Come on a unique journey toward under-standing native plants and how they can become a greater part of your home gardening experience. Free with admission. For more info. tel: 410-634-2847, ext. 0.
10 Gerald Elias violin concert and book signing for DANSE MACABRE at Mystery Loves Company, Oxford. 10 a.m. For more info. tel: 410-226-0010.
10 Soup ‘n Walk at Adkins Arbo-retum, Ridgely. 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Check out the beautiful view along Tuckahoe Creek and beyond. Sweet potato leek soup;
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quinoa, green bean and tomato salad; wheat bread with seeds and hummus spread and oat berry scones. $20 members, $25 general public. For more info. tel: 410-634-2847, ext. 0.
10 Pig Roast and Chicken BBQ at Grubby Neck Century Farm on Black Dog Alley, Easton to benefit Pickering Creek Audubon Center. 1 to 5 p.m. $75 for adults, $25 per child 12 and under. There will be plenty of refreshments and games to play, and there will be live music. For more info. tel: 410-924-3806.
10 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.
10 Boating Party Gala Fundraiser at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. 6 to 10 p.m. $150 per person. The fun-draiser includes cocktails, dinner and dancing on Navy Point. For more info. tel: 410-745-2916 or visit www.cbmm.org.
10 Concert: Summer Breeze at Layton’s Chance Winery, Vienna. Bring your lawn chairs, pack a picnic and join us for live music and great wine! $5 cover for
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adults 21 and over. Must have proper ID to taste wine. 6 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-228-1205 or visit www.laytonschance.com.
10,24 Music in the Park at Fountain Park, Chestertown. 7 to 8:30 p.m. All concerts are free and open to the public. Bring something to sit on.
11 Pancake Breakfast at the Ox-ford Volunteer Fire Dept. 7 to 11 a.m. Proceeds to benefit the Oxford Volunteer Fire Services. $8. For more info. tel: 410-226-5110.
12 Academy for Lifelong Learning - Meet the Author with Walter
Ellison from 10:30 a.m. to noon at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. For more info. tel: 410-745-2916.
12 The Tidewater Camera Club will begin the new Speaker Series sea-son with a presentation entitled “Beyond the Garden Gate” by professional photographer Josh Taylor Jr. from 7 to 9 p.m. This presentation will inspire photog-raphers to see and create striking photographs using in-camera and software enhancement tech-niques. For more information on the speaker, visit archipho-toworkshops.com. Please check the club website, www.tidewa-tercameraclub.com, or contact
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Janet at 410-901-2223 for the seminar location. The seminar is open to the public.
12,19,26 Bingo! at the Elks Club at 5464 Elks Club Rd., Rt. 50 in Cambridge. 7 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-221-6044.
12,19,26 Tot Time at the Talbot County Free Library, St. Michaels. 10:15 a.m. for children ages 5 and under accompanied by an adult. For more info. tel: 410-745-5877.
13 Fall Crafts at the Talbot County Free Library, St. Michaels. 3:30 p.m. for children ages 12 and
under. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626.
13,20,27 First Step Storytime at the Talbot County Free Library, Easton (28712 Glebe Road). 10 to 10:30 a.m. for children 3 and under with an adult. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626.
13,27 Meeting: Tidewater Stamp Club at the Mayor and Council Bldg., Easton. 7:30 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-1371.
13,27 Meeting: Tilghman Chess Club of Talbot County at the St. Michaels Community Center. 1 to 3:30 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-886-2030.
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14 Eating Seasonally seminar with Elizabeth Beggins at Adkins Arboretum, Ridgely. Learning to eat in rhythm with the season will also attune you to your body’s special needs. 1 to 2:30 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-634-2847.
14 Adult Program: Victor Borge’s Daughter Remembers. Janet Borge Crowle will share her memories of the great pianist and comedian at Brookletts Place (formerly the Senior Center), Easton at 5:30 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626.
14 Meeting: Talbot Optimist Club at the Waterview Grille at the Easton Club, Easton. 6:30 p.m.
For more info. tel: 410-770-5519.
14,21,28 Pre-School Story Time at the Talbot County Free Library, Easton. 2 to 2:45 p.m. for 3- to 5-year-olds, no adult required. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit www.tcfl.org.
15 Day trip to Hagley Museum and dinner at Kitty Knight House sponsored by the Historical So-ciety of Talbot County. Leaving HSTC at 9 a.m. and returning at 9 p.m. Member price $115, non-member $125. Deadline to register is Sept. 7. For more info. tel: 410-822-0773 or visit www.hstc.org.
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15 Happy Fall Y’all Puppet Show at the Talbot County Free Library, St. Michaels. 3:30 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-745-5877.
15 Concert in the Park featuring Swamp Candy at Muskrat Park, St. Michaels. 6:30 to 8 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-745-6073.
15 Comedy at the Stoltz: Every third Thursday come see some of the hottest national comics in the business in the Stoltz Listening Room, Avalon Theatre, Easton. The doors open at 7 p.m. The show starts at 8 p.m.$20. For more info. tel: 410-822-7299 or
visit www.avalontheatre.com.
15,22,29 Academy for Lifelong Learning - Genealogy...Our An-cestry Examined with Silvia Borges from 10:30 a.m. to noon at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. For more info. tel: 410-745-2916.
16 Soup Day at the St. Michaels Community Center. Choose from three delicious soups for lunch. $5 meal deal. Choose from Chicken & Dumplings, Cheese & Broccoli or Soup du Jour (either Vegetable Beef or Chili). Each meal comes with a bowl of soup, a roll and a drink. Take out or eat in! We deliver in St. Michaels.
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16 Best Night Hike Ever at the Pickering Creek Audubon Center, Easton. Walk through a field lit by fireflies, hear the owls call, head out on a starlit paddle down Pickering Creek and settle in by the campfire with s’mores and storytelling. 6 to 9 p.m. $50 per person. For more info. tel: 410-822-4903.
16-18 Adkins Arboretum’s Fall Plant Sale Weekend at Adkins Arboretum, Ridgely. This fall’s special selection of native plants will highlight late-season bloom-ers, asters, goldenrod and native grasses, as well as favorite trees and shrubs. Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. is the Members Only Sale. Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. are the public sale days. For more info. tel: 410-634-2847, ext. 32 or visit www.adkinsarboretum.org.
16-18 Wee-Sale Children’s Con-signment Event at the Easton Armory, 7111 Ocean Gateway, Easton. Huge seasonal children’s consignment sale featuring toys, clothes, baby gear, maternity clothes, books and more. Fri. and Sat., 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sun., 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-562-8398 or visit www.Wee-Sale.com.
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16-Oct. 2 Play: Spelling Bee di-rected by Steven J. Arnold at the Church Hill Theatre. With music and lyrics by William Finn and a book by Rachel Sheinkin, Spell-ing Bee chronicles the experience of six adolescent outsiders vying for the spelling championship of a lifetime. For more info. tel: 410-758-1331 or visit www.churchhilltheatre.org.
17 Ask a Master Gardener at both the Easton and St. Michaels Farmer’s Markets. Bring your diseased plant samples, get ideas on managing your vegetable gar-den, find out how your approach
to gardening can help improve the health of the Bay and more! For more info. tel: 703-328-6322.
17 Corsica Watershed Awareness Day - A free family event held noon to 4 p.m. at Bloomfield Farm on Route 213, just north of Centreville, MD. This event combines engaging environ-mental education with tours of the historic farmhouse, a variety of tasty food offerings, hayrides, a straw maze, pump-kin painting and creative crafts act iv i t ies for chi ldren. The bluegrass group Chester River Runoff will be playing during this event. For more info. tel: 410-758-0835 or visit www.
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17 Summer Sendoff: Blues, Brews & BBQ Downtown Cambridge Street Festival from 5 to 10 p.m. on Poplar and Race streets, Cam-bridge. The streets will be closed to traffic as top bands, including the Jimmy Cole Blues Band, take center stage. For more info tel: 443-477-0843 or visit www.cam-bridgemainstreet.com.
17-18 Lighthouse Challenge - the Challenge is a weekend-long driving tour of ten historic lights (nine land-accessible lighthouses and one lightship) at some of the most scenic spots statewide. For each lighthouse visited, you will
receive a complimentary souvenir depicting that lighthouse. Vol-unteers will be at each location 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. For more info. visit www.cbmm.org or www.cheslights.org/challenge.htm.
17-18 19th Annual Native American Festival Nause-Waiwash Band of Indians from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Vienna ball field. The na-tive American Festival features traditional dancers, singers, drumming, crafts, artists dem-onstrations, food, a tomahawk throw, a large silent auction and more. Rain or shine. For more info. tel: 410-376-3889 or visit www.turtletracks.org.
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18 One-hour skipjack sails on the Nathan of Dorchester, 11 a.m. and 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.
19 Stitching Time at the Talbot County Free Library, Easton (28712 Glebe Rd.) from 3 to 5 p.m. Bring your own projects to work on (sewing, knitting, cross-stitch, what-have-you). Limited instruction available for begin-ners and newcomers. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626.
19,26 Academy for Lifelong Learn-ing - The American Religious Experience with Sam Barnett from 1 to 2:30 p.m. at the Chesa-peake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. For more info. tel: 410-745-2916.
20,27 Academy for Lifelong Learn-ing - The Forensics of Antique Furniture and Other Decorative Arts with Richard Mattingly from 10 to 11:30 a.m. at the Chesa-peake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. For more info. tel: 410-745-2916.
20,27 Academy for Lifelong Learn-ing - Great Decision Discussion Program with Steve Conn from
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21,28 Academy for Lifelong Learn-ing - Shakespeare’s Late Ro-mances: Cymbeline, The Winter’s Tale, and The Tempest with John Ford and John Miller from 1:30 to 3 p.m. at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. For more info. tel: 410-745-2916.
22 Bus Trip to Chanticleer Garden, located just outside Philadelphia, sponsored by Adkins Arboretum. 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. $95 for mem-bers and $120 for general public. Fee includes bus transportation, admission, garden guided tour and a buffet lunch at Terrain Gar-den Center and Cafe. For more info. tel: 410-634-2847, ext. 0.
22 Monarch Tagging at Pickering Creek Audubon Center, Easton. Join the staff for a close-up look at the astounding Monarch butterfly and then move out to the fields and do a little ‘monarch tagging.’ 5 to 7 p.m. $10 adult, $5 child. For more info. tel: 410-822-4903.
22 Lecture: Artist Ruth Starr Rose - a lecture by Barbara Paca at the Historical Society of Talbot County Auditorium, Easton. 5:30 p.m. Free. For more info. tel: 410-822-0773 or visit www.hstc.org.
22,26 One Maryland One Book Discussion at the Talbot County Free Library, Easton (28712 Glebe Road) with “The Library Guy,” Bill Peak, discussing Sher-man Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian. Thurs. at 9:30 a.m. and Mon. at 6:30 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626.
22,29 Academy for Lifelong Learn-ing - Taking a Moment: The Spiritual Art of Living the Here and Now with Carolyn Roslund and George Merrill from 10:30 a.m. to noon at Bray House, Trin-ity Cathedral, Easton. For more info. tel: 410-745-2916.
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23-25 Program: Build a Model Crabbing Skiff at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Mi-chaels. Fri., 6 to 9 p.m.; Sat. and Sun., 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Model Guild of the Museum will host a weekend model-building work-shop. Led step-by-step by skilled volunteer modelers, participants will create a 10-inch Chesapeake Bay Crabbing Skiff built from two-toned flat stock over a frame. For more info. tel: 410-745-2916 or visit www.cbmm.org.
23-26 Chesapeake Film Festival: The Chesapeake Film Festival brings outstanding narrative,
comedy, documentary and short films to Easton, Cambridge, and Chesapeake College in Wye Mills that otherwise would not be available to the citizens of the Eastern Shore of Maryland and surrounding areas. Our fourth annual festival in 2011 builds on the extraordinary successes of our first three festivals and once again will include Gallery 447 in the town of Cambridge. CFF has partnered with Easton Premier Cinemas, Plein Air, The Freder-ick Douglass Honor Society, the Talbot Cinema Society, the Talbot Office of Tourism, and others. For more info. visit www.chesa-peakefilmfestival.com.
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24 ChesapeakeMan Endurance Festival sponsored by the Co-lumbia Triathlon Association features a one-day 140.6-mile race: (2.4-mile swim, 112-mile bike, 26.2-mile run). The swim and bike sections start at Great Marsh Park, Cambridge and the run starts and finishes at Cambridge South Dorchester High School. For more info visit www.tricolumbia.org/Chesa-peakeMan/.
24 Rummage Sale sponsored by the Oxford Ladies Auxiliary for the benefit of the Oxford Volunteer Fire Company. 9 a.m. to noon
at the OVFD. For more info. tel: 410-200-0902.
24 2nd Annual Artisan Fair at Symphony Village in Centreville from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., rain or shine. Over 20 artisans living in Symphony Village will offer their creations for sale, including stained glass, jewelry, paintings, needlecraft, quilts, flower ar-rangements, hand-sewn purses, photography, wood carving, children’s custom clothing and so much more. For more info. tel: 410-758-3194.
24 Choptank Heritage Skipjack Race from 10 a.m. to noon, Cam-bridge. Free. Best views from Long Wharf or Great Marsh Park. For more info. visit www.skip-jack-nathan.org/Events/race.
24 Family Crafts at the Talbot County Free Library, Easton (28712 Glebe Road). 10 to 11:30 a.m. Drop-in art activities will be available for children of all ages accompanied by an adult. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626.
24 Crabtoberfest sponsored by the Dorchester Chamber of Com-merce at Governor’s Hall, Sail-winds Park, Cambridge. This one-of-a-kind event features German music, dancing, German and Eastern Shore food (includ-ing crabs!), authentic biergarten,
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activities for kids and much more. Noon to dark. For more info. visit www.crabtoberfest.com.
24 2nd Harvest Festival and Grape Stomp at Layton’s Chance Vine-yard and Winery featuring a concert with Rusted Axel and the Gingers. 2 to 5 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-228-1205 or visit www.laytonschance.com.
24 4th annual Magic in the Meadow at Adkins Arboretum, Ridgely. This dazzling event will benefit the Arboretum’s conservation programs. As twilight falls, guests will mingle in the meadow surrounded by the Arboretum’s 400 acres of majestic native gardens, wetlands, forests and streams. An unforgettable eve-ning of music by Stefan Scag-giari. Exciting live and silent auctions featuring art, dining and fabulous travel opportuni-ties, and more! Magic in the Meadow wil l of fer sumptu-ous multi-course small plates prepared by PeachBlossoms, cocktails, and delicious comple-menting wines. Tickets are $125 per person. For more info. tel: 410-634-2847, ext. 0 or visit www.magicinthemeadow.org.
24-25 Revolutionary War Re-Enactment Festival Weekend
at Mount Harmon, Earleville, MD. Mount Harmon is hosting a full scale Revolutionary War re-enactment and Colonial Fes-tival, complete with British and Rebel encampments, military skirmishes, tactical demonstra-tions, colonial crafts, manor house tours, food vendors and much more. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-275-8819 or visit www.mountharmon.org.
25 St. Michaels Concours d’Elegance at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The St. Michaels Con-cours d’Elegance is a celebration of automotive style and excel-lence featuring Grand Classic automobiles (1900-1942) along with vintage motor boats, art, and fashion. New to this year’s event is an automobile class featuring post-World War II sports and racing cars through 1960. For more info. tel: 410-745-2916 or visit www.smcde.org.
25 35th Annual Dorchester Center for the Arts Showcase from noon to 5 p.m. on historic High Street in Cambridge. The Showcase features the area’s finest artists, crafters, performers and food vendors. Rain or shine. For more info. tel: 410-228-7782.
25 FREE skipjack sails on the Na-than of Dorchester during Cam-
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bridge’s Dorchester Showcase: 12:30, 1:30, 2:30 and 3:30 p.m. from Long Wharf, Cambridge. No advance reservations accept-ed. For more info. visit www.skipjack-nathan.org.
25 Bird Walk ‘n Talk Series at the Pickering Creek Audubon Center, Easton. The series introduces be-ginning birders of all ages to the birds found along the Delmarva Peninsula. 1 to 3 p.m. $10 adult, $5 Child. For more info. tel: 410-822-4903.
25 Concert - Lyra: The Russian Vo-cal Ensemble of St. Petersburg
to perform at Christ Church on the corner of High and Church streets, Cambridge. 7 p.m. The group will perform Russian sa-cred music, secular songs and folk music as part of the 2011 American tour. $10 for adults. Students and children are wel-come and admitted free. For more info. tel: 410-228-2161.
27 Game Day at the Talbot County Free Library, St. Michaels. 3:30 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-745-5877.
29 Seminar: Gardening in the Woods with ecologist Dr. Sylvan Kaufman at Adkins Arboretum, Ridgely. 1 to 3 p.m. Learning
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30-Oct. 1 Heritage Day at the His-torical Society of Talbot County: The kick off for Heritage Day be-gins at 6 p.m. on Friday with the “Talbot County: A Special Place” with Historical Significance Im-age Contest. Photographs and other media on display by local students at the HSTC Auditorium from 6 to 8 p.m. Free. On Sat., Oct. 1 there will be a traditional crafts fair from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the HSTC garden; the 3rd an-nual Clues Cruise will begins at
10:30 a.m. and there will be the American and Talbot Treasures Reception at Wye House from 5 to 8 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-0773 or visit www.hstc.org.
30-Oct. 2 29th Annual Mid-At-lantic Small Craft Festival at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. One of the nation’s premier small craft events! Hundreds of amateur and professional boat builders and enthusiasts come from all over the region to display their skiffs, kayaks and canoes. For more info. tel: 410-745-2916 or visit www.cbmm.org.
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Benson & Mangold Real Estate, LLC211 N. Talbot St., St. Michaels, MD 21663
Jane Bakerwww.stmichaelswaterfront.com410-924-0515 · [email protected]
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COTTAGEIdeal 1910 cottage completely renovated with 4 BRs and 2½ baths, open floor plan with win-dows on all sides offering water views from most rooms. Pier with deep water offering quick access to the Tred Avon River and only minutes to Oxford by boat. A MUST SEE at $989,000.
EXTRAORDINARY VIEWSPerfectly sited on 5+/- acres to take advantage of the endless views. 1st floor owner’s suite, hardwood floors throughout, 3 fireplaces, state-of-the-art kitchen with all appliances, Hunter Douglas silhouette shades and designer draperies on all windows are just a few of the extras. About 800’ of totally protected shoreline, pier with boat lift, deck lift and approximately 3’ MLW. Offered for $2,395,000.
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Delightful Cape Cod offering 3 or 4 BRs and 2 full baths. Great room with fireplace, din-ing room, sun room and split bedroom floor plan. Geother-mal heating and cooling, Low-
E windows, solar shades, hot water on demand are just a few of the many recent upgrades. Priced at $629,000.