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SECRETS OF THE EASTERN SHOREMONTH OF FUNDAYS NEWSLETTER: OCTOBER 2020SECRETS OF THE EASTERN SHOREEVENT OF THE MONTH Helping you to explore, enjoy, and celebrate this incredibly special place! From skipjack sails and tall ship tours to small-town scrapple festivals and muskrat-skinning competitions, Secrets of the Eastern Shore is your ticket to fun here in paradise. EASTERN SHORE ROAD TRIPS: 27 ONE-DAY ADVENTURES ON Your adventures on the Delmarva Peninsula are about to get a lot more fun and interesting. The first Secrets of the Eastern Shore guidebook is now available—it’s called Eastern Shore Road Trips: 27 One-Day Adventures on Delmarva. Much more than a travel guide, Eastern Shore Road Trips is full of tales from days gone by and insights into the character and culture of the storied Delmarva TUBMAN TRAVELS: HOW THE OTHER 'MOSES' KEPT THE DOGS OF The story of Moses Viney that follows is excerpted from Tubman Travels: 32 Underground Railroad Journeys on Delmarva, a book by Secrets of the Eastern Shore that tells stories of Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, and many other men and women whose journeys in slavery and out of bondage went through the Eastern Shore and
Delaware.
THE OLDEST BLACK COMMUNITY IN THE WHOLE COUNTRY MAY BE Historians used to think that oldest continuously occupied black community in the country was a New Orleans neighborhood called Tremé, where the African-American story dates to 1812. But thanks to an extraordinary research project, it's now apparent that The Hill neighborhood has Tremé beat by THE GREAT EASTERN SHORE DEEP FREEZE IN THE WINTER OF 1976 The Great Eastern Shore Deep Freeze in the Winter of 1976-77. Perhaps the deepest of all Eastern Shore deep freezes set in before Christmas, 1976, and it didn’t let up until well into February, 1977, two full bone-chilling months. Back then, only older folks on the Shore could remember anything like it—and those memories went clear back to WHEN FARMING ON VIRGINIA'S EASTERN SHORE TOOK A TURN OUT The railroad arrived on Virginia’s Eastern Shore in the 1880s. Steamboat lines expanded like crazy during that same decade. Both advances promised to give farmers speedier, more reliable, and more predictable access to distant big-city markets–Baltimore by SIX BRIDGES OVER TROUBLED WATER: A DREADFUL DAY IN The Snow Hill Democratic Messenger, Nov. 18, 1922: “The road, which earlier in the day had been an inviting expanse of shells, had been converted by the downpour of rain into a quagmire of mud.”. A ferry running at Chincoteague before the causeway. WHY IS THE TOWN PLAYED BY BERLIN IN THE MOVIE "RUNAWAY Since the subject at hand is peaches, we might as well start with the bit of “Runaway Bride” trivia highlighted in the headline here. The name Hale, you see, is actually a sly tribute to a tasty little slice of Eastern Shore history. Released in 1999 and starring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere, “Runaway Bride” was filmed in Berlin. Berlin, in turn, was home back in the ‘THE MOST REMARKABLE MAN I HAD EVER SEEN:’ JOHN HUNN If I could commune with the dead of Delmarva, one soul I would definitely call out is John Hunn, Delaware's great warrior for freedom during the days of slavery. He probably helped hundreds of slaves find the way to freedom. It’s possible—though unconfirmed—that Harriet Tubman herself came knocking at Hunn’s door, fugitives intow.
QUOTE OF THE DAY: IN AN OLD TOMATO CANNERY, "THE One day last winter I drove out to St. Michaels to hear a presentation at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum by a panel of local folks whose families were involved in various old canneries that used to be so central to the economy in the mid-Shore region–and all around theDelmarva Peninsula.
SECRETS OF THE EASTERN SHOREMONTH OF FUNDAYS NEWSLETTER: OCTOBER 2020SECRETS OF THE EASTERN SHOREEVENT OF THE MONTH Helping you to explore, enjoy, and celebrate this incredibly special place! From skipjack sails and tall ship tours to small-town scrapple festivals and muskrat-skinning competitions, Secrets of the Eastern Shore is your ticket to fun here in paradise. EASTERN SHORE ROAD TRIPS: 27 ONE-DAY ADVENTURES ON Your adventures on the Delmarva Peninsula are about to get a lot more fun and interesting. The first Secrets of the Eastern Shore guidebook is now available—it’s called Eastern Shore Road Trips: 27 One-Day Adventures on Delmarva. Much more than a travel guide, Eastern Shore Road Trips is full of tales from days gone by and insights into the character and culture of the storied Delmarva TUBMAN TRAVELS: HOW THE OTHER 'MOSES' KEPT THE DOGS OF The story of Moses Viney that follows is excerpted from Tubman Travels: 32 Underground Railroad Journeys on Delmarva, a book by Secrets of the Eastern Shore that tells stories of Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, and many other men and women whose journeys in slavery and out of bondage went through the Eastern Shore andDelaware.
THE OLDEST BLACK COMMUNITY IN THE WHOLE COUNTRY MAY BE Historians used to think that oldest continuously occupied black community in the country was a New Orleans neighborhood called Tremé, where the African-American story dates to 1812. But thanks to an extraordinary research project, it's now apparent that The Hill neighborhood has Tremé beat by THE GREAT EASTERN SHORE DEEP FREEZE IN THE WINTER OF 1976 The Great Eastern Shore Deep Freeze in the Winter of 1976-77. Perhaps the deepest of all Eastern Shore deep freezes set in before Christmas, 1976, and it didn’t let up until well into February, 1977, two full bone-chilling months. Back then, only older folks on the Shore could remember anything like it—and those memories went clear back to WHEN FARMING ON VIRGINIA'S EASTERN SHORE TOOK A TURN OUT The railroad arrived on Virginia’s Eastern Shore in the 1880s. Steamboat lines expanded like crazy during that same decade. Both advances promised to give farmers speedier, more reliable, and more predictable access to distant big-city markets–Baltimore by SIX BRIDGES OVER TROUBLED WATER: A DREADFUL DAY IN The Snow Hill Democratic Messenger, Nov. 18, 1922: “The road, which earlier in the day had been an inviting expanse of shells, had been converted by the downpour of rain into a quagmire of mud.”. A ferry running at Chincoteague before the causeway. WHY IS THE TOWN PLAYED BY BERLIN IN THE MOVIE "RUNAWAY Since the subject at hand is peaches, we might as well start with the bit of “Runaway Bride” trivia highlighted in the headline here. The name Hale, you see, is actually a sly tribute to a tasty little slice of Eastern Shore history. Released in 1999 and starring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere, “Runaway Bride” was filmed in Berlin. Berlin, in turn, was home back in the ‘THE MOST REMARKABLE MAN I HAD EVER SEEN:’ JOHN HUNN If I could commune with the dead of Delmarva, one soul I would definitely call out is John Hunn, Delaware's great warrior for freedom during the days of slavery. He probably helped hundreds of slaves find the way to freedom. It’s possible—though unconfirmed—that Harriet Tubman herself came knocking at Hunn’s door, fugitives intow.
QUOTE OF THE DAY: IN AN OLD TOMATO CANNERY, "THE One day last winter I drove out to St. Michaels to hear a presentation at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum by a panel of local folks whose families were involved in various old canneries that used to be so central to the economy in the mid-Shore region–and all around theDelmarva Peninsula.
WHEN FARMING ON VIRGINIA'S EASTERN SHORE TOOK A TURN OUT The railroad arrived on Virginia’s Eastern Shore in the 1880s. Steamboat lines expanded like crazy during that same decade. Both advances promised to give farmers speedier, more reliable, and more predictable access to distant big-city markets–Baltimore by HOW A CONSTRUCTION MISHAP BACK IN 1909 HELPED CREATE This excerpt from Eastern Shore Road Trips #1: 27 One-Day Adventures on Delmarva is comes in the midst of a road trip through Salisbury, starting on the east at the Ward Museum and then running through City Park and into downtown and its Riverwalk. Do you see that giant kidney-shaped thing at the top of this old map of downtown Salisbury? That is the 40-acre Humphrey’s Lake that THE TRUE TALE OF MISTY, STORMY, AND MAYBE THE WORST NOR The deluge lasted three long days and stretched across five high tides right at the time of the full moon. More than 90 percent of Chincoteague Island flooded. The PEDDLER'S RUN: THE INNOCENT LITTLE STREAM WITH A DEADLY The next time I visit Charlestown, Md., I going to stop and take a picture of Peddler’s Run. I don’t recall paying that little spit of water any mind on my previous visits, but back then I didn’t know the story of how the creek got its name. PICTURE THIS: ON CAMBRIDGE CREEK, THE OLDEST CRABPACKING This iconic Delmarva scene up top here—it’s the work of Jill Jasuta Photography, of course—speaks to a transition that unfolded as the 20 th century arrived. The oyster’s reign was coming to an end. The blue crab was on the rise. The story I have in mind begins with a man everyone knew as “Captain Johnnie.” CHINCOTEAGUE CHARACTER OF THE DAY: DECOY-CARVING … The amazing life that Miles Hancock led could never have unfolded the way it did if he had lived anyplace else in the world. Born in Williamsville, Delaware in 1887, he was one of four children in a farming family. When he was seven, his parents moved to Chincoteague. That’s when things got tough. First, his mother died. Then, his father couldn’t make enough THE STORY BEHIND WILD WEST SHARPSHOOTER ANNIE OAKLEY'S From what I’ve read, it was Butler’s idea to settle on the Shore. After visiting Cambridge on one of their endless tours of the East Coast with a circus-like Wild West Show, Butler described the town as a “sportsman’s paradise” with “four banks, several fine churches, but no saloons.” SOMERSET JOURNEY: THE STEAK KNIFE WAS INVENTED IN The story behind the creation of the steak knife in your kitchen drawer involves a bit of manufacturing ingenuity, but there is more to it. Think romantic sleigh rides, a devastating fire, steadfast religious faith, and then—a Christmas gift from a friend thatchanges everything.
WHY IS THE TOWN PLAYED BY BERLIN IN THE MOVIE "RUNAWAY Since the subject at hand is peaches, we might as well start with the bit of “Runaway Bride” trivia highlighted in the headline here. The name Hale, you see, is actually a sly tribute to a tasty little slice of Eastern Shore history. Released in 1999 and starring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere, “Runaway Bride” was filmed in Berlin. Berlin, in turn, was home back in the ‘THE MOST REMARKABLE MAN I HAD EVER SEEN:’ JOHN HUNN If I could commune with the dead of Delmarva, one soul I would definitely call out is John Hunn, Delaware's great warrior for freedom during the days of slavery. He probably helped hundreds of slaves find the way to freedom. It’s possible—though unconfirmed—that Harriet Tubman herself came knocking at Hunn’s door, fugitives intow.
SECRETS OF THE EASTERN SHOREMONTH OF FUNDAYS NEWSLETTER: OCTOBER 2020SECRETS OF THE EASTERN SHOREEVENT OF THE MONTH Helping you to explore, enjoy, and celebrate this incredibly special place! From skipjack sails and tall ship tours to small-town scrapple festivals and muskrat-skinning competitions, Secrets of the Eastern Shore is your ticket to fun here in paradise. EASTERN SHORE ROAD TRIPS: 27 ONE-DAY ADVENTURES ON Your adventures on the Delmarva Peninsula are about to get a lot more fun and interesting. The first Secrets of the Eastern Shore guidebook is now available—it’s called Eastern Shore Road Trips: 27 One-Day Adventures on Delmarva. Much more than a travel guide, Eastern Shore Road Trips is full of tales from days gone by and insights into the character and culture of the storied Delmarva TUBMAN TRAVELS: HOW THE OTHER 'MOSES' KEPT THE DOGS OF The story of Moses Viney that follows is excerpted from Tubman Travels: 32 Underground Railroad Journeys on Delmarva, a book by Secrets of the Eastern Shore that tells stories of Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, and many other men and women whose journeys in slavery and out of bondage went through the Eastern Shore andDelaware.
THE OLDEST BLACK COMMUNITY IN THE WHOLE COUNTRY MAY BE Historians used to think that oldest continuously occupied black community in the country was a New Orleans neighborhood called Tremé, where the African-American story dates to 1812. But thanks to an extraordinary research project, it's now apparent that The Hill neighborhood has Tremé beat by THE GREAT EASTERN SHORE DEEP FREEZE IN THE WINTER OF 1976 The Great Eastern Shore Deep Freeze in the Winter of 1976-77. Perhaps the deepest of all Eastern Shore deep freezes set in before Christmas, 1976, and it didn’t let up until well into February, 1977, two full bone-chilling months. Back then, only older folks on the Shore could remember anything like it—and those memories went clear back to WHEN FARMING ON VIRGINIA'S EASTERN SHORE TOOK A TURN OUT The railroad arrived on Virginia’s Eastern Shore in the 1880s. Steamboat lines expanded like crazy during that same decade. Both advances promised to give farmers speedier, more reliable, and more predictable access to distant big-city markets–Baltimore by SIX BRIDGES OVER TROUBLED WATER: A DREADFUL DAY IN The Snow Hill Democratic Messenger, Nov. 18, 1922: “The road, which earlier in the day had been an inviting expanse of shells, had been converted by the downpour of rain into a quagmire of mud.”. A ferry running at Chincoteague before the causeway. WHY IS THE TOWN PLAYED BY BERLIN IN THE MOVIE "RUNAWAY Since the subject at hand is peaches, we might as well start with the bit of “Runaway Bride” trivia highlighted in the headline here. The name Hale, you see, is actually a sly tribute to a tasty little slice of Eastern Shore history. Released in 1999 and starring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere, “Runaway Bride” was filmed in Berlin. Berlin, in turn, was home back in the ‘THE MOST REMARKABLE MAN I HAD EVER SEEN:’ JOHN HUNN If I could commune with the dead of Delmarva, one soul I would definitely call out is John Hunn, Delaware's great warrior for freedom during the days of slavery. He probably helped hundreds of slaves find the way to freedom. It’s possible—though unconfirmed—that Harriet Tubman herself came knocking at Hunn’s door, fugitives intow.
QUOTE OF THE DAY: IN AN OLD TOMATO CANNERY, "THE One day last winter I drove out to St. Michaels to hear a presentation at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum by a panel of local folks whose families were involved in various old canneries that used to be so central to the economy in the mid-Shore region–and all around theDelmarva Peninsula.
SECRETS OF THE EASTERN SHOREMONTH OF FUNDAYS NEWSLETTER: OCTOBER 2020SECRETS OF THE EASTERN SHOREEVENT OF THE MONTH Helping you to explore, enjoy, and celebrate this incredibly special place! From skipjack sails and tall ship tours to small-town scrapple festivals and muskrat-skinning competitions, Secrets of the Eastern Shore is your ticket to fun here in paradise. EASTERN SHORE ROAD TRIPS: 27 ONE-DAY ADVENTURES ON Your adventures on the Delmarva Peninsula are about to get a lot more fun and interesting. The first Secrets of the Eastern Shore guidebook is now available—it’s called Eastern Shore Road Trips: 27 One-Day Adventures on Delmarva. Much more than a travel guide, Eastern Shore Road Trips is full of tales from days gone by and insights into the character and culture of the storied Delmarva TUBMAN TRAVELS: HOW THE OTHER 'MOSES' KEPT THE DOGS OF The story of Moses Viney that follows is excerpted from Tubman Travels: 32 Underground Railroad Journeys on Delmarva, a book by Secrets of the Eastern Shore that tells stories of Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, and many other men and women whose journeys in slavery and out of bondage went through the Eastern Shore andDelaware.
THE OLDEST BLACK COMMUNITY IN THE WHOLE COUNTRY MAY BE Historians used to think that oldest continuously occupied black community in the country was a New Orleans neighborhood called Tremé, where the African-American story dates to 1812. But thanks to an extraordinary research project, it's now apparent that The Hill neighborhood has Tremé beat by THE GREAT EASTERN SHORE DEEP FREEZE IN THE WINTER OF 1976 The Great Eastern Shore Deep Freeze in the Winter of 1976-77. Perhaps the deepest of all Eastern Shore deep freezes set in before Christmas, 1976, and it didn’t let up until well into February, 1977, two full bone-chilling months. Back then, only older folks on the Shore could remember anything like it—and those memories went clear back to WHEN FARMING ON VIRGINIA'S EASTERN SHORE TOOK A TURN OUT The railroad arrived on Virginia’s Eastern Shore in the 1880s. Steamboat lines expanded like crazy during that same decade. Both advances promised to give farmers speedier, more reliable, and more predictable access to distant big-city markets–Baltimore by SIX BRIDGES OVER TROUBLED WATER: A DREADFUL DAY IN The Snow Hill Democratic Messenger, Nov. 18, 1922: “The road, which earlier in the day had been an inviting expanse of shells, had been converted by the downpour of rain into a quagmire of mud.”. A ferry running at Chincoteague before the causeway. WHY IS THE TOWN PLAYED BY BERLIN IN THE MOVIE "RUNAWAY Since the subject at hand is peaches, we might as well start with the bit of “Runaway Bride” trivia highlighted in the headline here. The name Hale, you see, is actually a sly tribute to a tasty little slice of Eastern Shore history. Released in 1999 and starring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere, “Runaway Bride” was filmed in Berlin. Berlin, in turn, was home back in the ‘THE MOST REMARKABLE MAN I HAD EVER SEEN:’ JOHN HUNN If I could commune with the dead of Delmarva, one soul I would definitely call out is John Hunn, Delaware's great warrior for freedom during the days of slavery. He probably helped hundreds of slaves find the way to freedom. It’s possible—though unconfirmed—that Harriet Tubman herself came knocking at Hunn’s door, fugitives intow.
QUOTE OF THE DAY: IN AN OLD TOMATO CANNERY, "THE One day last winter I drove out to St. Michaels to hear a presentation at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum by a panel of local folks whose families were involved in various old canneries that used to be so central to the economy in the mid-Shore region–and all around theDelmarva Peninsula.
WHEN FARMING ON VIRGINIA'S EASTERN SHORE TOOK A TURN OUT The railroad arrived on Virginia’s Eastern Shore in the 1880s. Steamboat lines expanded like crazy during that same decade. Both advances promised to give farmers speedier, more reliable, and more predictable access to distant big-city markets–Baltimore by HOW A CONSTRUCTION MISHAP BACK IN 1909 HELPED CREATE This excerpt from Eastern Shore Road Trips #1: 27 One-Day Adventures on Delmarva is comes in the midst of a road trip through Salisbury, starting on the east at the Ward Museum and then running through City Park and into downtown and its Riverwalk. Do you see that giant kidney-shaped thing at the top of this old map of downtown Salisbury? That is the 40-acre Humphrey’s Lake that THE TRUE TALE OF MISTY, STORMY, AND MAYBE THE WORST NOR The deluge lasted three long days and stretched across five high tides right at the time of the full moon. More than 90 percent of Chincoteague Island flooded. The THE GHOST SHIPS OF KIPTOPEKE The Ghost Ships of Kiptopeke. Step out onto the beach at Kiptopeke State Park for the first time and you’ll need to do a double take. Why, yes, that is a humongous arc of a jetty made out of eerie-looking ghost ships. It’s like some naval version of the scene at the end of the original “Planet of the Apes” where we see the tattered PEDDLER'S RUN: THE INNOCENT LITTLE STREAM WITH A DEADLY The next time I visit Charlestown, Md., I going to stop and take a picture of Peddler’s Run. I don’t recall paying that little spit of water any mind on my previous visits, but back then I didn’t know the story of how the creek got its name. PICTURE THIS: ON CAMBRIDGE CREEK, THE OLDEST CRABPACKING This iconic Delmarva scene up top here—it’s the work of Jill Jasuta Photography, of course—speaks to a transition that unfolded as the 20 th century arrived. The oyster’s reign was coming to an end. The blue crab was on the rise. The story I have in mind begins with a man everyone knew as “Captain Johnnie.” THE STORY BEHIND WILD WEST SHARPSHOOTER ANNIE OAKLEY'S From what I’ve read, it was Butler’s idea to settle on the Shore. After visiting Cambridge on one of their endless tours of the East Coast with a circus-like Wild West Show, Butler described the town as a “sportsman’s paradise” with “four banks, several fine churches, but no saloons.” ‘THE MOST REMARKABLE MAN I HAD EVER SEEN:’ JOHN HUNN If I could commune with the dead of Delmarva, one soul I would definitely call out is John Hunn, Delaware's great warrior for freedom during the days of slavery. He probably helped hundreds of slaves find the way to freedom. It’s possible—though unconfirmed—that Harriet Tubman herself came knocking at Hunn’s door, fugitives intow.
SOMERSET JOURNEY: THE STEAK KNIFE WAS INVENTED IN The story behind the creation of the steak knife in your kitchen drawer involves a bit of manufacturing ingenuity, but there is more to it. Think romantic sleigh rides, a devastating fire, steadfast religious faith, and then—a Christmas gift from a friend thatchanges everything.
PICTURE THIS: THE STORY BEHIND THE TWIN BRIDGES OF Accidents were commonplace. In 1979, a 27-year-old Cambridge woman lost her life when she stepped from her car during one of those backups and got hit by another vehicle. That was the last straw for a group of local ministers, who soon set about gathering more than 5,000 signatures asking Gov. Harry Hughes to build a new four-lane bridge. SECRETS OF THE EASTERN SHOREMONTH OF FUNDAYS NEWSLETTER: OCTOBER 2020SECRETS OF THE EASTERN SHOREEVENT OF THE MONTH Helping you to explore, enjoy, and celebrate this incredibly special place! From skipjack sails and tall ship tours to small-town scrapple festivals and muskrat-skinning competitions, Secrets of the Eastern Shore is your ticket to fun here in paradise. EASTERN SHORE ROAD TRIPS: 27 ONE-DAY ADVENTURES ON Your adventures on the Delmarva Peninsula are about to get a lot more fun and interesting. The first Secrets of the Eastern Shore guidebook is now available—it’s called Eastern Shore Road Trips: 27 One-Day Adventures on Delmarva. Much more than a travel guide, Eastern Shore Road Trips is full of tales from days gone by and insights into the character and culture of the storied Delmarva GREETING CARDS ARCHIVES From the Shore Store. Eastern Shore Road Trips #1: 27 One-Day Adventures on Delmarva $ 19.95; Eastern Shore Road Trips #2: 26 MORE One-Day Adventures on Delmarva $ TUBMAN TRAVELS: HOW THE OTHER 'MOSES' KEPT THE DOGS OF The story of Moses Viney that follows is excerpted from Tubman Travels: 32 Underground Railroad Journeys on Delmarva, a book by Secrets of the Eastern Shore that tells stories of Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, and many other men and women whose journeys in slavery and out of bondage went through the Eastern Shore andDelaware.
WHEN FARMING ON VIRGINIA'S EASTERN SHORE TOOK A TURN OUT A miraculous turnaround started in the year 1900. Basically, what happened is that the poor, cash-strapped, little-guy farmers of Virginia’s Eastern Shore banded together like an army of agricultural George Baileys and conquered those Potterville markets inthe big cities.
THE OLDEST BLACK COMMUNITY IN THE WHOLE COUNTRY MAY BE Historians used to think that oldest continuously occupied black community in the country was a New Orleans neighborhood called Tremé, where the African-American story dates to 1812. But thanks to an extraordinary research project, it's now apparent that The Hill neighborhood has Tremé beat by HOW A CONSTRUCTION MISHAP BACK IN 1909 HELPED CREATE This excerpt from Eastern Shore Road Trips #1: 27 One-Day Adventures on Delmarva is comes in the midst of a road trip through Salisbury, starting on the east at the Ward Museum and then running through City Park and into downtown and its Riverwalk. Do you see that giant kidney-shaped thing at the top of this old map of downtown Salisbury? That is the 40-acre Humphrey’s Lake that ST. MICHAELS CHARACTER OF THE DAY: THE CRAZY LIFE OF JAMES By the time Chesapeake was published in June of 1978, James Michener was richer than God. This is a guy who sold 75 million books during his lifetime. He confessed to a journalist once that he could have retired on the earnings of his first book, Tales of the South Pacific (1947), which was the source material for a certain Broadway hit. Michener and his wife, Mari, moved to St. Michaels for a CHINCOTEAGUE CHARACTER OF THE DAY: DECOY-CARVING … The amazing life that Miles Hancock led could never have unfolded the way it did if he had lived anyplace else in the world. Born in Williamsville, Delaware in 1887, he was one of four children in a farming family. When he was seven, his parents moved to Chincoteague. That’s when things got tough. First, his mother died. Then, his father couldn’t make enough QUOTE OF THE DAY: IN AN OLD TOMATO CANNERY, "THE One day last winter I drove out to St. Michaels to hear a presentation at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum by a panel of local folks whose families were involved in various old canneries that used to be so central to the economy in the mid-Shore region–and all around theDelmarva Peninsula.
SECRETS OF THE EASTERN SHOREMONTH OF FUNDAYS NEWSLETTER: OCTOBER 2020SECRETS OF THE EASTERN SHOREEVENT OF THE MONTH Helping you to explore, enjoy, and celebrate this incredibly special place! From skipjack sails and tall ship tours to small-town scrapple festivals and muskrat-skinning competitions, Secrets of the Eastern Shore is your ticket to fun here in paradise. EASTERN SHORE ROAD TRIPS: 27 ONE-DAY ADVENTURES ON Your adventures on the Delmarva Peninsula are about to get a lot more fun and interesting. The first Secrets of the Eastern Shore guidebook is now available—it’s called Eastern Shore Road Trips: 27 One-Day Adventures on Delmarva. Much more than a travel guide, Eastern Shore Road Trips is full of tales from days gone by and insights into the character and culture of the storied Delmarva GREETING CARDS ARCHIVES From the Shore Store. Eastern Shore Road Trips #1: 27 One-Day Adventures on Delmarva $ 19.95; Eastern Shore Road Trips #2: 26 MORE One-Day Adventures on Delmarva $ TUBMAN TRAVELS: HOW THE OTHER 'MOSES' KEPT THE DOGS OF The story of Moses Viney that follows is excerpted from Tubman Travels: 32 Underground Railroad Journeys on Delmarva, a book by Secrets of the Eastern Shore that tells stories of Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, and many other men and women whose journeys in slavery and out of bondage went through the Eastern Shore andDelaware.
WHEN FARMING ON VIRGINIA'S EASTERN SHORE TOOK A TURN OUT A miraculous turnaround started in the year 1900. Basically, what happened is that the poor, cash-strapped, little-guy farmers of Virginia’s Eastern Shore banded together like an army of agricultural George Baileys and conquered those Potterville markets inthe big cities.
THE OLDEST BLACK COMMUNITY IN THE WHOLE COUNTRY MAY BE Historians used to think that oldest continuously occupied black community in the country was a New Orleans neighborhood called Tremé, where the African-American story dates to 1812. But thanks to an extraordinary research project, it's now apparent that The Hill neighborhood has Tremé beat by HOW A CONSTRUCTION MISHAP BACK IN 1909 HELPED CREATE This excerpt from Eastern Shore Road Trips #1: 27 One-Day Adventures on Delmarva is comes in the midst of a road trip through Salisbury, starting on the east at the Ward Museum and then running through City Park and into downtown and its Riverwalk. Do you see that giant kidney-shaped thing at the top of this old map of downtown Salisbury? That is the 40-acre Humphrey’s Lake that ST. MICHAELS CHARACTER OF THE DAY: THE CRAZY LIFE OF JAMES By the time Chesapeake was published in June of 1978, James Michener was richer than God. This is a guy who sold 75 million books during his lifetime. He confessed to a journalist once that he could have retired on the earnings of his first book, Tales of the South Pacific (1947), which was the source material for a certain Broadway hit. Michener and his wife, Mari, moved to St. Michaels for a CHINCOTEAGUE CHARACTER OF THE DAY: DECOY-CARVING … The amazing life that Miles Hancock led could never have unfolded the way it did if he had lived anyplace else in the world. Born in Williamsville, Delaware in 1887, he was one of four children in a farming family. When he was seven, his parents moved to Chincoteague. That’s when things got tough. First, his mother died. Then, his father couldn’t make enough QUOTE OF THE DAY: IN AN OLD TOMATO CANNERY, "THE One day last winter I drove out to St. Michaels to hear a presentation at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum by a panel of local folks whose families were involved in various old canneries that used to be so central to the economy in the mid-Shore region–and all around theDelmarva Peninsula.
WHEN FARMING ON VIRGINIA'S EASTERN SHORE TOOK A TURN OUT A miraculous turnaround started in the year 1900. Basically, what happened is that the poor, cash-strapped, little-guy farmers of Virginia’s Eastern Shore banded together like an army of agricultural George Baileys and conquered those Potterville markets inthe big cities.
NATURAL WONDER: EXPLORING THE REMNANTS OF DELMARVA'S GREAT One of the joys of roaming the back roads of Southern Delaware and the Eastern Shore is the opportunity to experience something akin to time travel. Around one bend in the road stands an old-time general store, looking inside and out pretty much the way it did back in the 1930s. Around the next lies a small town Main Street, full of sweet HOW A CONSTRUCTION MISHAP BACK IN 1909 HELPED CREATE This excerpt from Eastern Shore Road Trips #1: 27 One-Day Adventures on Delmarva is comes in the midst of a road trip through Salisbury, starting on the east at the Ward Museum and then running through City Park and into downtown and its Riverwalk. Do you see that giant kidney-shaped thing at the top of this old map of downtown Salisbury? That is the 40-acre Humphrey’s Lake that A QUICK VISIT TO LITTLE CLAIBORNE, MD. WITH SIX GREAT OLD A Claiborne street scene from a postcard that was mailed back in 1920. C.G. Jackson Fancy Groceries in Claiborne, Md. in the early 1900s. The steamboat Cambridge II docked at Claiborne, Md. right alongside the railroad line that took passengers to Ocean City. A train departs the Claiborne steamboat wharf. The mission of the Miracle House was to THE GREAT EASTERN SHORE DEEP FREEZE IN THE WINTER OF 1976 The Great Eastern Shore Deep Freeze in the Winter of 1976-77. Perhaps the deepest of all Eastern Shore deep freezes set in before Christmas, 1976, and it didn’t let up until well into February, 1977, two full bone-chilling months. Back then, only older folks on the Shore could remember anything like it—and those memories went clear back to PEDDLER'S RUN: THE INNOCENT LITTLE STREAM WITH A DEADLY The next time I visit Charlestown, Md., I going to stop and take a picture of Peddler’s Run. I don’t recall paying that little spit of water any mind on my previous visits, but back then I didn’t know the story of how the creek got its name. THE ENGLISH COTTAGE GAS STATION THAT HAS A STORY TO TELL Some empty buildings are just that, unfortunate bits of neglected junk on the Eastern Shore landscape. Others are something else altogether: Dilapidated, perhaps, but still graced with the ability to unravel fascinating secrets behind key turns in the life of the Shore—and even the country—in days gone by. Take this old guy, for example. He stands on the outskirts of Cape Charles, just CELEBRATING THE END OF SLAVERY IN A BLACK CHURCH, 1864 ‘The scene was a newly dedicated chapel on the Eastern Shore. About 9 o’clock, on the night above indicated, the last slave having finished his last task, the colored people of the neighborhood began to assemble at the place of worship; and by 10 o’clock, almost the entire negro population of all that region was crowded into the chapel, and gathered at the door and windows in eager ‘THE MOST REMARKABLE MAN I HAD EVER SEEN:’ JOHN HUNN If I could commune with the dead of Delmarva, one soul I would definitely call out is John Hunn, Delaware's great warrior for freedom during the days of slavery. He probably helped hundreds of slaves find the way to freedom. It’s possible—though unconfirmed—that Harriet Tubman herself came knocking at Hunn’s door, fugitives intow.
CHARACTER OF THE DAY: THE DELAWARE HOUSEWIFE WHO INVENTED A few fledgling firms were jumping into the poultry egg game at about this time, including the soon-to-be-famous Perdue family in Salisbury. But no one on Delmarva—or beyond, for that matter—was growing chickens with an eye on the dinner-table meat market. SECRETS OF THE EASTERN SHOREMONTH OF FUNDAYS NEWSLETTER: OCTOBER 2020SECRETS OF THE EASTERN SHOREEVENT OF THE MONTH Helping you to explore, enjoy, and celebrate this incredibly special place! From skipjack sails and tall ship tours to small-town scrapple festivals and muskrat-skinning competitions, Secrets of the Eastern Shore is your ticket to fun here in paradise. EASTERN SHORE ROAD TRIPS: 27 ONE-DAY ADVENTURES ON Your adventures on the Delmarva Peninsula are about to get a lot more fun and interesting. The first Secrets of the Eastern Shore guidebook is now available—it’s called Eastern Shore Road Trips: 27 One-Day Adventures on Delmarva. Much more than a travel guide, Eastern Shore Road Trips is full of tales from days gone by and insights into the character and culture of the storied Delmarva TUBMAN TRAVELS: HOW THE OTHER 'MOSES' KEPT THE DOGS OF The story of Moses Viney that follows is excerpted from Tubman Travels: 32 Underground Railroad Journeys on Delmarva, a book by Secrets of the Eastern Shore that tells stories of Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, and many other men and women whose journeys in slavery and out of bondage went through the Eastern Shore andDelaware.
THE OLDEST BLACK COMMUNITY IN THE WHOLE COUNTRY MAY BE Historians used to think that oldest continuously occupied black community in the country was a New Orleans neighborhood called Tremé, where the African-American story dates to 1812. But thanks to an extraordinary research project, it's now apparent that The Hill neighborhood has Tremé beat by NATURAL WONDER: EXPLORING THE REMNANTS OF DELMARVA'S GREAT One of the joys of roaming the back roads of Southern Delaware and the Eastern Shore is the opportunity to experience something akin to time travel. Around one bend in the road stands an old-time general store, looking inside and out pretty much the way it did back in the 1930s. Around the next lies a small town Main Street, full of sweet HOW A CONSTRUCTION MISHAP BACK IN 1909 HELPED CREATE This excerpt from Eastern Shore Road Trips #1: 27 One-Day Adventures on Delmarva is comes in the midst of a road trip through Salisbury, starting on the east at the Ward Museum and then running through City Park and into downtown and its Riverwalk. Do you see that giant kidney-shaped thing at the top of this old map of downtown Salisbury? That is the 40-acre Humphrey’s Lake that WHY IS THE TOWN PLAYED BY BERLIN IN THE MOVIE "RUNAWAY Since the subject at hand is peaches, we might as well start with the bit of “Runaway Bride” trivia highlighted in the headline here. The name Hale, you see, is actually a sly tribute to a tasty little slice of Eastern Shore history. Released in 1999 and starring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere, “Runaway Bride” was filmed in Berlin. Berlin, in turn, was home back in the CHINCOTEAGUE CHARACTER OF THE DAY: DECOY-CARVING … The amazing life that Miles Hancock led could never have unfolded the way it did if he had lived anyplace else in the world. Born in Williamsville, Delaware in 1887, he was one of four children in a farming family. When he was seven, his parents moved to Chincoteague. That’s when things got tough. First, his mother died. Then, his father couldn’t make enough ST. MICHAELS CHARACTER OF THE DAY: THE CRAZY LIFE OF JAMES By the time Chesapeake was published in June of 1978, James Michener was richer than God. This is a guy who sold 75 million books during his lifetime. He confessed to a journalist once that he could have retired on the earnings of his first book, Tales of the South Pacific (1947), which was the source material for a certain Broadway hit. Michener and his wife, Mari, moved to St. Michaels for a QUOTE OF THE DAY: IN AN OLD TOMATO CANNERY, "THE One day last winter I drove out to St. Michaels to hear a presentation at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum by a panel of local folks whose families were involved in various old canneries that used to be so central to the economy in the mid-Shore region–and all around theDelmarva Peninsula.
SECRETS OF THE EASTERN SHOREMONTH OF FUNDAYS NEWSLETTER: OCTOBER 2020SECRETS OF THE EASTERN SHOREEVENT OF THE MONTH Helping you to explore, enjoy, and celebrate this incredibly special place! From skipjack sails and tall ship tours to small-town scrapple festivals and muskrat-skinning competitions, Secrets of the Eastern Shore is your ticket to fun here in paradise. EASTERN SHORE ROAD TRIPS: 27 ONE-DAY ADVENTURES ON Your adventures on the Delmarva Peninsula are about to get a lot more fun and interesting. The first Secrets of the Eastern Shore guidebook is now available—it’s called Eastern Shore Road Trips: 27 One-Day Adventures on Delmarva. Much more than a travel guide, Eastern Shore Road Trips is full of tales from days gone by and insights into the character and culture of the storied Delmarva TUBMAN TRAVELS: HOW THE OTHER 'MOSES' KEPT THE DOGS OF The story of Moses Viney that follows is excerpted from Tubman Travels: 32 Underground Railroad Journeys on Delmarva, a book by Secrets of the Eastern Shore that tells stories of Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, and many other men and women whose journeys in slavery and out of bondage went through the Eastern Shore andDelaware.
THE OLDEST BLACK COMMUNITY IN THE WHOLE COUNTRY MAY BE Historians used to think that oldest continuously occupied black community in the country was a New Orleans neighborhood called Tremé, where the African-American story dates to 1812. But thanks to an extraordinary research project, it's now apparent that The Hill neighborhood has Tremé beat by NATURAL WONDER: EXPLORING THE REMNANTS OF DELMARVA'S GREAT One of the joys of roaming the back roads of Southern Delaware and the Eastern Shore is the opportunity to experience something akin to time travel. Around one bend in the road stands an old-time general store, looking inside and out pretty much the way it did back in the 1930s. Around the next lies a small town Main Street, full of sweet HOW A CONSTRUCTION MISHAP BACK IN 1909 HELPED CREATE This excerpt from Eastern Shore Road Trips #1: 27 One-Day Adventures on Delmarva is comes in the midst of a road trip through Salisbury, starting on the east at the Ward Museum and then running through City Park and into downtown and its Riverwalk. Do you see that giant kidney-shaped thing at the top of this old map of downtown Salisbury? That is the 40-acre Humphrey’s Lake that WHY IS THE TOWN PLAYED BY BERLIN IN THE MOVIE "RUNAWAY Since the subject at hand is peaches, we might as well start with the bit of “Runaway Bride” trivia highlighted in the headline here. The name Hale, you see, is actually a sly tribute to a tasty little slice of Eastern Shore history. Released in 1999 and starring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere, “Runaway Bride” was filmed in Berlin. Berlin, in turn, was home back in the CHINCOTEAGUE CHARACTER OF THE DAY: DECOY-CARVING … The amazing life that Miles Hancock led could never have unfolded the way it did if he had lived anyplace else in the world. Born in Williamsville, Delaware in 1887, he was one of four children in a farming family. When he was seven, his parents moved to Chincoteague. That’s when things got tough. First, his mother died. Then, his father couldn’t make enough ST. MICHAELS CHARACTER OF THE DAY: THE CRAZY LIFE OF JAMES By the time Chesapeake was published in June of 1978, James Michener was richer than God. This is a guy who sold 75 million books during his lifetime. He confessed to a journalist once that he could have retired on the earnings of his first book, Tales of the South Pacific (1947), which was the source material for a certain Broadway hit. Michener and his wife, Mari, moved to St. Michaels for a QUOTE OF THE DAY: IN AN OLD TOMATO CANNERY, "THE One day last winter I drove out to St. Michaels to hear a presentation at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum by a panel of local folks whose families were involved in various old canneries that used to be so central to the economy in the mid-Shore region–and all around theDelmarva Peninsula.
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Road Trips #1 Excerpt: The ‘Petticoat Regime’ that Ruled Ocean City Back in the Day. This free excerpt about Ocean City's "Petticoat Regime" is from the first Secrets guidebook, Eastern Shore Road Trips: 27 One-Day Adventures on Delmarva. The trip here, from the chapter on beaches & beach towns, focuses on the boardwalk in Ocean City. THE GREAT EASTERN SHORE DEEP FREEZE IN THE WINTER OF 1976 The Great Eastern Shore Deep Freeze in the Winter of 1976-77. Perhaps the deepest of all Eastern Shore deep freezes set in before Christmas, 1976, and it didn’t let up until well into February, 1977, two full bone-chilling months. Back then, only older folks on the Shore could remember anything like it—and those memories went clear back to GREETING CARDS ARCHIVES From the Shore Store. Eastern Shore Road Trips #1: 27 One-Day Adventures on Delmarva $ 19.95; Eastern Shore Road Trips #2: 26 MORE One-Day Adventures on Delmarva $ YOUNG HARRIET TUBMAN FINDS HER STRENGTH, WITH A LITTLE The tasks she tackled were as hard and physical as they come, but something about pitching in with all-male crews that chopped down tall trees, transported huge bundles of logs, and drove wagons powered by teams of unruly oxen seems to have been a powerful tonic for herfragile health.
THE WRITER | JIM DUFFY | SECRETS OF THE EASTERN SHORE Jim Duffy learned to tell stories the old-fashioned way, starting out as a cub reporter for a small newspaper outside Chicago. He has since moved on to become an award-winning magazine writer and the author of two top-selling books, in addition to founding Secrets of the EasternnShore.
THE GHOST SHIPS OF KIPTOPEKE The Ghost Ships of Kiptopeke. Step out onto the beach at Kiptopeke State Park for the first time and you’ll need to do a double take. Why, yes, that is a humongous arc of a jetty made out of eerie-looking ghost ships. It’s like some naval version of the scene at the end of the original “Planet of the Apes” where we see the tattered WHY IS THE TOWN PLAYED BY BERLIN IN THE MOVIE "RUNAWAY Since the subject at hand is peaches, we might as well start with the bit of “Runaway Bride” trivia highlighted in the headline here. The name Hale, you see, is actually a sly tribute to a tasty little slice of Eastern Shore history. Released in 1999 and starring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere, “Runaway Bride” was filmed in Berlin. Berlin, in turn, was home back in the PICTURE THIS: ON CAMBRIDGE CREEK, THE OLDEST CRABPACKING This iconic Delmarva scene up top here—it’s the work of Jill Jasuta Photography, of course—speaks to a transition that unfolded as the 20 th century arrived. The oyster’s reign was coming to an end. The blue crab was on the rise. The story I have in mind begins with a man everyone knew as “Captain Johnnie.” THE ENGLISH COTTAGE GAS STATION THAT HAS A STORY TO TELL Some empty buildings are just that, unfortunate bits of neglected junk on the Eastern Shore landscape. Others are something else altogether: Dilapidated, perhaps, but still graced with the ability to unravel fascinating secrets behind key turns in the life of the Shore—and even the country—in days gone by. Take this old guy, for example. He stands on the outskirts of Cape Charles, just CHARACTER OF THE DAY: THE DELAWARE HOUSEWIFE WHO INVENTED A few fledgling firms were jumping into the poultry egg game at about this time, including the soon-to-be-famous Perdue family in Salisbury. But no one on Delmarva—or beyond, for that matter—was growing chickens with an eye on the dinner-table meat market. SECRETS OF THE EASTERN SHOREMONTH OF FUNDAYS NEWSLETTER: OCTOBER 2020SECRETS OF THE EASTERN SHOREEVENT OF THE MONTH Helping you to explore, enjoy, and celebrate this incredibly special place! From skipjack sails and tall ship tours to small-town scrapple festivals and muskrat-skinning competitions, Secrets of the Eastern Shore is your ticket to fun here in paradise. EASTERN SHORE ROAD TRIPS: 27 ONE-DAY ADVENTURES ON Your adventures on the Delmarva Peninsula are about to get a lot more fun and interesting. The first Secrets of the Eastern Shore guidebook is now available—it’s called Eastern Shore Road Trips: 27 One-Day Adventures on Delmarva. Much more than a travel guide, Eastern Shore Road Trips is full of tales from days gone by and insights into the character and culture of the storied Delmarva TUBMAN TRAVELS: HOW THE OTHER 'MOSES' KEPT THE DOGS OF The story of Moses Viney that follows is excerpted from Tubman Travels: 32 Underground Railroad Journeys on Delmarva, a book by Secrets of the Eastern Shore that tells stories of Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, and many other men and women whose journeys in slavery and out of bondage went through the Eastern Shore andDelaware.
THE OLDEST BLACK COMMUNITY IN THE WHOLE COUNTRY MAY BE Historians used to think that oldest continuously occupied black community in the country was a New Orleans neighborhood called Tremé, where the African-American story dates to 1812. But thanks to an extraordinary research project, it's now apparent that The Hill neighborhood has Tremé beat by NATURAL WONDER: EXPLORING THE REMNANTS OF DELMARVA'S GREAT One of the joys of roaming the back roads of Southern Delaware and the Eastern Shore is the opportunity to experience something akin to time travel. Around one bend in the road stands an old-time general store, looking inside and out pretty much the way it did back in the 1930s. Around the next lies a small town Main Street, full of sweet HOW A CONSTRUCTION MISHAP BACK IN 1909 HELPED CREATE This excerpt from Eastern Shore Road Trips #1: 27 One-Day Adventures on Delmarva is comes in the midst of a road trip through Salisbury, starting on the east at the Ward Museum and then running through City Park and into downtown and its Riverwalk. Do you see that giant kidney-shaped thing at the top of this old map of downtown Salisbury? That is the 40-acre Humphrey’s Lake that WHY IS THE TOWN PLAYED BY BERLIN IN THE MOVIE "RUNAWAYTHE RUNAWAY BRIDE MOVIERUNAWAY BRIDE LOCATION IN MARYLANDRUNAWAY BRIDE MOVIE ONLINERUNAWAY BRIDE MOVIE YOUTUBE Since the subject at hand is peaches, we might as well start with the bit of “Runaway Bride” trivia highlighted in the headline here. The name Hale, you see, is actually a sly tribute to a tasty little slice of Eastern Shore history. Released in 1999 and starring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere, “Runaway Bride” was filmed in Berlin. Berlin, in turn, was home back in the CHINCOTEAGUE CHARACTER OF THE DAY: DECOY-CARVING …LIST OF DECOY DUCK CARVERSEASTERN SHORE DECOY CARVERSMARK DAISEY DECOY CARVERMAINE DECOY CARVERSMARYLAND DECOY CARVERSNEW JERSEY DECOY CARVERS The amazing life that Miles Hancock led could never have unfolded the way it did if he had lived anyplace else in the world. Born in Williamsville, Delaware in 1887, he was one of four children in a farming family. When he was seven, his parents moved to Chincoteague. That’s when things got tough. First, his mother died. Then, his father couldn’t make enough ST. MICHAELS CHARACTER OF THE DAY: THE CRAZY LIFE OF JAMES By the time Chesapeake was published in June of 1978, James Michener was richer than God. This is a guy who sold 75 million books during his lifetime. He confessed to a journalist once that he could have retired on the earnings of his first book, Tales of the South Pacific (1947), which was the source material for a certain Broadway hit. Michener and his wife, Mari, moved to St. Michaels for a QUOTE OF THE DAY: IN AN OLD TOMATO CANNERY, "THE One day last winter I drove out to St. Michaels to hear a presentation at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum by a panel of local folks whose families were involved in various old canneries that used to be so central to the economy in the mid-Shore region–and all around theDelmarva Peninsula.
SECRETS OF THE EASTERN SHOREMONTH OF FUNDAYS NEWSLETTER: OCTOBER 2020SECRETS OF THE EASTERN SHOREEVENT OF THE MONTH Helping you to explore, enjoy, and celebrate this incredibly special place! From skipjack sails and tall ship tours to small-town scrapple festivals and muskrat-skinning competitions, Secrets of the Eastern Shore is your ticket to fun here in paradise. EASTERN SHORE ROAD TRIPS: 27 ONE-DAY ADVENTURES ON Your adventures on the Delmarva Peninsula are about to get a lot more fun and interesting. The first Secrets of the Eastern Shore guidebook is now available—it’s called Eastern Shore Road Trips: 27 One-Day Adventures on Delmarva. Much more than a travel guide, Eastern Shore Road Trips is full of tales from days gone by and insights into the character and culture of the storied Delmarva TUBMAN TRAVELS: HOW THE OTHER 'MOSES' KEPT THE DOGS OF The story of Moses Viney that follows is excerpted from Tubman Travels: 32 Underground Railroad Journeys on Delmarva, a book by Secrets of the Eastern Shore that tells stories of Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, and many other men and women whose journeys in slavery and out of bondage went through the Eastern Shore andDelaware.
THE OLDEST BLACK COMMUNITY IN THE WHOLE COUNTRY MAY BE Historians used to think that oldest continuously occupied black community in the country was a New Orleans neighborhood called Tremé, where the African-American story dates to 1812. But thanks to an extraordinary research project, it's now apparent that The Hill neighborhood has Tremé beat by NATURAL WONDER: EXPLORING THE REMNANTS OF DELMARVA'S GREAT One of the joys of roaming the back roads of Southern Delaware and the Eastern Shore is the opportunity to experience something akin to time travel. Around one bend in the road stands an old-time general store, looking inside and out pretty much the way it did back in the 1930s. Around the next lies a small town Main Street, full of sweet HOW A CONSTRUCTION MISHAP BACK IN 1909 HELPED CREATE This excerpt from Eastern Shore Road Trips #1: 27 One-Day Adventures on Delmarva is comes in the midst of a road trip through Salisbury, starting on the east at the Ward Museum and then running through City Park and into downtown and its Riverwalk. Do you see that giant kidney-shaped thing at the top of this old map of downtown Salisbury? That is the 40-acre Humphrey’s Lake that WHY IS THE TOWN PLAYED BY BERLIN IN THE MOVIE "RUNAWAYTHE RUNAWAY BRIDE MOVIERUNAWAY BRIDE LOCATION IN MARYLANDRUNAWAY BRIDE MOVIE ONLINERUNAWAY BRIDE MOVIE YOUTUBE Since the subject at hand is peaches, we might as well start with the bit of “Runaway Bride” trivia highlighted in the headline here. The name Hale, you see, is actually a sly tribute to a tasty little slice of Eastern Shore history. Released in 1999 and starring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere, “Runaway Bride” was filmed in Berlin. Berlin, in turn, was home back in the CHINCOTEAGUE CHARACTER OF THE DAY: DECOY-CARVING …LIST OF DECOY DUCK CARVERSEASTERN SHORE DECOY CARVERSMARK DAISEY DECOY CARVERMAINE DECOY CARVERSMARYLAND DECOY CARVERSNEW JERSEY DECOY CARVERS The amazing life that Miles Hancock led could never have unfolded the way it did if he had lived anyplace else in the world. Born in Williamsville, Delaware in 1887, he was one of four children in a farming family. When he was seven, his parents moved to Chincoteague. That’s when things got tough. First, his mother died. Then, his father couldn’t make enough ST. MICHAELS CHARACTER OF THE DAY: THE CRAZY LIFE OF JAMES By the time Chesapeake was published in June of 1978, James Michener was richer than God. This is a guy who sold 75 million books during his lifetime. He confessed to a journalist once that he could have retired on the earnings of his first book, Tales of the South Pacific (1947), which was the source material for a certain Broadway hit. Michener and his wife, Mari, moved to St. Michaels for a QUOTE OF THE DAY: IN AN OLD TOMATO CANNERY, "THE One day last winter I drove out to St. Michaels to hear a presentation at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum by a panel of local folks whose families were involved in various old canneries that used to be so central to the economy in the mid-Shore region–and all around theDelmarva Peninsula.
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Road Trips #1 Excerpt: The ‘Petticoat Regime’ that Ruled Ocean City Back in the Day. This free excerpt about Ocean City's "Petticoat Regime" is from the first Secrets guidebook, Eastern Shore Road Trips: 27 One-Day Adventures on Delmarva. The trip here, from the chapter on beaches & beach towns, focuses on the boardwalk in Ocean City. THE GREAT EASTERN SHORE DEEP FREEZE IN THE WINTER OF 1976 The Great Eastern Shore Deep Freeze in the Winter of 1976-77. Perhaps the deepest of all Eastern Shore deep freezes set in before Christmas, 1976, and it didn’t let up until well into February, 1977, two full bone-chilling months. Back then, only older folks on the Shore could remember anything like it—and those memories went clear back to GREETING CARDS ARCHIVES From the Shore Store. Eastern Shore Road Trips #1: 27 One-Day Adventures on Delmarva $ 19.95; Eastern Shore Road Trips #2: 26 MORE One-Day Adventures on Delmarva $ YOUNG HARRIET TUBMAN FINDS HER STRENGTH, WITH A LITTLE The tasks she tackled were as hard and physical as they come, but something about pitching in with all-male crews that chopped down tall trees, transported huge bundles of logs, and drove wagons powered by teams of unruly oxen seems to have been a powerful tonic for herfragile health.
THE WRITER | JIM DUFFY | SECRETS OF THE EASTERN SHORE Jim Duffy learned to tell stories the old-fashioned way, starting out as a cub reporter for a small newspaper outside Chicago. He has since moved on to become an award-winning magazine writer and the author of two top-selling books, in addition to founding Secrets of the EasternnShore.
THE GHOST SHIPS OF KIPTOPEKE The Ghost Ships of Kiptopeke. Step out onto the beach at Kiptopeke State Park for the first time and you’ll need to do a double take. Why, yes, that is a humongous arc of a jetty made out of eerie-looking ghost ships. It’s like some naval version of the scene at the end of the original “Planet of the Apes” where we see the tattered WHY IS THE TOWN PLAYED BY BERLIN IN THE MOVIE "RUNAWAY Since the subject at hand is peaches, we might as well start with the bit of “Runaway Bride” trivia highlighted in the headline here. The name Hale, you see, is actually a sly tribute to a tasty little slice of Eastern Shore history. Released in 1999 and starring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere, “Runaway Bride” was filmed in Berlin. Berlin, in turn, was home back in the PICTURE THIS: ON CAMBRIDGE CREEK, THE OLDEST CRABPACKING This iconic Delmarva scene up top here—it’s the work of Jill Jasuta Photography, of course—speaks to a transition that unfolded as the 20 th century arrived. The oyster’s reign was coming to an end. The blue crab was on the rise. The story I have in mind begins with a man everyone knew as “Captain Johnnie.” THE ENGLISH COTTAGE GAS STATION THAT HAS A STORY TO TELL Some empty buildings are just that, unfortunate bits of neglected junk on the Eastern Shore landscape. Others are something else altogether: Dilapidated, perhaps, but still graced with the ability to unravel fascinating secrets behind key turns in the life of the Shore—and even the country—in days gone by. Take this old guy, for example. He stands on the outskirts of Cape Charles, just CHARACTER OF THE DAY: THE DELAWARE HOUSEWIFE WHO INVENTED A few fledgling firms were jumping into the poultry egg game at about this time, including the soon-to-be-famous Perdue family in Salisbury. But no one on Delmarva—or beyond, for that matter—was growing chickens with an eye on the dinner-table meat market. Hit enter to search or ESC to close__
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