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Tidewater TimesApril 2015
Tom & Debra CrouchBenson & Mangold Real Estate
116 N. Talbot St., St. Michaels · 410-745-0720 Tom Crouch: 410-310-8916
Debra Crouch: [email protected]
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Water Street ~ St. MichaelsWith scenic views of St. Michaels Harbor and the Miles River, this impeccably restored c. 1848 home features two master suites plus two guest bedrooms, open floor plan, first and second floor family rooms, sunny, spacious kitchen, waterside glassed porch, private dock ... the list goes on! All located right in the heart of St. Michaels’ historic district.
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Features:About the Cover Artist: Lee D’Zmura . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7Central Florida: Helen Chappell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9Swim, Not Sink: Dick Cooper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25Through the Eyes of a Waterman: Kathi Ferguson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39Paul Reed Smith ~ Blows Against the Empire: Cliff Rhys James . . . 57Sinatra Centennial Celebration: Amy Blades Steward . . . . . . . . . . . . 79Tidewater Gardening: K. Marc Teffeau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83New Horizons: Gary D. Crawford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143Tidewater Kitchen: Pamela Meredith-Doyle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157Tidewater Review: Anne Stinson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
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Vol. 63, No. 11 April 2015
Departments:April Tide Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43Kent County and Chestertown at a Glance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93Dorchester Points of Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95Easton Points of Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105St. Michaels Points of Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117Oxford Points of Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133Tilghman - Bay Hundred . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141Queen Anne’s County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179Caroline County - A Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181April Calendar of Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
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man’s need to identify plants and their uses and maturing into an art form in an information age.
D’Zmura is a member of the American Society of Botanical Art-ists, the Botanical Art Society of the National Capital Region, the Work-ing Artists Forum and the St. Mi-chaels Art League.
Her work was recently published in American Botanical Paintings Native Plants of the Mid Atlantic, has been exhibited at the United States Botanic Gardens and is in col-lections throughout the country. She maintains a studio in St. Michaels where she draws inspiration from her neighbors’ gardens and from the native wildflowers of Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Locally her work can be seen at the Trippe-Hilderbrandt Gallery in Easton.
Talbot County artist Lee Boulay D’Zmura is an award winning bo-tanical artist whose experience as a landscape architect enriches her wa-tercolors. Having retired from teach-ing at the Brookside Gardens School of Botanical Art, she now teaches botanical art workshops at Adkins Arboretum in Ridgely.
Knowledge of plants and attention to detail are skills needed in both art and architecture. The transition from design to botanical painting was a natural extension of her knowledge and love of plants. Her watercolors are an attempt to capture the beauty and delicacy of individual specimens with botanical accuracy. The fine detail in her paintings is in part the result of years of technical drawing.
Botanical art is the union of art and science. It is the artistic interpretation of a plant that captures the essence of the subject with botanical accuracy. It is a creative form that has evolved over thousands of years, arising from
About the Cover ArtistLee Boulay-D’Zmura
Cecropia Moth
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Central Floridaby
Helen Chappell
Spanish moss gives the area an almost haunted look.
I was really looking forward to getting out of the cold, gray, dead Chesapeake country and getting on the blue and orange bird headed for Florida.
I’ve covered the waterfront here on the Eastern Shore for on to forty years now, sometimes passionate-ly, sometimes with the great de-tachment of a really good anthro-pologist. I’d like to say I know my beat pretty well, but a chance to visit my family in Florida is a great opportunity to take a look at an-other culture entirely.
I love, and feel so grateful for going to see them, because they
treat me like visiting royalty. It’s a chance to cement the family bond, and when we’re together, we eat at all their favorite restaurants. I gain a ton of weight, and I get to watch local TV.
As a serious student of TV, I’m fascinated by what local TV shows a visitor about the region. It seems Daytona and Orange County are on the news a lot. And, you know, if it bleeds, it leads!
When you’re up north, bounc-ing against the Smith and Wesson Line, Florida sounds as if it’s all tropical beaches and palm trees, and parts of it are, but it was just
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my luck to hit the state in the middle of a central Florida cold snap. The weather was a balmy 65. Which, actually, compared to the balmy 27 I was leaving behind at BWI, was a pretty good deal.
I find Florida fascinating because it’s so different from here, and in many ways so much like here. It’s flat, Atlantic coastal plain with lots of conifers, for instance. It is low, marshy, and full of wetlands with brackish rivers that run into the Atlantic Ocean. On the other hand, it has Spanish moss, which I think is very cool, hanging from the trees and giving the area a haunted look.
I wish Spanish moss grew this
far north, but you don’t start seeing it until lower North Carolina. In the subtropics, the ground covers are palmettos, sawbladed palms about two feet high that give the ground beneath the canopy of the trees a lush, verdant look.
Everywhere, even along the in-terstates that whizz the snowbirds away from Yankee cold, there are bodies of water. Catch ponds, im-poundments, even natural bodies of water, and they all seem to have sprout aerators ~ fountain-like de-vices to keep the water moving and the mosquitoes down.
In tales told around the back patios, it’s said that alligators lurk in those ponds, together with pi-ranhas that people have released
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from their aquariums when they got too big. Also, it is said, if you go into the wetlands, if the gators don’t bite you, or the piranhas don’t skeletonize you in seconds, the high levels of killer bacte-ria will leave you looking like the Creature from the Black Lagoon ~ or so they tell me. I probably need to do some serious research into this eco-folklore and natural his-tory, but for now, I’m just telling you what I heard and experienced.
The few open patches of undevel-oped land are said to host Florida scrub jays. This is a bird I’d like to put on my life list. Oh, and there are rattlesnakes. I believe the rattle-
snakes are a released exotic, but they’re out there crawling among the palmetto dunes, just waiting for you.
As you probably know, Florida has a big problem with exotics.
It’s not a good idea to go swimming in just any pond down in Florida. You don’t know what might be lurk-ing just below the surface.
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Like most warm climates, it seems to attract a certain subspecies of humans who think it’s great to col-lect big snakes, lizards, non-native species of plants and animals, that quickly escape or are released into the wild and grow fruitful, multi-ply and become pests. I think the same might be said of some of the human transplants.
Since I was in Ormand Beach on a family visit, I was also fascinated by the architecture and cross-cul-tural mixtures of buildings, busi-nesses and neighborhoods. My brother and sister-in-law live about a block from the ocean, which re-mained angry and cold during my end-of-January visit. That didn’t seem to stop the truly dedicated swimmers, or even the more totally dedicated surf fisherpeople out there with the Father Frost wind right up in their faces as they cast into the surf.
It also did not stop the kids in my family from getting into the backyard pool. I went in up to my knees and cried “enough!” and they all laughed at the silly auntie from Maryland who couldn’t tolerate what those kids all thought was a nice bracing 75 degrees.
My sister-in-law loves to browse houses and neighborhoods. She has a real sense of place and be-longing in this area, so she made a great guide to Ormand and Fla-
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gler beaches. I was fascinated by the freshly constructed, right on the dunes McMansions, as big and pretentious as something from a prime time soap opera, and just as ugly. Without the patina of age or style, they were, on the whole, utterly lacking in charm, a mé-lange of late 20th century mock Georgian and Spanish Colonial that screamed noveau riche. And yes, I’d take one if you offered it to me. It is my understanding that many of these places were built by Brighton Beach Russian mobsters, which, of course, made it even more fascinating to a writer.
Across the highway heading in-land, things were more modest. My family lives in a nice neighborhood on a nice street. Their house backs up to a wildlife preserve protected by a high fence. Whether the gators and snakes are protected from us, or we from them, I don’t know. My favorite thing about their house is that the mailbox pillar is a dol-phin. I want one desperately for
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my staid small Shore town house. Most people live in neighborhoods like this one. Nice houses, nicely kept up. Nice groups of condos also
Central Florida line the inland side of the highway.Every once in a while you’ll catch
a taste of old Florida, small stucco houses painted these great Caribbe-an colors, built somewhere between the ’30s and ’50s, just slightly aged and a little shabby. I think that’s the kind of house I would live in ~ funky, with character. There would be interesting neighbors, like old guys spending their retirement years surf fishing, and crazy cat ladies, and people who washed up here from Cuba or Haiti or some-where else, with stories to tell. And you know me ~ I love a story!
So, here’s the deal I picture. It gets cold, I go south, I rent a room at a down-in-the-heel motel, one of the dwindling number of pre-gentrifi-cation establishments on the wrong side of the highway. I have interest-ing neighbors, with interesting sto-ries, who fry conch on the barbecue, and talk about the good old days when they went to all the bars in Ha-vana. You know, stuff like that. And my winter job would be concierge for one of those Russian mobsters in the McMansions across the highway. You can just imagine the stories I could dig out of that!
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Local Foundation Teaches Kids toSwim, Not Sink
byDick Cooper
Swimming instructors give lessons at the Bay Hundred Community Pool.
Finley Carter loved to splash and play with his parents in the shallow end of the Bay Hundred Commu-nity Pool in St. Michaels, but until last summer those were the outer limits of the six-year-old’s aquatic adventures. Now, thanks to a new program, Finley and 274 other area children can swim the length of the pool on their own, a skill that gives
their parents some peace of mind and could save lives.
The program called “SOS: Sink or Swim” is sponsored by the Miles River Yacht Club Foundation and has the goal of teaching every child in Talbot County how to swim. It was so successful in its first year that the Foundat ion is ra ising money now to repeat it this summer
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and hopes to expand it to Easton.“We are excited about it again this
year,” said Trish Payne, Executive Director of the St. Michaels Com-munity Center that administered last year’s inaugural program. “Ev-erybody who participated learned how to swim, from the little ones who were 18 months old to the older kids who were a little afraid. By the end of the two weeks, they were jumping in the deep end and swim-ming all over the place.”
Foundation Chair Sherry Man-ning said the idea for SOS came from the group’s planning meeting at the Inn at Perry Cabin in January 2014. The Foundation was formed in 2010 to support and promote youth sailing and swimming and other water-connected sports and competition on the Chesapeake Bay. It grew quickly, and over its first three years became a funding char-ity for a wider field of interests. It has dispensed more than $150,000 to 23 worthy organizations and en-deavors. But its members decided they needed more focus.
“We wanted to decide if we had independent goals because at that point we had become a pass-through organization,” Manning says. She said once the group decided to con-centrate on teaching children how to swim, they began to do research. “We wanted to find out if maybe everybody already was a swimmer.
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The S.O.S. float in the St. Michaels Christmas Parade.
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What we found was that there was a great divide and even though we had a great public pool there was a large body of young people who were not part of the community of swimmers.”
She said their research showed that 19 people had drowned in Maryland the previous year. Mem-bers also recalled the tragic events near Federalsburg in 2012 when three boys drowned in a creek. “We felt we hadn’t done our job in our community until every one of our little kids knows how to swim. They need it as a survival skill, as a joy, as fun, and as an element of self-reliance…there are just so many
important aspects to knowing how to swim, and that is what we are excited about.”
The Foundation was able to come up with the idea and the money, but the members knew they needed help implementing their plans. For that they turned to a familiar partner,
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the St. Michaels Community Center.“We were fortunate they came
to us to handle the administrative part of their program,” said Payne. The Center’s Youth Coordinator, Pam Phillips, designed the program at the Bay Hundred pool, built the lesson schedule, arranged for the instructors and worked closely with the St. Michaels school administra-tion to get children registered.
“It was a fantastic partnership,” Payne said. “Without their funding we could not have done it,” she said of the Foundation. Manning said that the Critchlow-Atkins Children’s Center also helped to register the children in its St. Michaels day-care
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Swimming lessons are not just for the older children.
center for the swimming lessons. Foundation Member Rayonna
Bennett said they soon discovered that the need was greater than they had anticipated. “Our initial goal was to get 100 kids through the program and we ended up having 275,” she said. The expansion of the program fits nicely into the Foundation’s long-term plans, she said. “All of the things we support are connected to the necessity of children knowing how to swim. We took a step back and recognized that it was a crucial foundation for kids around the water. All it takes is one drowning in the news to drive the point home that children, and not just little children, but older children and adults as well, are out
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on the water and don’t know how to swim.”
Bennett said Foundation mem-bers are now looking to the future of the program’s growth. “Exponen-tially might be a little ambitious, but we are working on a longer term plan on how to expand each year.” Part of the plan is to work with other groups and agencies that provide swimming lessons in the county. “We will be looking to partner with those groups the way we have with the St. Michaels Com-munity Center.”
Manning said it costs $47 to teach one child how to swim. Most of that money covers the pool time and the hourly fees for the swimming instructors for two weeks. The cost includes an SOS T-shirt and a certif-icate of completion at the end of the lessons for each child. “They were really working hard to get those T-shirts,” Manning said. At the end of the SOS program last year, the Foundation threw a party for all of the children and their parents to make the celebration a family event.
Shawn Carter said his son Finley, who had started out last summer leery of the pool, learned how to tread water, dog paddle and swim across the pool. “By the end, I had to remind him to leave his shoes by the fence before he dashed off and jumped in,” Carter said.
His oldest son, eight-year-old
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Everyone enjoys learning how to swim!
Blake, who had some basic water skills at the beginning of the sum-mer, was sw imming the crawl, breast stroke and backstroke after his lessons. This summer, it will be two-year-old Kellan’s turn to join his older brothers when SOS starts again at the Bay Hundred Com-munity Pool.
Contributions to the Miles River Yacht Club Foundation’s SOS: Sink or Swim program can be sent to the Foundation at 606A North Talbot Street, St. Michaels, Maryland, 21663. Credit card donations can be made through the Foundation’s web-site at www.mrycfoundation.org.
Dick Cooper is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. He and his wife, Pat, live and sail in St. Michaels. He can be reached at [email protected].
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Through the Eyes of a WatermanThe Art of William E. Cummings
byKathi Ferguson
The Pound Netters
An easel stands in the corner of Bill Cummings’ sunroom display-ing a detailed sketch of several fish-ermen who appear to be going up against some pretty rough water. “Believe it or not,” Cummings ex-plains, “this picture still has a ways to go. Takes me awhile before I get everything the way I want it, but it will turn out to be a nice painting.”
Working entirely from memory, this talented, yet humble, Tilgh-man, Maryland, native has cap-
tured history and life as a waterman through his art for more than 45 years. “It’s all up here, in my head. I don’t work with photographs. If I get a picture, it will come from somebody else. Most of the things I paint are from my life.”
Like most young boys who were raised on Tilghman’s Island during the 1930s, William E. Cummings pretty much grew up on the water. Times were simpler then. The roads were mapped with oyster shells,
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A family like Bill’s depended on the bounty of the Bay to make its living. “My father, Earnest ~ ‘Keenie’ for short ~ was a water-man, as were his family before him,” says Bill. “He wasn’t an edu-cated man - could hardly write his name. But he was so intelligent. My dad was my teacher. He taught me
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A portrait of Cummings painted by Nancy Tankersley.
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so many things, and I always looked up to him.” Many of those lessons were learned working on board Old Ben, his dad’s boat. “I learned how to oyster when I was about 12 years old. In the summer months, we’d go seine hauling. Now, that was hard work, but I loved it!” Bill smiles, “Lots of my paintings tell stories of the seine haulers.”
Bill was born in 1927, 11 years af-ter his only sibling, Elizabeth. “Lib pretty much raised me after Mom got real sick,” Bill says affectionate-ly. The family always had breakfast together, and then it was outdoors
to play or off to school and home again for lunch. “Mom would pack a couple of sandwiches for Dad to take on the boat,” Bill recalls. “We didn’t have indoor plumbing and had to wash up in the basin outside before we sat down for meals. We were sure to answer ‘Yes, sir’ or ‘No, sir’ when spoken to, and hats came off before coming to the ta-ble. Good memories.”
As far as he knows, Bill was the only artistic one in the family. His passion for drawing began as a child. Bill remembers vividly, “In the evenings I’d sit with a little notepad and draw whatever came to mind ~ just play with it ~ people
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in different positions, moving them around, sometimes trying to put a picture together. I always had a pencil in my hand.” It was not until adulthood that this self-taught art-ist would use his talent as a means to preserve a piece of history.
Growing up, young Bill pro-claimed that school was not for him ~ he wanted to work on the water. “Okay, then,” his father told him, “Go pack up your lunch. We’re go-ing fishing.” Off they went. It was a cold one that day, and the tempera-ture seemed to drop by the hour. It was not long before Bill laid his oyster rakes down and announced that he was heading to the cabin
to get warm. “No, you’re not,” his dad replied emphatically. “If you’re gonna work on the water, you’re staying out here. There’s no money to be made hiding below.” The dis-illusioned young fisherman quickly responded, “If you’ll take me home, I’ll go to school!” Lesson learned. Bill was the first Cummings to grad-uate from high school.
Learning became addicting for Bill. After high school, he enrolled in some classes. “I took naviga-tion, math, income tax, things like that,” Bill said. “I wanted to learn everything!” At 18 years of age, he enlisted in the Navy but was dis-charged a year later since his help was needed at home.
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Bill was caring for his father, who had lost both of his legs to diabetes. The physical loss, however, could not dissuade Keenie’s yearning to get back on the water. Using his in-herent strength and a waterman’s determination, Bill found a way to make that happen. “In the morning I would take Dad out of the house in his wheelchair, hoist him up into the front seat of the truck, put the wheelchair in the back of the truck, unload the chair, get him back into it, wheel him down to the boat and then hoist him, wheelchair and all, on board ~ manually!” Bill would haul in the oysters and his father would cull them. “I wouldn’t take him out if the weather was bad and that never went over too well. He didn’t speak to me for days!”
Despite the attempts made by Bill’s parents to discourage their son from becoming a commercial fisherman, it was to no avail. He was destined for a life on the water. On board “his baby,” the 42-foot Zaca (named for his wife’s favor-ite actor Errol Flynn’s schooner in the 1952 film, Cruise of the Zaca), the 25-year-old Cummings set his sights on the day’s catch to make a living.
But Bill’s love for art was never lost. Throughout his years as a wa-terman, he began to realize that times were changing and “things from my life were passing me by.”
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Out of Nowhere
This is what drove Cummings to learn everything he possibly could about art so that he could record his own history through it. On one of Bill’s visits to the museums of the Smithsonian, he became fixated on a large painting by Rembrandt. “It took my breath away; it really did,” he said, shaking his head in disbe-lief. “I was amazed at its beauty and what it must have taken to create such a thing ~ how in the world did he do this?” That was the moment when Bill decided he was going to find out for himself.
Cummings began to immerse himself in books about anatomy, the Old Masters, color, values, de-sign, and composition – anything pertaining to art. “In my spare time, I’d practice things like mix-ing colors, or learning how a piece of clothing should fall on a figure.
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Books were my lifeline to the art world. I read them cover to cover and tried to copy the Masters. The Impressionists were my favorites,” he smiles.
It was not until Bill was in his 40s that he began to paint in earnest. Although he continued to fish, doc-tor’s orders led him to take a hiatus, and he began to work as a bridge tender on Tilghman Bridge. Daugh-ter Tootie recalls, “Dad’s first paint-ings were done from that bridge house. Most of them were watercol-ors, but his first one on canvas was in black and white. He got inspired from looking out the window at the scenery. I think that really put him
William E. Cummings on a path to taking this thing very seriously.”
Acrylics became Bill’s medium of choice, although he continued to work in watercolor and dabbled a bit in pastel. “I started out work-ing with oils, but the smell of tur-pentine made my wife feel sick, so I switched to acrylics,” he explains. “But I managed to make them look like oil paintings by learning how to mix a varnish and applied it as a finish.”
At the time, Baltimore was the closest place to purchase art sup-plies. Knowing her husband was eager to start his first works on can-vas, wife Jeanne offered to make the trip north and brought back the materials. Working out of his mod-
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est home studio any chance he got, Cummings began to paint his mem-ories. He started each piece with multiple black and white drawings, followed by a preliminary water-color sketch before tackling what would be the final painting. “Until I get things the way I want them, I’m not going to finish it,” Bill asserts. “The picture has to describe what I am trying to tell people.”
The chapters of Cummings’ life began to emerge as he painted a va-riety of subjects ranging from har-vesting oysters on his beloved Zaca, to seine-hauling and pound-net-ting, or watermen telling tall tales after a long day on the water. With each work would be a story written by Bill to accompany it.
In the painting entitled Last One in is a Rotten Egg, Cummings por-trays the anticipation and sheer joy of racing to the end of Buzzard’s Lane to go skinny dipping after school. “We’d throw our clothes up on the trees before jumping in so they didn’t get wet and try to be the first one over the bank,” Bill says, chuckling. “I’m the blond-haired one with my arm up in the air.” In-terestingly, renowned American re-alist painter Thomas Eakins (1844-1916), a favorite of Cummings, painted one of his finest studies of the nude in his piece entitled The Swimming Hole. The work is said to be the artist’s most successfully
constructed outdoor picture, fea-tures Eakins’ friends, and includes a self-portrait. It would stand to reason that it had a strong influence on the outcome of this picture.
Impressed by his knowledge of anatomy and strong sense of design, friend and accomplished profession-al artist Nancy Tankersley marvels at Cummings’ tenacity and dedica-tion to his craft. “It is extremely challenging to recreate something from memory and have it come to-gether as a painting,” says Nancy. “Bill was an ambitious painter and always striving to improve ~ that’s the sign of a serious artist.”
While viewing the delightful painting Knucks Down Tight, we are reminded of the days when the children on Tilghman enjoyed shooting marbles after supper; a young Bill and his friend are por-trayed listening intently to an older, more experienced fisherman about what it takes to mend a hole in a net in The Pupils; and in the painting called The Partners, the two bud-dies can be seen catching soft crabs near the shoreline.
Working on the water can bring both chaos and calm to the com-mercial fisherman, and Bill was able to portray both in his work. He had learned how to capture the essence of a scene with a strong composition and careful rendering. “It’s important to me that there is action in my paintings, and one of the best ways to achieve that is with
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the brush strokes I put down,” Bill explains. Perhaps one of the best examples of this is found in the work entitled Out of Nowhere. The paint is boldly applied in different directions throughout the piece ~ even exaggerated ~ using short and long strokes of color that envelop the troubled skipjack as it weathers a sudden turbulent storm.
Common themes can be seen throughout Cummings’ work, as depicted in pieces such as The Oys-ter Harvesters, The Seine Haulers I, II and III, and The Pound Netters, where figures have been drawn with conviction and placed thoughtfully throughout each painting. At the same time, this artist has the abil-ity to reflect the serenity and calm that life on Tilghman offers in his loosely painted watercolors that highlight a small flock of geese landing near the shore, or work-
boats docked at Knapp’s Narrows on an overcast day.
William E. Cummings has painted more than just pretty pic-tures. He has painted the heart and soul of Tilghman’s Island and the Chesapeake region. There is integ-rity in his work, just like the man ~ steadfast, proud, and principled. Simply stated, “My paintings are my history, and this is how I hope to preserve it.”
William E. Cummings passed away in September of 2014. His paintings are owned and cherished by many fellow watermen as well as private collectors. An active sup-porter of the Tilghman Watermen’s Museum, Cummings contributed the rights to produce and distrib-ute prints of his works to the orga-nization. There are currently more than 20 prints available on a limited edition basis, and a short film about his life is soon to be released. Tilgh-man Watermen’s Museum celebrates the culture and heritage of the Is-land’s watermen and their families. You can see more of his work at www.tilghmanmuseum.org.
Kathi Ferguson is a freelance writer with a diverse and creative professional background. Some of her favorite subjects are the people of the Eastern Shore. To reach Kathi, e-mail [email protected].
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Paul Reed SmithBlows Against the Empire
byCliff Rhys James
In this highly refracted world, Carlos Santana and Ted Nugent probably don’t see eye to eye on much when it comes to life, religion or politics, but these two famous guitar slingers do agree on one thing: Paul Reed Smith designs and builds the slickest playing, best sounding, most aesthetically pleasing guitars money can buy.
Terrible Teddy (one of Nugent’s many sobriquets) may have been one of the first of the high profile string benders to embrace Smith’s creations, and Carlos Santana is perhaps the most universally ac-claimed guitarist to do so, but the play list of legendary ax men who insist on PRS as their main ride is long and illustrious, and one that grows over time.
From the classical arpeggios of formally trained acoustic musicians, to the cool sizzle of jazz guitarists or the signature rock riffs that turn listeners into writhing air guitarists, PRS guitars deliver the kind of sonic effect sought out by virtuosos and journeymen alike.
“People get ready, there’s a train a comin’…”
Stick a pin in Yorba Linda on a wall map of Southern California. Draw a straight line out from that point for a scaled distance of twenty miles and swing it 360 degrees so it scribes a circle. For twenty-one years I spent a lot of time inside that circle, living in the community’s rolling hills amidst the spangles of an incandescent sun and the ever-present rustle of palm trees. There, on silky smooth sum-mer nights saturated by the sweet
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Anyway, in the movie Field of Dreams, the main character played by Kevin Costner obeys a voice that whispers to him, “Build it and they will come.” My personalized corol-lary that applies to musical pioneers is, “Build it and Cliff will come ~ maybe later rather than sooner ~ but eventually, he will come.”
That was the case with each of my
Paul Reed Smith belated visits to the lost and forgot-ten shrines of the original prophets of Boom in Anaheim, Santa Ana, Fullerton and parts of Los Ange-les, California, where the names of Adolph Rickenbacker, George Beau-champ, Paul Bigsby and Leo Fender still echo, however faintly, down the dimly lit corridors of time. They were the searchers and seekers; the guys who set out to renovate sound and expand the echo; the advance scouts probing for passageways on the electric frontier.
For the longest time, I never real-ized these pioneers wrestled with the unknown inside that twenty-mile radius. Like most folks, I knew the Beach Boys created southern Califor-nia’s surf music vibe only thirty-odd
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miles west of me. And I knew that not too many years after that, everyone from country/folk rockers to lizard kings, and from psychedelic trippers to the bluesy vanguard of the British Invasion, cruised up and down Sun-set Boulevard between the Whiskey a Go Go and Laurel Canyon on that magical mystery tour. But it took me awhile to discover where, decades earlier, those latter day luthiers and seminal electron boys tore it up each day trying to decode the future.
Which is a long way of saying: now that I’ve moved back to the
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Mid-Atlantic States, I’ve come for one of my belated visits to a shrine ~ only this one isn’t lost and forgotten. This one is a flourishing temple of tu-multuous expression in Stevensville, Maryland. Or wait! Maybe it’s where the wizards of wood and steel harness free electrons to conjure up the magic and ride the lightning. Okay, okay… you see, I’m pretty sure Paul Reed Smith heard the same voice as that Costner character because he sure enough built it, and sure enough they came ~ lots of them, from all over this highly refracted world. And now, later rather than sooner, but better late than never, I’ve come as well.
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How long does it take for the great wheel to go around? Let me drill down a bit to explain. Burning through the restless generations of two centuries, all across this American continent, there’s been a long line of musical trailblazers. They were a mix of tool-and-die men, scrappy business promoters, poets, musicians and tinkerers, all powered by a hungering spirit. And they stumbled down that lonely road of discovery to freedom’s beating heart. For some it was the road to ruin. For others it was a road of reward. For many that road led one way ~ west to where the nation shouldered up to the Pacific.
But unlike their 16th and 17th
Paul Reed Smith century European ancestors, these latter day luthiers were never content to grind away at inherited tradition. No, this enterprising crew was some-thing else, and nothing if not bold. They were a hurtling high speed trainload of idiosyncratic perfection-ists called by fate and compelled by larger forces to live out their lives at the sonic intersection of art and science ~ of music and technology.
And just when everyone figured all was quiet on the western front, these mavericks delivered heavy ordi-nance down range on an unsuspect-ing culture. I call it the original shock and awe campaign that shattered the peace and challenged the established order of music, of culture, of just about everything. It was time for
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Ludwig van Beethoven to roll over in his grave because Johnny B. Goode was fixin’ to dial it up.
When the smoke cleared and the dust settled, a slow dawning realiza-tion took hold. They had not only captured thunder and lightning in a bottle and called it the electric guitar, they’d lit off the wildfire of rock ’n roll that burned coast to coast before leaping the North Atlantic fire break to ignite blazes in Britain and eventually most of Europe. These were blows against the empire ~ serious blows.
“And it burns, burns, burns ~ that ring of fire…”
They all shared an urgent need to seize the audible world and jack it up with the big sound of some-
thing bold and new ~ with all that crackling power. They were a strange brew standing astride the chasm that divides musical genres ~ that separates the status quo from the great unknown. And if they were haunted by questions, they were also fortified with enough true American grit to dig down deep and discover the answers.
In man’s never-ending search for meaning, they found theirs in build-ing a better beast, and in compos-ing the soundtrack of many lives ~ even if it was heavily distorted and drenched in electronic feedback. The basic tools were simple enough. The first was an amplifier/speaker. The second and most subversive tool of all was looked upon by some
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as the weapon of choice, but by others as the preferred instrument of redemption. For all of them it represented the cranked-up, fully charged electrified future. It lit up the radar screen and set off all the alarm bells; it upset the neighbors and in the days before and after the thermonuclear Genie escaped the bottle, it scared hell out of the Russians. The guys who strapped it on to ride the lightning called it an Axe, but to everyone else it was the electric guitar.
This lineage is a messy meander-ing, one strewn with the wreckage of failed attempts and blind runs down dark alleys, of miscalculation and confusion because that’s the nature of innovation. It’s also na-ture’s way of dishing out challenges to all comers seeking to disrupt the status quo: “You see the immensity of all this?” Nature seems to taunt. “You want some of this immutable mind-boggling stuff present at the creation that is matter and energy and musical vibration all bound up by the weight of history? Come and get it ~ if you dare.”
Well…Adolph Rickenbacker and George Beauchamp dared; they lit the fuse in Los Angeles. And F.C. Hall dared; he pushed the envelope in Anaheim. Leo Fender, he dared more than most in Fullerton, CA, where they named a street after him. And after Orville Gibson built
the launch pad way up in the north-country of Kalamazoo, Ted McCarty blasted off into outer space. They both dared ~ big time.
And so does Paul Reed Smith; he dared while wandering around Bowie, MD, with a handful of wood and a head full of dreams. Eventually he double dog dared fate itself when he moved his operation east across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge to Ste-vensville in 1995 and built a fortress from which to take on the world and deliver blows against the empire.
But I have my doubts. I have a working hypothesis that I’ve re-peatedly tested against observable reality over a lifetime of encounters. It posits that deep in the interior reaches of successful, hardworking and friendly men like Paul Reed Smith there’s a bubbling cauldron ~ a fire in the belly that won’t be denied. That’s not to suggest that he’s hard or mean spirited. I don’t mean that at all. What I do mean is that Paul Reed Smith is not easily displaced from the trajectory of his will. That’s my hypothesis, anyway, and I’m here today meeting him for the first time to test it.
Jeanne Nooney, Public Relations and Events Coordinator for PRS, is taking me on a fascinating tour of their production facilities. She’s a very hospitable, well-informed guide and a ready source of answers. (Full Disclosure: in a previous life I man-aged several factories and plants for a famous Fortune 50 company,
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and so I have an experienced eye for industrial engineering and manufac-turing processes.)
On the one hand I find state of the art industrial gear like Computer-ized Numerical Control machine tools that rough cut the wood stock, and temperature controlled indus-trial ovens that drive the Chesa-peake Bay area’s high humidity down to 6% or less in all processed wood. If there’s an element of en-gineered precision and automated production ~ this is it.
At the same time Jeanne leads me through department after de-partment where specialists and job shop-type craftsmen lovingly cus-tomize each guitar on individual work benches. Here, small batches of like models are broken down into single instruments for detailed hand work. This is the place where a long list of PRS-perfected in-novations are built into each and every “axe” that carries the PRS headstock signature. It’s where art meets science ~ where the ready-to-go kinetic energy gets wound
Paul Reed Smith tight ~ where blows are delivered against the empire.
But almost without exception, I encounter something here that strikes me as clearly outside my past experience with production facilities; everyone seems intensely absorbed and genuinely committed to what they’re doing in a friendly, dare I say almost joyous, kind of way. This place is like a dedicated home for an extended family of craftsmen, craftswomen and music lovers from across the generations and genres for whom this is much more than a paycheck.
Jeanne and I stop to observe a… is he a craftsman? Or maybe he’s an artist. Actually, he’s both, and he’s applying a beautiful rich hand-rubbed color coat to the guitar body that makes the wood’s natural grain pop to life. Even after I tell him he reminds me of Ozzy Osbourne he continues to expertly rub gorgeous color into the wood for another ten seconds before finally smiling and saying, “I’ll take that as a compli-ment.” Jeanne tells me that he’s personally created and customized many of the blends.
Moments later, in what I call the “winding department,” I quickly inspect the custom-built machine that winds various strands of copper wire around the iron core to create the guitar pickups ~ the electromag-netic devices that start the induced conversion of vibrating strings into sound. This is home of the hum-
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The tour ends in the clean and quiet room where each guitar has a final inspection, is briefly played and is expertly tuned before being laid tenderly in a customized case for shipping. You see, when you buy a PRS guitar you can take it out of the case, walk on stage, plug in and rock. Or, you can sit down alone in your kitchen and noodle away.
Waiting in the hallway outside the closed door to Paul’s office, my mind wanders back over random bits of article research: his involvement in charitable causes like raising money for cancer research with Johns Hop-kins Medical Center and….
Suddenly the door f lings open. When I see Paul Reed Smith in per-son for the very first time, he’s com-ing at me like, well, like a hurtling high-speed train. Veering off at a slight angle, he speeds past a group of us in the hallway with that big-eyed grin of his, saying to everyone and no one alike, “You wanna hear a great-sounding acoustic guitar?”
But of course it’s a rhetorical ques-tion, and besides, he’s not waiting for an answer. “Follow me,” he shouts excitedly. And so we do; Jeanne and I and several others fall into line like boxcars behind a locomotive, and the next thing I know we’re all standing inside a room where some master luthiers are talking in hushed tones.
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Paul grabs the guitar and starts picking and strumming it. His eyes swim with delight, and the grin on his face spreads wider. “Yeah, that’s beautiful,” he murmurs. He powers through some chords, throws a few licks into a brief solo and then holds the instrument up vertically, spin-ning it this way and that, showing off the rich and resonant sustain.
A minute later we’re in Paul’s of-fice, where I find myself sitting at the end of a long conference table. Jeanne is on my left and Paul is to the right. He eyes me up now as if for the first time, then looks at the digital voice recorder I switch on and says, “Okay, this interview is over!” Thank God he’s kidding, and we all laugh,
me especially with a sense of relief. So I start out by saying, “This is a
true story, and if you haven’t heard it before you’ll enjoy it.” Paul rocks back in his chair, glances over at Jeanne and decides to listen. “Neil Young was once asked by a music journalist to name the top ten rock guitarists of all time.” Paul stares intently at me. Now I’ve got his at-tention. “So Neil thinks for a moment and says, ‘it’s like a ten-story build-ing and maybe I’m on the 7th floor, but guys like Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page ~ those dudes are on the 8th and 9th floor.’ But when the journalist says, ‘Neil, can I assume by the absence of his name that you’d put Jimi Hendrix on the 10th floor?’ Neil says, ‘no man, Jimi’s in another building all by himself.’” I chuckle
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with self-satisfaction because I like telling this story and besides, it natu-rally segues into my first question: “So tell me, Paul, how would you rank the rock guitar makers, the luthiers of all time?”
Paul pauses for a moment to gather his thoughts, then leans in and says, “No, no ~ Jeff Beck is on the 10th f loor!” He’s still back on Neil’s building because it’s im-portant to him, and wham, things are suddenly spiraling off into the spontaneous give and take of two people with similar interests but different views. It’s a riff I always find delightful. “Neil isn’t on the 7th floor anyway,” Paul says, “unless he’s there as a songwriter, in which case he may be higher than that.” Then he gradually unpacks his unique perspective, which leads to his ver-sion of the ten-story building. I hear names like Charlie Christian and Django Reinhardt, Robert Johnson and Elvis Presley. I agree with some and disagree with others. B.B King and Little Richard and Chuck Berry are names we agree on, even if we don’t agree on which specific floor they occupy, all of which prompts Jeanne to interject, saying, “you two aren’t really talking about the same thing.” She’s right.
Moments later, while quickly touching upon the early country rockers around the L.A. scene like the Byrds and Buffalo Springfield,
I suddenly blurt out, “Good God, I just realized who you look like ~ Roger McGuinn ~ you know, Turn, Turn, Turn ~ Eight Miles High and all that.” Paul immediately counters, “Nah, people say I either look like Peter Frampton or Weird Al Yankov-ich.” Laughter erupts.
The good-natured ribbing mean-ders around until we’re arguing over a late ‘60s TV talk show during which the host (Dick Cavett, I think) says to a guest named Jimi Hendrix, “so tell me, how does it feel to be the world’s greatest guitarist?” I recall Jimi say-ing, “I wouldn’t know, you need to ask Roy Buchanan.” Paul’s version of this is that Jimi said, “I wouldn’t know, you need to ask Rory Galla-gher.” So back and forth we go, Roy Buchanan ~ Rory Gallagher ~ Roy Buchanan ~ Rory Gallagher, and as our voices rise in volume with each retort it occurs to me that maybe I’m pushing things a wee bit too far here. I mean, I just met this guy and I’m a guest in his office and this IS, after all, THE Paul Reed Smith!
“Never mind Gallagher and Bu-chanan,” he mutters in exasperation, “That was then, this is now, and in the here and now the best guitarist breathing is Derek Trucks.” Aha, he’s talking about electric blues slide gui-tarists, I conclude, and then before I can throttle back my impulses, I’m leaning in pointing and saying a bit too loudly, “No way man, Trucks is good, he’s damn good, but he’s no Sonny Landreth.” But Paul’s having
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none of it, “Derek Trucks, period, end of story,” he says with steel in his voice. So back and forth we go again: Derek Trucks ~ Sonny Landreth ~ Derek Trucks ~ Sonny Landreth. Jesus, Mary and Joseph, I’m going off the rails again.
Uh oh! Paul is up on his feet mov-ing toward a phone. Is that a stare or is that a glare? I’ve finally done it ~ he’s calling security. I knew it. No, wait! I thought he was thrashing around in a state of great agitation, but maybe it’s visceral excitement because now he’s hunched over his computer stabbing at the keyboard and sliding his mouse around and then ~ BOOM ~ a super-sonic wall of sound rocks the room. You guessed right, it’s Derek Trucks tearing it up on a searing electric blues riff.
All right… maybe, just maybe Trucks is better than Landreth, but I’m not admitting that to Paul Reed Smith, thank you very much. Paul leans back in his chair. His eyes close and his head starts bobbing and that big grin is spreading across his face again. In fact everyone is smiling and nodding. Ten, twenty, thirty seconds of smokin’ hot electric blues rock riffs fill every nook and cranny of the room until Paul re-enters the here and now. He bolts upright in his chair, punches a key and just like that the music stops.
He glances at his watch. Ev-eryone is on their feet and I hear
something about them being late for Paul’s next appointment. I’m shaking hands and heading for the door when I hear Paul say, “That was different, not like most interviews but I enjoyed it. I don’t know if you got anything there for an article or not, but that….yeah man, that was different.”
Rickenbacker, Gibson, Fender ~ God bless ′em, but those guys are all gone now. Yet there’s one still among us, the keeper of the flame to whom the electric torch has been passed. For him this gig remains the ulti-mate, intensely personal double dog dare. And based upon my personal encounter today, the fire has not been banked, not by a long shot. He’s still delivering blows against the empire.
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Sinatra Centennial Celebrationat the Academy Art Museum
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Ol’ Blue Eyes is back! The Acad-emy Art Museum has announced plans to celebrate the 100th anni-versary of the birth of Frank Sinatra with a series of events in 2015.
“Sinatra is widely viewed as the twentieth century’s most remark-able singer of the Great American Songbook,” notes Museum Direc-tor Dennis McFadden. “We have lined up a great program of music, lectures, and films to honor this American icon.”
The centerpiece of the program will be a gala celebration in May, “Come Fly with Us!” The renowned Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra will perform, with award-winning vocalist Allan Harris sing-ing Sinatra hits.
As part of the celebration, the Museum is sponsoring a variety of community activities about Sinatra during the year, in line with its mission to support vibrant arts and educational programming on the Eastern Shore.
To showcase Sinatra’s accom-plishments in film, the Academy Art Museum and Chesapeake Film Festival will jointly host a Sinatra Film Festival at the Museum. There
will be showings of The Manchurian Candidate on April 11 at 6 p.m., and From Here to Eternity, which earned Sinatra an Academy Award, on April 12 at 1 p.m. A panel discus-sion will explore his film career as well as his approach to acting.
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Spring Has Arrived! Exercise Time!After experiencing a rather
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If you haven’t been exercis-ing, check with your doctor first, especially if you have any kind of health issues. One nice thing about being retired, I now have time to exercise the way I should. I have taken up Tai Chi. I highly recommend it as a way to stretch and keep limber.
With the warmer days in April, you might be anxious to get out there and do some digging. Don’t rush the planting season! No, it is not a good idea to go out and plant your tomato plants on the first 60° day of the year. If you try to get
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Soils need to dry out from win-ter snows and rains before they can be cultivated. This may be mid-March one year, but mid- or even late-April for another, de-pending on the season and soil type. Well-drained, sandy loam soils dry out and warm up sooner than soils that are of a silt or silt/clay composition.
Remember that, in terms of dates, f lowers and vegetables can be divided into two groups: those that need a cool growing season and are frost hardy, and those that need warm soil to germinate and grow. Cool season vegetables in-clude peas, cabbage, broccoli, on-ion sets, potatoes, lettuce and root crops like beets and carrots. Flow-ers in the group include pansies, sweet peas, and larkspur.
Tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, petunia, marigold, and impa-tiens are some of the warm sea-son crops. None of these are frost hardy. Planting them should be delayed until after the danger of frost has passed.
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If you plant the seeds too early, they may just rot in the ground due to cold soil conditions. Plants started later from the same seed packets will soon catch up and often surpass those that had to struggle through the cold conditions.
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them in too early. Their roots will not grow in cold soil, and the air temperature has to get above 65° for them to set fruit.
If you are a raised bed gardener, you do have a little advantage in getting certain crops in early. The soil tends to warm up more quickly in raised beds. The use of a f loat-ing fabric like Re-May will help the soil retain some heat as well. In normal years you will get a 10-day to 2-week start on the production of broccoli, cabbage, and summer squash by using these methods. In addition, the fabric will give you some early season insect control if you handle it carefully and keep the crops covered until it gets too warm during the day.
April is the perfect month to plant pansies in the landscape. A number of newer varieties have heat tolerance bred into them so they last longer in the season ~ some lasting through June. You can brighten up your front door with pots of transplanted pansies, or place them in outdoor beds as
soon as the soil can be worked. Purchase large plants that will give a good show before hot weather ar-rives. Early transplanting of pan-sies at this time will result in big-ger and better f lowers this year.
Before transplanting, it is im-portant that you properly prepare the soil. Pansies need well-drained soil. They will benefit from the ad-dition of organic matter, lime and nutrients to the soil as well.
It is best to have your soil tested, then add the lime and fertilizer ac-cording to the soil test recommen-dations. If you haven’t tested the soil, a general recipe for soil im-provement per 100 square feet of bed area includes adding 3 bush-els of compost, 1 pound of ground
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limestone, and 2 to 3 pounds of 5-10-5 fertilizer. If you want to use organic materials, bone meal, super phosphate and blood meal could be added to the bed instead. Mix these ingredients thoroughly into the upper 3 to 5 inches of the soil and rake smooth.
Transplant your pansies ap-proximately 8 to 10 inches apart. Alternate or stagger the planting pattern for the best effect and f lower display. A light mulching with straw or pine needles will prolong their f lowering period. Weekly removal of dead f lowers can keep them f lowering right up to the hottest weather.
When we think of “geraniums” we usually think of the annual f lower with white, pink or red blos-soms. However, these plants are really of the Pelargonium genus of f lowering plants. Confusingly, Geranium is the correct botanical name of a separate genus of relat-ed plants often called cranesbills or hardy geraniums. Botanically,
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both genera belong to the family Geraniaceae. So, when I refer to a “perennial geranium” you might scratch you head and say, “what?”
The Perennial Plant Association (PPA) has named its 2015 Peren-nial Plant of the Year™ a perennial geranium, Geranium xcantabri-giense ‘Biokovo.’ This botanically named tongue twister has several common names, including Biokovo geranum and cranesbill Biokovo.
According to the PPA, this plant was a “naturally occurring hybrid of Geranium dalmaticum and Ge-ranium moacrorrhizum, in the Biokovo Mountains of the Dalma-tia region of present-day Croatia.”
The plant is hardy from USDA Zones 4 to 8. If you would like to plant it in your landscape, choose a sunny to partially shady location in moderate to well-drained soil.
The PPA recommends its use in the landscape as a ground cover, as it grows 6 to 10 inches high. Plant them in the front of the f low-er border or in a rock garden.
‘Biokovo’ produces masses of delicate pinkish white f lowers in spring and reddish, scarlet and orange leaf colors in the fall. The f lowers also produce a nice scent, and the foliage is aromatic. Oth-er nice features include that the plant tends to be deer- and rabbit-
Geranium xcantabrigiense 'Biokovo'Photo by the Perennial Plant Association
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resistant, and only requires an occasional “dead heading” of the spent f lowers.
For more information, check out the Perennial Plant Association website: www.perennialplant.org/education/plant-of-the-year.
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Kent County and Chestertown at a Glance
Kent County is a treasury of early American history. Its principal towns and back roads abound with beautiful old homes and historic landmarks.
The area was first explored by Captain John Smith in 1608. Kent County was founded in 1642 and named for the shire in England that was the home of many of Kent’s earliest colonists. When the first legislature assembled in 1649, Kent County was one of two counties in the colony, thus making it the oldest on the Eastern Shore. It extended from Kent Island to the present boundary.
The first settlement, New Yarmouth, thrived for a time and, until the founding of Chestertown, was the area’s economic, social and religious center.
Chestertown, the county seat, was founded in 1706 and served as a port of entry during colonial times. A town rich in history, its attractions include a blend of past and present. Its brick sidewalks and attractive antiques stores, restaurants and inns beckon all to wander through the historic district and enjoy homes and places with architecture ranging from the Georgian mansions of wealthy colonial merchants to the elaborate style of the Victorian era.
Second largest district of restored 18th-century homes in Maryland, Chestertown is also home to Washington College, the nation’s tenth oldest liberal arts college, founded in 1782. Washington College was also the only college that was given permission by George Washington for the use of his name, as well as given a personal donation of money.
The beauty of the Eastern Shore and its waterways, the opportunity for boating and recreation, the tranquility of a rural setting and the ambiance of living history offer both visitors and residents a variety of pleasing experiences. A wealth of events and local entertainment make a visit to Chestertown special at any time of the year.
For more information about events and attractions in Kent County, contact the Kent County Visitor Center at 410-778-0416, visit www.kentcounty.com or e-mail [email protected]. For informa-tion about the Historical Society of Kent County, call 410-778-3499 or visit www.kentcountyhistory.org/geddes.php. For information specific to Chestertown visit www.chestertown.com.
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Dorchester County is known as the Heart of the Chesapeake. It is 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 what is 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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Dorchester Points of Interestbridge 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 Histori-cal Society, LaGrange Plantation offers a range of local history and heritage on its grounds. The Meredith House, a 1760’s Georgian home, features artifacts and exhibits on the seven Maryland governors associated with the county; a child’s room containing antique dolls and toys; and other period displays. The Neild Museum houses a broad collection of agricultural, maritime, industrial, and Native American artifacts, including a McCormick reaper (invented by Cyrus McCormick in 1831). The Ron Rue exhibit pays tribute to a talented local decoy carver with a re-creation of his workshop. The Goldsborough Stable, circa 1790, includes a sulky, pony cart, horse-driven sleighs, and tools of the woodworker, wheelwright, and blacksmith. For more info. tel: 410-228-7953 or visit dorchesterhistory.org.
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DORCHESTER COUNTY VISITOR CENTER - The Visitors Center in Cambridge is a major entry point to the lower Eastern Shore, positioned just off U.S. Route 50 along the shore of the Choptank River. With its 100-foot sail canopy, it’s also a landmark. In addition to travel information and exhibits on the heritage of the area, there’s also a large playground, garden, boardwalk, restrooms, vending machines, and more. The Visitors Center is open daily from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information about Dorchester County call 800-522-8687 or visit www.tourdorchester.org or www.tourchesapeakecountry.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.
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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.
CHOPTANK RIVER LIGHTHOUSE REPLICA - Located at Long Wharf Park in Cambridge. The replica of a six-sided screwpile lighthouse was completed in fall 2012. The lighthouse includes a small museum, with exhibits about the original lighthouse’s history and the area’s maritime heritage. The original lighthouse once stood between Castle Haven and Benoni Points on the Choptank River, near the mouth of the Tred Avon River and was built in 1871. For more info. tel: 410-228-4031 or visit www.lighthousefriends.com.
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 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 knowledge and skills of area boatwrights to volunteers and visitors alike. Watch boatbuilding and restoration in action. For more info. tel: 410-221-1871 or visit www.richardsonmuseum.org.
HARRIET TUBMAN MUSEUM & EDUCATIONAL CENTER - The Museum and Educational Center is developing programs to preserve the history and memory of Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad. The museum is open Tuesday through Saturday. Local tours by appoint-ment 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”
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Dorchester Points of Interestself-guided driving tour. For more info. tel: 410-228-0401 or visit www.harriettubmanorganization.org.
SPOCOTT WINDMILL - Since 1972, Dorchester County has had a fully operating English style post windmill that was expertly crafted by the late master shipbuilder, James B. Richardson. There has been a succession of windmills at this location dating back to the late 1700’s. The complex also includes an 1800 tenant house, one-room school, blacksmith shop, and country store museum. The windmill is located at 1625 Hudson Rd., Cambridge.
HORN POINT LABORATORY - The Horn Point Laboratory offers public tours of this world-class scientific research laboratory, which is af-filiated with the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. The 90-minute walking tour shows how scientists are conducting research to restore the Chesapeake Bay. Horn Point Laboratory is located at 2020 Horns Point Rd., Cambridge, on the banks of the Choptank River. For more info. and tour schedule tel: 410-228-8200 or visit www.umces.edu/hpl.
THE STANLEY INSTITUTE - This 19th century one-room African American schoolhouse, dating back to 1865, is one of the oldest Maryland
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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.
OLD TRINITY CHURCH in Church Creek was built in the 17th cen-tury and perfectly restored in the 1950s. This tiny architectural gem contin-ues to house an active congregation of the Episcopal Church. The old grave-yard around the church contains the graves of the veterans of the American Revolution, the War of 1812, and the American Civil War. This part of the cemetery also includes the grave of Maryland’s Governor Carroll and his daughter Anna Ella Carroll who was an advisor to Abraham Lincoln. The date of the oldest burial is not known because the wooden markers common in the 17th century have disappeared. For more info. tel: 410-228-2940 or visit www.oldtrinity.net.
BUCKTOWN VILLAGE STORE - Visit the site where Harriet Tubman received a blow to her head that fractured her skull. From this injury Harriet believed God gave her the vision and directions that inspired her to guide so many to freedom. Artifacts include the actual newspaper ad offering a
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Dorchester Points of Interestreward for Harriet’s capture. Historical tours, bicycle, canoe and kayak rentals are available. Open upon request. The Bucktown Village Store is located at 4303 Bucktown Rd., Cambridge. For more info. tel: 410-901-9255.
HARRIET TUBMAN BIRTHPLACE - “The Moses of her People,” Harriet Tubman was believed to have been born on the Brodess Plantation in Bucktown. There are no Tubman-era buildings remaining at the site, which today is a farm. Recent archeological work at this site has been inconclusive, and the investigation is continuing, although there is some evidence that points to Madison as a possible birthplace.
BLACKWATER NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE - Located 12 miles south of Cambridge at 2145 Key Wallace Dr. With more than 25,000 acres of tidal marshland, it is an important stop along the Atlantic Flyway. 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. There is a full ser-vice Visitor Center and a four-mile Wildlife Drive, walking trails and water trails. For more info. tel: 410-228-2677 or visit www.fws.gov/blackwater.
EAST NEW MARKET - Originally settled in 1660, the entire town is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Follow a self-guided walking tour to see the district that contains almost all the residences of the original founders and offers excellent examples of colonial architecture. For more info. visit http://eastnewmarket.us.
HURLOCK TRAIN STATION - Incorporated in 1892, Hurlock ranks as the second largest town in Dorchester County. It began from a Dorches-ter/Delaware Railroad station built in 1867. The Old Train Station has been restored and is host to occasional train excursions. For more info. tel: 410-943-4181.
VIENNA HERITAGE MUSEUM - The Vienna Heritage Museum displays the Elliott Island Shell Button Factory operation. This was the last surviving mother-of-pearl button manufacturer in the United States. Numerous artifacts are also displayed which depict a view of the past life in this rural community. The Vienna Heritage Museum is located at 303 Race St., Vienna. For more info. tel: 410-943-1212 or visit www.viennamd.org.
LAYTON’S CHANCE VINEYARD & WINERY - This small farm winery, minutes from historic Vienna at 4225 New Bridge Rd., opened in 2010 as Dorchester County’s first winery. For more info. tel. 410-228-1205 or visit www.laytonschance.com.
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Historic Downtown Easton is the county seat of Talbot County. Established around early religious settlements and a court of law, today the historic district of Easton is a centerpiece of f ine specialty shops, business and cultural activities, unique restaurants and archi-tectural fascination. Tree-lined streets are graced with various period structures and remarkable homes, carefully preserved or restored. Because of its historical significance, Easton has earned distinction as the “Colonial Capital of the Eastern Shore” and was honored as #8 in the book, “The 100 Best Small Towns in America.”
Walking Tour of Downtown EastonStart near the corner of Harrison Street and Mill Place.
1. HISTORIC TIDEWATER INN - 101 E. Dover St. A completely modern hotel built in 1949, it was enlarged in 1953 and has recently undergone extensive renovations. It is the “Pride of the Eastern Shore.”
2. THE BULLITT HOUSE - 108 E. Dover St. One of Easton’s oldest and most beautiful homes, it was built in 1801. It is now occupied by the Mid-Shore Community Foundation.
3. AVALON THEATRE - 42 E. Dover St. Constructed in 1921 during the heyday of silent films and vaudeville entertainment. Over the course of its history, it has been the scene of three world premiers, including “The First Kiss,” starring Fay Wray and Gary Cooper, in 1928. The theater has gone through two major restorations: the first in 1936, when it was refinished in an art deco theme by the Schine Theater chain, and again 52 years later, when it was converted to a performing arts and community center. For more info. tel: 410-822-0345 or visit www.avalontheatre.com.
4. TALBOT COUNTY VISITORS CENTER - 11 S. Harrison St. The Office of Tourism provides visitors with county information for historic Easton and the waterfront villages of Oxford, St. Michaels and Tilghman Island. For more info. tel: 410-770-8000 or visit www.tourtalbot.org.
5. BARTLETT PEAR INN - 28 S. Harrison St. Significant for its architecture, it was built by Benjamin Stevens in 1790 and is one of Easton’s earliest three-bay brick buildings. The home was “modernized” with Victorian bay windows on the right side in the 1890s.
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Easton Points of Interest6. WATERFOWL BUILDING - 40 S. Harrison St. The old ar-
mory is now the headquarters of the Waterfowl Festival, Easton’s an-nual celebration of migratory birds and the hunting season, the second weekend in November. For more info. tel: 410-822-4567 or visit www.waterfowlfestival.org.
7. ACADEMY ART MUSEUM - 106 South St. Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, the Academy Art Museum is a fine art museum founded in 1958. Providing national and regional exhibi-tions, performances, educational programs, and visual and performing arts classes for adults and children, the Museum also offers a vibrant concert and lecture series and an annual craft festival, CRAFT SHOW (the Eastern Shore’s largest juried fine craft show), featuring local and national artists and artisans demonstrating, exhibiting and selling their crafts. The Museum’s permanent collection consists of works on paper and contemporary works by American and European masters. Mon. through Thurs. 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday, Saturday, Sunday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. First Friday of each month open until 7 p.m. For more info. tel: (410) 822-ARTS (2787) or visit www.academyartmuseum.org.
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Easton Points of Interest8. CHRIST CHURCH - St. Peter’s Parish, 111 South Harrison St.
The Parish was founded in 1692 with the present church built ca. 1840, of Port Deposit granite.
9. TALBOT HISTORICAL SOCIETY - Located in the heart of Easton’s historic district. Enjoy an evocative portrait of everyday life during earlier times when visiting the c. 18th and 19th century historic houses, all of which surround a Federal-style garden. For more info. tel: 410-822-0773 or visit www.hstc.org. Tharpe Antiques and Decorative Arts is now located at 25 S. Washington St. Consignments accepted by appointment, please call 410-820-7525. Proceeds support the Talbot Historical Society.
10. ODD FELLOWS LODGE - At the corner of Washington and Dover streets stands a building with secrets. It was constructed in 1879 as the meeting hall for the Odd Fellows. Carved into the stone and placed into the stained glass are images and symbols that have meaning only for members. See if you can find the dove, linked rings and other symbols.
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Easton Points of Interestsite of the earlier one built in 1711. It has been remodeled several times.
11A. FREDERICK DOUGLASS STATUE - 11 N. Washington St. on the lawn of the Talbot County Courthouse. The statue honors Fred-erick Douglass in his birthplace, Talbot County, where the experiences in his youth ~ both positive and negative ~ helped form his character, intellect and determination. Also on the grounds is a memorial to the veterans who fought and died in the Vietnam War, and a monument “To the Talbot Boys,” commemorating the men from Talbot who fought for the Confederacy. The memorial for the Union soldiers was never built.
12. SHANNAHAN & WRIGHTSON HARDWARE BUILDING - 12 N. Washington St. It is the oldest store in Easton. In 1791, Owen Kennard began work on a new brick building that changed hands several times throughout the years. Dates on the building show when additions were made in 1877, 1881 and 1889. The present front was completed in time for a grand opening on Dec. 7, 1941 - Pearl Harbor Day.
13. THE BRICK HOTEL - northwest corner of Washington and Federal streets. Built in 1812, it became the Eastern Shore’s leading hostelry. When court was in session, plaintiffs, defendants and lawyers
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all came to town and shared rooms in hotels such as this. Frederick Douglass stayed in the Brick Hotel when he came back after the Civil War and gave a speech in the courthouse. It is now an office building.
14. THOMAS PERRIN SMITH HOUSE - 119 N. Washington St. Built in 1803, it was the early home of the newspaper from which the Star-Democrat grew. In 1911, the building was acquired by the Chesa-peake Bay Yacht Club, which occupies it today.
15. ART DECO STORES - 13-25 Goldsborough Street. Although much of Easton looks Colonial or Victorian, the 20th century had its influences as well. This row of stores has distinctive 1920s-era white trim at the roofline. It is rumored that there was a speakeasy here during Prohibition.
16. FIRST MASONIC GRAND LODGE - 23 N. Harrison Street. The records of Coats Lodge of Masons in Easton show that five Masonic Lodges met in Talbot Court House (as Easton was then called) on July 31, 1783 to form the first Grand Lodge of Masons in Maryland. Although the building where they first met is gone, a plaque marks the spot today.
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17. FOXLEY HALL - 24 N. Aurora St., Built about 1795, Foxley Hall is one of the best-known of Easton’s Federal dwellings. Former home of
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Easton Points of InterestOswald Tilghman, great-grandson of Lt. Col. Tench Tilghman. (Private)
18. TRINITY EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL - On “Cathedral Green,” Goldsborough St., a traditional Gothic design in granite. The interior is well worth a visit. All windows are stained glass, picturing New Testa-ment scenes, and the altar cross of Greek type is unique.
19. INN AT 202 DOVER - Built in 1874, this Victorian-era mansion ref lects many architectural styles. For years the building was known as the Wrightson House, thanks to its early 20th century owner, Charles T. Wrightson, one of the founders of the S. & W. canned food empire. Locally it is still referred to as Captain’s Watch due to its prominent balustraded widow’s walk. The Inn’s renovation in 2006 was acknowledged by the Maryland Historic Trust and the U.S. Dept. of the Interior.
20. TALBOT COUNTY FREE LIBRARY - Housed in an attractively remodeled building on West Street, the hours of operation are Mon. and Thurs., 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., Tues. and Wed. 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Fri. and Sat., 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., except during the summer when it’s 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit www.tcf l.org.
21. MEMORIAL HOSPITAL AT EASTON - Established in the early
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1900s, now one of the finest hospitals on the Eastern Shore. Memorial Hospital is part of the Shore Health System. www.shorehealth.org.
22. 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.
23. 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.
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24. PICKERING CREEK - 400-acre farm and science education center featuring 100 acres of forest, a mile of shoreline, nature trails, low-ropes challenge course and canoe launch. Trails are open seven days a week from dawn till dusk. Canoes are free for members. For more info. tel: 410-822-4903 or visit www.pickeringcreek.org.
25. WYE GRIST MILL - The oldest working mill in Maryland (ca. 1682), the f lour-producing “grist” mill has been lovingly preserved by
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Easton Points of InterestThe Friends of Wye Mill, and grinds f lour to this day using two massive grindstones powered by a 26 horsepower overshot waterwheel. For more info. visit www.oldwyemill.org.
26. WYE ISLAND NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AREA - Located between the Wye River and the Wye East River, the area provides habitat for waterfowl and native wildlife. There are 6 miles of trails that provide opportunities for hiking, birding and wildlife viewing. For more info. visit www.dnr.state.md.us/publiclands/eastern/wyeisland.asp.
27. OLD WYE CHURCH - Old Wye Church is one of the oldest active Anglican Communion parishes in Talbot County. Wye Chapel was built between 1718 and 1721 and opened for worship on October 18, 1721. For more info. visit www.wyeparish.org.
28. WHITE MARSH CHURCH - The original structure was built before 1690. Early 18th century rector was the Reverend Daniel Mayna-dier. A later provincial rector (1764–1768), the Reverend Thomas Bacon, compiled “Bacon’s Laws,” authoritative compendium of Colonial Statutes. Robert Morris, Sr., father of Revolutionary financier is buried here.
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St. Michaels Points of Interest
On the broad Miles River, with its picturesque tree-lined streets and beautiful harbor, St. Michaels has been a haven for boats plying the Chesa-peake and its inlets since the earliest days. Here, some of the handsom-est models of the Bay craft, such as canoes, bugeyes, pungys and some famous Baltimore Clippers, were designed and built. The Church, named “St. Michael’s,” was the first building erected (about 1677) and around it clustered the town that took its name.
1. WADES POINT INN - Located on a point of land overlooking ma-jestic Chesapeake Bay, this historic inn has been welcoming guests for over 100 years. Thomas Kemp, builder of the original “Pride of Baltimore,” built the main house in 1819. For more info. visit www.wadespoint.com.
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Duckblind Bar on the scenic Miles River with an 18 hole golf course. For more info. visit www.harbourtowne.com.
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. For more info. visit www.milesriveryc.org.
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 Hazard Perry. Perry Cabin has served as a riding academy and was restored in 1980 as an inn and restaurant. For more info. visit www.perrycabin.com.
5. THE PARSONAGE INN - A bed and breakfast inn at 210 N. Talbot St., was built by Henry Clay Dodson, a prominent St. Michaels businessman and state legislator around 1883 as his private residence. In 1877, Dodson,
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St. Michaels Points of Interestalong with Joseph White, established the St. Michaels Brick Company, which later provided the brick for the house. For more info. visit www.parsonage-inn.com.
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.
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St. Michaels Points of Interesthosts temporary exhibitions, special events, festivals, and education pro-grams. Docking and pump-out facilities available. Exhibitions and Museum Store open year-round. Up-to-date information and hours can be found on the Museum’s website at www.cbmm.org or by calling 410-745-2916.
8. THE CRAB CLAW - Restaurant adjoining the Maritime Museum and overlooking St. Michaels harbor. Open March-November. 410-745-2900 or www.thecrabclaw.com.
9. PATRIOT - During the season (April-November) the 65’ cruise boat can carry 150 persons, runs daily historic narrated cruises along the Miles River. For daily cruise times, visit www.patriotcruises.com or call 410-745-3100.
10. THE FOOTBRIDGE - Built on the site of many earlier bridges, today’s bridge joins Navy Point to Cherry Street. It has been variously known as “Honeymoon Bridge” and “Sweetheart Bridge.” It is the only remaining bridge of three that at one time connected the town with outly-ing areas around the harbor.
11. VICTORIANA INN - The Victoriana Inn is located in the Historic District of St. Michaels. The home was built in 1873 by Dr. Clay Dodson,
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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. For more info. visit www.victorianainn.com.
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. For more info. visit www.hambletoninn.com.
13. SNUGGERY B&B - Oldest residence in St. Michaels, c. 1665. The structure incorporates the remains of a log home that was originally built on the beach and later moved to its present location. www.snuggery1665.com.
14. LOCUST STREET - A stroll down Locust Street is a look into the past of St. Michaels. The Haddaway House at 103 Locust St. was built by Thomas L. Haddaway in the late 1700s. Haddaway owned and operated the shipyard at the foot of the street. Wickersham, at 203 Locust Street, was built in 1750 and was moved to its present location in 2004. It is known for its glazed brickwork. Hell’s Crossing is the intersection of Locust and Carpenter streets and is so-named because in the late 1700’s, the town was described as a rowdy one, in keeping with a port town where sailors
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15. 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.
16. TALBOT COUNTY FREE LIBRARY - St. Michaels Branch is located at 106 S. Fremont Street. For more info. tel: 410-745-5877 or visit www.tcfl.org.
17. 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
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St. Michaels Points of Interest office, post office and telephone company. For more info. visit www.carpenterstreetsaloon.com.
18. 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. For more info. visit www.twoswaninn.com.
19. 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).
20. 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. For more info. tel: 410-745-9076.
21. THE OLD BRICK INN - Built in 1817 by Wrightson Jones, who opened and operated the shipyard at Beverly on Broad Creek. (Talbot St. at Mulberry). For more info. visit www.oldbrickinn.com.
22. THE CANNONBALL HOUSE - When St. Michaels was shelled by the British in a night attack in 1813, the town was “blacked out” and
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St. Michaels Points of Interest lanterns were hung in the trees to lead the attackers to believe the town was on a high bluff. The houses were overshot. The story is that a can-nonball hit the chimney of “Cannonball House” and rolled down the stairway. This “blackout” was believed to be the first such “blackout” in the history of warfare.
23. 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.
24. TOWN DOCK RESTAURANT - During 1813, at the time of the Battle of St. Michaels, it was known as “Dawson’s Wharf” and had 2 can-nons 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. For more info. visit www.towndockrestaurant.com.
25. ST. MICHAELS MUSEUM at ST. MARY’S SQUARE - Located in the heart of the historic district, offers a unique view of 19th century life in St. Michaels. The exhibits are housed in three period buildings and contain local furniture and artifacts donated by residents. The museum is
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St. Michaels Points of Interest supported entirely through community efforts. For more info. tel: 410-745-9561 or www.stmichaelsmuseum.org.
26. 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. For more info. visit www.kemphouseinn.com.
27. THE OLD MILL COMPLEX - The Old Mill was a functioning flour mill from the late 1800s until the 1970s, producing f lour used primarily for Maryland beaten biscuits. Today it is home to a brewery, distillery, artists, furniture makers, and other unique shops and businesses.
28. ST. MICHAELS HARBOUR INN, MARINA & SPA - Constructed in 1986 and recently renovated. For more info. visit www.harbourinn.com.
29. ST. MICHAELS NATURE TRAIL - The St. Michaels Nature Trail is a 1.3 mile paved walkway that winds around the western side of St. Michaels starting at a dedicated parking lot on S. Talbot St. across from the Bay Hun-dred swimming pool. The path cuts through the woods, San Domingo Park, over a covered bridge and past a historic cemetery before ending in Bradley Park. The trail is open all year from dawn to dusk.
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OxfordPoints of Interest
Oxford is one of the oldest towns in Maryland. Although already settled for perhaps 20 years, Oxford marks the year 1683 as its official founding, for in that year Oxford was first named by the Maryland General Assembly as a seaport and was laid out as a town. In 1694, Oxford and a new town called Anne Arundel (now Annapolis) were selected the only ports of entry for the entire Maryland province. Until the American Revolution, Oxford enjoyed prominence as an international 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 yacht-ing. It has a protected harbor for watermen who harvest oysters, crabs, clams and fish, and for sailors from all over the Bay.
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Oxford Points of InterestVA, 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 - This former, pillared brick schoolhouse was saved from the wrecking ball by the town residents. Now it is a gathering place for meetings, classes, lectures, and performances by the Tred Avon Players and has been recently renovated. Rentals available to groups and individuals. 410-226-5904 or www.oxfordcc.org.
3. 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” created 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 preserva-tion of artifacts and memories of Oxford, MD. Admission is free; donations gratefully accepted. For more info. and hours tel: 410-226-0191 or visit www.oxfordmuseum.org.
7. OXFORD LIBRARY - 101 Market St. Founded in 1939 and on its present site since 1950. Hours are Mon.-Sat., 10-4.
8. BRATT MANSION (ACADEMY HOUSE) - 205 N. Morris St. Served as quarters for officers of the Maryland Military Academy. Built about 1848. (Private residence)
9. BARNABY HOUSE - 212 N. Morris St. Built in 1770 by sea captain Richard Barnaby, this charming house contains original pine woodwork, corner fireplaces and an unusually lovely handmade staircase. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places. (Private residence)
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Oxford Points of Interest10. THE GRAPEVINE HOUSE - 309 N. Morris St. The grapevine
over the entrance arbor was brought from the Isle of Jersey in 1810 by Captain William Willis, who commanded the brig “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 Revolu-tion.” 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 Confederation, and the United States Con-stitution. 410-226-5111 or www.robertmorrisinn.com.
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 Banning, who was the first Federal Collector of Customs appointed by George Washington.
13. TRED AVON YACHT CLUB - N. Morris St. & The Strand. Founded in 1931. The present building, completed in 1991, replaced the original structure.
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Oxford Points of Interest14. 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 location about 1930. (Private residence)
16. CUTTS & CASE - 306 Tilghman St. World-renowned boatyard for classic yacht design, wooden boat construction and restoration using composite structures. Some have described Cutts & Case Shipyard as an American Nautical Treasure because it produces to the highest standards quality work equal to and in many ways surpassing the beautiful artisan-ship of former times.
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Tilghman’s Island“Great Choptank Island” was granted to Seth Foster in 1659. Thereafter
it was known as Foster’s Island, and remained so through a succession of owners until Matthew Tilghman of Claiborne inherited it in 1741. He and his heirs owned the island for over a century and it has been Tilghman’s Island ever since, though the northern village and the island’s postal designation are simply “Tilghman.”
For its first 175 years, the island was a family farm, supplying grains, vegetables, fruit, cattle, pigs and timber. Although the owners rarely were in residence, many slaves were: an 1817 inventory listed 104. The last Tilghman owner, General Tench Tilghman (not Washington’s aide-de-camp), removed the slaves in the 1830s and began selling off lots. In 1849, he sold his remaining interests to James Seth, who continued the development.
The island’s central location in the middle Bay is ideally suited for watermen harvesting the Bay in all seasons. The years before the Civil War saw the influx of the first families we know today. A second wave arrived after the War, attracted by the advent of oyster dredging in the 1870s. Hundreds of dredgers and tongers operated out of Tilghman’s Island, their catches sent to the cities by schooners. Boat building, too, was an important industry.
The boom continued into the 1890s, spurred by the arrival of steamboat service, which opened vast new markets for Bay seafood. Islanders quickly capitalized on the opportunity as several seafood buyers set up shucking and canning operations on pilings at the edge of the shoal of Dogwood Cove. The discarded oyster shells eventually became an island with seafood packing houses, hundreds of workers, a store, and even a post office.
The steamboats also brought visitors who came to hunt, fish, relax and escape the summer heat of the cities. Some families stayed all summer in one of the guest houses that sprang up in the villages of Tilghman, Avalon, Fairbank and Bar Neck. Although known for their independence, Tilghman’s Islanders enjoy showing visitors how to pick a crab, shuck an oyster or find a good fishing spot.
In the twentieth century, Islanders pursued these vocations in farming, on the water, and in the thriving seafood processing industry. The “Tilghman Brand” was known throughout the eastern United States, but as the Bay’s bounty diminished, so did the number of water-related jobs. Still, three of the few remaining Bay skipjacks (sailing dredgeboats) can be seen here, as well as two working harbors with scores of power workboats.
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New Horizonsby
Gary D. CrawfordSome years ago I produced a
modest weekly “newspaper” for the Tilghman community. It was a simple one-pager, front and back, that we called the Island Flyer. Three hundred free copies appeared around the island every Friday morning. Over the years we received unsolicited donations for the ink and paper from 83 different individuals, mostly Tilghman residents, many of whom made multiple gifts. Together, we kept it going for 326 weeks.
It was nothing fancy: the usual calendar of upcoming events and reports on recent happenings. To keep costs down it was printed at home with black ink only, but on yellow paper to help brighten it up. Vol. 3 No. 24 was the sole exception. That issue had color photos of the Tilghman boys who won the Home Run Baker League Championship in 2006.
You probably won’t be surprised to learn that occasionally the Island
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Flyer also ran articles on points of local history.
Less edifying by a great margin were the groaner jokes used to fill bits of free space, tales involving a mythical waterman named Jimmy Sook and his curious family.
Not everything was local, however. Every so often I went well outside our community for stories ~ a long way outside. Having been interested in astronomy since childhood, I have followed our exploration of the solar system with delight and wonder. NASA has a wonderful website called “APOD” (at http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html), which stands for “astronomy picture of the day.”
New Horizons Make it the opening page for your web browser and every morning you will be presented with a brief paragraph explaining a picture. And what pictures! They are selected from an endless array of possibilities: a Hubble deep-space photo, an auroral display seen over Finland, a snapshot of Martian rocks taken by one of the rovers, or a close-up of a comet or asteroid. APOD not only surprises and delights, it also helps us keep up with space missions that nobody else is reporting on anymore.
It’s important that we should keep looking up in wonder, so, from time to time, articles would appear it the Island Flyer that helped keep us abreast of news from space.
Remember the first two successful
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Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity? They landed on opposite sides of Mars in January of 2004, after a six-month journey from Earth. These six-wheeled robots were designed to operate for a minimum of 90 Martian-rotations (sols), or about 94½ Earth-rotations (days). Everyone hoped they would go longer, of course, and they did. Indeed, they just kept going, for so long that the general media lost interest.
Not the editor of the Island Flyer, however. When the rovers surpassed the 1000-day milestone ~ more than ten times their planned life ~ this story ran in our Thanksgiving issue, November 25, 2006.
Mars RoversEver wonder how the rovers Spirit
and Opportunity got their inspiring names? It’s an interesting story. Back in 2002, NASA conducted a Name-the-Rovers Contest for school-children. As one might imagine, they received lots of suggestions, over 10,000.
One submission came from Sofi Collis, then a 9-year-old third-grader in Scottsdale. She was a Siberian orphan who had been adopted seven years earlier by an Arizona family.
Sofi won the NASA contest hands-down with the following submission. I think you will agree it also is a poem of real Thanksgiving.
I used to live in an Orphanage.It was dark and cold and lonely.At night, I looked up at the sparkly
New Horizons sky and felt better.I dreamed I could fly there.In America, I can make all my
dreams come true.....Thank you for the “Spirit” and the
“Opportunity.”
Sofi Collis
After that story ran, Spirit went on for another thousand days, and more. She functioned effectively for more than twenty times her planned life until she bogged down in the sand in 2009 and could not pull herself free.
And what of her sister rover, Opportunity? Astonishingly, she is still going! She trundles about, exploring and sending back terrific photos. She even went down into a shallow crater. Designed to move just a few carefully programmed feet each day for a projected total of maybe 600 yards, last summer Opportunity passed the 25-mile mark. The mission is coming up on eleven years now, and counting. You go, girl!
In 2006, readers of the Island Flyer were introduced to another exciting space mission ~ the attempt to reach
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Pluto. Although just 2/3 the size of our Moon, Pluto is really very interesting for a number of reasons.
No spacecraft has ever been in Pluto’s neighborhood, at least none built by Earthlings. Also, Pluto’s elliptical orbit is so huge that it circles the Sun only once every 248 Earth years. (It hasn’t made it halfway yet since it was discovered in 1930.) Then, because it’s so far away, we have no idea what it actually looks like. Even the best telescopic images, those taken by Hubble, show Pluto as a blue and brown blur.
Pluto as seen by the Hubble.
Pluto is the largest known KBO, which stands for Kuiper Belt Object. Let me explain. It seems, Gentle Reader, that we were misled as children. The Solar System isn’t quite as simple as the model we studied in school ~ nine planets happily going ’round the Sun, with a little band of crumbly stuff called the asteroid belt circulating between Mars and Jupiter. The picture now emerging is of a massive and complex system of space stuff all captured by the Sun’s gravitational pull and whirling about.
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We now understand it to have four major parts. The first part, very close to the Sun, consists of four rocky Inner Planets, plus the asteroid belt made up of little rocky Inner-Planet bits. The second part is the four Outer Planets, all mostly swirling globes of gas.
Beyond the outermost of the Outer Planets (Neptune) lies the third part. It’s another belt, but this one is big and made up of bits of frozen gaseous stuff, like ice. Called the Kuiper belt (pronounced “ky-per,” as he was Dutch), it is 20 times as wide and 200 times as massive as the asteroid belt.
Pluto sometimes goes out into the Kuiper belt, then falls back in among the Outer Planets, sometimes even closer to the Sun than Neptune. Note also that Pluto’s orbit is tilted. Very strange.
New Horizons
The Kuiper Belt
To complete our new under-standing, out beyond the Kuiper belt lies a fourth structure, one we know even less about. While the other three parts of our Solar system are fairly flat, this one is a huge spherical collection of frozen stuff, called the Oort Cloud (sorry, another Dutchman). The comets that come whizzing into our skies every few years originate in the Kuiper belt; the longer period ones like Halley’s Comet come from the Oort Cloud.
Only a few of the objects in the Kuiper belt are big enough to have been seen from Earth. Remember, we are inside this mess, searching for tiny moving specks against a background of galactic stars. Though devilish hard to find, nearly a thousand have been spotted to date.
The largest KBO we know of so far is our friend Pluto, the demoted planet.
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The Kuiper Belt from the outside.
New Horizons
Its discovery in 1930 prompted the Disney people to give the name to Mickey’s dog. Pluto is also the most accessible KBO. Because of Pluto’s goofy orbit (oh, I do beg your pardon for that), we don’t have to go all the way out into the Kuiper belt to get at it. A rendezvous with Pluto lets us get a close-up look at one of these Kuiper Belt Objects for the very first time.
Actually, we missed a great chance 38 years ago. A clever fellow named Gary Flandro noticed that the big outer planets ~ Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto ~ would soon be in just the right positions to enable a spacecraft to slingshot from Jupiter, to Saturn, and so on, picking up speed with each boost. Imagine runners on a track, each running in his own lane at his own speed ~ and you want to pass a baton from the innermost
guy to the outermost. Very tricky.This alignment, the Planetary
Grand Tour, occurs just once every 175 years, so NASA immediately began developing the “baton.” They made two of them, Voyager I and Voyager II, and they were amazingly successful missions.
To go these immense distances, they had to go tremendously fast or we wouldn’t be around when they got there. Such a spacecraft can’t possibly slow down enough to go into orbit. After traveling for many months, they zip by their targets in a matter of days. But a “fly-by” is better than nothing. Voyager I gave us our first close looks at Jupiter and Saturn, before its trajectory took it out of the Solar system. Voyager II went by another route that took it to all four outer planets. It is still the only spacecraft to visit Uranus and Neptune, but budget cuts made it necessary to strike Pluto from the itinerary. The Voyager mission was a triumph, many times over. We’re still in touch with both vehicles, by the way. Until about 2025.
But poor Pluto! On that, we just gave up.
Two more Pluto missions were planned, but both were scrubbed for lack of funds. You can imagine my delight, therefore, when NASA
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announced a new nine-year mission to Pluto! They called it New Horizons. The news made the front page of the Island Flyer, you can be sure! The New Horizons spacecraft launched in January of 2005, roaring away from Earth at 37,000 mph, passing the Moon in just nine hours.
In March the following year, 2007, a follow-up article reminded people that New Horizons was aloft and moving faster. It needed even more speed if it were to chase down Pluto any time soon, so it dove deep into Jupiter’s gravity-well, slid by the giant planet, and went tearing away at 47,000 mph. I promised again to keep the readers posted.
After the Jupiter s l ingshot maneuver, New Horizons was put to sleep to conserve energy. So, too, was the Island Flyer, a few years later, and
New Horizons for much the same reason. Still, I had made a promise, and this article fulfills it. Now let’s catch up.
After Jupiter, the spacecraft flew on, passing the orbit of Saturn in 2008 and Uranus in 2011, though it didn’t come near those planets. Then it was another three years to Neptune; New Horizons crossed its orbit last August. There wasn’t much news to report for seven long years, just some speed adjustments and in-flight checks, and more sleep.
But now hold onto your hat with both hands, Mildred! Do you remember that we said this was a nine-year mission? And that it began in 2006? Do the math. That’s right ~ we reach Pluto this summer!
On December 6, 2014, mission controllers sent a signal for the craft to end its hibernation and begin regular operations. Radio transmissions take 4½ hours, so the team had to wait nine anxious hours for a reply. Finally, at 9:30 p.m. EST, it came: New Horizons said it was now awake and ready to go.
Our speedy little guy ~ he’s about the size of a piano ~ is now rapidly overtaking Pluto. In early February, the long-range camera aboard New Horizons made visual contact and sent back photos of both Pluto and its moon Charon, as tiny specks of light. Charon is more than half the size of Pluto, though nobody can agree on how to pronounce its name. Since it comes from Greek mythology, my vote is for “care-on,” not “char-on.”New Horizon’s Flight Path
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These photographs enabled the mission navigators to begin choreographing the fly-by, so that it twists and turns in a way that captures the most data about both worlds. By May 5, images sent from New Horizons will be better than those from Hubble ~ and they will improve quickly.
Please mark Tuesday, July 14, 2015 on your calendars. That is the day of closest approach, when New Horizons will flash past Pluto at more than 30,000 mph. It will skim within 6,200 miles of its surface, which is lower than the altitude of our GPS satellites.
New Horizons will be snapping
New Horizons pictures like crazy, right and left, and gathering piles of other data. Everything will have to be done very quickly, for at such speeds the close encounter will last only a few days. New Horizons then sails on, into the Kuiper belt.
The initial highly compressed images will be transmitted to Earth within days; uncompressed data may take up to 9 months to transmit. Hey, I can’t wait to see those first images.
I’ll keep you posted, somehow.
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The Charms of ChickenThe dishes we make again and
again are like old friends ~ familiar and reassuring. Foods like chicken cordon bleu and sweet and sour chicken have become classics be-cause they appeal to nearly every-one, and they are easy to make.
You could cook chicken every night for a year and never have to repeat a recipe. It’s amenable to all kinds of seasonings, from spicy to herbal. Without the fatty skin, chicken is very lean. Four ounces of uncooked chicken breast has about 3 grams of fat, and the same amount of leg meat has about 7 grams.
It’s important to cook chicken safely, making sure the raw meat doesn’t touch other foods, and washing the cutting board and utensils in hot soapy water after use. Also, cook chicken to 170 de-grees on a meat thermometer so there is no trace of pink in the cen-ter and the juices run clear.
While frying chicken in fat goes against the new awareness of the importance of a healthy diet, there
are ways to prepare your old favor-ites so that you can still enjoy them.
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This literally means Blue Rib-bon Chicken! Instead of sautéing the cutlets in butter, we dip them in cheesy crumbs and a buttermilk-egg white mixture, then bake them in the oven.
Cooking spray4 boneless, skinless chicken breast halves2 oz. thinly sliced smoked ham, di-vided into 4 portions2 oz. thinly sliced Swiss cheese, di-vided into 4 portions
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Butterfly the chicken. Place a chicken breast on your work surface with the longer thinner edge facing you. Keeping the knife blade paral-lel to the surface, make a horizon-tal cut from the long edge, nearly through to the opposite side. Open the breast flat. Repeat with the re-maining breasts.
Lay one quarter of the ham and cheese on one side of the breast, leaving a half inch at the edge un-covered. Press breasts closed.
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Gently dip each breast in the crumb mixture, then in the egg white mixture, and back into the crumb mixture. Set each breast on the prepared rack.
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SWEET and SOUR CHICKENServes 4
The flavor contrasts in this dish have made it an American favorite. The addition of pineapple, fresh ginger and garlic give it added zest, and snow peas and red peppers give it texture. Serve it over rice.
2 T. brown sugar2 T. Tamari soy sauce2 T. rice wine vinegar2 T. dark sesame oil1 lb. chicken tenders, cut in cubes
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1 8-oz. can pineapple chunks2 t. cornstarch1 t. expeller pressed canola oil4 garlic cloves, minced1 T. fresh ginger root, minced1 medium red bell pepper, seeded and thinly sliced1 cup snow peas, strings removed
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and cut in half on a diagonal1/8 t. red pepper flakesSea salt to taste4 cups cooked rice1/2 cup coarsely chopped cashews
Stir together the brown sugar, soy sauce, vinegar and sesame oil in a bowl. Add the chicken and toss to coat. Let stand for 30 minutes.
Drain the marinade from the chicken into a small bowl. Add juice from the canned pineapple to the marinade, whisk in the cornstarch and set aside.
Heat oil in a large non-stick skil-let or wok over high heat. Add garlic and ginger root and stir for about a minute until fragrant. Add the chicken and bell peppers. Cook for 4 minutes, or until chicken is no longer pink.
Add the snow peas, pineapple chunks and red pepper flakes. Stir reserved marinade so that the corn-starch that has settled to the bottom has mixed in. Add that mixture to the skillet. Stir for about 3 minutes until the sauce has thickened and it has heated through thoroughly. Season with salt. Serve over rice and sprinkle with cashews.
OVEN BARBECUED CHICKENServes 4
The coating of sauce adds flavor to the chicken while keeping it from drying out as it bakes. The ketchup-based sauce has a traditional taste the whole family will love. Serve
with a shredded cabbage and car-rot slaw.
2 1/2-3 lbs. chicken pieces ~ includ-ing breasts, thighs and drumsticksSea salt and freshly ground pepper to taste2 T. expeller pressed canola oil1 medium onion, chopped4 cloves garlic, minced3/4 cup ketchup3 T. cider vinegar2 t. dry Colman’s mustard1 T. Worcestershire sauce1-1/2 t. brown sugar
Preheat oven to 450°. Remove skin and fat from chicken pieces, and arrange in a single layer in a shallow baking dish. Season with salt and pepper.
In a large skillet, heat oil over medium heat. Add onions and stir for 5 minutes. Add garlic and cook for 1 minute longer. Stir in ketchup, vinegar, mustard, Worcestershire sauce, brown sugar and 1/2 cup of water. Bring sauce to a simmer and cook for about 8 minutes or un-til thickened, stirring often. Pour
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sauce evenly over chicken. Bake for 25 minutes, or until chicken is no longer pink in the center.
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This dish usually involves gener-ous amounts of butter and olive oil. While there is a little of each, most of the fats have been replaced with chicken broth.
4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts1/4 cup flourSea salt and freshly ground pepper to taste2 t. butter2 t. olive oil1/2 cup chicken broth2 T. freshly squeezed lemon juice1/4 t. sugar2 T. fresh parsley, chopped
Place chicken breasts in a single layer on a piece of plastic wrap and top with another piece of wrap. With a rolling pin, firmly pound breasts to flatten.
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In a small bowl stir together the flour, salt and pepper, then coat both sides of each breast with flour mixture.
In a large skillet, heat butter and oil over medium-high heat. Add chicken and sauté for 5 minutes on each side, or until the chicken is no longer pink in the center.
Transfer the chicken to a serving platter.
Add chicken broth, lemon juice and sugar to the skillet. Bring to a boil and cook until thickened. Re-move pan from heat and stir in pars-ley. Pour the sauce over the chicken.
Tidewater Kitchen 1/4 cup Marsala*1/2 T. herbes de Provence, or any combination of herbs that can be used with poultry1 cup beef broth1/2 T. cornstarch blended with 1 T. water1 8-oz. pkg. baby portabella mush-rooms, sautéed
In a large skillet heat the butter and oil over high heat. When the butter foams, add the chicken and cook for 2 minutes on each side un-til browned. Remove chicken to the serving platter.
Add the shallots to the pan in which the chicken was browned (add more butter and oil if neces-sary), and stir over medium heat for 2 minutes. Add the wine and herbs.
Stir with a wooden spoon, scrap-ing the chicken pieces loose. Boil the sauce rapidly to reduce the liq-uid. Remove from heat. Add the beef broth and cornstarch mixture and simmer for 2 minutes, or until the sauce thickens. Add the sautéed mushrooms and salt and pepper to taste. Pour the sauce over the chick-en and serve.
*If you do not have Marsala wine, you can substitute cream sherry and sweet vermouth.
CHICKEN with ARTICHOKES and MUSHROOMS
Serves 4Recipes for entrees that are quick
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CHICKEN MARSALAServes 4
A classic recipe is one that is sim-ple and easy to prepare, but always tastes terrific. The beef broth gives it the rich flavor that makes it ap-pealing to just about everybody.
1 lb. chicken tenders2 T. butter1 T. oil1 T. shallots or onions, minced
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4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
Tidewater Kitchen 1/4 cup flour4 T. butter1 16-oz. can artichoke hearts, drained and quartered1 8-oz. pkg. baby portabella mush-rooms, sliced1 cup heavy whipping creamSea salt and freshly ground pepper to tasteHot cooked noodles or rice
Place one piece of chicken be-tween 2 sheets of plastic wrap; flat-ten to 1/4-inch thickness using a meat mallet or rolling pin. Dredge chicken lightly with flour.
Melt butter in a large skillet over medium heat. Add chicken and cook for 5 minutes on each side or until golden brown. Remove chicken from the pan and set aside.
Add mushrooms to the drippings and sauté for 3 to 5 minutes. Add the artichokes, whipping cream, salt and pepper. Cook, stirring con-stantly, over low heat until the sauce has thickened. Add the chicken back to the pan, cover and cook for 5 min-utes, then serve over noodles or rice.
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Tidewater Reviewby
Anne Stinson
Running Silver: Restoring Rivers and Their Great Fish Migrations by John Waldman. Lyons Press. 304 pp. $20.18.
Attention, local anglers! I’ve got a book for you that you won’t want to miss. Running Silver will make you eager to finish it before you pick up your rod and reel again.
If you’re a certain age, you are aware of how fishing has changed since you were young. If you have ever made a living crabbing or oys-tering, you probably wouldn’t advise your kids to get in the business, would you?
Waldman goes a bit further back in time, and he scarcely mentions crabs and oysters. His focus is on the near extinction of fish that are born in freshwater lakes, creeks and rivers on the East Coast, and then migrate to the ocean for their ma-ture years. Some only spawn once in their lives, and they swim back into their birth water to do it. The author concentrates on five species in particular, all of them interesting in that they require both fresh water and salt water in their life cycles.
But f irst, Waldman takes the
reader into a quick encapsulation of Ichthyology 101. The species he concentrates on are called anadro-mous, all of which leave freshwater to spend their adult life at sea, only to return to the freshwater stream or river where they hatched. Some in the list spawn yearly, but they all prefer home base.
Atlantic salmon, striped bass, American shad, alewife and At-lantic sturgeon are the f ive f ish
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that Waldman treats as the most devastatingly diminished since settlers arrived. They all hatch in fresh water and spend the next five years or so growing up. They’re big boys and girls now. In fact, they’re so much bigger they need more food than they can find in fresh water compared to the salty sea.
All is not paradise on the con-tinental shelf, however. There are more fish in that water, and more danger. Sooner or later, the urge to spawn tells them to turn around and go back home to where they were born. The arduous trip against the river currents f lowing toward the ocean drains their energy, but they try hard to get around the hazards on the way.
The automatic “homing” instinct sounds like a good idea. It was a good idea for millennia. Then hu-mans got in the way. We built dams for grist mills to grind f lour, etc. Many of the documents from the 16th and 17th centuries including letters, newspapers, and bills, reveal the incredible spring “runs” of the fish. A popular phrase in correspon-dence was “You could walk across the river on the backs of the fish!” Waldman collected a delightful number of quotations from letters and notes from observers.
All along the Atlantic shore, the author’s calendar of salt-to-fresh water spawning is marked with what
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fish comes when. His account begins with February and rainbow smelt, a small boreal fish that strays no farther south than Massachusetts.
On to a species we are more famil-iar with, alewives or river herring. Their runs are expected in March. They are little and oily and destined to be baitf ish, except for Native Americans, who favored their oil to keep their hair from blowing in the wind, to keep rain off the scalp and to make hair shine. When a run of these little fish comes in from salt water, Waldman urges onlookers to “Peer from a bridge...at the height of a run and you may see hundreds or thousands...of silver bodies.”
April brings the spawning sea-son in runs of American shad. In colonial times, shad were already important in dozens of rivers from Quebec to Florida. Described as “poor man’s salmon,” their only faults for the table were “too oily” and each shad has 700 fine bones.
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May brings the eagerly awaited striped bass, rated with Atlantic salmon as “a noble species.” In New Jersey the species was called “stripers.” Farther south, Waldman says, they were more often called “rockfish or rocks.” A document from 1800 says they were hunted on Chesapeake Bay’s shore on horse-back with spears.
The local account goes on, “The large fish coming to feed on the creek shores, overflowed by the tide, showed themselves in shallow water by a ripple before them. They were ridden on behind and forced into water too shallow for them to swim well, and were speared.”
Striped bass, unlike Pacific salm-on, do not die after spawning. Their trip back out of fresh water requires a second run in autumn. That’s when, in Waldman’s prose, “all Hell breaks loose.” Anglers dream of catching a “fifty,” a fifty-pound (or bigger) striper. The biggest bass are all females. Full-grown male stripers rarely weigh more than 25 pounds.
The fol low i ng c a lend a r a n-nouncement is June’s notice that it’s spawning time for sea lampreys, what the author calls “the black sheep among the anadromous fam-ily.” No wonder. Lampreys make the word “ugly” inadequate. A lamprey is an eel-like, primitive parasite with no jaws, but a sucking disc for mouth, that sucks blood out of its
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prey and hangs on until there is no more blood.
One recently (not for the first time) sucked a hole in the bathing suit of a swimmer making a record crossing of Lake Ontar io. The swimmer felt a gnawing sensation at her middle. A sea lamprey had bored a hole in her bathing suit and bored into her f lesh. “I struck hard at it with my hand,” she said, “and my blow knocked it off.” That’s not the end of the story. She kept on swimming and completed the twenty-one-hour swim. That’s all I’m willing to write about sea lam-preys; Waldman can tell you more.
July is the month for Atlantic sturgeon runs. Waldman’s never at a loss for making a story come alive with this category of fish. He dubs them “the dinosaurs of rivers.” It’s also a primitive fish, which in scientif ic jargon means early in the evolutionary chart, not slow-witted and semi-stupid. Who would complain about a source of caviar,
Sea lampreys suck the blood of their prey until there is none left.
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for heaven’s sake?! It’s described as “armed with plated scutes along its f lanks, sucker-like mouths and Sal-vador Dali’s barbels.” Fossils date to at least 100 million years ago.
October brings “homing” for At-lantic salmon. One swallows a lump in the throat at the pathetic num-bers still living. They fill the role of “acrobats of the Atlantic Ocean’s anadromous f ishes.” The name salmon comes from the Latin word salar, which means “the leaper.” On the trip to spawning water, they leap out of the water in rapids and vault over sizable waterfalls. They fight the current to get to the most far reaches of the river or creek before they deposit their eggs. Distance means fewer predators.
It’s interesting to know that the first mention of Atlantic salmon did not come from colonial papers. Instead, it is part of Norse history. Leif Erickson established the Vin-land colony circa 995 at a site now known as L’Anse aux Meadows on the Newfoundland coast. (Eat your heart out, Chris Columbus.)
Some salmon enter the rivers as early as March to wait for autumn spawning. In the long wait, “female fish prepare the gravel ‘redds’ by turning sideways and lashing the rubble with their powerful tails. After the eggs are fertilized, they lie in the gravel all winter and hatch in the spring.” The next step is to stay
in the stream for two or up to six or even more years. The urge for salt water takes them away from home and adaptation provides for the change. A few years in marine life fattens them up and they are ready to spawn. But here’s the difference w ith Pacif ic sa lmon ~ At lantic salmon do not die after spawning. They may repeat it in future years.
A note to anglers who dream of fishing for salmon. American riverkeepers will keep you from daring to catching one of our few Atlantic salmon, but for a mere $10,000 a week you may fish where healthy runs still exist at lodges in Norway and Russia. Start saving your pennies.
Waldman tries to be affable and hopeful with the difficulty of re-storing the old waterways and the old impressive fish runs. It can’t be done without lots of help and lots of cooperation.
In his chapter entitled “Billions of Fish in Hot Water,” he begins with the quote from Luna Leopold et al. (1964), “It has been said that streams are the gutters down which f low the ruins of continents.” Fol-lowing a litany of recent housing developments with almost offen-sive name places that mock ruined waters and their missing fish, the author finds consolation in recent awareness of damage. He applauds the Clean Water Act of 1972 and sounds hopeful: “Today the post-industrial river lies wounded, but
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recovering.” He brings in other issues that have sparked the envi-ronmental movement that inspired Clean Water. People responded to the shocking fire on the river at the Cleveland Cuyahoga River in 1969. They were omens that simply could not be ignored.
Once beautiful rivers where cities grew up have become filthy with chemicals, dye, human waste; the garbage can for hordes of humans. Dams became so dense for facto-ries large and small that in some stretches of water they were less than one mile apart the whole length of the river.
The changes in the water’s content and the decline in fish did not go un-noted. Residents of towns along the water demanded that fish would have access to some opening in the dams to enable the runs to continue. Local politicians in the 1980s wrote laws ordering that fish ladders and canals were required, but none were successful. Dam builders ignored the laws without punishment.
As coal power replaced water power in manufacturing and home heating, the situation was not im-proved. Iron furnaces pumped toxic waters into the watershed, and coal breaking and cleaning turned the waters acid. Coal silt accumulated behind the dams. Edison’s success with light bulbs demanded big-ger, stronger dams for power. The
strangling of rivers and fish not only continued, it increased.
Not many Americans eat eels. In Europe and Asia they are craved. Waldman writes an incredible ac-count on the rise of money for eels in just a few years after 2010. In the early 2000s, the price of elvers (baby eels) was about $25 a pound. At the opening of the 2012 eel run, the pr ice was $2,200 a pound. Waldman’s comment is bitter. “To-day the dwindling young eels that attempt to pass into certain U.S. waters are hijacked to be sent as a luxury item in another country.”
There’s more. Some of it is almost encouraging. The public has become more aware of the errors that have so distressed what was once grand. There’s a rise in anger at dams, at the waste of what was once beautiful and bountiful in this country. Read this book and see if you can’t join the efforts to reverse the waste.
Waldman is a splendid writer, teacher and entertainer. Not one sentence is boring in this book, which will be a classic for years to come. Strongly recommended.
Anne Stinson began her career in the 1950s as a freelance for the now defunct Baltimore News-American, then later for Chesapeake Publishing, the Baltimore Sun and Maryland Public Television’s panel show, Mary-land Newsrap.
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Queen Anne’s County The history of Queen Anne’s County dates back to the earliest Colonial
settlements in Maryland. Small hamlets began appearing in the northern portion of the county in the 1600s. Early communities grew up around transportation routes, the rivers and streams, and then roads and eventually railroads. Small towns were centers of economic and social activity and evolved over the years from thriving centers of tobacco trade to communities boosted by the railroad boom.
Queenstown was the original county seat when Queen Anne’s County was created in 1706, but that designation was passed on to Centreville in 1782. It’s location was important during the 18th century, because it is near a creek that, during that time, could be navigated by tradesmen. A hub for shipping and receiving, Queenstown was attacked by English troops during the War of 1812.
Construction of the Federal-style courthouse in Centreville began in 1791 and is the oldest courthouse in continuous use in the state of Maryland. Today, Centreville is the largest town in Queen Anne’s County. With its relaxed lifestyle and tree-lined streets, it is a classic example of small town America.
The Stevensville Historic District, also known as Historic Stevensville, is a national historic district in downtown Stevensville, Queen Anne’s County. It contains roughly 100 historic structures, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is located primarily along East Main Street, a portion of Love Point Road, and a former section of Cockey Lane.
The Chesapeake Heritage and Visitor Center in Chester at Kent Narrows provides and overview of the Chesapeake region’s heritage, resources and culture. The Chesapeake Heritage and Visitor Center serves as Queen Anne’s County’s official welcome center.
Queen Anne’s County is also home to the Chesapeake Bay Environmental Center (formerly Horsehead Wetland Center), located in Grasonville. The CBEC is a 500-acre preserve just 15 minutes from the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. Over 200 species of birds have been recorded in the area.
Embraced by miles of scenic Chesapeake Bay waterways and graced with acres of pastoral rural landscape, Queen Anne’s County offers a relaxing environment for visitors and locals alike.
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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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Daily Meeting: Mid-Shore Inter-group Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. For places and times, call 410-822-4226 or visit www.midshoreintergroup.org.
Daily Meeting: A l-Anon. For meeting times and locations, v isit www.EasternShoreMD-alanon.org.
Every Thurs.-Sat. Amish Coun-try Farmer’s Market in Easton. An indoor market offering fresh produce, meats, dairy products, furniture and more. 101 Marl-boro Ave. For more info. tel: 410-822-8989.
Thru April 5 Exhibit: Africa Now!
Sub-Saharan Artwork from the World Bank at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit www.academyartmuseum.org.
Thru April 12 Exhibit: The Art of Greg Mort ~ Selections from the Hickman Bequest III at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit www.acad-emyartmuseum.org.
Thru April 5 Mid-Shore Student Art Exhibition at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. Grades K-8 opening reception on March 17 from 4:30 to 6 p.m.; Grades 9-12 reception on March 19 from 5:30
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to 7 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit www.academyartmuseum.org.
Thru May 7 Af ter School Art Club with Susan Horsey at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. Thursdays from 3:45 to 5 p.m. $125 members, $135 non-mem-bers. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit www.academyartmuseum.org.
Thru May 28 Memoir Writers at the Talbot County Free Li-brary, St. Michaels. Thursdays, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Record and share memories of life and family with a group of friendly people. Participants are invited to bring their lunch. Please pre-register for this program. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit www.tcfl.org.
Thru May 31 Exhibit: Friday Morning Artists wil l be fea-tured at the Talbot County Free Librar y, Easton. The exhibit celebrates the many talents of two- and three-dimensional artists of the group. For more info. e-mail [email protected].
1 Nature as Muse at Adkins Ar-boretum, Ridgely. 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Enjoy writing as a way of
April Calendar exploring nature. For more info. tel: 410-634-2847, ext. 0 or visit www.adkinsarboretum.org.
1 Baskets and Bunnies - Fam-ily Easter Crafts at the Talbot County Free Library, Easton. 3 to 4:30 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit www.tcfl.org.
1 Meeting: Nar-Anon at Immanuel United Church of Christ, Cam-bridge. 7 p.m. For more info. tel: 1-800-477-6291 or visit www.nar-anon.org.
1 Reiki Share at Evergreen: A Center for Balanced Living in Easton. 7:15 to 9:15 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-819-3395 or visit www.evergreeneaston.org.
1 Concert: The Steel Wheels in the Stoltz Listening Room, Avalon Theatre, Easton. 8 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-7299 or visit www.avalonfoundation.org.
1,8,15,22,29 Meeting: Wednes-day Morning Artists. 8 a.m. at Creek Deli in Cambridge. No cost. For more info. visit www.wednesdaymorningartists.com or contact Nancy at [email protected] or 410-463-0148.
1,8,15,22,29 Social Time for Seniors at the St. Michaels Community Center, 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-745-6073.
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1,6,8,13,15,20,22,27,29 Free Blood Pressure Screening from 9 a.m. to noon at University of Maryland Shore Regional Health Diagnostic and Imaging Center, Easton. For more info. tel: 410-820-7778.
2 Spring Art Plus for ages 6 to 10 at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. $40. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit www.academy-artmuseum.org.
2 Stitch and Chat at the Talbot County Free Library, St. Mi-chaels. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Bring your own projects and stitch with a group. Limited instruction available. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit www.tcfl.org.
2 Family Spr ing Craf ts at the Talbot County Free Library, St. Michaels. 6 p.m. Poetry Collage Art for all ages (children 5 and under must be accompanied by an adult). For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit www.tcfl.org.
2 Meet the Author - Second Oys-terback Farewell Tour by Helen Chappell at the Talbot County Free Library, Easton. 6:30 p.m. Irrepressible author, journal-ist, columnist, misunderstood performance artist, and regional
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treasure Helen Chappell is too good to miss! For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit www.tcfl.org.
2,7,9,14,16,21,24,28 Adult Ball-room Classes w it h A manda Showell at the Academy A r t Museum, Easton. Tuesday and Thursday nights. For more info. tel: 410-482-6169 or visit www.dancingontheshore.com.
2,9,16,23,30 Men’s Group Meet-ing at Evergreen: A Center for Balanced Living in Easton. 7:30 to 9 a.m. Weekly meeting where
April Calendar men can frankly and openly deal with issues in their lives. For more info. tel: 410-819-3395 or visit www.evergreeneaston.org.
2,9,16,23,30 Dog Walking with Vicki Arion at Adkins Arbore-tum, Ridgely. 10 to 10:45 a.m. For more info. tel: 410-634-2847, ext. 0 or visit www.adkinsarbo-retum.org.
2,9,16,23,30 Open Mic & Jam at RAR Brewing in Cambridge. 7 to 11 p.m. Listen to live acoustic music by local musicians, or bring your own instrument and join in. For more info. tel: 443-225-5664.
2-26 Exhibit: Light ~ Dawn to Dusk by Edward Cooper at South Street Art Gallery, Easton. Re-ception on April 3 from 5 to 8 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-770-8350 or visit www.southstreet-artgallery.com.
2-May 7 Class: Head Painting with Patrick Meehan at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. Thursdays from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. $185 members, $215 non-members. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit www.acad-emyartmuseum.org.
2-May 7 Class: Landscape Paint-ing ~ Solving the Problems with Patrick Meehan at the Academy
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3 Monthly Coffee and Critique with Katie Cassidy and Diane DuBois Mullaly at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. 10 a.m. to noon. $10. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit www.academyartmuseum.org.
3 First Friday in downtown Easton. Throughout the evening the art galleries offer new shows and
have many of their artists pres-ent throughout the evening. Tour the galleries, sip a drink and explore the fine talents of our local artists.
3 Karaoke Happy Hour at Layton’s Chance Vineyard and Winery, Vienna. 6 to 10 p.m. Bring your dinner or snacks to complete the night. Wine bar available. For more info. tel: 410-228-1205 or visit www.laytonschance.com.
3 Concert: Seth Glier in the Stoltz Listening Room, Avalon Theatre, Easton. 7 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-7299 or visit www.avalonfoundation.org.
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3 Dorchester Swingers Square Dance from 7:30 to 10 p.m. at Maple Elementary School, Egypt Rd., Cambridge. Refreshments provided. For more info. tel: 410-221-1978.
3,7,10,14,17,21,24,28 Free Blood Pressure Screening f rom 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at University of Maryland Shore Medical Center at Dorchester in Cambridge. Screenings done in the lobby by DGH Auxiliary members. For more info. tel: 410-228-5511.
3,10,17,24 Meeting: Friday Morn-ing Artists at Denny’s in Easton.
8 a.m. All disciplines welcome. Free. For more info. tel: 443-955-2490 or visit http://pass-porttothearts.org/friday-morn-ing-artists/.
3,10,17,24 Bingo! every Friday night at the Easton Volunteer Fire Department on Creamery Lane, Easton. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and games start at 7:30 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-4848.
3,17 Meeting: Vets Helping Vets at the Hurlock American Legion #243. 9 a.m. Infor mat iona l meeting to help vets find ser-vices. For more info. tel: 410-943-8205 after 4 p.m.
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4 First Saturday guided walk. 10 a.m. at Adkins Arboretum, Ridgely. Free for members, $5 admission for non-members. For more info. tel: 410-634-2847, ext. 0 or visit www.adkinsar-boretum.org.
4 Concert: The Tom Principato Band in the Stoltz Listening Room, Avalon Theatre, Easton. 8 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-7299 or visit www.avalon-foundation.org.
4,11,12,18,19,25,26 Apprentice for a Day Public Boatbuilding Program at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. Pre-registration required. From 10 a.m. Saturday morning to 4 p.m. Sunday afternoon. For more info. tel: 410-745-2916 and ask to speak with someone in the boatyard.
4,11,18,25 Historic High Street Walking Tour ~ Experience the beauty and hear the folklore of Cambridge’s High Street. One-hour walking tours are spon-sored by the non-profit West End Citizens Association and are accompanied by Colonial-garbed docents. 11 a.m. Fee. For more info. tel: 410-901-1000.
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Teams ~ a traveling exhibit from the Smithsonian Institution en-titled How Sports Shape America at the Federalsburg Area Heri-tage Museum, Federalsburg. No admission charge. Mon. thru Thurs., 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Fri. from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Sat., 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-924-7573.
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5 Easter sunrise service at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Mu-seum, St. Michaels. The service is open to the public and sched-uled to begin at 6:15 a.m. at the historic Tolchester Beach Band-stand. Off iciating this year’s service are the Reverends Celia Garrity, Mark Nestlehutt, Wil-liam Wallace, and Marty Wiley. For more informat ion, v isit www.cbmm.org.
5 2nd Annual Easter Festival at Black Walnut Point Inn, Tilgh-man. Easter br unch, Easter egg hunt, boot and bonnet con-test, crafts, f ishmobile, horse rides, lawn games, kite f lying and prizes. Noon to 4 p.m. $20
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6 Family Unplugged Games at the Talbot County Free Library, St. Michaels. 3 p.m. For all ages (children 5 and under need to be accompanied by an adult). For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit www.tcfl.org.
6 Lecture: Jim Astrachan will speak to the Tidewater Camera Club at the Talbot County Com-munity Center, Easton. 7 p.m. Open to the public. Astrachan will speak on copyright, one’s rights if work is posted on the in-ternet, permission releases, etc., and will be available to answer questions. For info. visit http://tidewatercameraclub.org or tel. 410-822-5441.
6,13,20,27 Friday Morning Drop-In Art Classes for children at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. 8:45 to 11:30 a.m. $30 per ses-sion includes all materials and a tour of museum exhibits. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit www.academy-artmuseum.org.
6,13,20,27 Open Portrait Studio with Nancy Reybold at the Acad-emy Art Museum, Easton. 9:30 a.m. to noon. Museum member-ship required. For more info. tel: 410-822-0597.
6,13,20,27 Meeting: Overeaters Anonymous at UM Shore Medical Center in Easton. 5:15 to 6:15 p.m. For more info. visit www.oa.org.
6,13,20,27 Monday Night Trivia at the Market Street Public House, Denton. 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Join host Norm Amorose for a fun-filled evening. For more info.
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6 Poetry That Confides ~ In cel-ebrat ion of Nat ional Poetr y Month, Bill Peak hosts a discus-sion of confessional poetry at the Talbot County Free Library, Easton. 6 p.m. Copies of the poems to be discussed can be picked up at either branch of the library. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit www.tcfl.org.
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7 Meeting: Breast Feeding Support Group from 10 to 11:30 a.m. at UM Shore Medical Center in Easton. For more info. tel: 410-822-1000 or v isit www.shorehealth.org.
7 Meet the Creatures at the Talbot County Free Library, Easton. 4 p.m. Live turtles, snakes and more from the Pickering Creek Audubon Center. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit www.tcfl.org.
7,14,21 Collage Discover Workshop with Heather Crow at the Acade-my Art Museum, Easton. 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. $175 members, $205 non-members. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit www.academyartmuseum.org.
7,14,21 Class: Blogging Basics with Susan Schauer John at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. 6 to 8 p.m. $95 members, $120 non-members. For more info. tel:
410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit www.academyartmuseum.org.
7,21 Grief Support Group at the Dorchester Count y L ibrar y, Cambridge. 6 p.m. For more info. tel: 443-978-0218.
8 Library Cafe at the Talbot County Free Library, Easton. 10 to 11:30 a.m. Refreshments, conversa-tion, activities, and giveaways for parents and their young children. Please pre-register by April 6. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit www.tcfl.org.
8 Meeting: Talbot Optimist Club at the Washington Street Pub, Easton. 6:30 p.m. For more info. e-mail [email protected].
8,15 Class: iPhone 6/5S/5C with Scott Kane at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. 6 to 8 p.m. $40 members, $60 non-members. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit www.acad-emyartmuseum.org.
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8,15,22 Class: Fruits and Flowers in Oil with Rita Curtis at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. $175 members, $205 non-members. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit www.academyartmu-seum.org.
8,22 Chess Club from 1 to 3 p.m. at the St. Michaels Community Center. Players gather for friend-ly competition and instruction. For more info. tel: 410-745-6073.
8,22 Meeting: Choptank Writers Group from 3:30 to 5 p.m. at the Dorchester Center for the Arts, Cambridge. Everyone in-terested in writing is invited to participate. For more info. tel: 443-521-0039.
8,22,29 Story Time at the Talbot County Free Library, St. Mi-chaels. 10:30 a.m. for children 5 and under accompanied by an adult. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit www.tcfl.org.
9 Blood Drive by the Blood Bank of Delmarva at Immanuel United Church of Christ, Cambridge. 1 to 7 p.m. For more info. tel: 301-354-7416 or visit www.del-marvablood.org.
9 Poetry That Confides ~ In cel-
ebrat ion of Nat ional Poetr y Month, Bill Peak hosts a discus-sion of confessional poetry at the Talbot County Free Library, St. Michaels. 3 p.m. Copies of the poems to be discussed can be picked up at either branch of the library. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit www.tcfl.org.
9-May 14 The Book ~ From Con-cept to Creation with Elizabeth McKee at the Academy Art Muse-um, Easton. Thursdays, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. $370 members, $400 non-members. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit www.academyartmuseum.org.
10 Member Night at the Chesa-peake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Member preview of the opening of Chesapeake Swan Song: From Commodity to Conservation. Reservations required by April 6. For more info. tel: 410-745-4995 or e-mail [email protected].
10 Concert: Big Timing Comedy in the Stoltz Listening Room, Avalon Theatre, Easton. 8 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-7299 or visit www.avalonfoundation.org.
10-13 Workshop: The Landscape, Inside and Out with Ken De-Waard at the Academy Art Mu-seum, Easton. Three days in the Museum painting studio and
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10-26 Play: Good People by David Lindsay-Abaire at the Church Hill Theatre. Fri. and Sat. at 8 p.m., Sun. at 2 p.m. Adults $18, members $15, students $10. For more info. tel: 410-556-6003 or v isit www.churchhilltheatre.org.
10,24 Meeting: Vets Helping Vets at VFW Post 5246 in Federals-burg. 9 a.m. Informational meet-ing to help vets find services and information. For more info. tel:
410-943-8205 after 4 p.m.
11 2nd Annual Off icer Michael S. Nickerson Memorial Sport-ing Clay Classic at Delmarva Sporting Clays and Rif le Range, Mardela Springs. $85 per shoot-er includes 100 targets/T-shirt/Eastern Shore barbecue. Regis-tration begins at 7:30 a.m. For more info e-mail [email protected] or visit www.mdcops.org.
11 Arbor Day Run at Adkins Ar-boretum, Ridgely. Join the 10th annual 5K along the Arboretum’s scenic forest and meadow paths. Family Fun Run/Walk and Kids Dash, awards, refreshments.
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11 Friends of the Library Sec-ond Saturday Book Sale at the Dorchester County Public Li-brary, Cambridge. 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-228-7331 or visit www.dorchesterli-brary.org.
11 Project Clean Stream ~ Help clean up in East New Market during the annual Project Clean Stream event from 9 a.m. to noon. Dorchester Citizens for Planned Growth are organizing the clean-up, and will provide bags and gloves. Volunteers are welcome to join in to help clean up litter from waterways and ditches. For more info. visit dcpgonline.org.
11 Open Collage Studio with Susan
Stewart at the Academy Art Mu-seum, Easton. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Museum membership required. For more info. tel: 410-226-5742.
11 Class: Children’s Craft Saturday ~ Celebrate Spring! from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Academy Art Mu-seum, Easton. $5. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit www.academyartmuseum.org.
11 Second Saturdays at the Artsway from 2 to 4 p.m., 401 Market Street, Denton. Interact with ar t ists as they demonstrate their work. For more info. tel: 410-479-1009 or v isit www.carolinearts.org.
11 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. v isit www.cambridge-mainstreet.com.
11 Concert: Sylvia Fletcher, Ven-triloquist at the Todd Performing Arts Center, Chesapeake College, Wye Mills. 7:30 p.m. Hilarious ventriloquist performance that is like no other you will experi-ence. $25 (adult performance). For more info. tel: 410-827-5867.
11 Concert: The Grand Slambovians
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11,25 Country Church Breakfast at Faith Chapel & Trappe United Methodist Churches in Wesley Hall, Trappe. 7:30 to 10:30 a.m. TUMC is also the home of “Martha’s Closet” Yard Sale and Communit y Outreach Store, open during the breakfast and every Wednesday from 8:30 a.m. to noon.
11,25 Cooking Demonstration and Lunch with celebrity chef Mark Salter at the Robert Morris Inn, Oxford. 10 a.m. demonstration, noon lunch. $68 per person with limited guest numbers. 4/11 - Dessert Club Specials, 4/25 - Spring on the Bay. For more info. tel: 410-226-5111.
11-12 Come Fly with Us! ~ Film festival celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Frank
Sinatra at the Academy A r t Museum, Easton. Sat. from 6 to 8 p.m. and Sun. from 1 to 3 p.m. Prior to the Museum’s gala event in May, the Academy Art Museum and Chesapeake Film Festival will offer showings of The Manchur ian Candidate and From Here to Eternity (for which Sinatra won an Academy Award as best supporting actor), followed by a panel discussion exploring Sinatra’s film career and approach to acting. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit www.academyartmu-seum.org.
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Cooley ~ World View at the Academy Art museum, Easton. Rosemary Cooley’s artistic vi-sion, which she translates into the world of printmaking, has been shaped by traveling and living in Asia, Africa, and South America. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit www.academyartmuseum.org.
12 Pancake Breakfast at the Oxford Volunteer Fire Company. 8 to 11 a.m. Proceeds to benefit the Oxford Volunteer Fire Services. $8 for adults and $4 for children under 10. For more info. tel: 410-226-5110.
12 Concert: The Aspen Institute will host a concert at 3 p.m. at the Inn adjacent to River House on the Institute’s Wye River campus in Queenstown. The concert will
feature three young musicians from Russia and South Africa and will include Beethoven’s Piano Trio in D major, Op. 70#2 (“Ghost”) and Brahms’ Piano Trio in C major, Op. 87. A recep-tion will follow in River House. Free but limited seating. For more info. tel: 410-820-5433.
12 Lecture: Book Talk by Larry Denton on his book Unionists in Virginia ~ Politics, Secession and Their Plan to Prevent Civil War at the Oxford Community Center, Oxford. 4 p.m. and is presented in partnership with Talbot Historical Society. For more info. tel: 410-226-5904.
12 The Talbot Cinema Society pres-ents The Fog of War: Eleven Les-sons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara (2003) at the Avalon Theatre, Easton. 6 to 7:30 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-924-5752 or visit www.talbotcinemasociety.org.
12 Concert: Lucy Kaplansky in the Stoltz Listening Room, Avalon Theatre, Easton. 7 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-7299 or visit www.avalonfoundation.org.
13-15 Accepting donations of gently used spring/summer clothing and household items for the Christ Church, St. Michaels Par-ish Spring Rummage Sale. 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Parish Hall. For
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14 Spring Into Origami at the Tal-bot County Free Library, Easton. 4 p.m. for ages 8 and older. Pre-registration is required. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit www.tcfl.org.
14 Flute Circle at Justamere Trad-ing Post, St. Michaels. 6 p.m. Come and enjoy the Native Flute. Learn to play, or just listen. Free. For more info. tel: 410-745-2227.
14,28 Buddhist Study Group at Evergreen: A Center for Balanced Living, Easton. 6:30 to 8 p.m. Open to the public. For more info. tel: 410-819-3395 or visit www.evergreeneaston.org.
14,28 Meeting: Tidewater Stamp Club at the Mayor and Council Bldg., Easton. 7:30 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-1371.
15 St. Paul’s Soup Day from 11:30
a.m. to 1 p.m. at St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, Cambridge. For more info. tel: 410-228-1424 or visit www.stpaulscambridge.com.
15 St. Michaels Book Club at the Talbot County Free Library, St. Michaels. 3 p.m. Me Before You by Jojo Moyes. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit www.tcfl.org.
15 Meeting: Dorchester Caregivers Support Group from 3 to 4 p.m. at Pleasant Day Adult Medical Day Care, Cambridge. For more info. tel: 410-228-0190.
15-16 Boater Safety Course at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Mu-seum, St. Michaels. Individuals and families with children over age 12 are welcome to participate in our Boater’s Safety certifica-t ion program and learn the basics needed to operate a ves-sel on Maryland waterways. MD boaters born after July 1, 1972 are required to have a Certificate
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of Boating Safety Education. Pre-registration is required. For more info. tel: 410-745-4941 or visit www.cbmm.org.
16 Meeting: Stroke Survivors Sup-port Group at Pleasant Day Medi-cal Adult Day Care, Cambridge. 1 to 2 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-228-0190.
16 Third Thursday in downtown Denton from 5 to 7 p.m. Shop for one-of-a-kind floral arrange-ments, gifts and home decor, dine out on a porch with views of the Choptank River, or enjoy a stroll around town as businesses extend their hours. For more info. tel: 410-479-0655.
16 Concert: David Wilcox in the Stoltz Listening Room, Avalon Theatre, Easton. 8 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-7299 or visit www.avalonfoundation.org.
17 Soup Day at the St. Michaels Community Center. Choose from three delicious soups for lunch. $6 meal deal. Each meal comes with a bowl of soup, roll and drink. Take out or eat in. For more info. tel: 410-745-6073.
17 Pro Bono Legal Clinic at the Dorchester County Public Li-brary. 1 to 3 p.m. on the third Friday of each month. For more info. tel: 410-690-8128.
17 “All Aboard” for a cocktail party and silent auction to benefit St. Vincent de Paul at the Oxford Community Center, Oxford. 7 to 9:30 p.m. All hands have been on deck preparing silent auction items that will give all voyagers a thrill while signing the bid sheet and hoping to be the lucky winners of fabulous gift baskets, weekend retreats, week-long getaways, jewelry, golf outings and more. Tickets are $30 and are available for sale at the SVdP Thrift Center in Easton. For info. tel: 410-829-7706 or 410-770-4505.
17 Concert: Summer Snead in the Stoltz Listening Room, Avalon Theatre, Easton. 7 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-7299 or visit www.avalonfoundation.org.
17-18 Spring Rummage Sale at Christ Church - St. Michaels Parish offering incredible bar-gains on furniture, kitchenware, linens, spring/summer clothing for women, men and children, jewelry, books, and much more. Friday from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Saturday from 8 a.m. to noon. For more info. tel: 410-745-9076.
17-18 Rock ‘N’ Bowl at the Choptank Bowling Center, Cambridge. 9 to 11:50 p.m. Unlimited bowling, includes rental shoes, food and drink specials, blacklighting,
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18 Workshop: Shalagh Hogan will present a workshop titled The Why is the How ~ Intentional Blogging 101 at Evergreen - A Center for Balanced Liv ing, Easton. 9:30 a.m. to noon. The workshop is sponsored by the Eastern Shore Writer’s Asso-ciation. $35 for non-members; $25 for ESWA and Evergreen members. For more info. tel: 410-819-3395 or v isit www.evergreeneaston.org.
18 Crabcake and soft crab sand-wich sale at the Salvation Army in Cambridge. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sandwiches are $6 each, drinks available. For more info. tel: 410-228-2442.
18 Earth Day at the Spocott Wind-mill, Cambridge. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Demonstrat ions, arbor day tree giveaway, exhibits, ac-tivities, horseshoe tournament, music and more. Free admission. Rain or shine.
18 Birth ~ 3 Readiness Fair at the Talbot Count y Free Librar y, Easton. 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. While enjoying fun activities, learn
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about the services available free of charge for children in this age group from area agencies. Books and door prizes will be given away. This program is sponsored by the Talbot County Judy Cen-ter Partnership. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit www.tcfl.org.
18 Lecture at the Talbot County Free L ibra r y, St . Michaels , featuring Marie Martin, photog-raphy appraiser, on Family Pho-tographs ~ Treasures or Trash? 2 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-745-5877 or visit www.tcf l.org.
18 Lecture: Vintage Decorative Glassware at Tharpe Antiques, Easton. 5 p.m. This lecture covers the history, manufacturing, tech-niques and discussion on vintage glassware. Free, but seating is lim-ited. RSVP via e-mail to [email protected] or call 410-820-7525.
18 Concert: Queen Anne’s Chorale with Artistic Director Robert Hunt ing ton to per for m The
Glory of Love at the Todd Per-forming Arts Center, Chesa-p e a k e C o l l e ge , W y e M i l l s . 7 p.m. T icket s a re $1 5 for adults, children through high school admitted free. For more info. tel: 410-739-1910 or visit www.qachorale.org.
18 Concert: Kim Richey in the Stoltz Listening Room, Avalon Theatre, Easton. Two shows ~ 7 and 9:30 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-7299 or visit www.avalonfoundation.org.
18-May 23 Class: The Landscape, Wildlife and Lifestyle of the Eastern Shore in Oil with Mat-thew Hillier at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. $215 members, $245 non-members. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit www.academyartmu-seum.org.
18-July 5 Exhibition: Frederick Hammersley II at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. In 2013
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the Museum received a donation of 45 works on paper by Fred-erick Hammersley (1919-2009) from the Frederick Hammers-ley Foundation. The collection includes 10 computer drawings, 6 prints, 18 drawings, and 11 paintings. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit www.academyartmuseum.org.
18-July 19 Exhibit ion: Carol Minarick ~ Beowulf and A Se-ries-That-Is-Not-A-Series at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. Carol Minarick melds ideas and substances in unexpected ways. Not believing in preplanning or sketching, she allows materials ~ from stones to tar paper ~ to emerge in new configurations. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit www.acad-emyartmuseum.org.
19 Chicone Village Day from noon to 4 p.m. Come to Histor ic Handsell on Indiantown Road
north of Vienna to see the Chi-cone Longhouse and Garden and witness life of the native people by cultural historic and native interpreter Daniel Firehawk Ab-bott. For a $10 donation, visitors can sample a large plate of na-tive-inspired food and beverages – and NHPA’s “Native Cookbook” will be available for purchase, along with other Handsell items. Admission is free. For more info. visit www.restorehandsell.org.
19 Christ Church Concert Series to fe at u re R icha rd St rat t a n at 4 p.m. at Christ Episcopal Church, Cambridge. For more info. tel: 410-228-3161 or visit www.christchurchcambridge.org.
19 Concert: Caravan of Thieves in the Stoltz Listening Room, Avalon Theatre, Easton. 7 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-7299 or visit www.avalonfoundation.org.
20 Library Book Group Discussion: The Oblate’s Confession by Bill Peak at the Talbot County Free Library, Easton. 6:30 p.m. The Oblate’s Confession is an “en-tirely spellbinding debut novel.” Author Bill Peak will attend and participate in the discussion. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit www.tcfl.org.
21 Movie at Noon at the Talbot County Free Library, St. Mi-
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chaels. Million Dollar Arm is the true story of baseball pitchers Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel, the first major league players from India. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or v isit www.tcfl.org.
22 Blessing of the Fleet at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Mu-seum, St. Michaels. 5 to 6 p.m. Join CBMM members, volunteers and boatyard staff for an official ceremony honoring our own f loating f leet as well as other Bay working vessels and plea-sure craft. The Reverend Kevin M. Cross from the Church of the
Holy Trinity in Oxford, MD, will offer prayers for a safe and boun-tiful season. Public is welcome. For more info. tel: 410-745-4991 or visit www.cbmm.org.
23 Lecture: Travelers in Renais-sance Italy by Stephen Camp-bell, PhD at the Academy Art museum, Easton. Campbell will explore the work of two painters from Venice, Carlo Crivelli (c. 1430-1495) and Lorenzo Lotto (c. 1480-1556). 6 p.m. $15 members, $20 non-members. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit www.academyartmu-seum.org.
23 Lecture: Talbot County Clean
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23 Concert: Willy Porter in the Stoltz Listening Room, Avalon Theatre, Easton. 8 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-7299 or visit www.avalonfoundation.org.
23-26,May 1,-3,8-10 Play: The Tred Avon Players present The Dining Room at the Ox ford Communit y Center, Ox ford. $15 adults and $5 for students with I.D. For show times tel: 410-226-0061 or v isit www.tredavonplayers.org.
24 Lecture: State of the Rivers 2014 Report Card at the Chesa-peake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. 5 to 7 p.m. Midshore Riverkeeper Convservancy re-leases their 2014 Report Card with the results of extensive water quality data from last year. Experts from their staf f will present, explain and interpret the findings. Guest speakers will be Tom Horton and David Harp, who will present excerpts from their upcoming book, Choptank Odyssey: Stories from a Great Chesapeake River, a visual and literary celebration of the sce-nic beauty, storied history and complex science of Delmarva’s largest river. For more info. visit
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24 Concert: Vance Gilbert in the Stoltz Listening Room, Avalon Theatre, Easton. 8 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-7299 or visit www.avalonfoundation.org.
25 21st Annual Oxford Day ~ 9 a.m. to dusk. Plan for a full day of music featuring the Naval Academy’s Crabtowne Stomp-ers, games, prizes, plant sale, parade, Talbot Humane’s Dog Walk, exhibits, book signings, raff les, skipjack rides aboard the Nathan-of-Dorchester, and so much more. For a full list of activities visit www.oxfordday.org.
25 Car, Truck and Motorcycle Show and Plant Sale at the Dorchester Career and Technology Center, Cambridge. 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. For more info. tel: 443-521-3166 or v isit www.DCTCgreenhouse.com.
25 The Met: Live in HD with Ca-valleria Rusticana by Pagliacci at the Avalon Theatre, Easton. 12:30 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-7299 or v isit www.avalonfoundation.org.
25 Mariah’s Mission “Silent No More” silent auction event at the
Elks Lodge in Easton. Mariah’s Mission was established to pro-vide resources for families who have lost loved ones to substance abuse and to raise awareness and education about substance abuse in our community. 5:30 to 8 p.m. Tickets are $20 and avail-able by e-mailing [email protected].
25 Concert: Jennifer Knapp in the Stoltz Listening Room, Avalon Theatre, Easton. 8 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-7299 or visit www.avalonfoundation.org.
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25-26 Native Plant Nursery Spring Opening Weekend at Adkins Arboretum, Ridgely. Shop the region’s largest select ion of ornamental native plants. Sat. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Sun. noon to 4 p.m. Members-only day on Friday April 24 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. New members welcome! For more info. tel: 410-634-2847, ext. 0 or visit www.adkinsarbo-retum.org.
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Choral Arts Society present A Night at the Opera at the St. Mi-chaels High School auditorium, St. Michaels. Sat. at 7:30 p.m. and Sun. at 4 p.m. $20 and $5 for students. For more info. tel: 410-200-0498 or v isit www.eastonchoralarts.org.
25-July 5 Exhibition: From Rubens to the Grand Tour at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. On view will be Rubens’ work Agrippina and Germanicus, c. 1614, and other works. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit www.academyartmuseum.org.
25-July 5 Exhibition: Ray Turner ~ Population at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. Ray Turner began painting the portraits that comprise Population in 2007. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS
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26 Bird Walk at Blackwater Nation-al Wildlife Refuge, Cambridge, from 8 to 10 a.m. Join an expert birder for a guided bird watching trip. There is no cost, and pre-registration is not required. Meet at the Visitor Center. For more info. tel: 410-901-6124.
28 Meeting: Breast Cancer Support Group at UM Regional Breast Center, Easton. 6 to 7:30 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-1000.
28 Meeting: Women Supporting Women, loca l breast cancer support group, meets at Christ
Episcopal Church, Cambridge. 6:30 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-463-0946.
29, May 6,13 Class: TV, Movies and Music Using Your Smart Phone with Scott Kane at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. 6 to 8 p.m. $60 members, $75 non-members. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit www.academyartmuseum.org.
30 Concert: Heather Maloney in the Stoltz Listening Room, Avalon Theatre, Easton. 8 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-7299 or visit www.avalonfoundation.org.
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