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Tidewater TimesNovember 2013
Tom & Debra CrouchBenson & Mangold Real Estate
116 N. Talbot St., St. Michaels · 410-745-0720 Tom Crouch: 410-310-8916
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Features:About the Cover Photographer: Wil Hershberger . . . . . . . . . . . 7In the London Rain: Helen Chappell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9New Digs at Blackwater: Dick Cooper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27Tidewater Traveler: George W. Sellers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41When Hollywood Came to St. Michaels: James Dawson . . . . . . . 55Tidewater Gardening: K. Marc Teffeau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81The Wharf That Was: Gary D. Crawford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141Waterfowl Festival Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156Tidewater Kitchen: Pamela Meredith-Doyle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161Tidewater Review: Anne Stinson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177Oxford Ladies Auxiliary Antique Show and Sale . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191Christmas on the Creek Launches Oxford’s Holiday Season . . . 193
David C. Pulzone, Publisher · Anne B. Farwell, EditorP. O. Box 1141, Easton, Maryland 21601
102 Myrtle Ave., Oxford, MD 21654410-226-0422 FAX: 410-226-0411
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Vol. 62, No. 6 November 2013
Departments:November Tide Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43Dorchester Points of Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95Easton Points of Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105St. Michaels Points of Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115Oxford Points of Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131Tilghman - Bay Hundred . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139Caroline County - A Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153Queen Anne’s County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155November Calendar of Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
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Wil Hershberger has been an avid naturalist most of his life. After becoming an accomplished and well-respected birder, photog-raphy skills learned in his Dad’s basement darkroom were rekin-dled. Today, his photography has become an extension of his passion for the natural world.
Over a decade ago, Wil and his wife Donna formed Nature Images and Sounds, LLC. Together, they photograph everything from birds to bugs, participate in art shows and teach photography classes. Most of Wil’s recordings, including birds
About the Cover PhotographerWil Hershberger
and bugs are archived at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology’s Macau-lay Library of Natural Sounds.
Hershberger will teach two Mas-ter Classes at this year’s Waterfowl Festival. They are the “Essentials of Digital Photography,” and “Ad-vanced Digital Photography.” You can register on-line for each of these classes at www.waterfowl-fest ival.org/index.php/t ickets/master-classes. To view more of Hershberger’s work visit www.natureimagesandsounds.com.
Pictured on the cover is a female American kestrel.
Mt. Moran Sunrise won “Best In Show” at the 2010 Waterfowl Festival.
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In the London Rainby
Helen Chappell
I was born wanting to read.
Forty-five years ago I found myself in London, walking blocks upon city blocks through a wall of rain in the British f loods on a quest for a legendary bookstore. I emerged from the underground at Charing Cross and found, to my horror, that my Oz was still a mile away.
It was my first trip to London, and I didn’t have enough common sense to hail a cab, if one could be found in the rain, or to get back on the underground and find a closer stop to my destination. From time to time I’d ask passers-by for direc-tions, and my goal always seemed so far away, lost in the relentless downpour. But, what’s the good of a quest without obstacles? Pneu-monia would be a small price to pay for reaching heaven ... my idea of perfect heaven.
I’ll never forget that rain, be-cause there’s nothing quite like the rain in the British Isles. For one thing, it’s a constant, like Eastern Shore summer humidity. It has the ability to soak through your raincoat, your hair, your clothes and your boots in a matter of min-utes. It drenches you down to your bones. I probably looked like an American drowned rat, judging by
the looks I was getting from the city folk.
And what, you may ask, was the object of my quest? What drove me on for what seemed like hours through that pouring rain? What was my Oz, my Shangri-La, my Land of Milk and Honey?
Foyle’s Bookstore!Before I could read, I wanted
to learn so badly that I would try to spell things out on cereal box-es and newspaper funnies. I just wanted to read. I just knew in those hieroglyphs there were all kinds of ideas just waiting for me to deci-pher them.
I loved picture books, but I car-ried around a grown-up novel pre-tending I could read it. I guess I was born wanting to read. Then, when I finally learned in first grade, I announced to my parents
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In the London Rainthat I could quit school now. I knew how to read and after that I was perfectly capable of completing my education myself.
I still think I could have done a perfectly competent job of being autodidactic, but that’s just me.
Of course, if you love to read, you love books, and there has rarely been a time in my life when I wasn’t buried in a book. Books were my escape, my teacher, my deity, my raison d’etre. I just live to read.
At fourteen, I started work-ing part time in a bookstore, and I haven’t stopped reading books since, whether I’m reading them or writing them. Happily, my parents
were both great readers, so there were always plenty of books in the house, and no one asked me why I was wasting my time buried in some tome or another.
But, back to Foyle’s Bookstore...It was Avalon, Camelot, my des-
tination vacation. Back in the day, as now, it was a whole building, four magnificent stories full of nothing but books!! Glorious books on every subject you can imagine, every author you could think of. Whole f loors...and more f loors of wonderful books. It was, and for all I know still may be, the world’s largest bookstore.
I walked into the old building and out of the rain, dripping and probably looking like a home-
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In the London Rainless woman. The first thing that hit me was the delicious smell of paper such as you used to have in brick-and-mortar bookshops. That slightly woody, slightly antique perfume a true book lover knows.
Then there were the wooden shelves, shelf after shelf, after shelf, well stocked with books; the typi-cally British clerks with their West End accents, safely lodged in glass kiosks, ready to take your money and answer your questions. It was old-fashioned by American stan-dards. Think of the set of Are You Being Served? There, you’ve got it. I, of course, was utterly charmed.
I really thought I’d died and gone
to heaven as I wandered the aisles and stacks. It was the first time I realized that British and American editions were completely differ-ent animals, with different covers, packaging and jacket copy. Later, I’d experience this firsthand when my own books came out in the U.K., but at the time it was all magic to me.
There were millions upon millions
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of books. Literally. As I worked my way up the floors, through the sub-jects and authors, I found all kinds of treasures. I still have the U.K. trade paper edition of The Lord of the Rings, all in one volume. And I have to confess, when I should have been reading early 20th century British Isles poets, I was more en-grossed in the adventures of Frodo and company. Sorry, Rupert Brooke and William Butler Yeats!
Books! Books! Books! As far as
In the London Rain
Foyle’s Bookstore.
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When I had more books than I could possibly carry, Foyle’s kindly offered to wrap them and ship them back to the U.S. In those days, you paid no duty on books, but you had to leave one end of the package open so the book pages could clearly be seen.
I emptied my budget in that
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first visit to Foyle’s, and lived on take-out curry and peas for a fortnight after, which, at the time, was far better than the Brit-ish cuisine of limp vegetables and overcooked meat. But it was worth every cent of it for a book lover to experience Foyle’s.
Over the years I’ve been back to London, and I always go to Foyle’s. Like everything else, it has changed with the times. There are more branches all over London and the world, all modern and gleam-ing, offering e-books as much as dead tree editions.
These days, I’m still addicted to reading about almost everything
In the London Rain and everyone, from the history of the periodic table to trashy novels, but now I use my Kindle. In these days of dwindling space, I don’t have to worry about storing yet more books. But it’s nice to know if there’s something I can’t find anywhere else, I can order it online from Foyle’s at www.foyles.co.uk.
Helen Chappell is the creator of the Sam and Hollis mystery series and the Oysterback stories, as well as The Chesapeake Book of the Dead. Under her pen name, Re-becca Baldwin, she has published a number of historical novels.
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New Digs at Blackwaterby
Dick Cooper
The Visitor Center at Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge is undergoing some much-needed renovations.
The residents of Blackwater Na-tional Wildlife Refuge seem oblivi-ous to all of the remodeling work that has been going on over the last few years. Eagles continue to soar, herons and egrets constantly stalk the water’s edge in search of the next meal, and turtles by the dozens doze in the sun, their necks stretched out to maximize the warmth.
Just over the banks and behind the berms, workers are closing in on the final touches to the Refuge’s renovated Visitor Center. Earth-moving equipment is being loaded up on trailers after getting the vast ponds ready for the thousands of incoming geese, ducks, swans and other waterfowl who spend their winters in Blackwater.
“We hope to be moved into the Visitor Center by the first of the year,” says Ray Paretta, Blackwater’s Visitor Services Manager. “The new center will have a multipurpose room that can hold up to 150 for meetings. It will have expanded exhibition space, as well as the bookstore and gift shop that’s run by our non-profit partner, Friends of Blackwater.”
The center also has a new geo-thermal heating and cooling system and skylights to cut back on the carbon footprint. Solar tubes will carry sunlight to darker parts of the building. “When you walk into a room, you think the lights are on,” Paretta says.
The work on the ponds, called
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impoundments, that are f looded in late fall of every year to form more habitats for the waterfowl was paid for by Ducks Unlimited, he says. “The ideal depth of water is about one foot to allow the birds to feed off the bottom.” The Blackwater im-poundments varied in depth, with some being too deep for the birds to use effectively. Now they are all the same depth, and the ditches that carry water from Kentuck Swamp across Key Wallace Drive from the Visitor Center have been rebuilt to maximize water use.
B l a c k w a t e r a t t r a c t s a b o u t 180,000 v isitors to its 28,000 acres of woods, wetlands, hiking
New Digs at Blackwater
Construction equipment is visible all around the Refuge.
and water trails each year. Located in central Dorchester County, 12 miles southwest of Cambridge, the Refuge is run by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
About 190 bald eagles live in and around Blackwater, the largest east coast population north of Florida.
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New Digs at BlackwaterIt is a rare visit when you don’t spot an eagle effortlessly gliding overhead or sitting stoically on the branch of a dead tree surveying the marsh. The Wildlife Drive, a paved four-mile-long road, winds through the Refuge taking motor-ists, cyclists and walkers close to the water and waterfowl.
Every season has its special at-tractions. Spring brings turtles out of the mud, and they stack themselves up like dinner plates looking for sunshine. Throughout the year, long-legged shore birds perch in the low trees or hunt the mud flats for crabs, minnows or snakes. July and August are the quietest months, but they
The Refuge is the year-round home to countless Great Blue Herons.
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glimmer of the water in Blackwater Lake, and the big sky makes for some very photogenic sunsets.
Blackwater comes alive in the winter, however. Tundra swans, their long necks fully extended, f ly by in formation. Thousands of Canada geese fill the air with a ca-cophony of honks. Ducks in threes and fours dart from lake to pond in a constant rush.
One of the truly magnif icent sights of the winter is when the snow geese come in after their trip down the East Coast from the Arctic Circle. Snow geese do not possess the sense of community and order that their Canadian cousins seem to pride themselves on. When a f lock of Canada geese takes to f light, they quickly follow the leader and form up in their iconic V pattern. Not so with snow geese. They will blanket an impoundment, a thousand or more at a time, covering the water with a coat of white and gray. While
Snow geese in a swirl.
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Her work can also be seen atLu-Ev Gallery
The Inn at Perry Cabin
Four paintings on the set of the HBO series “VEEP”
New Digs at Blackwatermost snow geese are white with black-tipped wings, a lesser variety is bluish grey with white and black wings.
They are even noisier than the Canada geese and have a call that is harsher. They are also very skit-tish, and you can tell when the f lock is about to go up. Their squawks begin to grow louder and build to a crescendo, and then boom, the entire flock bursts up from the water and goes into a swirling, whirling cloud of noise and feathers. When they pass overhead, you can feel the rush of wind from their wings. Somehow they manage to avoid mid-air collisions, and then, as if on cue, they descend in unison to the pond’s surface and resume their feeding as if nothing had happened.
The eagles start their families in the winter, laying two or three eggs that generally hatch in late February or March. By June, the f ledglings are f lying. Parts of the Refuge are closed off from the public if an active nest is nearby, but you can watch the developing family on the Eagle Cam at www.friendsofblack-water.org/camhtm2.htm.
The Friends of Blackwater is a group of about 800 whose volun-teers run the gift and book shop and serve as docents for visitors. Their website, www.friendsofblackwa-ter.org has a wealth of information about the Refuge, its history and up-coming events. One of the highlights
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New Digs at Blackwater
The new observation deck is the perfect place to look out over the marsh.
of the year is Eagle Festival. The next one is set for March 18, 2014, and features tours, lectures, live eagles and other birds of prey, along with crafts and activities for children.
Paretta says one of the more popular additions to the refuge is the elevated observation platform that has been built over a portion of the marsh. “It is only 15 feet high, but when you are looking at a marsh, that makes a big difference.” Last year the banks of Wildlife Drive were shored up with riprap to pro-tect it from erosion.
Paretta says that this year the Refuge workers thinned out some of the forest along the Key Wallace Trail to let more light to the forest
f loor and allow brush and low-cover plants to grow into a habitat for small birds and animals. “Hikers will notice a big difference,” he says, “but in a few years it will fill back in.” This thinning also permits trees such as oaks to grow bigger and produce more acorns to feed the animals.
While the Visitor Center im-provements are meant to make the human experience more enjoyable, the impoundment repairs and the thinning forest “are all about the animals,” Paretta says.
Dick Cooper is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. He and his wife, Pat, live and sail in St. Michaels. He can be contacted at [email protected].
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A Stroll Down the Alley
Tidewater Travelerby
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The Federalsburg Museum.
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still consider. What is it about al-leys, sometimes called alley-ways? What makes them different from any other street? Generally, folks do not have their homes or places of business facing alleys. Alley-ways are usually service corridors, narrow, not normally well-lit and
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A Stroll Down the Alleyoften lined with trash receptacles.
So, guess where I am! I am strolling down an alley ~ no, really ~ it is a real, genuine, certified al-ley. I wonder why people say walk-ing down an alley; I do not recall ever hearing someone say they are walking up an alley. As alleys go, this one is a little nicer. It is paved with asphalt and is a little wider than most. Vehicles are allowed to travel in only one direction on this alley. Along the alley I observe the rear walls and doors of a recycled movie theatre, an appliance store, a f lower shop and some other barely notable service entrances to small businesses. The fronts of
John Deere corn sheller.
these two-story brick buildings are on North Main Street.
Speaking of alleys, I remember being amused at the names of al-leys in the college town of Frost-burg. Significant expense had yielded signposts and street signs for every alley, designating such thoroughfares as Alley 32 or Alley 54. Amusing as it was, I suppose
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A Stroll Down the Alleythere is something to be said for, in a situation, knowing to call the local authorities and declare that there is an incident in Alley 37.
The alley I am exploring today has a decent-looking green and white sign at each end declaring it to be Covey & Williams Alley. No, I am not lost. I have come here to experience the Federalsburg Mu-seum. You may not have known that Federalsburg has a museum; maybe that’s because it’s in an al-ley! About halfway through the alley is a freshly-painted masonry block building. I remember bring-ing my car to this building back in the early seventies to have Tip per-
form an alignment. I understand that years earlier this same garage served as a Ford dealership.
Parked in the alley in front of the building toward one end is a 1951 black four-door Ford sedan. It looks like it could have just rolled off the showroom floor ready for a new owner. At the other end of the building, parked on the alley, is a black horse carriage (no horse). I am sure there is a proper make and model that would describe this buggy, but to me it’s an old car-riage. Old ~ yes ~ but it too looks like something straight from the new carriage store.
I step into the main exhibit hall of the museum through a roll-up, garage-style overhead door. Wow!
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A Stroll Down the AlleyWhat a collection! My parents talked of driving a Model A Ford. I can imagine them in this one. It is a beautiful, two-tone shiny gray with black fenders and chrome in all the right places. They spoke of a rumble seat in the back where nor-mally would be a trunk, and sure enough, this 1930 beauty has such a feature.
Nearby is a manually-cranked John Deere corn sheller. Even if the John Deere logo was not prom-inent, I would have recognized the distinctive green and yellow color. It reminds me that this very weekend I had pulled an ear of corn from a dry brown stalk in my neighbor’s field (sorry) to show to my three-year-old granddaughter.
The Federalsburg Museum is full of pieces of local history.
We stripped off the husk and forced the hard yellow kernels off the cob and into a waiting dish. I wish she could see this machine that me-chanically does what we struggled to do with our bare hands. Behind the sheller is a manually operated fodder cutter. I am thinking it’s a good bet that most people under age fifty don’t even know what fod-der is – let alone that fodder can be cut or shocked!
I turn to notice a 1927 Chevrolet fuel delivery truck. It is a beautiful rich dark green trimmed in black and accented along the sides of the tank with polished oak rails. As I consider this vehicle, it reminds me of how long petroleum products have played a role in growing this country to what it is today. Another delivery truck is across the room. It
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A Stroll Down the Alleyis a 1919 Model T Ford Depot Hack. The body of the vehicle is of highly polished wood. Inside it sports a couple of bench seats behind the driver’s seat and at the very back is space for luggage. Side curtains of leather are raised and lowered to offer protection to the passengers.
It’s not just vehicles and farm equipment. In one corner of the room is a business office setting with furniture and equipment as it would have been in the 1940s. A separate room houses the Histori-cal Society’s library and research center where thousands of docu-ments and photos have been cata-
The Great Flood of 1935.
loged to preserve the history of Fed-eralsburg’s families and businesses.
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A Stroll Down the AlleyA very recent acquisition by the
museum is a collection of large black and white photographs de-picting the Great Flood of 1935.
Button – button – who’s got the button? There is something about Federalsburg and buttons. Button manufacturing was a significant industry here. Seeing the button-making equipment on display, one museum goer commented about having found many buttons in the driveway of her newly acquired home. With a little research it was learned that in the early 1900s it was common to use surplus, reject and broken buttons as driveway ballast. Several homes in Federals-burg have button driveways.
Just like the big guys, there is even a small museum shop!
I understand that many of the vehicles and large items in the museum are on loan from private owners, but so what! That’s how many museums work. They are here today, and my guess is that they will be here again. Most mu-seums rotate their collections.
I like what one of the museum’s directors told me. “As local people are learning that we are here, they are bringing in those old, old trea-sures that have been stored in at-tics, sheds and closets for years. Objects from the past that might have previously been forgotten, ig-nored or even discarded are find-
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Like most children, I did not al-ways obey my mother and heed her warnings, and so it is that I find myself in this alley on this day, stepping back in time.
May all of your travels be happy and safe!
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When Hollywood Came to St. MichaelsThe Filming of “The First Kiss”
byJames Dawson
Movie poster for “The First Kiss.”
When Hollywood came to St. Michaels in 1928, it was the biggest thing to hit the town since the Brit-ish invaded the place in 1813.
After the decision was made to film Tristram Tupper’s Satur-day Evening Post story The Four Brothers, set in Talbot County, the
director was confident that the sto-ry could easily be shot in Califor-nia. But when nothing was found in California that even remotely looked like the Chesapeake Bay, he decided to make the expensive 3,000-mile trek east to film the real Talbot County.
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The First KissTupper had written the story
while he was vacationing at Maple Hall in Claiborne. It was full of local color, but even Hollywood’s smoke and mirrors could not rep-licate the charms of the good ole’ Eastern Shore, so that May, two special railroad cars full of people and props pulled into town to shoot the movie, which was titled The First Kiss.
The cast and crew, about 75 peo-ple, stayed at the Pasadena Inn in Royal Oak. Pauline Valliant, who worked as a hostess in the dining room there, recalled in a May 20, 1973 Baltimore Sun article that they soon felt right at home and
grew to love the Eastern Shore. Gary Cooper, the rising young ac-tor who played the lead role of Mulligan Talbot, rose for an early morning swim each day before the filming started, and lead actress Fay Wray, who played Cooper’s rich sweetheart, liked it so much that she convinced her fiance John Saunders, a Hollywood screen-writer, to come east and the two were married on June 15 at Calvary Methodist Church in Easton. Their wedding reception was held on a skipjack in St. Michaels harbor.
Roland V. Lee, the director, re-called 40 years later that St. Mi-chaels was an enchanting village that gave them wonderful coopera-tion and warm hospitality. Because
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The First Kisshe kept a tight rein on his people, everyone had to be up at 6:30 a.m. and ready for filming at 8, so there was no time for any of those wild Hollywood parties the locals had read about in the scandal rags.
The plot was this: after years of dissolution and drink, the noble Talbot family, which had given its fine name to the county, had fallen on hard times. Pap Talbot, the son of the distinguished Rev. Henry Talbot, was a drunkard and his four sons not much better. Pap had named his first three sons William, Ezra and Carroll in an attempt to ingratiate himself with his father-in-law, William Ezra Carroll, who
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The First Kissdoctor. During this time, Mulli-gan still works as a waterman, but never fails to bring the money from Grandpap Carroll.
In the meantime, Mulligan falls in love with Anna Lee Marshall (played by Fay Wray). She is the daughter of the richest man in town and she spurns his advances because, as she so delicately put it, he is “poor white trash.” Mulligan slowly wins her heart and impress-es her with his surprising success on the water. He takes her sailing. They kiss.
Then, in a melodramatic plot twist, Mulligan is caught attempt-ing to rob passengers on the An-
In an epic battle, Mulligan beats his older brother almost to death.
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The First Kisswho, disguised in black oilskins, had been robbing vessels off the coast for years. Grandpap Carroll had died insolvent years before, and the money had actually been coming from Mulligan’s piratical enterprises. While Mulligan is in the Easton jail, his brothers help him break out and he and Anna sail off into the sunset together in the dream yacht that he built.
That was the way the story end-ed. In the movie, Mulligan sells the boat he built and pays back all the money he stole, which triggers his arrest. He is tried and found guilty, but released into Anna’s custody and the two live happily ever after.
The filming attracted large num-bers of spectators, as many as one thousand people on weekends. They were welcome to watch as long as they stayed out of camera range. Crowd noise wasn’t a prob-lem because it was a silent movie. And for its part, Talbot County wel-comed the film crew along with the tens of thousands of dollars they pumped into the local economy.
The movie was a big deal. A dozen bugeyes, skipjacks and schooners were hired for the water scenes. Two rooms costing $2,000 were added to the Parkerson house in St. Michaels, then special scenic painters aged the house to create Pap’s dilapidated family mansion. A dozen thirty-foot-tall trees were
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The First Kissmoved. A small wharf was built. Three tons of oyster shells were spread in the yard along with a large assortment of boat parts.
The home and gardens of Ed-ward Buck doubled as Anna Lee’s house. A duplicate of the interior of an Easton jail cell was built in the jail yard in Easton and fitted with bars. For the trial scenes, ten electricians came from New York to light the interior of the Talbot County Court House with $30,000 worth of electrical equipment. One hundred and sixty 2,000 watt light bulbs costing $60 each were powered via five tons of cables by an 800 amp. gasoline generator mounted on a truck. Generating enough power, it was said, to light a small town.
Hundreds of locals found work as extras and helpers. Everett “Epps” Russell from Oxford even worked as a stunt double for Gary Cooper, diving off of a mast in one scene, but Epps said Cooper did his own love scenes.
Things moved quickly. The story had appeared in the April 7, 1928, issue of the Saturday Evening Post. The movie crew arrived in St. Michaels on May 25th to start filming on the 28th; they finished in mid-June; left on the 17th; and the movie premiered in Easton’s New Theater on August 20.
The movie played to good re-
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The First Kissviews. The Easton Star Democrat gushed...
“This week Talbot Countians have received the movie treat of their lives... To the credit of The New Theater, and at an expense something like ten times that of obtaining other productions of merit, this was the first showing in Maryland... Nine showings, three each day, had been contracted for. Hundreds of people hailed the op-portunity to respond and almost capacity houses were sold in ad-vance of general admission tickets.
“Such anticipations pertain-ing to a show had never been wit-nessed in county history. Beside the story itself, the whole com-munity ‘fell’ for the gentlemanly bunch of operators who took the scenes. Friendships were formed, Lavish expenditures were met. The ‘stay longer’ attitude of the people of St. Michaels and of Easton, was reciprocated by the players with expressions highly f lattering to Talbot and its citizens...
“The scenes in St. Michaels were superb. They thrilled the spectators. The home of the Tal-bots, where the Four Brothers lived with a dissolute father, had been reconstructed, and inter-ested those familiar with the labor involved...
“The familiar bridge over which the star actress, Miss Fay Wray,
The filming drew large crowds of locals, some of whom ended up in the movie as extras.
tripped, the wharfing, the boats with their owners, the shipyard thrown upon the screen, all con-tributed to an enthusiasm which could only be experienced by those who had seen the pictures in the making. And so it was with all the exposures in the foundation stages of the historic story of The Four Brothers.”
Carroll Dulaney wrote in the Baltimore News-Post that: “It’s a story full of hokum – the kind of hokum we all like – and the picture tells it cleverly and prettily. There are views of a f leet of pungies and bugeyes tonging oysters, some more or less complimentary close-up of the first families of Maryland doing their daily chores and some other close-ups of Chesapeake Bay dogs, which are much better look-ing”!!!! The exclamation points are mine. I guess this Baltimore critic
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The movie was well promoted and even had a special song writ-ten for it titled (naturally) The First Kiss, which was played in movie theaters and also available on sheet music in the days when people owned pianos and sang songs at home as well as a 78 rpm recording for those who had Victrolas. Now you can listen to it on YouTube.
The one sour note was that the scenes of the trial that had been filmed in the Talbot County Court-house had to be discarded because the expensive, experimental light-ing equipment had not worked properly. This must have been a bitter disappointment to all the two hundred or so local extras who had been hired for it and who had been expecting to see themselves up there on the silver screen.
When it was discovered back in Hollywood that all of that footage would have to be reshot, not only would it have been prohibitively expensive to travel east again just to reshoot those few scenes, but since court was now back in ses-sion, the Courthouse was not avail-able anyway, a generic court room set was built in Hollywood at stag-gering cost (or so the publicity de-partment claimed) and the scenes reshot out there.
A few weeks later, Director Lee
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Most of the movie was shot in St. Michaels, with some shots in Easton at the Court House, Third Haven Meeting House and nearby Wye House and the Annapolis-Claiborne ferry. Unfortunately, the film is lost, so we don’t know exactly where, but some clues can be seen in the movie stills that have survived.
In the story the big fight was at the brothers’ run-down man-sion, but for the film it was moved to Rev. Talbot’s cemetery plot to heighten the drama. The Maryland Room at the Talbot County Free Library has illustrations for both versions of the fight: the original artwork by Henry Raleigh used to illustrate the Saturday Evening Post story and a Paramount movie still showing the film version that was set in the cemetery.
But which cemetery? None of the newspaper articles mentioned where the fight was filmed. As a personal challenge, I was curi-ous to see if the exact spot for
Fay Wray and Gary Cooper on the set of “The First Kiss.”
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Then I noticed something else in the background, a very unusual house with only one center at-tic window in the wall facing the graveyard. I nicknamed the build-ing “the house with one window.” I had never seen anything like it.
How convenient was that!My first choice was Spring Hill
Cemetery in Easton. Not only was it the largest cemetery in the county, but because it had a street of older houses along its east side. So confident was I that this was the place that I was rather surprised when not one of the houses along North Aurora Street looked even remotely like the house in the mov-ie still.
Nor did any of the houses around Christ Church Episcopal or St. Luke’s United Methodist cemeteries in St. Michaels. I had nearly given up the quest, assum-ing the house was no longer extant or that maybe the scene had been shot back in California when –
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was there something behind those bushes and trees alongside Mt. Olivet Cemetery behind St. Luke’s? Could it be the “house with one window”? Yes, it could...and was.
True, it had been remodeled somewhat in the 84 years since the movie, but if you mentally removed the modern porch, there was that most unusual wall with the single attic window, no mistake.
And now seeing it in person, it was clear why someone would construct a 2-1/2-story house with only a single window in that one wall. It was because they didn’t want to have to look out the win-dows at a graveyard. The porch, however, was shielded from it by all the trees and bushes.
Once the correct cemetery was identified, it was fairly easy to eye-ball the angles of the tombstones seen in the movie still behind the movie prop tombstones with the “house with one window” to tri-angulate just where the scene had been shot.
You just might be able to see an unusual tombstone with four peaks on it behind the fake tombstone on the left in the 1928 movie still, and in the composite photo I made of the figures and fake tombstones from the 1928 movie still photo-shopped onto the photo I took at that same spot in 2012.
Of course, there are a lot more tombstones in Mt. Olivet now than there were in 1928, but one or two
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Judging by the dates of the tombstones in the cemetery where the scene had been filmed, which all postdated the 1930s, that whole area would have been empty in 1928, so the movie crew could have filmed the scene there without hav-ing to stomp on or otherwise des-ecrate people’s graves, which the church certainly would not have
The house with the single window upstairs can be seen in the background.
allowed anyway. But because it was close enough to the real tomb-stones in the background, with the right camera angle, the fake tomb-stones looked like they were right there in the cemetery.
As historian and tombstone au-thority Brice Stump pointed out, the three tombstones in the fore-ground of the movie still are obvi-ously props made out of wood. On most real tombstones, the epitaph is chiseled into the stone, which is far easier to do than to chisel the stone from around the raised let-tering like is seen on the movie
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Also, hollow tombstones made of wood would be far easier to move around than real ones made of solid granite or marble. They could even change the lettering and use them in another movie, if need be. And as you can see in the photos, the fake tombstone on the right is obviously just sitting lightly on the uneven ground and does not have a real foundation.
I had even entertained the no-tion that they might have put fake names on real tombstones, but it seems that not even Hollywood would desecrate real tombstones for cinematography. I also had wondered if the prop people rented real, but unused tombstones from a local monument supply house and stuck letters on them, but they would have been awfully heavy to move around.
Curiously, the movie prop obe-lisk tombstone in the middle is an exact replica of a real tomb-stone that is in Mt. Olivet: that of Oliver Caulk, who died in 1899. It is still the tallest tombstone in the cemetery and must have im-pressed the movie people enough to make a copy of it. At first, I
thought they may have disguised the real tombstone and placed the two fakes on either side of it, but that was impossible because the angles are all wrong.
And as Brice also pointed out, the two fake tombstones on either side are identical and look more like glitzy products from 1928 Hol-lywood than anything seen on the Eastern Shore in 1872.
If you are wondering what the made-up epitaph on a fake tomb-stone for a fictional person would be, the one on the left reads, all in raised lettering, including the words that are in script (which would be exceptionally difficult to chisel on a real tombstone): “RT. REV./ HENRY TALBOT/ CONSE-CRATED [?]/ IN THE DIOCESE/ OF EASTON APRIL 1, 1872/ He Served H[is People?]” Part of the epitaph is hidden by the actors’ heads. Note that the date of death for Rev. Talbot is April 1st, so per-haps the prop department was hav-ing a little April Fool’s joke.
Another movie still looking up Cherry Street from the harbor shows the house with the man-sard roof on Cherry Street near the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Mu-seum and also the little foot bridge the reviewer mentioned. It is said that it got its name Honeymoon Bridge because Fay Wray and her husband had some wedding pho-tos taken on it.
As for the Parkerson house,
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Elmer T. Parkerson, Jr. said that he had never heard of a fam-ily house being used in the movie, but said that his father, whose parents lived in that house, never talked about it except to mention that he had a bit part in the film
where he rowed out to a boat to deliver mail for one scene.
Some of the other stills show the interior of the cabin of the luxury yacht that Mulligan built. But there was no luxury yacht. The prop department just made the cabin, which was mounted on a scow so it could be towed around for vari-ous location shots. When filming ended, the director generously presented the cabin to The Miracle House in Claiborne, which had been established as an open air “preventorium” for children who had been exposed to tuberculo-sis, to be used as a playhouse. The Miracle House closed in 1944, and most of the buildings, including presumably the movie prop play-
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house, were destroyed by a fire in the 1950s. In any event, there is nothing like it on the site now.
The passing years have not been kind. Pap’s “mansion” is gone, like-wise Anna Lee’s mansion, a.k.a. the Edward Buck house (Longfel-lows Restaurant), a big two-story house at the end of Mulberry Street burned in the mid-1970s, and the Town Dock Restaurant is on the site now. The New Theater on South Washington Street, Easton’s pride when it opened in 1922, which pre-miered the movie, was torn down years ago. Even the film is lost so that now only a few movie col-lectibles and newspaper clippings remain from the days when Holly-wood first came to Talbot County
But, as we all know, no matter what happens later on, no one ever for-gets their First Kiss.
Thanks to Robert Horvath, Di-rector of the Talbot Co. Free Li-brary; Becky Riti Librarian at the Maryland Room of the Talbot Co. Free Library for allowing me to use their movie stills and drawing, and Monique Gordy a volunteer there; Janet Berg, Molly Bond, Willard Carroll, Susan Galinek, David Parkerson, Elmer T. Parker-son Jr. and Brice Stump for their contributions.
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TIDEWATERGARDENINGby K. Marc Teffeau, Ph.D.
Thinking About the Outside and the Inside
Peony bulb.
November, like March, is one of the transition gardening months when we become focused on prep-arations outside but also think about what gardening activities we can engage in, inside the house. Depending upon what type of fall weather we experience, November can be a rather pleasant month to be outside ~ at least until we get closer to the beginning of Decem-ber. One observation that I have always had about November is that we usually get a rain storm or two the first couple of weeks that ends the fall foliage display and reminds us that winter is coming.
As with October, some planting can still be done in November. You can still get some of those spring bulbs in the ground before it freez-es. Lilies should be in by now, but things like tulips, crocus, and daf-fodils will be just fine. The garden centers will have end-of-season specials on spring bulbs now, so check out what is available.
Peonies can be planted now in full sun and fertile, well-drained soil that is rich in organic mat-ter. Dig holes 18 inches deep and fill halfway with a mixture of soil, compost, and a handful of 5-10-10 fertilizer or an organic fertilizer equivalent. Add a few more inches of soil, and set the tubers so the buds are 1 to 2 inches below the soil
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Peonies do not grow well after being moved and will not bloom for several years. Reduce peony botrytis blight and hollyhock rust by removing and disposing of all old stems this fall. This reduces the carry-over of the diseases during the winter, and you will have less trouble next year.
November is also a good time to do some shrub pruning, especially after the first or second frost. Leaf fall makes renovation of over-grown deciduous shrubs easier. Begin by removing all diseased or broken stems. Next, remove 1/3 of all remaining shoots, eliminating the oldest and tallest. If the bush is still too tall, cut the remaining stems to a side bud or branch. Re-peat the process in a year or two to complete renovation.
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Pruning spring f lowering shrubs now will mean that you will lose some f lowers, but this reduction in f loral display will be made up in the next few years with the genera-tion of new wood that is conducive to f lower production. And, you and I both know, with all that is going on in the spring in the landscape and family activities, we may have the best of intentions to do what is correct pruning-wise, but we don’t always get around to it. So, do some selective whacking now to get those unruly shrubs back into their proper form.
While pruning, also cut away suck-ers from the base of lilacs, forsythia, and crape myrtle. You can also trim hollies and other evergreens, such as magnolia, aucuba, boxwood, and pyracantha, to furnish material for Thanksgiving decorations.
Sometimes, however, renovation pruning is a lost cause, so we need to seriously examine a complete landscape renovation, including ~ yes ~ complete removal of some plants. November is an excellent time to engage in this process. Talk
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Sprigs of pyracantha make for beautiful holiday arrangements.with a nursery person, landscaper or landscape designer to see what your landscape renovation possi-bilities might be, and get a design drawn up. With the last couple of fairly mild winters that we’ve ex-perienced, landscape plantings were going on anytime the ground was not frozen.
After a killing frost, long vig-orous shoots of roses may be cut back to 18~20 inches so they are not whipped by the winter winds, that may loosen the roots and make the plant more susceptible to winter injury. Mound the canes with 8 inches of soil for winter protection. Remove that soil be-
fore growth begins in the spring. When chrysanthemums are
through flowering, remove the stalks at once within a few inches of the ground. This will help root development and make them send out vigorous sprouts in the spring. Some may be lifted and heeled into the cold frame. Plants for potting can be propagated from the side
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sprouts which will develop next May.By now you should have moved
all your houseplants back inside from their summer locations. If you are looking for inside garden-ing activities in November, the first of the month is the time to pot up amaryllis bulbs for Christmas blooming. Most bulbs come into f lower in six to eight weeks from the time of planting. Make sure you leave the top third of the bulb ex-posed and only lightly water until you see signs of growth. Don’t keep the potting medium soaking wet as the plant grows, or you may experi-ence bulb rot. Let it dry out almost completely before watering again.
Christmas Cactus.Your Thanksgiving cactus should
now be starting to form blooms with the Christmas cactus bloom-ing not far behind. These “holiday” cactus are really not true cacti but are a member of a loosely defined group of plants which include suc-culents and cacti. As a retirement
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gift, my former office sent me a dish garden of cacti and succu-lents that was very attractive. This peaked my interest a little more about this grouping of very popular houseplants in general.
In my old office in downtown D.C., I had a Christmas cactus that grew beautifully. It had the right sunlight exposure and I looked for-ward to its flowering every year. Alas, with a second office move to a different location and then retire-ment, it did not survive. If you are looking to expand your houseplant collection with cacti and succulents, now is a great time to do it. The gar-den centers have shifted to indoor and holiday plant sales, so a number of different kinds are now available.
The term succulent refers to a broad, loose category of plants, in-cluding cacti, which have developed thick fleshy leaves or stems. These serve as water storage organs to en-sure survival under arid conditions.
Succulents are found world-wide. Besides cacti, they include many familiar plants: the jade plant (Crassula arborescens), the snake plant (Sansevieria trifasciata), the medicine plant (Aloe barbadensis), the century plant (Agave ameri-cana), the flowering Kalanchoes (Kalanchoe blossfeldiana). They are sold as gift plants, as well as the sedums (Sedum sp.), and hens and chicks (Sempervivum sp.) which are so common in the perennial garden.
Many cacti and succulents are
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extremely well adapted to living in houses where the relative humidity is low (10–30 percent) during the winter months. They require only modest amounts of water and fer-tilizer, but do need abundant light. They should be placed in a bright, sunny window. Insufficient natu-ral light can be augmented by arti-ficial lighting.
Cacti can be tall and lanky or squat and spherical, frequently without any branches and almost always without leaves. These shapes result in a large propor-tion of internal tissue to external surface area which reduces the amount of moisture that is lost
Jade Plant.through the plant itself. They often have scale or spines ranging from microscopically small to wickedly long and barbed.
When growing cacti and suc-culents, remember that most are found growing in open, well-drained sandy soil. These condi-
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Often cacti and succulents are grouped together in shallow dish gardens like the one I received. While this may be an attractive method of display, my suggestion is to consider re-potting the plants
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into individual containers or group-ing them in containers as to type.
Choose plants that are compatible in rate of growth so that one or two plants don’t outgrow the rest. Even more important, the plants must have similar water requirements. Generally speaking, most cacti need less water than do other succulents.
During the low-light winter months, cacti and succulents should be watered only enough to prevent shrinking and withering. When watering, do it thoroughly. Water should flow through the drain holes, and the excess should be discarded after a few minutes. A series of re-peated shallow sprinklings often re-sults in distorted growth.
As the amount of light increases in the spring, so does the plant’s need for water. The soil, however, should always be allowed to dry out completely between waterings.
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Cacti and succulents have rela-tively low nutrient requirements. Cacti need fertilizer only once or twice a year during the late spring or summer when they are actively growing. Use a houseplant food that is higher in phosphorus than nitrogen, diluted to half the rec-ommended rate. Other succulents may be fertilized in the same man-ner three or four times during the brighter months.
Happy gardening!
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Cambridge’s High Street one of the most beautiful streets in America. He modeled his fictional city Patamoke after Cambridge. Many of the gra-cious homes on High Street date from the 1700s and 1800s. Today you can join a historic walking tour of High Street each Saturday at 11 a.m., April through October (weather permitting). For more info. tel: 410-901-1000.
SKIPJACK NATHAN OF DORCHESTER - Sail aboard the authentic skipjack Nathan of Dorchester, offering heritage cruises on the Choptank River. The Nathan is docked at Long Wharf in Cambridge. Dredge for oysters and hear the stories of the working waterman’s way of life. For more info. and schedules tel: 410-228-7141 or visit www.skipjack-nathan.org.
DORCHESTER CENTER FOR THE ARTS - Located at 321 High Street in Cambridge, the Center offers monthly gallery exhibits and shows, extensive art classes, and special events, as well as an artisans’ gift shop with an array of items created by local and regional artists. For more info. tel: 410-228-7782 or visit www.dorchesterarts.org.
RICHARDSON MARITIME MUSEUM - Located at 401 High St., Cambridge, the Museum makes history come alive for visitors in the form of exquisite models of traditional Bay boats. The Museum also offers a
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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” self-guided driving tour. For more info. tel: 410-228-0401.
SPOCOTT WINDMILL - Since 1972, Dorchester County has had a fully operating English style post windmill that was expertly crafted by the late master shipbuilder, James B. Richardson. There has been a succession of windmills at this location dating back to the late 1700’s. The complex also includes an 1800 tenant house, one-room school, blacksmith shop, and country store museum. The windmill is located at 1625 Hudson Rd., Cambridge.
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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 schools to be organized and maintained by a black community. Between 1867 and 1962, the youth in the African-American community of Christ Rock attended this school, which is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Tours available by appointment. The Stanley Institute is located at the intersection of Route 16 West & Bayly Rd., Cambridge. For more info. tel: 410-228-6657.
BUCKTOWN VILLAGE STORE - Visit the site where Harriet Tubman received a blow to her head that fractured her skull. From this injury Harriet believed God gave her the vision and directions that inspired her to guide
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Dorchester Points of Interestso many to freedom. Artifacts include the actual newspaper ad offering a reward 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.
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 fine specialty shops, business and cultural activities, unique restaurants and architectural fascination. Tree-lined streets are graced with various period structures and remarkable homes, carefully preserved or restored. Because of its historical significance, 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 ar-chitecture, it was built by Benjamin Stevens in 1790 and is one of Easton’s earliest three-bay brick buildings. The home was “modernized” with Victorian bay windows on the right side in the 1890s.
6. WATERFOWL BUILDING - 40 S. Harrison St. The old armory
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Easton Points of Interestis now the headquarters of the Waterfowl Festival, Easton’s annual cel-ebration of migratory birds and the hunting season, the second weekend in November. For more info. tel: 410-822-4567 or visit www.waterfowl-festival.org.
7. ACADEMY ART MUSEUM - 106 South St. Accredited by the American Association of Museums, the Academy Art Museum is a fine art museum founded in 1958. Providing national and regional 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 Fri. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Sat. and Sun. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; extended hours on Tues., Wed. and Thurs. until 7 p.m. For more info. tel: (410) 822-ARTS (2787) or visit www.art-academy.org.
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Easton Points of InterestParish was founded in 1692 with the present church built ca. 1840, of Port Deposit granite.
9. HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF TALBOT COUNTY - 25 S. Washing-ton St. Enjoy an evocative portrait of everyday life during earlier times when visiting the c. 18th and 19th century historic houses and a museum with changing exhibitions, all of which surround a Federal-style garden. Located in the heart of Easton’s historic district. Museum hours: Wed. ~ Sat., 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. (winter) and Tues. through Sat., 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. (summer), with group tours offered by appointment. For more info. tel: 410-822-0773 or visit www.hstc.org. Tharpe Antiques and Decorative Arts located at 30 S. Washington Street. Hours: Tues.-Sun. 10-4. Con-signments accepted on Tues. or by appointment 410-820-7525. Proceeds support HSTC.
10. ODD FELLOWS LODGE - At the corner of Washington and Do-ver streets stands a building with secrets. It was constructed in 1879 as the meeting hall for the Odd Fellows. Carved into the stone and placed into the stained glass are images and symbols that have meaning only for members. See if you can find the dove, linked rings and other symbols.
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11. TALBOT COUNTY COURTHOUSE - Long known as the “East Capital” of Maryland. The present building was completed in 1794 on the site of the earlier one built in 1711. It has been remodeled several times.
11A. FREDERICK DOUGLASS STATUE - 11 N. Washington St. on the lawn of the Talbot County Courthouse. The statue honors Frederick 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.
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eral streets. Built in 1812, it became the Eastern Shore’s leading hostelry. When court was in session, plaintiffs, defendants and lawyers all came to town and shared rooms in hotels such as this. Frederick Douglass stayed in the Brick Hotel when he came back after the Civil War and gave a speech in the courthouse. It is now an office building.
14. THOMAS PERRIN SMITH HOUSE - 119 N. Washington St. Built in 1803, it was the early home of the newspaper from which the Star-Democrat grew. In 1911, the building was acquired by the Chesapeake 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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Easton Points of Interest17. 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 Oswald Tilghman, great-grandson of Lt. Col. Tench Tilghman. (Private)
18. TRINITY EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL - On “Cathedral Green,” Goldsborough St., a traditional Gothic design in granite. The interior is well worth a visit. All windows are stained glass, picturing New Testament scenes, and the altar cross of Greek type is unique.
19. INN AT 202 DOVER - Built in 1874, this Victorian-era mansion reflects many architectural styles. For years the building was known as the Wrightson House, thanks to its early 20th century owner, Charles T. Wrightson, one of the founders of the S. & W. canned food empire. Locally it is still referred to as Captain’s Watch due to its prominent balustraded widow’s walk. The Inn’s renovation in 2006 was acknowledged by the Maryland Historic Trust and the U.S. Dept. of the Interior.
20. TALBOT COUNTY FREE LIBRARY - Housed in an 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
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Saturday. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit www.tcfl.org. 21. MEMORIAL HOSPITAL AT EASTON - Established in the early
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 The 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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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 handsomest models of the Bay craft, such as canoes, bugeyes, pungys and some famous Baltimore Clippers, were designed and built. The Church, named “St. Mi-chael’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 majestic Chesapeake Bay, this historic inn has been welcoming guests for over 100 years. Thomas Kemp, builder of the original “Pride of Baltimore,” built the main house in 1819.
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2. HARBOURTOWNE GOLF RESORT - Bay View Restaurant and Duckblind Bar on the scenic Miles River with an 18 hole golf course.
3. MILES RIVER YACHT CLUB - Organized in 1920, the Miles River Yacht Club continues its dedication to boating on our waters and the protec-tion of the heritage of log canoes, the oldest class of boat still sailing U. S. waters. The MRYC has been instrumental in preserving the log canoe and its rich history on the Chesapeake Bay.
4. THE INN AT PERRY CABIN - The original building was constructed 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. The Inn is now a member of the Orient Express Hotels.
5. THE PARSONAGE INN - A bed and breakfast inn at 210 N. Talbot St., was built by Henry Clay Dodson, a prominent St. Michaels businessman and state legislator around 1883 as his private residence. In 1874, Dodson, along with Joseph White, established the St. Michaels Brick Company, which later provided the brick for “the old Parsonae house.”
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6. FREDERICK DOUGLASS HISTORIC MARKER - Born at Tucka-hoe Creek, Talbot County, Douglass lived as a slave in the St. Michaels area from 1833 to 1836. He taught himself to read and taught in clandestine schools for blacks here. He escaped to the north and became a noted abo-litionist, orator and editor. He returned in 1877 as a U.S. Marshal for the District of Columbia and also served as the D.C. Recorder of Deeds and the U.S. Minister to Haiti.
7. CHESAPEAKE BAY MARITIME MUSEUM - Founded in 1965, the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum is dedicated to preserving the rich heritage of the hemisphere’s largest and most productive estuary - the Chesapeake Bay. Located on 18 waterfront acres, its nine exhibit buildings and floating fleet bring to life the story of the Bay and its inhabitants, from the fully restored 1879 Hooper Strait lighthouse and working boatyard to the impressive collection of working decoys and a recreated waterman’s shanty. Home to the world’s largest collection of Bay boats, the Museum regularly hosts temporary exhibitions, special events, festivals, and education pro-grams. Docking and pump-out facilities available. Exhibitions and Museum Store open year-round. Up-to-date information and hours can be found
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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, 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
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for over 75 years. As a bed and breakfast, circa 1988, major renovations took place, preserving the historic character of the gracious Victorian era.
12. HAMBLETON INN - On the harbor. Historic waterfront home built in 1860 and restored as a bed and breakfast in 1985 with a turn-of-the-century atmosphere. All the rooms have a view of the harbor.
13. MILL HOUSE - Originally built on the beach about 1660 and later moved to its present location on Harrison Square (Cherry St. near Locust St.).
14. FREEDOMS FRIEND LODGE - Chartered in 1867 and constructed in 1883, the Freedoms Friend Lodge is the oldest lodge existing in Maryland and is a prominent historic site for our Black community. It is now the site of Blue Crab Coffee Company.
15. TALBOT COUNTY FREE LIBRARY - St. Michaels Branch is located at 106 S. Fremont Street. For more info. tel: 410-745-5877.
16. CARPENTER STREET SALOON - Life in the Colonial community revolved around the tavern. The traveler could, of course, obtain food, drink, lodging or even a fresh horse to speed his journey. This tavern was built in 1874 and has served the community as a bank, a newspaper office, post office and telephone company.
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17. TWO SWAN INN - The Two Swan Inn on the harbor served as the former site of the Miles River Yacht Club, was built in the 1800s and was renovated in 1984. It is located at the foot of Carpenter Street.
18. TARR HOUSE - Built by Edward Elliott as his plantation home about 1661. It was Elliott and an indentured servant, Darby Coghorn, who built the first church in St. Michaels. This was about 1677, on the site of the present Episcopal Church (6 Willow Street, near Locust).
19. CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH - 301 S. Talbot St. Built of Port Deposit stone, the present church was erected in 1878. The first is believed to have been built in 1677 by Edward Elliott.
20. THE INN - Built in 1817 by Wrightson Jones, who opened and operated the shipyard at Beverly on Broad Creek. (Talbot St. at Mulberry).
21. THE CANNONBALL HOUSE - When St. Michaels was shelled by the British in a night attack in 1813, the town was “blacked out” and 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 cannonball hit the chimney of “Cannonball House” and rolled down the stairway. This “black-out” was believed to be the first such “blackout” in the history of warfare.
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St. Michaels Points of Interest 22. AMELIA WELBY HOUSE - Amelia Coppuck, who became Amelia
Welby, was born in this house and wrote poems that won her fame and the praise of Edgar Allan Poe.
23. 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.
24. ST. MICHAELS MUSEUM at ST. MARY’S SQUARE - Located in the heart of the historic district, offers a unique view of 19th century life in St. Michaels. The exhibits are housed in three period buildings and contain local furniture and artifacts donated by residents. The museum is supported entirely through community efforts. For more info. tel: 410-745-9561 or www.stmichaelsmuseum.org.
25. KEMP HOUSE - Now a country inn. A Georgian style house, constructed in 1805 by Colonel Joseph Kemp, a revolutionary soldier and hero of the War of 1812.
26. THE OLD MILL COMPLEX - The Old Mill was a functioning flour
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27. ST. MICHAELS HARBOUR INN, MARINA & SPA - Constructed in 1986 and recently renovated, it has overnight accommodations, conference facilities, marina, spa and Harbour Lights and Harbour Lights Club Room.
28. ST. MICHAELS NATURE TRAIL - The St. Michaels Nature Trail is a 1.3 mile paved walkway that winds around the western side of St. Michaels starting at a dedicated parking lot on South Talbot Street across from the Bay Hundred 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.
29. ST. MICHAELS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT - Est. in 1901, the SMVFD is located at 1001 S. Talbot Street with a range that includes all areas from Arcadia Shores to Wittman, covering 120 square miles of land area, and 130 miles of shoreline.
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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.
1. TENCH TILGHMAN MONUMENT - In the Oxford Cemetery the Revolutionary War hero’s body lies along with that of his widow. Lt. Col. Tench Tilghman carried the message of Cornwallis’ surrender from Yorktown,
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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 - 200 Oxford Road. The Oxford Community Center, a pillared brick schoolhouse saved from the wrecking ball by the town residents, is a gathering place for meetings, classes, lectures, dinner theater and performances by the Tred Avon Players and has been recently renovated. Rentals available to groups and individu-als. 410-226-5904 or www.oxfordcc.org.
3. BACHELOR POINT HARBOR - Located at the mouth of the Tred Avon River, 9’ water depth.
4. THE COOPERATIVE OXFORD LABORATORY - U.S. Depart-ment of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Maryland Department of Natural Resources located here. 410-226-5193 or www.dnr.state.md.us/fisheries/oxford.
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Recent restoration of the beach as part of a “living shoreline project” 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. THE BRATT MANSION (ACADEMY HOUSE) - 205 N. Morris St. Served as quarters for the officers of a Maryland Military Academy built about 1848. (Private residence)
9. BARNABY HOUSE - 212 N. Morris St. Built in 1770 by sea 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 Interestover 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 Revolution.” Built about 1710, part of the original house with a beautiful staircase is contained in the beautifully restored Inn, now open 7 days a week. Robert Morris, Jr. was one of only 2 Founding Fathers to sign the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the United States Constitution.
12. THE OXFORD CUSTOM HOUSE - N. Morris St. & The Strand. Built in 1976 as Oxford’s official Bicentennial project. It is a replica of the first Federal Custom House built by Jeremiah 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 InterestStarted 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 con-struction 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)
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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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Gary D. CrawfordThe September weather was
delightful this year. It seemed we had one perfect day after another. Folks said they hoped it could con-tinue indefinitely. I knew what they meant, of course, but since 2003, I haven’t felt quite the same way about September. That was when Hurricane Isabel shoved so much water into the Bay that it over-f lowed and caused massive dam-age everywhere. Some happened down our way.
For those of you who don’t know the area hereabouts, there is a little bay at the south end of Tilghman’s Island called Black Walnut Cove. The headland to the southwest is Black Walnut Point; the one to the southeast is Bar Neck. The village of Fairbank is set on a tongue of land that extends south into the Cove and divides it into two portions.
The road into Fairbank ends at a county wharf. It had been dete-riorating for years, and in 2000 the County finally condemned it for vehicular use. Much debate ensued about whether to repair it, replace it, or simply remove it altogether. Neighbors insisted she was strong enough to save, that her substan-tial timbers were solid. All that was really needed, they said, were a few
new piles and some deck boards re-placed here and there. The county said many piles were rotted and the deck was no longer firmly at-tached in several places. Given the reduced commercial activity in the area, the Council questioned the need for expensive repairs.
Hurricane Isabel then made that decision for us. Sometime very ear-ly on Friday morning, September 19, 2003, the old wharf lifted off from her pilings and pulled away. She came apart rather gracefully, I’m happy to report. The stringers separated neatly with little rend-ing of wood. Carefully disassem-
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Part of the wharf ended up in Buzz Crady’s backyard.
bling herself into seven sections, all 162 feet of wharf came ashore, as she may have been longing to do on every extreme tide since she was built. Perhaps she just wanted to get in out of the sun and sample, for once, the inviting shade along the road.
Well, we never said she wouldn’t f loat. In the event, one large sec-tion drifted into Buzz Crady’s yard and headed straight for his screened-in porch. At first light he waded out to try and fend her off, but found he couldn’t budge the massive 15-ton chunk of timber. She was constructed of 3x11 inch stringers, each 20 feet long, set on 8-inch centers. Even without her thick deck planks, she could have supported a semi. But the huge raft came no closer. The waters receded that afternoon and the explanation for the porch’s salvation became clear: the wharf had snagged on
some cables and settled daintily to the lawn.
The other sections drifted else-where into the village. Two of them snuggled up to a porch and came to rest on the lawn, a mi-raculous six inches from the 4x4 posts. One of those was the outer end of the wharf, still with Johnny Scharch’s hand-truck padlocked there. Another section did some real damage, sliding past the main home and pounding a guest house to kindling.
This section came within inches of taking out this porch.
I haven’t learned yet exactly when the Fairbank Wharf was built. It doesn’t appear on an 1899 map, but Alice Butler Bradshaw re-membered it when she first visited Fairbank in 1922. One life-long resident, Capt. Stanley Larrimore, remembers it being there all his life, though it was modified and expanded several times.
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The Wharf That Wasthe wharf over those ninety-some years. The foot of Fairbank Road was quite the gathering place when Faulkner’s Store stood on what is now a lawn.
We are told that the cluster of an-chor lights at night sometimes made the Cove seem like a small city.
By the early 1980s, commercial activity was much diminished but there still were vessels tied off at every pole in the Cove and several dredgeboats were anchored there. The wharf was busy from before first light until after dark as water-men came and went. Vehicles drove onto the wharf to bring in supplies and take off the day’s catch.
We who lived near the old wharf had a special relationship with it. One neighbor told us, with a secret smile, of romantic summer nights she spent in the quiet darkness there. In recent years, though few-er commercial watermen made use
Old Fairbank Wharf was once very busy with both work and rec-reational boats.
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of the wharf, it remained popular with visitors and recreational crabbers.
Capt. Larrimore still used the wharf regularly during crabbing season. Fritz Scharch tied up his fishing boat there, too, faithfully coming each evening around 9 o’clock to check on her. On week-ends, droves of chicken-neckers arrived from western Maryland and neighboring states. Whole families would spend the day crab-bing on the Wharf, whether there were crabs to be had or no. Some had to be shooed off if they stayed too late, or used the bushes for a bathroom, or set up camp on adja-cent lawns.
For the most part, however, visitors simply enjoyed the fresh air and the beautiful Cove, with nobody trying to sell them any-thing. It was a wonderful spot for taking in the view, snapping photos, watching birds, or paint-
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ing pictures. I’ve seen couples drive up, park, stroll out, and sit quietly there for over three hours. A few even got a bit frisky, perhaps overwhelmed by recre-ational urges. One couple walked over and told us happily, with eyes shining, that they just gotten engaged out there and wanted to share the news with us.
Late each morning, Capt. Lar-rimore would tie up to drop his catch and re-bait the long trotline. Tourists who strolled up invariably were received kindly; many leaned against a pile and stayed for a good while. Now and again, I would take a break from desk work and stroll out for a chat. With a bit of prompt-ing, Stanley would tell of his expe-
riences on the water or answer my questions on points of local his-tory. Sometimes we talked about current events. The subject didn’t seem to matter much.
Each day the seafood buyer would come along at noon to buy the day’s crab catch. When the con-versation shifted to watermen and water business, past and present, it became increasingly difficult to follow their high-speed references to people, places, and events. They were more familiar with the bot-tom of the Bay than many of us are with the surface of it, and each ledge, shoal, hole, channel, stone pile, and obstruction has a name.
One day, the weather was inef-fably perfect. Capt. Stanley and I
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both commented on it. Suddenly I suggested we take a “mental snap-shot” of the scene. I explained that years before, when lying on a beach in Hawaii, my wife and I had suddenly realized that within a matter of some 30 hours we both would be back at our desks. So, before leaving that idyllic spot, we attempted to “record” that in-stant of our lives, clearly and for-ever. We looked around carefully, then closed our eyes in order to concentrate on every sound, odor, and sensation we could capture ~ even the texture of the blanket and the squinch of the sand beneath it. Since then, we have “gone to
Kapa’a Beach” whenever we need to take our minds off something unpleasant. (For example, while undergoing an MRI exam.)
Capt. Stanley thought I was quite mad, of course, but he played along. We stopped talking and closed our eyes to take in the gentle
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rocking of the boat, the dozens of smells of the water and the boat, the feel of the rough wood, the heat of the sun, the caress of the breeze. Then I said “Click” or something
Construction of the new wharf be-gan two years after the hurricane.
and the moment was over. He just smiled. Still, I’m very glad we took that mind-photo that day.
We had no idea, of course, that it would be our very last chat on the old wharf. Isabel was already on her way across the Atlantic.
Epilogue:Two years later, with help from
FEMA, the county replaced the old wharf with a newer, better one. Once again, visitors and residents were able to enjoy this beautiful vantage point.
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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 inf lux 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, ref lects 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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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. Its 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.
For more information about Queen Anne’s County, visit www.qac.org.
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Saturday, November 9 - The following are events with specific times.9:30 a.m.: Photography “Best in Show” Award10 a.m. to 4 p.m.: Kids’ Fishing Derby10 a.m. to 5 p.m.: Dock Dogs® Competition10:30 a.m. to noon: Painting a Miniature Decoy with Ed Itter11 a.m.: Kids’ Painting Class11 a.m. to 5 p.m.: Wine, Beer and Tasting Pavilion11 a.m., 1 and 3 p.m.: Retriever Demonstrations11 a.m., 2 p.m.: Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge Puppet Show
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Let’s Give Thanks!
No-Baste, No-Bother Turkey.
Growing up in Maryland, I didn’t realize there was anything “regional” about the dishes served for Thanksgiving. In my family, Thanksgiving dinner was the ba-sics: turkey, dressing, sweet potato casserole, mashed potatoes and giblet gravy, sauerkraut, cranber-ry-orange relish and pumpkin pie.
Thanksgiving was always a din-ner at our house with neighbors and relatives. We ate after church so that we could eat twice as much!
Most of these recipes have come from relatives. I feel it is very im-portant to preserve those family recipes. Through food and memo-ries we can feel more connected and keep the people we have loved at the table with us. This turkey recipe, however, is a new one.
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key recipe that is so foolproof most people won’t believe it will work.
1/2 stick salted butter, softenedOne 12-lb. turkey, completely thawed and all giblets removed2 T. salt2 t. pepper2 stalks celery, cut in lengths to fit turkey cavity1 medium sweet onion, such as Vi-dalia, cut in half1 large carrot, cut in lengths to fit the turkey cavity1 lg. apple, quartered2 cups boiling water
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Let’s Give Thanks!Preheat oven to 500º.Coat a fully thawed 12-pound
turkey, inside and out, with butter, salt and pepper, then stuff it with apples, celery, carrots and onion.
Place the turkey in a roaster you can cover and add 2 cups of boil-ing water to the bottom. Stick the covered turkey in the bottom of the oven. We put it in at midnight, bake it for an hour, then turn the oven off and go to bed. Make sure you DO NOT OPEN THE DOOR! When you get up 4 to 6 hours later, the turkey has been cooking all night and you have a tender, moist bird. It works!
UNCLE BILL’S MAKE-AHEAD MASHED POTATOES
Serves 8-10I love that you can make these
the day before, place in a greased casserole and bake in a 350º oven for 30 minutes or until thoroughly heated through. Remove from the refrigerator 30 minutes before baking them.
10 potatoes (Russet or Yukon Gold)2/3 cups butter1 pt. sour cream (not yogurt)1 t. saltDash of pepper
Butter a casserole dish. In a saucepan, cover the pota-
toes with water. Boil potatoes until
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Mashed potatoes are a staple.
they are soft and then drain.Mash them in the hot pot. Add
butter and continue mashing until smooth. Add as much sour cream as you like, along with the salt and pepper to taste.
MOM’S SWEET POTATO CASSEROLE
Serves 8This is another family favorite.
My mom has been making this cas-serole for years.
4 cups mashed cooked sweet pota-toes (about 5 pounds)1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar1/3 cup half-and-half
1/2 stick butter, meltedVanilla to taste1 t. sea salt1 t. orange zest1/2 t. ground ginger1/2 t. ground cinnamon1/8 t. ground pepperTopping:1/3 cup firmly packed brown sugar1/2 cup chopped pecans
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1/4 cup butter, melted1/2 t. ground cinnamon
Combine the first 10 ingredi-ents; spoon into a lightly greased baking dish.
Combine the topping ingredients and sprinkle over potato mixture.
Bake at 350º for 30 minutes or until thoroughly heated through.
Note: This recipe can be pre-pared ahead. Just add the topping right before baking.
SAUERKRAUTServes 8-10
This is cousin Alvey Ruppers-berger’s recipe and is a good one!
4 slices bacon, finely chopped1 medium onion, chopped2 bags sauerkraut, drained1 t. brown sugarCaraway seeds1/4 cup water
In a skillet fry the bacon and add
Sweet potato casserole.
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the onion. Cook until the onion is translucent.
Add the sauerkraut, brown sug-ar, caraway seeds and water. Slow-ly cook for 30 minutes or so and add more water if necessary.
AUNT MARGE’S CRANBERRY RELISH
Makes 2-1/2 PintsThis is a holiday favorite and
keeps for weeks!
1 3-oz. pkg. red raspberry Jell-O1 cup boiling water1/2 cup cold water1 12-oz. pkg. raw cranberries1 orange, cut up1 cup sugar
Mix the boiling water with the Jell-O, then add the cold water and let it slightly gel.
In a blender or food processor, grind the cranberries, orange with rind, and the cup of sugar.
Add the blended fruit mixture to the partially set Jell-O and put into pint jars.
Cranberry relish.
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Let’s Give Thanks!BREAD STUFFING
Serves 6Southerners are hard to please
when it comes to turkey stuff-ing. It seems that everyone wants it like their mother used to make, but no one’s mother makes it the same. The main variation lies in the moistness of the stuffing. If you want it moister, add a little more broth, or add less if you prefer dry.
1 lb. loaf day-old bread, cubed1-1/2 t. poultry seasoning1/2 t. freshly ground pepper1 cup canned chicken broth, dilut-ed if necessary2 eggs, slightly beaten3/4 cup onion, chopped1 cup celery, chopped1/2 cup butter, melted
Combine the first 5 ingredients in a large bowl and set aside.
Sauté onion and celery in butter until tender, 5 to 8 minutes.
Add to the bread mixture, stir-ring well. Spoon into a lightly greased 2-quart casserole. Cover and bake at 325º for 20 minutes.
Note: This stuffing is too moist to bake in a turkey.
GIBLET GRAVYGravies rely on the drippings
from meat for their rich f lavor and color. The drippings may be ex-tended with chicken broth if the
Bread stuffing.volume is too low. Keep the propor-tions of liquid to thickening agents the same as in the recipe.
Tip: Measure the amount of broth you want to thicken; combine 1/4 cup water and 2 tablespoons of f lour for each cup of broth. Shake the f lour and water mixture in a jar, and then stir into the broth. Cook until thickened.
Giblets and neck from 1 turkey1/2 t. sea saltPan drippings from 1 roasted tur-key3 T. all-purpose f lour1/4 cup water1/4 t. freshly ground pepper
Combine giblets (except liver), neck and salt in a saucepan. Set liv-er aside. Cover with water. Bring to a boil; cover, reduce heat, and sim-mer for 45 minutes or until giblets are fork tender. Add liver and sim-mer for an additional 10 minutes.
Drain, reserving broth.Remove meat from neck and
coarsely chop all the meat. Set aside.Skim fat from pan drippings of
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Let’s Give Thanks!roasted turkey and discard. Add the reserved broth to the pan drip-pings and stir until the sediment is loosened from the bottom of the roaster. Measure broth mixture; add water to equal 1-1/2 cups, if necessary. Following the tip, com-bine f lour and 1/4 cup water in a medium saucepan, whisk until smooth. Add broth mixture; cook over medium heat, stirring con-stantly, until thickened and bub-bly. Stir in the reserved neck meat, giblets and pepper. Serve hot.
PUMPKIN PIEMakes 2 9” pies
I can eat this for breakfast. It is
really my favorite pie. This pump-kin is from a can. The next recipe is from the f lesh of a Jack-o-lantern ~ “waste not, want not,” as my grand-mother would say!
Prepare 2 pie shells. If the pie shells are to be baked, prick the
Pumpkin pie.
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Let’s Give Thanks!dough generously with a fork af-ter you have placed it in the pie pan. Bake the shells at 450º for 12 minutes, or until they are lightly browned.
15 oz. can pumpkin3/4 cup sugar
1-1/2 t. cinnamon1/2 t. nutmeg1/2 t. ginger1/4 t. cloves3 eggs, beaten1 12-oz. can evaporated milk or 1-1/2 cups whole milk
Mix the first 6 ingredients togeth-er in a large bowl and set aside. Beat the eggs and milk together in an-other bowl, then combine all ingre-dients together. Fill both pie crusts.
Bake at 375º for 35 minutes or until the first inch of a knife in-serted in filling comes out clean.
AUNT MARY and AUNT MARTHA’S PUMPKIN PIE
Makes 2 9” piesTip: When making pumpkin
pies and cookies from scratch, use a Sugar Pumpkin, not a carving pumpkin. They are much smaller and sweeter. Look for pumpkins that seem heavy for their size and have a dull rind.
To cook the pumpkin, cut it open and remove the seeds and stringy fiber with a large spoon. Cut it into
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1/2 t. salt1 t. cinnamon1/2 t. nutmeg1/2 t. ginger1/2 t. ground cloves3 eggs1 12-oz. can evaporated milk
Follow the pumpkin pie recipe above for baking these pies.
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pieces and bake it at 375º until the pumpkin is soft. Separate the f lesh from the rind and puree the f lesh. I buy these pumpkins and use them on my table for decorations in the fall and then bake them.
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The Plantagenets: The War-rior Kings and Queens Who Made England by Dan Jones. Viking. 510 pp. $30.
“There’ll always be an England,” according to the song, but in truth, it wasn’t always a sure thing, as British historian Dan Jones makes clear in this wonderfully readable record of the royals who ruled the unruly realm as it squiggled out of the Middle Ages. In fact, the author is quite candid in the preface, writ-ing, “This is also a book written to entertain.” He has delightfully suc-ceeded with that goal.
Rather than plunging headlong into the cast of Plantagenets who ruled England in extraordinary times, Jones backs up to start his story with King William “the Con-queror” during the Norman rule. He’s “the Bastard of Normandy” who ruled England from 1066 until 1087. After his death, his son Wil-liam II (“Rufus”) ascended to the throne, followed by his brother Henry I. Time out for a 20-year civil
war while the Conqueror’s grand-children fight over who next would wear the crown.
Geoffrey Plantagenet’s son Henry became Henry II, king of the realm that included the land north as far as the border of Scotland and west until it bumps into the mountains
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of Wales (both of them too cranky to submit to submission), plus large patches of French territory as far south as the Pyrenees. Henry II’s wife was Eleanor of Aquitaine, a factor that definitely didn’t harm England’s status in Europe.
When the story of The Plantagen-ets arrives on the scene, the pattern was fixed for the ensuring two-plus centuries of family rule. In the Middle Ages, countries were con-
The Plantagenets
The Plantagenet Kings.
stantly at war. If the current time didn’t include a battle with a neigh-bor, it featured a Crusade to free the holy lands from “the infidels,” or a war to take back a territory won by England from France or vice versa, or a quarrel over who should be the true Pope.
It was also an era when public relations were paramount. During brief times of peace, the king was likely to be on the move keeping an eye on the property. The more face-time, the better. Their costumes
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The Plantagenetswere f lamboyant, lavish robes with furs, gold threads and precious stones sewn on garments, dashing tunics on long caravans of servants.
Hundreds of marchers plodded in the long parades from one castle or manor house to another. Hundreds of knights to impress the common folk ~ and a lesson in the reason for high taxes: to pay for rented merce-naries to swell the sizes of armies. Mounted archers carried crossbows, plus the latest weapon of warfare, English longbows. The king’s travels covered the realm with lots of pomp and thin circumstance.
In peacetime, the king’s journeys are part of his responsibilities. He
must keep in touch with the nobles, who were always complaining over money demands for wars or for sheriffs to keep the commoners in line, and judges to relieve the king’s responsibility to hear every trial. He traveled to thank bishops for con-ducting a noble’s wedding, a royal coronation or blessing a new castle. Being king was no job for a slacker, although more than once the Royal family was disappointed by kinfolk who didn’t make the grade.
With the passing years Jones wraps around the rule of Plantagen-ets, 1154 - 1399, England changed from a lawless, dangerous coun-try into a relatively well-ordered kingdom. During that period “were founded some of the most basic
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elements of what we today know as England,” Jones concludes. “The realm’s borders were established... Principles of law and institutions of government that have endured to this day were created in their essen-tial forms...A rich mythology and legend was concocted...the English tongue rose from its uncultured, rather coarse local dialect to be-come the language of parliamentary debate...Great palaces, castles and cathedrals were raised ..Many of them still stand as testaments to the genius of the men who conceived them, built them and defended them against attack...Heroes were born, died and became legends; some of them were villains ~ and some of those villains wore the crown,” Jones writes.
A long w ith the praise, Jones doesn’t f linch at the horrors of the period. His combing through ancient records, commentaries of the clergy, minutes of parliamen-tary meetings, letters, and diaries, reveals the cacophony of life as it was. During those years “many acts of savagery, butchery, cruelty and stupidity were commanded,” Jones writes. He concludes that by 1399, “the chilly island had been trans-formed into one of the most sophis-ticated and important kingdoms in Christendom.” True, but men were still being sent to the Tower, where they were deliberately starved or beheaded, drawn and quartered, hanged and their intestines cut out
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The Plantagenetswhile they were poised for the rope.
The Plantagenets were an amaz-ing family. The reader is repeatedly able to construct a character drawn and painted from the intimate re-cords that survive. The king, whose temper tantrums are as candidly recorded as his victories on the battlefield or his passion for his wife, comes to life on the page.
In many cases, the queens be-come visible as easily as their hus-bands. Henry II’s mother, Eleanor of Aquitaine, came from a noble line in her own right, had been married to the king of France before she married Geoffrey Plantagenet and knew her role perfectly. She was
expected to produce not just an heir, but a collection of heirs to make sure that there would be survivors to continue the line in what was calmly understood to be uncertain circumstances. She was an intel-ligent, brave woman who saw her job and fulfilled it.
Because Eleanor insisted on keeping the Duchy of Aquitaine in her own control, her husband sent her into what amounted to house arrest in England. Eventual ly, Eleanor joined her favorite son, Richard, and three of her other sons to defy their father in battle and to overturn his preference for their brother, “the Young King,” Henry, to succeed him to the crown. Young Henry died before his father, ending that possibility.
Richard I became king, tutored by his mother since childhood in the arts of war and politics, and ruled with wisdom, mending the rents in the previous upheavals. Richard I earned the tag “the Lionheart” for his valor during the Third Crusade. During his return from that war, he was captured and held for ransom by German Emperor Henry VI.
Back in England, Richard’s broth-er John was happy to hear that his rival brother was in an imperial prison. John did his best to raise a rebellion, planning to let Richard remain out of circulation while the task of collecting money for his ransom bail-out lagged. Except for France, Richard’s plight roused a
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swell of help from England as well as the continent. The ransom was a kingly sum indeed, but after a year and six weeks Richard was free and on his way to England. He had been gone for nearly four years, Jones notes.
After a rousing reception and tour to inspect the efficiency of govern-ment under its new caretaker, it was time for the king to return to France to secure the Plantagenet Empire there.
Brother John had been full of mischief while Henry VI was busy capturing a path to Jerusalem. John had granted away vital castles in Touraine and even weakened Eng-
lish influence in part of Aquitaine. Meanwhile, Richard was ahead in the disputes with France and a long-time truce was in order. Before that could happen, he was killed by the bolt from an enemy crossbow in a small, unimportant engagement in 1199.
John became King of England and fr it tered his reign away in “an appetite for power but not for a fight.” By 1215, the French pos-sessions by more than a century of Plantagenet wars were all but gone. England sank into a long civil war. John’s quarrels with his barons had become so serious he was forced to share power with them. He was unaware that what he considered his humiliation was his triumph, the Magna Carta.
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Both kings were also cruel and terrifying. It was said of Edward I that he was “so fierce he frightened a man to death.” He tired of fighting abroad and decided to solidify ter-ritories at home. He concentrated on Scot land and Wales. Jones’ comment is that the two separate
countries’ reaction to that “has never entirely waned.”
The legend of King Arthur was beginning to be popular in England, and Edward I fancied himself “the Inheritor” of Arthur and nearly united the island’s warring parts. Jones rates him “one of the great Plantagenets.” He follows that sen-tence by naming his son, Edward II, as “the worst of them.” He never comprehended the basic obligations of kingship, foreign policy, isolation from the political community and murderous civil war, among other outrages Jones lists.
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He soon shook off their inf luence and t he nex t t hree dec ades of history were “The Age of Glory.” A long with his son, “The Black Pr ince,” and his cousin, “ t hey pulverized France and Scotland (and other enemies) in the opening phases of the Hundred Years War.”
All should have been perfect, but his grandson Richard II came to the throne in 1377 as the French
began to fight back, Edward’s sons had messed up foreign policy, and, worst of all, the bubonic plaque reached England. Richard II was described as “a suspicious, greedy, violent and spiteful king” who was succeeded by Henry XIV, from the House of Lancaster. This was the f irst interruption to the Planta-genet dynasty.
Jones includes fami ly t rees, both English and French, maps that illustrate border changes in both realms and eight pages of paintings of some of the royals. For fans of the period and readers who simply enjoy a fascinating true tale, this is the best, an ab-solute gem.
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Oxford Antiques Show & SaleNovember 9 and 10
The Oxford Antiques Show and Sale, sponsored by the Oxford Ladies Auxiliary, returns for its 46th year. This exhibition by twenty-some professional dealers from across the country, held at the Oxford Firehouse, is part of the Eastern Shore’s Waterfowl Weekend.
There will be glistening silver, fine china, sparkling jewelry, hand-crafted furniture, and knick knacks for all ages.
In add it ion to t he a ma z i ng treasures the dealers wil l have available for v iew and sale, the Ladies will be making and baking their famous crab cakes ~ just one choice on a tasty lunch menu offered both days. Homemade desserts will keep you fortified as you shop,
and the members of the Auxiliary will also offer for sale beautiful handmade crafts and baked goods to take home.
This year’s show will be held on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Oxford Volunteer Fire Company, Oxford. Tickets may be purchased at the door for $4 per person, and one ticket allows entry both days.
All proceeds from admissions, food sales and OLA craft sales will be used to help underwrite the costs of equipment and gear for the Oxford Volunteer Fire Company.
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Christmas on the CreekLaunches Oxford’s Holiday Season
Christmas is one of the most b e au t i f u l t i m e s o f t h e y e a r, especia l ly in the Por t Tow n of Oxford. From twinkling white lights adorning trees along Town Creek’s docks to blazing hearths of the 19th century homes and inns, Oxford captures the “ahh” moments of true hospitality, history and celebration.
Christmas on the Creek, slated for December 6~8, kicks off the Town’s seasonal events with harmonious uplif t ing holiday collect ions of gospel music a nd c a rol ing on Friday at 6 p.m. at Water’s United Methodist Church.
On Saturday there w i l l be a Christmas Bazaar at the Church of the Holy Trinity from 9 a.m. to noon. Here you will find a great selection of fragrant holiday greenery to b e de c k you r home a nd m a ny handcrafted items.
Book lovers and bargain hunters will love the Oxford Library’s open house from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Nearby, the “Jane Austen Christmas Tea” at Mystery Loves Company can be enjoyed from noon to 4 p.m.
Bring your shopping list to The Treasure Chest, Oxford’s newest gift shop, open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on both Saturday and Sunday.
The Oxford Museum is the perfect site to learn about icons, architecture,
and historic benchmarks of the Town’s past. The Museum will be open on Saturday from 1 to 5:30 p.m.
Santa arrives in Town Park at 5:30 p.m. on Saturday for the official Christmas tree lighting.
Other scheduled events include a concert by the Tidewater Chamber S i n ge r s o n S at u r d a y a t 7 :3 0 p.m. at the Oxford Community Center, Breakfast with Santa on Sunday at the Oxford Volunteer F ire Depar tment f rom 8 to 11 a.m., a Historic Homes & Inns of Oxford Tour, and a wreath-making workshop at The Combsberry Inn.
The annual Christmas on the Creek festivities are sponsored by the Oxford Business Association a l o n g w i t h t h e i r d e d i c a t e d volunteers. For more information on the weekend events and the Town of Oxford, visit www.portofoxford.com.
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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 Nov. 2 Exhibit: Main Street Gallery in Cambridge presents “ENVIRONMENT” to feature wood carver Eddie Wozny and painters Annie Compton and
Linda Epstein. For more info. tel: 703-201-7157.
Thru Jan. 5 Exhibit: Faculty Exhibition at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. This exhibit features the best work of its instructors. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit www.academyartmuseum.org.
1 Monthly Art Salon at the Acad-emy Art Museum, Easton, with Katie Cassidy and Diane DuBois Mullaly. 5 to 7 p.m. Come with one or two recently completed pieces or works in progress for group critique, wine and hors d’oeuvres. For more info. tel:
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1 Chestertown’s First Friday. Ex-tended shop hours with arts and entertainment throughout historic downtown. For a list of activities, visit: www.kent-county.com/artsentertainment.
1 Cocktails and Concert featuring jazz pianist John Eaton at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. 5:30 p.m. $42 members, $75 non-members. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit www.academyartmuseum.org.
1 Dorchester Sw ingers Square Dance from 7:30 to 10 p.m. at Maple Elementary School, Egypt Rd., Cambridge. Refreshments provided. For more info. tel: 410-820-8620.
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the Asbury Jukes at the Avalon Theatre, Easton. 8 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-7299 or visit www.avalontheatre.com.
1-2 The Dorchester County His-torical Society has scheduled its semi-annual fundraiser “Rum-mage and Renew” on its campus on Greenway Dr ive in Cam-bridge. Hours will be 7 a.m. to noon. For more info. tel: 410-228-7953.
1,2,3 Tred Avon Players presents the musical romantic comedy She Loves Me, with book by Joe Masterof f, lyr ics by Sheldon Harnick, music by Jerry Bock and directed by Edwin Talley Wilford. Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. Tickets are $20 for adults and $5 for students with ID. All perfor-mances are at the Oxford Com-munity Center in Oxford. For more info. tel: 410-226-0061 or
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1,8,15,22,29 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.
2 First Saturday Guided Walk at Adkins A rboretum, R idgely. Explore the Arboretum’s diverse plant communities on a guided walk led by a docent naturalist. 10 a.m. For more info. tel: 410-634-2847, ext. 0.
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November CalendarArboretum, Ridgely. Search for dazzling yellow fall color and berries. Menu (gluten free): spicy sweet potato soup, colorful veg-etable salad with basil dressing, brown rice with peas and red pepper, quinoa pudding. 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. For more info. and registration tel: 410-634-2847, ext. 0 or visit www.adkinsar-boretum.org.
2 Class: Kitchen Science 101 - Fun With Fermented Foods w ith Dawn Tull at Evergreen: A Center For Balanced Living, Easton. 1 to 3 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-819-3395 or v isit www.evergreeneaston.org.
2 Dr. Ashraf Z. Badros, Professor of Medicine and Director of the Multiple Myeloma Service at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, will speak on “Updates on Mul-tiple Myeloma: What is Com-ing in Diagnosis, Standard of
Care, and Prognosis” at the Nick Rajacich Health Education Center, Easton. 4 p.m. Free. For more info. tel: 410-226-5345 or [email protected].
2 First Saturday Gallery Walk in downtown Easton. 5 to 9 p.m. Easton’s art galleries, antiques shops and restaurants combine for a unique cultural experience. For more info. tel: 410-770-8350.
2 Concert: The U.S. Army Field Band Jazz Ambassadors at the Avalon Theatre, Easton. 7 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-7299 or v isit www.avalontheatre.com.
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November Calendar2-3 14th annual Studio Tour spon-
sored by Chestertown River Arts. Meet some 60 artists on this tour of studios. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., rain or shine. Many of the studios are within walking distance of the tall ships that will be on display during Downrigging Weekend. For more info. tel: 410-778-6300 or visit www.chestertownriver-arts.org.
2-23 Exhibit: Women’s Rights - An Artist’s Perspective to benefit UniteWomen.org at Pam Foss Fine Art gallery in St. Michaels. This is a juried show by the Wom-en’s Caucus for the Arts and will show work by 35 accomplished woman artists. The opening for the show will be on Saturday, November 2 from 6 to 9 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-745-0400 or visit www.pamfossfineart.com.
2,9,16,23,30 The Farmers’ Market in Easton is held every Saturday until December. Over 20 vendors offering a variety of fresh fruits, organic vegetables, bison meat & products, sauces, baked goods, flowers, plants and craft items. 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Harrison Street Public Parking Lot, Easton. Live music most Saturdays. For more info. tel: 410-822-0065.
2,16,23,Dec.7 Class: The Art
of the Miniature with Diane DuBois Mullaly at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit www.academyartmuseum.org.
3 Class: Reiki ART Training with Dell St. Ana at Evergreen: A Cen-ter For Balanced Living, Easton. 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-819-3395 or visit www.evergreeneaston.org.
3,6,10,13,17,20,24,27 Class: Stained Glass Mosaic Studio with Jen Wagner at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. Wed., 6 to 8 p.m. and Sun., 1 to 4 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit www.academy-artmuseum.org.
3,10,17,24 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. tel: 410-479-4720.
4 The Academy for Lifelong Learn-ing at CBMM: From Hot War to Cold War ~ U.S. Histor y 1919-1990 with Bob Springer from 1 to 2:30 p.m. at the Talbot Senior Center Conference Room, Easton. Tel: 410-745-4941 for enrollment details.
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November Calendarthe Chesapeake Bay: The Bay 101 ~ An Introduction to a Dynamic Estuary with Bess Trout, Eastern Shore Field Specialist for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. 6:30 p.m. at the Talbot County Free Library, Easton. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit www.tcfl.org.
4 Seminar: Tidewater Camera Club will host a seminar titled Table Top Photography, presented by Coleman Sellers IV from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Chesapeake Room at the Talbot Community Cen-ter, Easton. Coleman has 25 years’ experience in product photography. For more info. tel: 410-822-5441 or visit www.tide-watercameraclub.com.
4,11,18,25 The Academy of Life-long Learning at CBMM: Critter Come-Heres ~ Exotic Species on the Eastern Shore with Philip Hesser 3 to 4:30 p.m. at the Ches-apeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. Tel: 410-745-4941 for enrollment details.
5 Meeting: Breastfeeding 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.
5 Academy for Lifelong Learning: What the Dickens! with John Ford, John Miller and Kate Livie from 1 to 2:30 p.m. at the Chesa-peake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. Tel: 410-745-4941 for enrollment details.
5 Ask the Expert Series: Duane Cespedes, MD, of Shore Com-prehensive Urology to speak on “Fixing the Leaky Faucet: Evalu-ation and Treatment of Urinary Incontinence” at the UM Shore Medical Pavilion at Queenstown. 7 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-1000, ext. 5222.
5,12,19 Class: Painting the Land-scape Snow in Oil or Pastel with Katie Cassidy at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit www.academyartmuseum.org.
6 Nature as Muse at Adkins Arbo-retum, Ridgely. 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Each month this writing group will follow a different winding path to quietly observe nature in detail. Bring a bag lunch and dress for the outdoors. For more info. and registration tel: 410-634-2847, ext. 0 or visit www.adkinsarboretum.org.
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6 Reiki Share at Evergreen: A Center for Balanced Living. 7:15 to 9:15 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-819-3395 or v isit www.evergreeneaston.org.
6,13 Academy for Lifelong Learn-ing: Fun with Philosophy with Sam Barnett at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Mi-chaels. Tel: 410-745-4941 for enrollment details.
6,13,20 Stories and Art at the Talbot Count y Free Librar y, Easton. 2 p.m. for ages 3 and older accompanied by an adult. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit www.tcfl.org.
6,13,20,27 Class: So You Want to Be a Journalist? with Leslie Orndoff at Evergreen: A Center For Balanced Living, Easton. 10 to 11 a.m. For more info. tel: 410-819-3395 or v isit www.evergreeneaston.org.
6,13,20,27 Senior Games at the Talbot County Free Library, St. Michaels. Noon. Learn to play American mahjong. For more
info. tel: 410-822-1626.
6,13,20,27 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.
6,13,20,27 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.
6,13,20,27 St. Michaels A r t League’s weekly “Paint Togeth-er” at the home of Alice-Marie Gravely. 1 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-745-8117.
6,20 Plant Clinic offered by the University of Maryland Coopera-tive Extension’s Master Garden-ers of Talbot County at the Talbot County Free Library, Easton. 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-1244.
7 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. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626.
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November Calendartured topic will be “From the Backyard to the Bay, Bay Res-toration Starts at Home.” Free and open to the public. 2 p.m. at the Oxford Community Services Building, 101 Market St., Oxford. For more info. tel: 410-226-5415.
7 Dealing with Difficult People over the Holidays ~ How do you endure five weeks of excess, an overtaxed schedule, strained finances, unrealistic expecta-tions, and people with whom you wouldn’t ordinarily enjoy lunch? Suddenly it’s the holidays and you’re expected to spend quality time with these folks ~ and act
like you like it? Easton therapist Loriann Oberlin, LCPC shows you how to survive the holidays. 6 p.m. at the Talbot County Free Library, Easton. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit www.tcfl.org.
7-9 Main Street Gallery raff le of artworks donated by member artists will be on display starting November 7 and the raff le will take place at the second Saturday opening reception on November 9 from 5 to 8 p.m. The Main Street Gallery is located at 447 Race St., Cambridge. For more info. tel: 703-201-7157.
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Learning: Great Decisions Dis-cussion Program with Ed Bed-narz and Bruce Jones at The Talbot Senior Center, Easton. 1:30 to 3 p.m. Tel: 410-745-4941 for enrollment details.
8 Connection and Conversation at Evergreen: A Center for Balanced Living. 6 to 8 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-819-3395 or visit www.evergreeneaston.org.
8 Concert: Session Americana in the Stoltz Listening Room at the Avalon Theatre, Easton. 7 p.m. and a late show performance
at 9:30 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-7299 or v isit www.avalontheatre.com.
8-9 4th annual Holiday Galleria at the Kent Community Center, Worton. The Holiday Galleria will feature specialty boutiques, designer apparel and jewelry, fine arts, gourmet foods, hunting and outdoor clothing, pet acces-sories, and home decor. Patron Party will be Friday from 6 to 9 p.m. and the Galleria will be open on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more info. tel: 443-480-1987 or 410-778-7911.
9 Registration deadline for the 10K Across the Bay, one of America’s premier bridge races. This 10K run is across one of our coun-try’s most beautiful man-made landmark s, t he Chesapea ke Bay Bridge. The original span opened in 1952 and, at the time, with a length of 4.3 miles (6.9 km), it was the world’s longest cont inuous over-water steel structure. With amazing vistas of sailboats, cruise ships and gi-ant cargo ships, this will surely be an event that any runner will want to put on their “must run” list! For more info. visit www.BridgeRace.com.
9 Friends of the Library Second Sat-urday Book Sale at the Dorches-ter County Public Library, Cam-
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9 Oxford Museum Speaker Series: Rich Wagner on “A New Hypoth-esis for the Earliest Prehistoric Settlement of North America” at St. Paul’s Church, Oxford. 11 a.m. For more info. tel: 410-226-0191.
9 Second Saturday in Historic Downtown Cambridge on Race, Poplar, Muir and High streets. Shops will be open late. Galleries will be opening new shows and holding receptions. Restaurants will feature live music. For more info. visit www.cambridgemain-street.com.
9 Broadkill Review Publisher Ja-mie Brown will share “How NOT to Get Published” with the East-ern Shore Writers’ Association at 11 a.m., at the Georgia House lo-cated in Millsboro, DE. This event is open to the public; however, an RSVP to [email protected] or 410-490-6357 is necessary for the lunch ($17). Mapquesting this location is strongly urged.
9 Second Saturday Nursery Walk at Adkins Arboretum, Ridgely from 1 to 3 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-634-2847, ext. 0 or visit www.adkinsarboretum.org.
9 2nd Saturday at the Foundry at 401 Market St., Denton. Watch
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November Calendarlocal artists demonstrate their talents. 2 to 4 p.m. Free. For more info. tel: 410-479-1009.
9 2nd annual Brew and Oyster Brawl at the Tidewater Inn, Easton. 3 to 7 p.m. Featur-ing beers from Dogfish Head Brewery, paired wines, freshly shucked oysters, live music and commemorative glass. $75 in advance with limited ticket avail-ability. A portion of the proceeds benefit Ducks Unlimited. For more info. tel: 410-822-1300 or [email protected].
9 Artist Loft Studios open night and book signings at Cambridge Main Street’s Art Walk from 5 to 8 p.m. in downtown Cambridge. This new artist studio devel-opment is at 410 Race Street (through the street door next to Joie de Vivre Gallery). Enjoy a glass of wine and browse the art. For more info. tel: 410-228-7000.
9 Concert: The Defibulators in the Stoltz Listening Room at the Avalon Theatre, Easton. 8 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-7299 or v isit www.avalontheatre.com.
9-10 46th annual Oxford Antiques Show and Sale sponsored by the
Oxford Ladies Auxiliary at the Oxford Volunteer Firehouse. This ex hibit ion by 20 -some professional dealers from across the country is part of the Eastern Shore’s Water fowl Weekend. There will be glistening silver, fine china, jewelry, hand-crafted furniture and much more. Sat., 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sun., 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. $4 per person. For more info. contact [email protected].
9,23 Country Church Breakfast at Faith Chapel & Trappe United Methodist Churches in Wesley Hall, Trappe. 7:30 to 10:30 a.m. Menu: eggs, pancakes, French toast, sausage, scrapple, hash browns, grits, sausage gravy and biscuits, juice and coffee. TUMC is also the home of “Martha’s Closet” Yard Sale and Commu-nity Outreach Store, open during the breakfast and every Wednes-day from 8:30 a.m. to noon.
Proceeds from the Brew and Oys-ter Brawl at the Tidewater Inn will benefit Ducks Unlimited.
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November Calendar9,30 Family Crafts at the Talbot
County Free Library, Easton. 10 to 11:30 a.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit www.tcfl.org.
9-Jan. 26 Exhibit: Siciliana by Meloi Minnella at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. For more than f ive decades the Italian photographer has travelled the world to focus his empathetic lens on the activities and places of everyday people. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit www.academyartmuseum.org.
10 Pampered Chef demonstration
hosted by the Federalsburg His-torical Society at 2 p.m. Dem-onstrator will be Pam Tull. A percentage of the total sales will benefit the society. For more info. tel: 410-754-8625.
10 Life Between Lives: Understand-ing our Immortality with Jimmy Quast at Evergreen: A Center for Balanced Living. 2 to 4 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-819-3395 or visit www.evergreeneaston.org.
11 Ask the Expert Series: Jackie Weston, BSN, R N-BC, Man-
Sicilian Boy With Chairs, 1965 by Meloi Minnella.
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November Calendarager, Shore Behavioral Health on “Stress, Depression and the Holi-days: Keeping it Together During the Season” at the Dorchester County Public Library. 2 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-1000, ext. 5222.
11 Healing Oils of Ancient Times with Robin Coventry at Ever-green: A Center for Balanced Living. 6 to 8 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-819-3395 or visit www.evergreeneaston.org.
12 Dinner at the Crab Claw as part of the Festival of Trees to benefit Talbot Hospice. 5 p.m. All pro-ceeds from your dinner at Crab Claw in St. Michaels will benefit the Festival of Trees and Talbot Hospice Foundation. Call 410-745-2900 to make a reservation.
12,19 The Academy of Lifelong Learning at CBMM: Strategic Planning for Non-Profit Organi-zations with Ed Delaney from 1 to 2:30 p.m. at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. For more info. tel: 410-745-4941 for enrollment details.
12,26 Meeting: Tidewater Stamp Club at the Mayor and Council Bldg., Easton. 7:30 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-1371.
13 Portfolio Night at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. 6 to 8 p.m. Area high school students are en-couraged to bring their artwork to receive expert tips on what makes a winning portfolio. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit www.academy-artmuseum.org.
13 Meeting: Talbot Optimist Club at the Washington Street Pub, Easton. 6:30 p.m. For more info. e-mail [email protected].
13 Feng Shui: Plain and Simple with Lainie Wrightson at Evergreen: A Center for Balanced Living. 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-819-3395 or visit www.evergreeneaston.org.
13,27 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.
14 Parent Café at the Talbot County Free Library, Easton. 10 to 11:30 a.m. Conversation, refresh-ments, and activities for parents and young children. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit www.tcfl.org.
14 The Academy of Lifelong Learn-ing at CBMM: The Artist’s Way with Diane Thomas Mitchell from 1 to 2:30 at the Universalist
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November CalendarUnitarian Church, Easton. Tel: 410-745-4941 for enrollment details.
14 Festival Fashion Show at the Tidewater Inn, Easton to benefit the Festival of Trees and Talbot Hospice Foundation. 5:30 p.m. Tickets are $45 in advance, $55 at the door and include two complimentary drinks and lite-fare buffet. For more info. tel: 410-819-FEST or v isit www.festival-of-trees.org.
14 Communit y Conversat ions about the Chesapeake Bay: Lit-erature of the Bay with author Tom Hor ton discussing Bay Country. 6:30 p.m. at the Talbot County Free Library, Easton. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit www.tcfl.org.
14-Dec. 5 14th annual Festival of Wreaths at Pleasant Day Medical Adult Day Care Center, Cam-bridge. The festival will feature
over 100 handcrafted wreaths on display for silent auction. The Holiday Benefit Gala on Dec. 5 culminates the festival. For more info. tel: 410-228-0190.
15 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, a roll and a drink. Take out or eat in! We deliver in St. Michaels. For more info. tel:410-745-6073.
Over 100 wreaths will be on dis-play at the Festival of Wreaths.
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November Calendar15 Concert: Chris English in the
Stoltz Listening Room at the Avalon Theatre, Easton. 8 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-7299 or v isit www.avalontheatre.com.
15 Concert: Boister CD Release Party at the Avalon Theatre, Easton. 8 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-7299 or visit www.avalontheatre.com.
16 Just Shut Up...Hearing Aids for Couples with Constance Hops and Peter Hartjens at Evergreen: A Center for Balanced Living. 9 a.m. to noon. For more info.
tel: 410-819-3395 or visit www.evergreeneaston.org.
16 Concert: Psycho Killers - A Trib-ute to Tha Talking Heads at the Avalon Theatre, Easton. 8 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-7299 or v isit www.avalontheatre.com.
16-Jan. 26 Exhibit: Perceiving Infinity by Chul Hyun Ahn at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. Ahn creates sculptures utilizing light, color and illusion as physi-cal representations of his investi-gation of infinite space. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit www.academyartmu-seum.org.
16-Jan. 26 Exhibit: Elsewhere by Eva Lundsager at the Academy A r t Museum, Easton. Lund-sager’s paintings “sing beauti-fully of landscape without ever describing one.” For more info.
The Railroad by Chul Hyun Ahn in the Perceiving Infinity Exhibit.
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16-Jan. 26 Exhibit: Anne Truitt at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. Artist Anne Truitt spent her childhood in Easton and traveled extensively before even-tually settling in Washington, D.C. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit www.academyartmuseum.org.
17 Energy Healing Basics with Marilyn Witkowski at Evergreen: A Center for Balanced Living. Noon to 4 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-819-3395 or visit www.evergreeneaston.org.
17 The Clipper City Brass Quintet to perform Dixieland and Beyond at Christ Church in Easton. 4
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November Calendarp.m. The concert is open to the public and a free-will offering will be received. For more info. tel: 410-822-2677 or visit www.ChristChurchEaston.org.
17 Concert: Official Blues Brothers Revue at the Avalon Theatre, Easton. 8 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-7299 or visit www.avalontheatre.com.
18 Stitching Time at the Talbot County Free Library, Easton. 3 to 5 p.m. Bring your needlecraft to work on in a group. Limited instruction for beginners. All ages welcome. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit www.tcfl.org.
18 Community Conversations about the Chesapeake Bay: Septic Sys-tems ~ Care Maintenance, and Their Effect Upon the Bay with Herb Reed, Senior Agent and Master Gardener Coordinator for the University of Maryland
Extension Service. 6:30 p.m. at the Talbot County Free Library, Easton. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit www.tcfl.org.
19 Puppet Show: Turkey Surprise at the Talbot County Free Li-brary, St. Michaels. 4 p.m. A Thanksgiving production of our own Miss Carla. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit www.tcfl.org.
20 Academy for Lifelong Learning: Book Club ~ One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez with Margot Miller and Esty Collet from 2:30 to 4 p.m. at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. Tel: 410-745-4941 for enrollment details.
20 Lego Time at the Talbot County Free Library, Easton for ages 6 and older. 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit www.tcfl.org.
20 Altered Books Crafts ~ Create a Christmas Tree with Sabine
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Simonson and Chris Eareckson at the Talbot County Free Li-brary, Easton. 4 to 6 p.m. Open to ages 10 to adult. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit www.tcfl.org.
20-23 The Chesapeake Bay Mari-time Museum in St. Michaels is offering a Hunter Safety Course with Maryland DNR-certified hunter safety instructor Ed Hen-r y. Successful completion of the course earns participants a Maryland Certificate of Compe-tency in Firearms and Hunter Safety. Space is limited, with pre-registration needed. The course includes instruction in hunter responsibility, firearms
and ammunition, firearm han-dling and safety, marksmanship and shooting fundamentals, principles of wildlife manage-ment, bow hunting, muzzleloader hunting, tree stand safety, first aid, water safety, and Maryland’s legal requirements. Firearms will be provided. 6 to 9 p.m., Wednes-day through Friday, and 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday. The cost is $10 per person for the entire course. Participants must complete all four classes to receive the state-issued Certificate of Competency in Firearms and Hunter Safety. Participants under 13 must be accompanied by an adult. Pre-registration is required by calling 410-745-4941. For more informa-
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21 Workshop: Lee D’Zmura of St. Michaels Art league will present a one-day workshop - A Seasonal Illumination. Students will re-view the art of illumination and botanical illustration. Pre-regis-tration is required. For more info. tel: 410-745-0002 or visit www.stmichaelsartleague.org.
21 Meeting: Alzheimer’s Care-giver’s Support Group at Chesa-peake Woods Center, Cambridge. 4 p.m. Caregivers of those with Alzheimer’s Disease or other dementia-related disorders are invited to attend. Free. For more info. tel: 410-221-1400, ext. 1217.
21 Concert: River Whyless in the Stoltz Listening Room at the Avalon Theatre, Easton. 8 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-7299 or v isit www.avalontheatre.com.
22 Wild and Scenic Film Festival at the Avalon Theatre, Easton. 6 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-7299 or visit www.avalon-theatre.com.
22 Concert: Skribe in the Stoltz Listening Room at the Avalon Theatre, Easton. 8 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-7299 or visit www.avalontheatre.com.
23 Holiday Bazaar at Immanuel United Church of Christ in Cam-bridge. 8 a.m. For more info. tel: 410-228-4640.
23 Holiday Craft Saturday for ages 6 to 12 at the Academy Art Mu-seum, Easton. 1 to 3 p.m. Join the Museum staff for an afternoon of holiday crafts. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit www.academyartmuseum.org.
23 Concert: Steep Canyon Rangers at the Avalon Theatre, Easton. 8 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-7299 or visit www.avalon-theatre.com.
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25 Communit y Conversat ions about the Chesapeake Bay: Sto-r y-Tellers of the Chesapeake featuring Fred Pomeroy, Wil-liam Roe, Scott Todd, Michael Vlahovich and Janice Marshall. 6:30 p.m. at the Talbot County Free Library, Easton. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit www.tcfl.org.
26 Thanksgiving Crafts at the Talbot County Free Library, St. Michaels. 4 p.m. Crafts for the whole family. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit www.tcfl.org.
26 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 Run/ Wa l k for Hospic e at the YMCA of the Chesapeake, Easton. Join the YMCA of the Chesapeake and the Talbot Hos-pice Foundation for the 12th Annual Run for Hospice. A ll registration fees benefit YMCA Camp Lazy Days and Talbot Hospice Foundation. Visit www.act ive.com for online regis-tration. YMCA members must call their YMCA to obtain the member discount code before registering online with Active. Event day registration fee is ad-ditional $5. Children 5 and under free; Children 6-12-Members $15, Non-Members $20; Ages 13 and up-Members $25, Non-Members $30. For more info. tel: 410-819-FEST or visit www.festival-of-trees.org.
The Steep Canyon Rangers will perform at the Avalon Theatre.
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November Calendar29 Festival of Trees Preview Party
at the Tidewater Inn, Easton. Cocktail reception with hors d’oeuvres, music and special raffle. Tickets are $50 per person and include two complimentary drinks and lite-fare buffet. Eve-ning attire. For more info. tel: 410-819-FEST or v isit www.festival-of-trees.org.
29 Concert: Upright Citizens Bri-gade Touring Company at the Avalon Theatre, Easton. 8 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-7299 or v isit www.avalontheatre.com.
30 Candy Cane Lane at Easton El-ementary School (Moton Bldg.), Easton, to benefit the Festival of Trees and Talbot Hospice Foun-dation. Crafts, games, food, moon bounce, visits with Santa and other fun activities. Children $5, adults free. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-819-FEST or visit www.festival-of-trees.org.
30 Mother-Son Dance to benefit the Festival of Trees and Talbot Hospice Foundat ion. 6 to 8 p.m. at River House Pavilion, Easton Club. Si lent auct ion items, light refreshments and d a nc i ng . Mu s ic b y D J T i m Burns. $30 for mothers and $10 for each son. For more info. tel: 410-819-FEST or visit www.festival-of-trees.org.
30 Daddy-Daughter Dance to
Westphal Jewelers will raffle off this one-of-a-kind original piece to benefit the Festival of Trees. Tickets are $100 each, and only 100 will be sold.
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30 -D e c . 2 Fe s t iv a l of Tr e e s Home Tour. On this walking tour you will visit six unique a n d b e au t i f u l l y d e c o r a t e d homes in the Historic District of E a s ton. A dv a nc e t ic ke t s are $30, $35 on the days of the event. For more info. tel:
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30 -D e c . 3 Fe s t iva l of Tr e e s in the Gold Bal lroom at the Tidewater Inn, Easton. Sat., 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Sun., 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Mon. 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Tues., 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Admission is $5 for adults, $4 for seniors 62 and older, $1 for children under 12 and free for children under 1. For more info. tel: 410-819-FEST or visit www.festival-of-trees.org.
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