Rock Hall – The Art of the Town
The Chesapeake Bay town of Rock Hall, located in Kent County, MD is well known as a bay community with long ties to commercial fishing and more recently as a haven for boaters. But in a way it has also Read More …
Author: Steven Atkinson
Women Votes – Still Pond, MD
The village of Still Pond in Kent County, MD today appears to be just an old crossroad village. In the early years of the 20th Century is was an incorporated town. In the municipal election of 1908 three women, Mary Read More …
FDR Smokestack Memorial – Long Wharf Park, Cambridge
A few weeks ago I posted about President Franklin D. Roosevelt 1938 visit to the Maryland Eastern Shore and the memorial of his visit and speech in Denton. This isn’t the only memorial to President Roosevelt on the the Delmarva Read More …
The Old White Marsh Episcopal Church
The Old White Marsh Episcopal Church is located between Easton and Trappe and can be seen from US-50. The Church was built before 1690, destroyed by a fire in 1892 and partly restored in 1977. Buried there is Robert Morris, Read More …
A Detour to Wye Mills
I’ve attended networking events in Annapolis where I am known as the Arts and Entertainment man from the shore. Of course lately these have been held virtually. I’ve been asked where to go on the shore. Usually they are looking Read More …
Roosevelt’s Visit to Denton, Labor Day 1938
On Labor Day, September 5, 1938, President Franklin D. Roosevelt came to Maryland’s Eastern Shore delivering a nationally broadcast speech from Denton, Caroline County. Newspaper accounts were that there were 5000 to 10,000 people in attendance to watch Roosevelt deliver Read More …
Battle of Caulk’s Field – 200th Anniversary Celebration in 2014
Between the burning of Washington and the attack on Fort McHenry was the Battle of Caulk’s Field on the Delmarva Peninsula in Kent County, MD. Taking place on the night of August 30 and early morning hours of August 31, Read More …
Newest Delmarva Scenes Greeting Card Set
For the past couple of years I have had a number of photographs in Greeting Cards collections. Recently I have begun broader marketing of these set. After looking at my original ‘Associated Delmarva Scenes’ set I discovered that it wasn’t Read More …
From the Bridge to Chesapeake City
Recently I was asked for a couple of locations on MD Eastern Shore to take Day Trips. I recommended Chesapeake City in Cecil County. Since that person was beginning in Annapolis we discussed some of the small towns on the Read More …
Part of the Missing Year – 4th of July
In short 2020 will become known as the missing year. If not in general, but at least for my Photography. I’ve already missed many of the events that I have regularity photographed since 2012. Earth Day, Chestertown Tea Party, Memorial Read More …