On Maryland’s Eastern Shore, it’s true that the fall colors are not as bright as in other places. But they still are lovely. This year, as in many, the colors are a little later in the year. The beginning of Read More …
What is a TB Photo? I began the series as a Throw-back photo that was posted on a Saturday, even though someone began it as a TBT, Throw-back Thursday photo. I may have posted some on a Thursday, but it Read More …
Anyone who follows the history of the Delmarva Peninsula understand the importance of the railroad systems of the late 19 and early 20th centuries were to growth of the area. Last week’s “Point of Interest” post was on Harrington, Delaware. Read More …
In 2015 I began a new project, Delmarva Scenes, photographing the usual, unusual, Beautiful and not so pretty scenes of the Delmarva Peninsula. Actually in reality I began the project a few years earlier, officially calling it Delmarva Scenes. A Read More …
In 2019 the City of Harrington celebrated the150th Anniversary of their Incorporation. Nearly 100 years earlier, 1780, Benjamin Clark built a home and tavern. The tavern became a stagecoach stop as well a place for the area’s farmers to hear Read More …
Almost from the time that explorers first surveyed the area a canal to cross the Delmarva Peninsula between the Delaware River and the Chesapeake Bay was a topic of consideration. Augustine Herman was the first to proposed to a canal Read More …
Today when one thinks of Eastern Neck Island in Kent County, MD it’s as a National Wildlife Refuge. In the 1650’s when Maryland Colony was only a couple of decades old, Major Joseph Wickes obtained land grants on Eastern Neck Read More …
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 …
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 …
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 …