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Tidewater Times

Since 1952, Eastern Shore of Maryland Vol. 61, No. 9

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February 2013

Features: About the Cover Artist: Jonathan Shaw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Driveway Radio: Helen Chappell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 In Pursuit of a Big Fish: Dick Cooper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Tidewater Review: Anne Stinson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Sampling the Cuisine of Canada’s Eastern Shore: Bonna Nelson . . 45 Tidewater Kitchen: Pamela Meredith-Doyle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 2013 Chamber Music Gala: Amy B. Steward . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Tidewater Gardening: K. Marc Teffeau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Floral Arrangement: Gary D. Crawford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 Tidewater Traveler: George W. Sellers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 The Story of Queen Anne’s County: Harold W. Hurst . . . . . . . . 161

Departments: February Tide Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Caroline County - A Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Kent County and Chestertown at a Glance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Dorchester Points of Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Easton Points of Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 St. Michaels Points of Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Oxford Points of Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 Tilghman - Bay Hundred . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 February Calendar of Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 David C. Pulzone, Publisher · Anne B. Farwell, Editor P. O. Box 1141, Easton, Maryland 21601 102 Myrtle Ave., Oxford, MD 21654 410-226-0422 FAX : 410-226-0411 www.tidewatertimes.com info@tidewatertimes.com

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About the Cover Artist

Jonathan Shaw Animals take center stage in Jonathan Shaw’s paintings. His meticulously detailed pictures of owls, foxes, eagles and deer are portraits of birds and animals perfectly at home amidst the native wildflowers, grasses and trees of the Eastern Shore. Shaw is a colorful character and a consummate storyteller. He has become a familiar sight at area wildlife festivals, where he can be found with a falcon perched on one arm as he sketches the bird with his free hand. One of the joys of living on the Shore is the chance of sighting wild animals, but it’s rare to see them close-up. Jon Shaw’s paintings are a

remedy for this. Whether painted in oils, acrylics or watercolor, his painstaking, super-accurate style reveals the striking details of his subjects. British-born, Shaw lives with his wife, Anne Habberton, on her family’s historic Queenstown farm, where they keep Paso Fino horses and several birds of prey. Shaw is an avid falconer who hunts on horseback. He has had a passionate love for nature since childhood, and his fascination with both animals and plants is evident throughout his work. Jon can be contacted at 410-490-8507 or e-mail, ahabberton@gmail.com.

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Driveway Radio by Helen Chappell

You know how you’re listening to the radio when you’re driving, and you pull into your destination and there’s something on that you just have to sit and listen to until it’s over? It’s called Driveway Radio, and I confess to being guilty of it. Sometimes, I’m so into something I’ve been listening to that I can’t just turn the car off and climb out. I’ve got to stay until the very end of whatever it is, whether it’s a song from Dark Side of the Moon, because Pink Floyd makes the best night driving music ever; a tearjerking story from NPR; or Rush Limbaugh’s latest rant. Yes, there’s something in Driveway Radio for everyone’s tastes. They said television would kill radio, but you can’t watch TV and drive at the same time, or at least you shouldn’t. Over the years, radio has created its own niche for people who feel disconnected from the rest of the world listening to CDs of Maroon 5 or the Best of Benny Goodman or Charlie Sheen reading the latest John Grisham audio book. Now don’t get me wrong ~ there is a place for people who like to drive to the sound of Macklemore or Howard Stern’s slyly smutty shtick. To judge by the radio stations I can

pick up on my radio, a lot of people in Easton love Dan Savage and Joel Osteen. Happily, I can drive out of range of both. I like real radio because I hate driving, and as long as I’m connected to a station that can break into programming with news, I feel more connected to the outside world. The world inside my car is too self-contained. I can yell and scream along with Stairway to Heaven and no one knows if I keep the windows rolled up. And sometimes, on the back roads, I do sing along with Robert Plant. Just boppin’ my middle-aged heart out until the deer darts out of the woods and through the windshield of my car. Sometimes, I listen to talk radio, mostly of a milder, more intellectual sort, and I talk back to people 9

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Rush Limbaugh whose opinions I do not agree with. Safe within the bubble of my car, I call them unprintable names and imagine myself as a human flying squirrel, soaring down from above and dropping like a demented gargoyle on them, forever silencing their bloated, so-wrong opinions that are poorly reasoned and stupid, like a ton of cement. So ... I have a better imagination than you. But I will pull into the parking lot or the driveway and sit there listening to what these people have to say, no matter how wrong, how very wrong, they are. I can also sit in the driveway for a good story. One where someone’s uncle used to run the most popular bar in Butte, and how all the regulars were characters, and what they taught the narrator. I’ve never been

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In Pursuit of a Big Fish: The One that Didn’t Get Away by Dick Cooper

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rigged for oystering or crabbing, and still others are clearly treasured pleasure and fishing boats, scrubbed down and put away clean. As we climb out of our vehicles, we see the Karen Ray II tied up in a slip in front of one of the larger boat houses. Her broad stern gleams in the glare of dock lights. “Here we are,” says Kevin Garber of Bozman, the organizer of this late December foray by a graying band of eight

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anglers in search of trophy rockfish. Garber heads off to talk to Captain Curtis Johns Sr., master of the Karen Ray II, as the rest of us make old-man noises trying to get the kinks out after the two-hour ride from the Bay Hundred. I have mentioned in this space before that I am not a great fisherman and have publicly been accused of drowning worms, but I love to fish. I just haven’t figured out the catching part. I have tried to hook large fish before with mixed success. There was the time I booked passage on a converted high-speed Navy vessel that ran 70 miles off the coast of South Carolina to fish in the Gulf Stream. When we got to the “Stream,” strong winds were blowing against the current, turning the water into agitated waves that looked like 20-foot-high egg crates. After half an hour, most of

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before and had regaled his friends with tales of big fish just waiting for our bait. “If we catch our limit, we can stay and catch and release,” he told us with the implied promise of nonstop hits by big fighting fish. With all of us on board the Karen Ray II, Captain Cur tis’ son and crewman, Curtis Jr., takes the helm and we head out of Crisfield toward Tangier Sound. Daybreak uncovers the massive damage caused by Superstorm Sandy. Crisfield was hit hard by the storm with flooding and high winds. Signs of Sandy’s wrath

the would-be fishermen were using their bait buckets, but not for their intended propose. We turned back and I never got a nibble. More recently, my wife, Pat, and I fished with greater success on Lake Gatún, Panama, pulling in a bucket full of peacock bass. The fish were scrappy fighters, especially on the light tackle we used. But this December day, I am excited by the promise of “monster rockfish” in the 38-to 43-inch range. Garber had fished with Captain Johns a week

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are everywhere. Docks are ripped up, sof tcrab-shedding buildings are torn apart, shingles are missing from roofs and blue tarps flutter in the morning breeze. Several men pick through a dumpster outside a high-rise condo tower looking for metal and other salvage. Curtis Jr. pushes down the throttles of the twin 375-horse diesels and the 50-foot-long Karen Ray II climbs up on the water at 20 miles an hour, leaving a broad wake across the flat water of the sound. In the warmth of the cabin, Captain Curtis watches with approval as his son handles the boat with ease. “I started fishing with my grandfather when I was a young boy,” says Captain Curtis, a stout man

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straight for the Great Thoroughfare, the narrow, winding channel that cuts the marsh on the north end of Smith Island. Curtis Jr. slows the Karen Ray II, and we cruise through the village of Ewell, which also shows signs of rough handling by Sandy’s winds and high tides. Captain Curtis explains that we are heading to the fishing grounds off Smith Point, Virginia, on the far side of the Chesapeake Bay. He says he has taken a more northerly route to avoid the maze of commercial gill nets that f loat below the surface south of the Mar yland-Virginia border. “They are legal in Virginia but not in Maryland,” he says. “They can tear up your boat if you run into one,” he says. A f leet of fishing boats appears on the horizon and Captain Curtis exchanges pleasantries over the ship’s radio. “That you, Curtis?” a waterman-thick voice asks. “That’s me, how you doin’?” “Getting older every day and I don’t like it a bit,” the voice responds. “Sure beats the alternative,” Captain Cur tis quips back. While Captain Curtis engages in light chatter with the other boats, he does not disclose any actionable fishing information. He is quietly working his cell phone, checking in with a network of captains he trusts. Off Smith Point Light, he begins his hunt for the trophy rockfish, keeping a keen eye on his electronics. He has the radar fine-tuned

Jack lands a nice one! with flecks of gray in his goatee and mustache. “He got sick when I was 16 and I ran charters for two years before I got my license when I was 18. I went to school and all, and I worked the water oystering and crabbing, but I love fishing.” Over the last two decades, Captain Curtis has built the Karen Ray II Charters into a business that has a steady following of repeat clientele. With a reputation for being a guide who can get his customers their fish, Captain Curtis says he has specific dates booked well into the future by parties that have been returning for 10, 15 and 20 years. This morning, we are heading 28

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to be bigger than a peacock bass ... so I focus on Joel and Jack, the two men who will get a chance at a big fish before me. “Fish on,” Curtis Jr. shouts, and with that, Joel steps up and takes the bending rod. “Don’t give these fish any slack or you will lose them,” Captain Curtis advises. Joel’s face is flushed as he strains against the pole, furiously cranking on the reel. He settles into a pulland-crank action, bringing the fish closer to the boat. Finally, the big striper is visible in the boat’s wake. Curtis Jr. steps in with a dip net and with a smooth scoop lands the fish. Joel is pumped. He holds his trophy and poses for pictures. Next up is Jack. His fish hits the lure several hundred feet behind the boat. As he fights it, there are several times when he and the fish are in a dead tug-of-war, but his persistence and the big Penn reel put the odds in his favor. His fish is even bigger than Joel’s. It is my turn. The call of “Fish on” has me charging to the stern. As I take the rod from Curtis Jr., I feel the fish try to pull me over. This would not be good. I plant my feet and start to crank. Following Joel and Jack’s lead, I fight to keep the tip of the rod up. The fish does not want to come along, and I feel him start to dart from side to side as I work the pole. Curtis Jr. is dodging back and forth in front of me, keeping the other trailing lines out of my way. I start on the starboard

Kevin got a big one! to track flocks of gannets and gulls that swarm over schools of bait fish. He concentrates on his fishfinder, looking for “bait balls,” big yellow swatches on the screen that indicate schools of menhaden the big stripers feed on. He and his son watch the screen, pointing out various features ~ the yellow forms that look like large eyebrows are individual fish, the big yellow plume coming up from the Bay floor is a “bait ball.” Captain Curtis and his son work with a quiet, practiced rhythm of nods and gestures. Curtis Jr. heads out of the cabin and begins setting up the rods, checking the lures and placing them in the holders on the stern and sides of the boat. After more than two hours on the water, we are ready to go fishing. We had drawn cards early in the trip to pick turns at the fish. I am number three. We are ready and the excitement is palpable. I am not quite sure what do to ~ this is going 30

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into the water for good luck, another pours a half a beer overboard as an offering. And yet another sprinkles water on the reels to remove the bad juju. Curtis Jr. runs out several more lines off an outrigger. Still nothing. Captain Curtis is getting a little concerned. He has his reputation at stake, and he takes it very personally. “It runs like this sometimes and then we will get several hits at once.” Clouds come in and the w ind turns cold. The conversations on the boat grow quiet as we wait. Then the sun comes out and gannets appeared in the sky. They begin their kamikaze dives into the water not far away. “Fish on,” rings out and Mike, who had lost a fish earlier

side and wind up on the port. Then, for a heartbeat, the tension on the line goes slack. The fish is gone. I silently curse, letting my guard down. Bam, the fish is still hooked, just taking a break. With a renewed energy, I pump the pole and crank away. And there it is. My Fish. With a scoop of the net, My Fish is on the deck. It is not quite as big as Joel’s or Jack’s, but it is the biggest damned fish I have ever caught in my life, and I am quite pleased. Over the course of the next several hours, Captain Curtis trolls back and forth over the same ground with little luck. The rest of the crew is getting a little restless. One reaches in his pocket and throws his change

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Big Fish is cranking away. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fish on. Fish on. Fish on.â&#x20AC;? The cockpit is full of action, and Captain Curtis turns the wheel of the Karen Ray II over to me as he joins his son sorting through the fishing lines and undoing tangles. Within a half hour all eight of us have our fish. The big cooler is so full the lid keeps popping open as the fish continue to fight for freedom. Now, we are a happy bunch of fishermen. Windburned and pleased with ourselves, Captain Curtis decides we have had enough fun for the day. As Curtis Jr. pulls in the last line, he hits another trophy rock and Joel, the one who broke the ice all those hours ago, lands his second big fish of the day. As the Karen Ray II speeds back across the Bay toward home, the last of the clouds clear and sun turns into a big yellow ball on the horizon. Before we are docked, Kevin Garber is working the crowd, trying to stir up interest in booking another charter next year. By the time we tie off, he has several takers.

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Local writers seem totally unable to ignore the old axioms of every level of writing, from third grade’s “write a story about what you did on summer vacation” to Composition 101 for freshmen in college: “Write what you know about.” Robert Whitehill, a resident of Chestertown, has set this mystery in Smith and Tangier Islands, plus little uninhabited islets in that string of marshy hummocks fighting erosion in the Chesapeake Bay. He knows the isolated places well ~ he’s lived on them off and on. Whitehill is obviously familiar with the livelihood of his fictional character, Ben Blackshaw, who is a waterman like nearly every man who inhabits Smith and Tangier. When the story begins, it’s winter ~ oyster season. For a waterman on the Eastern Shore, that means options for harvesting the catch. He can dredge the shallow bottom of 37

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earlier under something of a cloud. When Ben finished high school in Crisfield, 12 miles across bumpy water from the island, he came back to follow the water briefly and then joined the Army, winding up in Vietnam. Now ~ while Ben is breathing bubbles to the surface, chicanery is brewing in the Nation’s Capital. A sly and loathsome woman, Senator Lily Morgan, has been in office for years. Her long tenure gives her access to all sorts of illicit deals. Her partner in crime is also a clever political operator, her staff member named Chalk. His latest assignment is to retrieve a package he has already lost. He’s not in a happy mood.

expensive, he can use the power of patent tongs on his boat, machine muscles for bottom scraping and lifting. Or he could sail over the oyster “rocks” while dredging from an almost obsolete skipjack. Our hero, Ben, chose a different technique. Ben dives to the bottom to forage for oysters by hand, assisted by a scuba outfit and a trusted friend topside to keep an eye on things so he doesn’t run out of oxygen and stay below permanently. A wetsuit to protect him from the bitter cold and a bucket for his catch, and he’s in business. Ben is pretty much a loner. His parents left Smith Island 15 years

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Ben soon learns that his missing daddy might be in on some kind of a deal when he dives to one last rock at the end of a long cold day under water. On the river bottom he sees his father hanging from the gear of his boat. Ben recognizes the boat’s name before he sees his long lost parent. One eye is missing from the old man’s face ~ the crabs have already begun their supper. Ben makes a quick check of the boat solidly resting in muddy, sandy water below the corpse. It’s heavily loaded. The cargo is 20 boxes packed with bars of gold. The crooks aren’t exactly stupid. Chalk figures that Dick Blackshaw, his mule hired to bring back Lily’s price for arranging a shipment of

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Deadrise and it’s Ben’s sweetheart, LuAnna. She’s been kidnapped and held hostage to lure Ben in (who must be in on the caper with his dad, they assume). Chalk will force Ben to give up the key to open the remaining 19 boxes of gold. In the meantime, Chalk’s thugs phone the senders of the payoff for the numbers that will spring the locks. Nobody has a note pad to write the numbers on, so they use a magic marker to write them on LuAnna’s bare hiney. They then slice off the marked skin for reference. That makes Ben really, really mad! The chase begins. All the watermen band together to help Ben rescue LuAnna. Whitehill has a flippant kind of humor. He writes, “Slaughter, slaughter everywhere and not a stop to think!” He also has a grand time showing off his knowledge of watermen’s lore. The rescuers know every gut and ambling waterway in the maze of marshes and bring out of hiding a flotilla of vessels from waterfowl market-hunting days. They use old fowling pieces, sneak boats, pump guns, sink boxes and ammo from the past, buckets of nails and screws. The reader will never guess who turns up at the climax! Daddy Dick, hale and hardy, wearing a fine glass eye to mask the crab’s ravage. He’s come back to bring the gold and thumb his nose at the (other) crooks and regain 40

his honor with the island boys. Maybe in the heat of all the excitement I missed some explanations for the action. I could have sworn daddy Dick was drowned for good when Ben found him, but here he comes, bigger than life and better yet, wearing the key to open the boxes. Although how he managed not only to rise from the dead, but also get the glass-eye maker to put the secret numbers right on the glass cornea, still baffles this reader. Anyhow, the book has a happy ending. LuAnna has one helluva scar on her butt, but Ben doesn’t care. Whitehill must have had loads of fun writing the book. His descriptions of the charm and other-worldly life on the islands ring absolutely true and are beguiling. All that water and all that sky! Sassy jargon on the tongues of weathered men and women, sophisticated dialogue where it’s unexpected. The whole package is a triumph of a wild and wet romp. Enjoy!

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ance this eating pilgrimage with walking and hiking in the beautiful cities, towns and parks of Canada’s Eastern Shore. From Nova Scotia to Prince Edward Island, located in the North Atlantic Ocean, to Québec City and Gaspé located on the St. Lawrence River and Gulf, on bays, lakes and tributaries, Canadian watermen ply the waters, like our Bay watermen, to bring in the catch of the day. Lobster, oysters, mussels, clams, salmon, haddock and more are delivered to the docks, markets and restaurants to satisfy the appetites of locals and tourists alike. Halifax, the capital of Nova Scotia (New Scotland), has been de-

If, like me, you have already broken your New Year’s resolution to lose weight by eating less, then you are ready to read this story. Picture savoring succulent, fresh caught, broiled lobster dipped in melted butter. Envision chomping on a perfectly executed, chunky, creamy lobster roll. Perhaps by now you are craving the sweets that you gave up and are ready for a chocolate-filled croissant or a chunk of homemade fudge with sea salt and almonds. Does a microbrew, iced cider liqueur, or a Yukon Jack appeal? Figure on a gain of ten or more pounds on this diet unless you bal-

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The fish and chips were delicious. of Glace Bay. The Crown & Moose Pub was a warm, friendly enclave. Sherry, our chatty waitress, gave us the lowdown on the town after we ordered an array of seafood dishes. Most popular was the hearty seafood chowder with lobster, mussels, shrimp, scallions and potatoes in a light creamy sauce seasoned with pepper and sea salt. Stupendous! The fish and chips (halibut and fries) were fresh, moist and delicate. The halibut burger and broiled salmon were utterly satisfying and flavorful. Sherry shared that the Crown & Moose Pub’s seafood and produce are all from local sources. We chose Alexander Keith’s flavorful ales, from a local brewer, to accompany our feast. The executive chef, Joe Schneidewind, did well by us. We observed sailboats in the harbor on the way back to the ship to rest before dinner and dancing to work off some of Canada’s best. Foul weather dashed our hopes for sampling fresh, plump Prince Edward Island mussels in Char-

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Canada’s Eastern Shore on fresh apples and nuts and sipped cider at a fruit stand. Ah, the fish: huge, beautiful salmon and flounder filets and fresh lobster rested on ice alongside jumbo shrimp and clams. I noted that our group clustered at the French pastry counter and the Fudgerie Boutique. We saw, but did not try, a new favorite food of the younger set. You will understand why when I tell you that “Poutine,” is a dish made with french fries, topped with cheese curds and gravy. Now really! A snowy rain and smiling locals dressed in red fleece jackets greeted us upon arrival in the town of Gaspé on the Gaspé Peninsula at the end of the Appalachians in the Québec Region. We rented a car to explore the wild natural beauty of a land with high cliffs, mountains, forests and beaches surrounded by the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the Gaspé Bay. Discovering seals

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Casseroles mixture of meats, such as chicken or sweetbreads (the thymus and pancreas glands of animals. I reckon not many of us have them lying around, even in the back of the freezer). Around the 1870s, casseroles began to look like the meals we know and love today. In the 1950s, casserole cooking took center stage

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Cook pasta according to package directions; drain and add butter. Stir together the rest of the ingredients with the pasta and spoon into a lightly greased 11” x 7” baking dish. Bake uncovered at 350° for 40 to 45 minutes, until bubbly and brown. Tip: Don’t rinse the pasta when preparing a hot dish. The starch left on the pasta will help the sauce stick to it.

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1/2 cup Parmesan cheese, shredded 1 t. freshly ground black pepper 1/2 t. salt 2 cups cheddar cheese, shredded Cook the vermicelli according to the package directions and drain. Put pasta back into the pot and toss with the chicken broth. Stir together the cooked chicken and the next 8 ingredients in a large bowl. Add the vermicelli and toss well. Add more chicken broth if it seems too dry. Place the mixture in two lightly greased 13” x 9” baking dishes. Sprinkle with cheddar cheese and bake, covered with foil, at 350° for 30 minutes. Uncover and bake 5 more minutes until the cheese is melted and bubbly. This casserole can be made and frozen for a month. Thaw overnight in the refrigerator and let stand at room temperature for 30 minutes before baking.

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Cook pasta according to package directions; drain. Place pasta in a lightly greased 13” x 9” baking dish. Cook beef or turkey and garlic in a large skillet, stirring until meat crumbles and browns. Stir in tomatoes and next 4 ingredients; simmer for 30 minutes. Set aside. Stir together the sour cream, cream cheese and green onions. Spread over the pasta. Top with meat sauce. Bake at 350° for 2530 minutes. Sprinkle with cheddar cheese and bake 5 more minutes or until cheese melts.

Stir together the first 7 ingredients. Spoon 2 tablespoonfuls of the mixture into each shell. Arrange the shells, stuffed-side-up, in a lightly greased 9” x 13” baking dish. Bake uncovered at 375° for 15 minutes. While the shells are baking, heat the tomatoes and artichokes in a saucepan over medium heat and whisk in flour until bubbly. Reduce heat and simmer on low for 15 minutes. Pour sauce over the shells and serve hot.

EASY BAKED MANICOTTI Serves 6 This is a favorite dish among teenagers and college-age students! This recipe has an emphasis on EASY!

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1 t. sea salt 1/2 t. freshly ground black pepper 1 8-oz. pkg. uncooked manicotti pasta 1 28-oz. jar spaghetti sauce Stir together the first 7 ingredients. Stuff the uncooked pasta with the mixture and place shells in a lightly greased 9” x 13” baking dish. Pour spaghetti sauce over the stuffed shells and sprinkle with Parmesan cheese. Cover and bake at 350° for 45 minutes. Serve hot.

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lon, the Gala will move to the Tidewater Inn, beginning with a cocktail party featuring a variety of hors d’oeuvres, a dinner highlighting selections from the Bay, and a live and silent auctions. In addition to individual silent auction items and sign-ups, an Art Gallery, and “Fund a Need” opportunities for CCM Outreach, there will be five live auction offerings. 79

CCM Gala These include the signature painting chosen for the 2013 Gala and Festival, Global Village (#24), painted by local artist Barbara Parker. The “Harbor Cities Duet” trip includes a four-night, two-city tour of Seattle, WA, and Victoria, BC, with lodging in the 5-diamond Fairmont Olympic Hotel in Seattle and the historic Fairmont Empress Hotel on the harbor in Victoria (air travel and ferry included). The “Fighter Pilot for a Day” provides a Top Gun experience for one. A four-day, five-night getaway for two to Whistler, British Columbia, home of the 2010 Winter Olympics, includes stays at the fabulous

Renowned tenor Casey Evans. Fairmont Chateau Whistler (air travel and transfers included). Finally, the four-night stay for up to two couples in an historic vacation cottage in the heart of a whaling village on Gardiners Bay offers the opportunity to explore Sag Harbor, Long Island, NY. The Gala is underwritten by Wye Financial and Trust and is chaired by Courtney Kane. Proceeds benefit the free and subsidized tickets provided during the annual twoweek CCM Festival each June, free community concerts, Youthreach, the free violin programs, First Strings and Presto! for grade school students. Tickets for the concert and gala are $175. Concert-only tickets may be purchased for $25. For further information, or to purchase tickets, visit www.ChesapeakeChamberMusic.org, or call the CCM office at 410-819-0380.

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the raised beds to an area in the yard where the plants could receive more hours of direct sunlight. Raised bed gardening is not a new practice. It has been around, in one form or another, for a number of years. An early proponent of

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Tidewater Gardening this method was Mel Bartholomew with his book Square Foot Gardening. I remember back in the day ~ in the 1990s ~ when I was still with University of Maryland Extension, and was teaching gardening classes. I used to show a videotape from Organic Gardening magazine that featured a Chinese fellow talking about his raised bed gardens. That was back when video tape playback units had come out and the one that I had to lug around was the size of a Volkswagen Beetle. A fairly new vegetable gardening method that has developed a following is straw bale gardening. Rather than growing your vegetable plants

Straw bale gardening is perfect for people with limited space. in the ground or in raised beds, you grow them in straw bales above the ground. According to proponents of this method, straw bale gardening is a great option for people who have limited space to garden, have mobility problems, or where native soil is poor. Sounds like a good approach for those gardeners who have to contend with the heavy clay soils in the Bay Hundred area of Talbot County, for example. Straw bales are placed on the ground and the vegetable transplants are placed inside the bale. The straw helps to keep the plants cool and it holds water. Weeding and harvesting can be done easily from a chair, stool, or one of those scoot-around four-wheel garden tractors. You do not need a lot to get started with straw bale gardening. First, you will need to purchase straw bales. Barley bales are readily available in this area. You can use hay bales, but remember that they tend to sprout weeds.

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One easy way to deal with the weed and grass seeds is to cover the bales with plastic in early spring. The hay bale will heat up and the weed seeds will sprout so you can pull them out. The next thing you will need to do to the bales is condition them with fertilizer, nitrogen, blood meal or bone meal. A water source and soil or compost is also needed if you are directly planting seeds. A good way to water the bales is to use a soaker hose put directly on the bales. It is important to decide on a permanent location for the straw bales. Once youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve started watering them, you will not be able to move them as they will be very heavy. When planting in the bales, remember to place the taller plants on the north end so as not to shade the other plants. To maintain a clean area, you can place the bales on sheets of plastic or newspapers. After you place them and water them, you proceed to conditioning. This process takes a few weeks, so you will want to plan ahead and do this before you plant. Bales held over from the year

You can place your transplants directly into the straw bale. before will not need to go through this step. To start the process, keep the straw bales wet for three to four weeks before planting. You can speed up the process by applying a fertilizer source to the bales and watering in. Urea (46-0-0) bone

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Tidewater Gardening meal, fish meal, or compost can be used. To determine if the bales are ready to plant, stick your hand into the bales to see of they are still warm. If they have cooled to less than your body temperature, you may safely begin planting. You can grow almost anything in a straw bale that you can grow in the ground; however, you may find some plants are easier than others. Root vegetables like carrots, potatoes and onions can be grown, but they have some difficulty. Plants like corn tend to be too top-heavy. You can direct seed into the bales in soil that is level on top, or trans-

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plant vegetables such as tomatoes and peppers into the bales. It is recommended that you stake peppers and tomatoes in the bales to prevent them from falling over as they come to maturity. Your plants will require more fertilizer than if planted in the garden. To provide the plantsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; nutrition, feed them a compost tea or liquid fish emulsion once every other week when plants are seedlings, increasing the feedings to once a week as the plant grows. Check out the Internet and YouTube videos for more information and videos on how to plant a straw bale garden. February is the time to start plants indoors for setting out later

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Now is the time to think about managing your perennials in the garden this year. Delphinium and echinop will bloom again this fall if they are cut back to ground level after flowering this spring. Coreopsis, heliopsis and gaillardia should bloom again in the fall if seed is not allowed to develop in the spring. For a full-sun border, try mixing colors of perennial coneflower and Shasta daisy with annual globe amaranth. Place the taller coneflower toward the rear of the bed and the Shasta daisies toward the front, with the globe amaranth mixed in between. As a mid-winter project, why not grow plants from fruit seeds? Oranges, grapefruits, lemons, tanger-

Now is also the time to start the slower to germinate varieties such as alyssum, coleus, dusty miller, geranium, impatiens, marigold, petunia, phlox, portulaca, salvia, vinca and verbena. How would you like to get a big jump on spring? You can brighten your winter home by forcing a number of spring-blooming shrub branches. Generally, it takes two or three weeks to bring to blossom such items as pussy willow, forsythia, Japanese quince, flowering almond, azalea, magnolia, European birch and red maple. There are lots of things to consider if you are a perennial grower.

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the spring. The frozen leaves are brittle and easily damaged. Even though there might be rain or snow, the soil dries out against the house under the eaves where rain rarely reaches. Be sure to water well during a thaw to prevent loss of plants. Plants require water during the winter to replace water lost due to wind desiccation and lack of rain or snow. Happy gardening!

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Dorchester Points of Interest bridge in Maryland after the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. A life-long resident of Dorchester County, Senator Malkus served in the Maryland State Senate from 1951 through 1994. Next to the Malkus Bridge is the 1933 Emerson C. Harrington Bridge. This bridge was replaced by the Malkus Bridge in 1987. Remains of the 1933 bridge are used as fishing piers on both the north and south bank of the river. LAGRANGE PLANTATION - home of the Dorchester County Historical Society, LaGrange Plantation offers a range of local history and heritage on its grounds. The Meredith House, a 1760â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Georgian home, features artifacts and exhibits on the seven Maryland governors associated with the county; a childâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s room containing antique dolls and toys; and other period displays. The Neild Museum houses a broad collection of agricultural, maritime, industrial, and Native American artifacts, including a McCormick reaper (invented by Cyrus McCormick in 1831). The Ron Rue exhibit pays tribute to a talented local decoy carver with a re-creation of his workshop. The Goldsborough Stable, circa 1790, includes a sulky, pony cart, horse-driven sleighs, and tools of the woodworker, wheelwright, and blacksmith. For more info. tel: 410-228-7953 or visit dorchesterhistory.org.

DORCHESTER COUNTY VISITOR CENTER - The Visitors Center in Cambridge is a major entry point to the lower Eastern Shore, positioned just off U.S. Route 50 along the shore of the Choptank River. With its 100-foot sail canopy, it’s also a landmark. In addition to travel information and exhibits on the heritage of the area, there’s also a large playground, garden, boardwalk, restrooms, vending machines, and more. The Visitors Center is open daily from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information about Dorchester County call 800-522-8687 or visit www.tourdorchester.org or www.tourchesapeakecountry.com. SAILWINDS PARK - Located at 202 Byrn St., Cambridge, Sailwinds Park has been the site for popular events such as the Seafood Feast-I-Val in August, Crabtoberfest in October and the Grand National Waterfowl Hunt’s Grandtastic Jamboree in November. For more info. tel: 410-228SAIL(7245) or visit www.sailwindscambridge.com. CAMBRIDGE CREEK - a tributary of the Choptank River, runs through the heart of Cambridge. Located along the creek are restaurants where you can watch watermen dock their boats after a day’s work on the waterways of Dorchester. HISTORIC HIGH STREET IN CAMBRIDGE - When James Michener was doing research for his novel Chesapeake, he reportedly called

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Dorchester Points of Interest HORN POINT LABORATORY - The Horn Point Laboratory offers public tours of this world-class scientific research laboratory, which is affiliated 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 Interest so 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 service 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 Dorchester/ 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. 102

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Easton Points of Interest Historic Downtown Easton — the county seat of Talbot County. Established around early religious settlements and a court of law, Historic Downtown Easton is today 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 Easton Start near the corner of Harrison Street and Mill Place. 1. HISTORIC TIDEWATER INN - 101 E. Dover St. A completely modern hotel built in 1949, it was enlarged in 1953 and has recently undergone extensive renovations. It is the “Pride of the Eastern Shore.” 2. THE BULLITT HOUSE - 108 E. Dover St. One of Easton’s oldest and most beautiful homes, it was built in 1801. It is now occupied by the Mid-Shore Community Foundation. 3. AVALON THEATRE - 42 E. Dover St. Constructed in 1921 during the heyday of silent films and Vaudeville entertainment. Over the course of its history, it has been the scene of three world premiers, including “The First Kiss,” starring Fay Wray and Gary Cooper, in 1928. The theater has gone through two major restorations: the first in 1936, when it was refinished in an art deco theme by the Schine Theater chain, and again 52 years later, when it was converted to a performing arts and community center. For more info. tel: 410-822-0345 or visit www.avalontheatre.com. 4. TALBOT COUNTY VISITORS CENTER - 11 S. Harrison St. The Office of Tourism provides visitors with county information for historic Easton and the waterfront villages of Oxford, St. Michaels and Tilghman Island. For more info. tel: 410-770-8000 or visit www.tourtalbot.org. 5. BARTLETT PEAR INN - 28 S. Harrison St. Significant for its architecture, it was built by Benjamin Stevens in 1790 and is one of Easton’s earliest three-bay brick buildings. The home was “modernized” with Victorian bay windows on the right side in the 1890s. 6. WATERFOWL BUILDING - 40 S. Harrison St. The old armory is 105

Easton Points of Interest now the headquarters of the Waterfowl Festival, Easton’s annual celebration of migratory birds and the hunting season, the second weekend in November. For more info. tel: 410-822-4567 or visit www.waterfowlfestival.org. 7. ACADEMY ART MUSEUM - 106 South St. Accredited by the American Association of Museums, the Academy Art Museum is a fine art museum founded in 1958. Providing national and regional exhibitions, 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. 10 a.m. to 3 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. 8. CHRIST CHURCH - St. Peter’s Parish, 111 South Harrison St. The Parish was founded in 1692 with the present church built ca. 1840, of Port Deposit granite.

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Easton Points of Interest 9. HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF TALBOT COUNTY - 25 S. Washington 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: Thurs., Fri. & Sat., 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. (winter) and Mon. through Sat., 10 a.m. to 4 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.-Sat. 10-4 and Sun. 11-4. Consignments accepted on Tues. or by appointment 410-820-7525 Proceeds support HSTC. 10. ODD FELLOWS LODGE - At the corner of Washington and Dover streets stands a building with secrets. It was constructed in 1879 as the meeting hall for the Odd Fellows. Carved into the stone and placed into the stained glass are images and symbols that have meaning only for members. See if you can find the dove, linked rings and other symbols. 11. TALBOT COUNTY COURTHOUSE - Long known as the “East Capital” of Maryland. The present building was completed in 1794 on the

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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 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.

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St. Michaels Points of Interest 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-ofthe-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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Oxford Points of Interest VA, 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 individuals. 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. Department 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. 4A. U.S. COAST GUARD STATION - 410-226-0580. 5. OXFORD TOWN PARK - Former site of the Oxford High School.

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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 memories and tangible mementos of Oxford, MD. The Museum will close for the season on November 12 and will re-open on the 4th Saturday of April 2013. Admission is free; donations gratefully accepted. For more info. tel: 410-226-0191. 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) Tidewater Residential Designs since 1989

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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. 137

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Floral Arrangement by Gary D. Crawford

Scientists are intrigued by what appears to be a sudden improvement in technology about 15,000 years ago, give or take a few hundred centuries. That’s the period when the first really good stone tools appeared in places like Clovis in New Mexico and Tilghman’s Island in Maryland. (Was that a gasp? Oh, you didn’t know, Gentle Reader? Nevertheless it’s true. Some of the most significant Paleo-Indian artifacts have been found right here on the Eastern Shore.)

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Somewhere around that time, people started figuring out how to design and fashion much more efficient stone implements for a variety of purposes ~ as spear points, as arrowheads, and as knives and scrapers to skin and slice the big game that was around here at that time. Efficient tools were a vital advantage ~ one giant sloth might feed a whole tribe for a week! These implements were carefully crafted and, given the materials they used ~ stone upon stone ~ there must have been many failures. The best tools would have taken many hours to make. Now, 15,000 years may sound like a long way back, but it really isn’t. That’s just 15 millennia, after all. One millennium back, the Vikings were exploring North America. Two millennia back, the Christian religion was founded. Five millennia back, some folks in Britain were digging a circular ditch that one day would become Stonehenge. Still, fifteen millennia is a time scale that does stretch the mind a bit. After all, that’s three times older than the oldest Egyptian pyramids. However, if we squint and think hard, we can just man-

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Floral Arrangement age to get our minds around it. Humans were around long before that time, however. The oldest specimen of a hominid discovered recently in Chad was dated at between six and seven million years old. But then, who cares about hominids, anyway? (Yucky little things.) The evidence now suggests that modern men and women, Homo sapiens, appeared much more recently ~ around 200,000 years ago, or 200 millennia ~ which is just too far back to understand. Perhaps we can try it this way. Consider the time of man (of Homo sapiens) to be one single day. In other words, the first folks

we’d recognize as people appeared at 12:01 a.m. and right now we’re at the following midnight. On that scale, the technological burst happened less than two hours ago, around 10:15 pm in the “Day of Man.” That’s fairly recent. Mind you, we’ve made pretty good use of those few short years. We went from those first really good stone tools to the iPad in just over 100 “minutes.” Not too shabby. It makes one humble, and sort of proud, really. But what went on back then at 10:15? What happened 15,000 years ago to launch this explosion of innovation? The debate over the answer to that question continues, but many now think the break-

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through may have been the development of human language. The problem with “innovating” is, of course, that even when you do think up something really new and clever, it is lost when you die. Who knows how many years will go by before someone else puts two and two together, the same way, and comes up with the lefthanded widget? Unless, of course, you show the widget to somebody who may outlive you, say your kid, who continues making left-handed widgets and passes them around. They get to the next family and the next village, and pretty soon everybody is using them. If they’re tricky to make, then a few people supply them for the rest and make money (or something) doing it. The innovation spreads. And then somebody realizes they can really sell a lot more of them if they make them right-handed, too. And so on, with innovation begetting innovation. Pretty soon, the iPad. But if the invention is something more abstract than an object one can see and take apart ~ an idea or a process or an insight ~ then that invention very likely dies with you. The only chance of passing it on is to tell somebody about it, who passes it on, and it may spread throughout your language group. But those poor dopes in the next valley won’t ever get it, because they don’t speak the same lan141

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Floral Arrangement guage. They’ll have to invent the concept of zero, or three-part harmony, for themselves, or simply do without. If it’s a way of defending yourself against a war party, the dopes in the next valley may never get a chance to invent it. So, language is the transmitter of ideas. It may also be the creator of ideas, of thinking, of consciousness. It may even enable perception itself. But that’s another story and right now we’re speaking solely of the transmission of innovation. And that takes me back to the islands of the Pacific.

Satawalese Canoes The people out there, in the old days, made wondrous deep-sea canoes for sailing between islands in the trackless expanses of the Pacific. A few still do. Those vessels are superb examples of the inventive use of the limited materials at hand. At bottom, they are log canoes, with their

Construction of the hull. sides built up with planking, the pieces precisely fitted and glued, sewn together with coconut fiber line, then pulled tight and caulked. Not only does such a canoe float, it sails like a witch, even in light airs. The single large outrigger provides essential stability and is counterbalanced by a sleeping platform on the other side; both are connected to the hull with wooden struts of just the right shape. The sails are made of mats of woven leaves, stitched together. The design is perfectly suited to the conditions. The double-ended hull is narrow and deep, allowing them to sail effectively upwind without a keel. To keep the outrigger to windward when tacking, they loose the sheet and the stays, unstep the mast, move it to the

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Floral Arrangement other end of the boat, reset the sail, and sail off again “backwards.” It is amazing to watch. Metal was unknown. The wood was shaped with sharpened stone tools obtainable only from the volcanic “high” islands, aided by controlled burning. The trick to keeping such a boat together, fastened with nothing stronger than string, is in the lashing technique. Canoe-builders are masters of what looks so deceptively simple, the tying together of sticks. But tie them too tight and the parts of the vessel won’t be able to “work,” as they must do in the waves, and the lashings will break. Tie them too

Planking loosely and the boat soon comes apart. Here’s the point, Gentle Reader. Although these canoes were developed by pre-Bronze Age people, they are neither simple nor primitive. Even a skilled wood-worker couldn’t build a really good deep-

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Lashing the canoe is the hardest skill to master. sea sailing canoe merely by looking at an example. Such innovations require teaching, instructions, rules, methodologies ~ they re-

quired language ~ a highly developed vocabulary and syntax was essential, not mere grunts and clicks. How they navigated these crafts across the trackless expanse of the Pacific also required language ~ but that, too, is another story. And the Pacific languages certainly are intricate. They lack the vast vocabularies of modern world language, but I spent four years trying to learn the Yapese language and never stopped discovering new levels of sophistication and complexity. For example, they have nearly two dozen words to describe different types and degrees of greed or stinginess. (Taking more than your fair share, saying you have only ten

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Floral Arrangement fish when you really caught fifteen, exaggerating your needs, and so on.) Sharing is vital in a tiny village on a very small island a thousand miles from anywhere. They also had bags of pronouns. For example, they avoided social misunderstandings by having four words for “we.” (Dual and plural, inclusive and exclusive, if you insist on knowing.) The Yapese considered English hopelessly ambiguous. If you say, “We’re going to the movies,” does that mean I’m included, and if so, is it just the two of us or are others involved? Or maybe (oops!) I’m not included at all and you’re just telling me that you and somebody else are going to the movies. Surprisingly, the word “crab” cannot be translated into Yapese, for they have dozens of unique words to name each of the animals

we lump together as crabs ~ hermit crabs, coconut crabs, spiny crabs, and so on. Their language and their technology were sophisticated. They went as far as they could go with the materials and resources at hand. All of that said, however, the pace of innovation was very slow. In a given location, canoe-building technology remained unchanged for centuries. Nor was this slow pace confined to canoe building. An incident occurred in Robert Louis Stevenson’s household in Western Samoa in the 1880s that makes the point unforgettably. Mrs. Stevenson, mistress of their home, Vailima, liked having a floral arrangement on the table at dinner each night. There were plenty of exotic plants available, but the chore of cutting and arranging them each afternoon became burdensome. One day her Samoan house-girl offered to make

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Floral Arrangement up the centerpiece for her, and Mrs. Stevenson decided to let her try her hand at it. That evening, the Stevensons were flabbergasted when the girl produced an absolutely splendid selection of exotic flowers and ferns, in an arrangement both creative and complex. They congratulated the girl warmly and asked her to do the floral centerpieces on a regular basis. The next evening, there were the flowers again, just as beautiful ~ and arranged in exactly the same way. After a few days, Mrs. Stevenson suggested she vary the array, but the girl seemed to know just that one

complex and marvelous arrangement. What was missing in these Pacific cultures? I think it was writing. Their oral language was rich and varied, and they used to record, deftly and in detail, the natural world, family history, human behavior, tribal lore, songs and genealogies. One evening, at my request, an elderly Yapese woman named Dakuguy recited the names of her parents and grandparents— she was able to go back 16 generations! At thirty years per generation, that’s back to the 1430s, about when the Portuguese first discovered that Cape Bojador in Morocco was not the absolute end of the earth. By then Dakuguy’s

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how many people actually heard a Shakespearean play. How many listened to Mozart playing a piano concerto? If those works had not been written down….oh! My point is that language is the key to the transmitting of ideas, so that they can be shared and be more than solitary, private occurrences. The invention of writing ~ the astounding idea that the sounds of speech could be represented by squiggles on paper (or something) ~ enabled innovators to reach across continents and across time. It opened the possibilities of building innovation upon innovation, of standing on one another’s shoulders. It allowed the “pooling” of human intelligence, with many minds in different places and times working on the same problems. Lacking writing, societies like the Pacific Islanders achieved great things, but very slowly. To the modern world, their pace of innovation seemed glacial. Yet it was the pace of all societies, until the invention of writing. Historians often point to the in-

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vention of the printing press and movable type as a huge breakthrough in the flow of ideas and innovation. Well, yes, that was a huge quantitative improvement. Books could be punched out quickly and cheaply, rather than copied out by hand, but it wasn’t really a great qualitative leap. It didn’t open up a new way of linking minds, of innovating, though it did make it possible for many more people to read what someone had written. Books helped spread ideas more widely, but the printed word didn’t travel any faster than the written word. Until the invention of the steam engine, nobody could transmit a message to anyone at more than about 10 miles an hour, the speed of a horse ~ just the same speed that Alexander the Great’s memos traveled. Then the railroad and the telegraph were invented, followed in less than a century by telephones, radio, airplanes, and TV. And all that happened during the most recent minute and a half in the Day of Man. Messages and ideas were buzz-

ing all about, but, again, not really differently ~ just faster. Then, suddenly, about 15 years ago, something really new and different occurred. The internet really is more than just a faster way to transmit ideas ~ it is a different way. It puts minds all over the world into contact, for good or ill, almost as if we were all together on a bench in Michaelangelo’s workshop or seated cross-legged in Pialug’s canoe house. We’re not just connected, we’re inter-connected, and this network soon will be available to nearly everyone. My hunch is that, like the Clovis (or Tilghman) points of 15,000 years ago, this could be big. The Water Planet is developing a neural network. And it all happened in the most recent 6 seconds in the Day of Man. Wonder what’s coming in the next second? Me, too. Gary Crawford and his wife, Susan, operate Crawfords Nautical Books, a unique bookstore on Tilghman’s Island.

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Tidewater Traveler by George W. Sellers, CTC

West Baden Springs and French Lick Behavior like mine at the moment is usually reserved for a country boy standing on a Manhattan sidewalk for the first time. Head is tilted way back. Eyes are aimed upward focused on a spectacular structure. You know the posture ~ that of a gawky tourist

entranced by towering skyscrapers while being swept past by hundreds of bustling locals on their way to shop, work or play. But I am not in Manhattan or any other of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s major cities. I am hundreds of miles from New York City, in rural, southwestern In-

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West Baden Springs diana, where thousands of acres of corn finally yield to a hilly region of the state. Hills? Indiana? Those two words seem hardly compatible. They are not big hills, certainly not mountains, but they are knolls of sufficient stature to have a couple of snow-ski slopes. So, why am I craning my neck? Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s to see in the heart of this sleepy little town called West Baden Springs, Indiana? It is how I imagine it would be to walk into the re-

The dome at West Baden Springs.

stored ruins of the fictional castle at Cair Paravel in C.S. Lewisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Chronicles of Narnia. I am in a very old building that has gained newness and freshness of life and purpose. I am in the center of a huge round room ~ a cavernous room with a glass and steel dome that reaches to a height of more than one hundred feet. The dome spans a diameter of two hundred feet resting atop a sixstory, donut-shaped ring of luxury hotel rooms. To look down is almost as fascinating as looking up; the floor is a work of mosaic tile art. Large patterns of tile swirl throughout the atrium. Dozens of overstuffed, leather-upholstered chairs and sofas are arranged into cozy seating areas around the room. Palm trees rise from the floor, seeking the light offered by the glass roof. Around the perimeter of the massive room are balconies of hotel rooms. Ornate wrought iron and marble carvings distinguish each verandah. Luxurious drapes hang uniformly at each door-window. At one side of the gallery is a stone fireplace large enough to accommodate a fourteen-foot log and a man standing upright. The fireplace is a work of art in its own right. The rocks around the fireplace opening are adorned by a huge colorful mural of glazed tile created by the famous Rookwood Pottery. Marble statuary on pedestals and huge marble urns with oversized

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1902, when the grand luxury hotel was rebuilt, until 1955 this was the largest free-spanning dome in the United States, and in its earlier days it was the largest such dome in the world. Following the 1929 stock market crash, the hotel began a steady decline and finally closed in 1932. For more than seven decades, the grand resort was in a state of decay, and the surrounding region became one of Indianaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most economically depressed areas. In 2005, the property was bought by investors with an

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eye toward restoring the magnificence of the past. I suspect there is more yet to be accomplished, but I stand in amazement at what has been realized. Stepping outside the great room, I cross a large ring-room that encircles the entire building and serves as a lobby and greeting area. I reach a marble portico that overlooks boxwood gardens. Standing here, it is not difficult to envision a steam locomotive dragging a string of luxury coaches to the edge of the platform. Scores of wealthy travelers from Chicago and other Midwest cities disembark as porters scurry about with steamer trunks. It could be 1920 when hundreds of people of means are arriving for

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Go full speed at the French Lick West Baden Indoor Karting Arena! Resort and Casino. For over a century the two towns competed, each claiming to have the better, more potent salt-spring baths. Strange word ~ lick! Aside from the obvious definitions, the word lick is also used to identify a naturally occurring deposit of salt. The salt- and mineral-rich springs of the region were apparently discovered in the early 1800s, and have been an attraction since that time. Claims of powers to refresh and heal all sorts of medical conditions have attracted people in droves to these small southwestern Indiana towns. Whether or not a guest at the hotel, it is worth the drive of an hour plus from Louisville, Kentucky, or two hours plus from Indianapolis, just to see the building and grounds. Historic author Chris

Bundy declared, “These hotels were the Disney World of their time. . .” The area now offers much for vacationers ~ golf, snow skiing, gambling, horseback riding, spas and mineral baths. Nearby, tourists can pay a visit to the Indiana Railway Museum with a train ride through the Hoosier National Forest. Aside from appreciating the amazing architecture and luxurious décor of the hotel, I have to say that my other favorite venues in the area turned out to be the French Lick West Baden Indoor Karting Arena and Black Buggy Amish Buffet. What a combination! A 1,250-foot indoor course filled with hairpin turns and go-karts that reach near forty miles per hour prepared me for the scrumptious Amish meal next door. In the West Baden ~ French Lick area one can experience the marriage of a rich, grandiose past with all the modern conveniences that today’s travelers seek. May all of your travels be happy and safe! George Sellers is a Certified Travel Counselor and Accredited Cruise Counselor who operates the popular travel website and travel planning service www. SellersTravel.com. His Facebook and e-mail addresses are George@ SellersTravel.com.

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The Story of Queen Anne’s County by Harold W. Hurst

Bounded on the north by the Chester River and on the south by Caroline and Talbot counties, Queen Anne’s County is one of the most rural of the nine counties on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Much of its 372 square miles consists of farms, forest lands and small villages that time seems to have passed by. Created in 1706, the county is named for Queen Anne of England, who reigned between 1702 and 1714. One noted British historian has reminded us that she was “the dull, devout, high church daughter of James II, who by a freak of fortune, has given her name to a brilliant age.” Between 1707 and 1782, Queenstown was the county seat of Queen Anne’s County. Located on the Chester River, it was an important trading center. Tobacco and other crops were shipped from the wharves of Queenstown to ports on the western side of the Chesapeake Bay or directly to England. The old Colonial courthouse still stands, although a brick addition was added in 1830. While being important historically, Queenstown’s population has never surpassed 650, demonstrating the continuing rural nature of the county.

Statue of Queen Anne, dedicated in 1977, on the grounds of the historic courthouse in Centreville. Centreville, the county seat since 1782, has since remained the chief town in the area. Centered on a historic courthouse square located on a hill, its narrow streets are lined by lovely Federal, Antebellum and Victorian houses. The close proximity of the commercial district and the courthouse to the residential area lends an old-fashioned, tight-knit, small-town atmosphere to the town. Church Hill, near the Chester

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River, and Stevensville on Kent Island, are historically important places containing notable landmarks and venerable parish churches. Elsewhere in the county are hamlets like Grasonville, Crumpton, Sudlersville and Templeville. Millington is located in both Queen Anne’s and Kent counties. This town once contained a large wool mill owned by English immigrants. As with most of the eastern and southern counties of Maryland, the regional economy was originally based on the culture of tobacco. This was true throughout the 18th century and even, to a lesser extent, in the early years of the 19th century. Tobacco (sotweed) was the primary medium of exchange and was used to pay taxes and the salaries of colonial officials. An early sheriff of Queen Anne’s County, for example, was paid 1,400 pounds of tobacco for his duties. The first building of St. Paul’s parish in Centreville was erected at the cost of 14,395 pounds of tobacco. In 1732, St. Luke’s church in Church Hill cost 140,000 pounds of tobacco to erect. In 1763, the legislature of Maryland established six public warehouses in the county for the inspection of tobacco. During the American Revolution (1776-1783), the county’s population largely remained loyal to the 162

patriotic cause, although there were a few Tories in the area. Members of the Hemsley, Tilghman, Wright and other influential families were heavily involved in the War of Independence. The county furnished money, tobacco, cattle and other provisions to the war effort, in addition to 145 men apportioned by the Continental Congress. Military action occurred in Queen Anneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s County during the War of 1812 when 3,400 British soldiers attacked Queenstown on August 13, 1813. They were repulsed by American infantry, cavalry and artillery forces whose aggregate

number was less than 400. The early 1800s witnessed the gradual diversification of the local economy. Tobacco cultivation began to decline as wheat growing and animal breeding were introduced. Richard Gibbs pioneered the raising of Spanish merino sheep and established a wool mill. Cotton manufacturing was carried on in Church Hill, and a tanning business was started on the road between Queenstown and Centreville. Horse breeding was initiated in this period, the most noted breeder being Governor Robert Wright.

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Queen Anne’s County Economic prosperity generated an interest in transportation facilities, and the first steamboat ~ the Surprise ~ appeared on the Chester River in 1818. The Maryland began operations between Baltimore, Chestertown, and Queenstown in 1826. The year 1836 witnessed the appearance of the Norfolk, which provided links between Corsica, Queenstown, and Baltimore. By 1850, there were three steamers plied the Chester River ~ the Osiris, Cambridge and Hugh Jenkins. What was social life like in the early and middle decades of the 19th century? The plantation-own-

ing gentry dominated society, as they did elsewhere in the southern and eastern counties of Maryland. The larger slaveholders supposedly lived a pleasant and easy existence approximating that of the similar social class in Virginia and the lower South. Landholding gentry enjoyed fox hunting, horse racing, cockfights, lavish dinners, and elegant balls held in the manor houses of the wealthy or in the assembly rooms of the larger taverns and “ordinaries.” Fox hunting was an obsession among the gentry, and it is claimed that the first event of this kind was held in Queen Anne’s County as early as 1654. Cockfights were common in Centreville. At one event

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in June of 1819, patrons sitting in the “first circle” were charged 50 cents admission, while spectators in the “second circle” paid 25 cents. Horse races were conducted under the auspices of the Centreville Jockey Club. Dueling was not uncommon in early Queen Anne’s County. This is not surprising when one considers the Southern flavor of the area. Horace Mann, the great American education reformer of the era, noted that the South was a region where “they have an idle habit of making small holes thro’ a man at the distance of ten paces.” Politicians and newspaper men were particularly inclined to avenge insults with swords or pistols.

One noted duelist was Gustavus W. T. Wright, the son of Governor Wright. He killed a certain Captain Watson in a duel and later challenged Samuel Beach, editor of the People’s Monitor, who declined to fight. Wright then called Beach a “base coward and slanderer.” Wright himself was killed in a duel with Benjamin Nicholson at Slippery Hill near Queenstown on July 13, 1809. Nicholson was hit twice by bullets that led to his death on the field of honor. Before his end, Nicholson shook hands with Wright, and supposedly the two conversed together “with the greatest respect and politeness.” Two outstanding statesmen from Queen Anne’s County played a domi-

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Fox hunting was a particularly popular pastime. nant role in the political life of the county and region. Richard Bennett Carmichael (1807-84) was a staunch state’s rights Democrat throughout his long career in public service. A graduate of Princeton, he was admitted to the bar in 1830 and later served in the Maryland legislature and, subsequently, in the United State Congress. The year 1838 found him judge of the circuit court for the district encompassing Queen Anne’s, Kent, Talbot, and Caroline counties. An outspoken opponent of the Federal occupying authorities during the Civil War, he was once arrested and imprisoned at Fort Delaware. After the war he again served in the

Maryland legislature and was later appointed as a Presidential elector for the Democratic Party. The other prominent figure who championed state’s rights and the Southern cause was Thomas James Keating, an Irish immigrant who also graduated from Princeton. Admitted to the bar in 1831, his interests included a fiery brand of journalism that often antagonized his pro-Union opponents. In 1857 he purchased the Centreville Centennial that he renamed the Centreville State’s Right Advocate. In 1863 pro-Unionists set fire to his printing establishment because of his pro-Confederate sentiments. Keating survived the war and served as state comptroller and continued his support of the Episcopal Church. The lives of both Carmichael and Keating demonstrate the Southern orientation of much of Eastern Shore political life in the 19th century. The Presidential election of 1860 found Queen Anne’s County divided on the secession issue, as was the case in many other parts of southern and eastern Maryland. The Constitutional Union Party won 908 votes in the county, while the Northern Democrats picked up 98 votes. But the pro-Southern secessionist candidate won the support of 879 voters. In brief, the Southern cause was supported by a large minority. During the ensuing Civil War,

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Queen Anne’s County Federal troops occupied the county, along with many other sections of Delmarva. Southern sympathizers were often the victims of much rough treatment. The wealthy planters and slave owners, like the Tilghman family, who owned the “Hermitage” ~ the “showpiece of the county” ~ were fair game for the occupiers. Captain Ogle Tilghman was arrested for supporting the Smallwood Rifles, a local militia company that openly espoused the Confederate cause. John Tilghman was apprehended for the burning of the Hardtime, a schooner occupied by the Federal forces. A leading pro-Unionist from the county was General George Sykes, who commanded the 20th regiment of

This map shows the railroad line running from Queenstown to Lewes.

the Cavalry that engaged in “many bloody charges” during the Civil War. Economic prosperity returned gradually in the decades following the Civil War. A railroad was built in 1894 connecting the county’s Bay wharves with Lewes, Delaware. This local line, like many other small railroads on the Peninsula, was eventually swallowed up by the powerful Pennsylvania Railroad, whose monopolistic chokehold reached into every pastoral corner of the region. The canning industry offered employment to many blacks and poor whites. S.T. Earl of Centreville opened a firm in the 1880s that canned tomatoes, while the firm of Gadd and Sudlersville canned and processed fruits and vegetables. A trade directory published in 1919 listed the following canning firms: Harry A. Gilbert of Barclay; Malleck Packing Co. of Stevensville; Serto Packing Co. of Centreville; and the Sudlersville Canning Co. The Serto Packing Co. of Centreville was still packing tomatoes in 1927. The lumber industry started as early as 1877, when the Friel and Cockey Company began supplying lumber products in the county and surrounding area. The Friel family of Queenstown is still involved in the lumber trade today. Queen Anne’s County, despite these post-Civil War economic developments, remained overwhelm-

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Construction of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge that opened in 1952. ingly rural and agrarian in character. In 1900 the total population of the county was only 18,364. Centreville, the largest town, had only 1,221 citizens. Queenstown’s population was only 374, while Church Hill was 368. Except for possibly adjacent Caroline County, Queen Anne’s was the most rural county on the Eastern Shore, as it contained no large towns like Salisbury, Easton, Cambridge or even Crisfield. Several building booms in the 20th century partially altered

the county’s landscape. Further development occurred with the opening of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge in 1952. Housing projects, shopping malls, billboards and gasoline stations sprung up in many areas, especially on Kent Island and in some areas close to Centreville and Queenstown. Yachting clubs and marinas proliferated on the Bay and along the river tributaries. Preservation efforts have saved some of the county’s natural resources and farmlands from the real estate developers. The state of Maryland has purchased 2,450 acres of land for inclusion in the Wye Island Natural Resource Management Area. The Chesapeake Bay Environmental Center, located in Grasonville, includes 500 acres of land as a habitat for wildlife, home to more than 250 species of birds. Another interesting project is the Chesapeake Heritage and Visitor Center in Chester at Kent Narrows that now includes exhibits highlighting the Bay area’s history, resources and culture. Modern Queen Anne’s County is a blend of past and present, but much of its Arcadian quality harks back to an earlier era. Let us hope that future change does not destroy what is left of its pastoral setting and utterly charming ambience.

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ern Shore animals and plants. For more info. tel: 410-634-2847, ext. 0 or visit www.adkinsarboretum.org. Thru Feb. 10 Exhibit: The Art of Seating - Two Hundred Years of American Design at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. The exhibition, organized by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville and the Jacobsen Collection of American Art, presents a survey of exceptional American chair design from the early 19th century to the present day. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit www.academyartmuseum.org.

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February Calendar Thru Feb. 10 Exhibit: Animal Prints by Helen Siegl at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. Siegl’s unusual printmaking technique ~ often combining various kinds of blocks and plates to create an image, including handmade plaster blocks she designed when wood was scarce in Vienna during World War II ~ helped garner her reputation as a widely respected printmaker. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit www.academyartmuseum.org. Thru Feb. 28 Exhibit: Tim Bell and Will Williams at the South Street Gallery, Easton. For more info.

tel: 410-770-8350 or visit www. southstreetartgallery.com. 1 First Friday Gallery Walk in downtown Easton. 5 to 9 p.m. Easton’s art galleries, antiques shops and restaurants combine for a unique cultural experience. Raffles, gift certificates and street vendors! For more info. tel: 410770-8350. 1 Chestertown’s First Friday. Extended shop hours with arts and entertainment throughout historic downtown. For a list of activities visit: www.kentcounty. com/artsentertainment. 1 Dorchester Swingers Square Dance from 7:30 to 10 p.m. at Maple Elementary School, Egypt Rd., Cambridge. Refreshments provided. For more info. tel: 410-820-8620. 2 First Saturday Guided Walk at Adkins Arboretum, Ridgely. Explore the Arboretum’s diverse plant communities on a guided walk led by an Arboretum docent naturalist. 10 a.m. For more info. tel: 410-634-2847, ext. 0.

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410-822-7299 or visit www. avalontheatre.org. 4 Brown Bag Lunch at the Talbot County Free Library, St. Michaels features Professor Dale Glenwood Green. Professor Green will speak about “The Hill,” which is the birthplace of African Methodism on Maryland’s Eastern Shore and could be the oldest AfricanAmerican neighborhood in the country. Noon. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit www. tcfl.org. 4 An Evening of Jazz Guitar at 6:30 p.m., at the Talbot County Free Library, Easton, featuring the Bob Johnson Trio. Johnson,

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4 The Tidewater Camera Club will host a seminar entitled “Architectural Photography in a Digital Era” presented by commercial photographer Steve Buchanan from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Wye Oak Room at the Talbot County Community Center in Easton. Steve is based in Centreville, and specializes in food, interiors and architecture photography. For more information on Steve Buchanan, visit: www.buchananphotography.com. The seminar is open to the public. Please check www. tidewatercameraclub.com for more information about the club or contact Randy Welch at 410-822-5441 with questions or for information about possible changes in venue. 4,11,18,25 Academy for Lifelong Learning: Great Decisions Discussion Program with Phillip Betsch at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. 2 to 3 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-745-2916 or visit www. cbmm.org.

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4,11,18,25 Fun & Friendship for kids ages 7 to 11 at the St. Michaels Community Center, every Monday from 3 to 5 p.m. Time to do homework, make snacks, play games and share friendship. No cost. For more info. tel: 410745-6073.

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4,11,18,25 Monday Night Trivia at the Market Street Public House, Denton. 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Join host Norm Amorose for a funfilled evening of trivia! For more info. tel: 410-479-4720. 4,11,25 Tot Time at the Talbot County Free Library, St. Michaels. 10:15 a.m. Stories, puppets and crafts for children 5 and under accompanied by an adult. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit www.tcfl.org. 4-March 11 Science Wizardry for Home School Students at Adkins Arboretum, Ridgely. Program is designed for students in grades 2-5. Mondays, 1 to 2:30 p.m. For more

info. tel: 410-634-2847, ext. 0 or visit www.adkinsarboretum.org. 4-March 29 Exhibit: Discovering the Native Landscapes of Maryland’s Eastern Shore, Adkins Arboretum’s fourteenth annual art competition, at Adkins Arboretum, Ridgely. There will be a reception on Saturday, February 16 from 3 to 5 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-634-2847, ext. 0 or visit www.adkinsarboretum.org. 5-March 26 First Step Storytime at the Talbot County Free Library, Easton. Tuesdays, 10 a.m. For children 3 and under accompanied by an adult. For more info. tel: 410822-1626 or visit www.tcfl.org.

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February Calendar 5-March 26 Preschool Storytime at the Talbot County Free Library, Easton. Tuesdays, 2 p.m. For children 3 to 5 accompanied by an adult. Pickering Creek will lead their Tiny Tots program. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit www.tcfl.org. 5 This Old Chesapeake House speaker series featuring Preservation Marylandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Elizabeth Beckley discussing her career as a historical restorer, old house aficionado, owner, and preservationist. 1 to 2:30 p.m. at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Mu-

seum, St. Michaels. For more info. tel: 410-745-2916 or visit www.cbmm.org. 5,12 Academy for Lifelong Learning: Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Biography with Sam Barnett at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. 10:30 a.m. to noon. For more info. tel: 410745-2916 or visit www.cbmm.org. 5,7,12,14,19,21,26,28 Dancing on the Shore every Tuesday and Thursday at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. 7 to 9 p.m. Learn to waltz, swing, salsa, Argentine tango and more. For more info. tel: 410-482-6169. 5-March 12 Nature Preschool Pro-

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gram at Adkins Arboretum, Ridgely, for 3- to 5-year-olds including programs on icicles, cardinals, worms and much more! Tuesdays, from 10 to 11:15 a.m. For more info. tel: 410-634-2847, ext. 0 or visit www.adkinsarboretum.org. 6 Nature as Muse at Adkins Arboretum, Ridgely. 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Each month this writing group will follow a different winding path through the Arboretum to quietly observe nature in detail and then write about it. Bring a sack lunch and dress for both indoor and outdoor forest adventure. For more info. tel: 410634-2847, ext. 0 or visit www. adkinsarboretum.org. 6 Puppet Show: Will You Be Mine? at the Talbot County Free Library, St. Michaels. An original production by our own Miss Carla. 4 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-8221626 or visit www.tcfl.org. 6,13,20 Academy for Lifelong Learning: Betas, Big Brother, and Unbabies ~ Deciphering 20th Century Dystopia in Four Novels with John Ford and Kate Livie at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. 1 to 2:30 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-7452916 or visit www.cbmm.org. 6,13,20,27 Meeting: Wednesday Morning Artists meet each

Wednesday at 8 a.m. at Creek Deli in Cambridge. No cost. For more info. visit www.wednesdaymorningartists.com or contact Nancy at ncsnyder@aol.com or 410-463-0148. 6,13,20,27 St. Michaels Art League’s weekly “Paint Together” at the home of Alice-Marie Gravely. 1 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-745-8117. 6,13,20,27 Teen Night at the St. Michaels Community Center, every Wednesday from 5 to 7 p.m. Teens ages 12 to 17 are welcome for dinner, activities and entertainment. For more info. tel: 410-745-6073. 6,13,20,27 Social Time for Seniors at the St. Michaels Community Center, every Wednesday from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The first Wednesday of the month is always BINGO, the second and fourth are varying activities, and the third is art class. For more info. tel: 410-745-6073. 6,20 Plant Clinic offered by the University of Maryland Cooperative Extension’s Master Gardeners 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 The Oxford Garden Club presents

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February Calendar “All About Chocolate.” Come to this very interesting program by Bob Rich and learn about the history, products produced from the seeds, and the Cacao tree itself. 2 p.m. at the Oxford Community Center. For more info. tel: 410226-5415. 7 Lecture: John A. Stokes ~ The Man, the Mission, the Story at the Talbot County Free Library, Easton. Civil rights activist John Stokes tells how his passion for learning helped set in motion one of the most powerful movements in American history. Stokes led a

student strike in 1951 that became part of a movement that would eventually bring about the desegregation of schools in the United States. 5:30 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit www. tcfl.org. 7 Concert: Carrie Rodriguez Duo at the Stoltz Listening Room, Avalon Theatre, Easton. 8 p.m. As anyone who’s seen her live show knows, Carrie’s the kind of dynamic performer the Stoltz was made for. For more info. tel: 410-822-7299 or visit www. avalontheatre.org. 7,8,9,10,15,16,17,22,23,24 Tred

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February Calendar ing Pickering Creek at the Talbot County Free Library, Easton. 2 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-8221626 or visit www.tcfl.org. 8-10 Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” at Sts. Peter & Paul Middle School. Fri. and Sat., 7 p.m.; Sun., 2 p.m. Adapted from Disney’s 2008 Broadway production, this student performance features the hit songs Part of Your World, She’s in Love and Under the Sea. For more info. tel: 410-822-2251 or visit www. ssppeaston.org. 9 Meeting: Oxford Ladies’ Breakfast at the Robert Morris Inn. 9:30 a.m. All ladies in the community, including friends and visiting guests, are welcome. $15 per person includes tax and gratuity. For more info. tel: 410225-0340. 9 Valentine’s Day 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 Free Craft Saturday for children at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. 1 to 3 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit www.academyartmuseum.org.

9 2nd Saturday at the Foundry at 401 Market St., Denton. Watch local artists demonstrate their talents. 2 to 4 p.m. Free. For more info. tel: 410-479-1009. 9 Concert: John Mayall at the Avalon Theatre, Easton. 8 p.m. With his musical roots extending back to such blues greats as Leadbelly, Pinetop Smith, and Eddie Lang, John launched a generation of England’s greatest blues and rock performers in the ’60s (chief among them Eric Clapton) with his pioneering band, The Bluesbreakers. For more info. tel: 410-822-7299 or visit www. avalontheatre.org. 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 Community Outreach Store, which is always open during the breakfast and also every Wednesday from 8:30 a.m. to noon. 10 Pancake Breakfast at the Oxford Volunteer Fire Dept. 8 to 11 a.m. Proceeds to benefit the Oxford Volunteer Fire Services. $8. For more info. tel: 410-226-5110.

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10 The Talbot Cinema Society will present Top Hat (1935) at the Avalon Theatre, Easton. Classic â&#x20AC;&#x2122;30s Hollywood musical with singing and dancing by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers and songs by Irving Berlin. Doors open and food served at 5:15 p.m., film introduction at 5:45 p.m., film starts at 6 p.m. followed by questions, answers and discussions. For more info. e-mail piratepete@goeaston.net.

11 Stitching Time at the Talbot County Free Library, Easton. 3 p.m. Join a group and work on your needlecraft projects. Limited instruction for beginners. For more info. tel: 410822-1626 or visit www.tcfl.org.

11 Academy for Lifelong Learning Memoir Writing Club with Joan Katz at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. For more info. tel: 410745-2916 or visit www.cbmm.org.

12 Valentine 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.

11 Valentineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day Crafts at the Talbot County Free Library, Easton. 3 to 4:30 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit www. tcfl.org.

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12 Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper from 5 to 7 p.m. hosted by Christ Church, St. Michael’s Parish and assisted by Boy Scout Troop #741. Feast on pancakes hot off the griddle with sausages. Crafts and fun for the kids. $6 per person or $18 per family. For more info. tel: 410-745-9076. 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 After School Creative Power Hour (and a half) for ages 9 and up with Jen Wagner at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. Wednesdays. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit www.academyartmuseum.org. 13 Exhibit Spotlight: History on the Half Shell ~ Oystering on the Chesapeake at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. 5:30 p.m. Explore the 400-year relationship between the Chesapeake’s people and the Bay’s oyster through CBMM’s skipjacks, oyster cans and dredges. For more info. tel: 410-7454991 or visit www.cbmm.org. 13 Meeting: Talbot Optimist Club at the Washington Street Pub, Easton. 6:30 p.m. For more info.

13 Concert: Arlo Guthrie at the Avalon Theatre, Easton. 8 p.m. One of the Avalon’s favorite performers returns to our stage for a special solo tribute to his legendary father’s 100th birthday! As the eldest son of America’s most beloved singer/ writer/philosopher, Woody Guthrie, and Marjorie Mazia Guthrie, a professional dancer with the Martha Graham Company, Arlo grew up surrounded by lots of talented dancers and musicians: Pete Seeger, Ronnie Gilbert, Leadbelly, Cisco Houston and Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, to name just a few of the significant influences on Arlo’s own impressive musical career. Tickets for Arlo’s shows at the Avalon usually sell out pretty fast, so you’ll want to reserve your place now to be a part of this celebration of his father’s life and music! For more info. tel: 410-822-7299 or visit www. avalontheatre.org. 13,27 Chess Club from 1 to 3 p.m. at the St. Michaels Community Center. Players gather for friendly competition and instruction. For more info. tel: 410-745-6073. 14 Holiday Movie ~ Valentine’s Day at the Talbot County Free Library, St. Michaels. 2 p.m. For more

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info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit www.tcfl.org. 15 Lecture: Wild, Wild Weather at Adkins Arboretum, Ridgely. Noon to 1 p.m. Dan Satterfield, a forecast meteorologist for more than 32 years, will speak about climate change and his work with Climate Central. For more info. tel: 410-634-2847, ext. 0 or visit www.adkinsarboretum.org. 15 Soup Day at the St. Michaels Community Center. Choose from three delicious soups for lunch. $6 meal deal. Choose from Chicken & Dumplings, Cheese & Broccoli or Vegetable Beef. Each meal comes with a bowl of soup,

15-17 Easton Studio and School Workshop: David Shelvino on Alla Prima Painting. The focus will be on Alla Prima (direct wet into wet) oil painting and the various techniques used to create a fresh, spontaneous response to your subject matter while the paint is still wet. For more info. tel: 410-770-4421. 16 The Met: Live in HD at the Avalon Theatre, Easton, features Verdi’s Rigoletto. 1 p.m. Run Time: 3 hrs., 31 min. with 2 intermissions. For more info.

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resident, generously donated over 30 paintings by Greg Mort to the Museum. This exhibition includes a selection of paintings and drawings, as well as some preliminary drawings that were donated by Greg Mort. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit www.academyartmuseum. org.

tel: 410-822-7299 or visit www. avalontheatre.com. 16 Kent Chamber Music Concert featuring Olga Caceanova, violin, and Constantine Finehouse, piano, at St. Paul’s Parish, Chestertown. 7 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-810-2805. 16 Concert: Walter Parks at the Stoltz Listening Room, Avalon Theatre, Easton. 8 p.m. Veteran blues guitarist Walter Parks has built an international career as the lead guitarist for Woodstock legend Richie Havens, as half of the folk-duo the Nudes, and as leader of the southern swampblues group Swamp Cabbage. For more info. tel: 410-822-7299 or visit www.avalontheatre.org. 16-March 23 Class: Illustrating and Writing Children’s Picture Books with Laura Ranking at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. Saturdays, 10 a.m. to noon (no class March 9). For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit www.academyartmuseum.org. 16-March 31 Exhibit: The Art of Greg Mort ~ Selections from the Hickman Bequest at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. In 2011, David H. Hickman, an Easton-born Washington, D.C.,

16-March 31 Exhibit: Katherine K. Allen ~ Meditation on Nature in Paint and Stitch at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. Allen’s “soft paintings” are steeped in personal experience and the remembered atmosphere of the natural world, evoking landscapes that feel recognizable yet imaginary. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit www.academyartmuseum.org. 16-April 28 Exhibit: Contemporary Realists ~ The Art of David and James Plumb at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. David Plumb moved to Talbot County to teach drawing and painting at the”Academy of the Arts” while winning top honors in the Annual Juried Show in both 1970 and 1982. James Plumb was one of the 20 individuals selected from worldwide applications to attend the prestigious postgraduate studies at the AmsterdamMaastricht Summer University in 2001. For more info. tel: 410-

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For more info. tel: 410-745-2916 or visit www.cbmm.org. 19 Writing in Wartime: An Evening of Fiction with Siobhan Fallon at the Rose O’Neill Literary House, Washington College, Chestertown. 4:30 p.m. Siobhan Fallon’s debut collection of stories, You Know When the Men Are Gone, was listed as a Best Book of 2011 by The San Francisco Chronicle and Janet Maslin of The New York Times. For more info. tel: 410-778-7899.

Floral with Peaches, Grapes and Harvest Figure by James Plumb. 822-ARTS (2787) or visit www. academyartmuseum.org. 18 St. Michaels Art League Meeting at Christ Church Parish Hall, Willow St., St. Michaels. 9:30 a.m. The February meeting will feature guest speaker Margery Caggiano. For more info. tel: 410-226-5351 or visit www.stmichaelsartleague.org. 18,25 Academy for Lifelong Learning: The Invention and Discovery of the God Particle with Chip Britt and Ron Lesher. 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels.

20 Academy for Lifelong Learning: A Swamp Romp in Rock Hall with Tom Hollingshead. 3 p.m. until the music stops at The Mainstay, Rock Hall. For more info. tel: 410-745-2916 or visit www. cbmm.org. 21-March 10 Annual Mid-Shore Student Art Exhibitions at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. Opening reception Thursday, February 21 from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Door prizes given out at 5 p.m. This exhibition highlights the artistic talents of K-12 students from Talbot, Caroline, Dorchester and Queen Anne’s counties. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit www.academyartmuseum.org. 21,28 Academy for Lifelong Learning: Gardening Ideas ~ Relief

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February Calendar of Cabin Fever with Stephanie Wooten. 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Garden Treasures, Easton. For more info. tel: 410-745-2916 or visit www.cbmm.org. 21-March 21 Class: Introduction to Insight (Mindfulness) Meditation sponsored by The Easton Meditation Group. Insight meditation is simply developing our ability to pay attention to the present moment. Thursdays, 6 to 8 p.m. at 5 Federal Street, # 310, Easton. For more info. tel: 410-430-2005 or visit www. stillpointmeditation.org. 22 Friday Night Dance Party: Milonga Night of Argentine Tango at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. 7:30 to 8 p.m. is an Argentine Tango lesson, then from 8 to 10 p.m. is the dance party. For more info. tel: 410-482-6169 or visit www. dancingontheshore.com. 22 Concert: Satisfaction ~ The Rolling Stones Tribute Band at the Avalon Theatre, Easton. 8 p.m. You will get some real Satisfaction with this great tribute show devoted to recapturing the “World’s Greatest Rock & Roll Band” in their prime! For more info. tel: 410-822-7299 or visit www.avalontheatre.org.

22 Concert: Jeanne Jolly at the Stoltz Listening Room, Avalon Theatre, Easton. 8 p.m. Singer/ songwriter Jeanne Jolly broke onto the music scene as the featured vocalist for Grammy Award-winning jazz trumpeter Chris Botti. Since branching out on her own successful solo career, Jeanne has earned a reputation for crafting soulful folk-poplaced songs with heartfelt lyricism and a dash of Appalachian Americana. For more info. tel: 410-822-7299 or visit www. avalontheatre.org. 22,23, March 1,2 Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” at The Country School, Easton. Fri. 7 p.m. and Sat. 3 p.m. The story from a magical kingdom far beneath the waves is told in this production with over 53 cast members in grades 5-8. For more info. tel: 410-822-1935 or visit www. countryschool.org. 22-23 National Outdoor Show: A real slice of Dorchester culture! From beauty pageants to muskrat skinning to duck and goose calling. On Friday, doors open at 5 p.m. for the crowning of Miss Outdoors and the championship Muskrat Skinning Semi-finals. On Saturday, doors open at 10:30 a.m. for the Little Miss and Little Mister Outdoors pageant starting at 11:30 a.m. The evening

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show on Saturday begins at 7 p.m. with raccoon, nutria, and muskrat skinning competitions, plus oyster shucking, log sawing, trap setting, corn shelling and other contests. Bring your appetite for oyster fritters, crab cakes and soft crabs, plus muskrat (Saturday only) while supplies last. Admission is $6 for adults, $3 for children 4-12; under 4 free. The event is located at South Dorchester Pre-K-8 school, 3485 Golden Hill Road, Church Creek. For more info. tel: 410-397-8543 or visit www.nationaloutdoorshow.org. 24 The second annual Crawfish Boil & Muskrat Stew Fest will be held

from noon to 6 p.m. in downtown Cambridge. The festival features live Cajun blues music, traditional Louisiana and Eastern Shore food items, hot sauce tastings, seasonal libations and more. Outside at Cannery Way, in the 400 block of Race Street in downtown Cambridge, Maryland. Sponsored by the retail store Crabi Gras. For more info. visit www.crabigras.com. 23 Bay to Ocean Writers Conference at Chesapeake College, Wye Mills. This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s conference features 30 sessions/workshops with topics including the Internet for writers, the craft of writing, genre fiction and much more. For more

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24 Winter Tree ID: Learn Your Buds and Bark at Adkins Arboretum, Ridgely. 10 a.m. Explore the rich and unique native plant habitat of Adkins Arboretum. For more info. tel: 410-634-2847, ext. 0 or visit www.adkinsarboretum.org. 24 Empty Bowls Fundraiser at Immanuel Lutheran Church, Easton. $20 per person includes home-cooked soup and a handmade bowl. 5 to 7 p.m. Purchase tickets online at www.mscf.org or send a check to Mid-Shore Community Foundation, 102 E. Dover Street, Easton, MD 21601. 24-March 31 Class: Digital Photography II ~ Shooting with

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26 Academy for Lifelong Learning: This I Believe with Don Rush at the Londonderry Retirement Community in Easton. 1 to 2:30 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-7452916 or visit www.cbmm.org.

28 Lecture: The Right-Hand Shore with Christopher Tilghman at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. 6 p.m. Tilghman’s new novel, The Right-Hand Shore, and its sequel, Mason’s Retreat, tell the multi-generational story of a farm on the Eastern Shore modeled after his own. $15 members, $24 non-members. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit www.academyartmuseum.org.

26 Open Mic Night at the Garfield Center for the Arts at Prince Theatre, Chestertown. 7:30 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-810-2060. 26-April 2 Class: Brushing Up in Oils with Matthew Hillier at the

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