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Features: About the Cover Photographer: Morris Ellison . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Obits: Helen Chappell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Moscow on the Corsica: Dick Cooper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 The Sacred End-of-Life Journey: Amelia Blades-Steward . . . . . . . 47 Changes ~ More Smart Guys: Roger Vaughan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 An Antiguan Escape: Bonna Nelson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Tidewater Gardening: K. Marc Teffeau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 The Coast Guard Station That Was: Gary D. Crawford . . . . 143 Tidewater Kitchen: Pamela Meredith-Doyle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 Chincoteague: Michael Valliant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Departments: August Tide Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Dorchester Points of Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Easton Points of Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 St. Michaels Points of Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Oxford Points of Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Tilghman - Bay Hundred . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 Caroline County - A Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177 Queen Anne’s County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 August Calendar of Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 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 Photographer Morris Ellison A native of Oxford, Maryland, Ellison earned a Master of Philosophy in neurophysiology at Yale University.

While continuing toward his Ph.D., his advisor once asked, “Morris, how are you ever going to be successful if you keep sailing on weekends?” Time to rethink...

After several years as sail designer and loft manager for North Sails, he started Ellison Sails, a sail and boat canvas shop in Easton in 1979. Over the past 30 years, he has sailed on most of the log canoes and has made sails for 9 of them. For 7 of those years he trimmed jib for Jimmy Wilson, the legendary skipper of Magic, winning two Governor’s Cups and several high point trophies.

Since retirement in 2015, he has enjoyed volunteering as a carpenter/ varnisher in the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum boat shop.

“Sometimes I like to print these canoe photos in sepia, giving them the feel of an old Aubrey Bodine lithograph. It just seems fitting for these 100-year-old wooden boats. Timeless, classic, unique and beautiful.

Ellison’s log canoe photos are on exhibit at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum through September 25. On the cover is the log canoe Island Bird, skippered by John C. North II. To contact Ellison tel: 410-2530153 or go to ellisail@intercom.net.

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by Helen Chappell If I check the obituaries in the local paper and I don’t see my name there, I figure I’m still alive, and maybe it will be a good day ~ or maybe not.

Around here, obituaries are known as the Eastern Shore Sweepstakes, so I guess I’m not the only one who feels that way.

A lot of people I know take a local paper just because it has the obits and school sports. I always like to see how many people my age have died. Not that it makes me feel better, but it means I have won the Sweepstakes for that day.

Reading about the death of a young person is sad ~ the deaths of babies and children are heartbreaking.

These days, obituaries are short and sweet, because anything over 200 words costs money. When I worked for a local paper, I was fascinated to find any old fool with a grudge can’t just send in an obit.

They have to come directly from the funeral home, on their letterhead, and even then, whoever does that page has to call and confirm.

This probably cuts down on a great deal of foolishness, not to mention lawsuits. The trolls, like the poor, have been with us always.

In my career, I’ve been asked to

write obituaries for other people, both perfect strangers and friends.

I’ve been told funeral homes hate writing obits, so they’re happy to have something presented to them, already fact checked. If the obituary writer is wrong about something, it’s on their head, not the funeral home’s.

So I write obits from time to time. I’ve even written my own obit. It’s like doing an interview, only with more dates and less fact checking. Since the first one I wrote, many years ago for a perfect stranger whose husband was an admirer of my writing, I’ve charged for strangers so people won’t get any funny ideas that I’m a public service.

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I try to follow the modern format, which is pretty dry. Generally, they follow a certain set-up perfected by time. Name, age, place and date of death, to start with.

While the cause of death is rarely listed, there’s a certain amount of cruel speculation you can read coded between the lines. Old people die of old age. Younger people die for a variety of reasons. “Died suddenly” is sad because it can mean overdose, suicide or accident. If Hospice is mentioned, it’s likely some terminal illness.

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which can be spouses, children, relatives and even beloved pets.

This is followed by a brief biography of the deceased. It’s hard to sum up an entire lifetime in a few graphs. Where they went to school, when they married, where they worked, their hobbies and interests. You can write that someone was a member of a fire department or enjoyed hunting and fishing, birding and bingo, but it tells you nothing about the passions the deceased brought to the things they loved.

All of it laid out in black and white, so that even the most interesting of us, unless we’re worthy of the artistry of the Times of London or the New York Times’s

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Obits ever so beautifully crafted memoirs, boils down to a few words.

It wasn’t always so cut-anddried. Anyone who reads old newspapers, especially those of the Victorians, who worshipped death, can find obituaries so ornate and f lowery that one is unsure if the person is dead or being toasted at a retirement dinner. In those days, obituaries were generally written by a relative or friend with a f lair for creative writing, and it shows.

My friend, the late Maryland scholar and historian Kent Lancaster, told me elaborate obits were all the rage back in the day, as a part of making a good death.

So you’d get something like this: The Golden Bowl is broken; the silver cord is loosened as Arabella Mary McKinnelly Rasin slipped the bonds of this earthly Life to lie in Eternal Repose in he arms of her Savior. She was born December 16, 1840 to Eban and Jerusha McKinnelly, late of Childs, now At

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from the Vale of Tears, two brothers and their wives, three sisters and their husbands, as well as a host of Relations and Friends who will sorely miss her Needlework and Female Bible Study ...

Alas, we part!

But we shall meet Again In a Place more holy Farewell! Farewell! Farewell!

Mr. Rasin is well known as a grain broker and Gentleman Farmer in this area, as well as Baltimore and Philadelphia. This union was blessed with four pledges of Mrs. Rasin’s affection for her beloved Husband ~ George Washington Rasin, Lucretia Mott Rasin, Montgomery Burns Rasin and Ethel Mertz Rasin.

A devoted and tender Mother, Mrs. Rasin believed in sparing the rod and spoiling the Child ... Always directing them in the Ways of Christian Piety ...

In addition to her Lord and Husband and Beloved children, she leaves to mourn her Departure

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Our Memorable Sail to “Moscow”on the Corsica by Dick Cooper

As a career journalist and media consultant, I’ve always adv ised t hose facing public scr ut iny or scandal to get out in front of a bad story. The worst thing they can do is mislead, lie or coverup. Once reporters get their teeth into a juicy story, they will track its every turn. Each factoid uncovered will be published with the fanfare and f lourish of a major breakthrough. Even a hand shake or a nod across a crowded room will be analyzed for hidden meaning. The constant drip, drip, drip of the 24/7 news cycle will wear a hole in almost any alibi and amplify the slightest error in judgment.

So, in the interest of full disclosure, and before you read it in the Washington Post, I admit I have met w it h Ru s sia n A mba s sador Sergey Kislyak. I met him in the now-infamous dacha overlooking the Chester River in Queen Anne’s Count y. He was a gracious host and led my wife, Pat, and me and other guests on a guided tour of the meticulously restored mansion. We dined at picnic tables on the dacha’s broad and manicured lawn. Each table was decorated with f lowers and four fifths of liquor, two of which

The Ambassador and Mrs. Kislyak greet guests. contained incredibly smooth vodka.

Kislyak, who has been a central figure on the national news front in recent months because of his contacts with members of the Trump administration, has been described

by The New York Times as “the most prominent, if politically radioactive, ambassador in Washington.”

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cyber assault on America have only helped refresh our memories of that weekend. Plus, recent reports indicate the dacha may have played a key role in the attack.

None of t hat s w i rl w a s e ven foreshadowed when we arrived by boat at the dacha as the guests of friends who are members of the Sailing Club of the Chesapeake. The club had been celebrating Labor Day with Russians since the early 1990s. According to club lore, the relationship began when members who were anchored in the Corsica River behind the compound shortly af ter the breakup of the Sov iet Union wondered what it must be like to be in a foreign country when your nation fell apart. They knew that if a sailor was stressed, he would go sailing to relieve the tension, so why not invite the Russians to go boating? Back on shore, a former SCC commodore called the Russian Embassy and set up the first Labor Day rendezvous.

Being newcomers, Pat and I didn’t know what to expect, but it sounded like an adventure. We accepted our

mutual endeavor to party hearty.

We like to remember our 2009 Labor Day Weekend with the Kislyaks as a good-will mission; a lowlevel version of détente with our old Cold War adversaries. Of course, this was well before then-President Obama kicked the Russians out of the dacha and off the Eastern Shore as retaliation for the cyber attack on our electoral process and shuttered the property. In fact, the recent presidential firing and Congressional investigations of Russian’s

Pat (in the hat) joins the tour of the mansion.

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eration,” as Kislyak was introduced.

The Ambassador and Mrs. Kislyak escorted us into the red-brick Georgian manor house that has dominated the promontory on Corsica Neck west of Centreville since it was built in the late 1920s by corporate and political powerhouse John Jakob Raskob as a fresh-air retreat for his wife and 13 children.

The Kislyaks proudly showed off the grand foyer, library, formal dining room and living room on the first f loor of the 35-room house that is the centerpiece of the 45-acre estate the Soviets purchased in 1972 for $1.2 million. Chandeliers lit every richly paneled room. A grand staircase wound its way up almost four stories to a domed skylight.

As our small tour group passed through the house and out into the gardens, we were all taken by the sweeping view of the widest part of the Chester River. The builders had sited the house on a high point of land that caught even the faintest of breezes, intentionally maximizing the comfort of the original inhabitants.

It is fair to say that Raskob, one of the true symbols of the successes of capitalism of his generation, could never have envisioned his family’s Eastern Shore sanctuary becoming a playground for communist diplomats and their Russian successors. It is also safe to say that only in America could that incredible transformation have taken place.

Raskob’s life was, after all, the

friends’ invite, paid our registration fee and gave them an extra $10 for a small Russian f lag to f ly from our boat. When we arrived on the Corsica River, we found almost two dozen boats riding at anchor in the cove just off the dacha’s beach.

When we dinghied ashore, we had to squeeze our inf latable into the f leet of other tenders already pulled up on the sand. We walked up a path to the clearing where the picnic tables were set up and joined a small group of sailors heading off for a mansion tour and to meet the “Honorable A mbassador Ex traordinar y and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Fed-

A round skylight illuminates the grand staircase leading to upperfloor bedroom suites.

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jor locks that carried the Erie Canal through a range of hills northeast of Buffalo. His father was a cigar merchant, and young John worked odd jobs to help his family make ends meet. He was very good with numbers and handling money and got his big break at 19, when he started work as a secretary in an Ohio real estate investment and trolley firm run by Pierre S. duPont. A few years later, when duPont became the treasurer of his family business, E.I. du Pont de Nemours, he brought the young Upstate New Yorker along with him to Wilmington. In 1906, Raskob married an Eastern Shore nat ive, Helena Spr inger Green, a descendent of Thomas Greene, who came to Maryland in 1633 as a passenger on the Ark and the Dove.

Raskob began building his fortune

Kislyak observes the dinghy races from the shore. e m b o d i m e nt o f t h e A m e r i c a n Dream. He was the grandson of German and Irish immigrants and grew up in Lockport, N.Y., a hamlet that drew its name from the five ma-

Blindfold dinghy races.

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ducal palace on the Delaware River in Claymont, Delaware. They named their new home “The Patio” because of its arched central cour t yard, complete with a Tiffany-inf luenced retractable glass roof. Despite their deep pockets, the Raskobs could not stop the building of a steel mill near their home. The big, belching, billowing plant made living in “The Patio” a health hazard for growing boys and girls.

In the mid-1920s, Raskob built his family a new mansion on the 1,800-acre Pioneer Point Farm as a fresh-air getaway. Back on her native Eastern Shore, Helena Raskob and her farm managers built the farm into a showcase of agriculture with a pure-bred Guernsey dairy herd, a horse-breeding operation, poultr y barns and a pigger y for 1,000 hogs. She bought the latest in farm technology and experimented in crop management.

While Helena, whose nickname was “Sk ipper,” oversaw Pioneer Point and the family, her husband jumped into politics with both feet.

As the Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, he worked hard to get his fellow Catholic, Al Smit h, elected president of t he United States in 1928. When the GM Board forced him to choose between Smith and GM, Raskob resigned from the board and sold all of his GM stock. After Smith lost out to Herbert Hoover, Raskob took the proceeds from the stock sale, and

John Jakob and Helena Raskob by investing in emerging technologies, most notably a startup in Michigan called General Motors Holding Company. He and Pierre duPont bought a lot of GM stock early on, and by 1914 duPont was the chairman of the board and Raskob was the treasurer of both E.I. du Pont de Nemours and General Motors.

One of Raskob’s major contributions to GM, and all of retail America then and yet to come, was his creation of the General Motors Acceptance Corporation. GM AC allowed the average Joe to buy a car on time. Instead of having to plunk down the full price in cash, the buyer could give the dealer a down payment and drive away by borrowing the rest of the money. GM made money on the car, and GMAC on the interest on the loan.

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Raskob continued to generate news as a visible leader of the successful drive to end Prohibition.

He became an ardent enemy of his fellow Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who he felt had betrayed his class by enacting what Raskob viewed as the socialist New Deal. He was identified as one of the megarich co-conspirators in the ill-fated “Business Plot” to depose Roosevelt in 1934. He remained active in du Pont company business until 1946.

He died in Centrev ille in 1950.

Helena died in Tucson, Arizona, in 1963. The Raskob Foundation for Catholic Charities that they founded in 1945 has given away $200 million over the years.

The family sold Pioneer Point Farm in the early 1950s, and the

he and Smith built the Empire State Building.

The fa r m prospered t h roug h the Great Depression. Published accounts report that Centreville residents weathered the financial storm that crippled the rest of the nation by finding full-time work on the farm. In August of 1935, Helena held a “Farmer’s Day” and expected 2,000 fellow agrarians to come.

The Wilmington Morning News repor ted t hat more t han 5 ,000 people from five states arrived and “saw all that science has been able to produce to make a dairy establishment modern. They also saw modern machinery of all kinds, both for tilling and dairy problems.”

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gineering Physics Institute, a staterun college that trained military and atomic engineers. He graduated in 1973 and went directly into the USSR Academy of Foreign Trade, where the USSR schooled its future diplomats. By the time he graduated in 1977, he was fluent in English and French and immediately began his career in foreign service. Within four years, he was part of the delegation to the United Nations and then spent several years as the numbertwo Soviet diplomat in Washington. He spent the 1990s at various internal jobs in Russia before being assigned to Brussels where he was the envoy to NATO. He was serving at the Deputy Minister of Foreign A f fairs when Russian President

farm changed hands several times.

It was being subdivided into smaller lots in 1972 when the Soviets bought the mansion and 45 acres as their retreat from Cold War Washington.

At the time of our visit, Sergey Ivanov ich K islyak had been the ambassador to the United States for just a year. And while his rise in his nation’s diplomatic corps has been steady, it was a much more planned and managed life than Raskob’s.

According to his Wikipedia page, K islya k wa s bor n to Uk ra inia n parents in the capital of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics just five weeks before Raskob’s death.

Kislyak studied at the Moscow En-

The Russian dancers were very entertaining.

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glad-handed his way through the crowd of boaters and fellow Russians and encouraged everyone to enjoy all of the facilities. Wearing a pair of large binoculars around his neck, he joined in the fun on the beach, where Russians and sailors competed in dinghy races. During the evening entertainment, he had a front-row seat to watch the musicians and dancers.

And that was the full and complete extent of our contact with His Excellency, Ambassador Kislyak.

The nex t mor ning, we joined other SCC members at the picnic grove to fulfill our end of the Labor Day Weekend celebration by taking

Dmitry Medvedev appointed him Ambassador to the United States in 2008.

In its recent profile of Kislyak, The New York Times reported, “He has interacted with American officials for decades and been a fixture on the Washington scene for the past nine years, jowly and cordial with an easy smile and f luent if accented English, yet a pugnacity in advocating Russia’s assertive policies.”

That description matches perfectly with the host Pat and I met on the SCC visit to the dacha. He

Ambassador Kislyak enjoying the puppeteer.

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worried looking mother with terse, sharp words.

For the next two hours, he peppered us with unfiltered questions about everything on the boat, starting out by asking, “How much did this boat cost?” Finally, to keep him quiet, I gave him the wheel and let him concentrate on trying to keep the boat sailing full and by. When we finally dropped the mother and son back at the beach, Pat said, “He’s probably going to be the next Russian ambassador or the head of the KGB.” We haven’t sailed with the SCC group since and were not invited back to the dacha, but we did have

diplomats and their families for a day sail on the Chester River. Our guests were a strapping young boy in his early teens and his mother.

On the dinghy r ide back to our boat, it was clear that the boy was in charge. He spoke unaccented English, and his Russian conversations with his mother were clearly more commands than inquiries.

He was fascinated by the entire process of setting sail and brief ly had a very concerned look on his face when Pat turned off the engine and the boat took all of her power from the wind. I assured him that heeling was part of the process, and he relayed the information to his

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a memorable weekend and came away with a good story to tell. We also never got that small $10 Russian flag to fly from our boat, but given the current climate in international relations, that might not be a bad thing.

Dick Cooper is a Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist. An eBook anthology of his writings for the Tidewater Times and other publications, East of the Chesapeake: Skipjacks, Flyboys and Sailors, True Tales of the Eastern Shore, is now available at amazon.com. Dick and his wife, Pat, live and sail in St. Michaels, Maryland. He can be reached at dickcooper@coopermediaassociates.com.

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very personal one that would change my life in immeasurable ways.

One of the first stories I was asked to write was about Talbot Hospice’s doula program. I had been familiar with the term from when I had given birth to my two sons. I had heard of women I knew using birth doulas to help with their deliveries, transitioning the lives of their babies into a new world. Unsure what a doula did during the active dying process intrigued me. I interviewed hospice doulas and patient families, learning that doulas are trained members of the hospice team who help with

I don’t think it was by accident that I was reacquainted with Talbot Hospice a year before my father died.

I had written for the organization first in 2007, creating their website, but then in June 2015, the phone call came asking me to help tell the organization’s story as it prepared to open its newly renovated facility on Cynwood Avenue. I was thrilled to be involved again and looked forward to learning how hospice had changed since my first encounter eight years earlier. Things in my life had changed, however, and the journey I was about to begin became a

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completed about the Five Wishes and the will and final arrangements had been made, we were not ready to lose our dad.

I said yes to the doula that day when the phone call came in, and within minutes Phyllis Peddicord was at our back door. I had spoken to Phyllis months earlier while writing the story about doulas, but had never met her. Her diminutive size didn’t match her mighty spirit.

When she walked into my father’s room that day, the franticness of the scene diminished and the room immediately became peaceful. Her spirit filled the room, and I could see my dad begin to relax as Phyllis stroked his head and spoke softly to him. I was in awe. This is what patient families had told me about the doula process. I began to understand the sacredness of this time.

Phyllis reassured me that I could manage what was happening and showed me how to reassure my father that we were with him as he was about to leave this realm for the next. The words came naturally to me, although looking back, I don’t know where they came from.

My dad had confidence where he was going. It reassured me to see his eyes glimmer with hope as he looked beyond us in the room that day to a place that only he could see. My mom, who had been his caregiver for the past few years, was finally able to sit next to him as his wife, as she lovingly said her “good-

portantly, doulas possess a nurturing character and serve as a calm, comforting and secure presence.

Doulas can also assist patients in finding meaning in their lives, help create legacy projects with patients and help them plan for how the last days will unfold.

I am not sure I appreciated what that really meant until on June 15, 2016, my family got a call from our Talbot Hospice social worker, Lisa May, asking if we needed a doula as my father, Robert E. Blades, had begun his own journey of dying. I wouldn’t be telling the truth if I said it was an easy process to go through.

Frankly, we were overwhelmed with how quickly things were progressing. We had just engaged hospice that week and were learning about what services we could use. We were exhausted from sleep deprivation and needed to ask for more help.

While hospice nurses were managing his discomfort and taking care of his physical needs, we needed to prepare for his spiritual passing, and we weren’t nearly ready for that.

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Hospice, my mother and I could face the difficult moment of the death of my dad, knowing we had given him what he wanted. His wishes had been to die in the comfort of his home, surrounded by those who loved him.

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We later learned from some of the hospice workers that at the hour my dad left us on June 15, 2016, a bird had flown to the window of the new Hospice House and demanded their attention while they were in a meeting. He pecked on the window and insisted they take notice of his wings. The staff in the meeting immediately thought of my dad, as they knew he loved watching the birds from his windows on the creek. There is not a doubt in our minds who that bird was at Hospice House that day. My dad had gotten his wings and had taken flight. Every now and then, a bird will stop by for a visit to my window or my mother’s window, giving us great comfort in these days following my dad’s death.

byes.” His passing was calm, it was beautiful, it was sacred.

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At play in the reality distortion fields by Roger Vaughan

In last month’s Tidewater Times, we followed John Smith into a graduate project he did for Stanford at Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center), one of the best collections of brilliant scientific minds ever put together.

In this segment, Smith is working 100-hours a week for a startup run by an irascible man named Allen Michels, whose normally expansive confidence had been elevated to a frightening level by leading a previous startup that had made millions. Michels decided the new product should be a scaled-down super computer to compete with the 8.8 million-dollar Cray.

The startup, called Ardent, was a no-holds-barred effort to hit the ball out of the park. Michels’ approach to making that happen was to hire a slew of brilliant scientists and engineers. One of his more notable finds was an electrical engineer by the name of Jonathan Rubinstein.

RUBY Known as “Ruby” to his co-workers, Jon Rubinstein’s nickname was often preceded by an uncomplimentary adjective of an expletive nature. The youngest employee at Ardent, Ruby was an immensely talented workaholic who didn’t give a hoot for anything but getting the work done. He had not a shred of loyalty, absolutely no regard for the chain of command, and no respect for anything except for what a person could produce. But Rubinstein was so accomplished that his refusal to abide by the normal etiquette of the game was overlooked.

And no one worked more hours. He became a favorite of Allen Michels

Jonathan Rubinstein and ended up answering only to him.

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Lowenthal said. “He taught us all how to do quality engineering.”

That praise from Lowenthal is extraordinary, given that not too long after he was hired, Rubinstein went directly to Allen Michels and told him that Lowenthal wasn’t cutting it and that Lowenthal should be working for him. Michels agreed and made the change.

“Ruby looked at Richard Lowenthal and said I can do better than you,” John Smith says. “And Richard, who was a pussy cat, said I’m sorry you feel that way. Ruby goes to Allen and says put me in there, I’ll move the schedule up a month.

And we said Ruby, we’re not going to work for you, you’re a jerk. And Ruby says fine, I’ll do this stuff

never could have brought its supercomputer to market without him. “He was a quality engineer,”

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Lowenthal had a more scientific analysis. “Ruby was a better engineer,” he said. “He’d kick my ass all the time about bad design. I learned a lot from him. At the outset he was working for me, but I was learning from him. When I lapsed into bad engineering, he’d set me straight.

It didn’t matter that he worked for me. He didn’t care about that. He wasn’t going to tolerate any bad engineering. He taught me how to be a better engineer.”

Twenty years later, Smith and I visited Jon Rubinstein at his house in Menlo Park, California. Ruby and his wife, Karen Richardson, former CEO of a customer relationship management company, were living there amid half-furnished rooms full of boxes packed and ready to move to their new home on the beach in Mexico that wasn’t quite finished.

Ruby had recently left Apple, where he had been pivotal in developing the iPod, and where he had been Steve Jobs’ number two for 16 years. The iPod recorded $1 billion in annual sales in 2006, 50 percent of Apple’s revenue. It’s perhaps the most popular consumer electronics product ever made. It catapulted Rubinstein to superstar status.

Steve Jobs and Jon Rubinstein But his ability to work closely and successfully with Jobs for so long was even more impressive to industry insiders.

“Steve and Ruby are two of the most arrogant, self-centered, myway-or-the-highway people you’ll ever meet,” John Smith says. “And brilliant, of course. It blew everyone’s mind they could work together that long.”

Perhaps Jobs’ track record of extraordinary success was enough to attract Rubinstein and keep him engaged. Personalities aside, Apple-the-company offered plenty of challenge when Rubinstein joined it in 1997: Apple had lost over $800 million the previous year.

One thing is for certain: the match worked. As Allen Michels puts it, “This technologist [Rubinstein] who is an absolute genius, and this everything guy [Jobs], built truly, 58

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of two things would happen. Either I would win, or Steve would take me aside and tell me, Jon, we’ve been friends for a long time and I want you to do me a personal favor and do this. And I’d say, Steve, we’re doing the wrong thing, and he’d say, I don’t care, I want you to do me a personal favor. And I’d say, okay, Steve, I’ll do what you ask. Or he would say, I’m the CEO and you’re not, so go do what I tell you. That didn’t happen that often.

Ten percent of the time, maybe.

Ninety percent of the time I’d say okay. But sometimes you’d have to take a stand: screw you, we’re not doing it.

“One thing is for sure,” Ruby says. “It was my experience at

in its second life, the best company in the business.” According to Rubinstein, while the experience was immensely stressful even for a quadruple-A-type workaholic, it wasn’t all that uncomfortable.

“There were a few times I wanted to strangle the bastard,” Ruby says of Jobs, with a little grin. “But most of the time it was, you know, okay. Water off a duck’s back. Had to keep focused on the mission.

You’ve got to take a position, and believe passionately this is what we’re going to do, right? You might get overruled. Steve and I would run into this all the time. Then there would come a point when one

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Jon Rubinstein is around five foot eight, 140 pounds. He’s built like a bicycle racer, a sport he took up aggressively in his teens and still loves. His black, curly hair is well trimmed. His dark eyes set back above solid cheek bones are busy, serious. He speaks rapidly, quietly, and has an easy laugh – at least in retirement.

He says he was born on Manhattan’s lower west side with a soldering iron in one hand, a screwdriver in the other. As a kid, he took everything apart. In high school, he designed the lighting for theatrical productions and did set construction, then went on to be technical director of a summer stock production company.

His freshman year at Cornell, he got four Ds, and an A in computer science. He had a student job at Computerland of Ithaca, selling and repairing Apple II computers.

When digital electronics came on the scene, Rubinstein says it all just made sense to him. He was like a person hearing a foreign language for the first time and totally understanding it, from the meaning of words and phrases to the grammatical construction.

“I can’t explain it,” he says. “It’s just the way I’m wired that allowed me to see the patterns in my head.

The logic would just f low. Analog never made sense to me, although I was good at it, competent, doing wiring and circuits. But when I hit digital, it really clicked.”

He found himself with a brain suddenly overf lowing with information, with visions of amazing possibilities. He found himself in somewhat of a panic to get it on paper. He tells the story of one of the first silicon chips [micro electronic circuits] he designed. “I did every trick in the book to get 3,000 gates squeezed into the little thing,” Ruby says. “In the end, it was way too complex for the existing test program. So I wrote the test by hand.

I wrote thousands and thousands of test vectors [pages and pages of code] by hand in four days with practically no sleep. The stuff just poured out of my head. Once I got rolling, I couldn’t sleep. I had to get it all out before I could stop and take a break.

If I stopped, I figured the flow might be permanently interrupted.”

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sion in Ft. Collins, Colorado. He worked on the HP6800 that was aimed at engineering customers for controlling instrumentation and doing graphics. He was young and inexperienced, but Ft. Collins co-workers remember Ruby as a phenomenon.

“We had our own language called HOP that was very robust,” Ruby says. “The 6800 was an impressive machine for its time. We sold 25,000 of them in a couple years.” But after six years, HP’s ponderous bureaucratic pace got to him. “The company wasn’t moving fast enough. Apple was taking off, Sun and Apollo were taking off. We did everything by hand in Ft. Collins. It was astounding.”

came face to face with the openended nature of software programming, when one thing, one possibility, leads to another, and another, and another. “With hardware, at some point you are done.

Finished. You ship the machine.

In software, you’re never finished.

It’s all-consuming. Once I began a project, I’d program and program ~ it could have been suicidal.”

In 1979, after completing his graduate work at Cornell, Ruby interviewed a dozen companies.

“I was like the pretty girl at the dance,” he says without affect. He picked Hewlett Packard because they had a good work station divi-

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One of the heads of the work station division in Ft. Collins was Doug MacGregor. He’d left HP and ended up at Kyoto University in Japan. He called Ruby and said he’d been talking with people at Matsushita Electric. He suggested Ruby come to Kyoto, give them a lecture at their labs about the future of computing and have a look at their long-term plans. Ruby did.

“MacGregor and I hung around Kyoto drinking beer and eating tempura,” Ruby says. “Matsushita was making us offers to come work with them. It was interesting, but culturally it never would have worked. Instead, Doug and I came up with the idea of Matsushita funding us to go build a company that would execute their plan. We presented that to them, and to my shock they agreed.”

Rubinstein and MacGregor went back to Colorado and started assembling a team. With ten people hired and a business plan in place, they discussed where they would set up shop. Rubinstein said it had to be Silicon Valley. But not one person wanted to leave Colorado. It was a deal breaker. Rubinstein threw up his hands and became a free agent.

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“I remember Rich Lowenthal gave me the offer on the spot, that day,” Ruby says, “which was kind of unusual. Then Allen comes back in saying I want you to join, everybody here loves you. And I said okay, but I’m not buying a used car, we’re not signing the deal today.

I’m from New York City. I didn’t fall off a turnip truck. And Allen says, what’s the issue, what kind of offer did you get? He grabs the paperwork and says that’s not enough,

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a run, or a bike ride. On Sundays I took a couple hours to clean my place and do laundry. That would be it. I wallowed in the work.”

The presence of Jon Rubinstein notwithstanding, Ardent, like 90 percent of Silicon Valley startups, failed. It’s not called the reality distortion field without reason.

starts marking it up, doubles the stock, and says will you sign now?

I didn’t sign on the spot, but I did sign the next day.”

Ruby says that in his first year at Ardent he did more actual design work than his entire lab in Ft. Collins that consisted of 200 hardware engineers. He says it was a unique opportunity. “Chips and boards, mainly,” Ruby says. “I was a machine. I was working 24/7. I’d go home at 2 a.m., stop at Wendy’s for a chicken sandwich because it was the only place open. I’d get to bed at three, be up by nine, back in the office by 9:30 a.m. The only break I’d ever take was to go for

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An Antiguan Escape by Bonna L. Nelson

Leaving a trail of adventure tours behind us, we embarked on a good old-fashioned, all-inclusive beach trip to the Leeward island of Antigua. The island’s 300-plus powdery soft white sand beaches are lapped by the gentle turquoise waves of the Caribbean Sea on one side and roiled by the mighty Atlantic Ocean on the other. Southeast of the U.S. and British Virgin Islands, charming Antigua has a rich history and

culture as an international sailing mecca known for its warm weather, friendly people, resorts and dining.

We arrived in early May at the tail end of one of the world’s most prestigious sailing regattas. For f if t y years, A ntig ua has hosted Antigua Sailing Week, which welcomes the global sailing community to its shores and to its sister island, Barbuda. The geography of the islands provides some of the

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sailors from 32 countries enjoyed five days of world-class racing for prizes. Spectators watched from beach and verandah parties or from spotting boats. Each day of sailing culminated in parties, including a n awa rd s pa r t y open to a l l at Nelson’s Dockyard, the highlight of the week.

The island was quiet by the time we arrived to, coincidentally, celebrate our golden anniversary. Most vessels had left to participate in the Bermuda regatta. The yachts that were left when we toured Nelson’s Dockyard and English Harbor were preparing to leave for their next regatta, and talking to the sailors as they re-provisioned, scrubbed and made repairs was a real treat. I

most ideal sailing conditions in the world. Thousands of visitors f lock to the islands to participate in or watch the week-long event and, this year, to celebrate Antigua Sailing Week’s golden anniversary.

F i f t y y e a r s a go , a g r o u p o f friends, mostly hoteliers, formed a commit tee to create a sailing regatta. Their goal was to entice sailors and spectators to Antigua and to extend the winter season.

The A nt ig ua n gover n ment a nd commercial sponsors jumped on board. The first regatta was a huge success, and now the regatta is held every year beginning on the last Sunday in April. This year, 1,500

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An Antiguan Escape am rooting for the all-female “Girls for Sail” crew.

Our f light and transport to the resort were smooth sailing, so to speak, unlike several past trips.

We were warmly greeted at the Pineapple Beach Club and served f r uit-f i l led r u m pu nche s. Wit h palm trees swaying overhead and bougainvillea showing off glorious shades of red, pink, fuchsia, white and lavender along the walk to our room, we knew we off to a splendid week in the tropics.

Bougainvillea petals were scattered on the path leading to our room. We were plea sa nt ly surprised when we opened the door.

The fuchsia petals continued on a route leading to the bed, which was decorated w ith swan sculptures made from white towels, and more bougainvillea petals. Chilled champagne, cookies and two cards from Pineapple Beach Club management welcomed us and wished us a “Happy Anniversar y.” John

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Though John usually likes to rent a car to explore a new country, on this trip he was content to sit back and enjoy touring with a Pink Panther Safaris guide. Our resort was on the opposite side of the island from the harbors, Antigua Sailing Week activities, and other major historical and cultural attractions. Roads were not well marked, and we weren’t sure we could find all the sites we wanted to see without assistance.

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and at lunch, Suri-Anne and Vincie poured us generous portions of a highly potent rum punch, which I asked to be diluted with fruit juice, and which, fortunately for all of us, the gals in hot pink shirts to match the pink Land Rover did not drink!

We merrily jeeped up and down the hills of Antigua, through rainforests and villages, alongside of beaches and seaside towns, and to harbors and historic sites. Sunscreen is always necessary these days, but more so when only 17 degrees north of the equator and in an open jeep on a sunny 85-degree day. The island is about a dozen

enthusiastically shared her knowledge of her country as we embarked on a day of exploring A ntigua’s treasures.

Our travel companions in the eig ht- s e ater i nc lude d a c ouple from Scotland and a fellow from Colorado. Since I was keeping notes about the tour to write the story, fellow passengers were counting on me to answer the quiz that SuriAnne promised was to come at the end of the day. I am not sure how she expected us to answer her questions. At every stop on the itinerary

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miles across and mostly formed of limestone, coral, clay, and some remnant volcanic matter with the highest elevation, Mount Obama, at 1,319 feet.

Antigua’s curv y shorelines, lagoons a nd nat u ra l ha rbor s a re r im med w it h reefs a nd shoa ls, which attracted the British Navy to create strategic ports there in its glory days. Nelson’s Dockyard at English Harbor is the world’s only Georgian-era dockyard still in operation. In 1784 , 26 -yearold Horatio Nelson, for whom the Dockyard is named, ser ved as a ship captain and second in command of the Antigua naval station.

A UNESCO world heritage site, the dock compound has been restored and is a highlight of any tour of the island, with hotels, shops, restaurants and a museum housed in the former naval station, also now headquarters for Antigua Sailing Week and a hub for oceangoing yachts. We had a quick tour, spoke

Nel son’s Dock yard at Engli sh Harbor is still in use today.

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Betty’s Hope, Antigua’s first sugar plantation, with restored buildings, a windmill, and a museum. We ate lunch and swam at Turners Beach, w he r e you c a n s e e t he ne a r b y Caribbean island of Montserrat.

We took a quick ride through the capital of St. John, the island’s government and business center, with stores, street markets, and a cruise ship harbor. We discovered during the tour that China is quite a friend to Antiguans. China built a new hospital and a cricket stadium for the island. At the end of the trip, I helped our rum-filled companions score 9 out of 10 on the quiz and said farewell to our new Antiguan friends, the ladies in pink.

Antigua’s history is typical of Caribbean islands, occupied by peacef u l A mer ind ia ns a nd d isplaced

by Europeans (the British, in this case) for agriculture, cane sugar plantations, and naval defense.

Antigua and Barbuda became independent of the United Kingdom in 1981, but both are part of the Commonwealth of Nations, and Queen Elizabeth II remains their queen.

to a few sailors and wished we could spend more time there.

The best view of English Harbor is from the top of a bluff called Shirley Heights, named for a former governor. A restaurant housed in former 18th century fortifications t h r ow s r auc ou s pa r t ie s on t he weekends and during sailing week.

Fort George ruins dating from 1689 compete with Shirley Heights for best hilltop views. Eric Clapton’s rambling estate, his second home, is perched on a hilltop opposite the fort, as is the Crossroads Centre, the addiction center that he founded, to give back to Antigua, hav ing recovered during peaceful stays there from his addiction demons and life traumas.

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the buf fet, the outdoor gr ill on the hill with the wild mongooses (where we created a wooden sign commemorating our anniversary and nailed it on a tree with other signs), or the snack shack? Tough decisions for a lazy beach week, but we tried everything, along with the other mostly American and British guests stay ing at the Pineapple Beach Club.

Thanks go to Barbie Smith at Smith Travel, who found this paradise for our special celebration.

They are governed by an elected parliament and a prime minister.

Also typical of Caribbean islands, A ntigua’s economy is reliant on tourism and of fers many resor t options and an airport served by several major airlines.

We enjoyed a peac ef u l, electronics-free anniversary celebration. We never even turned on the room television. We were also free of politics and news for a week.

Heavenly! A typical day was filled w it h d i f f ic u lt de c i sion s: W h at do we want the chef to include in our breakfast omelets? Meat, vegetables, cheese, or all the above?

Shall we go to the beach or pool?

Where on the beach? Which pool?

Where do we want to have lunch:

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Another Sweltering August The hot and humid days of August tempt us to stay indoors and enjoy the air conditioning. For the gardener, however, there are chores that we need to be done ~ some now, and some that shouldn’t be done until later in the fall.

If you have plantings of strawberries, they need to be fertilized now. These plants are forming fruit buds for next year’s crop. On plants set out this spring, apply 4 to 6 ounces of ammonium nitrate (33% actual nitrogen) or 12 to 18 ounces of 10-10-10 per 25 feet of row. Spread the fertilizer uniformly in a band 14 inches wide over the row when the foliage (not the ground) is dry. Brush fertilizer off leaves to avoid leaf burn.

For plants in the second year of growth, increase application rate to 6 to 8 ounces ammonium nitrate or 18 to 24 ounces of 10-10-10 per 25 feet of row. If there hasn’t been adequate rainfall, it’s important to keep them watered for better production next year.

Blueberries and brambles also need to be watered now, as they are forming fruit buds. A slow soaking with a soaker hose during a hot, dry spell is the best approach to ensure a good fruit bud set for next year. On heavy soils, however, be careful not to overwater.

As we near harvest time, don’t forget to prop up branches of fruit trees that are threatening to break under the increased weight of ripening fruit. Be sure to make a mental note now to thin next year’s fruit crop in June to reduce the number of fruit the tree is carrying. This will improve the size 83

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once a week. Don’t do a shallow daily irrigation. This is very important for newly planted shrubs and trees in the landscape, and especially for container-grown plants.

Many plants, including camellias and rhododendrons, are forming buds for next season’s bloom now. Do not prune ornamental trees and shrubs. Unless they are dead, removing branches now will stimulate new growth. Because of their late start, these new branches will be unable to acclimate for the first frost, and subsequent cold weather. The result will be dead branches and winter injury, as well as injury to the entire plant.

If you did not get around to pruning your spring-f lowering shrubs in spring or early summer, forget about them until next spring after they have f lowered. If your hedge is beginning to look a little bit shaggy, there is still time to do a light summer pruning or shearing.

This is also not the time to do extensive fertilizing of your trees and shrubs. Like late-season prun-

and quality of the remaining fruit.

Watering is also critical for fruit trees now ~ especially for peaches.

To produce larger fruit and help swell the peach f lesh, be sure the tree gets adequate water about two weeks before the tree is to be harvested.

If we have a wet August, slugs may become a problem for you. A quick and easy method of reducing the population, especially if you are squeamish about the critters, is to put out squares of cardboard in the garden each night. In the morning, if there are any slugs clinging to the underside, discard the whole square in the trash. The number and size of the squares depends on the size of your garden and how heavy the infestation. This eliminates the process of handpicking each one and is a good alternative to the beer-in-the-pan method.

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Tidewater Gardening ing, late-summer fertilizing will stimulate soft growth that is easily killed by the first frost. In addition to producing soft growth, fertilizing can stimulate the plants into growth if we have an Indian summer later this fall. If this happens, you can almost guarantee that your plants will not survive a harsh winter.

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avoid deep cultivation in your f lower beds. Loosening the soil under these conditions reduces water uptake and damages surface roots.

Plants often look much worse after cultivation than before.

Remember to water roses with at least one inch of water per week. Remove spent blooms (deadheading) to encourage quicker rebloom. Cut down into thick canes for largest blooms.

Prune 1/4 inch above an outwardfacing five-leaf let eye. Watch for spider mites on the underside of the upper leaves. A blast of water will discourage them. Continue fertilizing your roses once a month for both August and September.

of these leaves does little harm to the tree. In wet springs, vigorously growing trees may make too many leaves. Once the normal summer dryness comes, the trees drop excess leaves to maintain a balance.

Sometimes the tree’s inner leaves and twigs are shaded out by the upper, outer leaves and branches. These leaves die for lack of sunlight. An entire tree may be shaded out by a larger tree, causing it to die. Two adjoining trees may mutually shade out the sides that face each other. If one of the trees then dies, the other has only dead branches on that side.

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You can still get in a couple more plantings of green beans for a fall crop. An insect pest that sometimes shows up on green beans is the Mexican bean beetle (MBB).

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Two foliage diseases that show up in late summer, when the days are warm and the nights cool, are downy and powdery mildew. These diseases affect vine-type vegetables and tomatoes. The first of these, downy mildew, is a problem on beans, cucumbers and canteloupes.

This fungus disease causes yellowto-dark areas on the upper surface of older leaves. Turn the leaf over and you’ll see a whitish or gray-colored mold in patches. The mold may also occur on bean pods. Affected vines will be scorched and killed.

Powdery mildew appears as a white or brownish talcum-like growth on leaves and young stems of squash, pumpkins, cantaloupes and cucumbers. Especially look for it on the upper surface of leaves.

It will also sometimes affect the fruit. Severely infected plants will turn yellow, wither and die.

To control either downy or powdery mildew, use resistant varieties, practice crop rotation within your garden, and maintain good weed control. It also helps to properly space plants. Overcrowding keeps the humidity high around the plants and favors development and spread of the diseases. Destroy affected crops in the fall, since they serve as a source of new infections next year.

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Sometimes home gardeners are confused as to when to harvest cucumbers and melons. Harvest the cukes when they are small to midsize. If you wait and let them grow too big, they will become bitter and unpleasantly woody.

Did you know that a heavy rainfall, like a thunderstorm, at harvest can dilute the sugars in melons?

Watermelons can re-concentrate sugar if left on the vine for a few dry days, but canteloupes can’t.

Cantaloupes are ready to be harvested when the melons pull easily from the stem; honeydews when the blossom end is slightly soft or springy; watermelons when there is a hollow sound when thumped and skin loses its shine. You should also run your hand around the middle of a watermelon. When fully ripe, most varieties develop low, longitudinal ridges, rather like f lexed calf muscles.

Finally, don’t forget the fall vegetable garden. Go no later than the first week in August to start seeds of cool weather vegetables like broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, collards and lettuce to transplant into the garden in early to mid-September.

Happy Gardening!

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Be sure to read the label of any pesticide before using it. It is also important to reduce the spread of the disease by not watering the plant leaves, avoiding touching the wet leaves, and providing for adequate air circulation between and around the plants to help the leaves dry quickly. Be sure to harvest the crops as soon as they are mature to avoid heavy disease damage.

Marc Teffeau retired as Director of Research and Regulatory Affairs at the American Nursery and Landscape Association in Washington, D.C. He now lives in Georgia with his wife, Linda.

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HERITAGE MUSEUMS and GARDENS of DORCHESTER - Home of the Dorchester County Historical Society, Heritage Museum offers a range of local history and gardens on its grounds. The Meredith House, a 1760’s Georgian home, features artifacts and exhibits on the seven Maryland governors associated with the county; a child’s room containing antique dolls and toys; and other period displays. The Neild Museum houses a broad collection of agricultural, maritime, industrial, and Native American artifacts, including a McCormick reaper (invented by Cyrus McCormick in 1831). The Ron Rue exhibit pays tribute to a talented local decoy carver with a re-creation of his workshop. The Goldsborough Stable, circa 1790, includes a sulky, pony cart, horse-driven sleighs, and tools of the woodworker, wheelwright, and blacksmith. For more info. tel: 410-228-7953 or visit dorchesterhistory.org.

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DORCHESTER CENTER FOR THE ARTS - Located at 321 High Street in Cambridge, the Center offers monthly gallery exhibits and shows, extensive art classes, and special events, as well as an artisans’ gift shop with an array of items created by local and regional artists. For more info. tel: 410-228-7782 or visit www.dorchesterarts.org.

RICHARDSON MARITIME MUSEUM - Located at 401 High St., Cambridge, the Museum makes history come alive for visitors in the form of exquisite models of traditional Bay boats. The Museum also offers a collection of boatbuilders’ tools and watermen’s artifacts that convey an understanding of how the boats were constructed and the history of their use. The Museum’s Ruark Boatworks facility, located on Maryland Ave., is passing on the knowledge and skills of area boatwrights to volunteers and visitors alike. Watch boatbuilding and restoration in action. For more info. tel: 410-221-1871 or visit www.richardsonmuseum.org.

HARRIET TUBMAN MUSEUM & EDUCATIONAL CENTER - The Museum and Educational Center is developing programs to preserve the history and memory of Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad.

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Dorchester Points of Interest Race St., Cambridge, is one of the stops on the “Finding a Way to Freedom” self-guided driving tour. For more info. tel: 410-228-0401 or visit www. harriettubmanorganization.org.

SPOCOTT WINDMILL - Since 1972, Dorchester County has had a fully operating English style post windmill that was expertly crafted by the late master shipbuilder, James B. Richardson. There has been a succession of windmills at this location dating back to the late 1700’s. The complex also includes an 1800 tenant house, one-room school, blacksmith shop, and country store museum. The windmill is located at 1625 Hudson Rd., Cambridge. For more info. visit www.spocottwindmill.org.

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.

OLD TRINITY CHURCH in Church Creek was built in the 17th century and perfectly restored in the 1950s. This tiny architectural gem continues to house an active congregation of the Episcopal Church. The old graveyard around the church contains the graves of the veterans of the American Revolution, the War of 1812, and the American Civil War. This part of the cemetery also includes the grave of Maryland’s Governor Carroll and his daughter Anna Ella Carroll who was an advisor to Abraham Lincoln. The date of the oldest burial is not known because the wooden markers common in the 17th century have disappeared. For more info. tel: 410-228-2940 or visit www.oldtrinity.net.

BUCKTOWN VILLAGE STORE - Visit the site where Harriet Tubman received a blow to her head that fractured her skull. From this injury Harriet believed God gave her the vision and directions that inspired her to guide 100

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.

HARRIET TUBMAN VISITOR CENTER - Located adjacent to the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Visitor Center immerses visitors in Tubman’s world through informative, evocative and emotive exhibits. The immersive displays show how the landscape of the Choptank River region shaped her early years and the importance of her faith, family and community. The exhibits also feature information about Tubman’s life beginning with her childhood in Maryland, her emancipation from slavery, her time as a conductor on the Underground Railroad and her continuous advocacy for justice. For more info. visit dnr2. maryland.gov/publiclands/Pages/eastern/tubman_visitorcenter.aspx.

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Dorchester Points of Interest 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.

For more info. visit http://eastnewmarket.us.

HURLOCK TRAIN STATION - Incorporated in 1892, Hurlock ranks as the second largest town in Dorchester County. It began from a 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 museum displays the last surviving mother-of-pearl button manufacturing operation in the country, as well as artifacts of local history. The 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., offers daily tours of the winemaking operation. The family-oriented Layton’s also hosts a range of events, from a harvest festival to karaoke happy hour to concerts.

For more info. tel. 410-228-1205 or visit www.laytonschance.com.

HANDSELL HISTORIC SITE - Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008, the site is used to interpret the native American contact period with the English, the slave and later African American story and the life of all those who lived at Handsell. The grounds are open daily from dawn to dusk. Visitors can view the exterior of the circa 1770/1837 brick house, currently undergoing preservation work. Nearby is the Chicone Village, a replica single-family dwelling complex of the Native People who once inhabited the site. Special living history events are held several times a year. Located at 4837 Indiantown Road, Vienna. For more info. tel: 410228-745 or visit www.restorehandsell.org.

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Easton Points of Interest Historic Downtown Easton is the county seat of Talbot County.

Established around early religious settlements and a court of law, today the historic district of Easton is a centerpiece of fine specialty shops, business and cultural activities, unique restaurants and architectural fascination. Tree-lined streets are graced with various period structures and remarkable homes, carefully preserved or restored.

Because of its historical significance, Easton has earned distinction as the “Colonial Capital of the Eastern Shore” and was honored as #8 in the book, “The 100 Best Small Towns in America.”

Walking Tour of Downtown 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 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 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 waterfowlfestival.org.

7. ACADEMY ART MUSEUM - 106 South St. Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, the Academy Art Museum is a fine art museum founded in 1958. Providing national and regional 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 seasonal events. The Museum’s permanent collection consists of works on paper and contemporary works by American and European masters. Mon. through Thurs. 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday, Saturday, Sunday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. First Friday of each month open until 7 p.m. For more info. tel: (410) 822-ARTS (2787) or visit academyartmuseum.org.

8. CHRIST CHURCH - St. Peter’s Parish, 111 South Harrison St. Founded in 1692, the Parish’s church building is one of the many historic landmarks of downtown Easton. The current building was erected in the early 1840’s of Port Deposit granite and an addition on the south end was completed in 1874. Since that time there have been many improve-

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9. TALBOT HISTORICAL SOCIET Y - Located in the heart of Easton’s historic district. Enjoy an evocative portrait of everyday life during earlier times when visiting the c. 18th and 19th century historic houses, all of which surround a Federal-style garden. For more info. tel: 410822-0773 or visit hstc.org. Tharpe Antiques and Decorative Arts is now located at 25 S. Washington St. Consignments accepted by appointment, please call 410-820-7525. Proceeds support the Talbot Historical Society.

10. ODD FELLOWS LODGE - At the corner of Washington and Dover streets stands a building with secrets. It was constructed in 1879 as the meeting hall for the Odd Fellows. Carved into the stone and placed into the stained glass are images and symbols that have meaning only for members. See if you can find the dove, linked rings and other symbols.

11. TALBOT COUNTY COURTHOUSE - Long known as the “East Capital” of Maryland. The present building was completed in 1794 on the site of the earlier one built in 1711. It has been remodeled several times.

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Easton Points of Interest 11A. FREDERICK DOUGLASS STATUE - 11 N. Washington St. on the lawn of the Talbot County Courthouse. The statue honors Frederick Douglass in his birthplace, Talbot County, where the experiences in his youth ~ both positive and negative ~ helped form his character, intellect and determination. Also on the grounds is a memorial to the veterans who fought and died in the Vietnam War, and a monument “To the Talbot Boys,” commemorating the men from Talbot who fought for the Confederacy. The memorial for the Union soldiers was never built.

12. SHANNAHAN & WRIGHTSON HARDWARE BUILDING 12 N. Washington St. It is the oldest store in Easton. In 1791, Owen Kennard began work on a new brick building that changed hands several times throughout the years. Dates on the building show when additions were made in 1877, 1881 and 1889. The present front was completed in time for a grand opening on Dec. 7, 1941 - Pearl Harbor Day. 13. THE BRICK HOTEL - northwest corner of Washington and Federal streets. Built in 1812, it became the Eastern Shore’s leading hostelry. When court was in session, plaintiffs, defendants and lawyers all came to town and shared rooms in hotels such as this. Frederick

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Douglass stayed in the Brick Hotel when he came back after the Civil War and gave a speech in the courthouse. It is now an office building.

14. THOMAS PERRIN SMITH HOUSE - 119 N. Washington St. Built in 1803, it was the early home of the newspaper from which the Star-Democrat grew. In 1911, the building was acquired by the Chesapeake Bay Yacht Club, which occupies it today.

15. ART DECO STORES - 13-25 Goldsborough Street. Although much of Easton looks Colonial or Victorian, the 20th century had its inf luences as well. This row of stores has distinctive 1920s-era white trim at the roofline. It is rumored that there was a speakeasy here during Prohibition.

16. FIRST MASONIC GR AND LODGE - 23 N. Harrison Street.

The records of Coats Lodge of Masons in Easton show that five Masonic Lodges met in Talbot Court House (as Easton was then called) on July 31, 1783 to form the first Grand Lodge of Masons in Maryland. Although the building where they first met is gone, a plaque marks the spot today.

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17. FOXLEY HALL - 24 N. Aurora St., Built about 1795, Foxley Hall is one of the best-known of Easton’s Federal dwellings. Former home of Oswald Tilghman, great-grandson of Lt. Col. Tench Tilghman. (Private)

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Easton Points of Interest 18. TRINITY EPISCOPAL CATHEDR AL - 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. For more info. tel: 410-822-1931 or visit trinitycathedraleaston.com.

19. INN AT 202 DOVER - Built in 1874, this Victorian-era mansion ref lects many architectural styles. For years the building was known as the Wrightson House, thanks to its early 20th century owner, Charles T. Wrightson, one of the founders of the S. & W. canned food empire. Locally it is still referred to as Captain’s Watch due to its prominent balustraded widow’s walk. The Inn’s renovation in 2006 was acknowledged by the Maryland Historic Trust and the U.S. Dept. of the Interior.

20. TALBOT COUNTY FREE LIBRARY - Housed in an attractively remodeled building on West Street, the hours of operation are Mon. and Thurs., 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., Tues. and Wed. 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Fri. and Sat., 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit tcf l.org.

21. MEMORIAL HOSPITAL AT EASTON - Established in the early 1900s, now one of the finest hospitals on the Eastern Shore. Memorial

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22. THIRD HAVEN FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE (Quaker). Built 1682-84, this is the earliest documented building in MD and probably the oldest Quaker Meeting House in the U.S. William Penn and many other historical figures have worshiped here. In continuous use since it was built, today it is still home to an active Friends’ community. Visitors welcome; group tours available on request. thirdhaven.org.

23. TALBOT COMMUNITY CENTER - The year-round activities offered at the community center range from ice hockey to figure skating, aerobics and curling. The Center is also host to many events throughout the year, such as antique, craft, boating and sportsman shows.

Near Easton 24. PICKERING CREEK - 400-acre farm and science education center featuring 100 acres of forest, a mile of shoreline, nature trails, low-ropes challenge course and canoe launch. Trails are open seven days a week from dawn till dusk. Canoes are free for members. For more info. tel: 410-822-4903 or visit pickeringcreek.org.

25. W YE GRIST MILL - The oldest working mill in Maryland (ca.

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Easton Points of Interest The Friends of Wye Mill, and grinds f lour to this day using two massive grindstones powered by a 26 horsepower overshot waterwheel. For more info. visit oldwyemill.org.

26. W YE ISL A ND NATUR AL RESOURCE MA NAGEMENT AREA - Located between the Wye River and the Wye East River, the area provides habitat for waterfowl and native wildlife. There are 6 miles of trails that provide opportunities for hiking, birding and wildlife viewing.

For more info. visit dnr.state.md.us/publiclands/eastern/wyeisland.asp.

27. OLD WYE CHURCH - Old Wye Church is one of the oldest active Anglican Communion parishes in Talbot County. Wye Chapel was built between 1718 and 1721 and opened for worship on October 18, 1721. For more info. visit wyeparish.org.

28. WHITE MARSH CHURCH - The original structure was built before 1690. Early 18th century rector was the Reverend Daniel Maynadier. A later provincial rector (1764–1768), the Reverend Thomas Bacon, compiled “Bacon’s Laws,” authoritative compendium of Colonial Statutes.

Robert Morris, Sr., father of Revolutionary financier is buried here.

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1. WADES POINT INN - Located on a point of land overlooking majestic Chesapeake Bay, this historic inn has been welcoming guests for over 100 years. Thomas Kemp, builder of the original “Pride of Baltimore,” built the main house in 1819. For more info. visit www.wadespoint.com.

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St. Michaels Points of Interest 2. HARBOURTOWNE GOLF RESORT - Bayview Restaurant and Duck Blind Bar on the scenic Miles River with an 18 hole golf course. For more info. visit www.harbourtowne.com. (Now under renovation) 3. MILES RIVER YACHT CLUB - Organized in 1920, the Miles River Yacht Club continues its dedication to boating on our waters and the protection of the heritage of log canoes, the oldest class of boat still sailing U. S. waters. The MRYC has been instrumental in preserving the log canoe and its rich history on the Chesapeake Bay. For more info. visit www.milesriveryc.org.

4. THE INN AT PERRY CABIN - The original building was constructed in the early 19th century by Samuel Hambleton, a purser in the United States Navy during the War of 1812. It was named for his friend, Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry. Perry Cabin has served as a riding academy and was restored in 1980 as an inn and restaurant. For more info. visit www.belmond.com/inn-at-perry-cabin-st-michaels/.

5. THE PARSONAGE INN - A bed and breakfast inn at 210 N. Talbot St., was built by Henry Clay Dodson, a prominent St. Michaels businessman and state legislator around 1883 as his private residence. In 1877, Dodson,

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St. Michaels Points of Interest along with Joseph White, established the St. Michaels Brick Company, which later provided the brick for the house. For more info. visit www. parsonage-inn.com.

6. FREDERICK DOUGLASS HISTORIC MARKER - Born at Tuckahoe Creek, Talbot County, Douglass lived as a slave in the St. Michaels area from 1833 to 1836. He taught himself to read and taught in clandestine schools for blacks here. He escaped to the north and became a noted abolitionist, orator and editor. He returned in 1877 as a U.S. Marshal for the District of Columbia and also served as the D.C. Recorder of Deeds and the U.S. Minister to Haiti.

7. CHESAPEAKE BAY MARITIME MUSEUM - Founded in 1965, the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum is dedicated to preserving the rich heritage of the hemisphere’s largest and most productive estuary - the Chesapeake Bay. Located on 18 waterfront acres, its nine exhibit buildings and floating fleet bring to life the story of the Bay and its inhabitants, from the fully restored 1879 Hooper Strait lighthouse and working boatyard to the impressive collection of working decoys and a recreated waterman’s shanty.

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8. THE CRAB CLAW - Restaurant adjoining the Maritime Museum and overlooking St. Michaels harbor. Open March-November. 410-7452900 or www.thecrabclaw.com.

9. PATRIOT - During the season (April-November) the 65’ cruise boat can carry 150 persons, runs daily historic narrated cruises along the Miles River. For daily cruise times, visit www.patriotcruises.com or call 410-745-3100.

10. THE FOOTBRIDGE - Built on the site of many earlier bridges, today’s bridge joins Navy Point to Cherry Street. It has been variously known as “Honeymoon Bridge” and “Sweetheart Bridge.” It is the only remaining bridge of three that at one time connected the town with outlying areas around the harbor.

11. VICTORIANA INN - The Victoriana Inn is located in the Historic District of St. Michaels. The home was built in 1873 by Dr. Clay Dodson, a druggist, and occupied as his private residence and office. In 1910 the property, then known as “Willow Cottage,” underwent alterations when

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St. Michaels Points of Interest acquired by the Shannahan family who continued it as a private residence for over 75 years. As a bed and breakfast, circa 1988, major renovations took place, preserving the historic character of the gracious Victorian era.

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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. For more info. visit www.hambletoninn.com.

13. SNUGGERY B&B - Oldest residence in St. Michaels, c. 1665.The structure incorporates the remains of a log home that was originally built on the beach and later moved to its present location. www.snuggery1665.com.

14. LOCUST STREET - A stroll down Locust Street is a look into the past of St. Michaels. The Haddaway House at 103 Locust St. was built by Thomas L. Haddaway in the late 1700s. Haddaway owned and operated the shipyard at the foot of the street. Wickersham, at 203 Locust Street, was built in 1750 and was moved to its present location in 2004. It is known for its glazed brickwork. Hell’s Crossing is the intersection of Locust and Carpenter streets and is so-named because in the late 1700’s, the town was described as a rowdy one, in keeping with a port town where sailors would

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St. Michaels Points of Interest come for a little excitement. They found it in town, where there were saloons and working-class townsfolk ready to do business with them. Fights were common especially in an area of town called Hells Crossing. At the end of Locust Street is Muskrat Park. It provides a grassy spot on the harbor for free summer concerts and is home to the two cannons that are replicas of the ones given to the town by Jacob Gibson in 1813 and confiscated by Federal troops at the beginning of the Civil War. 15. 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.

16. TALBOT COUNTY FREE LIBRARY - St. Michaels Branch is located at 106 S. Fremont Street. For more info. tel: 410-745-5877 or visit www.tcfl.org.

17. CARPENTER STREET SALOON - Life in the Colonial community revolved around the tavern. The traveler could, of course, obtain food, drink, lodging or even a fresh horse to speed his journey. This tavern was built in 1874 and has served the community as a bank, a newspaper

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St. Michaels Points of Interest office, post office and telephone company. For more info. visit www. carpenterstreetsaloon.com.

18. TWO SWAN INN - The Two Swan Inn on the harbor served as the former site of the Miles River Yacht Club, was built in the 1800s and was renovated in 1984. It is located at the foot of Carpenter Street. For more info. visit www.twoswaninn.com.

19. TARR HOUSE - Built by Edward Elliott as his plantation home about 1661. It was Elliott and an indentured servant, Darby Coghorn, who built the first church in St. Michaels. This was about 1677, on the site of the present Episcopal Church (6 Willow Street, near Locust).

20. CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH - 301 S. Talbot St. Built of Port Deposit stone, the present church was erected in 1878. The first is believed to have been built in 1677 by Edward Elliott. For more info. tel: 410-745-9076.

21. THE OLD BRICK INN - Built in 1817 by Wrightson Jones, who opened and operated the shipyard at Beverly on Broad Creek. (Talbot St. at Mulberry). For more info. visit www.oldbrickinn.com.

22. THE CANNONBALL HOUSE - When St. Michaels was shelled by the British in a night attack in 1813, the town was “blacked out” and

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St. Michaels Points of Interest lanterns were hung in the trees to lead the attackers to believe the town was on a high bluff. The houses were overshot. The story is that a cannonball hit the chimney of “Cannonball House” and rolled down the stairway. This “blackout” was believed to be the first such “blackout” in the history of warfare.

23. AMELIA WELBY HOUSE - Amelia Coppuck, who became Amelia Welby, was born in this house and wrote poems that won her fame and the praise of Edgar Allan Poe. 24. ST. MICHAELS MUSEUM at ST. MARY’S SQUARE - Located in the heart of the historic district, offers a unique view of 19th century life in St. Michaels. The exhibits are housed in three period buildings and contain local furniture and artifacts donated by residents. The museum is supported entirely through community efforts. For more info. tel: 410745-9561 or www.stmichaelsmuseum.org.

25. GR ANITE LODGE #177 - Located on St. Mary’s Square, Granite Lodge was built in 1839. The building stands on the site of the first Methodist Church in St. Michaels on land donated to the Methodists by James Braddock in 1781. Between then and now, the building has served variously as a church, schoolhouse and as a storehouse for muskrat skins.

26. KEMP HOUSE - Now a country inn. A Georgian style house, constructed in 1805 by Colonel Joseph Kemp, a revolutionary soldier and hero of the War of 1812. For more info. visit www.kemphouseinn.com.

27. THE OLD MILL COMPLEX - The Old Mill was a functioning flour mill from the late 1800s until the 1970s, producing f lour used primarily for Maryland beaten biscuits. Today it is home to a brewery, distillery, artists, furniture makers, and other unique shops and businesses.

28. CLASSIC MOTOR MUSEUM - Located at 102 E. Marengo Street, the Classic Motor Museum is a living museum of classic automobiles, motorcycles, and other forms of transportation, and providing educational resources to classic car enthusiasts. For more info. visit classicmotormuseum.org.

29. ST. MICHAELS HARBOUR INN, MARINA & SPA - Constructed in 1986 and recently renovated. For more info. visit www.harbourinn.com.

30. ST. MICHAELS NATURE TRAIL - This 1.3 mile paved walkway winds around the western side of St. Michaels starting at a dedicated parking lot on South Talbot Street. The path cuts through the woods, San Domingo Park, over a covered bridge and ending in Bradley Park. The trail is open all year from dawn to dusk.

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Today, Oxford is a charming tree-lined and waterbound village with a population of just over 700 and is still important in boat building and yachting. It has a protected harbor for watermen who harvest oysters, crabs, clams and fish, and for sailors from all over the Bay. 1. TENCH TILGHMAN MONUMENT - In the Oxford Cemetery the Revolutionary War hero’s body lies along with that of his widow. Lt. Col. Tench Tilghman carried the message of Cornwallis’ surrender from Yorktown, VA, to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia. Across the cove from the

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Oxford Points of Interest cemetery may be seen Plimhimmon, home of Tench Tilghman’s widow, Anna Marie Tilghman.

2. THE OXFORD COMMUNITY CENTER - This former, pillared brick schoolhouse was saved from the wrecking ball by the town residents.

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3. 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.

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4. CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY - Founded in 1851. Designed by esteemed British architect Richard Upton, co-founder of the American Institute of Architects. It features beautiful stained glass windows by the acclaimed Willet Studios of Philadelphia. www.holytrinityoxfordmd.org.

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Oxford Points of Interest 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 preservation of artifacts and memories of Oxford, MD. Admission is free; donations gratefully accepted. For more info. and hours tel: 410-226-0191 or visit www.oxfordmuseum.org.

7. OXFORD LIBRARY - 101 Market St. Founded in 1939 and on its present site since 1950. Hours are Mon.-Sat., 10-4.

8. BRATT MANSION (ACADEMY HOUSE) - 205 N. Morris St. Served as quarters for officers of the Maryland Military Academy. Built about 1848. (Private residence) 9. BARNABY HOUSE - 212 N. Morris St. Built in 1770 by sea captain Richard Barnaby, this charming house contains original pine woodwork, corner fireplaces and an unusually lovely handmade staircase. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places. (Private residence)

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Oxford Points of Interest 10. THE GRAPEVINE HOUSE - 309 N. Morris St. The grapevine over the entrance arbor was brought from the Isle of Jersey in 1810 by Captain William Willis, who commanded the brig “Sarah and Louisa.” (Private residence) 11. THE ROBERT MORRIS INN - N. Morris St. & The Strand.

Robert Morris was the father of Robert Morris, Jr., the “financier of the Revolution.” Built about 1710, part of the original house with a beautiful staircase is contained in the beautifully restored Inn, now open 7 days a week. Robert Morris, Jr. was one of only 2 Founding Fathers to sign the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the United States Constitution. 410-226-5111 or www.robertmorrisinn.com.

12. THE OXFORD CUSTOM HOUSE - N. Morris St. & The Strand.

Built in 1976 as Oxford’s official Bicentennial project. It is a replica of the first Federal Custom House built by Jeremiah Banning, who was the first Federal Collector of Customs appointed by George Washington.

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Oxford Points of Interest Started in 1683, this is believed to be the oldest privately operated ferry in the United States. Its first keeper was Richard Royston, whom the Talbot County Court “pitcht upon” to run a ferry at an unusual subsidy of 2,500 pounds of tobacco. Service has been continuous since 1836, with power supplied by sail, sculling, rowing, steam, and modern diesel engine. Many now take the ride between Oxford and Bellevue for the scenic beauty.

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Tilghman’s Island “Great Choptank Island” was granted to Seth Foster in 1659. Thereafter it was known as Foster’s Island, and remained so through a succession of owners until Matthew Tilghman of Claiborne inherited it in 1741. He and his heirs owned the island for over a century and it has been Tilghman’s Island ever since, though the northern village and the island’s postal designation are simply “Tilghman.”

For its first 175 years, the island was a family farm, supplying grains, vegetables, fruit, cattle, pigs and timber. Although the owners rarely were in residence, many slaves were: an 1817 inventory listed 104. The last Tilghman owner, General Tench Tilghman (not Washington’s aide-de-camp), removed the slaves in the 1830s and began selling off lots. In 1849, he sold his remaining interests to James Seth, who continued the development.

The island’s central location in the middle Bay is ideally suited for watermen harvesting the Bay in all seasons. The years before the Civil War saw the influx of the first families we know today. A second wave arrived after the War, attracted by the advent of oyster dredging in the 1870s. Hundreds of dredgers and tongers operated out of Tilghman’s Island, their catches sent to the cities by schooners. Boat building, too, was an important industry.

The boom continued into the 1890s, spurred by the arrival of steamboat service, which opened vast new markets for Bay seafood. Islanders quickly capitalized on the opportunity as several seafood buyers set up shucking and canning operations on pilings at the edge of the shoal of Dogwood Cove. The discarded oyster shells eventually became an island with seafood packing houses, hundreds of workers, a store, and even a post office.

The steamboats also brought visitors who came to hunt, fish, relax and escape the summer heat of the cities. Some families stayed all summer in one of the guest houses that sprang up in the villages of Tilghman, Avalon, Fairbank and Bar Neck. Although known for their independence, Tilghman’s Islanders enjoy showing visitors how to pick a crab, shuck an oyster or find a good fishing spot.

In the twentieth century, Islanders pursued these vocations in farming, on the water, and in the thriving seafood processing industry. The “Tilghman Brand” was known throughout the eastern United States, but as the Bay’s bounty diminished, so did the number of water-related jobs. Still, three of the few remaining Bay skipjacks (sailing dredgeboats) can be seen here, as well as two working harbors with scores of power workboats.

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The Coast Guard Station That Was by Gary D. Crawford

Once there was a U. S. Coast Guard Station on Tilghman’s Island, though it has been gone now for nearly fifty years. Oddly, even the Coast Guard seems to have forgotten about it.

It was a modest little station but an important one, for it was ideally located to serve the upper Eastern Shore and the Mid-Bay area.

The station was on the waterfront end of Capt. Clay Lowery’s proper t y, wh ich wa s L ot #1 on Chicken Point Road. It lay just

beside the Main Road, right by the Tilghman Bridge just at the midpoint of Knapps Narrows.

When Capt. Lowery passed away in 1959, the property, and most of Lot #2 beside it, came into the possession of the Levin Harrison family, and they established the Harrison oyster company there. The portion leased by the Coast Guard included a roomy boat slip wide enough for both their big 40-foot utility boat and a smaller workboat.

Their Forty had two GM diesel

Tilghman Station circa 1963.

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engines, which made her fast and gave her enough power to enable her to tow vessels when necessary. They also had a 25-foot workboat, with a cabin and a four-cycle diesel engine, that was used in the maintenance of beacons and other navigational aids.

So, the Guard tows boats and fixes navigation beacons, but what else? Do they actually guard our coasts? How is the Coast Guard different from the Marine Police, for example, or the Navy, for that matter? To put it another way, what is the mission of the United States Coast Guard, exactly, and how long has it been around?

As it turns out, the U.S. Coast Guard has a wonderfully complex history, intertwined with the evolution of our nation. Just two years ago, the USCG celebrated the one hundredth anniversary of its founding in 1915.

If that sounds surprisingly young, it is ~ and here’s why.

The Coast Guard grew out of five

older organizations, each with a distinct but complementary mission, and each, of course, with a different name. In tracing Coast Guard’s origins, I found them easier to unravel than to ravel.

Now, before you wr ite in to complain, I do realize that “ravel” and “unravel” now mean the same thing ~ to untangle ~ though that was not always the case. You may have noticed that the same thing has happened to “inflammable.” It originally meant not burnable, but now it means the opposite. And this “un-muddling” continues. Just the other day, I heard someone ask if he should unthaw the fish. (Why, sure, Bob, just drop it back in the freezer.)

But we digress. The point here is that to discover the origins of the Coast Guard, it is easier to work backwards from its present mission.

Today’s Coast Guard has these six responsibilities: (1) Aids to Navigation (2) Law Enforcement (3) Search and Rescue (4) Preventive Safety (5) Military Readiness (6) Environmental Protection.

That first mission element ~ aids to navigation ~ runs deep into our past, back to the very beginning of our nation. Recognizing that safe travel on American waters was vital to life and property, our founding fathers agreed that maintaining aids to navigation, especially lighthouses, must be a federal responsi-

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Coast Guard Station bility. The ninth bill passed by the First Congress, on August 7, 1789, provided that the Department of the Treasur y should defray “all necessar y support, maintenance a nd repa i r s of a l l l ig ht hou se s, beacons, buoys and public piers erected, placed, or sunk before the passing of this act, at the entrance of, or within any bay, inlet, harbor, or port of the United States, for rendering the navigation thereof easy and safe.� The U.S. Light-House Service was created that same year, and its duties are now assigned to the Coast Guard.

Why did Congress put this new agency under the Treasury Department? Just as important as having safe water ways, the new nation needed money. In the days before corporate and personal income taxes, customs duties ~ the taxes paid on imported goods ~ were about the only source of revenue for the federal government. Of course, customs laws need to be enforced, because if everything gets smuggled in, there is no revenue. So the follow ing year, in 1790, Congress created the Revenue-Marine, later known as the Revenue Cutter Service, also under t he Treasur y Depar tment. This anti-smuggling responsibility now belongs to the Coast Guard. Today, much of the attention is given to drug interdiction.

With vessels operating through-

out American waters, search-andrescue operations became a natural part of the Revenue Cutter Service.

The fourth mission element ~ preventive safety ~ arose in the early 19th centur y w ith the development of steam engines. By 1800, these were being installed in canal boats and river craft, and by mid-century, steamboats were everywhere on American waters.

The need to develop a better powerto-weight ratio led to engines with higher operating pressures. Steam boilers tend to corrode, however, as a natural by-product of water being converted to high-pressure steam.

They could explode with deadly results, and did. By mid-century, this was happening with frightening regularity.

In 1844, the Lucy Walker was coming down the Ohio River from Louisville, bound for New Orleans.

Near New Albany, Indiana, her engines broke down. She drifted more than five miles downstream while boiler repairs were attempted.

Without warning, the three-boiler side-wheeler suddenly exploded,

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killing 100 or more. And worse was to come.

In April of 1865, thousands of prisoners released from Confederate prisoner-of-war camps were stuck in Vicksburg awaiting transpor tation to t he nor t h. Reuben Hatch, the Vicksburg quartermaster, made a deal with Captain J. Cass Mason, master of Sultana, a Mississippi steamboat bound for New Orleans. Hatch made a deal with Mason to pick up some of the ex-prisoners on his way back north.

Although the Sultana had a capacity of 461 passengers and crew, Mason agreed to stop and pick up 1,400 of Hatch’s men. (The government was paying the fares ~ $5 per enlisted man, $10 per officer ~ and

Mason and Hatch agreed to split the money.)

A f ter a qu ick t u r na rou nd i n New Orleans, the Sultana fought her way back nor th against the powerful spring f lood waters of the Mississippi, straining her engines.

She limped into Vicksburg, and temporary repairs were made to a damaged boiler while Hatch and Mason packed 1,978 of the released prisoners aboard ~ together with 70 regular passengers, 22 guards, and 85 crew. She left Vicksburg on April 24 with a total of 2,155 souls aboard. Out on the turbulent river, Sultana was so unstable that she rolled violently from side to side, causing water to slosh between her boilers.

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This astonishing photo was taken two days later in Helena, Arkansas, with decks overf lowing.

The following day, she was a few miles from Memphis when her boilers exploded and blew the vessel to smithereens.

Many of those who didn’t die in the explosion drowned soon thereafter in the frigid waters. These were boys who had endured starvation conditions in Andersonville and Cahaba prisons; some were invalids.

In all, some 1,200 died.

The country was appalled, and new inspect ion r ules went into ef fect immediately. In 1871, the Steamboat Inspection Service was

created. Vessel safety later would become another component in the mission of the U. S. Coast Guard.

In time of war, the Coast Guard joins forces with the military services. During WWII, Coast Guard craft rescued over 1,500 survivors of torpedo attacks in American coastal waters. Coast Guard cutters (vessels over 65 feet in length) also served as convoy escorts and saved over 1,000; another 1,500 more were rescued during the Normandy operation. In addition to manning 802 cutters, Coast Guardsmen served as crew aboard other vessels ~ 351 naval vessels and 288 Army vessels.

Nearly 2,000 Guardsmen died in the war, a third of whom were killed in action.

The Coasties even sank a U-boat!

In April of 1943, while escorting a convoy across the Atlantic to England, the sonar-man aboard the USCGC Spencer detected a submerged submarine. As U-175 maneuvered to attack a large tanker within the convoy, the Spencer slid over and dropped depth charges, bracketing the U-boat perfectly. Damage to her

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hull forced the sub to the surface, where she surrendered. After her crew was taken off, the sub was sunk by gunfire.

The Coast Guard’s sixth mission element ~ environmental protection ~ began in the early 1800s and expanded massively with the purchase of Alaska in 1867. Operating in polar waters became a Coast Guard specialty and led, over the years, to a succession of famous vessels adapted for work in the arctic.

They were engaged in supply and rescue operations, as well as regular patrols guarding against illegal harvests of seals, whales, and timber.

Icebreaking duties were shared with the U. S. Navy, particularly in Antarctica, until the Vietnam War. In

1966, the Navy turned over all five of its icebreakers so that today the Coast Guard has sole responsibility for icebreaking.

Modern Coast Guard icebreakers are mammoth. The Polar Star has six diesel engines and three gas turbine engines, together generating nearly 100,000 horsepower. She can push through ice four feet thick

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Coast Guard Station and, by riding up onto the ice, can ram through ice over 20 feet thick.

Even bigger icebreakers are now being planned.

In 1989, the cutter Rush became a f loating control tower, directing more than 300 aircraft daily around the site of the Exxon Valdez oil spill disaster. The photo below shows her refueling a helicopter in f light.

G ot a ll t hat? There w ill be a quiz on Friday, so let’s reiterate.

The Coast Guard can be traced back to 1789. Over the years, it has superseded and subsumed various federal ser v ice agencies, before finally being christened the United States Coast Guard in 1915, with responsibility for (1) Aids to Navigation, (2) Law Enforcement, (3) Search and Rescue, (4) Preventive Safety, (5) Military Readiness, and (6) Environmental Protection.

Now back to Tilghman’s Island.

The Station here was manned by a crew of up to ten. Naturally, they came

for various lengths of time and then moved on to assignments elsewhere.

One of these was Dwight Eisenhower Kelley, known as “Buddy.”

He enlisted in the Coast Guard in 1963 at age 18 and reported to the USCG Training Center in Cape May, New Jersey. After completing three months of basic training in November, Seamen Kelly was sent down to Portsmouth, Virginia. One day after arriving there, he was assigned to Baltimore. Immediately upon arrival there, he was re-assigned to the Tilghman Island LAS/R. (It stands for Light Attendant Station [and] Rescue.)

Although Buddy had been running up and down the Bay for two days, he’d never crossed it. He had never heard of Tilghman’s Island and certainly had no clue where it was located. But he grabbed a map, hopped into his snazzy black ’57 Chevy, and drove across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge.

(Buddy’s interest in cars continues to this day. He arrived for our inter v iew driv ing a magnificent all-black Studebaker Commander.

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engine, a custom interior, and every imaginable electronic gadget.)

Buddy r e c a l le d h i s f i r s t d ay w i t h c r y s t a l c l a r i t y. W h e n h e c a me over t he T i lg hma n d rawbridge, he drove right past the tiny Coast Guard station there and on through the v illage. Finding no station at the harbor, he pressed on all the way down to Black Walnut Point, where he ran out of land. He thought, “Where the heck am I? And what did I do wrong to be assigned to this godforsaken spot?”

Turning around, he went back up to the bridge. The store and gas station there, Fairbank’s Bait & Tackle, seemed a good place to ask directions.

He strolled over to where a group

of watermen were sitting around chatting and sipping beverages.

A s he wa l ked up, t hey stopped talking and looked the kid over.

Buddy vividly recalls getting “The Look,” which prompting him again to wonder why he’d been assigned to such an odd place. Into t his silence, Buddy put his question: “Say, is there a Coast Guard station anywhere around here?” They looked at one another, nodded, and smiled a bit. Finally one of them got up and pointed out the window.

“Right there,” he said, indicating the station a few hundred yards away.

Sheepishly, Buddy walked out and across the road.

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Coast Guard Station the barracks were. “No barracks here, Kelley,” said the OIC. “You’ll need to find yourself a place to stay.”

Buddy was stunned. He turned to Seaman Mooney, who was in the office. “Where should I go to look for a place to live?” “Well, for tonight at least, you can come with me,” Mooney replied. He took Buddy back down the island to the home of Tom and Annie Faulkner, in Bar Neck Village. The Faulkners agreed to provide him with room and board for $50 a month.

Another Guardsman who served here was Eugene Daisey. He grew up in Chincoteague, served four years in the Air Force, and then, at age 21,

joined the Coast Guard. After a tour in Ocean City, he was assigned to the Tilghman LAS/R Station, where he served from 1957 to 1961, rising to the rank of Petty Officer 2nd Class, Boatswain’s Mate.

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Daisey reca lls t he good relationship that existed between the Guardsmen and the watermen. They helped each other out and shared tools and supplies. The Coast Guard mechanics, known as Enginemen, and their assistant “Firemen” sometimes were able to help get a balky workboat running.

Tom McDonoug h a lso ser ved here. He arrived in January of 1961, fresh from boot camp in Cape May. As a Fireman, he assisted the Engineman in keeping both their boats in top condition. As he wrote to a friend recently, “That big boat was probably the best cared-for Forty on the Bay. At least we thought so!”

The workboat was filled with tools, according to McDonough, used for maintaining the markers, a task they did from 5 a.m. until noon.

“I believe our old slip is still there,” wrote Tom recently. “It is right by the Harrison Oyster business.” (He is right, though that property now is the Phillips Wharf E nv i ron ment a l C enter a nd t he old slip has been converted into a handicap-accessible kayak ramp.)

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Coast Guard Station Many served here over the years.

In addition to Daisey, Kelley, and McDonough, some of the others were Donald Bowden, Claude Loving, Don Cher r y, Willie Pierce, Sr., Malcolm Harris, Kim Gilgo, William Payne, Bill Weiss, Harold Hager, Ron C ol lier, a nd ot hers named Chinsworth, “Reds,” Emilio, Mu n sel l, a nd Magerone. There were many more, of course, but memories are fading. Sharp’s Island Lighthouse was manned in those days, and the Keeper there also reported to the Officer-in-Charge at Tilghman.

What duties did the men at Tilghman LAS/R perform? They had a schedule for checking, repairing, and painting the buoys and markers in the area.

Many days were spent on routine patrols in the Forty, checking boat certifications. Vessels with an expired sticker were stopped and inspected; if anything was amiss, the operator got a list of corrections to be made before a certificate would

On patrol at Deale: Munsell, Emilio and Daisey. ca. 1960

be issued. During the Cold War, the Coast Guard followed any ship that had been behind the Iron Curtain as it made its way up and down the Bay. As Gene Daisey explained, “The crew at Curtis Bay would track them from Baltimore down here, then we’d follow them on down south until they were picked up by the Crisfield crew.”

But it was that “/R” part of the mission ~ the rescue work ~ that was most memorable. Said Daisey, “I remember one month when we had a re sc ue e ver y si ng le d ay.

Sometimes we towed in two boats at once.” Mostly these were sailboats with deep keels running aground in the mud ~ fairly harmless stuff.

Both Daisey and Kelley recall the many calls from pleasure boaters needing to be towed off the shoal at the west end of Knapps Narrows.

That problem is much worse today, by the way, due to the failure of those responsible to keep this important waterway dredged to an appropriate depth. Our elected officials are now putting pressure on the Army Corps of Engineers to move it up on their list of priorities.

Buddy Kelley recalled a summer day on patrol, well offshore in the shipping channel, when they spotted a small craft in the distance.

Coming closer, they realized the boat was very small indeed: just a 12-foot skiff with a small outboard motor. Crammed aboard were two women and four little children ~

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all without life jackets. They took them aboard the ‘Forty’ and towed the little boat back to Herring Bay, where they’d come from. “Just the wake from a passing freighter could have swamped them,” Buddy said.

Not all rescues ended so well.

Kelley and the ‘Forty’ were near St. Michaels, helping direct the water traffic at a Miles River Yacht Club sailing regatta, when one of those unexpected summer squalls blew in, forcing an immediate shutdown of the racing. As they were shepherding the various vessels to the docks, a distress call came in ~ a vessel out in the Bay was on fire and in serious trouble.

They raced out into the Bay, badly churned up by the squall. The going

was rough, but finally they reached the burning vessel, a 36-foot powerboat with one man aboard along with his wife and two children. The fire was intense, and they immediately took off the people. Kelley rigged a 500 gallon-per-minute pump, but it soon became clear that throwing more water aboard would just sink the vessel. They towed her into shallow waters, but she was a total loss. For Kelly and the crew, it was a dramatic ending to a very long day.

Some SAR (search-and-rescue) missions involved real tragedies.

Buddy remembers an incident involving a missing father and son.

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When they failed to arrive or report in, the family called the Coast Gu a r d a nd t he T i lg h m a n c r e w raced across the Bay. Intercepting the planned route, they began a careful search, one that was to go on for three long days. Some debris was spotted, but never any trace of the crew. A few months later, the Bay released them and they f loated to the surface.

G e ne D a i s e y he lp e d r e c over drow ning v ictims f rom var ious waters, including Knapps Narrows itself. It was never pleasant work, but he will never forget having to recover the body of a four-year-old boy out of Harris Creek after the family’s boat went dow n. Other victims were recovered later, but Gene, the father of small children h i m sel f, w i l l ne ver for ge t t hat little boy.

So far as I know, no local man ser ve d i n t he T i lg h ma n Isla nd LAS/R. Two Coasties became local, however, by marr ying Tilghman girls. One was Willie Pierce, Sr., who had just started dating Evelyn Birmingham when he was suddenly transferred to Alaska. Evelyn still suspects that his reassignment was motivated by jealousy. When Willie returned from the frozen north a year later, they married and went off to assignments elsewhere. After

his tour of service was completed, however, they came back and lived on the island for many years.

Gene Daisey also married a local girl. He met Vicki Haddaway when she was waiting tables; he became a regular customer, and they soon married. After ser v ice, they too returned to Tilghman’s Island and are living here today.

In the late ’60s, the location of the Tilghman Station on leased land near the Knapps Narrows bridge was proving less than ideal. One winter day, the Forty somehow sank in her slip, apparently weighted down by snowfall. The crew and some local men pumped her out and ref loated her.

Plans were made to construct a new station, nearby, but off the island. Accordingly, the federal government acquired a seven-acre property just across the bridge, with access to Back Creek. It looked like a good spot.

Then, suddenly, the plan was scrapped.

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On June 2, 1970, E. C. A llen, C om ma nder of t he F i f t h C oa st Guard District (Portsmouth, Virginia), issued a directive to close the Tilghman’s Island station, gather all materials and equipment, and move thirteen miles to the south.

The Station was relocated to a houseboat at Taylor’s Island. The craft had been built in Florida and renovated in Annapolis as a floating office/barracks.

What was done w ith the field they had acquired for a new Tilghman Station? It lay unused for nine years, until September of 1979, when the federal government turned it over to Talbot County for a park ~ at no charge but with two provisos: If needed in time of war, or, if the county put it to some use other than a recreational area, ownership would revert to the federal government.

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I haven’t been able to f ind out when the Tilghman Station was f i r s t e s t a bl i s he d , t hou g h s e veral indications point to 1948. Nor have I discovered why it was disestablished so suddenly in 1970.

Rumors abound, but nothing is certain. Oddly, the Coast Guard seems unable to locate its records of the Tilghman Station. It doesn’t even appear on the list of former stations. Say! Maybe there’s an Ed Okonowicz story here: The Mystery of the Vanished Coast Guard Station.

Well, whatever happened and why, it was good to have the “Coas-

ties” here. Their mission continues, of course, carried on by ten Coast Guard stations located around the Bay. Our area in the mid-Bay is served by five stations: Annapolis, Curtis Bay, Still Pond, Oxford, and Taylor’s Island.

You may be wondering what Talbot County did with that field they got from the Coast Guard. Well, it lay unused for another 25 years, until Rick Towle, the wonderfully active former director of Parks & Re cre at ion, lau nche d t he Back Creek Park project. Designed and constructed under Rick’s guidance, the park was completed in October of 2005. It offers a pavilion, walking trails, kayak access, playgrounds, and a fine obser vation

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service motto, Semper Paratus ~ Always Ready.

I appreciate the help given by Gene Daisey, Buddy Kelly, Bill Thiesen (Atlantic Area Historian, USCG Portsmouth), and others. Special thanks go to Ron Frampton, who inspired me to explore this subject and who provided much of the material.

Rick Towle deck with a splendid view of Back Creek and Poplar Island.

This fine park is the final legacy of the Coast Guard on Tilghman’s Island. That, and perhaps their

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To ripen tomatoes, place stemside-up in a cool spot away from direct sunlight to help prevent bruising and rotting. Never refrigerate whole, uncut tomatoes. The cold stops the ripening process, rendering them tasteless and mealy. To save time when peeling lots of tomatoes, dip them in boiling water, followed by a plunge in ice water.

The process loosens their skins.

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Thinly slice the onion and place in the bottom of the pastry shell.

Slice tomatoes, and drain them on a paper towel-lined wire rack. Arrange tomatoes over the onions.

Add black pepper to taste.

In a medium bowl, combine mozzarella, Parmesan and mayonnaise. Spread this mixture evenly over tomatoes.

Bake for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown. Once cooked, garnish with fresh herbs.

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Tidewater Kitchen (cilantro would also work) 2 T. red wine vinegar 1 t. Dijon mustard 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil 1/4 t. salt 1/4 t. freshly ground pepper In a large pot of boiling water, cook corn until warmed through ~ about 5 minutes. Rinse with cold water until cool.

Meanwhile, combine tomatoes, onion, avocado and basil in a large bowl.

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Meanwhile, finely chop 1/2 cup of the cherry tomato-cucumber

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CHERRY TOMATO and CUCUMBER SALAD 1 pint cherry tomatoes, halved 1 medium cucumber, peeled, seeded and thinly sliced 1/4 cup purple onion, thinly sliced and chopped 1/4 cup fresh parsley, minced 2 T. extra virgin olive oil 1 T. fresh lemon juice 1/2 t. sea salt 1/4 t. freshly ground pepper Toss together all ingredients in a medium bowl.

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TOMATO-ROSEMARY TART Serves 4 Serve this savory tart as a starter, or have it as a supper with a tossed salad.

3 plum tomatoes 1/2 t. sea salt 1/2 package frozen puff pastry

Preheat oven to 400°. Cut tomatoes into 1/4-inch slices and place on a paper towel-lined wire rack.

Sprinkle tomatoes with salt. Let stand for 20 minutes. Pat dry with paper towels.

Unfold 1 puff pastry sheet on a lightly greased baking sheet. Arrange tomato slices in a single layer on pastry.

Stir together cheese and next three ingredients in a small bowl.

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Bake for 27 to 30 minutes, until pastry is puffed. Sprinkle with parsley.

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TOMATO BAKED HADDOCK Serves 4 1 medium green pepper, chopped 1 small onion, chopped 1 T. butter 1 T. f lour 1 14.5-oz. can diced tomatoes 1 lb. fresh haddock 1/2 t. sea salt 1/4 t. freshly ground pepper 1/2 cup mozzarella cheese, shredded In a small skillet, sautĂŠ the green pepper and onion in butter about 5 minutes. Stir in the f lour until blended. Add tomatoes; cook and stir until thickened, about 3 minutes.

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Place tomatoes in a colander and sprinkle with salt; let stand for 15 minutes. In a bowl, combine the remaining ingredients. Add tomatoes, toss gently. Refrigerate until serving.

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CAPRESE Serves 4 Fresh mozzarella is a soft white cheese available at gourmet grocery stores and cheese shops.

Sometimes it is packed in a solution of water and salt used for preserving foods.

1/2 lb. fresh mozzarella cheese 2 large red tomatoes, sliced 1 large yellow tomato, sliced 1/2 t. salt 1/2 cup fresh basil leaves 3 T. extra virgin olive oil Freshly ground pepper Garnish: fresh basil leaves Remove cheese from brine and cut into 12 slices. Sprinkle tomato

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Tidewater Kitchen slices evenly with salt. Alternate 4 tomato slices, 3 cheese slices and 3 basil leaves. Drizzle with olive oil.

Cover and chill 4 hours. Just before serving, sprinkle with freshly ground pepper. Garnish with fresh basil leaves.

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BEANS and TOMATOES Serves 4 In Italy, sautéed white beans, herbs and tomatoes often accompany meats in lieu of potatoes.

This recipe makes a great vegetarian main dish, as it is loaded with protein.

1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil 6 garlic cloves, finely chopped 2 15-oz. cans cannellini beans, drained and rinsed 1/2 t. salt 1-1/2 cups cherry tomatoes, halved 1 cup reduced-sodium chicken broth Freshly ground pepper Heat olive oil in a sauté pan over medium heat. Add garlic and cook until golden. Add beans and salt.

Sauté 5 minutes. Add tomatoes and cook until tomatoes begin to wilt.

Add broth and simmer until liquid is reduced by two-thirds. Add pepper.

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Chincoteague: More Than Just Misty by Michael Valliant

I’ve never read Misty of Chincoteague. Maybe that is why in 45 years, I’d never made the short drive to Chincoteague, Virginia.

But after a recent trip, it will be a day trip I make frequently.

Road trips to places in our own back yard can yield some of the biggest finds. I am a fan of Annie Dillard and how she could find something new and novel over and over again, as she details in her book Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. We seem to have a need to travel to far off and exotic places, often overlooking the unnoticed all around us.

“Experiencing the present purely is being emptied and hollow,” Dillard writes. “You catch the grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.” People travel to the Eastern Shore of Maryland and Virginia all the time as destinations. Why not fill our own cups with what we can find nearby?

There are any number of places where I can get blissfully lost.

Fairly high on that list are lighthouses, woods, water, and bookstores. Chincoteague has each of those covered. Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge is a haven for egrets, herons, and the island’s famous wild ponies. And

it isn’t a prerequisite to have read Marguerite Henry’s famous aforementioned children’s book, or have seen the movie, to appreciate the ponies, which are managed by the town’s volunteer fire company.

Each summer, tens of thousands of spectators turn out to watch the island pony swim.

The ponies may be the poster children for the town and the island, but the wildlife refuge has a lot more going on ~ including Assateague Lighthouse.

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Chincoteague of the Hooper Strait and Thomas Point Lights, to the tilted caisson shape of Sharp’s Island Light. Assateague Lighthouse, standing at 142 feet tall, and located on the Virginia portion of Assateague Island, is a good bit taller than anything we have on the Chesapeake.

The original lighthouse was built in 1833; the taller brick light was completed in 1867, became electrically operated in 1933. The lighthouse is owned by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and is operated by the U.S. Coast Guard.

A $1.5 million renovation was completed in October 2013. This

included replacement of the lower gallery deck, removal and replacement of glass, restoration of the widow’s walk, and painting of the exterior.

Walking the wooded path to get to the light, craning your neck to see the top from the ground, and walking to the top to look around, are enough for me to make a return trip. Its light can be seen from 19 miles away.

Driving through the refuge, watching great egrets, snowy egrets, cattle egrets (who land on the ponies), and various herons give reasons for frequent stops.

When I go back, I’ll be taking a bike or a longboard skateboard, as there are paved bike trails throughout the park, that take you to a different parts of the island and beach.

You could spend the day in the refuge, on foot, bike, car, or beach chair and never be bored.

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Wednesday and Thursday in July each year. If you hit the park in August, mole crabs, ghost crabs, and coquina clams are in full force on the seashore and the southward shorebird migration begins.

The Main Street and downtown part of Chincoteague has what any respectable and cool Eastern Shore town has to have: waterfront, parks, cool shops, and places to eat and drink.

We are each moths drawn to our personal f lames. Bookstores are a f lame of mine, and really great bookstores are increasingly tough to find. Sundial Books is a great bookstore ~ quirky, full of books of

all shapes, sizes, and colors, organized in a way that suits the space and owners, slightly overwhelming, and emanating its own vibe.

They have a great “blind date” book shelf, where books are wrapped in brown paper bags, which tease you with information about what kind of book is inside.

With art galleries (one full of mermaids), a bakery, a dynamic public library, a retro-looking movie theater all right downtown, there is plenty to keep you busy.

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We tried to fit as much of Chincoteague into a short day trip as we could. Climbing a lighthouse, walking through the woods, putting feet in the ocean, getting lost in a bookshop, wandering downtown and driving streets along the water. There is much more to do on a return trip. And that’s just one day trip destination.

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Caroline County – A Perspective Caroline County is the very definition of a rural community. For more than 300 years, the county’s economy has been based on “market” agriculture.

Caroline County was created in 1773 from Dorchester and Queen Anne’s counties. The county was named for Lady Caroline Eden, the wife of Maryland’s last colonial governor, Robert Eden (1741-1784).

Denton, the county seat, was situated on a point between two ferry boat landings. Much of the business district in Denton was wiped out by the fire of 1863.

Following the Civil War, Denton’s location about fifty miles up the Choptank River from the Chesapeake Bay enabled it to become an important shipping point for agricultural products. Denton became a regular port-ofcall for Baltimore-based steamer lines in the latter half of the 19th century.

Preston was the site of three Underground Railroad stations during the 1840s and 1850s. One of those stations was operated by Harriet Tubman’s parents, Benjamin and Harriet Ross. When Tubman’s parents were exposed by a traitor, she smuggled them to safety in Wilmington, Delaware.

Linchester Mill, just east of Preston, can be traced back to 1681, and possibly as early as 1670. The mill is the last of 26 water-powered mills to operate in Caroline County and is currently being restored. The long-term goals include rebuilding the millpond, rehabilitating the mill equipment, restoring the miller’s dwelling, and opening the historic mill on a scheduled basis.

Federalsburg is located on Marshyhope Creek in the southern-most part of Caroline County. Agriculture is still a major portion of the industry in the area; however, Federalsburg is rapidly being discovered and there is a noticeable influx of people, expansion and development. Ridgely has found a niche as the “Strawberry Capital of the World.” The present streetscape, lined with stately Victorian homes, reflects the transient prosperity during the countywide canning boom (1895-1919). Hanover Foods, formerly an enterprise of Saulsbury Bros. Inc., for more than 100 years, is the last of more than 250 food processors that once operated in the Caroline County region.

Points of interest in Caroline County include the Museum of Rural Life in Denton, Adkins Arboretum near Ridgely, and the Mason-Dixon Crown Stone in Marydel. To contact the Caroline County Office of Tourism, call 410-479-0655 or visit their website at www.tourcaroline.com.

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Queen Anne’s County The history of Queen Anne’s County dates back to the earliest Colonial settlements in Maryland. Small hamlets began appearing in the northern portion of the county in the 1600s. Early communities grew up around transportation routes, the rivers and streams, and then roads and eventually railroads. Small towns were centers of economic and social activity and evolved over the years from thriving centers of tobacco trade to communities boosted by the railroad boom.

Queenstown was the original county seat when Queen Anne’s County was created in 1706, but that designation was passed on to Centreville in 1782. It’s location was important during the 18th century, because it is near a creek that, during that time, could be navigated by tradesmen.

A hub for shipping and receiving, Queenstown was attacked by English troops during the War of 1812.

Construction of the Federal-style courthouse in Centreville began in 1791 and is the oldest courthouse in continuous use in the state of Maryland. Today, Centreville is the largest town in Queen Anne’s County.

With its relaxed lifestyle and tree-lined streets, it is a classic example of small town America.

The Stevensville Historic District, also known as Historic Stevensville, is a national historic district in downtown Stevensville, Queen Anne’s County. It contains roughly 100 historic structures, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is located primarily along East Main Street, a portion of Love Point Road, and a former section of Cockey Lane.

The Chesapeake Heritage and Visitor Center in Chester at Kent Narrows provides and overview of the Chesapeake region’s heritage, resources and culture. The Chesapeake Heritage and Visitor Center serves as Queen Anne’s County’s official welcome center.

Queen Anne’s County is also home to the Chesapeake Bay Environmental Center (formerly Horsehead Wetland Center), located in Grasonville. The CBEC is a 500-acre preserve just 15 minutes from the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. Over 200 species of birds have been recorded in the area.

Embraced by miles of scenic Chesapeake Bay waterways and graced with acres of pastoral rural landscape, Queen Anne’s County offers a relaxing environment for visitors and locals alike.

For more information about Queen Anne’s County, visit www.qac.org.

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Daily Meeting: Mid-Shore Intergroup Alcoholics Anonymous.

For places and times, call 410822-4226 or visit midshoreintergroup.org.

Daily Meeting: Al-Anon and Alateen - For a complete list of times and locations in the Mid-Shore a re a, v i sit ea ste r n shore mdalanon.org/meetings.

Every Thurs.-Sat. Amish Country Farmer’s Market in Easton.

An indoor market offering fresh produce, meats, dairy products, furniture and more. 101 Marlboro Ave. For more info. tel: 410-822-8989.

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the creative talents of colleagues and friends. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit academyartmuseum.org.

1 Meeting: Breast Feeding Support Group from 10 to 11:30 a.m. at UM Shore Medical Center in Easton.

For more info. tel: 410-822-1000 or visit shorehealth.org.

1 National Night Out at Sailwinds, Cambridge. 5 to 8 p.m. Hosted by the Cambridge Police Department, the theme is Happy Days.

1 Meeting: Eastern Shore Amputee Suppor t Group at the Easton YMCA. 6 p.m. Everyone is welcome. For more info. tel: 410820-9695.

1 Mov ie Night at Evergreen: A Center for Balanced Living in Easton. 7 to 9 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-819-3395 or visit evergreeneaston.org.

Thru Sept. 4 Annual Members’ Exhibition at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. This exceptional tradition represents the best of the region’s artists and offers an opportunity to view

1 , 3 , 8 , 1 0 , 1 5 , 1 7, 2 2 , 2 4 , 2 9 , 3 1 Steady and Strong exercise class at the Oxford Community Center.

10:30 a.m. $8 per class. For more info. tel: 410-226-5904 or visit oxfordcc.org.

1,3,8,10,15,17,22,24,29,31 Adult Ballroom Classes with Amanda Showel l at t he Ac ademy A r t Museum, Easton. Tuesday and T hu r s d a y n i g ht s . Fo r m o r e

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Point facility. Best suited for ages 10 and older, groups and special tours may be arranged. For more info. tel: 410-221-8383.

1,8,15,22,29 Acoustic Jam Night at the Oxford Community Center.

6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Bring your instruments and take part in the jam session! For more info. tel: 410-226-5904 or visit oxfordcc.org.

1,8,15,22,29 Tour of Horn Point Lab, Cambridge. Tuesdays from 10 to 11:30 a.m. The community is invited on a 90-minute walking tour throughout the Horn

1,15 Grief Support Group at the Dorchester County Library, Cambr idge. 6 p.m. Sponsored by Coastal Hospice & Palliative Care.

For more info. tel: 443-978-0218.

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p.m. Classes consist of Leadline, Novice, Amateur, Semi-Pro and Professional. Open to the public. $1 per person gate admission.

For more info. tel: 410-364-5172.

boretum, Ridgely. 9 to 11 a.m.

Enjoy writing as a way of exploring nature. A different prompt presented in each session offers a suggestion for the morning’s theme. Free for members, $5 for non-members. For more info. tel: 410-634-2847, ext. 0 or visit adkinsarboretum.org.

2 Eastern Shore Jousting Association Old St. Joseph’s Catholic Church joust, St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, Cordova. 1

2 Community Acupuncture Clinic at Evergreen: A Center for Balanced Living in Easton. 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.

For more info. tel: 410-819-3395 or visit evergreeneaston.org.

2 Concer t: Whiskerman in the Stoltz Listening Room, Avalon Theatre, Easton. 8 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-7299 or visit avalonfoundation.org.

2 ,7,9,1 4 ,16, 21, 23, 28,30 Free Blood Pressure Screening from 9 a.m. to noon, Mondays and Wednesdays at Universit y of Maryland Shore Regional Health Diagnostic and Imaging Center, Easton. For more info. tel: 410820-7778.

2,9,16,23,30 Meeting: Wednesday Morning Artists. 8 a.m. at Creek

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Deli in Cambridge. No cost.

All disciplines and skill levels welcome. Guest speakers, roundtable discussions, studio tours and other art-related activities.

For more info. visit Facebook or tel: 410-463-0148.

2,9,16,23,30 Chair Yoga w ith Susan Irwin at the St. Michaels Housing Authority Community Room, Dodson Ave. 9:30 to 10:15 a.m. Free. For more info. tel: 410-745-6073 or visit stmichaelscc.org.

2,9,16,23,30 The Senior Gathering at the St. Michaels Community Center, 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-7456073 or visit stmichaelscc.org.

at t he Dorchester Center for the Arts, Cambridge. Everyone interested in writing is invited to participate. For more info. tel: 443-521-0039.

3 Dog Walking at Adkins Arboretum, Ridgely. 9 a.m. For more info. tel: 410-634-2847, ext. 0 or visit adkinsarboretum.org.

3 Arts & Crafts at the Talbot County Free Library, St. Michaels. 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Free instruction for knitting, beading, needlework and more. For more info. tel: 410-745-5877 or visit tcfl.org.

3 We Are Builders at the Talbot County Free Librar y, Easton.

2,9,16,23,30 Centreville Farmer’s Market. Law yer’s Row from 2 to 6 p.m. For more info. visit marylandsbest.net/producer/ centreville-farmers-market/.

2,9,16,23,30 Meeting: Choptank Writers Group from 3 to 5 p.m.

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A Taste of Italy

218 N. Washington St. Easton (410) 820-8281 www.piazzaitalianmarket.com

August Calendar Legos, Zoobs, and other building materials, plus a create-yourown building table for ages 6 and up. 10:30 to 11:45 a.m. For more info. tel: 410-745-5877 or visit tcfl.org.

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C om mu n it y E c olog y C r u i s e aboard the Winnie Estelle at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. 1 to 2:30 p.m. Adults and kids are welcome on this up-close and personal exploration of the Miles River and its unique habitat and ecology.

Learn how to monitor the water quality of the river, try your hand at water testing, and explore the critters on an oyster reef, all

while cruising in the breeze on the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Mu seu m’s buyboat. $15 . For more info. tel: 410-745-4941 or visit cbmm.org.

3 Pet Loss Support Group from 6 to 7 p.m. at Talbot Hospice, Easton.

Monthly support group for those grieving the loss of a beloved pet.

For more info. tel: 410-822-0107.

3 Concert: Anthony “Turk” Cannon Project in Muskrat Park, St. Michaels. Sponsored by the St. Michaels Communit y Center.

Weather permitting. 6:30 to 8 p.m.

3,10,17,24,31 Men’s Group Meeting at Evergreen: A Center for Balanced Living in Easton. 7:30

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to 9 a.m. Weekly meeting where men can frankly and openly deal with issues in their lives. For more info. tel: 410-819-3395 or visit evergreeneaston.org.

ancient Chinese game of skill.

Drop-ins welcome. Free. For more info. tel: 410-745-6073 or visit stmichaelscc.org.

3,10,17,24,31 Caregivers Support Group at Talbot Hospice at 1 p.m.

This weekly support group is for caregivers of a loved one with a life-limiting illness. For more info. tel: 410-822-6681 or e-mail bdemattia@talbothospice.org.

3,10,17,24,31 Cambridge Farmer’s Market at Long Wharf Park.

3 to 6 p.m. For more info. e-mail cambridge-mktmgr@aol.com.

3,10,17,24,31 Thursday Studio ~ a Weekly Mentored Painting Session with Diane DuBois Mullaly at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. Full day: 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. ($150/4 weeks for members). Half day: 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. or 12:30-3:30 p.m. ($95/4 weeks for members). Drop-in fee (payable directly to instructor): $45 full day (10 a.m.-4 p.m.); $25 half day (10 a.m.-1 p.m. or 1-4 p.m.). For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit academyartmuseum.org.

3,10,17,24,31 Mahjong at the St. Michaels Community Center. 10 a.m. to noon on Thursdays. Open to all who want to learn this

3,10,17,24,31 Kent Island Farmer’s Market from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. every Thursday at Christ Church, 830 Romancoke Rd., Stevensville. For more info. visit kifm830.wixsite.com/kifm.

3,10,17,24,31 Open Mic & Jam at RAR Brewing in Cambridge.

Thursdays f rom 7 to 11 p.m.

Listen to live acoustic music by local musicians, or bring your own instrument and join in. For more info. tel: 443-225-5664.

4 Monthly Coffee & Critique with Katie Cassidy and Diane DuBois Mullaly at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. 10 a.m. to noon. $10 per person. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit academyartmuseum.org.

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Art galleries offer new shows and have many of their artists present throughout the evening.

Tour the galleries, sip a drink and explore the fine talents of local artists. 5 to 8 p.m.

4 First Friday in downtown Chestertown. Art galleries offer new shows and have many of their artists present throughout the evening. Tour the galleries, sip a drink and explore the fine talents of local artists. 5 to 8 p.m.

Wine Festival at Triple Creek Winery, Cordova. Over 15 hot air balloons! Tethered balloon rides and f lights available, or just come to view these beautiful craft in a picturesque country setting. Each day of the festival will close with a balloon glow where 12 or more balloons will light up the evening sky. 20 food trucks and food vendors, serving everything from the Eastern Shore seafood to gourmet TexMex. Don’t worry, there will be plenty of ice cream and funnel cakes! Triple Creek will sell their wines by the glass or bottle. For more info. tel: 410-924-4190 or visit triplecreekwinery.com.

4 First Friday reception at Studio B Gallery, Easton. 5 to 8 p.m. For more info. tel: 443-988-1818 or visit studioBartgallery.com.

4 Karaoke Happy Hour at Layton’s Chance Vineyard and Winery, Vienna. 6 to 10 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-228-1205 or visit laytonschance.com.

4 Dorchester Sw ingers Square Dancing Club meets at Maple Elementary School on Egypt Rd., Cambridge. $7 for guest members to dance. Club members and observers are free. Refreshments provided. 7:30 to 10 p.m.

For more info. tel: 410-221-1978 or 410-901-9711.

4-5 Chesapeake Bay Balloon and

4-6 Wheat Threshing Steam and Gas Engine Show in Federalsburg. Official opening at 10 a.m. w it h event s t hroug hout day.

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Get a glimpse of antique farm equipment in action. This event features antique car and equipment parades, a f lea market, a blacksmith shop, steam and gas engines, tractor games, refreshments, live entertainment and more. For more info. visit Threshermen.org.

4-Oct. 1 Exhibit: Endless Summer at A.M. Gravely Gallery, St. Michaels. Endless Summer is a juried show featuring members of the St. Michaels Art League.

Opening reception on August 12 from 5 to 7 p.m. For more info. visit smartleague.org.

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August Calendar 4,5,11,12,18,19,25,26 Rock ’N’ Bowl at Choptank Bowling Center, Cambridge. 9 to 11:59 p.m.

Unlimited bowling, food and drink specials, blacklighting, disco lights, and jammin’ music.

Rental shoes included. $13.99 every Friday and Saturday night.

For more info. visit choptankbowling.com.

4,11,18,25 Meeting: Friday Morning Artists at Denny’s in Easton.

8 a.m. All disciplines welcome.

Free. For more info. tel: 443955-2490.

4,11,18,25 Meeting: Vets Helping Vets at the Hurlock American Legion #243. 9 a.m. Informational meeting to help vets find services. For more info. tel: 410943-8205 after 4 p.m.

contact Volunteer & Education Coordinator Allison Speight at 410-745-4941 or by e-mail aspeight@cbmm.org.

5 Classic Cars and Coffee at the Oxford Community Center from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. For more info. tel: 410-226-5904 or visit oxfordcc.org.

5 First Sat urday g uided wa lk.

10 a.m. at Adkins Arboretum, Ridgely. Free for members, $5 admission for non-members. For more info. tel: 410-634-2847, ext.

0 or visit adkinsarboretum.org.

4,11,18,25 Bingo! every Friday night at the Easton Volunteer Fire Department on Creamery Lane, Easton. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and games start at 7:30 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-4848.

5 Eastern Shore Jousting Association Caroline County Fair joust at the Caroline County 4-H Park, Denton. Noon. Classes consist of Leadline, Novice, Amateur, SemiPro and Professional. Open to the public. $1 per person admission to Fair. For more info. tel: 410829-8736.

4,11,18,25 Lighthouse Overnight at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. For youth groups, children’s organizations, and scouts ages 8-12 (and their chaperone s). For more i n fo.

5 Sudlersville Peach Festival at Godfrey’s Farm, Leager Road, Sudlersville. 1 to 5 p.m. Free. Local bands providing live music, food vendors serving great homemade specialties from pit beef

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5,12,19 Summer Challenge ~ A Paint ing a Day for 15 Days! with Diane DuBois Mullaly at the Academy Art Museum, Easton.

10 a.m. to 1 p.m. $120 members, $144 non-members. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit academyartmuseum.org.

to peach cobbler, local artisans selling hand-made, unique, oneof-a-kind treasures, and family activities. This event is a true community gala that promises to be a great time for the entire family. For more info. tel: 410-4383509 or visit godfreysfarm.com.

5,6,12,13,19,20,26,27 Apprentice for a Day Public Boatbuilding Program at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels.

Pre-registration required. 10 a.m. Saturday to 4 p.m. Sunday.

For more info. tel: 410-745-2916

5,12,19,26 Easton Farmers Market every Saturday from mid-April through Christmas, from 8 a.m. until 1 p.m. Each week a different local musical artist is featured f rom 10 a.m. to noon. Tow n parking lot on North Harrison Street. Over 20 vendors. Easton’s Farmers Market is the work of the Avalon Foundation. For more info. visit avalonfoundation.org.

5,12,19,26 St. Michaels FRESHFA R M Ma rke t i s one of t he lovel ie s t m a rke t s e t t i ng s i n the country. 8:30 to 11:30 a.m.

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than of Dorchester from 1 to 3 p.m. at Long Wharf, Cambridge.

Adults $30; children 6~12 $10; under 6 free. Reservations online at skipjack-nathan.org. For more info. tel: 410-228-7141.

pastured eggs, honey, locally roasted coffee, cut f lowers, potted plants and more. For more info. v isit f reshfarmmarkets. org/st-michaels.

5,12,19,26 Intermediate Yoga with Suzie Hurley at the Oxford Community Center. 9 to 10:30 a.m. $18 per class. For more info. tel: 410-226-5904 or visit oxfordcc.org.

5,12,19,26 Cars and Coffee at the Classic Motor Museum in St. Michaels. 9 to 11 a.m. For more info. tel: 410-745-8979 or visit classicmotormuseumstmichaels.org.

5,12,19,26 Centreville Farmer’s Market. Law yer’s Row from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. For more info. visit marylandsbest.net/producer/ centreville-farmers-market/.

5,12,19,26 Historic High Street Wa lk ing Tour in Cambr idge.

Experience the beauty and hear the folklore of Cambridge’s High Street. One-hour walking tours are sponsored by the non-profit West End Citizen’s Association and are accompanied by Colonial-garbed docents. 11 a.m. at Long Wharf. For more info. tel: 410-901-1000.

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5,19 Grinding Day at the Wye Grist Mill, Wye Mills. It is the oldest continuously operated waterpowered grist mill in the U.S. and the oldest commercial structure in continuous use in the State of Maryland. Grinding on the first and the third Saturday of each month May to October from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-827-3850 or visit oldwyemill.org.

6 Julia Child’s birthday cooking class at Two if By Sea Restaurant, Tilghman. 4 p.m. Watch and taste as celebrity chef Henry Miller prepares a 7-course meal from around the world. $35 includes food and beverage. Reservation

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required. For more info. tel: 410886-2447 or visit twoifbysearestaurant.com.

7 Family Crafts at the Talbot County Free Librar y, St. Michaels. 3 p.m. Summer crafts. For more info. tel: 410-745-5877 or visit tcfl.org.

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Me et i ng: L ive Play w r ig ht s’ Society at the Garfield Center, Chestertown. 7:30 to 9 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-810-2060.

7-11 Band Camp for ages 10+ with Ray Remesch at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. $155 members, $186 nonmembers. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit academyartmuseum.org.

7-11 CBMM’s Sea Squirts Summer Camp for children 7 to 9 years of age. 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museu m, St. Michaels. $125 members, $150 non-members.

Scholarships are available. To

7-11 Creative Writing Workshop: Poetry for grades 7 to 12 with Katy Trice at the Academy Art Museu m, E a ston. 10 a.m. to noon. $110 members, $120 nonmembers. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit academyartmuseum.org.

7-11 Architecture Camp with Andrea Milito for ages 10 to 13 at the Academy Art Museum, Easton.

10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. $125 members, $135 non-members. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit academyartmuseum.org.

7-11 Creative Writing Workshop: Fiction and Short Stories for grades 7 to 12 with Katy Trice at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. 1 to 3 p.m. $110 members, $120 non-members. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit academyartmuseum.org.

7-12 Queen Anne’s County 4-H Fair at the 4-H Park, Centreville. Monday from 6 to 10 p.m., and Tuesday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. The 2017 Queen Anne’s County 4-H Fair ha s some t h i ng for e ver yone a s t he y c elebr ate t hei r 75 t h anniversar y showcasing local

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Denton. 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Join host Norm Amorose for a funfilled evening. For more info. tel: 410-479-4720.

agriculture, 4-H & community exhibits, livestock, special shows and great food. For more info. tel: 410-490-9464.

7,14 Movies@Noon at the Talbot Count y Free Librar y, St. Michaels. Bring your lunch and enjoy the film on the big professional screen. For more info. tel: 410-745-5877 or visit tcfl.org.

7,14 ,21,28 Acupuncture MiniSessions at the Universit y of Maryland Shore Regional Health Center in Easton. 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. $20 per session. Participation offered on a walk-in basis, first come, first served. For more info. tel: 410-770-9400.

7,14,21,28 Meeting: Overeaters Anonymous at UM Shore Medical Center in Easton. 5:15 to 6:15 p.m. For more info. visit oa.org.

7,14,21,28 Monday Night Trivia at the Market Street Public House,

8 Advanced Healthcare Planning at Talbot Hospice, Easton. 11 a.m. Hospice staff and trained volunteers will help you understand your options for advanced healthcare planning and complete your advance direct ive paperwork. For more info. tel: 410-822-6681.

8 Origami! Origami! at the Talbot County Free Library, Easton. 2 to 3 p.m. for ages 8 and up. Led

by Chris Eareckson. Registration required. For more info. tel: 410745-5877 or visit tcfl.org.

8,22 Buddhist Study Group at Evergreen: A Center for Balanced Living, Easton. 6:30 to 8 p.m.

Open to the public. For more info. tel: 410-819-3395 or visit evergreeneaston.org.

8,22 Meeting: Tidewater Stamp Club at the Mayor and Council Building, Easton. 7:30 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-1371 or visit twstampclub.com.

9 Arts Express bus trip to Hillwood Estate Museum and Gardens northwest of Washington, D.C., sponsored by the Academy Art Museum, Easton. $85 members,

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9 Meeting: Bayside Quilters from 9 a.m. to noon at the Easton Volunteer Fire Department on Aurora Park Drive, Easton. Guests are welcome, memberships are available. For more info. e-mail mhr2711@gmail.com.

$102 non-members. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit academyartmuseum.org.

9 Early-Morning Walk at Adkins Arboretum, Ridgely. 8 to 9:30 a.m.

Dress for the weather. Cancellations only in extreme weather. For more info. tel: 410-634-2847, ext.

0 or visit adkinsarboretum.org.

9 Mr. Don’s Children’s International Music at the Talbot County Free Library, St. Michaels. 10:30 a.m. Free tickets are required and may be picked up at the library’s St. Michaels branch one week prior to the performance.

For more info. tel: 410-745-5877 or visit tcfl.org.

9 Grief Support Group Meeting ~ Together: Silent No More at

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August Calendar Talbot Hospice, Easton. 6 to 7:30 p.m. Support group for those who have lost a loved one to substance abuse or addiction. For more info. tel: 410-822-6681.

9 Peer Support Group Meeting ~ Together: Positive Approaches at the Bank of America building, 8 Goldsboro Street, Easton. 6 to 7:30 p.m. Peer support group for family members currently struggling with a loved one with substance use disorder, led by trained facilitators. Free. For more info. e-mail mariahsmission2014@gmail.com.

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Me e t i n g: O p t i m i s t C lub at Hunter’s Tavern, Tidewater Inn, Easton. 6:30 to 8 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-310-9347.

9,16,23,30 Workshop: Mentoring Sessions for the Summer Pastelist with Katie Cassiday at the Academy Art Museum, Easton.

10 a.m. to 3 p.m. $110 for 4 sessions or $35 per session. For

more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit academyartmuseum.org.

9,23 Bay Hundred Chess Club from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Talbot County Free Library, St. Michaels. Players gather for friendly competition and instruction. For more info. tel: 410-745-9490.

10 Family Unplugged Games at the Talbot County Free Library, St. Michaels. 3 p.m. Bring the whole family for an afternoon of board games and fun. For all ages (children 5 and under accompanied by an adult). For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit tcfl.org.

10 Concert: Kevin Brown & Friends in Muskrat Park, St. Michaels.

Sponsored by the St. Michaels C ommunit y C enter. Weat her permitting. 6:30 to 8 p.m.

10, 2 4 Memoi r Wr iter s at t he Talbot County Free Library, St. Michaels. 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Record and share your memories of life and family. Participants are invited to bring their lunch. For more info. tel: 410-745-5877 or visit tcfl.org.

10,20,31 Guided kayak tour at the Chesapeake Bay Environmental Center, Grasonville. No experience necessary. An estimated 2 hours of paddling time is sched-

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uled. August 10 and 31 at 5:30 p.m., August 20 at 1 p.m. $15 for CBEC members and $20 for non-members. For more info. tel: 410-827-6694 or visit bayrestoration.org.

11 Mid-Shore Pro Bono Legal Clinic at the Dorchester County Public Library, Cambridge. 1 to 3 p.m.

For more info. tel: 410-690-8128 or visit midshoreprobono.org.

11-13 Pirates and Wenches Fantasy Weekend throughout downtown Rock Hall. Friday from 5 to 10 p.m., Saturday from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., and Sunday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Avast, me hearties! Come by land or by sea to the town of Rock Hall for a town-wide waterfront theme party you won’t forget. Sea shanty sing-along, rum tasting, decorated dinghy contest, Caribbean beach party, buccaneer’s ball, 5k run/walk, live entertainment and pirate performers, costume contests, treasure hunt, kids’ games, mer-

chants and much more mayhem and fun for the whole family.

Costumes arrrr encouraged! For more info. tel: 410-935-3491 or visit rockhallpirates.com.

11-13 The tall ship Pride of Baltimore II will be at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. The replica schooner will be available for deck tours from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. Tours are free with general admission to CBMM, which is good for two days and is $15 for adults, $12 for seniors, $6 for children ages 6 to 17, and free for CBMM

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p.m. Come and share a night with your old friends, sloppy laid-back Oscar and uptight neat freak Felix, and prepare to roar with laughter as this classic comedy of two mismatched roommates unfolds before you. A hilarious tale of opposites and friendship that will make you see why this Neil Simon comedy became an instant classic. For more info. tel: 410-226-5904 or visit oxfordcc.org.

members and children ages 5 and under. Donations to Pride will be accepted. For more info. tel: 410-745-2916 or visit cbmm.org.

10 -20 The Tre d Avon Player s present The Odd Couple at the Oxford Community Center. Frid ay s a nd Sat u rd ay s, Aug u st 12,13,19,20,26,28 at 8 p.m.; Sundays, August 14,21,28 at 2 p.m.; Thrifty Thursday, August 11 at 7

12 Friends of the Librar y Second Saturday Book Sale at the Dorchester County Public Library, Cambridge. 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-228-7331 or visit dorchesterlibrary.org.

12 Bethesda United Methodist Church 16th annual Peach Festival at the Preston Fire House. 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Vendors, crafters, local peaches, ice cream, cobbler and pie by the slice, soft crab sandwiches and more. For more info. tel: 410-943-1280 or visit prestonbethesdaumc.org.

12 Little Bobbers Fishing Derby at the Chesapeake Bay Environmental Center, Grasonville. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Open to youth ages 5 to 12. Free to all participants; all children will receive a goodie bag, lunch, snacks, T-shirt and chance to win awards and prizes.

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Walk at Pickering Creek Audubon Center, Easton. 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Join the Pickering Creek staff and butterfly experts Theresa Murray and Frank Boyle on a summer butterfly walk. Advance registration required. For more info. tel: 410-822-4903 or visit pickeringcreek.audubon.org.

participants. For more info. tel: 410-490-9268.

12 Spectacular Summer Butterfly

12 38th annual Rescue Fire Company Seafood Feast-I-Val at Sailwinds, Cambridge. Music by Golden Touch, car show, kids corner, vendors, free parking. Menu includes steamed crabs, crab soup, fried fish, fried clams, BBQ chicken, hot dogs, tomatoes, corn, watermelon, fries and sodas. Beer sold by the glass. 1 to 6 p.m. For more info.

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12 Ice Cream Social at Preston Historical Society, Preston. 2 p.m. Free ice cream with a makeyour-own sundae bar. Baked goods to be sold along with pit beef sandwich platters by Catering By Jamie, $8. 50/50 raff le with proceeds to benefit the Helen S. Fletcher Scholarship Fund, awarding scholarships to Colonel Richardson High School seniors.

For info. tel: 410-924-9080 or visit prestonhistoricalsociety.com.

12 Second Saturday at the Artsway from 2 to 4 p.m., 401 Market Street, Denton. Interact w ith artists as they demonstrate their work. For more info. tel: 410-4791009 or visit carolinearts.org.

Talbot Street. For more info. visit historic.stmichaels.org.

12 Vineyard Walk at Crow Vineyard and Winery, Kennedyville. Harvest season is approaching. Stroll the vineyard to scout for ripe fruit and enjoy an evening of music, in a cocktail party format. Winery and farm tours given. Meet the Crow family and the team that makes some amazing Crow wines.

Admission to the event and a portion of the proceeds go to a local non-profit. For more info. tel: 302-304-0551 or visit crowvineyardandwinery.com.

12 Campfire Fun at Adkins Arboretum, Ridgely. Take a guided walk along the Arboretum’s woodland paths to a roaring bonfire, make

12 Second Saturday and Art Walk in Historic Downtown Cambridge on Race, Poplar, Muir and High streets. Shops will be open late.

Galleries will be opening new shows and holding receptions.

Restaurants w ill feature live music. 5 to 9 p.m. For more info. visit cambridgemainstreet.com.

12 Second Saturday Art Night Out in St. Michaels. Take a walking tour of St. Michaels’ six fine art galleries, all centrally located on 200

s’mores and sing campfire songs w it h g uita r accompa niment.

Classic summer games like fire keeper and f lashlight tag will entertain the young and young at heart. Listen for nocturnal animals and look for fireflies on the return walk. Please bring a water bottle and a flashlight. 7 to 8:30 p.m. $5 member, $7 non-member.

For more info. tel: 410-634-2847, ext. 0 or visit adkinsarboretum. org.

12 Concert: Tidewater Inn Concert Series featuring U.S. Army Band Downrange on Harrison Street in Easton. Free. 7 to 9 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-7299 or visit avalonfoundation.org.

ford Volunteer Fire Company. 8 to 11 a.m. Proceeds to benefit fire and ambulance services. $10 for adults and $5 for children under 10. For more info. tel: 410-226-5110.

13 All-You-Can-Eat breakfast at A mer ic a n L eg ion Post 70 in Easton (behind WalMart). 8 to 11 a.m. $9. Carry-out available.

For more info. tel: 410-822-9138.

13 Choptank Bowling Center Car, Tr uck a nd Bi ke Show at t he Choptank Bowling Center, Cambridge. 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Music, trophies, home- cooked food, judging, and more. For more info. tel: 410-228-8645.

12,17 Guided Hike at the Chesapeake Bay Environmental Center, Grasonville. 1 to 3 p.m. Free for CBEC members, $5 for nonmembers. For more info. visit bayrestoration.org.

12,26 Country Church Breakfast at Fa it h Ch ap el a nd Tr app e United Methodist churches in Wesley Hall, Trappe. 7:30 to 10:30 a.m. TUMC is also the home of “Martha’s Closet” Yard Sale and Community Outreach Store, open during the breakfast and every Wednesday from 8:30 a.m. to noon.

13 Firehouse Breakfast at the Ox201

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13 Eastern Shore Jousting Association Queen Anne’s County joust at Tuckahoe State Park, Queen A nne. 4 p.m. Classes consist of Leadline, Novice, Amateur, Semi-Pro and Professional. Open to the public. Free admission.

For more info. tel: 410-364-5172.

13 Waterman’s Appreciation Day at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels, featuring a spirited boat docking contest, steamed crabs and other regional food, live music, beer, boat rides, family activities, and more. The fundraising event is organized by CBMM in cooperation with the Talbot Watermen Association, with proceeds benefiting both organizations. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. $18 for adults, $8 for children 6-17, with all children five years of age and under admitted free.

For more info. tel: 410-745-2916 or visit cbmm.org.

14 Meeting: Caroline County AARP #915 at noon at the Church of the Nazarene in Denton. Come join the fun! For more info. tel:410482-6039.

14 Minecraft Mondays at the Talbot County Free Library, Easton. 2 to 4 p.m. for ages 6 and up. Beginners and experienced builders may build in creative mode on our MinecraftEdu server. Limited space. For more info. tel: 410-745-5877 or visit tcfl.org.

14 Stitching Time at the Talbot County Free Library, Easton. 3 to 5 p.m. Bring projects in progress (sew ing, knitting, crossstitch, what-have-you). Limited instruction available for beginners and newcomers. For more info. tel: 410-745-5877 or visit tcfl.org.

14 Open Mic Night at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. 7 to 10 p.m.

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14-17 Mini Masters Summer Camp: Building and Construction! for ages 3 and 4 at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. 9 a.m. to noon. For more info. tel: 410-

14-17 Workshop: Grasses, Sedges and Ru she s at E nv i ron menta l C oncer n, St. Michaels. A solid understanding of grasses, sedges and rushes is necessary for anyone working with wetlands. This four-day course will focus on identification of these members of the plant kingdom.

Participants will leave with an understanding of the families, family subdivisions, and genera of the often-confusing species of grasses, sedges, and rushes (wet la nd a nd upla nd). P r ior experience with plant identification is required. This is not

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Pre-registration is required. For more info. tel: 410-745-9620 or visit wetland.org.

14-18 Recording Arts Camp for ages 9+ with Ray Remesch at the Academy Art Museum, Easton.

9 a.m. to 1 p.m. $155 members, $186 non-members. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit academyartmuseum.org.

14-18 Dive into the World of Math and Art! with Deborah Scales at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. for grades 6 to 8. $125 members,

$135 non-members. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit academyartmuseum.org.

14-18 The Art Studio with Susan Horsey at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. 10 a.m. to noon for ages 7 to 10. $130 members, $140 non-members. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit academyartmuseum.org.

15 Chesapeake’s Best Crab Cakes Educator Workshop at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Follow the blue crab from the Bay to the table in this handson workshop that emphasizes Chesapea ke geography, biol-

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ogy, and economics. Educators w ill ex plore the relationship bet ween people and the blue crab, and leave with resources to implement the accompanying 5E Model Lesson in the classroom.

For more info. tel: 410-745-4941 or visit cbmm.org.

16 Summer Reading Celebration at the Talbot County Free Library, Easton. 10 to 11:30 a.m. Prize drawings, Spider-Man, Sherman the Shorebird, refreshments and more. For more info. tel: 410745-5877 or visit tcfl.org.

16 Meeting: Dorchester Caregivers Support Group from 2 to 3 p.m. at Pleasant Day Adult Medical Day Care, Cambridge. For more info. tel: 410-228-0190.

“Floral Pathway” by Betty Huang

Original artworks in oil and watercolor by Hiu Lai Chong, Betty Huang, Stewart White and sculpture by Rick Casali.

First Friday Gallery Reception August 4, 5-8 p.m.

16 Yoga Therapy at Evergreen: A Center for Balanced Living in Easton. 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-819-3395 or visit evergreeneaston.org.

16 Child Loss Support Group at Talbot Hospice, Easton. 6 p.m.

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Mid-Shore R iverkeeper Conservancy. 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Skeleton Creek. Launch at Windyhill Landing, cross the Choptank River to paddle the narrow and winding Skeleton Creek. $40 for non-members, $25 for members.

For more info. tel: 443-385-0511 or visit midshoreriverkeeper.org.

p.m. For more info. tel: 410-2280190 or visit pleasantday.com.

17 Puppet Show: The Three Billy Goats Gruff at the Talbot County Free Library, St. Michaels. 3:30 p.m. The adventures of three goats and a troll. Performed by the Library’s own Ms. Carla. For ages 1 to 7 accompanied by an adult. For more info. tel: 410745-5877 or visit tcfl.org.

17 Third Thursday in downtown Denton from 5 to 7 p.m. Shop for one-of-a-kind floral arrangements, gifts and home decor, dine out on a porch with views of the Choptank River, or enjoy a stroll around town as businesses extend their hours. For more info. tel: 410-479-0655.

17 Concert: Wheelhouse in Muskrat Park, St. Michaels. Sponsored by the St. Michaels Community Center. Weather permitting. 6:30 to 8 p.m.

18 Shore Kayak Series with the

18 Concert: Bird Dog and the Road Kings in the amphitheater at Sailwinds Park, Cambridge. 6 to 9 p.m. Bring a blanket or a lawn chair. There will be food and beverages available for purchase.

Sponsored by McDonald’s/The Meoli Company.

18 Concert: John McCutcheon in the Stoltz Listening Room, Avalon Theatre, Easton. 8 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-7299 or visit avalonfoundation.org.

18 Concert: The Ladles in the Stoltz Listening Room, Avalon Theatre, Easton. 8 p.m. For more info. tel:

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18 -19 C a r ol i ne Su m mer fe s t throughout downtown Denton.

Friday from 5 to 10 p.m. and Saturday from noon to 10 p.m.

This family arts and entertainment festival in downtown Denton features regional and local entertainment, fire truck rides, a car show, a Saturday fireworks show, strolling performers, artisans, free KidzArt activities, the Choptank Rivah Run, gaming and food vendors and more! For more info. tel: 410-479-8120 or visit CarolineSummerfest.com.

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Museum, St. Michaels. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. In this one-day workshop, Richard Scofield, CBMM’s Assistant Watercraft Curator and rigger for more than 50 years, will demonstrate various marlinspike seamanship techniques (decorative and practical). Participants will learn the basics of splicing line while mastering the techniques for tying classic sailor’s knots. $45 members, $55 non-members. For more info. tel: 410-745-4980 or visit cbmm.org.

19 Nature Bingo at Adkins Arboretum, Ridgely. Join Arboretum Youth Program Director Jenny Houghton for a rousing hour of nature Bingo followed by a unique opportunity to explore the grounds at dusk, when many creatures are out and about. Nature-insired prizes from the gift shop and healthy snacks will be provided. All ages are welcome

Pa s tel Su m mer Work shop: People at the Beach with Katie C a s sidy at t he Ac ademy A r t Museum, Easton. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. $75 members, $90 nonmembers. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit academyartmuseum.org.

19 Marlinspike Arts Workshop at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime 207

August Calendar to share the fun. 6 to 8 p.m. $5 member, $7 non-member. For more info. tel: 410-634-2847, ext.

0 or visit adkinsarboretum.org.

19 Concert in the Country at Layton’s Chance Vineyard and Winery, Vienna. 6 to 9 p.m. Bring your lawn chair and picnic blankets and spend an evening listening to live music by Barren Creek. $7 in advance, $10 at the door. For more info. tel: 410-228-1205 or visit laytonschance.com.

19 Concert: Tidewater Inn Concert Series featuring U.S. Navy Band Commodores on Harrison Street in Easton. Free. 7 to 9 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-7299 or visit avalonfoundation.org.

19-20 Thunder on the Choptank powerboat races on Hambrooks Bay, Cambridge. American Power Boat Association racing comes back to Cambridge! This is the former Thunder on the Narrows.

For more info. visit apba.org or cpba.com.

20 Model Skipjack Races at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The radio-controlled sailing races are organized by CBMM’s Model Sailing Club. For more info. visit cbmm.org.

20 Chesapeake Cowboy Boat Docking Contest at Suicide Bridge Restaurant, Secretar y. 1 p.m.

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August Calendar course, bragging rights. Captains of all ages come, some as young as age 10. This is absolutely spectacular to witness and truly never a dull moment! For more info. visit chesapeakecowboyboatdocking. com or suicidebridge.com.

21 Mysteries of the Eclipse day c a mp at Ad k i n s A rboret u m, Ridgely. A whole day of fun to experience the first total solar eclipse visible from the continental United States in nearly four decades. While the Arboretum is not located in what’s known as the “path of totality” of the eclipse, we’ll still be able to observe a partial eclipse by making pinhole cameras and watching shadows cast by trees. Games, a nature hike, and a special snack baked in a hand-crafted solar oven will round out the day. $40 member, $50 non-member. Ages 8 to 14. 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-634-2847, ext. 0 or visit adkinsarboretum.org.

21 Eclipse Garden Party at Peterson Woods, Pickering Creek Audubon Center, Easton. 1 to 3 p.m.

Enjoy lawn games w ith staff, tour the trails and gardens, then grab a lawn chair for a frontrow seat for the Great Nor th A me r ic a n E c l ip s e . A d v a nc e registration required. For more

info. tel: 410-822-4903 or visit pickeringcreek.audubon.org.

21 Book Discussion: Vanessa and Her Sister by Priya Parmar at the Talbot County Free Library, Easton. 6:30 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-745-5877 or visit tcf l. org.

21-22 Workshop: Evaluating Hydric Soils in the Field at Environmental Concern, St. Michaels.

Dur ing t his t wo - day course, participants will learn to identify the field indicators of hydric soils through lectures and field trips.

This course will include extensive field work to build participants’ experience and confidence in accurately identifying hydric soils for delineation reporting.

Background experience in hydric soils is not required. $375.

Pre-registration is required. For more info. tel: 410-745-9620 or visit wetland.org.

21-25 Sketch It! A Sketchbook Journey for ages 8 to 13 with Susan Horsey at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. 10 a.m. to noon. $130 members, $140 non-members. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit academyartmuseum.org.

22 Hawaiian Luau Party at the Talbot County Free Library, St. Michaels. 2 p.m. Celebrate Ha-

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22 Grief Support Group at Talbot Hospice, Easton. 5 to 6:30 p.m.

This ongoing monthly support group is for anyone in the community who has lost a loved one, regardless of whether they were served by Talbot Hospice. Free and open to the public. For more info. tel: 410-822-6681 or e-mail bdemattia@talbothospice.org.

waiian culture through crafts, music, dance, and food. Preregistration required. For ages 2 to 12 ( children 7 and under must be accompanied by an adult). For more info. tel: 410-745-5877 or visit tcfl.org.

22 Meeting: The CARES Breast Cancer Support Group at UM Shore Regional Breast Center, Easton. 6 to 7:30 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-1000, ext. 5411.

22 Meeting: Women Supporting Women, lo c a l bre a s t c a nc er support group, meets at Christ

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23,30 Story Time at the Talbot Count y Free Librar y, St. Michaels. 10:30 a.m. For children ages 5 and under, accompanied by an adult. For more info. tel: 410-745-5877 or visit tcfl.org.

24 Blood Bank donation dr ive f r om no on to 7 p.m. at I mmanuel United Church of Christ, Cambridge. For more info. tel: 800-548-4009 or visit delmarvablood.org.

24 Concert: Chris Noyes in Muskrat Park, St. Michaels. Sponsored by the St. Michaels Community Center. Weather permitting. 6:30 to 8 p.m.

24 Concert: Annalise Emerick in the Stoltz Listening Room, Avalon Theatre, Easton. 8 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-7299 or visit avalonfoundation.org.

26 Friends Annual Book Sale at both Kent Island and Centreville Libraries. Plan to shop the best bargains in town ~ thousands of books to choose from for $1 or less each! Need extra motivation to join the Friends? A preview sale for members only will be held on Friday, August 25 at Kent Island Library, so you can get the first shot at all the best books!

26 Concert: Tidewater Inn Concert Series featuring Mule Train on Harrison Street in Easton. Free.

7 to 9 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-7299 or visit avalonfoundation.org.

26 St. Michaels Community Center Homecoming Dance from 8 p.m. to midnight at the St. Michaels In n ba l l room. Vote for you r favor ite homec om ing c ouple and dance to live music. Tickets $50. The dance band, Radio City, will perform all evening.

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August Calendar 26-27 Workshop: Telling Stories with Smaller Paint ings w ith Matthew Hillier at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. $195 members, $225 non-members. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit academyartmuseum.org.

27 Su nd ay Mor ning Padd le at Pickering Creek Audubon Center, Easton. 10 a.m. to noon. You are also invited to join Chesapeake Audubon Society for an optional bird walk along the Wetland and Pond loop trails following the paddle. Canoes, basic instruction, paddles, binoculars,

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27 Taylors Island Boat Docking Challenge is an annual fundraising event benefiting the Taylors Island Volunteer Fire Company.

Featuring the very best watermen and boat dockers on the Chesapeake, this is a remarkable and fun event that you won’t want to miss! Noon to 5 p.m. For more info. visit taylorsislandboatdockingchallenge.com.

27 Wine and Unwind at Layton’s Chance Vineyard and Winery, Vienna. 1 to 4 p.m. Sip w ine and listen to live music with J. Coursey Willis. Free; no reservation required. For more info. tel: 410-228-1205 or visit laytonschance.com.

28 Coloring for Teens and Adults at the Talbot County Free Library, St. Michaels. 3 p.m. Explore the relaxing process of coloring. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit tcfl.org.

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30 Meeting: Diabetes Suppor t Group at the Dorchester Family Y MCA, Cambridge. 5:30 p.m.

Free and open to the public. For more info. tel: 410-822-1000, ext. 5196.

Bay Maritime Museum’s biggest fundraisers is the annual Charity Boat Auction, which takes place this year on Saturday, September 2. Donated boats are offered for sale and purchased by the highest bidder. Members are offered an advance preview of all the wonderful boats for sale, both on land and in the water. RSVP required to 410 -745-4991 or nwells@cbmm.org.

30 Member Night: Boat Auction Preview at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels.

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31 Concert: The Covenant Churches in Muskrat Park, St. Michaels.

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Benoni Street - Oxford A superbly restored house in the heart of Oxford’s historic district.

Extensive renovation undertaken in the past 5 years. Wonderful water views from the master bedroom and front porch. Great kitchen for entertaining with Wolf, Sub Zero and Fisher Paykel appliances. Antique pine hardwood flooring. Professionally designed landscaping with irrigation system. A custom remote retractable awning covers the entire patio creating another wonderful outdoor living space. Offered at $773,000.

Henry Hale

Benson & Mangold Real Estate Sales & Service

O: 410-226-0111 C: 410-829-3777 220 N. Morris St. Oxford, MD ¡ www.haleproperty.com 216

COOKE’S HOPE Perfection: Award-winning Better Homes and Gardens Low Country house featuring many upgrades.

Solid doors, custom millwork, granite counters, fine hardware and porcelain tile. Kitchen opens to family room with fireplace. First floor master bedroom, master bath and walk-in closet. Screened and open porches, two-car garage. Gorgeous plantings. $619,000 COOKE’S HOPE 3,400 square foot, 4 bedroom home with gourmet kitchen, formal and informal living and eating areas, wrap-around porch, attached garage, tile bathrooms, fresh paint and carpets. Master bedroom with fireplace, sitting room/office/ nursery (your choice). Brick patio overlooking pool. Private location with oversized lot backing onto nature trail and woods. $750,000 MAXMORE CREEK 20 acres of privacy and nature!

Handsome 3 bedroom brick custom home designed for either one- or two-story living. Library panelled in cypress, pegged oak floors, four fireplaces, brass locks and crown moldings. Spacious guesthouse, greenhouse and heated hobby shop that can be returned to two-car garage. Pool and deck overlooking Maxmore Creek. $895,000

SHORELINE REALTY 114 Goldsborough St., Easton, MD 21601 410-822-7556 · 410-310-5745 www.shorelinerealty.biz · info@shorelinerealty.biz

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