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Features: About the Cover Photographer: Steve Aprile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 The Culture Gulch: Helen Chappell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 The Acadians’ Exile in Maryland: Dick Cooper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Talbot County House and Garden Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Kent County House and Garden Tour. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Two Chesapeake Ladies Tour China ~ Part I: Bonna L. Nelson . . . 59 Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival: Amy Blades Steward . . . 73 Tidewater Gardening: K. Marc Teffeau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Two Tales ~ Tall but True: Gary D. Crawford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 Fine Arts @ Oxford: Amy Blades Steward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 Tidewater Kitchen: Pamela Meredith-Doyle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 Tidewater Review: Anne Stinson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
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About the Cover Photographer Steve Aprile After retiring from a career at the Social Security Administration, Steve took up digital photography when his gra nddaughters were born. To learn how to take better photos, Steve took classes at Chesapeake College and the Academy Art Museum, and joined the Tidewater Camera Club. Steve says “the opportunities to learn photography from world-class photographers here on the Eastern Shore are fantastic. The resources available are phenomenal. “I have found I really enjoy sharing my photography with others. If a subject captures my interest, maybe someone else will enjoy that scene,
too. Photography has added to my enjoyment of the outdoors, and what better place than the Eastern Shore?” Steve has had photos included in the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and Maryland Department of Natural Resources calendars, and several photos were recently published in “Capture Outdoors Mar yland – Celebrating 25 Years of Outdoors Maryland on MPT.” Steve participates regularly in exhibits around the Mid-Shore and is now president of the Tidewater Camera Club. Pictured on the cover is the Rotary Club “Flags for Heroes” display, Talbot County Community Center, Easton.
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The Culture Gulch by Helen Chappell
For some reason, I find more and more of my friends are much younger than me these days. Maybe it’s because so many people my age have either fallen off their perch, or turned into angry old people who hate change. I’m not too fond of change myself, but I do find my younger friends, usually in their early twenties, don’t exactly keep me young, but they do link me into contemporary culture. As a former ’60s hippie peacenik loose cannon creative type, I’ve never been ready for the helmet hair and the country club, but on the other hand, I’m not quite certain I have the energy for tattoos and bands whose music I don’t understand, much less like. And you can take those stupid hipster shaggy untrimmed beards somewhere else. Maybe it’s because I’m getting old and I’ve been there and done that a long time ago. I did the hippie thing in the ’60s. I don’t want to be an overage hipster, because there’s nothing more embarrassing than some aging person trying to act like they’re half their age, or even their grandchild’s age. You see this a lot more with men, who somehow feel it’s going to attract the young chickie poos that their
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The Culture Gulch of ways I’m not going to like, but I’ll have to accept. When you start staring down the cold, gray barrel end of your sixth decade, this is kind of intimidating. This may be why I have started to collect a lot of young friends. Life hasn’t beaten them down yet, and it may never do so. They have a whole different culture, much of which I don’t have the energy to pursue. For instance, I’m not ready for extreme winter sports, although I think if they had a senior Women’s Sumo League, I’d join. The big trouble with people younger than me, which is practically everybody, is they don’t get
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The Culture Gulch and became an acquired taste in life when I fell in love with film, but still.... Young folks think that the Beatles are contemporaries of Mozart. Mom and Dad played the Beatles to put them to sleep as babies. For me, the Beatles were my high school dreamboats. I can toss off a reference to something like The Rockford Files and they don’t have a clue. Not that they should, of course. They were watching Mr. Rogers and Big Bird then. I’m not judging. But, when you’re talking to someone who thinks the Ramones and Debbie Harry, and Dallas all happened when dinosaurs roamed the earth, it can make communication difficult. I don’t understand the music of A Perfect Circle, Mumford and Sons, or Bruno Mars. Well, I understand it, I just left Never Never Land and contemporary music about the time James was a hot band. I don’t get Kanye West, although I love 50 Cent, and some rappers, so I’m not totally senile. Somehow we manage to find a way to communicate and hang out and enjoy each other’s company, even if we have to stop and explain stuff every once in a while. Having young friends is fun. They keep you feeling young, they keep you tuned in to current culture, and they f latter you by actual-
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The Acadians’ Exile in Maryland A Dark and Distant Memory by Dick Cooper Ethnic Cleansing: The practice of removing or killing people who belong to an ethnic group that is different from the ruling group in a country or region. This phrase began creeping into news accounts 20 years ago during the Yugoslav Wars when Serbs, Croats, Bosnians and A lbanians uncorked hundreds of years of racial and religious hatred and began
killing each other. “Ethnic Cleansing” sounds better than genocide, especially to the people who were carrying out the mass murders. Whenever t he phrase is used these days, it is in reports from far-of f places: the Middle East, Africa or Central Asia. But one of the dark and seldom-told stories in North American history is the forced deportation of as many as
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The Acadians’ Exile 10,000 French-speak ing Acadians from modern-day Canada. It chronicles one of the first wholesale, government-sponsored acts of ethnic cleansing in the New World. Half of the Acadians died in the process. To break up their culture, the British shipped the Acadians to the 13 colonies, islands in the Caribbean, England and France. About 900 were shipped to Colonial Maryland, where they were not well received and were harshly treated for a decade. To set the stage for the arrival of the impoverished Acadians on the Chesapeake Bay in 1755, it is necessary to understand the regional tensions aga inst a backd rop of international events. The powerful nations of Europe were on the brink of the Seven Years War, an armed struggle that historians v iew as the first “World War.” England and France were poking and jabbing at each other in North America and the Caribbean. To the English colonists in Maryland, the “wild frontier” was just over the mountains in the Ohio Valley, a mysterious land where published reports told of French priests encouraging Indians to scalp and kill good Protestants. On July 9 of that year, British General Edward Braddock led a force of regulars and militiamen, including his young volunteer staff officer George Washington, into
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rounding up the locals. The Acadians were stripped of their homes, land and livestock. British soldiers systematically burned homes and barns. Entire villages were set to the torch. One account listed 200 homes burned in a day. The British plan at its core sought to destroy the Acadian civilization. The Maryland Gazette reported on December 4, “Sunday last arrived here the two last of the vessels from Nova Scotia with French Neutrals for this place which makes four within a fortnight who have been brought, upwards of nine hundred of them.” And a sorry lot they were. They were penniless and starving when they landed in A nnapolis. Contemporary reports document that the Acadians were overloaded onto the ships with as many as 40 at a time having to stay on deck in the North Atlantic winter. The ships were under-provisioned, and often the water went bad. Even Green was affected by their
and distrust that the British decided to take harsh action against a perceived enemy within its borders: the Acadians. There were about 17,000 to 18,000 French-speakers living in what are now Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island. They had been there for 150 years, building a society that was both prosperous and peaceful. Instead of fighting native Micmacs, they intermarried with them. They traded freely with any country that had money to pay for their goods. They were technica lly liv ing in British territory (the French had given up the region in a 1713 treaty), but they refused to sign an unlimited oath of loyalty to England that would have required them to fight against the French. Annapolis publisher Green was in favor of their removal. On September 11, the Maryland Gazette called the Acadians “the secret Enemies” and claimed that their expulsion “will be one of the greatest things that ever the English did in America.” Green went on to add that the Acadians had prosperous farms and that when they were deported “we could get some good English farmers in their Room, the Province would abound w ith all kinds of Provisions.” In the fall of 1755, the British government commandeered most of the ships in the area and began
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Town, an area off the Inner Harbor bounded by Charles, Light and Pratt streets. The Patuxent ship dropped off its passengers in Lower Marboro. The 181 Acadians sent to the Eastern Shore wound up spread out from Cecil County in the north to Snow Hill in the south. What followed was a very difficult time for the uprooted Acadians. Maryland was founded as a Catholic colony, but by the mid-1750s it was, like most of the other English colonies, predominantly Protestant. There were fears that the Catholic Acadians, even though technically British citizens, would have an allegiance to France. Colonel Edward Lloyd III, the richest planter on the Eastern Shore, in a letter to a
condition when they landed. “Christian Charity, nay common Humanity, calls on everyone according to their ability to lend assistance and help to these objects of compassion,” the Gazette reported. It was quickly decided in Annapolis that the town could not support all of the Acadians’ basic needs. “We are told that three of these vessels are to sail with the first wind (which we heartily wish soon to happen) one for the Patuxent and for the Choptank and a third to the Wicomico,” the Gazette reported. Many of the Acadians in Annapolis were sent by ship to Baltimore, where they established residences in what became known as French
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The Acadians’ Exile relative, openly expressed concern that the Acadians were “rebells” and should be treated as “prisoners of war.” He also feared that they could jeopardize his plantation on the Wye River because about 300 of his slaves were Catholic and might think the Acadians would help free them. Those fears surfaced in Annapolis, where laws were passed restricting the movement of Acadians. One banned local Catholics from offering them lodging or aid for fear they might fall under the inf luence of France and be too friendly to their fellow believers. Another required Acadians who traveled more than 10 miles from their Maryland lodgings to carry passports for identification. Yet another ordered Acadian parents who had trouble caring for their children to indenture them to locals who would put them to work. All of this, on top of being the victims of government-enforced thievery, left the Acadians in Maryland desperate and depressed. When a father died, his widow and children had to beg for their food, door-to-door. Eastern Shore historian Dickson J. Preston, in a 1980 issue of the Tidewater Times wrote, “Their ancestors had been in North America far longer than the forebears of the proud Talbot Countians who looked down their nose at the refugees.” But the hardest hearts weakened a little as the harsh winter of 1756
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The Acadians’ Exile put the Acadian families in grave danger. The list of locals who contributed to their welfare that year included Matthew Tilghman, Philemon Hambleton, P.C. Black, Samuel Chamberlaine, Guill Goldsborough, Ma rg uer ite L owe a nd e ven t he crusty Colonel Lloyd. While the Acadians were spread across thousands of miles of land and sea, they still managed to keep in touch with each other through extensive letter writing. If anything, their plight made their ethnic pride and hold on tradition even stronger. Some who had been sent to South Carolina and Georgia may have made their way to Louisiana, which was held by the French. But for the most part, the Acadians managed to survive in family units in the lands of their exile. When the Seven Years War officially ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763, Acadians began to express a need to reunite and rebuild their culture and their community. There was early talk about going back to Canada by way of the Mississippi and Great Lakes. Some even speculated they could form a New Acadia on the frontier in what is now Illinois. But starting in 1764, mor e a nd mor e A c ad ia n s wer e drawn to Louisiana, encouraged by the Spanish who now controlled the region. They were seen as fellow Catholics and went to areas of
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Louisiana where they could keep the English colonists at bay. In Maryland, there was growing sentiment to move the Acadians out. Their population had grown, but t hei r e c onom ic s t at u s h ad not improved. They were in constant need of assistance. They held strongly to their language and religion and, for their part, the Acadians had no desire to assimilate into English ways. Louisiana was beckoning, but the Maryland Acadians were destitute and could not afford passage. The colonial government decided it was in the best interests of all if they moved on, so starting in 1766, Annapolis began to pay for ships to carry them south. “The journey to the new homeland to the south was a perilous one which exposed these unfortunate victims to even more hardship and
suffering,” Maryland Historian Allen Powell wrote in a 1998 paper. “Those who sailed on the schooner, Virgin in 1767 reported that they missed the entrance to the Mississippi and entered the mouth of the Rio Grande. Because of a shortage of food, they were reduced to eating rats, cats and all the leather on board.” By 1770, more than 600 of them had shipped out. Those who stayed behind in Maryland dissolved into the melting pot of early America, L’Andres becoming Landrys. The relocation of the exiled Acadians f r om t he c olon ie s , t he F r enc h Antilles, England and France continued for 20 years. Over time the “Acadians” of Canada began losing letters from their communal name and eventually became the “Cajuns” of today.
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British in 1783 and forming a new nation. It took the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to bring the story back into national focus when he wrote his epic poem Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie in 1847. The fictional tale is of a young woman, torn from her lover on the eve of their wedding by the deportation. She embarks on a lifelong search for him. The poem became a best seller and was embraced by the Acadian people with a renewed sense of national pride. D ic k C o op e r i s a P u lit z e r Prize-winning journalist. He and his wife, Pat, live and sail in St. Michaels, Maryland. He can be reached at dickcooper@coopermediaassociates.com.
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Talbot County House & Garden Tour Features Historic Waterfronts “Doorways into Talbot County History” is the theme for the Talbot House and Garden Tour, scheduled for Saturday, May 10 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The tour features six waterfront properties with glorious presentday gardens in what was known as the Miles River Parish. Gardens of Talbot Historical Society (Information Headquarters): The Society’s gardens may be entered through the North Terrace on Washington Street, Easton. The hand-wrought iron gate was designed to complement the Charleston gate at the far end of the garden and incorporates the Society’s “star” logo. This charming garden was designed with the assistance of Gor-
don Hayward to create a beautiful public entrance to the larger garden. It includes dwarf boxwood, spring- and fall-blooming camelias, oak leaf hydrangeas and native sweet bay magnolias. The adjoining picket fence was designed after the Chase-Lloyd House fence in Annapolis. The Nettie Jones Garden has rectangular beds and intersecting axes as is typical of classical garden design
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Talbot Historical Society Gardens in the 17th and 18th centuries. The recently renovated Alice D. Huxley Herb Garden in the right rear corner features plants that might have been used during the colonial period. River Bank: This charming house is nestled along the banks of Dixon Creek, which is unusual for a house in Talbot County where the rules now specify a set-back of 200 feet. Local lore has it that a Virginia family named Lee once lived on this peninsula and homes were added as the family grew. This was one of those added houses. In the nine years since the owner purchased the property, the gardens have become the focus. An existing swimming pool was removed and the new pool was sited further back into the property so that it became an element of the garden. Poolside, grays and beiges were incorporated so as not to conflict with the colorful gardens. Nearby is a stone-edged croquet court and just beyond that one will
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In addition to painstaking renovations in the charming, art-filled main house, many original outbuildings have been given new life, including the former slave quarters, the boathouse and the barn. Driving along the tree-lined lane toward the gracious home, one will see a new fenced garden with 20 raised beds for organic vegetables and greens. Also, in the interest of “being green,� the historic home is now heated and cooled by a geothermal system. Knightly: A Federal-style brick house built in 1820 by Maryland Governor Edward Lloyd V as a wedding gift for his daughter Elizabeth Tayloe Lloyd and her husband Edward S. Winder. The title to the property overlooking Leeds Creek remained in the Lloyd family throughout the marriage and was eventually sold out of the LloydWinder family in 1880. For more than 60 years the highceilinged formal dining and living rooms were used for grain storage! Initially renovated in the late 1960s, the house, with its freestanding staircase and connecting parlors, has been beautifully updated. The formal gardens have undergone a recent redesign in a project that spanned four years from conception to completion and encompassed restoring three acres of land, transplanting mature trees and shrubs and the addition of thousands of new trees and shrubs.
Knightly find a path that winds through the woods and back toward the house. An herb garden is tucked behind a fence adjacent to the driveway. Wheatlands: Settled in among giant native trees and commanding a sweeping view of the Miles River, this beautifully restored family home was built by Perry Benson in the late 18th century on land that had been patented by his grandfather and father as early as 1723. As one of Maryland’s early military heroes, Benson repelled the British attack on St. Michaels in 1813. In 1860, two of several tracts of land, Mardell and Huntington, were combined and renamed Wheat Land. 45
Talbot Tour A key structural element that was retained from the earlier garden is a collection of some of the largest Osmanthus shrubs in the Mid-Atlantic region. All Faith Chapel: In the charming village of Tunis Mills, and still in active use, this is an example of the vernacular church architecture that was once seen throughout the Talbot County countryside. Miles River Parish was established in 1881, and services were initially held in a converted country store that now serves as the Parish Hall. The present chapel was built in 1929, the lumber having been donated by Mr. Howard Lloyd of Wye House. The Baptismal Font, circa 1839, was formerly in St. John’s Chapel near the present Miles River Bridge.
built in 1928 and has been extensively restored. The two-and-a-half-story, fivebay Colonial Revival house with a “Mt. Vernon porch” on the water side is attached to a late 18th century three-bay original brick wing that is now the guest quarters. Known through the years as Bachelor’s Branch, Bennett’s Neglect, Triangle, Thief Keep Out and Partnership, the name Lombardy first appeared on a bill of sale to Colonel Horace Edmondson in the 1840s. It is important to notice the woodwork throughout this charming house since all moldings, chair rails and window frames were milled on-site from trees on the proper t y. It is believed that many of the trees and box woods on the site pre-date the f irst house built there.
Lombardy: On land patented in the late 17th century, a Frenchman built the original house at Lombardy in 1775. Following two known fires, the current house overlooking the Miles River was
Presqu’ile: The house at Presqu’ile sits on land that was patented in 1662 by Richard Woolman, a co-founder of Talbot County, and later was sold into the Lloyd family. Situated at the end of a long, 46
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lies created during the 70 years that the Wyman family has owned this 1,100-acre estate. The newly renovated and exquisitely decorated home overlooks 10 acres of formal gardens. Of special note are the brick walled garden rooms of fragrant roses, lilacs, wisteria and boxwood that are connected by beautiful gates and archways. The Doric portico commands a rolling view of lawn to the Wye River magically interrupted by a “ha-ha,” a feature used in landscape design to keep grazing animals out of the garden. Advance tickets may be purchased for $30 online at www. mhgp.org, or in person at the stores Bountiful and Garden Treasures. On the day of the tour, tickets will be available for purchase at all tour sites for $35. Credit card purchases can be made online only. Box lunches are available for $15 by advance purchase and can be picked up between 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. the day of the tour at historic All Faith Chapel at 26281 Tunis Mills Road, Easton. Lunches can be purchased by May 2 at Bountiful and Garden Treasures or by check payable to the Talbot County Garden Club, P.O. Box 1524, Easton, MD 21601. Checks must be received by May 2.
tree-lined driveway, this three-story, nearly square, frame home was built in 1832 by Murray Lloyd, son of Governor Edward Lloyd, on a neck of land jutting into the Wye River. Presqu’ile was passed down through generations of Lloyd sons and eventually was inherited by Elizabeth Lloyd Key, wife of Frances Scott Key, author of the Star Spangled Banner. The property apparently left the Lloyd family for the first time in 1906 ~ after nearly two hundred years. In the mid-20th century when the Chesapeake Bay Bridge was built and more people on the western shore had ready access to the Eastern Shore, Presqu’ile was purchased by Rogers Morton, later a U.S. Congressman and member of the Cabinet as the Secretary of Interior and of Commerce. This splendid property and delightful house have remained in his family since that time. Wye Heights Plantation: The house is a superior example of a Federal-style Plantation House built in 1810 for a member of the Lloyd family from Wye House. This historically important house was built high on a peninsula at the juncture of four branches of the Wye River. The unforgettable driveway takes you through a cleared wood of 100-year-old beech trees and rolling pastures of grazing Scottish black sheep and English fallow deer. Be on the lookout for numerous garden fol-
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Kent County House & Garden Tour Features Historic Waterfronts Saturday, May 31, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The tour’s special project entails working cooperatively with the town of Chestertown to renovate Fountain Park in keeping with its surrounding architectural style and with references to its original design. of several changes to the original home. A two-bedroom wing and a garage featuring an upstairs apartment were added.
Ash Point Farm: This 176-acre farm, established by the owners’ family in 1955, is one of the many bucolic estates of a much earlier agrarian society that marketed the harvest via the Chester River. The view inspires repose best enjoyed on the front porch. The massive columns, representing the genteel lines of a Southern manor house, are one of the many notable details of the property. Interestingly, the ceiling of this porch, true to Southern tradition, is painted blue. Tour guides in Charleston, South Carolina, claim that this color keeps the bugs at bay, but was originally introduced to deter evil spirits. During Hurricane Isabelle, a random water spout destroyed the porch; the current design is one
Fish Camp at Cooper’s Wharf: The owner’s Thoreau-style shantytown on the shore resembles a turn-of-the-century wharf community. Much of the structural lumber, exterior siding and flooring on the porches and entryway came from pine and oak trees felled and milled on the property. The equipment shed opposite the barn was fashioned from a pair of small barns found in Northeast, Maryland. The best of the hand-hewn beams once held up the White Swan Tavern in Chestertown. An amalgam of ingenuity, sustainability and whimsy is the 51
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and drill work and a rope molding in the cornice. A porch, enclosed by a prior owner, was transformed into a library. The kitchen was modernized and dramatically enlarged, but the original pantry was kept intact.
ing rooms. An enormous stump, the remains of a historic basswood tree, marks the beginning of a meandering red brick path that leads to a formal garden. On its southern face, the home’s double porch draped with wisteria looks out over the garden and a small barn, now reincarnated as a work space ~ a studio for the artist owner.
M c H a r d / M e e t e e r/ F r i s b y House: A lovely Georgian home, probably built by the McHard family in the final third of the 18th century, between 1766 and 1771. The original brick structure features an original living room fireplace and mantel. A long wing perpendicular to the original structure was built at the back of the house in the 19th century; that wing was demolished and replaced by a two-storied new wing in the 20th century. During that period the owners of the house also built the Southern-style porch on the west side of the house. A living room window was expanded into a door, providing the porch with two entrances from within the house and one from the outside. The garden features two bronze cranes overlooking a pond.
Wilmer House: A 1925 Victorian built by the notable Mayor Wilmer and his wife. The original woodwork, brought from Thornton Manor, the builder’s family farm located on a 352-acre plot near Chestertown, was installed in the living room. The fireplace has an extraordinary tabernacle overmantel with reeded pilasters and broken pediment. The mantel possesses double-crossette trim with three plinth blocks supporting the shelf. This fine example of Federal period woodwork is decorated with reeding, gouge 54
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fireplace on each first floor was the heat source. Later additions c. 1905 and 1912 expanded both houses toward the water. In 1998 and 2000, the properties were renovated. Inner entries between the houses were created. Both houses were air conditioned and provided with new heating units, kitchens, and bathrooms. A deck and veranda, linking both houses, were added. Today, the family uses the two houses as one. Interestingly, history may repeat itself one day when the owner’s two daughters inherit the property. The sisters will have the opportunity to be close, sharing only parts of the same home.
The Simon-Wickes House (Garden Only): A Georgian home built in 1780 for the sum of “222 bushels of good merchantable wheat.” The house was built into the river bank and is nearly one story higher on the water side than on the street. Flemish bond was used below the water table on the façade as well as on three other walls. The riverside gardens provide weary pilgrims an opportunity for quiet repose in a shaded glen comfortably cooled with a constant breeze from the Chester. North Water Street: Two Federal-style houses, sharing a common wall, were built in 1880 by Chestertown builder Walter Pippin, who also built Lauretum outside of Chestertown. The first owners, two sisters, lived in 111 and 113, as they wanted to be close but not share the same house. Each house consisted of three f loors plus a basement, each level containing only one room. A single
Advance garden tour tickets may be purchased for $30 online at www. mhgp.org. On the day of the tour, tickets will be available for purchase at all tour sites for $35. Credit card purchases can be made online only. A delicious luncheon buffet will be served between noon and 2 p.m. in the Parish Hall of Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Chestertown. The cost is $12 per person. Reservations requested by May 17 through the church website www. emmanuelchesterparish.org or by calling the church office during business hours, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at 410-778-3477. For more information, log on to www.mhgp.org. 56
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Two Chesapeake Ladies Tour China by Bonna L. Nelson
nored in Mandarin, China’s official language. Her travel partner also had no interest in visiting China and had fishing on his mind. For a year, we researched tour options, including colleges, Chambers of Commerce, U.S. tour companies and Internet tour companies. We decided to book w ith a Chinese tour company online, China Spree, because it offered more cities, sites and experiences than other options, plus quality hotels and food that received rave reviews. Also, their tour
What’s a lady to do when she longs for travel to the exotic, the ancient and massive country of contrasts, old and new, that is China? What’s a lady to do when her travel partner has no interest in China and has hunting on his mind instead? What’s a lady to do when she needs a partner to share a trophy trip? She f inds a lady friend. A f ter I shared my dilemma with Fran Tettelbaum, she said, “When?” Fran had a long-held desire to visit China since her college years when she mi-
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Touring China guides were all English-speaking Chinese natives. We found that the best way to get to New York’s JFK airport on time for our f light to Beijing was by car, using Easton’s Executive Transportation Services, Inc. We were comfortably delivered to our JFK terminal for a direct f light north over the Arctic and south over Russia to Beijing. The fourteen hours on Air China passed pleasantly and the service was remarkable. As we were f lying without our tour g roup a nd g uide, we were concerned about making our first connection with China Spree at the Beijing airport. No worries; our lo-
Gate and sculpture at one of the entrances to the Forbidden City. cal guide, Lin, was waiting for us at the baggage carousel and whisked us off to our hotel. There we met our national guide, Julie, who would accompany us throughout the trip. Both ladies were cheerful, experienced and knowledgeable.
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Touring China We stayed in high-end hotels throughout the trip. In Beijing, a JW Marriott had delicious daily buffet breakfasts, including American and Chinese items. My favorite breakfasts were made-to-order veggie omelets, good coffee, and fresh fruit. Fran enjoyed Chinese soups, vegetables and tea most mornings. On our first day, we boarded a luxury coach to see Beijing sites and met our 14 West Coast travel companions who had f lown from San Francisco the night before. Lin and Julie began Mandarin lessons. “Ni hao” (pronounced “knee how” in English) means “hello.” They suggested that we could make the trip a “happy” one by learning some Chinese, making friends, and expecting the unexpected. “Happy” was Lin’s favorite English word, and she used it frequently to rate restrooms for us. If a restroom had a Western-style stall, it was a “happy” restroom. Most were Chinese style: a hole in a basin on the ground - definitely not happy to us Western ladies! With an ever growing population of 21 million, Beijing is a massive, bustling city covered with mostly overcast skies and dense, polluted air. On several days I had to cover my face with a scarf or face mask to filter the air. Vehicular emissions, industrial pollution, cigarette smoke, and coal burning all contrib-
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ute to the haze and poor visibility. We did have a few days when the sun and blue sky peeked through. Skyscrapers, government buildings and heavy traffic surround the heart of Beijing: the famous, ancient Forbidden City. We entered the 7.8 million-square-foot Beijing treasure through the Gate of Heavenly Peace beneat h a large Chair man Mao portrait staring down at us. We shut out the modern city of Beijing once inside the courtyard with its beautiful red palaces, great halls, marble bridges, plazas and terraces. The architectural marvel was home to 24 different emperors who ruled the Middle Kingdom from the Forbidden City. Completed in 1420 and last occupied in 1912, the complex includes 980 buildings with 9,999 rooms. Named “Forbidden City� because commoners a nd foreigners had been forbidden to enter, it is now a museum open to all. The buildings in the asymmetrical complex were built with wood and brick painted a brilliant red, a color favored by the Chinese as it represents happiness and celebrations. The overhanging and curved tiled roofs are golden yellow, a color representing imperial dignity and respect. Multi-colored mosaic tiles trim walls; bronze and marble statuary stand guard at palace entrances; and dragon and phoenix motifs decorate the halls and rooms where paintings still hang. O ver whelmed by its size and extravagance, Fran and I explored 63
Touring China the site. So intact were the buildings and furnishings, it felt as if time had stopped and the emperor and court had perhaps just left on a trip and might return at any minute. Next, traveling by bicycle rickshaws, we bumped along stonepaved narrow roads in Beijing’s Hutongs, a ma ze of t rad it iona l courtyard homes in the old city, for a lunch of tasty homemade dumplings in a private home. Our charming hostess also served dipping sauces, f re sh stea med vegetables, beer and tea. We met her neighbors in the surrounding courtyard before traveling to the Summer Palace, an imperial retreat built by Empress Cixi, on Kunming Lake. A dragon boat ride on the lake took us past Imperial gardens, temples, palaces and the “Marble Boat,” where Empress Cixi took afternoon tea. A s t r ol l t h r oug h T i a n a n men Square was our last stop before dinner. Our guides said that the Square is the largest urban square in the world and can handle a gathering of a million people. We had attempted to see it that morning, before our tour of the Forbidden City, but the area was closed to tourists. No one knew why. I learned that night when reading an English language Beijing newspaper that China had hosted a visit with Russian officials in the government buildings surrounding the Square to negotiate a long-term
We took a cruise on the Li River aboard a beautiful dragon boat. oil deal. China is now the largest oil importer. We ended our first day with a China Spree Welcome Dinner of Beijing’s most fa mous gour met dish, Peking duck, served with thin Mandarin pancakes, green onions, hoisin sauce, rice, steamed vegetables, beer and tea. The outside of the duck is crispy and caramel color, and the meat is juicy and tender, though fatty. Fran was a big fan; me, not so much. I devoured the pancakes and, though not a big beer consumer, I enjoyed the Chinese beer, Tsingtao, throughout the trip. Most of the meals at Chinese establishments were served family style on a circular rotating tray that, like us, they called a “Lazy Susan.” On day two in Beijing we strolled the Sacred Way of Ming Tombs, burial site of emperors, and a peaceful path lined with weeping willows and stone sculptures of officials, soldiers, anima ls and my t hic a l figures. At our next stop, a jade 64
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The Peking duck was quite crispy. workshop f illed w ith intricately car ved jade sculptures and jewelry, we learned that jade has been cherished by the Chinese people for thousands of years and is thought to bring good luck. When given our first opportunity to shop, Fran bought herself a lovely pair of dark green jade earrings. We spent the afternoon at the Great Wall, a remarkable trip highl ig ht for me. Ac c ord i ng to ou r guides, the Great Wall is regarded as the most magnificent military defense network in the world and is reputed to be one of the seven architectural wonders of the world and one of the largest construction projects in human histor y. The stone, brick, wood and earth structure, built to keep invaders at bay, was 5,500 miles long, running east to west at the peak of its glory. Portions of the Wall have been restored, but much is crumbling. Fran and I felt a sense of accomplishment after a quite strenuous
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We topped off the evening at “99 Yur ts,� a Mongolian restaurant. We sat at round tables in one of 99 private dining yurts, tent-style circular buildings. A costumed Mongolian singing group entertained us while we dined on slow roasted lamb, noodles, homemade yogurt, soup and sour Mongolian liquor. It was a unique experience. On our last day in Beijing we walked through a people’s park on the way to the Temple of Heaven. Happy Chinese people were practicing yoga, tai chi, folk dancing, knitting, painting, singing, playi ng c a r d s a nd play i ng mu sic a l instruments. Fran and I playfully joined a yoga group. Fran said that
hike to the Wall. I was impressed with the beauty of the structure me a nder i ng over t r e e - c over e d mountains and va lleys of fer ing dramatic views as far as the eye could see. We strolled along the Wall, looking out over the rampa r t s a nd e x plor i ng t he w atc h towers where soldiers had stood guard, slept and stored arms and supplies. I experienced a spiritual moment on top of the Wall similar to those I had felt while exploring Machu Picchu in Peru, thinking about those who had built, traveled and occupied the wall since the 5th century BCE.
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by Amy Blades Steward The 29t h annua l Chesapea ke Chamber Music (CCM) Festiva l w i l l b e he ld i n E a s ton Ju ne 1 t h r oug h Ju ne 1 5 . T he Fe s t iv a l will honor the past and look to the future in chamber music, featuring classic pieces as well as works by contemporary composers. This year there w ill be si x concerts, five artist recitals and two rehearsals. The rehearsals will be free and open to the public. The 13 events are held in various Eastern Shore locations including Easton, St. Michaels and Centreville. Twenty-one artists will perform this year, with many familiar faces, along with some newcomers to the Eastern Shore Festival scene. J. Lawrie Bloom, bass clarinet of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and Marcy Rosen, a founding member of the world-renowned Mendelssohn String Quartet, continue as Artistic Directors. A concert at Trinity Cathedral in Easton will kick off the two-week Festival on June 1 at 5:30 p.m. with a recital, “Beethoven, Beethoven, Beethoven,” featuring Catherine Cho on violin, Robert McDonald on piano, and Marcy Rosen on cello. The “Saturday Matinee” concert at
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Harbison’s work to be featured. the River House at Easton Club on June 7 will feature an afternoon of music, including works by Haydn, Rorem and Dvořák, and will be followed by a reception with hors d’oeuvres. T h e Fe s t i v a l w i l l s h o w c a s e the CCM-commissioned work of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer J o h n H a r b i s o n a t S t . P a u l ’s Church in Centreville as part of the organization’s commitment to new music. This concer t, “Bach and Harbison,” w ill be held on S u nd ay, Ju ne 8 at 4 p.m . a nd w ill feat ure Fest iva l newcomer and internationally know n 73
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Transitioning into Spring You can squeeze in a late planting of cool season crops like spinach, lettuce and peas, but do it in the first week of May. It is important to pinch the blooms off flower and vegetable transplants before you set them out. I know it is a hard practice to follow, but by pinching out the flowers you will help direct the plants’ energies to root development and you’ll have more productive plants.
Our activities are now in full swing with lots to do in the landscape and vegetable garden. The soil is warming up and the last frost date has passed, so we can get to some of our spring plantings. May is the time to make your first sowing of green beans, cucumbers, squash, sweet corn, and a second seeding of lettuce. Transplants of tomatoes, eggplants and peppers can now be placed in the garden.
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Tidewater Gardening especially in damp weather. They also branch more easily, meaning less maintenance. Multifloras are most useful for massed effects in beds. You can also set petunia plants among fading tulips or daffodils to hide the unsightly wilting leaves. After the bulb foliage begins to fade, you can tie the leaves in gentle knots to neaten them, but don’t remove them until they have dried completely. The National Garden Bureau has declared that 2014 will be the Year of the Petunia. There are some interesting facts about petunias at the NGB website. Did you know that petunias are members of the potato family? While we grow them on the Shore as annuals, they are really classified as tender perennials. Just like potatoes, petunias are originally from South America, and were first discovered in the late 1700s. Like many native plant species that eventually came into the European and American landscapes, European breeders took the scraggly “first� petunias and began crossing them in search of the perfect petunia. According to the NGB, the many beautiful and different forms of petunias that we now enjoy originated from descendants of two lanky, tiny-flowered South American species: the buff-white flowered Petunia axillaries, and the night-fra84
grant lavender- to purple-flowered Petunia violacea. Petunia breeding really took off after WWII. Weddle, one of the founders of PanAmerican Seed Company, won an AAS award in 1949 for the first F1 single-flowered multiflora, “Silver Medal,” and in 1952 crossed a grandiflora with a multiflora, producing an F1 vigorous grandiflora hybrid “Ballerina.” After enjoying the beautiful spring flowering bulbs in the landscape, we can keep the floral display going by planting summer flowering bulbs. Summer flowering bulbs provide another dimension to the floral palette. They add beauty and interest to the landscape and, since most of them are tender in the Tidewater area, they offer a unique challenge and reward to the gardener. There are a large number of different types of bulbs, offering variations in forms, fragrances, colors, and lasting brilliance that many summer annuals cannot achieve. One point of clarification is in order. While we might talk about summer flowering “bulbs,” it is
Canna flower spikes can grow to be upwards of seven feet tall. important to know that not all grow from true bulbs. Some, like canna, grow from rhizomes. Gladiolus grow from corms and dahlias from tuberous roots. Botantists and professional horticulturists like to dwell on the differences, but for the home gardener, summer “bulbs” will suffice. The everyday usage of the term “bulb” includes all plants that grow from fleshy underground storage
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dens, and especially in containers and hanging baskets. Most summer flowering bulbs are not suggested for “perennializing” because they do not overwinter and they are considered somewhat “formal.” Rhizomous iris, lilies and daylilies are notable exceptions to this practice. Perhaps one of the most notable summer foliage bulbs are caladiums. The heart-shaped leaves of these tropical plants range in size from 6 to 12 inches. The numerous cultivars offer foliage colors in red, salmon, rose, white or green, with many variegated combinations. Caladiums prefer a rich soil and shade. Grown mostly for their interesting foliage display, caladiums perform well in garden borders
organs. The most important difference that must be understood is the distinction between hardy and tender bulbs. On the Shore, hardy bulbs like daffodils, hyacinths, tulips and lilies overwinter in the ground. Most tender bulbs like gladiolus, caladiums, and tuberous begonias are either dug after the first frost or their containers are brought indoors. The bulbs are dried or placed in storage materials in either a warm or cool place. In the spring they are either replanted in the landscape or in containers for the patio or deck. Favorite uses of these bulbs are in borders, ground covers, rock gar-
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The spring f lowering bulbs like tulips and daffodils are imported into the U.S. from Holland. Caladium bulbs are grown in the U.S. In fact, Lake Placid, Florida, is considered the Caladium Capital of the World! A number of home gardeners like to plant cannas or canna lilies every spring. They can provide a rather dramatic presence in the flower bed. They are popular among home gardeners and professional landscapers because of their extended flowering period and luxurious green or bronze foliage. In August and September, when other flowers have passed their peak, the canna lilies display a showcase of color and texture. Another reason to
and containers. Fertilize them once a month with a balanced 8-8-8 or 1010-10 fertilizer. Caladiums are true tender bulbs, and since they do not overwinter in Maryland, they must be dug in the fall and stored dry at 70째 to 75째. The tubers are replanted in the spring after the last chance of frost. Most caladium cultivars are adapted to full shade, but many selections tolerate partial sun or early morning shade. Caladiums planted in the shade tend to have bigger leaves and are taller to catch the light, as opposed to caladiums in direct sunlight. The color intensity can vary according to sunlight and amount of fertilizer used. Full sun generally reduces the intensity of the foliage color of most cultivars.
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lily can last several weeks. The spent flowers should be deadheaded to preserve the plant’s energy, and also to keep the plant looking attractive. Canna lilies bloom from about mid-summer until the first frost. They should be planted in well-drained, rich organic soil. Canna lilies prefer full sun, but can survive in partial shade. They can be left in the ground for the winter if mulched with 3 to 4 inches of organic material. While usually planted for cut flower use, gladiolus can be effectively used in the flower bed. They are easy to grow and offer a wide spectrum of colors. When planting times are staggered (weekly), they will flower over the entire summer.
plant cannas is because hummingbirds are attracted to them. There are over 60 canna lily cultivars available, providing wide choices of colors. The rhizomes are generally planted the first of May in a rich well-drained soil, and in an area that receives full sun for at least six hours per day. It is recommended that you plant with only about an inch of soil over the rhizomes, and set them 18 to 24 inches apart. Apply 3 to 4 lbs. of 1010-10 per 100 ft, every 4 to 6 weeks throughout the growing season, and water thoroughly. They need plenty of water to keep them blooming. A single flower spike of a canna
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Corms can be planted outdoors starting in early May. Planting depth should be to the base of the corms ~ 4 to 6 inches. Use a well-drained soil and plant them 6 to 8 inches apart. Many gardeners like to plant in rows ~ if so, the rows should be approximately 36 inches apart. A slow-release fertilizer (5-10-10) should be applied at the rate of 3 to 4 lbs. per 100 feet of bed area when plants are 6 to 8 inches tall, and again when the flower spikes begin to appear in the foliage. Most Gladiolus do not overwinter, therefore the corms must be carefully dug and stored. After the foliage has dried, dig the corms, remove the soil, and cut off dead tops. Dry corms for 3 or 4 days in an open
area and dust with an insecticide and fungicide. Store dry in mesh bags or trays at 35掳 to 41掳. Cultivars of tuberous begonias can provide a wide range of colors ~ from soft pastels to brilliant and electric solid colors ~ and they are very versatile. Used as bedding plants, in hanging baskets, in container plantings on the patio, or simply as flowers around trees in home lawns, these summer bulbs are a must to grow for the dedicated gardener. It is important to remember that tuberous begonias are somewhat temperamental because they do not tolerate stresses. They dislike strong winds and require good soil drainage. They need to be well watered, but do not like moisture on
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Dahlias make a beautiful addition to the standard fare of annuals in your flower garden. are excellent as fresh cut f lowers. Dahlia clumps are generally dug in the fall after the first frost, and stored at 35° to 41° in dry vermiculite or sand. In the spring, clumps can be divided with each section having at least one shoot. It should be noted that seed-grown dahlias are not very heat tolerant. Also, they tend to lack uniformity in growth habit and flower color display. Usually our landscapes tend to look a little bedraggled as we move into July and August. Keep that flower display going by adding some summer bulbs to that bed of annuals for a continuous and varied effect. Happy Gardening! Marc Teffeau retired as the 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. 90
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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. 93
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Dorchester Points of Interest bridge in Maryland after the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. A life-long resident of Dorchester County, Senator Malkus served in the Maryland State Senate from 1951 through 1994. Next to the Malkus Bridge is the 1933 Emerson C. Harrington Bridge. This bridge was replaced by the Malkus Bridge in 1987. Remains of the 1933 bridge are used as fishing piers on both the north and south bank of the river. LAGRANGE PLANTATION - Home of the Dorchester County Historical Society, LaGrange Plantation offers a range of local history and heritage on its grounds. The Meredith House, a 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, horsedriven 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 COUNTY VISITOR CENTER - The Visitors Center in Cambridge is a major entry point to the lower Eastern Shore, positioned just off U.S. Route 50 along the shore of the Choptank River. With its 100foot sail canopy, it’s also a landmark. In addition to travel information and exhibits on the heritage of the area, there’s also a large playground, garden, boardwalk, restrooms, vending machines, and more. The Visitors Center is open daily from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information about Dorchester County call 800-522-8687 or visit www.tourdorchester.org or www.tourchesapeakecountry.com. SAILWINDS PARK - Located at 202 Byrn St., Cambridge, Sailwinds Park has been the site for popular events such as the Seafood Feast-I-Val in August, Crabtoberfest in October and the Grand National Waterfowl Hunt’s Grandtastic Jamboree in November. For more info. tel: 410-228SAIL(7245) or visit www.sailwindscambridge.com. CAMBRIDGE CREEK - a tributary of the Choptank River, runs through the heart of Cambridge. Located along the creek are restaurants where you can watch watermen dock their boats after a day’s work on the waterways of Dorchester. HISTORIC HIGH STREET IN CAMBRIDGE - When James Michener was doing research for his novel Chesapeake, he reportedly called
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Dorchester Points of Interest HORN POINT LABORATORY - The Horn Point Laboratory offers public tours of this world-class scientific research laboratory, which is affiliated with the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. The 90-minute walking tour shows how scientists are conducting research to restore the Chesapeake Bay. Horn Point Laboratory is located at 2020 Horns Point Rd., Cambridge, on the banks of the Choptank River. For more info. and tour schedule tel: 410-228-8200 or visit www.umces.edu/hpl. THE STANLEY INSTITUTE - This 19th century one-room African American schoolhouse, dating back to 1865, is one of the oldest Maryland schools to be organized and maintained by a black community. Between 1867 and 1962, the youth in the African-American community of Christ Rock attended this school, which is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Tours available by appointment. The Stanley Institute is located at the intersection of Route 16 West & Bayly Rd., Cambridge. For more info. tel: 410-228-6657. BUCKTOWN VILLAGE STORE - Visit the site where Harriet Tubman received a blow to her head that fractured her skull. From this injury Harriet believed God gave her the vision and directions that inspired her to guide
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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 preser ved or restored. Because of its historical significance, Easton has earned distinction as the “Colonial Capital of the Eastern Shore” and was honored as #8 in the book, “The 100 Best Small Towns in America.” Walking Tour of Downtown Easton Start near the corner of Harrison Street and Mill Place. 1. HISTORIC TIDEWATER INN - 101 E. Dover St. A completely modern hotel built in 1949, it was enlarged in 1953 and has recently undergone extensive renovations. It is the “Pride of the Eastern Shore.” 2. THE BULLITT HOUSE - 108 E. Dover St. One of Easton’s oldest and most beautiful homes, it was built in 1801. It is now occupied by the Mid-Shore Community Foundation. 3. AVALON THEATRE - 42 E. Dover St. Constructed in 1921 during the heyday of silent films and vaudeville entertainment. Over the course of its history, it has been the scene of three world premiers, including “The First Kiss,” starring Fay Wray and Gary Cooper, in 1928. The theater has gone through two major restorations: the first in 1936, when it was refinished in an art deco theme by the Schine Theater chain, and again 52 years later, when it was converted to a performing arts and community center. For more info. tel: 410-822-0345 or visit www. avalontheatre.com. 4. TALBOT COUNTY VISITORS CENTER - 11 S. Harrison St. The Office of Tourism provides visitors with county information for historic Easton and the waterfront villages of Oxford, St. Michaels and Tilghman Island. For more info. tel: 410-770-8000 or visit www.tourtalbot.org. 5. BARTLETT PEAR INN - 28 S. Harrison St. Significant for its architecture, it was built by Benjamin Stevens in 1790 and is one of Easton’s earliest three-bay brick buildings. The home was “modernized” with Victorian bay windows on the right side in the 1890s. 105
Easton Points of Interest 6. WATERFOWL BUILDING - 40 S. Harrison St. The old armory is now the headquarters of the Waterfowl Festival, Easton’s annual celebration of migratory birds and the hunting season, the second weekend in November. For more info. tel: 410-822-4567 or visit www. waterfowlfestival.org. 7. ACADEMY ART MUSEUM - 106 South St. Accredited by the American Association of Museums, the Academy Art Museum is a fine art museum founded in 1958. Providing national and regional exhibitions, performances, educational programs, and visual and performing arts classes for adults and children, the Museum also offers a vibrant concert and lecture series and an annual craft festival, CR AFT SHOW (the Eastern Shore’s largest juried fine craft show), featuring local and national artists and artisans demonstrating, exhibiting and selling their crafts. The Museum’s permanent collection consists of works on paper and contemporary works by American and European masters. Mon. through Thurs. 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Fri. through Sun. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more info. tel: (410) 822-ARTS (2787) or visit www.art-academy.org. 8. CHRIST CHURCH - St. Peter’s Parish, 111 South Harrison St.
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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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1900s, now one of the finest hospitals on the Eastern Shore. Memorial Hospital is part of the Shore Health System. www.shorehealth.org. 22. THIRD HAVEN MEETING HOUSE - Built in 1682 and the oldest frame building dedicated to religious meetings in America. The Meeting House was built at the headwaters of the Tred Avon: people came by boat to attend. William Penn preached there with Lord Baltimore present. Extensive renovations were completed in 1990. 23. TALBOT COMMUNITY CENTER - The year-round activities offered at the community center range from ice hockey to figure skating, aerobics and curling. The Center is also host to many events throughout the year, such as antique, craft, boating and sportsman shows. 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 www.pickeringcreek.org. 25. W YE GRIST MILL - The oldest working mill in Maryland (ca. 1682), the f lour-producing “grist” mill has been lovingly preserved by The Friends of Wye Mill, and grinds f lour to this day using two massive grindstones powered by a 26 horsepower overshot waterwheel. For more info. visit www.oldwyemill.org. 26. 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 www.dnr.state.md.us/publiclands/eastern/ wyeisland.asp. 27. OLD WYE CHURCH - Old Wye Church is one of the oldest active Anglican Communion parishes in Talbot County. Wye Chapel was built between 1718 and 1721 and opened for worship on October 18, 1721. For more info. visit www.wyeparish.org. 28. WHITE MARSH CHURCH - The original structure was built before 1690. Early 18th century rector was the Reverend Daniel 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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St. Michaels Points of Interest 2. HARBOURTOWNE GOLF RESORT - Bay View Restaurant and Duckblind Bar on the scenic Miles River with an 18 hole golf course. For more info. visit www.harbourtowne.com. 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.perrycabin.com. 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.
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St. Michaels Points of Interest In 1877, Dodson, 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. Home to the world’s largest collection of Bay boats, the Museum regularly hosts temporary exhibitions, special events, festivals, and education programs. Docking and pump-out facilities available. Exhibitions and Museum Store open year-round. Up-to-date information and hours can be found on the Museum’s website at www.cbmm.org or by calling 410-745-2916. 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 118
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St. Michaels Points of Interest property, then known as “Willow Cottage,” underwent alterations when 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. For more info. visit www.victorianainn.com. 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. FREEDOMS FRIEND LODGE - Chartered in 1867 and constructed in 1883, the Freedoms Friend Lodge is the oldest lodge existing in Maryland and is a prominent historic site for our Black community. It is now the site of Blue Crab Coffee Company. 15. TALBOT COUNTY FREE LIBRARY - St. Michaels Branch is located at 106 S. Fremont Street. For more info. tel: 410-745-5877 or visit www.tcfl.org.
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St. Michaels Points of Interest 16. CARPENTER STREET SALOON - Life in the Colonial community revolved around the tavern. The traveler could, of course, obtain food, drink, lodging or even a fresh horse to speed his journey. This tavern was built in 1874 and has served the community as a bank, a newspaper office, post office and telephone company. For more info. visit www.carpenterstreetsaloon.com. 17. TWO SWAN INN - The Two Swan Inn on the harbor served as the former site of the Miles River Yacht Club, was built in the 1800s and was renovated in 1984. It is located at the foot of Carpenter Street. For more info. visit www.twoswaninn.com. 18. TARR HOUSE - Built by Edward Elliott as his plantation home about 1661. It was Elliott and an indentured servant, Darby Coghorn, who built the first church in St. Michaels. This was about 1677, on the site of the present Episcopal Church (6 Willow Street, near Locust). 19. CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH - 301 S. Talbot St. Built of Port Deposit stone, the present church was erected in 1878. The first is believed to have been built in 1677 by Edward Elliott. For more info. tel: 410-745-9076.
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St. Michaels Points of Interest 20. 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. 21. THE CANNONBALL HOUSE - When St. Michaels was shelled by the British in a night attack in 1813, the town was “blacked out” and lanterns were hung in the trees to lead the attackers to believe the town was on a high bluff. The houses were overshot. The story is that a cannonball hit the chimney of “Cannonball House” and rolled down the stairway. This “blackout” was believed to be the first such “blackout” in the history of warfare. 22. AMELIA WELBY HOUSE - Amelia Coppuck, who became Amelia Welby, was born in this house and wrote poems that won her fame and the praise of Edgar Allan Poe. 23. TOWN DOCK RESTAUR ANT - During 1813, at the time of the Battle of St. Michaels, it was known as “Dawson’s Wharf” and had 2 cannons on carriages donated by Jacob Gibson, which fired 10 of the 15 rounds directed at the British. For a period up to the early 1950s it was called “The Longfellow Inn.” It was rebuilt in 1977 after burning
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St. Michaels Points of Interest to the ground. For more info. visit www.towndockrestaurant.com. 24. ST. MICHAELS MUSEUM at ST. MARY’S SQUARE - Located in the heart of the historic district, offers a unique view of 19th century life in St. Michaels. The exhibits are housed in three period buildings and contain local furniture and artifacts donated by residents. The museum is supported entirely through community efforts. For more info. tel: 410-745-9561 or www.stmichaelsmuseum.org. 25. KEMP HOUSE - Now a country inn. A Georgian style house, constructed in 1805 by Colonel Joseph Kemp, a revolutionary soldier and hero of the War of 1812. For more info. visit www.kemphouseinn.com. 26. THE OLD MILL COMPLEX - The Old Mill was a functioning f lour 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. 27. ST. MICHAELS HARBOUR INN, MARINA & SPA - Constructed in 1986 and recently renovated, it has overnight accommodations, conference facilities, marina, spa and Harbour Lights and Harbour Lights Club Room. For more info. visit www.harbourinn.com. 28. ST. MICHAELS NATURE TR AIL - The St. Michaels Nature Trail is a 1.3 mile paved walkway that winds around the western side of St. Michaels starting at a dedicated parking lot on South Talbot Street across from the Bay Hundred swimming pool. The path cuts through the woods, San Domingo Park, over a covered bridge and past a historic cemetery before ending in Bradley Park. The trail is open all year from dawn to dusk.
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5. OXFORD TOWN PARK - Former site of the Oxford High School. 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) Tidewater Residential Designs since 1989
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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. 13. TRED AVON YACHT CLUB - N. Morris St. & The Strand. Founded in 1931. The present building, completed in 1991, replaced the original structure.
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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. 139
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Part One The other day Frazier came breezing into the bookstore again. I slid a chair over for him, and he took a seat. We got to talking about his days running the local automotive garage, his profession after coming out of the service in WWII. I’d heard from folks hereabouts that he was a crackerjack mechanic of car, truck and workboat engines. I happen to know he’s a very good woodworker, too. He has a knack for figuring things out. I recall being in the audience where a county official was explaining how residential septic systems contributed about 8% of the pollution coming into the Bay from the shores of Talbot County because an estimated half of the 8,000 septic systems weren’t working properly. The county had gotten a grant to purchase 200 retrofit aerators that would improve things, and he urged people to apply for one. Frazier put up his hand and offered this observation: “Well, 200 is 2½% of the 8,000 systems. And 2 ½% of 8% of the pollution is point 002. So this program would fix just two-thousandths of the problem?” (I noticed Frazier didn’t have a calculator.) As
the good folks in the hall digested this morsel of food for thought, the speaker considered and then said, “Well, yes.” The meeting broke up soon after. Later in our conversation, Frazier happened to mention the burglar alarm he had in his shop. I pricked up my ears, knowing a story was coming. It seems he became convinced that somebody was prying his garage door up and pilfering tools and spare parts, nothing big and not all the time, but a few things missing once in a while. “So, I came up with a little system,” he said, with a twinkle in his eye. He sat there. I knew it was my move and that he was waiting for me to ask him about it, but I suddenly found a paper on my desk that needed to be moved and have a little note written on it. Then I gave up. “How did you work it?” I asked, figuring it was some sort of electrical trip-wire gimmick he’d cooked up. “Used a cigarette butt,” he said. And he clammed up again. I waited. “And the telephone,” he added with a smile. Now he had me, so I gave up and plunged in. “A cigarette and a telephone? What kind of burglar alarm could you make with that?”
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He sat up. “Do you remember dial telephones?” I said I did. “Well, how did they work, exactly?” I said, “Let’s see. If you wanted to dial a 3, you put your finger into the dial below the 3 and turned the dial.”
“Right. And which way did the dial turn?” “Clockwise. You turned the dial until your finger hit a little metal stop.” “Yep, and then what happened?” he asked, eagerly. “Well, you just let it go. And then you dialed the next number.” “But what did the dial do when you lifted your finger out of the hole?” I said, “It just spun back to its original position, making a clicking sound.” “Exactly! It was spring-loaded. After you dialed the first number, you released the dial and it rotated counter-clockwise automatically, right?” I agreed that was how it worked. At that point, I interjected my observation that dial phones were made by right-handers for right-handers. It’s easier to use your dominant hand and to turn outward rather than inward. For right-handers, that means turning the dial clockwise. We lefties had to twist the dial inward to make it go clockwise ~ or we learned to use the phone right-handed. Which is what we all did, of course, since all the rest of the blasted phone was right-handed, too. The cord was on the left, so righties could hold the phone in their left hand and use their right for the tricky stuff, like dialing. So, if you were dumb enough to pick up a phone with
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Two Tales your right hand, the cord would be across your face and you’d be talking into the earpiece. No, we lefties just had to give up and do it righthanded. (It was the same with pencil sharpeners and scissors; try it sometime.) But I digress. Frazier waited for my rant to run down and for me to ask my next question. “I take it that you had a dial telephone in your shop?” He smiled. “Yep, on the wall not far from the garage door.” Again there was a pause. The cogs churned a bit. “Nope, sorry, I still don’t see what you rigged up.”
“OK, think about it. When does the phone actually place the call?” He waited as I mulled this over. “Hmm. Well, it must store all the numbers, somehow, until you dial the last one, right? Then you hear it ringing the number.” “You got it. It’s when the dial rotates back after getting the final digit. That’s when the call is actually placed. Up till then, nothing really happens. So, I got to thinking how I could use that to rig up an alarm system.” I was stumped, and said so. “Remember the cigarette? Well, I stuck it into the dial just below the little stop bar. That prevented the dial from rotating back to its starting position. And then I tied
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Frazier looked disappointed. “You don’t get it?” “Oh, I get it. When the burglar pried up the door, it pulled on the string, which yanked the cigarette out of the telephone dial, which allowed it to rotate back and come to rest.” “That’s it! Yep, I sorta liked that one,” he smiled and sat back again. Silence reigned. “Frazier,” I said softly. “Explain to me how that gave you a burglar alarm. Did the phone ring when the dial went back?” “It sure did. See, I dialed six of the seven numbers, letting the dial rewind each time as usual. When
I dialed the last one, that’s when I put the cigarette in place. That left the phone sort of cocked and loaded. As soon as the cigarette came out, the dial spun back, the dialed number finally was complete, and the call went through.” “Ah, I get it. In effect you programmed the phone to ring as soon as the dial was released. Clever. So someone would hear the phone ringing in the closed shop…and…” He just looked at me, sort of willing me to think. I stopped. “But that wouldn’t make a loud enough ring to attract much attention, would it? Doesn’t seem like a very efficient alarm system, after all.” “Nope, it sure wouldn’t.” He waited for the penny to drop. “So, did you put in 911 or something?” He looked at me. “Heck, no. I wanted the call, naturally. So I dialed in my home phone number.” I let it sink in. With that cigarette stuck in the dial, Frazier went home every night knowing that if he got a call from the shop, somebody had monkeyed with the door ~ and was there in the shop at that moment. “Wow, that’s very slick.So did you catch the guy?” Frazier’s grin diminished. “Nope. Never found out who had been doing it. The call never came.”
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In the old days, there were two front sidewalks, running out at angles, to both streets. That’s Irene and Benjamin Harrison standing in front of the house. Capt. Ben was Justice of the Peace for many years and, the “justicing room” was the one on the right as you entered the vestibule. These two photos were provided by their great-grandson, Ron Frampton. It must be in the blood, for Ron is running for judge of the Orphan’s Court. When W-houses face the road, however, the view from inside the home is anything but normal. No funny sidewalk here; it runs straight out from the porch to the street. But imagine what it’s like to be sitting in the living room, where
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Diagram of a corner “W-house” with two sidewalks to the road. I put the star in this diagram. You glance out the window and (gasp) you grab the arms of your chair as vertigo begins to spin you round. The road is running at a 45-degree angle! Stepping into the parlor on the other side just makes things worse. The street is still on an angle ~ but in the other direction. We never know quite how to answer visitors’ questions about these houses, because we simply
Diagram of a corner “W-house” facing the road.
don’t know the answers. We don’t know why they were built in that way, why some people preferred them to more traditional layouts. (Some say they could catch a breeze no matter which way the wind was blowing.) We don’t know who designed them or who built them, whether they were built by one man or several. Some say they were built by a much respected Tilghman homebuilder, around the turn of the century before last, a man named James A. Cooper. Others have said someone named Mason constructed some of them. In 2010, the Tilghman Watermen’s Museum purchased one of the W-Houses and renovations are now underway. The exterior is completed and it looks terrific. (This work is costing a bunch of money, of course, and donations are always very welcome. If you’d care to help this worthy cause, call 410-886-2930.) The place is known locally as the Lee House, from the name of its first owner. Later it served as overflow housing for guests at “The Elms,” a nearby guest house where Mrs. Leona Garvin hosted fishing parties. Now this is where Frazier comes into it again. A year or so ago he popped into the bookstore and handed me a sheet of paper. He said it was a note found among his sister-in-law’s papers after she passed away. I knew she had delved deep into the land records while re-
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Two Tales searching for her book about the island, so I copied down the information ~ and thought no more about it until beginning this article. So what did the note say? It confirmed that the Lee house was built for a Mr. Lewis Lee, and gave a date: 1893. But there was more. The builder was said to be Robert J. Clayville, who charged $638 for building the house, plus $12 for some additional work. Mr. Lee paid him $400, a sizable portion of the entire price, but then apparently had trouble making further payments. Consequently, in 1894, Clayville imposed a lien on the property and Mr. Ed Lomax picked up the note. Lomax made weekly payments and finally paid it off, with interest, twelve years later in 1906. When clearing this article with the folks at the Museum, they were very interested. Their researches had turned up nothing about either Clayville or Lomax. So, does this mean that, once again, Frazier has turned up with something of real significance, with new details about this wonderful building ~ or is it just a tall tale that got written down? While the names, dates, and dollar amounts are fairly convincing, we need to remember this material was not included in the published book. So, until someone manages to locate the source of the information, we won’t know.
About Mr. Clayville, so far we know nothing. This is not a Tilghman name, and no Clayvilles appear in the 1900 census. Through the Internet, I learned there were Clayvilles in the vicinity at the time, living in western Sussex County, Delaware. One of the other six extant Whouses is the “PWEC House” on Chicken Point Road. It was purchased in December 2013 by the Phillips Wharf Environmental Center to provide housing for their interns. The other five are private residences. We are quietly proud of these unusual structures. They are part of our heritage and a great conversation topic. Maybe you should take a ride down the road someday and see for yourself? Gary Crawford and his wife, Susan, operate Crawfords Nautical Books, a unique bookstore on Tilghman’s Island.
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Fine Arts @ Oxford New Name for a New Decade by Amy Blades Steward
The 30th annual Fine A r ts @ Oxford, a juried exhibition and sale, kicks off with a gala celebration on Friday, May 16 from 6 to 8 p.m., and continues on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Formerly the Oxford Fine Arts Fair, the event sports a new name for a new decade and will feature nearly 40 artists from seven states. Visitors to the event, held in the beautifully renovated Oxford Communit y Center, w ill f ind a w ide variet y of t wo- and three-dimensional subject matter and media, and the works of 10 new exhibiting artists.. Featured on this year’s poster is “Alley View” by Meg Walsh of A rlington, VA. Equally at home creating plein air or studio art, she produces works drenched in light and color. Meg is represented by several prestigious galleries and has garnered numerous awards in juried exhibitions and competitions. In addit ion to get t ing a f irst glimpse of qualit y ar t, Patron’s Preview Party guests will be greeted with glasses of champagne and can expect to feast on a scrumptious medley of cocktail fare, thanks to
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Cooking for One This article is dedicated to one of my avid readers, Mr. Harold Hurst, who recently lost his wife and is now trying to master some culinary skills. He asked me for some easy recipes that he could make for someone living alone. My advice to him is that cooking for one doesn’t mean throwing a frozen dinner into the microwave. Take out, fast foods, or prepackaged dinners may seem like an easy thing to do, but eating this way regularly can lead to serious health problems, as well as take a toll on your waistline. Fast foods and TV dinners tend to be low in nutrition and higher in fat, sugar, sodium and calories. By preparing your own meals, you take charge of your health. No matter your age, or your culinary skills, you can learn to cook tasty, healthy and inexpensive meals. The key to cooking for one is to master a few basics; stock up on some main ingredients; and make meals specifically for you. Prepare one-dish
Quesadillas make a healthy and easy meal for one. meals by combining different food groups in one pot. Slow cookers are great for making vegetarian chili, chicken casserole, or beef stew. Cook your main meat once a week. By roasting a chicken or turkey breast, ham or beef, you can use the leftover meat to quickly create different dishes. Add the meat to soups or salads; slice it in sandwiches; use in tacos; quesadillas; or combine with vegetables and add to pasta or rice. Packet cooking in aluminum foil is wonderful for one-dish meals. This involves placing a fish fillet,
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Cooking for One as to curb your cravings for sweets in a natural way. Cinnamon is very beneficial, and we are encouraged to use it more. 1/3 cup old-fashioned oats 2/3 cup water 1/2 cup blueberries 1/2 t. cinnamon Add all ingredients to a small pot and cook on medium until it thickens.
SCRAMBLED EGGS with VEGGIES Eggs have ribof lavin, B12, phosphorus, protein and selenium. Eggs are great for the eyes. According to one study, an egg a day may help prevent macular degeneration due to the carotenoid content, specifically lutein and zeaxanthin.
2 T. water 1/4 cup vegetables of your choice and/or grated cheese 1 T. olive oil 2 T. onion, diced Sea salt and freshly ground pepper Break eggs into a bowl, add water and whisk. In a small frying pan add oil and heat to medium. Add the onions and sautĂŠ for 5 minutes. Add other vegetables and sautĂŠ for another 5 minutes. Pour the egg mixture and cheese (if desired) into the pan with the vegetables and gently stir until the eggs are cooked. Add salt and pepper to taste.
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LEMON CHICKEN PRIMAVERA Makes 2 servings Packet cooking with Reynolds Wrap foil makes cooking easy!
PUMPKIN SOUP Eaten with bread and salad, this makes a lovely complete meal.
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1 15-oz. can of pumpkin (not pie filling) 1 medium onion, diced 2 T. olive oil 3 cups chicken broth 1/4 t. cinnamon 1/4 t. nutmeg 1/4 t. ground ginger 1/2 cup light cream Sea salt and freshly ground pepper to taste 1 t. curry (if desired) Heat the oil in a heavy saucepan over medium heat, add the onion and sauté for 5 minutes. Add spices to the saucepan and then add the pumpkin, chicken broth, salt and pepper. Bring to a boil and then simmer for 15 minutes. Stir in light cream and reheat to serve.
Preheat oven to 450°. Center one chicken breast half on each sheet of foil. Arrange stir-fry vegetable mixture around chicken; top with butter, sprinkle with water, lemon peel, garlic salt and basil. Bring up sides of foil and double-fold the top and ends to seal the packet, leaving room for heat circulation inside. Repeat to make two packets. Bake packets for 20 minutes on a cookie sheet in the oven. Squeeze lemon juice over the chicken and vegetables before serving. GROUND MEAT with VEGETABLES Serve over rice or couscous to make a well-rounded meal.
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Ground meat with vegetables over rice makes a healthy and filling meal. 2 T. olive oil 1 small onion, chopped 2 ribs celery, chopped 2 carrots, diced 1/2 green or red pepper, chopped 1/2 lb. ground beef or turkey Sea salt, pepper and garlic to taste Heat the olive oil in a medium sauté pan. Add the onion, celery, carrots and green or red peppers and cook over medium heat for 5 to 8 minutes. Add ground meat and continue to cook for another 5 minutes. You may want to cover it for a few minutes to soften the vegetables more. Serve over couscous or rice. FRIED RICE This is a great way to use leftover cooked rice. You can also add leftover chicken or shrimp. 1/2 cup cooked brown or white rice 1 egg
Fried Rice 1 T. water 1/2 cup vegetables (frozen peas, carrots, diced peppers, onions whatever you have), diced small 2 t. low-sodium soy sauce Break the egg into a bowl and whisk. In a medium sauté pan, cook the vegetable on medium heat for 5 to 8 minutes. Add the rice, a tablespoon of water and cover to steam and heat them. Add the beaten egg and stir the whole mixture until the egg is cooked. Add soy sauce for f lavor. A longtime resident of Oxford, Pamela Meredith-Doyle, formerly Denver’s NBC Channel 9 Children’s Chef, now teaches both adult and children’s cooking classes on the south shore of Massachusetts, where she lives with her husband and son. For more of Pam’s recipes, visit the Story Archive tab at www.tidewatertimes.com.
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Ed Cutts ~ Designer, Boatbuilder, and “Cutts Method” Inve ntor by Way ne Br ow n. Leeward Publications. 258 pp., $19.95. This biography covers the life and accomplishments of Oxford’s Ed Cutts, whose boatyard, Cutts & Case, has been praised for the quality of its work and the beauty and excellence of its designs. An extraordinar y man whose whole life was devoted to designing and improving wooden boat strength and speed, made him comparable to the legendar y Herreshoff family, whose yachts were America’s Cup contenders. It is my personal chagrin that I ne v e r me t E d mu nd A nt hony Cut ts, a lt hough he ar r ived in O x ford i n 19 65 , t he sa me ye a r t hat Ta lbot C ount y bec a me my permanent home. Our paths never crossed, although we shared an interest. For seven yea rs I had a wooden boat, and Cutts spent a lifetime engrossed in mak ing them faster, more beautiful and, if properly maintained, they could last for 100 years, solid enough to
be inherited by the owner’s children and grandchildren. Wayne Brown, the author of this biography, spent f ive years putting together this account of Cutt’s life and passion for wooden boats. Brown had long inter views with his subject, as well as tracing his
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him as they visited boatyards to look at fishing boats being built. Vernon also enjoyed carving model boats, and Eddie made miniatures boats with a friend. One day w it h his dad, E dd ie watched a big boat coming in from the ocean to New York Harbor. It was a steamboat with two masts and smoke coming out of a single funnel. Vernon identified it as the new Corsair IV owned by J. Pierpont Morgan of the New York Yacht Club. Eddie never forgot the scene. The boatyard trips with his dad continued when the boy was 9 and 10 years old. His dad took him “to Fy fes Boat yard at Glen Head in Hampstead Harbor to see beautiful new ships under construction.”
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Corsair IV The sounds of the shipyard “often merged ~ band sawing, a router, f lags snapping in the breeze, the c ompla i n i ng wh i ne of a cra ne, the screech of a block and tackle ~ echoed by laughing and herring gulls,” Brown writes. “Perhaps this was the significant day that Eddie Cutts reached a decision he wanted to share. ‘Dad, this is what I want to do in life ~ build boats.’ Vernon said that sounded fine because he knew Eddie loved boats.” At age 13, Eddie was ready to enter high school. After his freshman year he complained t hat, “t hey aren’t teaching me what I want to know.” He persuaded his parents to let him enroll in a high school in Manhattan: Metropolitan Maritime High School. Eddie was jubilant. He already knew many skills used in boat construction from his library reading of Popular Science, Popular Me c hanic s a nd Motor Boating and Yachting. He also knew that the United States
was not at war, but Axis ships were in the Western Atlantic. If war came, Eddie wanted to be in the Navy, since it used small wooden ships ~ lifeboats, launches and mine sweepers. Dismay tempered his enthusiasm when he realized he would not be eligible for a wooden boat-building class until his senior year. He liked learning about theories of mechanics and physics, classes on marine engines, propellers and displacement, but complained that the classes “were glossed over too quickly.” In his second year at age 15, Eddie was hired as an apprentice at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, hoping to work on small wooden boats. Instead, he passed the tests for mechanics and spent much of his war years working on the battleship Iowa, and later on smaller ships. Approaching his 18th birthday, he enlisted in the Navy and served postwar cleanup in Hawaii and other Pacific islands. In 1946, he had an honorable discharge and a ride home. Finding a job in a boatyard turned out to be fruitless. “After the war, the shipyard workers came back,” he discovered. A cousin offered him a job in a Manhattan printing firm. Ed, as he was now called, decided it was better than nothing and accepted. He learned fast and moved on in two years to another printer on Long Island. At age 26, he was a foreman. On weekends he visited boatyards and courted his future wife, Mag-
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advised him to keep on hunting for a job in a boatyard. “If you are serious about designing,” he said, “you should find work in a boatyard and learn by building boats.” On one of his boatyard trips, Ed found a sloop that he bought with the aim of strengthening the keel. Told it couldn’t be done without breaking the keel, Ed proceeded slowly and carefully, with a perfect result. The impressed boat yard owner hired him on the spot. Ed’s years in printing were over. His wooden boat life began with a reduced paycheck, a wife and a baby on the way. Later, he made a second visit to Herreshoff and spent a happy afternoon talking about boats. Ed brought a sheaf of his own drawings
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Ed Cutts allowed to”help” his father with small tasks in the shed. Cutts’ meeting with John Case fulfilled his dream of opening his own boat building business. Case, a wealthy retiree from IBM, was now a man who bought businesses that were unprofitable, funding improvements and putting them in the black, then selling them. He lived in California, was an avid sailor and a member of the New York Yacht Club. Each year his captain brought Case’s current yacht to the Chesapeake Bay to have work done on it at Ralph Wiley’s boatyard in Oxford. Case had seen photographs of two of Ed’s boats and wanted to order one for himself, but only if it was both designed and built by Ed. Mr. Wiley was 72 and had talked about retiring after 36 years, but he felt sure that nobody would pay the amount his boatyard was worth. When Case phoned him to ask if he would consider selling it, he hesitated, then named a price. Case, who never argued about money, accepted it.
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To Case’s surprise, Ed Cutts was not happy with the idea of moving to Maryland. He was familiar and comfortable with every boatyard on Long Island and most of New England. Case was unflappable. He persuaded Ed to take the family along and drive down to see the boatyard and the beautiful small town, Oxford. They were thrilled with what they found. When the deal was completed, Ralph Wiley was included on the announcement with the notice that he would be available at the yard for assistance and consultation, an honor that warmed his sadness at retirement from work that he loved. Maggie died in December 2005 and Ed died in November 2009. Eddie and Ronnie continue to work
in their father’s place, following their dad’s dream ~ and their own ~ since childhood. I still wish I had met Ed Cutts during his life. This wonderful biography makes me feel as if I had. He was a remarkable man, intelligent, wise and kind, as well as being a man who was a genius in his field. Very highly recommended! Anne Stinson began her career in the 1950s as a free lance for the now defunct Baltimore News-American, then later for Chesapeake Publishing, the Baltimore Sun and Maryland Public Television’s panel show, Maryland Newsrap. Now in her ninth decade, she still writes a monthly book review for Tidewater Times.
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Linn Meyers “Blue Study.” Thru May 4 Exhibition: Blue Study by Linn Meyers at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit www.academyartmuseum.org. Thru May 25 Exhibit: Clay as Canvas by Ann Krestensen at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. Krestensen’s hand-built vases, decorated with acrylic paints, show a definite Southwestern design. For more info. tel: 410822-ARTS (2787) or visit www. academyartmuseum.org. Thr u June 3 Exhibit: A nnual Spring Group Show at Troika Gallery in Easton. Featuring new works by many of the gallery’s 34 renowned artists. For more info. tel: 410-770-9190 or visit www. troikagallery.com. 1 Academy for Lifelong Learning:
John Ebersberger’s “Daffodils in Vase” on exhibit at the Annual Spring Group Show at Troika Gallery. Could the Civil War Have Been Prevented with Larry Denton from 10 to 11:30 a.m. at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. Tel: 410-745-4941 for enrollment details. 1 Lecture: Kenneth Patrick Ligaray, MD and Faustino Macuha, MD on Diabetes Management. 7 p.m. at the Caroline County Library, Denton. For more info. tel: 410-822-1000 or visit www. shorehealth.org. 1,8,15,22 Class: May Mornings en Plein Air! with Diane DuBois Mu l la ly at t he Ac ademy A r t
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Che s ter tow n’s F i r s t F r id ay. Extended shop hours with arts and entertainment throughout historic downtown. For a list
of activities, visit: www.kentcounty.com/artsentertainment. 2 Karaoke Happy Hour at Layton’s Chance Vineyard and Winery, Vienna. 6 p.m. Singing, dancing, good times! Bring your dinner or snacks to complete the evening. Table reservations taken on the day of the event only. For more info. tel: 410-228-1205 or visit www.laytonschance.com. 2 Dorchester Sw ingers Square Dance from 7:30 to 10 p.m. at Maple Elementary School, Egypt Rd., Cambridge. Refreshments provided. For more info. tel: 410-221-1978. 2 Thru July 25 Exhibit: 717 Gallery presents National Artists Invitational Exhibition featuring 14 nationa lly recognized artists. Opening reception will be from 5 to 8:30 p.m. on May 2 at 717 Gallery, Easton. For more info. tel: 410-241-7020 or visit www.717gallery.com. 2-3 Spring Rummage Sale at Christ Church, St. Michaels Par ish. Of fer ing incredible bargains on spr i ng/su m mer clot h i ng, kitchenware, linens, jewelry and more. Fri. 7 a.m. to 2 p.m.; Sat. 8 a.m. to noon. For more info. tel: 410-745-9076. 2-4,9-11 Play: Tred Avon Players
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745-4941 for enrollment details. 2,9,16,23,30 Meeting: Fr iday Morning Artists at Joe’s Bagel Cafe in Easton. 8 a.m. For more info. tel: 410-673-1860 or visit www.FridayMorningArt ists. org. 2,9,16,23,30 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.
“Lightsource” by Louis Escobedo on exhibit at 717 Gallery. present the belly-busting comedy Leaving Iowa by Tim Clue a nd Spi ke Ma nton, d i re c te d by Edwin Talley Wilford at the Oxford Community Center. For times and ticket prices tel: 410226-0061 or visit www.tredavonplayers.org. 2,9,13 Academy for Lifelong Learning: Digital Photography for Beginners with Wilson Wyatt, Kate Mann and Robert Lippson at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. May 2 from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.; May 9 from 10 a.m. to noon and May 13 from 10 a.m. to noon. Tel: 410-
2,9,16,23,30 Class: Italian lessons from a native speaker at the St. Michaels Communit y Center. 7 p.m. Fee. For more info. tel: 410 -745- 6073 or v isit www. stmichaelscc.org. 3 Six Pillars Century Cycling event at Great Ma rsh Pa rk , Blackwater Nationa l Wild life Refuge, Cambridge. Check in at 6 a.m. Four ride options of 11 to 100 miles to support Character Counts Mid-Shore, Inc. For more info. tel: 410-819-0386 or visit www.6pillarscentury.org. 3 Choptank Trot for Melanoma 5K run/walk at Great Marsh Park, Cambridge. Walkers, strollers and dogs welcome. All run participants receive $5 off entrance fee to the Cambridge Beer Fes-
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There will be boat tours, music, puppets, local food, flowers and native plants, crafts and much more. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-886-9200. 3 Mark Salter’s “S” Series Cooking Demonstration with Miele at The Robert Morris Inn, Oxford. 10 a.m. to noon. Included are recipe cards, a two-hour demonstration followed by a two-course luncheon with a glass of wine. $64 per person w it h limited guest number. For more info. tel: 410-226-5111. 3 First Sat urday g uided wa lk. 10 a.m. at Adkins Arboretum, Ridgely. Free for members, free
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celebration of the 450th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s birth, the Talbot County Free Library in Easton will host a free screening of Franco Zeffirrelli’s Romeo and Juliet. 2 p.m. For more info. tel: 410 -822-1626 or visit www.tcf l.org.
w it h $5 ad m i s sion for nonmembers. For more info. tel: 410 - 634-2847, ext. 0 or v isit www.adkinsarboretum.org. 3 Soup ’n Walk at Adkins Arboretum, Ridgely. 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Following a guided walk, enjoy a delicious and nutritious lunch. Menu: Scallop and vegetable soup, roasted red beets and carrots, apple date walnut bread with apple jelly, and fruity nutty oatmeal bars. Fee. For more info. tel: 410-634-2847, ext. 0 or visit www.adkinsarboretum.org. 3 Movie: As a part of its year-long
3 Celebrate the Genius of Duke Elling ton at the Avalon Theatre, Easton. 6 p.m. Sponsored by the Academy Art Museum. The 16-piece Smithsonian Jazz Ma ster work s Orche st r a w i l l per form and feature vocalist Sharon Clark. The evening continues after the concert at the Waterfowl Building for cocktails and dinner. Guests will have the
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opportunity to sign up for “Artful Adventures” ~ extraordinary trips to experience the arts. This is the Academy’s biggest fundraiser of the year. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit www.academyartmuseum.org. 3-4 TriColumbia Endurance Camp for experienced Triathletes who are look ing to compete in or complete a Long Course (70.3) or Ultra Course (140.6) triathlon event. Camp to take place in and a round C a mbr idge. Reg ister on active.com or www.trif itnesstraining.com. 3-4,10-11,17-18,24-25,31-1 Apprentice for a Day Public Boat-
building Program at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. Pre-registration required. For more info. tel: 410745-2916 and ask to speak with someone in the boatyard. 3,5,6 Auditions: Tred Avon Players will hold auditions for the play Curtains at the Oxford Community Center and at Immanuel Lutheran Church, Easton. For times and locations tel: 410 226-0061 or visit www.tredavonplayers.org. 3,10,17,24,31 Easton Farmer’s Market held every Saturday until Christmas from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Town parking lot on N.
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3,10,17,24,31 St. Michaels FreshFarm Market in the municipal
parking lot behind Sweeties Bakery. 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. Farmers offer fresh fruits and vegetables, meats, cut flowers, potted plants, and much more. For more info. tel: 202-362-8889 or visit www. freshfarmmarket.org. 3,10,17,24,31 Historic High Street Walking Tour ~ Experience the beauty and hear the folklore of Cambridge’s High Street. Onehour walking tours are sponsored by the non-prof it West End Citizens Association and are accompanied by Colonial-garbed docents. 11 a.m. Fee. For more info. tel: 410-901-1000. 3,10,17,24,31 Skipjack Sail on the
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charity auction to benefit Talbot Humane. This year’s items will be 30 hand-painted Adirondack chairs. The auction will be at The Milestone in Easton. Doors will open at 2 p.m. with auction beginning at 3 p.m. For more info. visit www.talbothumane. org/rock-talbot-humane.
Nathan-of-Dorchester Nathan of Dorchester from 1 to 3 p.m., Long Wharf, Cambridge. Adults $30; children 6-12, $10; under 6 f ree. For more info. tel: 410-228-7141 or to make reservations online visit www. skipjack-nathan.org. 4 Cinco De Miler 5-mile trail race to benefit the Midshore Riverkeeper Conservancy at Terrapin Nature Park, Stevensville. 9 a.m. Fee. For more info. tel: 410-3081870 or visit www.mishoreriverkeeper.org. 4 Talbot Mentors Spring Brunch at 11 a.m. at the Talbot Country Club, Easton. There will be live music, silent auction and raffle. $75 per person to benefit Talbot Mentors. For more info. tel: 410 -7 70 -5999 or v isit www. talbotmentors.org. 4 Rock On Talbot Humane is a
4 Crabi Gras Quatro de Mayo Fish Tac o Fe st on R ac e St re et i n downtown Cambridge. Noon to 5 p.m. Fish tacos and other dishes prepared by Chef Patric Fanning. Craft beers and the world famous Bloody Ma r y Tent. Music by D’Vibe & Conga. For more info. tel: 410-228-0108. 4 Mother & Daughter Tea at Cambridge House B&B. 2:30 to 4 p.m. Get an early start on Mother’s Day and enjoy a pleasant afternoon filled with delectable delights. $25 per person. For more info. tel: 410-221-7700. 4-10 Schooner Sultana visits the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. The replica schooner will be docked harbor side at CBMM and sailing on the Chesapeake with students throughout the week. The Sultana will be open for boarding to all museum visitors from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 6. The tour is free for museum members or with general admission. For
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www.tidewatercameraclub.com. 5 Meeting: Live Play wrights’ Society at the Garfield Center for the Arts at the Prince Theatre, C he s ter tow n . 7:30 p.m . For more info. tel: 410-810-2060. 5 ,12 ,19 Ac ademy for L ifelong Learning: King Coal Conquers the Chesapeake ~ Changing the Balance of the Bay with Philip Hesser. 2 to 4 p.m. at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. Tel: 410-745-4941 for enrollment details.
The schooner Sultana. more info. tel: 410-745-2916 or visit www.cbmm.org. 5 Brown Bag Lunch with speaker Dr. Oscar Fitzgerald on Three Centuries of American Furniture at the Talbot County Free L ibrar y, St. Michaels. Noon. Dr. Fit zgera ld w ill share his knowledge of three centuries of American furniture. Free. For more info. tel: 410-745-5877 or visit www.tcfl.org. 5 Meeting: Tidewater Camera Club at the Talbot Community Center, Easton. 7 to 9 p.m. Featured speaker will be Jennifer Casey on C olor T he or y ~ A r t a nd Photography. For more info. visit
5,12,19,26 Fun & Friendship at the St. Michaels Community Center, 3 to 5 p.m. for ages 7 to 11. For more info. tel: 410-745-6073. 5,12,19,26 Monday Night Trivia at the Market Street Public House, Denton. 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Join host Norm Amorose for a funfilled evening. For more info. tel: 410-479-4720. 5-June 9 Class: Intermediate/Advanced Pottery with Paul Aspell at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. Mondays, 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Fee. For more info. tel: 410822-ARTS (2787) or visit www. academyartmuseum.org. 5-June 9 Class: Introduction to the Potter’s Wheel with Paul Aspell at the Academy Art Museum,
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6,13,20,27 Bingo! at Elks Lodge 1272, Cambridge. 7 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-221-6044. 6,20 Meeting: Bereavement Support Group at the Dorchester County Library, Cambridge. 6 p.m. For more info. tel: 443978-0218. 7 Nature as Muse at Adkins Arboretum, Ridgely. 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Enjoy writing as a way of exploring nature. For more info. tel: 410-634-2847, ext. 0 or visit www.adkinsarboretum.org. 7 Academy for Lifelong Learning: Book Club ~ A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick w ith Margot
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May Calendar Miller and Esty Collet. 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. Tel: 410-745-4941 for enrollment details. 7 Spaghetti Dinner at St. Paul’s UMC in Cambridge to benefit Lloyds VFC. 4:30 to 7 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-228-1424. 7 Reiki Share is open to the public from 7:15 to 9:15 p.m. at Evergreen: A Center for Balanced Living in Easton. Fee. For more info. tel: 410-819-3395 or visit www.evergreeneaston.org.
7,14,21,28 Meeting: Wednesday Morning Artists. 8 a.m. at Creek Deli in Cambridge. No cost. For more info. visit www. wednesdaymorningartists.com or contact Nancy at ncsnyder@ aol.com or 410-463-0148. 7,14,21 Class: Pastel Painting ~ Flowers in Still Life and Gardens with Katie Cassidy at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. 9:45 a.m. to 2 p.m. Fee. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit www.academyartmuseum.org. 7,1 4 , 21 Ac ademy for L i felong Learning: The Artist’s Way with Diane Thomas Mitchell from 10 a.m. to noon at the Chesapeake
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May Calendar Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. Tel: 410 -745-4941 for enrollment details. 7,14,21,28 Social Time for Seniors at the St. Michaels Community Center, 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-745-6073. 7,14,21,28 Teen Night at the St. Michaels Community Center, 5 to 7 p.m. for ages 12 to 17. For more info. tel: 410-745-6073. 7-June 11 Class: Introduction to Pottery with Paul Aspell at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. Wednesdays, 1 to 3 p.m. Fee. For
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May Calendar 8 Lecture: Proud to be a Marylander? with Jeff Korman, retired director of the State Library Resource Center’s Maryland Department, at the Talbot County Free Librar y, Easton. 6 p.m. Korman introduces you to the crooks and villains that from time to time have made the Old Line State a less than desirable place to live. For more info. tel: 410 - 822-1626 or v isit www. tcf l.org. 8 Lecture: Timothy Shanahan, DO, FACC, FACOI, and Thomas Walsh, MD on Dyslipidemia: Review of New Cholesterol Guide-
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bag a nd post- e vent pa nc a ke breakfast. For more info. tel: 410-221-2358. 10 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: 410-2287331 or visit www.dorchesterlibrary.org. 10 Mosaics: Ultimate Recycling with Sue Stockman at Evergreen: A Center for Balanced Living. 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Fee. For more info. tel: 410-819-3395 or visit www. evergreeneaston.org.
Talbot Historical Society garden is featured on the Talbot County House and Garden Pilgrimage. 10 Talbot County House and Garden Pilgrimage from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The tour features six historic waterfront properties with glorious present-day gardens in what was known as the Miles River Parish. For more info. tel: 410 -310 -2386 or v isit www. mhgp.org.
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10 Fun Dog Show at Governors Ha l l , S a i lw i nd s Pa rk , C a mbridge. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sponsored by and to benefit Christ Episcopal Church. For more info. tel: 410-228-3161. 10 The Met: Live in HD featuring Rossini’s La Cenerentola at the Avalon Theatre, Easton. 1 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-7299 or v isit www.avalontheat re. com. 10 Mother’s Day Craft Saturday at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. 1 to 3 p.m. Children will create one or more seasonal proj-
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10 Cambridge Beer Festival from 1 to 6 p.m. at the High Spot Gastropub. Try different delicious brews from regional breweries. Live music by Blackwater. Fee. For more info. visit www.mainstreetcambridge.com. 10 Saturday Speaker Series: Local author Kate Blackwell will speak on the Magic of Short Stories at the Talbot County Free Library, St. Michaels. 2 p.m. Blackwell is the author of a collection of short stories, under the umbrella of You Won’t Remember This. For more info. tel: 410-745-5877 or visit www.tcfl.org. 10 Second Saturdays at the Artsway from 2 to 4 p.m., 401 Market Street,
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Denton. Interact with artists as they demonstrate their work. For more info. tel: 410-479-1009 or visit www.carolinearts.org. 10 Second Saturday in Historic Downtown Cambridge on Race, Poplar, Muir and High streets. Shops will be open late. Galleries will be opening new shows and holding receptions. Restaurants will feature live music. For more i n fo. v i sit w w w.c ambr idgemainstreet.com. 10 Main Street Gallery opening reception from 5 to 8 p.m. in downtown Cambridge. Featured artists are Kathy Flament and Cathy Terril. For more info. visit www.mainstgallery.org. 10 Artist Loft Studios Open Night. The artists invite visitors to their studios during Cambridge Main Street’s Second Saturday from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. The studio is at 410 Race St., Cambridge. For more info. tel: 386-405-2329 or visit www.lesleygilesart.com.
10 Museum Night at the Dorchester County Historical Society, Cambridge. Guest speaker will be Dr. Cynthia Byrd on “Text and Textiles: The Art and Collections of Julia and William Purnell.” Her talk will focus on the holdings of the Purnell Museum in Snow Hill. The public is welcome to attend this free event and to tour the facilities while they are on campus. For more info. tel: 410-228-7953. 10 Concert: Luxury Liner in the Stoltz Listening Room, Avalon Theatre, Easton. 8 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-7299 or visit www.avalontheatre.com. 10-July 13 Exhibit: From Bierstadt to Wyet h ~ A mer ic a n L a ndscapes from a Private Collection at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. Curator-led tour on May 28 at noon. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit www.academyartmuseum.org. 10-July 13 Exhibit: Wood Transformed ~ The Art of Vicco von
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at Faith Chapel & Trappe United Methodist Churches in Wesley Ha l l, Trappe. 7:30 to 10:30 a.m. TUMC is also the home of “Martha’s Closet” Yard Sale and C om mu n it y O ut re ach Store, open during the breakfast and every Wednesday from 8:30 a.m. to noon.
10-July 20 Exhibit: Celebrating Juneteenth featuring Bryan Collier, Illustrator at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit www.academyartmuseum.org.
11 Pancake Breakfast at the Oxford Volunteer Fire Company. 8 to 11 a.m. Proceeds to benefit the Oxford Volunteer Fire Services. $8 for adults and $4 for children under 10. For more info. tel: 410226-5110.
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May Calendar manuel United Church of Christ, Cambridge. 8 a.m. A scrumptious breakfast prepared by the men of the congregation, followed by a 10 a.m. service. For more info. tel: 410-228-4640. 12 Lecture: Cordia Reilly, DPT and Diane Lorsong, MS, CCC/SLP on Maximizing Mobility and Communications for Parkinson’s Patients. 5:30 p.m. at the UM Shore Medical Pavilion in Queenstown. For more info. tel: 410-822-1000 or visit www.shorehealth.org. 12 Lecture: The Rose O’Neil Writerin-Residence at Washington Col-
lege, Meredith Davies Hadaway, will read from her poetry at 6 p.m. at the Talbot County Free Library, Easton. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit www. tcfl.org. 12 Meeting: Talbot Historical Society annual meeting at 4 p.m. Topics will include plans for a multi-stage revitalization of the Talbot Historical Society campus. For more info. tel: 410-822-0773. 13 Performance: Mark Jaster and Sabr ina Mandell as “Pinot & Augustine” with mime, music, mirth and more at the Talbot Senior Center. 1 p.m. Free and open to all ages. Lunch available
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13 Lecture: Hugo Bonatti, MD and Aboudakr Khairat, MBBCh, MRCSI, CABS on The Benefits of Minimally Invasive Surgery. 7 p.m. at the UM Shore Medical Pav ilion at Queenstow n. For more info. tel: 410-822-1000 or visit www.shorehealth.org. 13,27 Meeting: Tidewater Stamp Club at the Mayor and Council Bldg., Easton. 7:30 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-1371.
Pinot and Augustine. at noon with advance reservations. For more info. tel: 410822-2869 or e-mail cbrooks@ UpperShoreAging.com.
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14 Meeting: Talbot Optimist Club at the Washington Street Pub, Easton. 6:30 p.m. For more info. e-mail tglass@leinc.com. 14 Concert: The Wailers at the Avalon Theatre, Easton. 8 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-7299 or visit www.avalontheatre.com. 14,28 Chess Club from 1 to 3 p.m. at the St. Michaels Community Center. Players gather for friendly competition and instruction. For more info. tel: 410-745-6073. 15 Academy for Lifelong Learning: A Real Field Tr ip to Easton/ Newnam Field with Mike Henry from 10 a.m. to noon. Tel: 410745-4941 for enrollment details. 15 Ta lbot Chamber G olf Tourna ment at R iver House G olf a t E a s t o n C l u b. 10:3 0 a . m . shotgun start. In honor of the
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May Calendar tournament’s 30th anniversary, they are partnering with three local organizations: Br ighter Christmas Fund, Mental Health Association of Talbot County, and Ta lbot Communit y Connect ions. For more info. tel: 410-822-4653 or e-mail info@ talbotchamber.org. 15 Brown Bag Lunch at the Talbot County Free Librar y, Easton, featuring Dale Glenwood Green on “Voices from the Lane.” Green will talk about the exciting archaeological exploration of the Easton neighborhood known as “The Hill.” Noon. Free. For more
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info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit www.tcfl.org. 15 Meeting: Stroke Survivors Support Group at Pleasant Day Medical Adult Day Care, Cambridge. 1 to 2 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-228-0190. 15 Lecture: Thomas Lubeski, DO, FACOS and Lisa Jeffers, CRNP, CWS on The Positive Impact of Low Sodium Diets on Wound Healing. 6 p.m. at the Talbot County Free Library, Easton. For more info. tel: 410-822-1000 or visit www.shorehealth.org. 15-16 Boaters Safety Course at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. 6 to 10 p.m. $25 per two-evening session. For more info. and registration tel: 410-745-4941. 16 Soup Day at the St. Michaels Community Center. Choose from three delicious soups for lunch. $6 meal deal. Each meal comes with a bowl of soup, a roll and a drink. Take out or eat in! We deliver in St. Michaels. 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. For more info. tel:410745-6073. 16 Relay for Life of Dorchester C ou nt y at C a mbr id ge S out h Dorchester High School. 6 p.m. An incredible and inspiring opportunity to unite as a communi-
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May Calendar ty to honor cancer survivors. For more info. tel: 410-330-1145 or e-mail gwskinner@comcast.net. 16 Concer t: Stand Up Comedy with Mike Finazzo in the Stoltz Listening Room, Avalon Theatre, Easton. 8 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-7299 or visit www. avalontheatre.com. 16 -17 Recycle Dorchester from 10 a.m. to noon at Dorchester County Historical Society. Shop t h i s sa le b enef it t i ng D CHS. Upscale, quality sale, offering gent ly used clot hing, linens, household goods, furniture and more. For more info. visit www. dorchesterhistory.org. 16-18 30th annual Fine Arts @ Oxford. A gala preview party on Friday evening is followed by two days of juried art displayed by 40 Mid-Atlantic artists at the Oxford Community Center. Sat. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sun. 10 a.m.
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May Calendar is $5 for adults, children under 12 free. Proceeds benef it the Oxford Community Center. For more info. tel: 410-226-5904 or visit www.oxfordcc.org. 17 3rd annual St. Michaels Running Festival for all ages and athletic abilities. The courses are flat with a USATF certified half marathon, 10k and 5k. For more info. visit www.runstm.com. 17 Horn Point Fly-In from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at t he Hor n Poi nt Laboratory Airfield, Cambridge. See dozens of antique airplanes, brow se d i splay s by av iat ion vendors and enjoy food. Rain date is 5/18. For more info. tel: 410 -310 - 0159 or v isit htt p:// hornpointflyin.info. 17 4th annual Elf Classic Yacht Race. Launching early from Annapolis’ Eastport Yacht Club and ending at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. The race brings the centuries-old tradition of yacht racing back to the Chesapeake. For more info. tel: 410-745-2916, visit www. cbmm.org or www.cyrg.org. 17 Kent Island Day is a celebrat ion of t he 1632 founding of Kent Island, with a parade on Main Street, historic exhibits,
displays, activ ities, vendors, crafts, and tons of fun. There will be pony rides, games, food, live entertainment, train and fire expo, community organizations, and more. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 17 Native Garden Tour of Queen A nne’s Count y sponsored by Adkins Arboretum. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more info. visit www. adkinsgardentour.org. 17 Book Signing by Loriann Oberlin and Robert Bidinotto at the News Center in Easton from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Oberlin, who uses the pen name of Lauren Monroe, and Bidinotto are both residents of Queen Anne’s County. For more info. e-mail: shorethingpublishing@gmail.com. 17 Art Show and Sale from 4 to 8 p.m. at the Federalsburg Area Heritage Museum. Local ar tists will be featured. Wine and cheese served. $10 at the door or advance tickets available by calling 410-754-8974. 17 3rd annual Preakness Palooza party from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Evolution Craft Brewing Compa ny, S a l i sbu r y. T he mone y raised w ill be donated to the United Way’s “The Imagination Librar y.” Fee. For more info. tel: 410-742-5143 or visit www. unitedway4us.org.
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May Calendar 18 Bird Walk at Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, Cambridge, with Harry Armistead. 8 a.m. For more info. tel: 410-228-2677. 18 One-Hour Skipjack Sail on the Nathan of Dorchester from 1 to 2 p.m., Long Wharf, Cambridge. Adults $15; children 6-12 $7; under 6 f ree. For more info. tel: 410-228-7141 or to make reservations online visit www. skipjack-nathan.org. 18 Concert: The Chesapeake Bay Community Band will present it s a nnua l spr i ng c onc er t at 2:30 p.m. at the Avalon Theatre, Easton. Tickets are $12 for adults and $6 for seniors and children. For more info. tel: 410-703-0755 or visit www.ChesapeakeBayCommunityBand.org. 19
Me e t i ng: S t . M ic h ael s A r t League with guest speaker Kirk McBride with a demo in oil. 9:30 a.m. at Christ Church Parish Hall. For more info. visit www. stmichaelsartleague.org.
19 Lecture: “Compton”: The Family Home of Governor Samuel Stevens with Barton Ross and Cindy Schmidt at the Talbot County Free Library. St. Michaels. 1 p.m. The presentation will include maps, architectural evolution
drawings and more. Free. For more info. tel: 410-745-5877 or visit www.tcfl.org. 19 Lecture: Ukraine through the Ages ... in Maps with geographer Cathy Cooper at the Talbot County Free Library, Easton. 6 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-8221626 or visit www.tcfl.org. 19 Book Discussion: Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo. 6:30 p.m. at the Talbot County Free Library, Easton. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit www.tcfl.org. 20 Lecture: Laurie Porter, DO on Hearing Loss in Seniors. 2 p.m. at the Grasonville Senior Center. For more info. tel: 410-822-1000 or visit www.shorehealth.org. 21 Meeting: Dorchester Caregivers Support Group from 3 to 4 p.m. at Pleasant Day Adult Medical Day Care, Cambridge. For more info. tel: 410-228-0190. 21 Lecture: Rober ta Lilly, MD, MPH, FACS and Chr istopher Lev y, MD on What’s New and What’s Old in Breast Cancer C a re. 7 p.m. at t he C a roline Count y Librar y, Denton. For more info. tel: 410-822-1000 or visit www.shorehealth.org. 22 Lecture: Mental Health First
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Aid ~ Why is it important? with Susan Sherman at the Talbot County Free Library, Easton. 6 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-8221626 or visit www.tcfl.org. 22-25 Chestertown Tea Party Festival in downtown Chestertown. A ll festival events take place along the Chester River and in the historic district of Chestertown. There is no admission charge to the Festival, but purchases of Toss the Tory ballots are appreciated and the proceeds go to help fund children’s educational programming. Reenactment of the Tea Party will be at 2 p.m. on Saturday. Town ordinance prohibits dogs at the
festival. For more info. and full schedule v isit www.chestertownteaparty.com. 23 Concert: Redwine Jazz Band in the Stoltz Listening Room, Avalon Theatre, Easton. 8 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-7299 or visit www.avalontheatre.com. 24 Workshop: Eastern Shore Writers Assoc. features noted fiction instr uctor Ly nn Schwar tz on Creating Complex Characters. 9 to 11:30 a.m. at Trinity Cathedral, Easton. Fee. For more info. tel: 410-476-3917 or e-mail at sweeneygf@aol.com. 24 Concert: Yellow Dubmarine ~
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May Calendar Reggae Beatles Tribute at the Avalon Theatre, Easton. 8 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-7299 or v isit www.avalontheat re. com. 24-25 Public Sails aboard the schooner Sultana in conjunction with the Chestertown Tea Party. Sat. 10 a.m. to noon and 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. and Sun. 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 2 to 4 p.m. For more info. visit www.sultanaeducation.org. 24,27,31 Horn Point Laboratory Tours every Tuesday and Saturday through August 30. Get a behind-the-scenes look at an environmental research lab associated with the University of Mar yland. For more info. tel: 410-228-9250. 25 2nd Annual Walk for SUDEP and Epilepsy Awareness at Winterplace Park, Salisbury. Registration begins at 7 p.m. We will “Set
the Gloom Aglow” while educating the public about Epilepsy and SUDEP. $20 per adult/$15 per child. For more info. tel: 443366-3410. 26 Memorial Day Ser v ice done by the A merican Legion Post 91 at Long Wharf, Cambridge. 11 a.m. For more info. tel: 410228-3070. 26 Free Skipjack Sails on the Nathan of Dorchester celebrating Memorial Day at Long Wharf, Cambridge. 12:30, 1:30, 2:30 and 3:30 p.m. No advance reservations accepted. For more info. visit www.skipjack-nathan.org. 26 Healthy Living Series Lecture: What’s Time Got To Do With It? Learn about the Ayurvedic Clock at United Methodist Church, St. Michaels. 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. $12 per session. For more info. tel: 410-745-6073. 27 Meeting: Breast Cancer Supp or t Gr oup at U M R e g ion a l
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Breast Center, Easton. 6 p.m. For more info. e-mail pplaskon@shorehealth.org. 27 Meeting: Women Supporting Women, lo c a l bre a st c a nc er support group, meets at Christ Episcopal Church, Cambridge. 6:30 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-463-0946. 29 The Talbot County Free Library in Easton, in conjunction with the Eastern Shore Writers Association, is holding an “Open Mic” presentation of ESWA poets at 6:30 p.m. at the library. The public is invited to a night of poetry reading offered by local poets. For more info. tel: 410-673-1481
or visit www.easternshorewriters.org. 29 Concert: Chris Trapper in the Stoltz Listening Room, Avalon Theatre, Easton. 7 and 9 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-7299 or visit www.avalontheatre.com. 30 Concert: Marcia Ball at the Avalon Theatre, Easton. 8 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-7299 or visit www.avalontheatre.com. 30 Concert: Sarah Borges w ith Girls, Guns & Glory in the Stoltz Listening Room, Avalon Theatre, Easton. 8 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-7299 or visit www. avalontheatre.com.
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w it h Fox y ’s, Tow n Dock a nd Crab Claw restaurants will host the first brewfest. There will be over 50 beers and 30 breweries represented. The ticket price will include unlimited samples of some of the best beers available in the region. Fee. For more info tel: 410-745-8010 or visit www. stmichaelsbrewfest.com.
31 Workshop: Eastern Shore Writers Assoc. features Ally Machate on Building a Platform that will Help You Sell Books. 9 to 11:30 a.m. at Trinity Cathedral, Easton. Fee. For more info. tel: 410-476-3917 or e-mail at sweeneygf@aol.com. 31 Floating Fleet Day at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. Visitors can experience the Miles River aboard an authentic Chesapeake wooden workboat. For a nominal fee, 30 -minute boat rides w ill be of fered bet ween noon a nd 3 p.m.. The event will be held in conjunction with the museum’s 10th Maritime Model Expo. For more info. tel: 410-745-2916 or visit www.cbmm.org. 31 St. Michaels Brew fest f rom noon to 5 p.m. Eastern Shore Brewing, the longest continually operating brewery on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, along
31 Academy for Lifelong Learning: Intermediate Digital Photography with Wilson Wyatt and Kate Mann from 9 to 11:30 a.m. at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. Tel: 410745-4941 for enrollment details. 31 Class: Introduction to the Museum’s Digital Media Lab & the Macintosh with George Holzer at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. 10 a.m. to noon. Fee. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit www.academyartmuseum.org. 31 Book Signing: Wayne Brown w i l l b e sig n i ng h i s b o ok Ed
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31 Concert: Jason Myles Goss & Victoria Vox in the Stoltz Listening Room, Avalon Theatre, Easton. 8 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-7299 or visit www. avalontheatre.com.
Ed Cutts Cutts: Designer, Boatbuilder, and “Cutts Method” Inventor from 2 to 5 p.m. at Cutts & Case Boatyard in Oxford. The book w i l l be ava i lable at My ster y Loves Company. For more info. tel: 410-226-0010.
31-1 The Ox ford Garden Club, member of Federated Garden Clubs of Maryland, is hosting a standard f lower show, Mardi Gras in May, at the Oxford Community Center. Sat., 1 to 4 p.m. and Sun., 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The show is free and open to the public. There will also be plants for sale as well as a boutique. For more info. tel: 410-226-5638.
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