Hey, big thanks to all of who visited the Secrets website in 2024! Here, without further ado, are links to the 20 most popular stories as decided by readers. FYI, many of these stories appear in one or another of the five books I have written about travel, history, and culture on the Delmarva Peninsula. Here is where you can find more info about those books.
OK, on with the readers’ choice awards:
• The Great Eastern Shore Deep Freeze of 1976-77
• How a Big Hurricane on Aug. 22, 1933 Created the Ocean City We Know Today
• The Horseshoe Crab Apocalypse of the late 1800s and early 1900s
• Depraved, Unscrupulous, Vile–Our Oystermen, 1887
• Grand Opening Gone Wrong: The Cape May Lewes Ferry in 1964
• Memories of Morbid Manor: An Ocean City Classic
• The Ghost Ships of Kiptopeke
• When Elkton Was the Quickie Wedding Capitol of the Country
• A Seagull’s Eye View: The Ash Wednesday Storm in Southern Delaware, 1962
• Berlin, Md. Character ot the Day: Linda Harrison
• Character of the Day: The Delaware Housewife Who Invented the Modern Chicken Industry
• Berlin, Md. Character of the Day: Man o’ War
• Journeys: The British Teenager Left Behind to Live with the Indians in 1608
The Cape Henlopen Lighthouse in its last days.
• How ‘Bout Them Dawgs? The Crazy Connection Between Georgia Football and Cambridge, Md.
• How This Little Backroads Chapel Evokes the Stories in Michener’s Famous Novel
• Shipwreck in Lewes: The DeBraak Goes Down, 1798
• Revisiting the Glory Days of Summertime ‘Camp Meetings’
• Fall of an ‘Ancient Warrior’: The Cape Henlopen Lighthouse Collapses, 1926
• The Sussex County Man Who Made a Killing in the California Gold Rush Without Looking for Gold
–posted by Jim Duffy for Whimbrel Creations LLC/Secrets of the Eastern Shore on Dec. 30, 2024. All rights reserved on the stories.
