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Unique places to go & things to see on the Delmarva Peninsula–the Eastern Shore of Maryland, the Eastern Shore of Virginia, and Delaware

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Southern Delaware: James Farm Ecological Preserve DestinationsNatural Wonders

Southern Delaware: James Farm Ecological Preserve

This is an excerpt from the coming-soon book, 181 Great Events on Delmarva, which includes more than 100 suggested side trips that are located nearby one of the featured events. When the crowds at the beach get to be too much, you have several sweet parks to choose from near the oceanfront in Southern Delaware. The one that in my experience offers the best measure of…
June 2, 2020
GOING PLACES: The Ruins of Coventry Destinations

GOING PLACES: The Ruins of Coventry

This is a brief excerpt from my book, Shore Fun! The Wanderer's Guide to Delmarva. It's one of more than 125 destinations described in the book. While this particular destination has one stop, many others have multiple stops, like in towns or along certain stretches of backroad. The other half of the book is a guide to 150-plus annual events, organized by seasons. The Ruins…
June 2, 2020
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Virginia Eastern Shore: The Birding Trail at Brownsville Preserve DestinationsNatural Wonders

Virginia Eastern Shore: The Birding Trail at Brownsville Preserve

This is an excerpt from the coming-soon book, 181 Great Events on Delmarva, which includes more than 100 suggested side trips that are located near an event featured in the book. For a span of 326 years, more than 100 acres outside of Nassawadox on Virginia’s lower Eastern Shore stayed in the hands of one family, the Upshurs. From a colonial-era wharf on Brownsville Creek, they…
May 31, 2020
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Upper Maryland Eastern Shore: Turner’s Creek Park Destinations

Upper Maryland Eastern Shore: Turner’s Creek Park

This is an excerpt from the coming-soon book, 181 Great Events on Delmarva, which includes more than 100 suggested side trips that are located nearby one of the featured events. The backroads of Kent County of Maryland's Upper Eastern Shore always make for scenic wandering. A little way east of the historic beach-resort town of Betterton is 147-acre Turner’s Creek Park and postcard-pretty Turner’s Creek…
May 31, 2020
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The Lighthouse that Lived Three Different Lives and is Still Going Strong DestinationsRoad Trips

The Lighthouse that Lived Three Different Lives and is Still Going Strong

Many folks think of the Choptank River Lighthouse in Cambridge, Md. as a newish thing, and, in a way, they’re right about that. The replica was constructed seven short years ago, but the stories that beacon is built on go clear back to before the Civil War—in fact, you might say that this seven-year-old lighthouse is celebrating its 161st birthday this year. In the photo…
October 29, 2019
Civil Rights Movement in the Pine Street neighborhood of Cambridge, Maryland
GOING PLACES: The Historic Pine Street Corridor in Cambridge, Maryland DestinationsTubman TravelsWay Back Machine

GOING PLACES: The Historic Pine Street Corridor in Cambridge, Maryland

    When working on Tubman Travels, my Secrets of the Eastern Shore guide to the sites and stories associated with the Underground Railroad era on the Delmarva Peninsula, I also kept a bunch of notes on other African American stories in Delaware and on the Eastern Shore. Eventually, I put those together into a PDF document that’s available as a free download to everyone…
August 16, 2018
St Marys Star of the Sea Chapel in Golden Hill, Maryland
How This Little Backroads Chapel Evokes the Stories in Michener’s Famous Novel DestinationsWay Back Machine

How This Little Backroads Chapel Evokes the Stories in Michener’s Famous Novel

Sweet scenes abound on the long ride out to Hoopers Island. The landscape of remote south Dorchester County—an area that the locals call “Down Below”—is a glorious run of marshlands, rivers, and farm fields. Along the way you will find a pair of churches in Golden Hill, Maryland that go by the name St. Mary Star of the Sea. They are hiding along a bend…
August 2, 2018
Julia Purnell of Snow Hill, Maryland
NEVER TOO LATE: The Snow Hill Woman Who Became an Artist at Age 85 CharactersDestinationsWay Back Machine

NEVER TOO LATE: The Snow Hill Woman Who Became an Artist at Age 85

Most every chapter in the new Secrets book, Eastern Shore Road Trips 2: 26 More One-Day Adventures on Delmarva, ends with a fun and interesting story from days gone by. In this free excerpt from the road trip to Snow Hill, Md., that "Way Back Machine" section tells the story of a woman there who became an artist at the age of 85, after landing…
June 26, 2018
Tilghman Island Seine Haulers Painting by Bill Cummings
SITES & STOPS: The Tilghman Watermen’s Museum Destinations

SITES & STOPS: The Tilghman Watermen’s Museum

    The Tilghman Watermen’s Museum is chock full of interesting stories from days gone by, but one story in particular lingered in my mind after a recent visit. That was the story of the way the museum itself took shape, how one couple’s dreams of a peaceful retirement led them into a project full of new discoveries and fresh challenges. Mary and Hall Kellogg…
May 13, 2018
The Hill Neighborhood in Easton, Maryland
The Oldest Black Community in the Whole Country May Be Right Here on the Eastern Shore DestinationsTubman TravelsWay Back Machine

The Oldest Black Community in the Whole Country May Be Right Here on the Eastern Shore

    For many years, historians gave the title of oldest black community in the country to a neighborhood in New Orleans called Tremé, which dates its African American story back to 1812. But thanks to an extraordinary research and revitalization project in Talbot County, Maryland, it’s now apparent that a neighborhood on the Eastern Shore has Tremé beat by more than two decades. The…
February 7, 2018