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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

Secrets of the Eastern Shore Pop Up Shop in Cambridge, Maryland
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The Secrets of the Eastern Shore Holiday Pop Up Shop!

    The Secrets of the Eastern Shore Pop Up Shop is back! Located at 412 Race Street in downtown Cambridge, Maryland, it's a seasonal celebration of the stories, scenery, traditions, and artistry of the region. The Pop Up Shop is chock full of fun finds and gift items, many of which you won't find anywhere else. Think breathtaking photos of sweet Shore scenes, one-of-a-kind jewelry…
November 15, 2017
Spence's Bazaar in Dover, Delaware
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Spence’s Bazaar: Visiting a Delaware Classic

    Delmarva traditions can be funny things sometimes. Take Spence’s Bazaar in Dover, for example. When I approached the sprawling old marketplace for the first time recently, it had the look of a joint that hadn’t changed one iota since the day it opened eightysome ago. The flea market outside was old school, with table upon table upon table set under sweet shade trees.…
October 10, 2017
Phillips Packing Company Overturned Trucks
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The Phillips Packing Company Strike of 1937: Black and White Together on the Picket Lines

    The next time you drive through Cambridge, Maryland along Route 50, take a good look behind the Wawa convenience store, toward Dorchester Avenue and the western horizon. The towering pair of old smokestacks there have some faded lettering on them, “PPCO,” for Phillips Packing Company. This year marks the 80th anniversary of a big strike there that made headlines around the country back…
August 30, 2017
The Grand United Order of Odd Fellows
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A St. Michaels Coffee Shop Chock Full of Black History

    The histories of little towns on the Eastern Shore are full of twists and turns that brush up against the biggest stories in the whole wide world in fascinating ways. The next time you’re in St. Michaels, I suggest that you pull up a chair at the pretty little Blue Crab Coffee Co. on Fremont Street and give this phenomenon some thought over…
July 11, 2017
The Secrets of the Eastern Shore Pop Up Shop in Cambridge, Maryland
The 2017 Secrets of the Eastern Shore Pop Up Shop! DestinationsThe Newsroom

The 2017 Secrets of the Eastern Shore Pop Up Shop!

NEWS FLASH: The Secrets of the Eastern Shore Holiday Pop Up Shop is back once again this year! Located in downtown Cambridge, our temporary retail store is at at 412 Race Street, right across from the town's famous Crab Basket Christmas Tree. We will open the store officially on Saturday, Nov. 18 and run with it right through to New Year's, and perhaps even a little…
November 21, 2016
Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Visitor Center on Maryland's Eastern Shore
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Coming Attraction: The Tubman Underground Railroad Visitors Center

Chris Elcock first visited the future site of the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Visitors Center in July of 2008. He’d come across the bridge from Baltimore that day in order to help decide whether his firm, GWWO Architects, would throw its hat in the ring when it came time to design the facility. Now slated to open in March of 2017, the center is the latest…
September 5, 2016
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum
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Eastern Shore Road Trips Preview: Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum

  This is a preview from the forthcoming book, "Eastern Shore Road Trips: 25 One-Day Adventures on Delmarva." Sign up for the list up top here and I will keep you up to date on when it's finally ready to go. Every once in a while, the right people happen to be in the right town at the right time to do the right thing. So it was with…
May 10, 2016
Sunset at Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge
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Experiencing the Natural Wonders of the Eastern Shore at Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge

  For my money, there is no better place than these 30,000-plus acres and their surrounding back roads to get a first-hand feel for why the marshlands of the Chesapeake Bay rank as a natural wonder of the first order. The scenery is breathtaking, the wildlife is abundant, and the landscape is chock full of fascinating bits of history. For many of the 150,000 people who…
September 21, 2015
The Timothy Hill House, before and after
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How This Amazing Old House in Chincoteague Beat the Odds and Came Back to Life

  Why is it that one building manages to survive for centuries while all the others built at about the same time fall victim to the ravages of time? One of the experts who has spent some time with what is believed to be the oldest house in Chincoteague—it’s still standing after 200-plus years—chalked its survival up to a magical mix of being “well built, unusual,…
August 18, 2015
Julia Roberts in Runaway Bride
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Why is the Town Played by Berlin in the Movie “Runaway Bride” Called Hale?

Since the subject at hand is peaches, we might as well start with the bit of "Runaway Bride" trivia highlighted in the headline here. The name Hale, you see, is actually a sly tribute to a tasty little slice of Eastern Shore history. Released in 1999 and starring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere, “Runaway Bride” was filmed in Berlin. Berlin, in turn, was home back in the first part…
July 30, 2015