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Good Times & Fun EventsMonth of Fundays Newsletter

October is the busiest month of the year for fun events and cool happenings on the Delmarva Peninsula. No worries, got you covered–here is your monthly guide to good times on the Eastern Shore and in Delaware: The October 2023 Month of Fundays newsletter! Think oyster roasts, fall festivals, ghost tours, and Halloween events. Plus, the unforgettable Apple Scrapple Festival and the gorgeous tall-ship reunion…
October 1, 2023
Typical Chicken Farm 1940s FEATURED PHOTO from Poultry Industry History
Way Back Machine

You’ve Heard of Bootleggers? How about Meatleggers? There Were Lots of Them on Delmarva in the 1940s

What you see up top here is an ordinary Delmarva chicken farm in the early 1940s. But that decade was anything but ordinary for the poultry industry: Think black marketeering, bushel baskets of cash hidden in attics, and military roadblocks set up on DuPont Highway. These were World War II years. Among the array of complex logistics in that conflict was the task of feeding…
September 21, 2023
Month of Fundays Happy Dog Featured Photo
Good Times & Fun EventsMonth of Fundays Newsletter

Month of Fundays! September 2023

Fall is the busiest time of year for fun events and cool happenings on the Delmarva Peninsula, and as you will see here in your one-stop guide to getting out and about in the weeks ahead: The September 2023 Month of Fundays newsletter! Two skipjack races, the Maryland Folk Festival, 11 small-town festivals, a scrapple celebration, bigtime star-power at music festivals, the fiddlers' convention, two…
August 27, 2023
Month of Fundays Happy Dog Featured Photo
Good Times & Fun EventsMonth of Fundays Newsletter

Month of Fundays! Fun Events and Cool Happenings in August 2023

Time is running out for summer fun! You will find scores and scores of options to do just that here in the August 2023 issue of my Month of Fundays newsletter. Highlights: • Blessing of the Combines in Snow Hill • Pirates & Wenches in Rock Hall • OC Balloon fest • Unicorns in North East • A foodie-friendly Ancient Grains Festival • Dolphin cruises…
July 30, 2023
CharactersWay Back Machine

From Frankford to the Front Lines and Back: World War II Hero Ernest Marvel

NOTE: This is a special guest post. Lucas Pineda Walls is my 13-year-old great nephew. In getting to know him I learned about his great interest in World War II—almost obsessive, actually. I asked him if he would be interested in telling the story of one of our Delmarva veterans from that greatest generation. This is a lightly edited version of the story that he…
July 20, 2023
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Quote of the DayWay Back Machine

Way Back Machine: ‘A Mirror of the Almighty’ on Tangier Island, 1828

The modern-day tourism trade on Smith and Tangier islands dates to the 1960s, when tour boats first started shuttling curious daytrippers out into the middle of the bay. But visitors have actually been flocking to these islands for centuries. In 1821, one observer reported seeing more than 400 boats anchored around Tangier. He estimated the crowd attending that year’s Methodist camp meeting at more than…
June 22, 2023
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The Newsroom

The Bethany Beach Book Signing: Sun., July 23, 2023

The award-winning writer Jim Duffy of Secrets of the Eastern Shore will be in Bethany Beach, Del. for a book-signing event on Sun., July 23, 2023. The affair will take place outside of Bethany Beach Books in the heart of town at 99 Garfield Blvd., 6pm-7:30pm. Duffy is the author of the bestselling Eastern Shore Road Trips series. Subtitled “One-Day Adventures on Delmarva,” the two…
June 22, 2023