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Mermaid at 2nd Time Around Recycled Metal Sculpture in Millsboro (JD)
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The Long-Distance Truckers Who Turned Their Front Yard into a Sculpture Garden

    Judging by the looks of things outside of their house in Millsboro, Del., Judy and Lou Hagen don’t like to let anything go to waste. The Hagens’ modest home is just outside of town on Route 24, and chances are, you’ve never seen anything quite like what they’ve done with the yard. Yup, that sure is a giant metal brontosaurus swooping down with teeth…
February 5, 2015
Downtown St. Michaels (JJP)
Strolling Talbot Street in Search of That Old St. Michaels Magic Miscellany

Strolling Talbot Street in Search of That Old St. Michaels Magic

  Stroll past the lush resorts and swanky shops along the quaint main drag in St. Michaels, and you might never guess that for most of its life this town was a hard-working, hard-drinking place full of shipbuilders, watermen, crabpickers, and oyster shuckers. Shipyards began to spring up hereabouts in the 1600s, more than a century before the town officially existed.By around 1800 there were…
February 5, 2015
MIles Hancock of Chincoteague, on the Eastern Shore of Virginia
CHINCOTEAGUE CHARACTER OF THE DAY: Decoy-Carving Legend Miles Hancock CharactersWay Back Machine

CHINCOTEAGUE CHARACTER OF THE DAY: Decoy-Carving Legend Miles Hancock

The amazing life that Miles Hancock led could never have unfolded the way it did if he had lived anyplace else in the world. Born in Williamsville, Delaware in 1887, he was one of four children in a farming family. When he was seven, his parents moved to Chincoteague.   Miniature Black Duck by Miles Hancock That’s when things got tough. First, his mother died.…
February 5, 2015
Jim Duffy on Eastern Shore Train (JJP)
New Cambridge business to help people explore, celebrate the Shore The Newsroom

New Cambridge business to help people explore, celebrate the Shore

A new website designed to help connect people with fun places and good times in the Eastern Shore region is now up and running. The project is the work of a new business called Secrets of the Eastern Shore, which bills itself as “your ticket to fun in paradise.” “My goal is to make it super easy for everyone to enjoy and explore the Shore,” says company…
December 5, 2014
Peanut Sign at Stuckey's in Mappsville (JJP)
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The Old-School Stuckey’s in Mappsville

    There are the fake new Stuckey’s, and there are the genuine old-time Stuckey’s. The Stuckey’s in Mappsville, an itty bitty burg of 400-and-some souls on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, most definitely falls into the latter category. As far as I can tell, this is the only genuine Stuckey’s left in the Shore region. Walk through the door and you’ll feel like you’ve…
December 5, 2014