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Typical Chicken Farm 1940s FEATURED PHOTO from Poultry Industry History
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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…
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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…
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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…