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The 2026 Delmarva Peach Festival Season Is Here … Good Times & Fun Events

The 2026 Delmarva Peach Festival Season Is Here …

This is the link where you can go straight to info on seven different Delmarva peach festivals coming up in late July and August of 2026. But wait ... why peach festivals? Here is how I answer that question in my book, Shore Fun! The Delmarva Wanderer's Guide. It has easy-as-pie, snapshot info on 150+ annual events and 125+ fun destination on the Eastern Shore…
June 28, 2026
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CANCELLED! Delmarva Storytelling Will Not Happen at the Rackliffe House Colonial Festival on Sun., Oct. 12 The Newsroom

CANCELLED! Delmarva Storytelling Will Not Happen at the Rackliffe House Colonial Festival on Sun., Oct. 12

Note: This event has been cancelled due to a forecast of rain, high winds, and possible coastal flooding. Author and storyteller Jim Duffy of Secrets of the Eastern Shore will spin fun and fascinating true-life "Delmarva Tales" on Sun., Oct. 12, 2025 at the Colonial Festival put on by historic Rackliffe House. The event runs from 11am to 4pm with vendors and tours and other…
September 20, 2025
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Book Excerpt: The Musical Innovations of Charles Tindley CharactersFrom the BooksWay Back Machine

Book Excerpt: The Musical Innovations of Charles Tindley

This is an excerpt from my short-read e-book: "I Will Overcome: The Soul Stirring Life of Charles A. Tindley" ($2.99 at this link). Born into dire poverty during late slavery times on Maryland's Lower Eastern Shore, Tindley rose to incredible heights in life. As a minister, he built one of America's first "megachurches" with more than 10,000 members. As an activist, he fought the good…
May 27, 2024
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An Inspiring E-book: ‘I Will Overcome:’ The Soul Stirring Life of Charles A. Tindley The Newsroom

An Inspiring E-book: ‘I Will Overcome:’ The Soul Stirring Life of Charles A. Tindley

Charles Tindley should be more of a household name. He helped invent a new American art form. The gospel songs he composed are still stirring souls a century after his death. He was a preacher for the ages, drawing more than 10,000 congregants into one of America’s first-ever megachurches. He fed the hungry. He lifted up the poor. He fought racism and injustice. He endured…
April 26, 2024
Jake the Alligator: Berlin Gets a Toothy, Six-Foot-Four Mascot, circa 1900 Way Back Machine

Jake the Alligator: Berlin Gets a Toothy, Six-Foot-Four Mascot, circa 1900

This is a free excerpt from my book, You Wouldn't Believe! 44 Strange and Wondrous Delmarva Tales. More info about that and my other books exploring the history, travel, and culture on the Eastern Shore and in Delaware here. Paging through a book of photos from times gone by in Worcester County, Md., I came across a crazy postcard. The legend sketched out in a brief caption…
August 28, 2022
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Berlin, Md. Character of the Day: Man o’ War! CharactersWay Back Machine

Berlin, Md. Character of the Day: Man o’ War!

This is an excerpt from the trip to Berlin, Md. in 2nd edition of Eastern Shore Road Trips #1: 27 One-Day Adventures on Delmarva. This section wasn’t in the first edition, alas, as I learned about it after the book came out. But I couldn’t resist adding it when updating that 2016 book for the 2020s. The most famous Berlin resident of them all was…
October 3, 2020
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A Poetic Interlude, 1909: A Storm “On the Worcester Coast” Quote of the DayWay Back Machine

A Poetic Interlude, 1909: A Storm “On the Worcester Coast”

I only know the basics about William Henry Babcock (1849-1922), a lawyer who dabbled in poetry. He grew up in St. Louis and found his way to the Mid-Atlantic region by way of what was then called the Columbian University Law School and is now the George Washington University Law School. Though he lived in Washington, DC several of his works are set on the…
April 30, 2020
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“The Exile’s Song:” A Poetic Ode By a Homesick Eastern Shoreman Quote of the DayWay Back Machine

“The Exile’s Song:” A Poetic Ode By a Homesick Eastern Shoreman

Aside from having a beard for the ages, Littleton Purnell Bowen was a lawyer, historian, preacher, and poet. Born in Worcester County, Md. in 1833, he did his early schooling at the Berlin (Md.) Academy, graduating in 1851. He later earned a law degree, but abandoned that career to become a Presbyterian minister. Early on, Bowen served as a pastor in Lewes, Del. and Pocomoke…
March 31, 2020
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Berlin, Md. Character of the Day: Linda Harrison Characters

Berlin, Md. Character of the Day: Linda Harrison

The Sun and Surf Cinema in Ocean City has slated a bit of Way Back Machine fun for the evening of Wednesday, July 27, 2016. They will be screening the classic 1968 version of “The Planet of the Apes,” starring Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowell, Kim Hunter, and Linda Harrison. That last name may not be as familiar to some of you as the first three,…
July 19, 2016
Bathtub Races in Berlin, Maryland
Daytripping in Berlin: Peaches, Bathtubs, Glassblowing and more in America’s “Coolest” Small Town Road Trips

Daytripping in Berlin: Peaches, Bathtubs, Glassblowing and more in America’s “Coolest” Small Town

  As old-time Main Streets go, Berlin is first-rate, blessed with a postcard-pretty streetscape, lots of interesting shops and adventurous restaurants, and a history chock full of fascinating characters. Bonus: Berlin knows how to throw a party. My theory in such matters is that you can’t go wrong in a town that makes a big production out of its annual bathtub races. Here, they close…
September 21, 2015