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Good Times & Fun EventsMonth of Fundays Newsletter

MONTH OF FUNDAYS! Feb 2023

February is supposedly the quiet "border between winter and spring." Nah: It's time to spring into action, which is what the Month of Fundays newsletter is all about. Fun stuff coming up all over Delaware and the Eastern Shore. Here's the link! Highlights: • The World Championship of Muskrat Skinning is back from a looonng pandemic pause. • Chocolate, chocolate everywhere for Valentine's Day. •…
January 30, 2023
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Flirtation to Fury: The Chocolate Candy Murders

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. If Shakespeare had written tragedies in early 1900s America instead of early 1600s Britain, he would have had another character named Cordelia to write about. The plot…
January 27, 2023
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Good Times & Fun EventsMonth of Fundays Newsletter

MONTH OF FUNDAYS! Jan. 2023

Welcome, 2023! Your get-out-and-go guide for January includes ice festivals and hikes and birding expeditions and beach patrols and owl prowls and more. No worries, there is lots in here, too, for those of you who prefer to say indoors--concerts, plays, parties, and the like. Plus, a bevy of stories about Delmarva days gone by! The January 2023 Month of Fundays newsletter! Here’s hoping it…
January 2, 2023
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MONTH OF FUNDAYS! The Christmas Season, 2022

Thanksgiving is here! Christmas is around the bend! That means it's time for your monthly guide to fun events and cool happenings on the Delmarva Peninsula. Think light shows, holiday parades, shopping extravaganzas, small-town festivities, and more. Plus, gift ideas! The December 2022 Month of Fundays newsletter! Here’s hoping it inspires you to get out and go in search of sweet holiday memories! Thank you…
November 21, 2022
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Launch Days in Bethel

This is a free excerpt from my book, Eastern Shore Road Trips #2: 26 MORE One-Day Adventures on Delmarva. In a trip focused on visiting the Southern Delaware towns of Laurel and Bethel I write a bit about how Bethel was a famous shipbuilding center focused on building the gargantuan ships known as "Rams." This fun little anecdote appears as an afternote at the end…
November 20, 2022
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MONTH OF FUNDAYS! November and the Holiday Season 2022

November is here! And that means it's time for your monthly guide to fun events and cool happenings on the Delmarva Peninsula. Think Waterfowl Festival, oyster roasts, music, theater, art-studio tours, a new Chalk Art Festival, and much more. BONUS! This issue connects you with a season-load of holiday fun--all the light shows, parades, shopping extravaganzas, small-town festivities, and music shows that make the Christmas…
October 29, 2022
Christmas Parade in St. Michaels, on Maryland's Eastern Shore
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CHRISTMAS 2022! Parades

Here is your guide to the Christmas parades of the 2022 holiday season. If I missed the parade in your town, please put a link to event details in the comments here. Or send that link to me by email: SecretsoftheEasternShore@gmail.com. I will update and add to this list as the season progresses. If you want to share your love of small-town Christmas parades, well,…
October 29, 2022