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Good Times & Fun EventsMonth of Fundays Newsletter

MONTH OF FUNDAYS! Your December 2023 Christmas Guide

Tis the season! Here's your guide to Christmastime fun on the Delmarva Peninsula. Parades, light shows, house tours, block parties, Santa extravaganzas and much more. Here is the link. Plus, stories from days gone by, gift ideas, and even a few non-holiday events! Wishing you a merry, safe, and blissful Christmas season--see you on the other side! And again with the link.    
November 30, 2023
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Good Times & Fun EventsMonth of Fundays Newsletter

Month of Fundays: November (and Christmastime) 2023!

November has arrived! So here is your monthly guide to fun events and cool happenings on the Delmarva Peninsula. Think the big Waterfowl Festival, lots of oyster roasts, a fun colonial fair, a sea glass extravaganza, music, theater, art-studio tours, and much more. BONUS! Christmas is nigh! This issue also connects you with a season-load of holiday fun–all the light shows, parades, small-town festivities, and…
October 29, 2023
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Good Times & Fun Events

CHRISTMAS 2023! Events & Celebrations

Here is your guide to fun fun events and parties during the 2023 holiday season. Think small-town block parties, holiday home tours, Victorian soirees, musical delights, and much more. The first section is reserved for events that run across multiple upcoming weeks. Below that come events that are organized in day-by-day fashion from now through Christmas. If I missed a fun affair in your town,…
October 26, 2023
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The Newsroom

Storytelling Show in Bethany Beach, Del. on Tue., Nov. 14

Author and storyteller Jim Duffy of Secrets of the Eastern Shore will share tales of Delmarva days gone by in a talk sponsored by the Bethany Beach Cultural and Historic Affairs Committee on Tue., Nov. 14. A resident of Cambridge, Md., Duffy is an award-winning writer and the author of five books, including two collections of Eastern Shore Road Trips and the new Shore Fun: The Wanderer’s Guide…
October 26, 2023
Christmas 2021: Civic Tree Lightings
Good Times & Fun Events

CHRISTMAS 2023: Civic Tree Lighting Ceremonies!

Here is your handy-dandy guide to the civic tree-lighting events of the 2023 holiday season. If I missed an occasion 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. This is a work in progress, and I will update things as the season progresses. November Tree Lightings Fri., Nov. 24 •…
October 22, 2023
Christmas Parade in St. Michaels, on Maryland's Eastern Shore
Good Times & Fun Events

CHRISTMAS 2023! The Parades

Here is your guide to the Christmas parades of the 2023 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 occasional update and add to this list as the season progresses. If you want to share your love of small-town Christmas parades,…
October 22, 2023
Winterfest of Lights in Ocean City, Maryland
Good Times & Fun Events

CHRISTMAS 2023: The Big Light Shows

Here is all the info you need on the biggest and best season-long light shows of the 2023 holiday season! Winterfest of Lights in Ocean City, Md. Nov. 16 to Dec. 31 This is the 31st time around for Winterfest of Lights at Northside Park in Ocean City, Md. Take an outdoor walking tour through incredible light displays. Afterwards, see Santa in the gift shop.…
October 22, 2023
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Way Back Machine

CIRCUS ACTS: Strange and Ridiculous Happenings Under the Big Top!

The traveling circus was a staple of small-town life on the Delmarva Peninsula in the early 1900s. Here are three stories that show just how strange things could get with those shows and their performers. Circus Act #1! The brawl in Seaford, Del., 1908 (with flying snakes!) You’ve seen old Westerns, right? The ones with scenes where two guys start fighting in a tavern and…
October 13, 2023
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Good Times & Fun EventsMonth of Fundays Newsletter

Month of Fundays! October 2023

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