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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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A Poetic Christmas Interlude, 1919 Quote of the DayWay Back Machine

A Poetic Christmas Interlude, 1919

The poet Folger McKinsey was born in Elkton, Md. in 1866 and got his start as a journalist and writer in the Eastern's Shore's Cecil County. Later, he became a newspaperman for the Baltimore Sun. There, he eventually became "staff poet"--yup, the Sun did have have such a position. At Christmastime in 1919, McKinsey published a poem titled “The Hills of Pine.” Most of it…
December 1, 2025
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Jim Duffy’s Delmarva Storytelling Show is in Elkton, Md. on Thursday, May 9 The Newsroom

Jim Duffy’s Delmarva Storytelling Show is in Elkton, Md. on Thursday, May 9

Storyteller Jim Duffy of Secrets of the Eastern Shore will share fun and fascinating "Tales of Delmarva" days gone by in a talk sponsored by the Cecil County Library at 6:30pm on Thu., May 9, 2024 at the library's Elkton branch. Duffy is an award-winning writer and author of five books that explore travel, history and culture themes on the Eastern Shore and in Delaware.…
March 12, 2024
BULLET-POINT BIOGRAPHY: The Horse Lover of Elkton, Maryland Way Back Machine

BULLET-POINT BIOGRAPHY: The Horse Lover of Elkton, Maryland

I was looking up something else in the Nov. 6, 1934 edition of the Cecil Whig newspaper when I stumbled into Isaac Solomon. My attention wandered across the page and landed on this headline: Negro, Who Went Hungry to Feed Racehorses, Dies. Here are a few tidbits from that story: • The death of Isaac Solomon, Negro racehorse fancier, was something like the passing of…
April 8, 2022
Quickie Weddings in Elkton, Maryland
When Elkton Was the Quickie-Wedding Capitol of the Country From the BooksWay Back Machine

When Elkton Was the Quickie-Wedding Capitol of the Country

This is an excerpt from my book, Eastern Shore Road Trips #2: 26 MORE One-Day Adventures on Delmarva. It's a fun "Way Back Machine" postscript to a chapter that wanders through Elkton and North East, Md., as well as down to Elk Neck State Park and the Turkey Point Lighthouse. More info on the book here. In 1913, the state of Delaware adopted a new…
January 28, 2022
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ODE TO THE STEAMBOATS: ‘When the Bay Boats Blow’ Quote of the DayWay Back Machine

ODE TO THE STEAMBOATS: ‘When the Bay Boats Blow’

This ode to the steamboat era was written in 1910 by Folger McKinzey (1866-1950), who grew up on the Eastern Shore in Elkton, Md. and became something of an adolescent prodigy. He became editor of the weekly Shore Gazette newspaper in Ocean Grove, N.J. at age 17 and then, at 20, returned to Elkton as assistant editor of the Cecil Whig. While there, he brought Walt…
April 1, 2020