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When a Bunch of Birds Lost their Minds and Attacked Hog Island Light in 1900 From the BooksWay Back Machine

When a Bunch of Birds Lost their Minds and Attacked Hog Island Light in 1900

NOTE: This is one of the fun stories from my book, You Wouldn’t Believe! 44 Strange and Wondrous Delmarva Tales. You can find more information about the book–including how and where to buy it–at this link. The scene that unfolded on a late-winter night in 1900 on Hog Island was straight out of the Alfred Hitchcock classic The Birds. A flurry of unusual avian activity…
February 15, 2022
Grover Cleveland Fishing
CHARACTER OF THE DAY: The President Who Shot Ducks (and Marbles) on Hog Island Characters

CHARACTER OF THE DAY: The President Who Shot Ducks (and Marbles) on Hog Island

After Grover Cleveland made history in November of 1892, the first thing he did was reward himself with a trip to Hog Island, just off of his beloved Eastern Shore. Cleveland had just become the first person to win non-consecutive terms in the White House. He had won the election of 1884, and he had lost the one in 1888. (Donald Trump became the second…
April 25, 2017
Broadwater on Hog Island Featured Photo
Quote of the Day: ‘No More Kindly Heart Ever Beat’ From the BooksQuote of the Day

Quote of the Day: ‘No More Kindly Heart Ever Beat’

This excerpt from Eastern Shore Road Trips #2: 26 MORE One-Day Adventures on Delmarva is the bonus section at the end of a chapter that leads you along a backroads journey through the countryside and little fishing villages that line the oceanside length of the Eastern Shore of Virginia. The chapter touches several times on the history of the barrier islands off of that shore,…
August 22, 2016