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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 (and he is still the only one) to win non-consecutive terms in the White House. He had won the election of 1884, and he had lost the…

Secrets of the Eastern ShoreApril 25, 2017

Road Trips

A Museum Triple Play on the Eastern Shore of Virginia

If you are at all like me, you can look at old photos of life on the Eastern Shore all day long. Well, that’s pretty much exactly what we’re going to do here on a visit to three fun little museums in a daytrip that will take us from one end of the Eastern Shore of Virginia to the other. We’ll start up on…

Secrets of the Eastern ShoreApril 1, 2015

Destinations Way Back Machine

The Old-School Stuckey’s in Mappsville

There are the fake new Stuckey’s, and there are the genuine old-time Stuckey’s. The Stuckey’s in Mappsville, an itty bitty burg of 400-and-some souls on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, most definitely falls into the latter category. As far as I can tell, this is the only genuine Stuckey’s left in the Shore region. Walk through the door and you’ll feel like you’ve…

Danielle DarlingDecember 5, 2014

Mappsville Archives | Secrets of the Eastern Shore

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

A Museum Triple Play on the Eastern Shore of Virginia

The Old-School Stuckey’s in Mappsville

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