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Christmas Shopping in Oxford 1756 Featured Photo SIZED
If You Went Christmas Shopping in Colonial Times … Oxford, Md. in 1756 Way Back Machine

If You Went Christmas Shopping in Colonial Times … Oxford, Md. in 1756

If you wanted to go Christmas shopping on Maryland's Eastern Shore back in 1756, you would have headed if at all possible to Oxford, Md. For variety and quantity of merchandise, that then-bustling Tred Avon River port in Talbot County had no equal on the shore. Not even Chestertown compared at that point. What might be on your list? Are you thinking your list would…
December 2, 2025
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Delmarva Storytelling comes to Oxford, Md. on Nov. 13, 2025 The Newsroom

Delmarva Storytelling comes to Oxford, Md. on Nov. 13, 2025

Author and storyteller Jim Duffy of Secrets of the Eastern Shore will spin fun and fascinating true-life "Delmarva Tales" on Thu., Nov. 13, 2025 at the Oxford (Md.) Community Center. The show begins at 5:30pm. The talk will include stories from Duffy's new book, Ordinary Heroes of Old Delmarva: Inspiring True Tales of Courage, Kindness, and Community. Duffy will be signing books and chatting with…
September 23, 2025
Jack Messick Memories of Life on the Choptank River Lighthouse
Sweet Memories of Life on the Lighthouse CharactersWay Back Machine

Sweet Memories of Life on the Lighthouse

A sad introductory note to this post that originally went up in 2020: Jack Messick passed away in July 2024. May he rest in peace. My friend Jack Messick is probably the last living person who spent a lot of time in the original Choptank River Lighthouse. In the late 1940s, when Jack was around 10 years old, his father asked a question that would…
December 31, 2020
Tench Tilghman 5 Things Featured Photo
HEROES OF DELMARVA: 5 Things About Col. Tench Tilghman, Revolutionary Star CharactersWay Back Machine

HEROES OF DELMARVA: 5 Things About Col. Tench Tilghman, Revolutionary Star

Tench Tilghman served in the Revolutionary War as a top aide to George Washington, who praised the Talbot County, Md. native generously for his advice, loyalty, and trustworthiness. After the British surrendered at Yorktown, Washington assigned to Tilghman the task of making a mad dash to the nation’s capital in Philadelphia to deliver official word of the triumph. (1) That Weird First Name The tench…
October 24, 2020
Oxford Bellevue Ferry on the Eastern Shore of Maryland
ROAD TRIPS 2 EXCERPT: ‘Notoriously Scandalous’ at the Oxford-Bellevue Ferry From the BooksRoad Trips

ROAD TRIPS 2 EXCERPT: ‘Notoriously Scandalous’ at the Oxford-Bellevue Ferry

One of the adventures in my book, Eastern Shore Road Trips 2: 26 MORE One-Day Adventures on Delmarva is the "Five Ferries Tour," which will have you (and your car) making five different river and bay crossings aboard history-laden routes. The excerpt below covers one of those crossings, at the Tred Avon River in Talbot County, Md. Not one of the five ferries here is…
April 18, 2019
Emancipation in Oxford: Joining the United States Colored Troops Tubman TravelsWay Back Machine

Emancipation in Oxford: Joining the United States Colored Troops

In this excerpt from the book Tubman Travels: 32 Underground Railroad Journeys on Delmarva, a visit to Oxford, Maryland puts travelers in touch with stories about the slave trade there and the way some men found a way to freedom for them and their families by signing on to serve in the United States Colored Troops. The little town of Oxford, Maryland on the Tred…
April 13, 2019
Beach scene in front of the Plimhimmon Hotel in Ocean City, Maryland
Ocean City Character of the Day: Rosalie Tilghman Shreve & the Plimhimmon Hotel CharactersWay Back Machine

Ocean City Character of the Day: Rosalie Tilghman Shreve & the Plimhimmon Hotel

A century ago, the Plimhimmon Hotel was the most famous and iconic structure in the then-fledgling resort town of Ocean City, Md. Old pictures of the place, with its elegant oceanfront porches, expansive decks, and swooping, cone-shaped tower, have a way of leaving us modern folks weak at the knees from yearning for the splendor of yesteryear.  But there is much more than nostalgia to…
December 15, 2018
Unionville Road in Talbot County Backroads
Road Trips Excerpt: The Ride Down Unionville Road Road TripsWay Back Machine

Road Trips Excerpt: The Ride Down Unionville Road

This is a free excerpt from the chapter, "Talbot County Backroads," in Eastern Shore Road Trips: 27 One-Day Adventures on Delmarva. In addition to this section on Unionville Road, the chapter features stops in Bozman, Neavitt, and Claiborne, as well as at the Oxford-Bellevue Ferry, the Pickering Creek Audubon Center, and more. Let’s start in Easton, at the intersection of the bypass and Route 33. Turn toward…
November 3, 2016
Eastern Shore Road Trips
Eastern Shore Road Trips: 27 One-Day Adventures on Delmarva Miscellany

Eastern Shore Road Trips: 27 One-Day Adventures on Delmarva

Your adventures on the Delmarva Peninsula are about to get a lot more fun and interesting. The first Secrets of the Eastern Shore guidebook is now available—it’s called Eastern Shore Road Trips: 27 One-Day Adventures on Delmarva. Much more than a travel guide, Eastern Shore Road Trips is full of tales from days gone by and insights into the character and culture of the storied Delmarva…
November 3, 2016