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Hardest Days Work Saxis Island from Almost an Island FEATURED PHOTO
EASTERN SHORE QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Hardest day’s work I ever did in my life …” Quote of the DayWay Back Machine

EASTERN SHORE QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Hardest day’s work I ever did in my life …”

Ellsworth Linton never forgot "the hardest day's work I ever did in my life." It came in the midst of the Great Depression, 1937. The buyboat J.C. Drewer pulled into Saxis Island one morning with 2,180 bushels of oysters that had been harvested from across the Chesapeake Bay in the James River. He and just one other worker spent that entire day shoveling oysters into…
April 21, 2025
Saxis on Saturday Night Featured Photo
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Saxis on a Saturday Night! Scenes from Days Gone By

Those of you who've been there know that Saxis is a remote, real-deal watermen community on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. I visited there while working on my book, Eastern Shore Road Trips #1: 27 One-Day Adventures on Delmarva. It's a quiet place nowadays, with one fun restaurant, one tiki bar, and a local history museum being the main attractions for visitors outside of the…
August 2, 2020
The Day an Elephant Marched Through the Marshlands of Saxis Way Back Machine

The Day an Elephant Marched Through the Marshlands of Saxis

Over the centuries, several enterprising characters have tried to turn remote little Saxis on the Eastern Shore of Virginia side of Pocomoke Sound into a tourist destination. One such dreamer was Lloyd Drewer. Back in the early years of the 20th century, he built bathing houses, organized fishing trips, and sponsored various fairs and festivals. His most memorable exploit dates to the late 1930s, when he…
September 12, 2015