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The Holly-Wreath Traditon: Memories from Atlantic, Va. CharactersWay Back Machine

The Holly-Wreath Traditon: Memories from Atlantic, Va.

Back in 2004 the writer Brice Stump made the most of a priceless opportunity. While working for the Salisbury Daily Times, he got to join a pair of elderly siblings from Atlantic, Va. as they relived old family memories by sitting around the kitchen table and making a holly wreath in the old-school way. Norman Davis, then 85, and Leuvenia Watson, then 84, had spent…
November 25, 2020
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