Featured Articles

  Bradford Ross: Seeing the Moment in Time  by Helen Chappell 
On one of the most charming streets in Easton, tucked away behind a tidy red brick house, there’s a hidden world of wonders.  Behind his home, in a converted garage, Bradford Ross has set up his studio, which he remodeled himself. Although small, the space is full of light and air. A modeling platform occupies one corner, while charcoal portraits and plein air paintings fill the walls. Model heads of the kind once used by 19th century art students line one wall, including one that looks Cubist.  Read More …

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  Traveling the Blue Ridge Mountains  by Bonna L. Nelson

After exploring a good bit of the world over the past few years, we set our sights on exploring more of America. The Blue Ridge Mountains are a popular destination for many Americans seeking the solace and beauty of nature. We decided to journey through the Blue Ridge Mountains via Skyline Drive and the Blue Ridge Parkway along the western portions of Virginia and North Carolina, and we were happy with our decision. The Mimslyn Inn in Luray, Virginia, was our destination on the first day of our journey.   Read More...

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  On Letter Writing: From Presidents to Poets  by Mike Valliant

Best-selling novelist Tom Robbins likes Chesapeake Bay crab cakes. He told me in a letter he wrote in response to a fan letter I wrote to him, wherein I invited him out for crab cakes and a beer if he found himself in Maryland. He talked about his love of crab cakes in a way only a letter would afford ~ not a text or a tweet concerned for brevity. Letter writing is a lost art. I still have the letter. I was moved to fan-boy awe when I got it out of the post office box. There is something to that act of correspondence, in writing back and forth to another person.  Read More…

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  One Road to Take by Peter Elliott
A new book, Constance: One Road to Take, provides Eastern Shore readers with a timely opportunity to contemplate the stunning images of one of its greatest photographic artists, Constance Stuart Larrabee. Constance made the Chesapeake Bay area her home and photographic location for 50 years, from 1950 on. She said she had always wanted to be a photographer: “I had one road to take: there were no others.” Constance was fêted in both South Africa and the United States of America yet little known outside of these countries.  Read More…

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  Clippings  by Gary Crawford
I know, I know. Who wants to read about fingernail clippings? I mean, after all, what’s there to say about those darned things? They are annoying little beasties, all too often slipping onto the floor where they cannot be located except by the bare foot. At best, they are merely trimmed off, gathered up and tossed into the wastebasket. And that’s that, right? Well, actually, as it turns out, that is not the case everywhere. A long while back, I lived in the islands of Micronesia for five years or so.  Read More…

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  Fishing – The Ice Cave (Part 3 of 3)  by Roger Vaughan

Sal left Richie and Tony to continue cutting while he went below to ice the fish. It was a tricky job. Before it left the dock, the Angelica Blackburn’s fish hold had been filled with 20,000 pounds of shaved ice. As the fish came aboard, the ice had to be moved and then shoveled back in between layers of fish. And the fish had to be stowed by type and size. It was also Sal’s job to keep track of the take and be able to tell the skipper at any time how many pounds were on board. How close he came to the real figure after the fish were weighed out in Boston was a matter of pride.  Read More…

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