Archive for: Crisfield MD

What is a Buyboat Anyway?

Chesapeake Bay Buy Boat P.E. Pruitt

  The Chesapeake Bay Buy Boat Reunion was held this year (August 3-4, 2012) at Somers Cove Marina in Crisfield, Maryland. What’s a Buy Boat or Buyboat? It’s a boat whose captain would buy a waterman’s catch directly off that waterman’s boat, and then take the catch to one of...

 
 

Lilyan Stratton Corbin Library .. and Mausoleum .. in Crisfield, MD

Painting believed to be of Lilyan Stratton Corbin

This being National Library Week, I offer a post about our hometown library, here in rural Somerset County, Maryland. When you check out a book at the Lilyan Stratton Corbin Library on Main Street in Crisfield, look up to the right and you’ll see a large urn set in a...

 
 

Samuel Tull House – Ghosts of Somerset

The Samuel Tull House c. 1861

  The Samuel Tull House is a Civil War era house in Somerset County, Maryland – known to be haunted. It was featured on my Ghost Tour of Crisfield back in February of 2010. Located on the east side of East Creek in Marion Station, the house was an anchor...

 
 

Happy Maryland Day – Top 10 Fun Things to Do in the Free State

Dan Burgoyne fly fishing at Swallow Falls State Park - Garrett County, Maryland

I’ve lived in Maryland all my life. She’s just a little over 10,000 square miles, but this state has all a visitor or native could want for recreation and fun. Two major cities – Baltimore and Washington, DC, offer unparalleled venues for culture, entertainment, food and art.  To the west...

 
 

Blue Crabs Race at the National Hard Crab Derby – Crisfield, MD

Blue Crabs Race at the National Hard Crab Derby – Crisfield, MD

Before I lived 6 miles from Crisfield, I knew about the National Hard Crab Derby.  People from all over the Mid Atlantic region flock to the Crab Capital of the World to see some 400 crabs compete in the Governor’s Cup Crab Race every Labor Day weekend. The crab race...

 
 
 
 
 

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