Archive for: Somerset County 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...

 
 

Travel Hag Campout at Janes Island – Great Success Despite the Storm

Travel Hags land on the beach at Janes Island

On a hot, sunny weekend in June, travel hags from Maryland and Delaware came together for a weekend of fun camping out in Janes Island State Park in Crisifeld, Maryland. We hitched up the r-pod camper to go the few short miles to Janes Island which is located at the...

 
 

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...

 
 

The Eastern Shore of Maryland – Why I Live Here

The Eastern Shore of Maryland – Why I Live Here

It’s not easy to answer your question as to why I chose to make my home on Maryland’s Eastern Shore when I could have chosen any location in the world. Words fail me … but I’m going to use a whole lot of them in the answer I provide. I...

 
 
 
 
 

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