Mardela Springs Heritage
Christmas Tour
Sunday December 6, 2009
4 pm to 7 pm
Free--Donations Accepted
Start at the Mardela Springs Vol Fire Co.
to pick up your program,
Tour the town by Trams or Foot
Bring a Flashlight
*Christmas Coloring Contest
*Entertainment at the Emmanuel U. M. Church,
*First Baptist Church of Mardela,
*Mardela Wesleyan Church and *Fire [...]
That's Not Chicken Feed!
The information here is from 1925 to 2006. It's no secret that the poultry industry is a major industry and employer on Delmarva.
It's interesting to see how technology has lowered the market age by more than half, while more than doubling the market weight, and doing [...]
The C&D Canal - Chesapeake City
Old photo of the C&D Canal from Chesapeake City. The canal is generally accepted as the northern boundry of the Delmarva Peninsula. It is also a manmade waterway that technically makes Delmarva an island.
Since Chesapeake City is located on both [...]
Happy Thanksgiving to One and All!We wish you a great day of Thanksgiving with family, good friends and good food!
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This was Franklin City, Virginia
A very old picture of Franklin City during its "bustling" days. It was a thriving town with a railroad, hotels and most of the businesses that other successful towns had. The picture is undated, but note there were no cars around and no visible [...]
Nanticoke Indian Museum
The Nanticoke Indian Museum opened in 1984 and has given the tribe a means of providing a record and excellent display of their long heritage. It contains countless arrowheads, axes and other primite tools, as well as clothing, fishing items and many other artifacts from the past. [...]
Indian Mission United Methodist Church
The church is located along Delaware Rt. 5 between Millsboro and Harbeson. First constructed in 1881 by the Nanticoke Indian people, and rebuilt in 1921 it still houses regular services. The oldest grave in the cemetery records the death as 1885, with no birth date. [...]
The western end of Delmarva's Transpeninsular Line
The transpeninsular line was surveyed in 1750-1751 This survey established the boundries between Pennsylvania's three lower counties (now Delaware) and the Maryland colony. This 70 mile long line runs from Fenwick Island in Delaware to Taylor's Island in Dorchester County, Maryland. It was ratifed in 1769 [...]
BRRRR!
This was Niagra Falls in the winter of 1911. It was froze over! Can you imagine! The little black dots are, or course, people walking on the falls.
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More Local Scenes from the Storm
Sometimes the road is the path of least resistance.
This "pond" is normally a fenced in pasture with lush grass.
This was not a waterfront home last week.
This large red oak fell [...]
It isn't over yet!
The northeaster is weakening, but it is persistent! We visited Trap Pond State Park, north of Whitesville, Delaware, today to see what was happening there.
Little whirlpools popped up in the fast running water.
The drainage ditches overflowed their banks' [...]
Cucumbers - More than just Food
(We haven't tried all of these, but can vouch that some of them do work)
1. Cucumbers contain most of the vitamins you need every day, just one cucumber contains Vitamin B1, Vitamin B2, Vitamin B3,' [...]
We are all together in life
A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife open a package. "What food might this contain?", the mouse wondered. He was devastated to discover it was a mousetrap.
Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse [...]
A Rugged Northeaster
With five inches of rain in the gauge and still coming down, and winds gusting to 40 or more, it's a tough day to be out.
Took a trip to Ocean City to see what was happening there. The ocean was in turmoil with plenty of pretty big waves, minor [...]
Today is Veterans Day
Veterans Day is an annual American holiday honoring military veterans. Both a federal holiday and a state holiday in all states, it is usually observed on November 11. If it occurs on a Saturday [...]
"Favorite fast food when you were growing up?”
“We didn’t have fast food when I was growing up", I said. "All food
was slow”
“C'mon, seriously”, he said. “Where did you eat?”
'It was a place called 'at home,' I explained.
'Mom cooked every day and when Dad got home from work, we sat'" [...]
A Handy Reference for the DO-IT-YOURSELF Husband
TOOL GUIDE
DRILL PRESS:
A tall upright machine useful for suddenly snatching flat metal bar stock out of your hands so that it smacks you in the chest and flings your soda across the room, denting the freshly-painted project which you had carefully set in the [...]
Can't Believe I Said That....
The roundest knight at King Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi. I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian. She was only a whiskey maker, but he loved' [...]
Bear With Me
The male spectacled bear, or Andean Bear, at the Salisbury Zoo was feeling especially venturesome yesterday, as he climbed the tree in his enclosure and reached for the sky, or maybe a tree limb.
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Silver Beach
Silver Beach is a small community on the eastern shore of the Chesapeake Bay, about 10 miles southwest of Exmore, Virginia. It has been an established community for many years and most of the few dozen, well kept, clustered houses have been there for some time. There are a [...]
The Lindens
Located in Symrna, Delaware, the Lindens was built in 1765. It was saved from demolition by the Duck Creek Historical Society and is being, or has been, authentically restored.
[...]Mating Season! Deer Me!
It's that time of year and the deer will be entering their mating season in a short while. In preparation, the bucks will pick a small sapling tree, or trees, and rub all the bark off it with his antlers and beat it up a bit, presumably' [...]
Trinity Church
The "three-decker" or pulpit pew of Trinity Episcopal Church. The church is located on Route 16, one mile west of Church Creek, Maryland. It was founded around 1675 and is the oldest church in the United States still standing in its original form and still [...]
Geographic Facts
Alaska More than half of the coastline of the entire United States is in Alaska ..
Amazon
The Amazon rainforest produces more than 20% the world's oxygen supply.
The Amazon River pushes so much water into the Atlantic Ocean that, more than one hundred miles at sea off the [...]
Tribute to a man who DID make a difference
May 29, 1903 - July 27, 2003
ON TURNING 70
'You still chase women, but only downhill'.
ON TURNING 80
'That's the time of your life when even your birthday
suit needs [...]
Early Morning Fog?
Sunday morning fog hangs over the field? Looks can be deceiving. Actually was smoke from someone burning trash very early.
[...]Great Balls of Foil
Use aluminum foil to soften fabric and remove static cling.
Create a ball of aluminum foil about the size of a baseball. Place it in your clothes dryer and leave it in there..It works as a fabric softener and removes static. There is no need for [...]
Chincoteague, Virginia
Chincoteague Island. The mainland access is at the lower right which crosses the turnstyle bridge onto the island, to the left. This landscape is being changed with the addition of a new bridge and roadway that comes off the mainland side and turns north (to [...]
Mason's Mill
This was Mason's Mill at Parksley, Virginia in the early 1900's. It was originally erected in 1625.
' [...]Monarch Migration
We made a trek to Chincoteague yesterday to try to catch some of the monarch butterfly migration that happens about this time each year (or a little earlier) when the monarchs head for Mexico. Usually there are large numbers that pause at the marshes and beaches of Chincoteague's' [...]
Cannon's Ferry
This was Cannon's Ferry, quite a while ago. The photo is undated but the car should provide a good date range. Ferry service here began in the 1700's and is still running. It is one of the oldest continuous free ferrys in the nation. It is now known as Woodland [...]
Cape Charles, Virginia
Cape Charles Catholic Church - 1944
Cape Charles Post Office - mid 1950's
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The Way it Was
Springtime in 1963. This was the cultivation of a large flower garden before the flowers appeared. The garden was in the same place each year. The job was too small for even a little tractor, and this was lots more fun, especially for the rider, but maybe not for the [...]
Nassawango Outdoor Quilt Show
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Furnace Town Living Heritage Museum
Snow Hill, Maryland
Part II
The blacksmith shop
The old furnace
Old iron ore carts
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