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  • Wednesday, December 02, 2009

    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 [...]

    Posted: December 02, 2009, 8:06am EST
  • Tuesday, December 01, 2009

                        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 [...]

    Posted: December 01, 2009, 5:32am EST
  • Monday, November 30, 2009

    C&D

      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 [...]

    Posted: November 30, 2009, 5:05am EST
  • Wednesday, November 25, 2009

    Thanksgiving   Happy Thanksgiving to One and All!

    We wish you a great day of Thanksgiving with family, good friends and good food!

    [www.jacquielawson.com]

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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 2:40pm EST
  • Wednesday, November 25, 2009

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                     A Foggy Morning

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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 8:38am EST
  • Tuesday, November 24, 2009

    franklin city

      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 [...]

    Posted: November 24, 2009, 9:03am EST
  • Sunday, November 22, 2009

                    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. [...]

    Posted: November 22, 2009, 5:36am EST
  • Friday, November 20, 2009

       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. [...]

    Posted: November 20, 2009, 5:10am EST
  • Thursday, November 19, 2009

    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 [...]

    Posted: November 19, 2009, 5:25am EST
  • Wednesday, November 18, 2009

            What'll They Think of Next!

    A new laptop from Israel.

    [manneli.com]

     

     

    ' [...]
    Posted: November 18, 2009, 5:44am EST
  • Tuesday, November 17, 2009

    Niagra 1911-3

                                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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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 5:45am EST
  • Sunday, November 15, 2009

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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 [...]

    Posted: November 15, 2009, 5:51am EST
  • Saturday, November 14, 2009

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                         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' [...]

    Posted: November 14, 2009, 5:45am EST
  • Saturday, November 14, 2009

    cucumber

                 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,' [...]

    Posted: November 14, 2009, 5:20am EST
  • Friday, November 13, 2009

    mouse

                        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 [...]

    Posted: November 13, 2009, 5:03am EST
  • Thursday, November 12, 2009

                  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 [...]

    Posted: November 12, 2009, 3:10pm EST
  • Thursday, November 12, 2009

    Dover 1910

                Dover, Delaware - 1910

    Private residence on Bradford Street, Dover. 

    [...]
    Posted: November 12, 2009, 5:08am EST
  • Wednesday, November 11, 2009

    VeteransDay

                        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 [...]

    Posted: November 11, 2009, 7:46am EST
  • Wednesday, November 11, 2009

     

    "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'" [...]

    Posted: November 11, 2009, 7:05am EST
  • Monday, November 09, 2009

    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   [...]

    Posted: November 09, 2009, 5:47am EST
  • Thursday, November 05, 2009

    camping

                   On the Road Again

                  

    No posting for a few days. Traveling again. Keep the bridge open.

    [...]
    Posted: November 05, 2009, 5:41am EST
  • Monday, November 02, 2009

                 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' [...]
    Posted: November 02, 2009, 5:04am EST
  • Sunday, November 01, 2009

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                         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.

     

     

    [...]
    Posted: November 01, 2009, 10:22am EST
  • Thursday, October 29, 2009

    IMG_0168

                 The Color of Fall

     

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    Posted: October 29, 2009, 5:44am EDT
  • Wednesday, October 28, 2009

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  • Monday, October 26, 2009

                                       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 [...]

    Posted: October 26, 2009, 5:11am EDT
  • Sunday, October 25, 2009

    Lindens house

                              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.

    [...]
    Posted: October 25, 2009, 6:00pm EDT
  • Thursday, October 22, 2009

                   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' [...]

    Posted: October 22, 2009, 5:08am EDT
  • Wednesday, October 21, 2009

    Trinity Church

                     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 [...]

    Posted: October 21, 2009, 5:21am EDT
  • Tuesday, October 20, 2009

                       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 [...]

    Posted: October 20, 2009, 5:32am EDT
  • Sunday, October 18, 2009

    BH

    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 [...]

    Posted: October 18, 2009, 5:22am EDT
  • Friday, October 16, 2009

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       The Land That Made Me, Me....

     
    Long ago and far away, in a land that time forgot,
    Before the days of Dylan, or the dawn of Camelot.  
    There lived a race of innocents, and they were you and me,

    [...]

    Posted: October 16, 2009, 5:10am EDT
  • Thursday, October 15, 2009

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    Tomorrow's Posting is lengthy, but if you consider yourself a "Senior" it will ring a bell.

      

    ' [...]
    Posted: October 15, 2009, 1:59pm EDT
  • Thursday, October 15, 2009

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                   Early Spring

    Feeding the chickens on the farm in the early spring of 1963. 

    [...]
    Posted: October 15, 2009, 5:38am EDT
  • Thursday, October 15, 2009

    E.6th St., Laurel-Early 1900

                   Laurel, Delaware

    East 6th Street in Laurel in early 1900's. 

    ' [...]
    Posted: October 15, 2009, 5:28am EDT
  • Tuesday, October 13, 2009

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      Car, Tractor, Motorcycle Show

    The Pittsville Lions Club held their annual Car Show at the Pittsville VFD on Sunday afternoon. If you went you know those who didn't missed some sharp vehicles, good food, and great camaraderie. 

    [...]

    Posted: October 13, 2009, 5:27am EDT
  • Sunday, October 11, 2009

    Fog2

                Early Morning Fog?

    Sunday morning fog hangs over the field? Looks can be deceiving. Actually was smoke from someone burning trash very early.   

    [...]
    Posted: October 11, 2009, 6:52am EDT
  • Saturday, October 10, 2009

                            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 [...]

    Posted: October 10, 2009, 5:03am EDT
  • Saturday, October 10, 2009

    PR. Anne. Wash. High School -1914

              Washington High School

    Washington High School, Princess Anne, MD - 1914

     

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    Posted: October 10, 2009, 5:01am EDT
  • Thursday, October 08, 2009

    Chincoteague

              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 [...]

    Posted: October 08, 2009, 5:03am EDT
  • Tuesday, October 06, 2009

    Sunset Wicomico River

            Sunset on the Wicomico

    End of the day on the Wicomico River. Photo by George Miller. 

    [...]
    Posted: October 05, 2009, 9:58pm EDT
  • Monday, October 05, 2009

    mom12-2

                     Mason's Mill

    This was Mason's Mill at Parksley, Virginia in the early 1900's. It was originally erected in 1625. 

    ' [...]
    Posted: October 05, 2009, 5:08am EDT
  • Friday, October 02, 2009

    sussex B 30's

    Sussex County, Delaware-1930's

    Where in Sussex County is unknown to us.

     

    [...]
    Posted: October 02, 2009, 5:14am EDT
  • Thursday, October 01, 2009

                       Thought for Today

    When the Power of Love defeats the Love of Power, there will be World Peace.

    [...]
    Posted: October 01, 2009, 5:10am EDT
  • Thursday, October 01, 2009

                     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' [...]

    Posted: October 01, 2009, 5:06am EDT
  • Tuesday, September 29, 2009

    Cannon's Ferry

                    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 [...]

    Posted: September 29, 2009, 5:01am EDT
  • Sunday, September 27, 2009

    1944

            Cape Charles, Virginia

    Cape Charles Catholic Church - 1944

     

    Cape Charles Post Office - mid 1950's

    ' [...]
    Posted: September 27, 2009, 5:02am EDT
  • Friday, September 25, 2009

    AA

                    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 [...]

    Posted: September 25, 2009, 5:10am EDT
  • Wednesday, September 23, 2009

    Mandarin Duck

     Exceptional Photos of our World

    Exquisite Beauty

    Sharing

    Beauty not of man 

    Beautiful Innocence

    [...]
    Posted: September 23, 2009, 5:25am EDT
  • Sunday, September 20, 2009

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       Nassawango Outdoor Quilt Show

                         @

            Furnace Town Living Heritage Museum

                       Snow Hill, Maryland

                              Part II

     

     

    The blacksmith shop

     

     

     

    The old furnace

     

    Old iron ore carts

     

    [...]

    Posted: September 20, 2009, 5:51am EDT

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