1973 |
Talbot's Black Cat Fur Farm |
June |
Glory, Tragedy on Old Wye Island |
July |
Bear Hunts and Rattlesnake Suppers |
August |
History of Miles River Bridge Holds Irony |
September |
Bias in the News, 1862 Style |
October |
Sex and the Single Girl |
November |
Is it Just and Ring? No a Lovely Myth. |
December |
1974 |
As Frederick Douglass Saw Us I |
January |
As Frederick Douglass Saw Us II |
February |
Killer Blizzard of 88 |
March |
New Data Adds Age, Significance to Oxford Ferry |
April |
There Were Five Out and the Bases Loaded |
May |
Change of Skippers for Oxford Ferry |
June |
Even Talbot was Shook by Change of King |
July |
Savage Story Rrips Talbot County |
August |
A Hoax |
September |
Easton's Great Post Office Robbery |
October |
Country Christmas 61 Years Ago |
December |
1975 |
Highest Degree of Mirth and Entertainment in Shore's "Little Capitol" |
January |
350 Years Old Oak is National Champion |
February |
Buchanan was First to Land in Japan |
February |
Matthew Tilghman Forgotten Patriot |
March |
Easton Revolutionary Landmark Remains Unsung |
March |
Railroad, Lemons, and Slavery were Big News |
April |
Romance and a Rebuff for Charles Wilson Peale |
May |
You Can't Beat Old Fashion Sugar Cream Pie Enough |
May |
Ghosts |
June |
A Feast to the Glorious Fourth |
July |
Lafayette had to Pass Up Eastern Shore |
August |
Dreadful Hurrycane |
September |
Bob Smith Retiring |
October |
Small Pox hits Talbot 1777 |
October |
Perry Benson: Hero in Life, Neglected in Death |
November |
Draft Dodging is Old as America |
December |
Love is his Trademark |
December |
1976 |
Rhubarb, Opium and Alchol were Standard CureAlls |
January |
Newspaper History is strewn with Corpses |
February |
A Lesson in Patriotism for Matthew Tilghman |
March |
Trappe History will contain some Surprises |
April |
When Easton Almost had a Lynching |
May |
Matthew Tilghman to be Honored June 25 |
June |
Easton, a Handsome Town.......A Fresh View |
July |
Tribute to an Old Sea Dog |
August |
One of the Greatest Untold Storys of Eastern Shore History |
September |
T'was a Great Day when FDR dedicated the Choptank Bridge |
October |
Nace's Day |
November |
How a Talbot's Manship sassed the British |
November |
Rich Neck "Chapel" dates from 1830's says Michael Bourne |
December |
1977 |
Recollections of St. Michaels Train Wreck, Steamer Grounding |
February |
Winter of "77" a Record Breaker |
March |
Slave Trade was Big Business here |
April |
Who Planted the Fire and Stink Bombs? |
May |
The Mad Stewarts and their Fortress on the Miles |
June |
Colonial Travel: A Series of Upleasant Encounters |
July |
Life in a Northern Civil War Prison Camp |
August |
Who Really wrote Tilghman's History of Talbot County |
September |
First Amendment Openly Flouted |
October |
Talbot Yesterday |
November |
Does Will Leeds Ancient Chest date from 1650? |
December |
1978 |
Odd and Delightful Names |
January |
Forgive me Henry Dobson |
February |
Mills |
March |
Local Molinographers get to Work |
April |
Bruff Spoon |
June |
Did Frederick Douglass try to buy the Villa? |
July |
If it wasn't Boss Tweed at the Villa, Who was it? |
August |
The Brick Hotel |
September |
Absolom Christopher Columbus Americus Vespucious Thompson |
October |
1870 Election |
November |
What was it like, a Century Ago? |
December |
Where are they now? |
December |
1979 |
The Civil War |
January |
Place Names: They tell a Story |
February |
Almost 300 Years Old (Oxford) |
March |
"Commode" Inspires Memories of Easton Manufacturinig Firm |
April |
Railroad |
May |
Eastern Shore Life before the Bay Bridge |
June |
The First Talbot County Courts |
July |
Josiah Bailey |
August |
Tench Tilghman's Famous Ride |
September |
Hurricanes |
October |
Mr. Bampfylde Moore Carew Part I |
November |
The Further Adventures of Mr. Bampfylde Moore Carew Part II |
December |
1980 |
Misleading Sign |
January |
State Politicians Wanted Oxford to be County Seat |
February |
Acadians Part I |
March |
Acadians Part II |
April |
The Horseless Carriage comes of Age |
May |
The Year in which there was no Summer |
July |
Sex and the Single Girl in the 1660's |
August |
A Bigger Oak than the "Wye" |
September |
Baseball on the Brain |
October |
Thomas Carney, a Hero of the American Revolution |
November |
Early Entertainment |
December |
1981 |
Nevius Hardware |
January |
Wye River |
February |
The Steamboat Age Part I |
March |
The Century of the Steamboat Part II |
April |
Researching the Early William Claiborne Colony in Maryland |
May |
Tidewater Times History |
June |
Who is that Mom? |
July |
One of Talbot's Finest Hours |
August |
The Unsung Rachel Green |
September |
1982 |
Noble Ashby! gallant Ashby! |
February |
The Largest Oaks |
March |
Admiral Franklin Buchanan and "the Rest" |
April |
James Dixon, Citizen and Quaker |
May |
The Easton Gazette |
June |
Col. James C. Norris |
August |
John Stevens - The Black Hero of St. Michaels |
September |
Miles River Bridge |
October |
Sharp's Island.....Gone and Forgotten |
November |
Requiem for an Oak Tree |
December |
1983 |
Tercentenaries for Oxford and Third Haven Meeting |
January |
Incredible Tale of the Little Old Lady from Indiana |
February |
How Trappe's Yokels got even with the City Slicker |
March |
What Really Happened to those Guns "Swiped" by the Johnny Rebs? |
April |
Easton Centennial of 1888 - A Grand Bash but the Wrong Year |
May |
This Column's First Ten Years and How they went |
June |
Spy who didn't like Corn on the Cob |
July |
When was Talbot's Soil First Planted by White Settlers |
August |
How Local Places got their Names |
September |
Who Invented the Reaper |
October |
Oxford Celebrates 1871 Style |
December |
1984 |
The Robert Morris Nobody Knows About |
January |
Monument to a Forgotten Saint |
February |
Nicholas Hammond, the "Mr. Easton" of his day |
March |
Was Edward Spencer Maryland's Greatest Writer |
April |
The "Bank Holiday" of 1933 |
May |
The Good Old Days of Beethoven, Bach and Booze |
June |
The Chesapeake Bay Retriever - Our Gift to the Sporting World |
July |
Damaged Wye Oak is still a Magnificient Tree |
August |
We're Right at Home in Jolly Old England |
September |
All About the Great Bear Hunt and the Lame Bob Eastman Murder |
October |
A Hardy Hoax Crops up again. |
December |