https://chestertownspy.org Nonpartisan and Education-based News for Chestertown Fri, 02 May 2025 12:06:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://chestertownspy.org/2025/05/02/chestertown-flashback-janes-united-methodist-church/ https://chestertownspy.org/2025/05/02/chestertown-flashback-janes-united-methodist-church/#comments Fri, 02 May 2025 12:06:01 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/?p=183990 As May is National Historic Preservation Month, we thought we would share a Flashback Photo of a Kent County site that is both historic and has undergone a number of preservation efforts over the year. The current Janes United Methodist Church building on the corner of Cross and Cannon Streets, and pictured here in an […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2025/05/02/chestertown-flashback-janes-united-methodist-church/feed/ 2 https://chestertownspy.org/2025/04/25/chestertown-flashback-boy-and-dog/ https://chestertownspy.org/2025/04/25/chestertown-flashback-boy-and-dog/#respond Fri, 25 Apr 2025 11:00:26 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/?p=183855 The onset of beautiful spring weather this week has many dogs blissfully hanging their heads out of car and truck windows on Kent County roads. With that inspiration, we share an undated Flashback Photo depicting an unidentified boy and his dog. Both appear a bit glum in this image, but here’s hoping they’re impatiently awaiting […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2025/04/25/chestertown-flashback-boy-and-dog/feed/ 0 https://chestertownspy.org/2025/04/18/chestertown-flashback-easter-on-prospect-street/ https://chestertownspy.org/2025/04/18/chestertown-flashback-easter-on-prospect-street/#comments Fri, 18 Apr 2025 12:00:38 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/?p=183712 For this Easter weekend, we share a Flashback Photo from the Chesapeake Heartland Digital Archive. The image, taken on Prospect Street in Chestertown, shows nine children decked out in their holiday outfits on Easter in 1967. From left to right, the children are Kim Briscoe Moody, Lisa Lomax, Yancie Brooks, Karen Graves, Charles Freeman, Donita […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2025/04/18/chestertown-flashback-easter-on-prospect-street/feed/ 1 https://chestertownspy.org/2025/04/11/chesapeake-flashback-the-chestertown-chautauqua/ https://chestertownspy.org/2025/04/11/chesapeake-flashback-the-chestertown-chautauqua/#respond Fri, 11 Apr 2025 12:00:15 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/?p=183553   Before the Tea Party Festival, Chestertown had the Chautauqua. In this undated photograph, a parade of children dressed in matching white follows a group of young men in military fatigues carrying a large American flag. The children carry a banner reading Chestertown MD. Chautauqua. While we don’t know what year this photo was taken, we […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2025/04/11/chesapeake-flashback-the-chestertown-chautauqua/feed/ 0 https://chestertownspy.org/2025/04/04/chestertown-flashback-safety-first/ https://chestertownspy.org/2025/04/04/chestertown-flashback-safety-first/#respond Fri, 04 Apr 2025 12:00:08 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/?p=183394 We’re putting safety first in this week’s Friday Flashback photo, with an undated photograph showing the Betterton School fire escape. In the event of a fire, students could swish swiftly from the second floor to solid ground. One can only imagine that fire drills were a lot of fun, except perhaps on sunny late spring […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2025/04/04/chestertown-flashback-safety-first/feed/ 0 https://chestertownspy.org/2025/03/28/chestertown-flashback-delia-ringgold-caulk/ https://chestertownspy.org/2025/03/28/chestertown-flashback-delia-ringgold-caulk/#comments Fri, 28 Mar 2025 11:00:41 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/?p=183263 On this last Friday of Women’s History Month we share a 1988 portrait by Tyler Campbell of Delia Ringgold Caulk, who was born in Big Woods in 1910 and called Kent County home all her life. According to a passage about Mrs. Caulk from Here on the Chester, Washington College Remembers Old Chestertown by John Lang (© […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2025/03/28/chestertown-flashback-delia-ringgold-caulk/feed/ 2 https://chestertownspy.org/2025/03/14/chestertown-flashback-where-is-golts/ https://chestertownspy.org/2025/03/14/chestertown-flashback-where-is-golts/#comments Fri, 14 Mar 2025 12:00:13 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/?p=182997 Do you know where Golts, Maryland is? Today’s undated Flashback Photo of the Golts post office shines a light on this unincorporated community right here in Kent County, almost in Delaware. If you have any stories, photos, or information to share about life in Golts, please email director@kentcountyhistory.org. Image courtesy of the Historical Society of Kent […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2025/03/14/chestertown-flashback-where-is-golts/feed/ 6 https://chestertownspy.org/2025/03/07/chestertown-flashback-celebrates-womens-history-month-with-eleanor-rochelle-ringgold/ https://chestertownspy.org/2025/03/07/chestertown-flashback-celebrates-womens-history-month-with-eleanor-rochelle-ringgold/#comments Fri, 07 Mar 2025 13:00:15 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/?p=182863 March is Women’s History month, so for our first flashback photo of the month we have a c. 1970 photograph of a Kent County woman in military service, Eleanor Rochelle Ringgold. She stands on the footstep of a large military vehicle, in uniform, wearing glasses, and smiling at the camera. Image courtesy of Chesapeake Heartland.  As […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2025/03/07/chestertown-flashback-celebrates-womens-history-month-with-eleanor-rochelle-ringgold/feed/ 1 https://chestertownspy.org/2025/01/03/chestertown-flashback-all-aboard/ https://chestertownspy.org/2025/01/03/chestertown-flashback-all-aboard/#comments Fri, 03 Jan 2025 13:04:53 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/?p=181675   The first Flashback Photo of 2025 is an undated image of Still Pond Train Station. Part of the Philadelphia-Wilmington Baltimore line, in the Delaware Division of Pennsylvania Railroad, Still Pond was on the Chestertown branch line, which also included Lambson, Black, Kennedyville, Lynch and Chestertown. Despite ambitious plans, no train line ever made it […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2025/01/03/chestertown-flashback-all-aboard/feed/ 5 https://chestertownspy.org/2024/12/21/chestertown-flashback-happy-holidays-to-all/ https://chestertownspy.org/2024/12/21/chestertown-flashback-happy-holidays-to-all/#respond Sat, 21 Dec 2024 13:00:15 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/?p=181545 The eight day festival of Chanukah begins on December 25th this year, coinciding with Christmas, and overlapping with Kwanzaa from the 26th to January 1. These holidays all share traditions including candles and light at the darkest time of the year, food and feasting, gift-giving, and of course music and singing. With all these holidays […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2024/12/21/chestertown-flashback-happy-holidays-to-all/feed/ 0 https://chestertownspy.org/2024/12/13/chestertown-flashback-a-request-for-family-information/ https://chestertownspy.org/2024/12/13/chestertown-flashback-a-request-for-family-information/#respond Fri, 13 Dec 2024 13:00:27 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/?p=181385 Today’s Flashback photo comes with a request from Galena, where our friend Amber Englebach, the town’s Zoning & Historic Resource Coordinator is working on a project cleaning up Olivet Hill and Davis Cemeteries, and looking for information about these locations and the people who are buried there. The  headstone pictured here is in Olivet Hill Cemetery […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2024/12/13/chestertown-flashback-a-request-for-family-information/feed/ 0 https://chestertownspy.org/2024/12/06/chestertown-flashback-a-tip-of-the-top-hat-to-a-dickens-of-a-christmas-weekend/ https://chestertownspy.org/2024/12/06/chestertown-flashback-a-tip-of-the-top-hat-to-a-dickens-of-a-christmas-weekend/#comments Fri, 06 Dec 2024 13:00:13 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/?p=181241   A hearty good day to all on this festive Dickens weekend! Fittingly for this time of year, we present an image hailing from the Victorian era for this day’s recollection. Entitled “1895 Radcliffe Cross,” the photograph bestows a window into an age of horse-drawn carriages, extravagantly puffed and festooned raiment, the genteel pastime of […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2024/12/06/chestertown-flashback-a-tip-of-the-top-hat-to-a-dickens-of-a-christmas-weekend/feed/ 1 https://chestertownspy.org/2024/11/29/chestertown-flashback-high-street-a-few-years-ago/ https://chestertownspy.org/2024/11/29/chestertown-flashback-high-street-a-few-years-ago/#respond Fri, 29 Nov 2024 12:00:15 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/?p=181097 If you watched Chestertown’s annual Hometown Holiday parade this morning, you may recognize the view in today’s Flashback Photo–if you concentrate! This undated image shows High Street in Chestertown, from a vantage point about halfway up the 200 block. Take a look and see how much has changed, but also how much is still familiar! Image […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2024/11/29/chestertown-flashback-high-street-a-few-years-ago/feed/ 0 https://chestertownspy.org/2024/11/22/chestertown-flashback-turn-of-the-century-college-students/ https://chestertownspy.org/2024/11/22/chestertown-flashback-turn-of-the-century-college-students/#comments Fri, 22 Nov 2024 12:00:19 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/?p=181028 What a formal and formidable group of college students this is! The only available information about this undated photo is a notation on the back reading “Washington College – 1900 – 1920 Era.” One or two of these fellows looks awfully young to be in college, but “college age” was still interpreted a little more […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2024/11/22/chestertown-flashback-turn-of-the-century-college-students/feed/ 1 https://chestertownspy.org/2024/11/15/chestertown-flashback-virginia-anthonys-beauty-parlor/ https://chestertownspy.org/2024/11/15/chestertown-flashback-virginia-anthonys-beauty-parlor/#respond Fri, 15 Nov 2024 13:09:12 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/?p=180881       We all like to look and feel our best, and to have a place to go and let our hair down, literally or metaphorically. These undated images labeled “Virginia Anthony Beauty Parlor” provide a glimpse into the self-care of an earlier era in Kent County. Do you recognize anyone in these photos? […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2024/11/15/chestertown-flashback-virginia-anthonys-beauty-parlor/feed/ 0 https://chestertownspy.org/2024/11/08/chestertown-flashback-gill-brothers-dairy/ https://chestertownspy.org/2024/11/08/chestertown-flashback-gill-brothers-dairy/#respond Fri, 08 Nov 2024 12:01:55 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/?p=180733 Today’s photo dates from 1936 and depicts a Kent County institution of yore: Gill Brothers Dairy. Gill Brothers was part of the Kent County economy and social scene, with the Parlor in Chestertown offering everything from milk to ice cream to… oysters? Yes, per an early 20th century advertisement in the Kent News, you could […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2024/11/08/chestertown-flashback-gill-brothers-dairy/feed/ 0 https://chestertownspy.org/2024/11/01/chestertown-flashback-3/ https://chestertownspy.org/2024/11/01/chestertown-flashback-3/#comments Fri, 01 Nov 2024 12:00:28 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/?p=180588 https://chestertownspy.org/2024/11/01/chestertown-flashback-3/feed/ 1 https://chestertownspy.org/2024/10/25/chestertown-flashback-careful-with-that-turtle-son/ https://chestertownspy.org/2024/10/25/chestertown-flashback-careful-with-that-turtle-son/#comments Fri, 25 Oct 2024 11:05:44 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/?p=180233 In this undated photograph, a warmly dressed man and boy stand near the water, each holding a common snapping turtle by the tail. The boy’s expression seems somewhat dubious, or perhaps just shows his concentration in holding a reasonably heavy, alarmed reptile with famously powerful jaws. If you recognize the people or location in this […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2024/10/25/chestertown-flashback-careful-with-that-turtle-son/feed/ 1 https://chestertownspy.org/2024/10/18/chestertown-flashback-an-apple-a-day/ https://chestertownspy.org/2024/10/18/chestertown-flashback-an-apple-a-day/#respond Fri, 18 Oct 2024 11:00:25 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/?p=180071   It’s peak apple season! Whether you prefer donuts, crumbles, brown betty, cider, or plain old slices, crisp fall air and fallen leaves and apples are a match made in heaven. We’re commemorating the work that goes into apple growing with today’s Flashback Photo. Dated 1912, this image shows farm workers and a cart-mounted apple […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2024/10/18/chestertown-flashback-an-apple-a-day/feed/ 0 https://chestertownspy.org/2024/10/11/chestertown-flashback-rock-hall-batters/ https://chestertownspy.org/2024/10/11/chestertown-flashback-rock-hall-batters/#respond Fri, 11 Oct 2024 12:00:16 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/?p=179917 Thank you to Don Sutton, who identified the ump in last week’s baseball photograph as his grandfather Reamy East. Mr. East served as umpire for many Little League games. Sticking with the baseball theme for one more week, today’s Flashback Photo is a handsome lineup of Rock Hall players. If you can identify anyone in […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2024/10/11/chestertown-flashback-rock-hall-batters/feed/ 0