https://chestertownspy.org Nonpartisan and Education-based News for Chestertown Fri, 02 May 2025 15:52:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://chestertownspy.org/2025/05/02/talbot-historical-society-project-rewind-who-just-pulled-up-in-a-bugatti/ https://chestertownspy.org/2025/05/02/talbot-historical-society-project-rewind-who-just-pulled-up-in-a-bugatti/#respond Fri, 02 May 2025 15:37:06 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/2025/05/02/e-talbot-historical-society-project-rewind-who-just-pulled-up-in-a-bugatti/ The Academy Art Museum in Easton, Maryland, recently had an amazing Bugatti: Reaching for Perfection Exhibition that ran from December 6, 2024, to April 13, 2025. This undated Bugatti Convertible photo was recently discovered in the Talbot Historical Society’s H. Robins Hollyday Collection. Can you help us identify these two men who were enjoying a […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2025/05/02/talbot-historical-society-project-rewind-who-just-pulled-up-in-a-bugatti/feed/ 0 https://chestertownspy.org/2024/07/04/history-shared-through-music/ https://chestertownspy.org/2024/07/04/history-shared-through-music/#respond Thu, 04 Jul 2024 10:00:43 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/2024/07/04/history-shared-through-music/ The Talbot Historical Society, in partnership with the Talbot County Free Library, is pleased to present Easton-based music group Ampersand for its July 17, 2024 “Date with History” lecture series. Ampersand delights in sharing early American traditional music with a modern audience, drawing connections between colonial sensibilities and current-day topics and interests. Called the “Swiss army knife of folk […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2024/07/04/history-shared-through-music/feed/ 0 https://chestertownspy.org/2024/06/21/talbot-historical-society-project-rewind-filling-up-the-tank-in-trappe/ https://chestertownspy.org/2024/06/21/talbot-historical-society-project-rewind-filling-up-the-tank-in-trappe/#respond Fri, 21 Jun 2024 12:57:03 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/2024/06/21/talbot-historical-society-project-rewind-filling-up-the-tank-in-trappe/ This Talbot Historical Society Laird Wise Collection photo was taken off the corner of Main Street and Maple Street in Trappe, Maryland, decades ago! The gas station and Corkran’s General Store are no longer visible today. The signage reads, “ Atlantic Gasoline” and “ C. Hughlett Pocket Billiards.” Mamma Maria’s is currently in the building […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2024/06/21/talbot-historical-society-project-rewind-filling-up-the-tank-in-trappe/feed/ 0 https://chestertownspy.org/2023/06/23/a-date-with-history-lecture-series-on-july-12/ Fri, 23 Jun 2023 10:00:05 +0000 https://cs.spycommunitymedia.org/?p=169421 A Date with History Lecture Series “Letters of Matthew Tilghman Goldsborough Earle” July 12th , 2023 at 1pm. Join Annabel Earle Lesher and her husband, Ronald Lesher, as they read excerpts from three letters of Matthew Tilghman Goldsborough Earle. The letters, written from Urbanna, Virginia in 1931 to his son, John Goldsborough Earle, describe various […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2023/05/19/talbot-historical-society-project-rewind-shedding-a-tear-in-wye-mills/ Fri, 19 May 2023 13:53:53 +0000 https://cs.spycommunitymedia.org/2023/05/19/talbot-historical-society-project-rewind-shedding-a-tear-in-wye-mills/ The Wye Oak at Wye Mills, Maryland was believed to have germinated in the 1500’s! The Wye Oak held the title of the largest white oak in the United States since the American Forestry Association began it’s contest in 1940! On June 6, 2002 the Wye Oak’s massive trunk collapsed during a severe thunderstorm! Facts: […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2023/01/21/date-with-history-lecture-series-with-photographer-and-author-jeff-mcguiness/ Sat, 21 Jan 2023 11:00:13 +0000 https://cs.spycommunitymedia.org/?p=164419 Frederick Douglass was born in Talbot County on Maryland’s Eastern Shore and lived there for eleven years enslaved during the first twenty years of his life. His Talbot experience, eloquently documented in his three best-selling autobiographies, became the most powerful slave narrative in American literature. One of the most popular speakers of his time, he […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2023/01/20/a-date-with-history-lecture-series-presents-catching-shadow/ Fri, 20 Jan 2023 11:00:05 +0000 https://cs.spycommunitymedia.org/?p=164416 Award-winning photographer Anne Nielsen will share her journey and process for creating her stunning black and white photographs of 21st century Native Americans living on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. The photographs are now on display at the Talbot Historical Society in an exhibit entitled “Catching Shadows.”Joining Anne will be members from Native American tribes from the […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2022/12/16/talbot-historical-society-project-rewind-giving-the-boy-scouts-merit/ Fri, 16 Dec 2022 16:08:40 +0000 https://cs.spycommunitymedia.org/2022/12/16/talbot-historical-society-project-rewind-giving-the-boy-scouts-merit/ These nine scouts appear to be loading canned goods and presents into a wooden crate at Christmas time! Do you recognize any of these boys? Maybe they were Cub Scouts who wore beanies like that and were in grades K through 5? The Talbot Historical Society H. Robins Hollyday undated picture was our Mystery photo […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2022/11/18/talbot-historical-society-project-rewind-its-all-happening-at-the-ymca/ Fri, 18 Nov 2022 15:11:08 +0000 https://cs.spycommunitymedia.org/2022/11/18/talbot-historical-society-project-rewind-its-all-happening-at-the-ymca/ Project Rewind-Talbot County: Can you help identify any of these c 1958-1967 young Easton, Maryland YMCA members? At that time the YMCA was at the Calvary Methodist Church on Washington Street where the old Safeway building is now. The YMCA moved to the new PeachBlossom Road location in 1967. Thanks to the YMCA for sharing […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2022/09/10/a-date-with-history-lecture-series-presents-the-bay-from-above-75-years-of-change/ Sat, 10 Sep 2022 10:00:43 +0000 https://cs.spycommunitymedia.org/?p=160707 Aerial Photographer Hunter H. Harris, using a dual projection system, will present a series of dramatic oblique aerial photographs showing changes in the local landscape over the past 75 years. These oblique aerial photographs chronicle, in a very unique way, the history of the area including the towns, the rivers and their watersheds. “Many of […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2022/03/05/talbot-historical-society-lecture-series/ Sat, 05 Mar 2022 11:00:51 +0000 https://cs.spycommunitymedia.org/?p=154787 The Talbot Historical Society will have “A Date with History” lecture series featuring Kate Livie at 1 pm on March 16th at the Talbot Historical Society Hill Research Center located at 25 S. Washington Street. Join Chesapeake author and historian Kate Livie for a presentation about the “Chesapeake’s Showboat,” The James Adams Floating Theater. From […]]]>