by Ted Shockley | Jun 13, 2023 | Features
BY RYAN WEBB, Eastern Shore Post If you’re from here or you’ve been here long enough, you know that the Eastern Shore is home to many uniquely named places that can be tricky for outsiders to pronounce. In the April 2023 issue of Shore First, I covered how to say...
by Ted Shockley | Jun 13, 2023 | Features
BY CURTIS BADGER, Shore First columnist In February 1779, during the American Revolution, the British made a raid on Joynes Neck, east of Drummondtown, now named Accomac. It was more of a harassment than a skirmish, but in making the attack the British committed a...
by Ted Shockley | Jun 13, 2023 | Features
BY KIRK MARINER, Shore First columnist Chincoteague’s tourism is not a 20th-century invention. The island’s first hotel arose well over a hundred years ago and did a thriving business long before the word “tourism” entered the vocabulary of the Eastern Shore. Joseph...
by Ted Shockley | Jun 12, 2023 | Features
By Laura Davis, Eastern Shore of Virginia food columnist — In the spring of 2019 I visited an estate sale on Chincoteague Island. Upon entering I could tell this was my kind of people — beautiful kitchen equipment, lovely nautically themed linens, and vintage Shore...
by Ted Shockley | Jun 12, 2023 | Features
BY CLARA VAUGHN, Eastern Shore Post When the Museum of Chincoteague Island announced a fundraiser to purchase and preserve the Beebe Ranch, thousands answered its call. The museum is close to its $625,000 goal to save the ranch, which was Misty of Chincoteague’s...
by Ted Shockley | May 30, 2023 | Features
BY STEFANIE JACKSON, Eastern Shore Post Dr. John Snyder is one of the last of a generation of Eastern Shore physicians who started in the profession making house calls and keeping all-paper records. After decades of serving the community as a general practitioner, the...
