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June 24, 2026

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Hog Killings Were Bone-Weary Days with Tasty Payoffs

Hog Killings Were Bone-Weary Days with Tasty Payoffs

By Arthur King Fisher Special to the Eastern Shore Post In 1991 this writer interviewed his two elderly cousins, Virginia Carmine and Josephine Metcalf, both of Onancock, concerning their recollection of hog killings on the Eastern Shore during their youth, which were...