Our Little Corner In Space And Time
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Transmedia, an idea brought to fruition by Choppy Layton and the late Wayne Powell, was a win-win situation for Pocomoke area teens and area bands. Its' dances provided teens a needed entertainment venue for a small community, and it provided bands an outlet to perform for pay.
December, 1969
Democratic Messenger
Those of us who grew up around Pocomoke City "way back when" will likely spot a number of familiar names when skimming through the column below.
Democratic Messenger
December, 1978
December, 1937
Here are two more of Edna Davy Muir's "Life In The Country" December newspaper columns. The year-round columns of the late Somerset County resident brought readers an interesting and entertaining glimpse of earlier days.
2003
1991
The Daily Times (Salisbury)
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I remember well the social columns by Mrs. Gladding and Mrs. Byrd, as well as the ones by Julia Robertson and Isabelle Leach. I considered them, and their readers, to be the height of nosiness and I took great delight is making up outrageous stories and experiences and feeding them to these ladies who published them without question.
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