IT'S ON ITS WAY!

The Worcester County Department Of Recreation and parks has a new page to keep you informed of activities for this Spring and Summer and year-round!

Save this address and check back from time to time to see upcoming activities right here in our own backyard. 

http://www.worcesterrecandparks.org/

TIME MACHINE ... Late 1950's, Late 1800's, 1922, 1944, 1963, 1913.

"Friendliest Town On The Eastern Shore."  Our tradition runs deep.  Excerpt from a letter to the editor from a visitor to Newtown, (former name of Pocomoke City) published in the Baltimore Sun, April 28,1847.

This place (Newtown) is a pretty snug little village, containing about 500 clever and hospitable inhabitants; it has good wide streets, quite clear of that "eye sore," known mostly over the Peninsula by the name of "deep sand"; the houses, though built of frame, are generally built substantially and with some discretion and taste; there are two neat, new, and quite handsome frame churches in it; as for the merchants of the place, suffice it to state that they are very clever and hospitable.  F. Mezick, Esq., the landlord with whom I stopped, and his very obliging and jolly assistant, are richly deserving of a passing notice, for the good treatment and the extension of the many civilities to "the stranger."


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2011
(Courtesy UMES 125th Anniversary archive page)

 

When rock-n-roll music was in its infancy, Maryland State College students would tune their radios north to a Salisbury AM station in the late 1950s to hear the Big Nyack spin chart-topping platters à la Wolfman Jack.

The Wolfman became a pop music and cultural icon, and “Nyack,” as it turns out, did A-OK, too.

Lower Delmarva's DJ was Maryland State student Roger Brown, who went on to renown in professional football, where he’s in that sport’s unofficial nickname hall-of-fame as a member of the “Fearsome Foursome.”

Before Brown, a 300-pound defensive lineman with the Detroit Lions and Los Angeles Rams, terrorized legendary quarterbacks Johnny Unitas and Bart Starr on the gridiron, he was something of an airways entrepreneur.

The industrial arts major grew up in the Village of Nyack 20 miles north of New York City, where the new-fangled sound on radio during the “Happy Days” era enthralled him.

Before there was WESM, the National Public Radio affiliate on the University of Maryland Eastern Shore campus, an unauthorized radio broadcast emanated from Princess Anne. And Brown had a hand in it.

Brown and several enterprising classmates built their own transmitter using scavenged parts from a broken-down Rock-Ola juke box and bought new equipment from a fledgling mail-order outfit called RadioShack.

“I like to tell people now I majored in communications because that’s really what I did” as a college student, he said.

Brown estimates the signal could be heard within a mile radius of campus.

It wasn't on the air long. Nervous that the federal government might object to the institution being the host site of an unlicensed broadcast operation, college officials shut it down.

That didn’t discourage Brown, however. He found other outlets for his interest in music.

Using a pseudonym incorporating the name of his hometown, the Big Nyack latched on as a disc jockey at WICO AM, and then moved to a new station, WJDY, that played popular songs of the era.

When Brown arrived at Maryland State as a freshman in 1956, he remembers the school had about 250 students.

A favorite off-campus hangout was a juke joint called the Moon Glow, where he entertained patrons by spinning records. He also said he played clubs just up the road in Salisbury.

“It was a way to make a little spending money back then,” Brown said. “It sure was fun.”

Brown would go on to a stellar career as a professional athlete after graduating in 1960. A six-time Pro Bowl selection, he retired following the 1969 season and became a successful restaurateur.

One of UMES’ most visible and popular alumni, Brown is a member of the College Football Hall of Fame.

-- BILL ROBINSON


Circa 1890's
"The Pocomoke River" by Charles C. Kensey (1967)

(Excerpt)

THE BANKS

During my boyhood (late 1800's) there were three sand banks on the river within three miles of Snow Hill, known as First and Second Sand Banks, the third one down river was known s the Sugar Loaf due to its conical shape.  The Banks were often used by swimming parties as places to have lunches while on trips down the river.  At present (late 1960's) these Banks have almost disappeared beneath the surface of the water.  

(From recollections of Charles C. Kensey who was born in Snow Hill in 1884, grew up along the banks of the Pocomoke River and was associated with the river during his adult life.) 


October, 1922

Chincoteague's first bridge..

                                                         (Excerpt)  (The Washington Times, Washington, D.C.)


June, 1994 (Time Machine archive)

Christine Sigrist of Pocomoke City, a senior at Mt. St. Mary's College, was presented with the Art Club Of Frederick award for her "Best In Show" art presentation at the college's annual Student Art Exhibition. "Still Life With eye," in charcoal, was her winning entry.

January, 1963

The cost was 80-cents for the Wednesday luncheon special at The Coach And Dining Room located in Salisbury's Wicomico Hotel.  The special included fresh vegetable soup, navy bean soup, or chilled juice; golden brown chicken croquettes with supreme sauce, cinnamon apple wedges, hot rolls and butter, coffee or tea.  The all-you-can eat dinner every Saturday night was $2.50, featuring roast leg of beef.


May, 1913..

                                    (Virginia Gazette, Willamsburg, Va.)


Listen to a record recorded in 1913:
(Library Of Congress) http://www.loc.gov/jukebox/recordings/detail/id/3473


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PPE remembers JMMB.

TIME MACHINE ... This Sunday's Preview.

Had enough..

No bad news here.

Late 1950's.. From spinning records on Salisbury radio to a stellar career in pro football; Late 1800's.. Visitors enjoy three popular sand banks on the Pocomoke River; 1922.. Chincoteague gets its first bridge; 1994..  Pocomoke artist wins Best In Show award in college competition; 1963.. 80 cents luncheon special at one of Salisbury's finer restaurants; 1913.. See newspaper ad for a "Talking Machine;" listen to a 1913 record.

It's this Sunday right here at The Pocomoke Public Eye!


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TIME MACHINE ... 1903, 2003, 1892, 1942, 1893, 1955.

"Friendliest Town On The Eastern Shore."  Our tradition runs deep.  Excerpt from a letter to the editor from a visitor to Newtown, (former name of Pocomoke City) published in the Baltimore Sun, April 28,1847.

This place (Newtown) is a pretty snug little village, containing about 500 clever and hospitable inhabitants; it has good wide streets, quite clear of that "eye sore," known mostly over the Peninsula by the name of "deep sand"; the houses, though built of frame, are generally built substantially and with some discretion and taste; there are two neat, new, and quite handsome frame churches in it; as for the merchants of the place, suffice it to state that they are very clever and hospitable.  F. Mezick, Esq., the landlord with whom I stopped, and his very obliging and jolly assistant, are richly deserving of a passing notice, for the good treatment and the extension of the many civilities to "the stranger."


(Reader-friendly viewing of news archives/historical archives material)


Expressed more than a century apart.. two very different points of view regarding "Uncle Tom's Cabin."

July, 1903..

                                  Peninsula Enterprise

                                     

2015..Wikipedia (excerpt):

Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War", according to Will Kaufman.

Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Seminary and an active abolitionist, featured the character of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering black slave around whom the stories of other characters revolve. The sentimental novel depicts the reality of slavery while also asserting that Christian love can overcome something as destructive as enslavement of fellow human beings.

Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best-selling novel of the 19th century and the second best-selling book of that century, following the Bible. 


April, 2003
The Somerset Herald (Princess Anne)

Crisfield real estate market booms
Speculators, retirees buy up properties
By Liz Holland

Not very long ago, Crisfield was a city struggling to survive the decline of the local seafood industry, the closing of two major employers and a double-digit unemployment rate.

While city officials and local business owners have been successful in recent years in developing tourism as a way to draw people back to the bayside town, most of them weren't prepared for the influx of people over the past six months who are buying up properties as fast as they come on the market.

"It's hot as a firecracker," said Rick Evans, co-owner of Chesapeake Realty. "Properties have three or four contracts on them in a day. It's just unheard of in Crisfield."

Evans and others in town believe much of the sudden interest in Crisfield is connected to the recent passage of a bill to allow Somerset County to negotiate for the rights to run a high-speed ferry across the Chesapeake Bay.

"There's been quite a bit of interest," said City Manager Frederick B. Gerald. "Two weeks ago, we started fielding calls about real estate."

Gerald said there were 11 or 12 property transfers in the city just in the first six days of March. Normally, Crisfield has that many or fewer in an entire month, he said.

Supermarket and fast food chains also have recently been looking at Crisfield properties, Gerald said.


April, 1892..   
                                                               

                 Evening Star (Washington, D.C.)

                                                                  

June, 1942 (Time Machine archive) 
(The Salisbury Times)

TEN NEW SIRENS BLOW AT WORCESTER POSTS

Berlin, June 29.-  John I. Timmons, senior air raid warden for Worcester County, yesterday announced that ten new air raid alarm sirens have been purchased by the Worcester County Board Of Commissioners for county towns.

Four of the new sirens have been received and erected in Whaleysville, Newark, Girdletree and Stockton, Timmons said. The other six will be placed in Ocean City, Berlin, Snow Hill and Pocomoke City, with Berlin and Snow Hill receiving two alarms each.


May, 1893
Iowa Postal Card(Newspaper)- Fayette, Iowa

The bog iron industry has lived and languished in the flat, sandy far-southern counties of the eastern shore of Maryland for perhaps a century, though there never was a time when it was especially profitable.  Now and again, however, some native with money to spare is tempted by the tradition of iron in the swampy lowlands, and he undertakes the task of extracting it.


January, 1955 (Time Machine archive)
(Salisbury Times)

Pocomoke Lions To Entertain Farmers

POCOMOKE CITY - Members of the Pocomoke City Lions Club will be host to the Ruritans of the Atlantic District of Virginia and to farmers of this area for a meeting Tuesday night in the firehouse.

Last spring, Pocomoke City Lions visited the Ruritans and Tuesday's meeting will give them the opportunity to play host again in the series of yearly meetings. Approximately 150 are expected to attend.

Lions President Vaughn Wilkerson also announced that the local club will sponsor the sale of tickets for a special basketball game Feb. 19 between the Greenbelt Lions Club and the Pocomoke Chiefs. Proceeds will be contributed to the Pocomoke City Boys Club.


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PPE remembers JMMB.

TIME MACHINE ... This Sunday's Preview

1903.. Newspaper praises Pocomoke City's decision against "Uncle Tom's Cavern" theatrical production; 2003.. Crisfield real estate is "hot as a firecracker;" 1892.. Eastern Shore suffers killing late April frost; 1942.. Ten new air raid sirens for Worcester County; 1893.. Bog iron industry on the Eastern Shore? 1955.. Pocomoke City Lions Club hosts a special gathering.

It's this Sunday right here at The Pocomoke Public Eye!  

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PIE THROWING CONTEST!!!

Pocomoke Elementary School Fundraiser hosted by Simply Sublime Massage and Bodywork
"Cream" your favorite teacher for just $5!

Member Happenings

Wednesday, April 15 - Salem United Methodist Church's Chicken Salad Sale; 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM; call 410 957-2234 for more information.

Friday, Saturday & Sunday, April 17, 18 & 19 - LIVE: The Sound of Music; Friday & Saturday at 7:30 PM; Sunday at 2:00 PM Go to www.marvatheater.com for more information.

Saturday, April 18, 2015 - The Worcester County Historical Society will hold its annual Chicken 'n Dumplings Dinner at the Pocomoke Community Center. Doors open at 5:30 PM. Dinner served at 6:30 PM. The event will commemorate the 150th anniversary of the ending of the Civil War. (see flyer below)

Saturday, May 2 - Samaritan Shelter sponsoring 6th Annual Frank Voss Memorial Spaghetti Dinner & Bake Sale, 4:00 - 7:00 PM. Held at Salem Methodist Church Hall on Second Street. $8.00 (Adults); $3.00 (Children 3-6); Free for children under 3. Tickets available from Enchanted Florist, First Shore Federal Bank and Market Street Deli.

Call 410 957-4310 for more information or email: thesamaritanshelter@gmail.com.

April General Membership Luncheon

April

 General Membership Luncheon

Wednesday, April 15 at 

Lin's Asian Cuisine

(12:00 - 1:00 PM)

Guest Speaker - Heather Davis

Junior Achievement of the 

Eastern Shore

Menu Options:

General Tso's Chicken

Vegetable Lo Mein

Chicken w/ Broccoli

Beef w/ Broccoli

$12.00

Register online at  pocomoke.com or

email 

pocomokechamber@gmail.com

or call

410 957-1919

Cypress Festival Program Ad Orders & Payment Due by April 15, 2015

40th Cypress Festival Program

Ad Orders & Payment 

Due by April 15, 2015

This Year's Festival:

June 17, 18, 19 & 20

  

If you wish to place an ad in this year's Cypress Festival Program or be a sponsor and have not been contacted by a Chamber Board member, please call Deb at 410 957-1919 or email at pocomokechamber@gmail.com.

Credit Card payments can be made by calling the Chamber office.

     

Your support is appreciated!

Pocomoke Police Press Release

Pocomoke Police Department

1500 Market Street

Pocomoke, Maryland 21851

410-957-1600

www.pocomokepd@comcast.net

    March 2015

3-3-2015    Matthew Monroe, age 38 of Crisfield, MD was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department and charged with Theft less than $100.           

3-4-2015    David Gottleib, age 59 of Pocomoke, MD was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department and charged with Theft less than $10,000.

3-4-2015    Rene Robles, age 44 of Virginia Beach, VA was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department and charged with Theft less than $10,000.

3-4-2015    Eddie Munoz, age 44 of Hampton, VA was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department and charged with Theft less than $10,000. Munoz was also arrested on an Outstanding Warrant.

3-4-2015    Dominique Robinson, age 59 of Pocomoke, MD was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department and charged with Malicious Destruction of Property.

3-8-2015    Jeffrey Wright, age 29 of Pocomoke City MD was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department on an Outstanding Warrant.

3-9-205    Delano Harmon, age 38 of Atlantic, VA was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department on an Outstanding Warrant.

3-11-2015    Tyrone Beauford, age 44 of Pocomoke, MD was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department on an Outstanding Warrant.

3-11-2015    Paris Schoolfield, age 23 of New Church, VA was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department on an Outstanding Warrant.    

3-12-2015    Billy Roberts, age 86 of New Church, VA was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department and charged with Theft less than $100.

3-15-2015    Gloria Purnell, age 48 of Princess Anne, MD was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department and charged with Theft less $100.

3-17-2015    David Spain, age 30 of Pocomoke, MD was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department and charged with Failure to Obey a Lawful Order.

3-17-205    Kimberly Carey, age 24 of Snow Hill, MD was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department and charged with Theft Less than $10,000.

3-17-2015    Michael Carey, age 35 of Princess Anne, MD was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department and charged with Theft less than $10,000.

3-08-2015    Rosalie Garrett, age 49 of Salisbury, MD was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department and charged with Theft less than $100.

3-21-2015    Christina Heath, age 29 of Salisbury, MD was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department and charged with Theft less than $500.

3-24-2015    Linwood Bonneville, age 54 of Pocomoke, MD was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department and charged with an open container alcohol violation.

3-24-2015    Francis Crippen, age 34 of Pocomoke, MD was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department on an Outstanding Warrant.

3-25-2015    Marshall Fisher, age 45 of Bloxom, VA was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department and charged with an open container alcohol violation.

3-25-2015    Henry Hickman, age 43 of Parksley, VA was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department and charged with an open container alcohol violation.

3-25-2015    Richard Burton, age 45 of Melfa, VA was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department and charged with an open container alcohol violation.

3-26-205    William Nock, age 51 of Pocomoke, MD was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department and charged with Disobeying a Lawful Order.

A Pocomoke, MD Juvenile, age 17 was arrested for False Statement to a Police Officer.

A Crisfield, MD Juvenile was arrested for Theft less $100.

A Crisfield, MD Juvenile was arrested for Theft less than $100.

A Pocomoke, MD Juvenile was arrested for Reckless Endangerment.

A Pocomoke, MD Juvenile was arrested for numerous traffic violations.

Thirty One (31) additional Arrests were made for various traffic violations.

Kelvin D. Sewell

Chief of Police

April 7, 2015

   

Pocomoke Police Press Release

Pocomoke Police Department

1500 Market Street

Pocomoke, Maryland   21851

410-957-1600

www.pocomokepd@comcast.net

February 2015

2-01-2015 Kalifah Milton, age 20 of Pocomoke, MD was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department and charged with Disorderly Conduct.

2-2-2015 Kalifah Milton, age 20 of Pocomoke, MD was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department and charged with Unlawful removal of property.

2-5-2015 David Tull, age 33 of Bloxom, VA was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department and charged with Theft less $100.

2-6-2015 Reginald Mills, age 56 of Pocomoke, MD was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department and charged with Driving While Intoxicated and Driving under the Influence.

2-6-2015 Demetrius Mills, age 26 of Pocomoke, MD was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department and charged with Disorderly Conduct and Failure to Obey a Lawful Order

2-7-2015 Moneeka Reese, age 24 of Pocomoke, MD was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department for Theft less $100.

2-9-2015 Lowell Rolley, age 54 of Marion Station, MD was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department for Driving While Intoxicated and Driving Under the Influence.

2-13-2015 Michael Brooks, age 38 of Pocomoke, MD was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department on a Outstanding Warrant for Driving while Suspended through Somerset County.

2-16-2015 Lydia Kinsell, age 45 of Snow Hill, MD was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department for Theft less $100.

2-16-2015 Kyle Thompson, age 29 of Salisbury, MD was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department for Theft less $500.

2-17-205 Breon Turlington, age 30 of Melfa, VA was arrested by the PocomokeCity Police Department on an Outstanding Warrant  for 2nd Degree Assault and Malicious Destruction of Property.

2-18-205 Tremayne Rogers, age 33 of Pocomoke, MD was arrested by the  Pocomoke City Police Department for Theft less $100.

2-21-2015 Kristina Holcomb, age 44 of Greenbackville, VA was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department for Theft less $500.

2-24-2015 Xavier Arnold, age 26 of Pocomoke, MD was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department on an Outstanding Warrant for  Assault.

2-24-2015 Devin Lockley, age 19 of Oak Hall, VA was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department on an Outstanding Warrant for Theft.

2-27-2015 Alphonso Shockley, age 52 of New Church, VA was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department on an Outstanding Warrant.

2-28-2015 Devin Bryant, age 26 of Pocomoke, MD was arrested by the Pocomoke City Police Department for Assault and Reckless Endangerment.

A Pocomoke Juvenile, age 15 was arrested for 2nd Degree Assault.

A Pocomoke Juvenile, age 17 was arrested for 2nd Degree Assault.

A Pocomoke Juvenile, age 16 was arrested for Theft.

Nine (9) additional Arrest were made for various traffic violations.

Kelvin D. Sewell

Chief of Police

March 4, 2015