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A 1947 Baltimore Sun feature article about the Pocomoke City of that era.  It's this Sunday here at The Pocomoke Public Eye.

"Monstrous" Art Show This Week

From The Dispatch, Ocean City

‘Monstrous’ Art Show Planned For Berlin Friday

Jan 10,2017 by Bethany Hooper

BERLIN – Artists from Berlin to Brooklyn are coming together on Friday in a collaborative art show that will feature pieces of “monstrous” work.

As in years past, the Berlin Maryland Arts and Entertainment District will host its annual art show Jan. 13 from 5-8 p.m. at The Globe Theatre.

Curator Brian Robertson, of The Berlin Printery, said the overarching theme for their fourth event will coincide with the show’s title, “Monstrous.”

“It is like a regular art show opening but it will be more contemporary than that,” he said. “It gets the artist to think differently.”

This year, artwork must meet two conditions – a 10-by-10 inch size limitation and work that conveys the show’s subject.

Heather Layton, chair for the non-profit and owner of Bungalow Love, said the theme is not meant to restrict artists, but to introduce different perceptions of the word “monstrous”.

“We don’t want artists stressing over the theme,” she said. “It’s meant to be fun.  It’s neat to walk around and see everyone’s interpretation of the theme. It keeps the shows fresh.”

In the three years prior, the shows consisted of broad concepts – small things, medium and big ideas.

Robertson and Layton said artists come with their own interpretations each year and added that some themes introduced a play on words.

For instance, “medium” could describe the material used to make the artwork or the size of the piece.

This year’s theme, “monstrous”, gets its inspiration from the date on which the event takes place, Friday the 13^th. Robertson said the event and its theme will be an opportunity for artists to let loose.

“We couldn’t do our (monthly) art stroll in Januarys because of the weather, so we decided to use that time to create a fundraiser and give time for artists to enjoy the month off,” he said. “They can celebrate.”

Robertson said there is no cost to attend the event and money will be raised through a portion of art sales that take place.

Layton said work will be on display that night on the second floor of The Globe, where it will remain for purchase through the month of January.

“Several pieces usually sell each year,” she said. “We have several attendees that come out each year looking specifically for the year’s themed work and we also have lots of new attendees as well.”

Twenty percent of sales from the event will benefit the Arts and Entertainment District, which will use the money for future public art projects, such as live music events, movie series and murals.

Layton said the district’s new non-profit status will facilitate future fundraising and grant requests, which will support the remaining phases of the organization’s public art mural, displayed on the Northern wall of the town’s welcome center.

“Phase three is scheduled to be completed this spring,” she said. “Each phase is a cost of $5,000, and all monies put towards the mural had been through fundraising as there has not been any town money allotted for (Arts and Entertainment) through the town over the last few years, hence the importance of becoming a nonprofit.

Layton encourages people to attend the reception Friday to meet the artists and purchase their work.

“It’s a nice kick-off to the year, giving us an opportunity to make sure area artists are registered with the Berlin (Arts and Entertainment) district, to hand out tax forms for those who need them and to update everyone on what Arts and Entertainment has planned for the year,” she said.

Officials said as of last Wednesday, 12 artists from Baltimore, Delaware, Brooklyn and other nearby areas have submitted more than 20 pieces of work.

TIME MACHINE: 1968, 1925, 1847, 2008.

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May, 1968

The Daily Times

JANUARY, 1925

The Evening News (Wilkes-Barre, Pa.)

January, 1847 

The Tennessean (Nashville, TN)

February, 2008

The Star Democrat (Easton)

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Worcester Event Speaker Inspires Kindness And Compassion

From "OC Today"

Mayor's Prayer Breakfast, Jan. 13

By Katie Tabeling, Staff Writer
Jan 05, 2017

Dr. Lou Ann Daly

Carrying on the tradition of inspiring the community in the new year, the county chambers of commerce will be hosting the Mayor’s Prayer Breakfast for the second year, on Friday, Jan. 13 from 7-9 a.m.

Last year marked the first time that the Greater Ocean City Chamber of Commerce, the Ocean Pines Chamber of Commerce, the Berlin Chamber of Commerce, the Snow Hill Chamber of Commerce and the Pocomoke Chamber of Commerce banded together to put on the event. The breakfast was organized by Bruce Spangler for 25 years before he stepped down.

“This event has been such an inspiration and uplifting morning, where the entire community would come together - including our local citizens, community leaders, elected officials, church congregations, local police and fire departments, the business community, educators and school representatives and nonprofit organizers,” Ocean City Chamber Event Director Lisa Layfield stated in a press release. “It proved to be a perfect fit for us to begin a great partnership last year and continue the long-standing tradition.”

This year’s keynote speaker is Dr. Lou Ann Daly, a socio-linguist, educator, author and the co-founder of O! LAD, the Organization for Life Architecture and Design.

“I’ve always helped people see how amazing they are, even when I was a tutor in middle school,” she said. “I love helping people see their strengths – and with linguistic studies, I can do it more rapidly.”

Daly holds a doctorate in sociolinguistics, the study of social factors in language, from Georgetown University. She served as the chair of Communication Arts at Salisbury University.

Daly also served on the faculty at the School for Managing and Leading Change, Lesley University School of Management. She later moved to administrative work and served on the Executive Minds for Social Innovation in Boston to bring best practices from business enterprises to the nonprofit world.

She has written two books, “Counterintuitive” and “Human Being: Creating your life from the inside out.” The latter book includes a soul grid that is used to recognizing unconscious choices that block insight and creativity.

In 2000, Daly and her business partner, Lynn Potoff, started O! LAD. The organization helps individuals and teams in businesses identify thinking patterns that undermine their strengths, and create a work plan that aligns with their passions. Past clients include a spectrum of industries such as Fortune 50 and 100 companies, nonprofits and universities.

Daly said she delivers two address a year on average, and is delighted that the prayer breakfast is one of them.

“I don’t focus on public speaking, but I love Ocean City,” she said. “I lived there, I have friends there and this is returning to a place I love.”

She added that her speech during the Mayor’s Prayer Breakfast will be directed toward bringing internal emotions and thoughts to outside life, using the soul grid as a guide.

“It’s all about the integration of kindness and compassion with your desire for results,” Daly said.

In the new year, Daly hopes that people will begin to see the brighter side of life.

“Laugh and lighten up!” she said. “It’s easier to enjoy life when you find the funnier things in it.”

The Mayor’s Breakfast, which will include a hot buffet, will be held at the Clarion Fontainebleau Hotel on 101st Street. Tickets cost $20 per person. Table sponsorships are also available.

Tickets can be purchased at the Ocean City Chamber Visitors Center in West Ocean City, Ocean Pines Chamber, Berlin Chamber or the Pocomoke Chamber. Tickets can also be purchased online at chamber.oceancity.org.

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TIME MACHINE: A NEW YEAR.

NOW!

Happy New Year from the Pocomoke Public Eye

AND THEN:

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December, 1964

The Daily Times

Celebrating the arrival of the new year '17.. 100 years ago. 

January 1, 1917

The Washington Times

New Years Day headlines in the news..

JANUARY 1, 1975

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OUTDOOR NEW YEAR'S EVE CELEBRATIONS.

December 31, 2016
THE MIDNIGHT MUSKRAT DIVE

9 pm – 1 am. Ring in 2016 in downtown Princess Anne with Marshall P. Muskrat, contests, live music, food & spirits, and fun. Downtown merchants & vendors will be open.

Other nearby outdoor New Year's Eve "drops" will be held in Crisfield, Berlin, and Salisbury.  Crisfield's will feature a giant man made oyster that will open to display its pearl.. a mirrored disco ball. 

TIME MACHINE: Christmas- 1966,1906,1888.

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December 24, 1966

December, 1906

The Baltimore Sun

December, 1888

 Peninsula Enterprise

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Verdict In Green Trial

A Worcester County jury, Tuesday, found former Pocomoke Police Lt. Lynell Green guilty of conspiracy in connection with a 2014 crash investigation but not guilty on a misconduct charge. Former chief of police Kelvin Sewell was found guilty of misconduct recently in connection with the same case in which it was alleged that a hit and run charge against an acquaintance was not pursued. Green will serve a year of unsupervised probation after which the charge could be removed from his record.

TIME MACHINE: Eastern Shore Christmas Memories

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Baltimore Sun Magazine (December, 1979)

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Events Calendar

http://www.cityofpocomoke.com/calendar.html

TIME MACHINE: 1940, 1969, 1895, 1887

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December, 1940

The top of page caption reads:

"With Christmas fast approaching the farmers of Delmarvia (newspaper's spelling) again are cashing in on their biggest money crop of the winter-holly- a business with an estimated value of $400,000 throughout the nation, Maryland's share being from $150,000 and $200,000.  As a check on vandalistic harvesting, much of the holly will again carry the certificates of the State Department Of Forestry which guarantee that the holly is of honest weight and measure and has been cut according to conservation principles, with the cooperation of the landowner and under rigid inspection."     

"A view at Fruitland, Md., as cars and trucks from miles around arrived for the annual auction of wreaths.  These are bid on by the load at from 12 to 16 cents per wreath.  Wreath-making, for the most part, is a family affair, there being only a few factories manufacturing them."

A VETERAN HOLLY TREE

"This tree, which was living when William Penn came to Pennsylvania in 1682, stands on the farm of Joseph Parker near Salisbury.  Through the efforts of interested citizens and Mr. Parker, it is being preserved and has been fitted with a marker."

The Sunday Sun (Baltimore)

December, 1940

The News-Chronicle (Shippensburg, Pa.)

December, 1969

The Daily Times

November, 1895

Peninsula Enterprise

November, 1887

Peninsula Enterprise

View old Christmas catalogs...

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Holiday Shopping Safety

HOLIDAY TIPS FROM THE POCOMOKE CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT:

Chief William Harden would like to remind citizens, Criminals celebrate the holidays, too.

In fact thieves revel this time of year because the pickings are easy.

Cars and homes are full of Christmas presents, and shoppers’ pockets and purses are bulging with holiday cash and credit cards.

But by following basic crime prevention guidelines, most citizens can likely avoid becoming another holiday crime statistic....

Locking your car doors, hiding your packages and holding tight to purses and wallets may sound like mundane advice – but the tactics work.

Shoppers can provide the best protection for themselves this time of year – even though security at many shopping centers and malls is beefed up during the holiday shopping period.

Criminals also use this time of year to prey on people’s holiday spirits.

Pocomoke City Police have these holiday season warnings to avoid crime:

• Try to shop in the daytime, and go with a shopping buddy if possible.

• Park in a highly visible place close to store entrances.

• Carry your wallet in your front pocket to counter pickpockets.

• Lock valuables out of sight, preferably in your car’s trunk.

• Make one big shopping foray instead of lots of small trips. That way, you can avoid leaving packages unattended in your car.

• Have your car keys ready when you leave the store.

• If you feel unsafe, ask a store worker or security person to walk you to your car.

• Look inside your car, including the backseat area, before getting inside.

Happy Holidays

DECEMBER 7, 1941

A Family Holiday Classic At The Marva!

Babes in Toyland
December 9 & 10 at 7 PM
December 11 at 2 PM
Tickets: $20/VIP, $15/General Admission, $10/Child, Senior, Active Duty

DAYTIME SHOWINGS: December 6 & 13 at 10 AM
Reservations MUST be made by contacting the Box Office for the daytime showings.

The villainous Barnaby has fallen in love with sweet Mistress Mary Quite Contrary. If he can’t buy her love, then he’ll force her to marry him by threatening to foreclose on her mother, the poor Widow Piper. Mary already has her heart set on marrying Barnaby’s nephew Alan — but not if Barnaby can help it!  He hires two bumbling ruffians to do away with Alan, but Alan returns to Mother Goose Land amidst much rejoicing.

Mary journeys to the mysterious Toyland through the dangerous Spider Forest. But wait!  Barnaby hasn’t given up, and he herds the whole gang of Mother Goose Land characters to Toyland in pursuit of Mary.  There we encounter the magical mystery of Toyland as we meet the Master Toymaker and his quirky assistants Grumio and Marmaduke. 

This charming musical tale through the worlds of Mother Goose Land and Toyland will delight our audience.

Tickets are available at the Book Bin, Jaxon’s, T’s Corner, Market Street Deli, Enchanted Florist, Mar-Va Theater and online.

Click here to purchase tickets online.

1931 Salisbury Lynching Brought Clash Between Shore And Metro Newspapers.

The 85th anniversary of  a lynching in Salisbury has been in the news the past week.  The following is from the memoirs of the late Charles J. Truitt, Sr. who was editor of the Salisbury Times during that era.

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   On Friday, December 4, 1931, Daniel J. Elliott, a highly respected Salisbury lumber dealer, was talking over the telephone in his office about mid-afternoon when Matthew Williams, a negro he had employed for eight years, walked in and from behind shot Elliott in the head. Death was instantaneous.

   Williams, wounded when arrested, was taken by city police to the hospital where he was questioned by State's Attorney Levin Claude Bailey.

   A report was spread around Salisbury that Williams had told the state's attorney a dozen or more Salisbury business men had been marked for death, that each had been assigned to a black for assassination and that "I've done my job and I was the only one that did."

   About 8:30 that night a group said to number 12 to 15 appeared outside the ground floor (not legible) ward where Williams was lying in bed.  He was smuggled out through a screen window and walked three blocks to the courthouse lawn.  There he was hanged from a tree.

   My wife and I had planned to see a movie at the Arcade Theatre after dinner.  As we walked along the block of Main Street toward the theatre I was told of the alleged conspiracy against certain community leaders, which I completely discounted.  After sitting in the theatre for a time, I decided I should, as a newsman, investigate what may be happening outside.  As I walked the half block to the office a passerby, replying to my inquiry about a gathering at the Main and Division Street intersection said Williams was being hanged.  Upon reaching the office door I thought I could discern in the darkness a shadowy figure dangling from a tree on the south side of the courthouse lawn.  I hastened back to the theatre to tell my wife, who was expecting soon, not to leave her seat until I returned.

   I then went to the street intersection across from the courthouse lawn.  With only street lights for illumination, I estimated the crowd to be about 100.  Someone said Williams body was being taken away.  There was no mob shouting as reported next day in some newspapers.  Rather, the gathering appeared to be one of awe-struck spectators, rendered silent by the nature of the spectacle some of them had just witnessed.

   As expected, for the next several days the Eastern Shore was the object of editorial page lingual gymnastics in a sizeable sector of the metropolitan press.  The most volative vituperation appeared in The Evening Sun, Baltimore, which the author, Henry L. Mencken, titled "Eastern Shore Kultur":

   "Not many observant Marylanders, I take it, were surprised by the news of last Friday's extraordinarily savage and revolting lynching in Salisbury.  Something of the sort has been plainly hatching down in that forlorn corner of the State for a long while.  The whole area is a lush stamping-ground for knavish politicians, prehensile professional patriots, and whooping soul-savers. It is quite naturally, a stronghold of Prohibition (and of the rot-gut liquors that go therewith), and within its bounds tin-pot revivalism is making its last stand in Maryland."

   Another vitriolic blurb appeared in the same newspaper a week later.  His statement that every schoolboy knew the identify of those who had participated in the hanging of Williams, brought an immediate chorus that he be summoned before the grand jury to testify.  His response was that he would not voluntarily appear and the matter was dropped there.

   Meanwhile Eastern Shore newspapers, editorially asserting mob action  was not to be condoned, took issue with Mencken.  The Cambridge Daily Banner recalled that Mencken himself had advocated lynching when he once proposed to take William Jennings Bryan "to the top of the Washington Monument, in Washington, disembowel him and hurl his remains into the Potomac."  A somewhat similar charge was leveled by the Worcester Democrat, of Pocomoke, edited by a retired college professor.  The Maryland & Herald, Princess Anne, referred to Mencken and aids as being affiliated with "anarchists and communist groups, composed for the most part of men and women from the lowest strata of the mongrel breeds of European gutters."  

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