TIME MACHINE: 1839, 1933, 1956, 2013.

August, 1839

The National Gazette (Philadelphia, Pa.)

October, 1933

The Salisbury Times

Footnote:

The arena was located at the Pocomoke Fair Grounds.  I recall that the arena was no longer there in the early 1950's when stock car races were held at the Fair Grounds. -tk

April, 1956

Worcester Democrat

September, 2013

(excerpt)

The Chincoteague Beacon

Do you have a local memory to share with PPE readers or something of interest your parents or grandparents told you about? Please send to tkforppe@yahoo.com .

When you're clicking around the Internet remember to check in with The Pocomoke Public Eye. We strive to be a worthwhile supplement to your choices.

A Pale Blue Dot- Revisited

Earth from four billion miles away taken by the Voyager spacecraft as it was about to leave our solar system.

( A quote from the late astronomer Carl Sagan.. referencing a picture of earth appearing as a tiny unspectacular pale blue dot hardly noticeable in the vast universe surrounding it.)

“We succeeded in taking that picture from [deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.

The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity--in all this vastness-- there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us... To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.” 

― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

TIME MACHINE: 1941, 1990, 1891, 1884.

August, 1941

The Salisbury Times

January, 1990

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Daily Times (Salisbury)

May, 1891

 

Richmond Dispatch (Richmond, Va.)

September, 1884

The News (Frederick, Md.)

Do you have a local memory to share with PPE readers or something of interest your parents or grandparents told you about? Please send to tkforppe@yahoo.com .

When you're clicking around the Internet remember to check in with The Pocomoke Public Eye. We strive to be a worthwhile supplement to your choices.

TIME MACHINE: 1953, 1927, 2006, 1934.

June, 1953

 

 

 Daily Press (Newport News, Va.)

January, 1927

The Baltimore Sun

April, 2006

The Dorchester Star (Cambridge)

May, 1934

The Evening Sun (Baltimore)

Do you have a local memory to share with PPE readers or something of interest your parents or grandparents told you about? Please send to tkforppe@yahoo.com .

When you're clicking around the Internet remember to check in with The Pocomoke Public Eye. We strive to be a worthwhile supplement to your choices.

Back To School Event!

Sunday, August 26. 10 a.m. to 12 Noon At Cypress Park

The Pocomoke City Police will be hosting our Annual 
Back to School event for Pocomoke City children and families. Free school supplies for Pre-K to 8th grade. Proof of Pocomoke City School attendance or proof of address required. While supplies last. School supplies will only be given away on this day. Please do not come to the police department the next day for supplies, we will have to turn you away.

TIME MACHINE: 1996, 1900, 1892.

December, 1996

Daily Times (Salisbury)

December, 1900

 

 

Peninsula Enterprise

August, 1892

Juniata Sentinel And Republican (Miffintown, Pa.)

Do you have a local memory to share with PPE readers or something of interest your parents or grandparents told you about? Please send to tkforppe@yahoo.com .

When you're clicking around the Internet remember to check in with The Pocomoke Public Eye. We strive to be a worthwhile supplement to your choices.

Safety For Our Local Schools

(From WBOC)

Worcester County School Safety

By Caroline Coles

NEWARK, Md--School starts in just a matter of weeks and Worcester County School officials are making safety their top priority. 

Students will notice new emergency response shields, the shields are designed to protect faculty and students in school shootings. 

"One local business here in Worcester County donated at least 2 shields for every school," says Superintendent Taylor. 

Worcester School officials say they're also hoping to add more mental health counselors this school year. 

"We have found over the years we can be more proactive, we have mental health issues in the community and we think, if we can offer services to those individuals, it will help us increase safety in our schools," says Superintendent Taylor. 

Parent and teacher, Silvyia Gallow says she wants the county to get rid of outside portable classrooms. 

"I really don't feel like they protect children, there isn't a whole lot protecting them out there," says Gallow. 

Superintendent Taylor says because of the amount of students at some schools, portable classrooms are necessary  and monitored on a regular basis. 

A Healthy Reminder For Your Calendar!