Time Machine Preview

This Sunday here at The Pocomoke Public Eye:

PLUS

1986  ..

After 18 years leading Pocomoke City-

1881 ..

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2005  ..

1951 ..

                 (part 2 of nine from a feature article)

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The Great Pocomoke Fair – Family fun all year long!

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HISTORY:

August, 1902- The first annual fair at Pocomoke City.

(Published in The Democratic Messenger, Snow Hill)

The Pocomoke Fairgrounds as it appeared in a 1904 ad.

Encouraging financial news from Rocket Lab

 (UPDATE- Shore Daily News reports Rocket Lab has signed a new launch services agreement that will entail a 2024 launch from Wallops.) 

Rocket Lab results match Wall Street estimates, company adds contracts for 10 launches

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Rocket Lab (RKLB) Q2 earnings report (cnbc.com)

(With Rocket Lab's Launch Complex 2 located at the NASA Flight Facility at Wallops, it's news the lower Eastern Shore likes to hear.)

White Marlin Open

 

The 50th Annual White Marlin Open Billfish Tournament is the big happening this week at Ocean City.

(Check for updates:)

https://www.delmarvasportsnetwork.com/

1933 August storm left lasting mark on Virginia's barrier islands and Ocean City

 (Shore Daily News)

The hurricane on 1933 hit here on August 23 and 24, 1933.  The storm was considered a legendary storm and was only a category one.  But it lingered near the coast of Virginia and before it was over, settlements on Assateague and the town of Broadwater on Hog Island were gone forever.

August 23-24,1933 – The Hurricane of 1933 was a transformational storm on the Eastern Shore.  The storm dumped estimates of 20 to 30 inches of rain ahead of landfall. The '33 storm ended the Golden Age of Virginia’s Barrier Islands.   Prior to the storm, there were houses on Assateague, Hog, Cobb and other barrier islands.   The storm hit on August 23,1933 and continued for two days. By the time it moved off, the town of Broadwater on Hog Island was practically destroyed, as were houses on Assateague. The resort on Cobb Island was totally destroyed. Wachapreague, Chincoteague and Cape Charles had tides ranging from 5 ft. at Chincoteague to 7 ft. at Cape Charles and 10 ft at Wachapreague.  Two deaths were reported, one of which was a baby that was ripped from its mother’s arms by the surging water.

After the storm, houses that were destroyed on Assateague were not rebuilt. At Broadwater on Hog Island owners of surviving homes moved them and the bodies of loved ones buried in the cemetery to Willis Wharf.  Today the community is known as “Little Hog Island” in Willis Wharf.

The Hurricane of 1933 also changed the course of Ocean City.  At the time of the storm Ocean City extended over three blocks south of the inlet.  There was no inlet, but the heavy rains raised the level of Assateague Bay and the water forced what is now Ocean City Inlet to form. Ocean City residents had been long asking for the state to dig an inlet so that boats could have access to the town. Mother Nature did that job at no cost to tax payers.

 

In progress- Jackson Holliday's baseball journey

 

The top draft pick last year has become the top prospect this year, and he is already dominating Double-A.

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Might the Orioles promote Jackson Holliday to the big leagues this season? - Camden Chat

 

Time Machine : 100 years ago this week in Pocomoke's newspaper, 1992, 1895, 1967, and feature: Long ago but not far away.

 

                                           

                   (Editorial)

January, 1992

       (see upper right column)

       (see upper right column)

Salisbury Daily Times

June, 1895

Democratic Messenger

*October, 1967

Evening Sun (Baltimore)

 (Pocomoke Public Eye title)

LONG AGO BUT NOT FAR AWAY- THE ORIGINAL INHABITANTS OF OUR SOUTHERN PENINSULA 

From a 1951 feature article in the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot.  The author, Leonora W. Wood, (1892-1989) wrote articles of regional historic interest for Virginia newspapers and authored "Guide To Virginia's Eastern Shore" in 1952.  She was an inspiration for the novel "Christy" written by her daughter Catherine Marshall, a well-known author.  Mrs. Wood's husband was a minister who had served Holmes Presbyterian Church in Cheriton.

(This week: article excerpt #1 of nine:)

             (continues next Sunday)