January 20, 2025-

 

Senator Carozza's wk. 1/13 Annapolis report-

 (Edited by The Pocomoke Public Eye only for presentation, and space availability.)

Time Machine: 100 years ago this week in Pocomoke's newspaper; 1999, 1954, 1894, 1905.

 

                      

November, 1999

Salisbury Daily Times

December, 1954

Salisbury Times

December, 1894

Morning Herald (Baltimore)

*January, 1905

Ledger Enterprise (Pocomoke)

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Pony Penning threat-

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100th Chincoteague Pony Penning receives online threat - Shore Daily News

Chincoteague mayor speaks on threat made to 100th annual Pony Swim | 13newsnow.com

I don't think this is much of a real threat. Remember, these people are primarily from middle eastern countries and are acclimated to arid climates. They have probably no idea what mosquitos are, especially the Chincoteague variety.

Your friend,
Slim

No threat determined in new and recent suspicious activity reports.

 "...it is the belief of this office that based on the totality of circumstances that there is no active threat in the area surrounding the Sharp Propane facility."

Recollections from generations past (Marah Stevenson Finney- 5)

Marah Stevenson Finney (1913 - 2006)

TRANSCRIPT EXCERPTS FROM 1982 INTERVIEW

INTERVIEWER: Okay. How about shipyards in Pocomoke, were they still

 around then?

MARAH: No, not when I came back to Pocomoke. My mother’s father was part

 owner, at one time, of Clarke’s Shipyard. I have a deed that shows it. He and

 three other men, including Mr. Clarke, bought this land on the river for a

 shipyard.

INTERVIEWER: Okay.

MARAH: And in fact, he was a ship’s carpenter, as well as a wheelwright. And

 he moved to Pocomoke when he was a young man. And I’ve never known

 exactly why he came here, because he came from New Jersey. His father died

 when he was three years old, and at the time, he was apprenticed to a

 wheelwright, then came to town when he was 18 or 19. So he probably heard

 that there was need of ships’ carpenters in Pocomoke, and decided to come

 here. 

INTERVIEWER: Okay, were there any kind of medicines?

MARAH: (Coughs) ‘Scuse me. No, I can’t remember any medicines except the

 ones that you use in Worcester County, Maryland.

INTERVIEWER: Okay. Do you remember any big storms?

MARAH: No, I don’t remember any while I was in high school. About two

 years, I think, after I graduated from Towson, ’33 or ’34, they had a hurricane

 that was quite bad. And I remember that where I lived on Winter Course, the

 water came up to the porch.

INTERVIEWER: You lived by the golf course?

MARAH: No. I lived where … You know where the Chamberlain family lives?

INTERVIEWER: Oh, that, okay, that side of the river, okay.

MARAH: All right, and I lived three houses beyond where the Chamberlain

 family lives, next to Mrs. Roger Langford.

INTERVIEWER: Okay, I know.

MARAH: And that was where we built our house when my father moved back

 to Pocomoke. And that was the spot that was so low that the water rose so

 high.

INTERVIEWER: All the way up there.

INTERVIEWER: Music when you were in high school, what kind of music, what was the favorite?

MARAH: We did not have a band, but we had a glee club. And we enjoyed

 singing. Mrs. Willard Stevenson, who was the organist at the Methodist

 church, you don’t remember her, I’m sure. But she was teaching high school

 music and English, and she and Mrs. Warman had the glee club together. She

 played the piano and Mrs. Warman taught the singing. And I don’t think we

 sang for any particular functions, except graduation.

INTERVIEWER: How about the popular groups or records you played?

MARAH: Rudy Vallee (laughs).

INTERVIEWER: How about ice skating? Did you go ice skating?

MARAH: I went ice skating. I went ice skating in the marsh.

INTERVIEWER: (Laughs.)

MARAH: That was very convenient because if you were not very adept, you

 had trees to hold on to.

(Both laugh.)

MARAH: And we did have a few ponds out in the country, people we knew,

 farmers who had ponds, that we visited. Not too often. Now, when my mother

 was a child, the river froze over.

INTERVIEWER: They didn’t skate on the river, did they?

MARAH: On the river, some of them went skating.

INTERVIEWER: Oh, really (laughs)?

MARAH: And she walked across the river once. But when her mother and

 father found out, she did not do it again.

INTERVIEWER: (Laughs) I don’t think I could ever attempt that.

MARAH: No, that was very dangerous then.

INTERVIEWER: Did you ever hear of anybody falling in or anything?

MARAH: Seems to me I did hear a story of boys falling in the river because it

 seemed to freeze much much more than recent years.

INTERVIEWER: I know I haven’t seen it freeze completely.

MARAH: I don’t know the year that this happened, but Mother was born in

 1888, and it was probably around 1894, ’95. I don’t know. But it was probably

 when she was a teenager.

INTERVIEWER: Right, can you think of anything else?

MARAH: No. I probably will, after you leave, but …

INTERVIEWER: Okay.

MARAH: Thank you for coming.

(Recollections from generations past continues next Saturday here at The Pocomoke Eye.)

Opinion: The Chesapeake's health and budget decisions.

 

Gov. Wes Moore and legislative leaders have an important, though unenviable, task in the 2025 Maryland General Assembly session that convened last week: Meeting ambitious goals for our environment and climate while navigating a looming $3 billion budget shortfall.

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Let’s turn promises into progress for the Chesapeake Bay - Maryland Matters

Wallops benefits with NASA contract to Rocket Lab.

 

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Rocket Lab selected by NASA to provide Neutron Launch services under VADR launch contract - Shore Daily News