Pocomoke’s Byrd ‘A Model We All Look Up To’

From The Dispatch

Retiring Pocomoke High School Athletic Director, coach and teacher David Byrd, second from right, was honored at the Worcester County Board of Education this month. Pictured with him are Superintendent Lou Taylor, Assistant Principal Jenifer Rayne and Board of Education President Bill Gordy.

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https://mdcoastdispatch.com/2017/04/27/pocomokes-byrd-a-model-we-all-look-up-to/

April's 4th Friday Event!

TIME MACHINE: 2002 Snow Hill Explosion; 1923 Predictions.

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September, 2002

The News Journal (Wilmington)

October, 1923 -  Predicting 50 Years Ahead 

The Baltimore Sun

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Rec & Parks Summer Youth Programs

Youth Summer Programs

Spend your summer with us!  We offer 9 weeks of action packed fun and activities including our weekly summer camps and swim lessons. 

The programs include: Swim Lessons, Day Camps, Baseball Camp, High School Volley Ball Camp, Pocomoke River Camp, Follow Me Robot Camp.

More info here:
http://www.worcesterrecandparks.org/programs/summer-programs

TIME MACHINE: A Vanished Lower Eastern Shore Landmark

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Hotel Wachapreague circa 1930

Kirk C. Mariner collection

 July, 1905

The Times Dispatch (Richmond)

July, 1978

Daily Press (Newport News, Va.)

June, 1921

The Baltimore Sun.

July, 1970

Asbury Park Press  (Abury Park NJ).

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Easter Kids Event

Youth Easter Celebration in Cypress Park

Saturday, April 15th 12-3pm

Coloring Contest, Easter Egg Hunt, Light Refreshments, DJ & Appearance by the Easter Bunny!

For ages 1-10.

Hosted by Women 4 Women

TIME MACHINE- Some Eastern Shore Auto History

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March, 1906

The Washington Post

The first car driven in Salisbury was around 1900 and the driver and owner was Billy Edison, son of famed inventor Thomas Alva Edison.  The young Edison had lived in Salisbury for a while and married a  young lady from Salisbury.  But he encountered the problem of tires on his Stanley Steamer being cut while negotiating Salisbury's sandy oyster shell based streets of that era.  Years later when Edison returned to the area in an expensive Pierce Arrow he found that attempting to drive the vehicle on country roads was too hazardous an endeavor.  He decided not to attempt a return trip from the country back to Salisbury; he sold the vehicle. It's said that Salisbury may have had up to a dozen cars on its streets by 1910.

Automobiles were no rarity on Eastern Shore roads by the spring of 1930 when a big 5-day auto show featuring 32 new vehicles in Salisbury's downtown armory drew shore wide interest.  

 Exhibitors were:

AUBURN R. D. Grier & Sons Company.

BUICK Salisbury Motor Company.

CADILLAC Easton Cadillac Co., Easton, Md. &
Salisbury Motor Company.

CHEVROLET Tull-Phoebus Chevrolet Sales Co.
CHRYSLER Salisbury Auto Sales Company.

CORD R. D. Grier & Sons Company.

DE SOTA Branch Motor Company.

DODGE Gumby Motor Company, Inc.

ESSEX Hudson-Essex-Gordy Company.

FORD D. W. Perdue Company, Inc.

HUDSON Hudson-Eesex-Gordy Company.

*LaSALLE Easton Cadillac Co., Easton, Md.

MARMON Hurley Motor Co., Seaford, Del.

NASH Gunby Nash Motor Co., Inc.

OAKLAND Powell Motor Company.

OLDSMOBILE Eastern Shore Sales Company.

PACKARD Eastern Shore Sales Company.

PONTIAC Powell Motor Company.

ROOSEVELT Hurley Motor Co., Seaford, Del.

WHIPPET Wilson Motor Company.

WILLYS-KNIGHT Wilson Motor Company 

* (Recall Archie and Edith Bunker of "All In The Family" singing "gee our old LaSalle ran great.") 

Jump ahead another quarter of a century or so and the now classic cars of 1957 were making their debut. 

(Salisbury Times ads)

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High Bid For Pocomoke Liquor Location

From OC Today

Bids for county liquor store in Pocomoke exceed $1M

(April 7, 2017) Removing itself from the liquor business became less costly for Worcester County government Tuesday, when the bids for the Worcester County Shore Spirit liquor store in Pocomoke City came in shockingly high.

Five bidders submitted proposals to take over the lower county operation, which had been valued in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, with top bidder Kalpesh Patel of Berlin offering at $1.175 million.

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http://www.oceancitytoday.net/p/bids-for-county-liquor-store-in-pocomoke-exceed-1m/1640496

Berlin Pink, And OC Race For Cure

Pink will be the word and color in Berlin this Saturday with a day devoted to raising funds for the Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Research Center.

Read more about it here:

http://www.oceancity.com/berlin-pink/

Also on Saturday it's the Sixth Annual Komen  Race For The Cure in Ocean City with more than a thousand participants expected. 

TIME MACHINE: Napoleon Bonaparte And Lower Eastern Shore

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Lower Eastern Shore connection with Napoleon Bonaparte?

A 1944 article in the Salisbury Times about a new book on Eastern Shore rivers by author Herbert Footner cited a favorite story of his about Beverly Mansion at Kings Creek, near Princess Anne. 

He wrote that the mansion was built by Nehemiah King and that his wife, Beverly, refused to set foot in it because of its extravagance. When she died King had her carried into the mansion's parlor and said, "Now Madam King you are in."

And the article mentioned a scheme to rescue Napoleon from his captivity on the island of St. Helena, bring him to America (see articles below) and hide him in a secret room prepared at Beverly Mansion.  Napoleon died shortly before the rescue attempt.  Another speculation was that Napoleon would have been given refuge on the Eastern Shore of Virginia.

Note:  Beverly Mansion near Princess Anne is also known as Beverly Manor, not to be confused with Beverly Plantation (circa 1770) on the Pocomoke River near Pocomoke City.

March, 1951

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The famous mansion, once fitted with a secret room in which Napoleon Bonaparte was to take refuge had the plot to rescue him from St. Helena been successful, has been restored to Colonial grandeur equal to that created by Nehemiah King, the original owner, by Mr. and Mrs. William W. Perry, formerly of Salisbury. Mr. Perry is a retired DuPont Company official.

 The News Journal (Wilmington)

October, 1902

The Indianapolis Journal (Indianapolis, Indiana)

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