Worcester County Memorial For "Judy" Johnson

Hall Of Famer Was Native Of Snow Hill

(From The Dispatch)

SNOW HILL – County officials approved plans for a memorial to honor a legendary baseball player born in Snow Hill.

(See full article at link below:)
https://mdcoastdispatch.com/2018/09/26/judy-johnson-memorial-marker-planned-for-library/

TIME MACHINE: 1992(Published), 1971, 1958.

February, 1992

The Daily Times (Salisbury)

May, 1971

Democratic Messenger

February, 1958

Worcester Democrat

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Berlin Fiddles This Weekend!

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https://mdcoastdispatch.com/2018/09/19/berlins-26th-annual-fiddlers-convention-starts-friday/

Hurricane Florence Aid Needed

Click link below for ways you can make a contribution:

https://www.redcross.org/donate/hurricane-florence-donations.html/?cid=fy19hurflorence&cid=disaster&med=cpc&med=cpc&source=google&source=google&scode=rsg00000e017&scode=RSG00000E017&gclid=CjwKCAjwxILdBRBqEiwAHL2R8xrx3nzHlLXBfU07caRzraKkfMO5LWIqeAOfAgvpM0adSar_qz5ftBoCWTMQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds&dclid=CMOb7YKBxd0CFdUONwodLTcLCA   

TIME MACHINE: 1958, 1911, 1897, 1952.

February, 1958

Worcester Democrat

November, 1911

Trenton Evening Times (Trenton, NJ) 

Footnote:  The highly publicized Beattle case of 1911 involved the state of Virginia's charge against Henry Clay Beattle Jr., in the murder of his wife.  Beattle died in the electric chair about a week after this article was published.  He claimed his innocence throughout his trial but confessed on death row.  Unclear is why this case was cited as "an example of the evils to which dancing led." 


October, 1897

 

The Baltimore Sun

ACROSS THE USA 
July, 1952

The Morning News (Wilmington, De.)

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Worcester County Fair

Although wet grounds forced cancellation of The Worcester County Fair, its' organizers are displaying pictures of this year's entries online.

See story:

http://www.wboc.com/story/39089148/worcester-county-fair-moves-to-social-media

Mark Your Calendar

POCOMOKE CITY'S LAST 4TH FRIDAY OF THE SEASON IS SEPTEMBER 28TH, 5-8 P.M.

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Hurricane Preparation

(From WBOC)

Worcester County Emergency Services Urge Citizens to Prep for Hurricane Florence

Posted: Sep 10, 2018 6:05 PM -04:00Updated: Sep 10, 2018 6:08 PM EDT
WORCESTER COUNTY, Md. - Worcester County Emergency Service (WCES) is urging people in the area to start preparing now for Hurricane Florence.

The hurricane is strengthening as it moves towards the U.S. and is expected to bring heavy to Delmarva from Thursday into Saturday.

WCES asks locals to visit their website to learn their evacuation plan in case of an emergency. Director Fred Webster says the website has a new mapping program that includes evacuation orders and zones.

“Worcester County is mapped into three evacuation zones, from greatest to least risk of threat from wind speed, storm intensity, and storm surge, which causes flooding,” Webster said. “Zone A, in pink identifies addresses most at risk. Zone B is orange, and Zone C is green and includes addresses least at risk. Addresses further inland that are not color coded are not expected to evacuate in any storm scenario.”

WCES says that those who live in low-lying, flood prone areas or mobile homes should prepare now for the possibility of an evacuation, due to the current weather forecast. 

You can view your evacuation zone at www.knowyourzonemd.com, enter your address to prepare yourself for this week's potential weather emergencies. 

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

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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

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Daily Times (Salisbury)

May, 1891

 

Richmond Dispatch (Richmond, Va.)

September, 1884

The News (Frederick, Md.)

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