The Pocomoke Public Eye

Sunday, March 1, 2020

Time Machine: 1921, 1935, 1990, 1992.

September, 1921

Worcester Democrat

October, 1935

The Tipton Daily Tribune (Tipton, Ind.)

December, 1990

Baltimore Sun

July, 1992

Daily Times (Salisbury)

See short WBOC video feature on Queponco Station.

http://www.wboc.com/clip/15009183/proud-to-serve-queponco-railway-station

1963 .. It's a new kind of telephone called a Touch-Tone.

1977 ..

The Time Machine is a weekly feature I've enjoyed researching and compiling on The Pocomoke Public Eye since 2011. I have fond memories of growing up in Pocomoke City and welcome reader contributions we can share about things you've read, remember, or were told relating to our Pocomoke/Eastern shore area...a sentence, a paragraph, or more all fine. Just email it.

Friday, February 28, 2020

Time Machine Preview

This Sunday here at The Pocomoke Public Eye..

1921 .. (Ad) Stop that waste and see the Hot Blast coal range at Matthews & Lankford in Pocomoke.

1935 .. Local farmers are feeling the effects of a mule shortage on the lower Eastern Shore.

1990 .. (Ad) Cellular phone service is expanding to the Eastern Shore.

1992 .. The history of a Worcester County train station is recalled.

Thursday, February 27, 2020

Board Of Ed Approves 2020-2021 Worcester County School Calendar

View calendar:
http://worcesterk12.org/UserFiles/Servers/Server_577356/Image/FY21%20Calendar%20-%20FINAL.pdf

View Bayside Gazzette article:
https://baysideoc.com/board-of-education-choose-calendar-with-short-breaks/

Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Skating At Pocomoke Middle School

(WMDT)

POCOMOKE CITY, Md. – A new synthetic ice rink has been installed at Pocomoke Middle School.

Worcester County recently bought this new portable ice rink.

It is going to be moved all around the county, but right now it is inside the Pocomoke Middle school for students to enjoy.

The rink was installed in the school just a few days ago.

School Principal Matthew Record says the rink is a chance for students to be more active and take away some new life lessons.

“It’s a great opportunity for students to understand that even in life when you fall down, you have to get back up and ice skating is the same way and I will also tell you it’s a great health and wellness activity,” said Record.

We are told the ice rink will likely be moved to the town of Berlin within the next few weeks for more people to enjoy.

Monday, February 24, 2020

To Your Health-

Every Wednesday from 12-2PM the Pocomoke EMS station at 137 8th Street, Pocomoke City, will test your blood pressure for free. They will also provide blood pressure cards.

Sunday, February 23, 2020

Time Machine: 1968, 1921, 2007, 1938.

February, 1968

Daily Times (Salisbury)

February, 1921

Democratic Messenger

November, 2007

Baltimore Sun

March, 1938

Worcester Democrat

1960 ..

1981 ..

Friday, February 21, 2020

Time Machine Preview

This Sunday here at The Pocomoke Public Eye..

1968 .. (Group picture) Pocomoke City Explorer Scouts are assisting police at school crossings.

1921 .. (Ad) A new exclusively music store is opening in Pocomoke offering a wide range of music products including instruments and repair service.

2007 .. Worcester County commissioners oppose slots for Ocean Downs.

1938 .. Special accommodations needed for funeral of Pocomoke man whose weight was well over 500 pounds.

Thursday, February 20, 2020

Looking Ahead To 4th Fridays

Tuesday, February 18, 2020

A Pale Blue Dot Revisited

Earth (inside the blue circle) from four billion miles away taken by the Voyager spacecraft as it was about to leave our solar system. This month on the 30th anniversary of the picture NASA has released this digitally remastered version. See link address below for the article.

The late astronomer Carl Sagan.. referencing the picture of earth appearing as a tiny unspectacular pale blue dot hardly noticeable in the vast universe surrounding it..said this when the original picture was released:

“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 demostration 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

Article on the updated picture:
https://www.space.com/pale-blue-dot-earth-space-photo-remastered.html