This Sunday on The Pocomoke Public Eye..
4th Of July celebrations in Snow Hill and Chincoteague in the late 1800's.
A Princess Anne native (b. 1842) with military and law credentials becomes a widely published African explorer.
"Headin' Home" staring Babe Ruth is one of the big attractions in June, 1921 at Pocomoke City's Empire Theater.
People are going about their daily routines on a pleasant spring morning on the Eastern Shore on May 15th, 1996 and then at 1012 a.m. .........?
On May 15th, 1996 the electricity was lost to the entire Delmarva Peninsula for about seven hours. It was all Jay Mason's fault. Unfortunately Jay has passed to that big generating plant in the sky and can no longer defend himself.
ReplyDeleteThe power outage, of course, was a top local story for 1996. In a year-end news review the Daily Times wrote: "Delmarva Power later traced the cause of the massive outage to work being done by two employees at an extra-high-voltage substation near Glascow, Del. Sixteen high-voltage circuit breakers tripped, sending a cascade of power failures down the Peninsula." It was reported that up to 900,000 people were affected by the outage.
ReplyDeleteThat was a joke about Jay; it was obviously not his fault. He was a local Pocomoke boy who made good and eventually became head of public relations for Delmarva Power.
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