Memories of Attending a Segregated School in Easton, Maryland – Part 1
My route to grade school, 1948-53. I got into a conversation at the First United Methodist Church about Harriet Tubman, the Underground Railroad heroine from the Eastern Shore of Maryland, from when my...
View ArticleMemories of Desegregation on the Eastern Shore of Maryland – Part 2
Two counties, Talbot and Kent County, are almost next to each other, separated by Queen Anne’s County, the one into which the Chesapeake Bay Bridge has its eastern terminus. They took different paths...
View ArticleMcHenry County Fair Sets Up Faith Ghetto
The management of the McHenry County Fair apparently has a problem with religious-based exhibitors. The Association has notified a number of exhibitors with a religious bent that they will be removed...
View ArticleBlackface – Then and Now
All the blackface stories have brought back memories from my childhood in Easton, Maryland. Easton was a segregated town of about 5,000 people where my father was chosen in an uncontested special...
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