Why a Beach Resort? … A Deep Dive into the W&CBRy (part 2)
Why a Beach Resort … part 2! The Washington & Chesapeake Railroad, the Washington & Chesapeake Beach Railroad, the Washington & Chesapeake Beach Railway, or simply the Chesapeake Beach Railway…well […]
Responses to Segregation
It started with a simple Facebook comment: A simple Facebook comment led to an exhibit a little under two years later. On November 16, 2023, I posted a “Throwback Thursday” […]
Why a Beach Resort?!? – a deep dive into the W&CBRy (part 1)
Why a beach resort? I have just emerged from a historical rabbit hole! It unexpectedly began when I read a fascinating book about James A. Garfield, our 20th President (if […]
Baseball Fan, Crank or Fiend?
Spring is here and baseball season is upon us! Which always brings to mind Ted Sullivan, right?!? I mean who doesn’t remember Timothy Paul “Ted” Sullivan? Truth be told, I […]
What’s in a name?!?
Day after day we drive these streets, give directions, home addresses, note landmarks, and so on and so on…often without a thought as to what’s in a name? Well fasten […]
A Pug, a Shark & a Railway…. Oh My!
You may recall (or not) from an earlier article that smallpox possibly had a hand in the failure of the original company, The Washington & Chesapeake Beach Railway Company (W&CBRy […]
March 31, a sad day in Chesapeake Beach History…
March 31, 1923, marks the 100th anniversary of the day The Belvedere Hotel was destroyed by fire. The hotel was situated on a hilltop that overlooked the Bay in Chesapeake […]
A Church & a Racetrack Unite!
St. Anthony’s Roman Catholic Church in North Beach, MD has a fantastic back story! Here is where I found the most unlikely answer to a question I had been wondering […]
Timing is Everything… when building a Railway!
Did smallpox have anything to do with the failure of the first company to have the idea of building a railroad to Chesapeake Beach? Well… maybe. But first, a quick […]
Calvert ‘King of the Bootleggers’!
Today, January 17, 2023, is National Bootlegger’s Day! And as it so happens, the “CALVERT ‘KING OF THE BOOTLEGGERS’ ” was arrested in 1932 near his home in Chesapeake Beach, […]