by Ted Shockley | Jun 13, 2023 | Features
BY KIRK MARINER, Shore First columnist Chincoteague’s tourism is not a 20th-century invention. The island’s first hotel arose well over a hundred years ago and did a thriving business long before the word “tourism” entered the vocabulary of the Eastern Shore. Joseph...
by Ted Shockley | Jun 12, 2023 | Headlines
A Saxis man pleaded guilty on Monday, June 12, toviolating the Lacey Act related to his illegal harvest of striped bass. According to court documents, Keith J. Martin, 52, was a commercial fisherman licensed in the Commonwealth of Virginia to harvest striped bass....
by Ted Shockley | Jun 12, 2023 | Features
By Laura Davis, Eastern Shore of Virginia food columnist — In the spring of 2019 I visited an estate sale on Chincoteague Island. Upon entering I could tell this was my kind of people — beautiful kitchen equipment, lovely nautically themed linens, and vintage Shore...
by Ted Shockley | Jun 12, 2023 | Features
BY CLARA VAUGHN, Eastern Shore Post When the Museum of Chincoteague Island announced a fundraiser to purchase and preserve the Beebe Ranch, thousands answered its call. The museum is close to its $625,000 goal to save the ranch, which was Misty of Chincoteague’s...
by Ted Shockley | Jun 12, 2023 | Uncategorized
To the editor: On my drive from Capeville to Food Lion near Cape Charles, I was a bit shocked to see the latest billboard for the Historic Palace Theatre’s “Films That Move” event. The billboard features two women in their underwear in what I consider a suggestive...
