BY TED SHOCKLEY, Eastern Shore Post —
Through the decades, the Eastern Shore has been home to many who have earned a living harvesting, marketing, and brokering crops.
Those merchants now include 4-year-old P.J. Cathell, the Fig King of Chincoteague Island, who has been hawking figs daily from a front-yard table...
BY MILES LAYTON, Eastern Shore Post —
A small-town post office is a community gathering spot and it is a lifeline to the mainland for the island of Tangier in the Chesapeake Bay.
Tangier is about 12 miles from the mainland at Crisfield, Md., with the mail boat, the Courtney Thomas,...
The Eastern Shore of Virginia Habitat for Humanity is picking up steam. It is back to its pre-COVID rate of two houses a year, with house number 53 completed in February of this year, and house number 54 expected to be finished in September.
The foundation for house number 55...
BY TED SHOCKLEY
For years, every parade in Cape Charles was led by the Cape Charles Volunteer Fire Company’s 1924 American LaFrance fire truck, which town firefighters bought brand-new a century ago.
It’s spartan and tiny compared to today’s colossal fire engines, which gleam with chrome and lights.
But the old truck’s...
BY JANET BERNOSKY, Eastern Shore Post --
Island Community House on Chincoteague Island welcomed its new executive director April 8.
HannahKate Grobin said she is excited to apply her background in group development and program planning in her new role.
“I am incredibly grateful for the warm welcome I have received...