by Ted Shockley | Jun 26, 2023 | Features
BY STEFANIE JACKSON, Eastern Shore Post — Greg DeYoung has stepped down as the chief of Community Volunteer Fire Company in Exmore to become Northampton County’s new director of emergency services. The town of Exmore honored DeYoung on Monday, June, 5 for his decades...
by Ted Shockley | Jun 26, 2023 | Features
BY STEFANIE JACKSON, Eastern Shore Post — Cape Charles’ Citizens for Central Park celebrates a decade of summer music with its 2023 free concert series from Saturday, June 24, through Saturday, Sept. 9. The concert series is “the largest and most successful one on the...
by Ted Shockley | Jun 20, 2023 | Features
BY CLARA VAUGHN, Eastern Shore Post — When work began on the John H. Tarr Bay to Beach Trail, leaders aimed to provide a safe connection between downtown Chincoteague and Assateague Island. The town will celebrate those leaders, particularly John H. “Jack” Tarr — who...
by Ted Shockley | Jun 13, 2023 | Features
BY RYAN WEBB, Eastern Shore Post If you’re from here or you’ve been here long enough, you know that the Eastern Shore is home to many uniquely named places that can be tricky for outsiders to pronounce. In the April 2023 issue of Shore First, I covered how to say...
by Ted Shockley | Jun 13, 2023 | Features
BY CURTIS BADGER, Shore First columnist In February 1779, during the American Revolution, the British made a raid on Joynes Neck, east of Drummondtown, now named Accomac. It was more of a harassment than a skirmish, but in making the attack the British committed a...
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...
