One of the best parts of early spring is that the Mid-Shore Arts performing centers start announcing their 2025 schedules. Filled with first-rate community theatre, world-class musicians, and accomplished writers, these hubs of culture, like the Garfield in Chestertown, the Avalon in Easton, and the DCA in Cambridge, go out of their way to bring the best and brightest to entertain and enrich their communities.
No one does it better than the Oxford Community Center. For decades, the OCC has played a critical role in that small town by bringing an extraordinary variety of performers, writers, artists, car enthusiasts, foodies, and, just as importantly, a safe public square to share and argue different points of view on local government.
Heading all of that for the past eight years has been its director, Liza Ledford. And every year, the Spy sits down with her to hear what’s cooking in Oxford. It won’t surprise anyone to know she and her board of directors have a look at what’s cookin’ over the next few months.
This video is approximately four minutes in length. For more information about the Oxford Community Center please go here.
Such a special snowy winter scene from the Talbot Historical Society’s H. Robins Hollyday Collection! The date and location are unidentified but it looks like the Pier Street docks in Oxford, Maryland overlooking the Tred Avon River. So many things to observe! The oyster tonging watermen must have just come in and are unloading their oyster haul into the basket hanging from the boom on the dock to the right.
