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The Spy’s favorite part of the Waterfowl Festival is when dogs do indeed have their day in the highly competitive Delmarva Dock Dogs long jump and fetch content.
A spy was on hand with this reconnaissance footage.
This video is approximately 1 minute in length. The Festival continues this Sunday. Please go here for more information.
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One of the most enjoyable parts of the Spy’s arts coverage is when we notice that some of the Mid-Shore’s best vocalists and musicians find their way home to perform after hitting the big time in places like the jazz clubs of New York City and elsewhere. Over the years, we’ve seen remarkable standouts such as Maggie Rogers and Hannah Gill rise to popularity in the highly competitive world of live performers and yet always find a way to come back to Easton for a celebratory gig.
That happened when the Avalon welcomed back saxophonist and composer Julian Brezon to the Stolz Room last Saturday night. While Julian graduated from Easton High School and moved on to the Peabody Institute, he has an exceptional place of honor at the Dover Street venue since it was his job to change the Avalon’s marquee sign every week.
And the Avalon made him feel right at home when they asked Julian and his quartet to honor the 100th birthday of the jazz great Charles Mingus as part of the foundation’s celebration of their theatre turning 100 years this year as well.
We had a Spy in the audience for a short report on how special this evening was for Mingus, Brezon, and the Avalon.
This video is approximately two minutes in length. For more information about Julian Brezon please go here.
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Spring is officially here and that means the opening of the Easton, MD Farmers Market is just around the corner. Every Saturday, from opening day through December 17th, 25-30 vendors set up pop-up shops that comprise the market. This year’s market will feature a variety of locally sourced fresh fruits, vegetables, honey, baked goods and fresh bread, fresh-cut flowers, dog treats, wild-caught salmon, oysters, kombucha, rum and spirits, Maryland wine, fresh-pressed juices, nursery plants, house plants, and hand-crafted items on opening day, April 16th, from 8am to 1pm.
To catch up to our beloved downtown market, the Spy invited the Avalon Foundation’s market manager Marie Nuthall to come by our studio for a short chat.
The Avalon Foundation sponsors the successful farmers’ market. “The Easton Farmers Market is a long-standing tradition spanning 40+ years in its current format. Not only is it an opportunity to know your farmer, it’s also a place to connect with neighbors in a festive and relaxed open-air atmosphere,” said market manager Marie Nuthall. The market will feature live local music each week beginning at 10:30am.
The market is located in downtown Easton, in the municipal parking lot on the 100 block of N. Harrison Street – north of Goldsboro Street. The market will operate through December 17th, rain or shine, and will continue to offer seasonal produce and other locally grown, produced and hand-crafted items.
This video is approximately three minutes in length. For more information about Easton Farmers’ Market please go here.
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The second day of the 50th Waterfowl Festival in Easton was challenged by gusty winds and colder temperatures, but that did not seem to bother the raptor demonstration being held at Easton High School.
Again, this year, Brian Bradley, a falconer from New York, brought a menagerie of owls, hawks, falcons and eagles to the festival. This Spy attended the Saturday afternoon show, which did not disappoint. A crowd of around a hundred watched and listened as Bradley introduced a series of birds as he walked around the ring, providing each of us a close-up look.
The owls struck this spy as wise. The demonstration featured several of them, ranging from tiny to quite large.
Bradley coaxed one of them out of a box and into flight, thrilling the crowd as the bird flew seventy feet to retrieve a reward. The wingspan was huge. It was easy to imagine the owl snaring a rabbit and flying off to a tasty meal.
The falcons were perhaps the highlight of the show. Bradley provided an airshow, releasing one bird that flew a hundred or so yards away and circled, looking for something to eat.
It was easy to imagine the bird just flying away, but it responded to sounds made by Bradley as well as the crowd calling out its name and returned, again to collect a reward consisting of a piece of chicken.
This Spy hopes the festival includes the raptor demonstration again this year. I left the hour-long event knowing more about raptors and appreciating how special they are.
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Flying Dogs? How is that possible? Consultation with an aeronautical engineer might produce an answer, but this spy saw the evidence. On Friday, at the Waterfowl Festival in Easton, I saw more than a dozen in flight, some traveling more than twenty feet.
The Diving Dogs Competition consists of dogs running from a platform (the dock) into a large above ground swimming pool to demonstrate retrieving skills. Performances for the longest distance in the air and for the shortest time to hit the water, retrieve a training dummy, a substitute for a duck, and return to the dock are judged. The event also includes an opportunity for amateur dogs.
This spy chose not to enter his 10-year-old goldendoodle into the competition. When informed that she would not be asked to compete, the doodle wagged her tail.
The Diving Dogs Competition is this spy’s favorite part of the festival. It alone is worth the price of admission. The competition continues Saturday, November 13 and Sunday, November 14, so there’s still time to see the athletic, courageous, and beautiful dogs in action.
This year’s competition is being held at the Elk’s Lodge at 502 Dutchman’s Lane.
A Waterfowl Ticket is required for admission and is good for admission to all Festival events through Sunday. They are on sale at the Elk’s Lodge and at the main Waterfowl Festival site in downtown Easton. Visit the official Waterfowl Festival website for more information.
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The weather gods must have known that the greater conservation movement of the Eastern Shore was gathering on Friday night to honor Beverly and Richard Tilghman as the Horn Point Lab’s Chesapeake Champions for 2021.
With clear skies, no humidity, and 70-degree weather, over two hundred scientists, environmentalists, and patrons of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science gathered at the Tidewater Inn courtyard on Thursday to pay tribute to the Tilghmans and their legacy of land and water conservation over the years.
And in keeping with the Tilghmans ongoing support of Horn Point Lab students and their research, several of those grad students were able to highlight their work at the Dorchester campus. Those reports were both moving and encouraging as these young leaders outlined what their projects contributed to the health of the Chesapeake Bay and beyond.
But eventually, it was the Tilghmans turn to address the crowd, and our assigned spy was able to capture Richard’s remarks at the end of a very joyful moment for the Mid-Shore.
This video is approximately three minutes in length.
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What better way to support local small businesses than with gift cards?
That’s what Emily and Ryan Groll thought the other day. Rather than giving money or gifts to the Sprout staff for the holidays, they decided that their business, Sprout, would purchase thousands of dollars worth of gift cards from local businesses in the hospitality sector in Talbot County. And those cards would be given away as part of a Sprout staff Zoom auction.
Ryan notes that “a little Jeopardy mixed in and an exciting ‘seek and show’ for additional prizes” is perfect in having fun and supporting the hard-hit community businesses all the same time.
What is your business doing this year to help with COVID support? Let us know, and we’ll share on the Talbot and our Facebook page. Send your story to talbot@spycommunitymedia.org.
Gift cards can be purchased here.
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One the Spy’s many Spies alerted us yesterday that the Easton High School Band now as a major hit on their hands. According to Facebook’s records, their socially-distant performance has now been seen by over 75,000 people in less than two days.
All this proves that dedicated musicians can indeed carry a tune during COVID.
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Pictured is the Todd’s Corner Trash Pickup Team after spending Saturday morning picking up trash along Unionville Road from St. Michaels Road to the Miles River Bridge, Todd’s Corner Road to Gregory Road/Bruff’s Island spur and to Presquile Road. Anyone wanting to start a team of your own to help us keep Talbot County roads trash free, contact Rebecca Murphy at rmurphy@shorerivers.org.
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Plein Art Easton was kicked off beautifully with the 7th Annual Tilghman Island Pre-Competition Paint Out Exhibit and Sale on Thursday night. With music provided by local singer-songwriter and guitarist Kentavius Jones, artists spend the day painting the picturesque watermen’s village of Tilghman and competing for the $1,000 Tilghman Island Waterman’s Museum Artists’ Choice Prize at the Wyler Hotel that evening.
A Spy was there for a reconnaissance report.
This video is approximately one minute in length. For more information about Plein Art Easton please go here.
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