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What a lot of fun a Washington Street Halloween Parade provided for everyone! The Easton Point float has a row boat on it with lots of fishermen and even has a fish hanging over the side! Can you date the automobile in this Talbot Historical Society Laird Wise Collection photo? Maybe c. late 1940’s? Happy Halloween tomorrow!!
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This group of 5 men and 2 women appear to be having a fun time on a classic old wooden motor boat! There are many other yachts in the background so it may have been at either a sailboat or powerboat regatta on the Miles River off of St. Michaels, Maryland? Can you identify any of these people? Photo from the Talbot Historical Society’s H. Robins Hollyday Collection.
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Saturday October 12th, 2024 @ 2pm Entrance to the Gardens between 25 and 29 S. Washington St., Easton
Bring your lawn chairs to spend the afternoon with us!
The Mid-Shore Community Band will play a free outdoor concert in the Talbot Historical Society Gardens on Saturday, October 12th at 2 pm. The band, which was founded in 2009, is composed of volunteer musicians from across the Eastern Shore of Maryland. The band was formed to allow musicians of all ages and experience to practice and perform music. The band continues the tradition of town bands in the Middle Eastern Shore of Maryland. This concert will include a variety of pieces ranging from march classics, favorite movie themes, and spooky tunes perfect for the autumnal season. This concert is free and open to the public, with donations gratefully accepted. A portion of MSCB funding is received from Maryland State Arts Council, Talbot Arts, Dorchester Center for the Arts, and Choptank Arts and Culture Exchange. For more information about the Mid-Shore Community Band, visit the band’s website, www.mscb.org.
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Talbot Historical Society office/research/exhibit hours are: Wednesday through Saturday 10am-3pm
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In 1939, Easton, Maryland’s baseball team is pictured here doing their pregame exercises at Federal Park, located between Bay Street and Federal Street! It’s always interesting to see the names of the local companies that were represented in the ads on the fence back then! Marshall’s Express Delivery, A new 1939 Chevrolet, J. McKen Fertilizer and Feed Company, and L. Rude & Son Artesian Wells are the visible ads! If you are an Orioles fan you may be thinking maybe these stretches could help our team get out of their slump!
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Project Rewind-Talbot County: This Talbot Historical Society c. 1940’s H. Robins Hollyday Collection photo presents a mystery to be solved? Why would six band members be playing music on that small boat? Can you help identify this group of musicians or the gentleman who appears to be clapping to their music? Contact: Cathy Hill [email protected] to share your old photos and purchase our collections photos. Comment, Like our page and join the Talbot Historical Society!
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Our “Date with History” speaker series is pleased to present “Sit. Stay. Heal: The Biology of the Human-Animal Bond and its Healing Power” on Wednesday, September 25, 2024 at 1pm. The Talbot Historical Society will host Meg Delay Olmert at the Talbot County Free Library.
Meg Daley Olmert is a world-renowned expert on the neurobiology of the human-animal bond and its therapeutic effects. Her ground-breaking book, Made for Each Other: The Biology of the Human-Animal Bond, published in 2009, was the first to trace the evolution of this ancient bond to the emerging neuroscience that underlies this most powerful interspecies phenomenon. She is a subject expert, author and lecturer on the therapeutic effects of the human-animal bond. Her two TEDx talks have been viewed by tens of thousands. She currently serves as science advisor and proud board member of The Comfort Dog Program of Northern Uganda. Meg also was a co-creator of Warrior Canine Connection’s Mission Based Trauma Recovery Program at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland.
Speaker presentation by Meg Olmert will begin at 1:00 PM.
This is presented by the Talbot Historical Society in partnership with the Talbot County Free Library and will take place at the library located at 100 W. Dover St., Easton, MD 21601. The lecture is free to the public, but reservations are required. Please contact the Talbot Historical Society at 410-822-0773 or email [email protected].
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410-822-0773 or email [email protected] Hours: Wednesday – Saturday 10a – 3pm
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Happy Labor Day! Talbot County Schools opened August 26 , days before the traditional day after Labor Day openings of the past! A special thanks to Cissy Weibe for sharing this picture of her Dad Fred Fox (far right) with his two brothers (left to right) Morton Fox and Benjamin Fox standing in front of the 1820 Hanson Street Easton High School building . The Hanson Street School became Easton Elementary School in 1929 when the new Idlewild Avenue Easton High School building was opened. Ben Fox lived in Easton and worked with his brother Fred at the Fox Cannery in Queen Anne, Maryland. Ben died in 1971 at 42. Morton Fox was in the Army and lived all over. Fred Fox was born in 1927 so this photo was probably taken in the late 1930’s when it was Easton Elementary School.
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According to our Past Perfect Museum database information this August 1942 Talbot Historical Society Laird Wise Collection photo was taken inside of Corkran’s General Store in Trappe, Maryland! On the left is Annie Pritchett and on the right is Norman Salisbury holding a baby. Other database identification states that this store was demolished and a bank and a commercial building is in this location across from Momma Maria’s Restaurant. Can you verify this information?
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On August 11, 1954 at 3 am, a fire flared up behind the People’s Meat Market on the south side of Goldsborough Street near Washington Street in Easton, Maryland. The fire destroyed stores on Goldsborough Street and McCrory’s which had entrances on both Goldsborough and Washington Streets. This Talbot Historical Society’s H. Robins Hollyday photo is of the interior of McCrory’s 5 & 10 after the fire. Facts: “ Easton Album” by Norman Harrington 1986.
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Can you identify this Log Canoe? The buildings on the shoreline behind the racing Log Canoe identify its location and a possible date estimate. The building shapes and sizes mirror postcards that we have of the W. H. Valliant Packing Company in Bellevue, Maryland! So the race was at Oxford, Maryland’s Tred Avon Yacht Club on the Tred Avon River. The Packing Plant began packing oysters, crabs, and vegetables about 1899. In 1924 a fire destroyed the plant but W. H. Valliant rebuilt it and it didn’t shut down permanently until 1946! In the 1960’s the Bellevue Landing was purchased by Talbot County and the area was improved to include rented boat slips, a boat ramp, and other amenities. This photo was probably taken in the 1930’s or 1940’s! Facts: talbotcountymd.gov. Photo from the Talbot Historical Society’s H. Robins Hollyday Collection .
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