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 Ocean City Lifesaving
Station Museum by tpangelinan
June through September,
open daily 11 am to 10 pm
October and May,
open daily 11 am to 4 pm
Winter, please call for availability ADMISSION
$3 for adults and $1 for children 12 and under.
AAA membership honored: 2 (two) for the price of 1 (one).
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 Wet ride! by tpangelinan
(For more information about the Sea Rocket, call 410-289-5887. For the OC Rocket, call 410-289-3500.)
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 by frankcanfly
The nine-stanza poem was written by James Ryder Randall in April 1861. A native of Maryland, Randall was teaching in Louisiana in the early days of the Civil War, and he was outraged at the news of Union troops being marched through Baltimore.
The poem articulated Randall's Confederate sympathies. Set to the traditional tune of "Lauriger Horatius" ("O, Tannenbaum"), the song achieved wide popularity in Maryland and throughout the South. Leave a Comment
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The Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake is a Tri-State Area. The State of Delaware is totally on the Eastern Shore fronting on the Atlantic Ocean. The southern end of the Eastern Shore including part of Smith Island and all of Tangier Island is in Virginia. But most of the Eastern Shore is in Maryland.
In spite of former Governer Shaeffer who referred to it as the 'outhouse of Maryland', the Eastern Shore has a lot going for it. It is sandwiched between the Atlantic Ocean and the Chesapeake Bay - a largely flat sandy penninsula which has lots of beaches for summer tourists and produces not only much of the seafood, but also chickens and vegetables.
My pages on the Eastern Shore (first number tips, second number photos and third number travelogues) include:
Bruff's Island 0 9 1
Chestertown 4 14 1
Crisfield 49 116 5
Hills Point 0 2 1 (just a narrative section about a cruise on our boat)
Ocean City 1 3 0
Oxford 0 15 2 (two travelogues)
Queenstown 0 3 0 This page just has one narrative on the intro page and no pictures of Queenstown itself. Leave a Comment
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If you think of the state as crab's left claw, with the Chesapeake Bay between the pinchers
Southern Maryland where I live is the west side or thumb side of the claw and it consists of the counties of Charles, Calvert, and St. Mary's. I live in Leonardtown, which is in St. Mary's County, Maryland. So I have lots of tips in this area, which I have distributed into the various communities served by a single post office but which are separate areas in VT.
In addition to (first number = tips, second number = photos, third number = travelogues) Leonardtown 28 122 5 (28 tips 122 photos and 5 travelogues) I have pages at (in alphabetical order within the counties):
Charles County
Benedict 1 6 0
Hughesville 1 1 0
Morgantown 8 11 0 (north end of the 301 Nice Bridge)
Popes Creek 2 9 0
Calvert County
Broomes Island 1 4 0
Lusby 1 1 0
Prince Frederick 8 49 0 (the County Seat)
Solomons Island 40 161 5 (home of the Maritime Museum)
But of course most of my tips are in St. Mary's County
Abell 2 12 0 (7th district),
Beauvue 2 13 1,
Chaptico 0 1 0,
California 14 34 0,
Callaway 4 13 0,
Charlotte Hall 0 1 0,
Clarks Landing 2 11 0,
Coltons Point 2 4 0,
Dameron 0 1 0,
Great Mills 6 13 1
Helen 0 1 0,
Hollywood 1 7 1,
Horse Landing 6 17 1
Lexington Park 12 53 3,
Loveville 2 5 0
Mechanicsville 8 14 0
Morganza 2 5 0
Park Hall Estates 0 2 0
Piney Point 15 34 2
Point Lookout State Park 26 53 3
Ridge 11 59 4 (our marina)
Saint Andrews Estates 2 12 1 (write up on historic church)
Saint Clements Island 1 7 0
Saint George Island 1 8 0
Saint Inigoes Shores 1 4 0 (on the local NAS)
Sandgates 4 6 0
St. Marys City 12 19 1 (not finished)
Wildewood 3 6 0 (note that Wilde has an E on it - there are two other Wildwoods in Maryland without the E) Leave a Comment
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This section of my tips is on Baltimore, Annapolis, northern and western Maryland
(first number tips, second number photos, third number travelogues):
Annapolis 34 81 3 - Maryland's Capital. In the past we have visited the boat show on Columbus Day weekend.
Baltimore 63 177 4 - where I was born - a work in constantly in progress (currently a top 5 page) This is Maryland's biggest city.
Baltimore City and Baltimore County
Cockeysville 2 3 0 - Go north towards York PA
Curtis Bay 0 3 0 - South shore of the Patapsco River - under construction
Dundalk 3 6 0 Port for the Big Ships - under construction
Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine 1 3 0
Hunt Valley 4 17 0
Sparrows Point 0 2 0
Timonium 3 10 0 Site of the State Fair
Towson 18 63 2 - The County Seat of Baltimore County. My mom's home and where I lived through High School and college. Currently a top 5 page.
Northeast Maryland
Fair Hill 3 11 1 - mostly about horses from when my children were competing in combined training in the 80's. The photographs on this page aren't very good.
Western Maryland
Cumberland 0 3 0 - Out at the end of the Panhandle - under construction
Hancock 8 19 1 includes the Sideling Hill Rest Stop. Leave a Comment
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We spent over 10 years between 1987 and 2000 driving back and forth through Central Maryland between Baltimore and Southern Maryland along the 301-3 corridor. We would have dinner on the drive down to Leonardtown in Southern Maryland on Friday, and have lunch Sunday on the drive back up to Brooklyn Park in northern Anne Arundel County to prepare for the work week in Baltimore. That's why most of these tips are about restaurants.
(First number tips, second number photos, third number narratives)
Bowie 8 38 0
Brooklyn Park 7 14 0 (our former city house)
Columbia 1 4 0 A planned community where our third daughter lived
Crofton 12 38 0 (restaurant tips)
Ellicott City2 5 0 (oldest daughter's home)
Gambrills 4 14 0 (restaurant tips)
Glen Burnie 4 6 0
Laurel 1 2 0 (where I used to work)
Linthicum 4 15 0
Linthicum Heights 1 8 (one brunch/lunch place tip and list of lunch places in the intro)
Odenton 1 8 0 (Jim's Hideaway tip)
Parole (west of Annapolis) 2 7 0
Pasadena 6 18 1 (my husband's brother's home)
Selby Beach 0 9 1
Even after I retired in 1999, I still used to travel this route when I went to visit my mom who lived in Towson. Now that my mom has died, I am still going back and forth to handle estate matters, but after this year, I probably will not be going north on any regular basis. Leave a Comment
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 Big Snow in MD by Radiomom
This is the most snow we've seen since 1979 (or was it '80?) The Governor made it illegal to drive the night of Feb 16 unless you were a cop, emergency vehicle, or a plow! (Oh, yeah... there's supposed to be steps up to that door.) Leave a Comment
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