A grand Glen Burnie
I grew up down Ritchie Highway from Glen Burnie. Known mostly for its shopping centers, comfortable neighborhoods — and my high school, it isn’t a place one would call grand. […]
A nod to the fallen at Antietam — MARY K. TILGHMAN WRITES
I spent many hours contemplating the ultimate sacrifice given by so many during the Civil War Battle of Antietam while I wrote DIVIDED LOYALTIES. Some 23,000 soldiers were killed, wounded or […]
Dinner with Eastern Shore history
I could almost hear the stagecoach pulling up outside and the bustle of passengers gathering their belongings for a night in this 18th Century Eastern Shore town. We’d escaped crowds […]
POSTCARD from the fountains at Longwood
The fountains at Longwood Gardens, in the Brandywine Valley near Wilmington, Del., were always part of the magic of the place. Lavish like everything else, their waters sprayed and sparkled […]
The ice cream experience
One trip to the Turkey Hill Experience would have been plenty if all we did was wander through the exhibits and finish at the gift shop. But ice cream is […]
Postcard for the Fourth of July
Reading L.G. Shreve’s wonderful biography of Tench Tilghman for an upcoming novel, I ran across this quote, a tribute to loyalty. “Perhaps a clue to the closeness of the relationship between […]
A cup of colonial coffee
Research can be so wearing. So many questions. So many notes. Long days. Oh the tedium. Except when you’re doing that research in Colonial Williamsburg. I returned from three days […]
