Friday, November 30, 2018

USS SARATOGA'S NEW HOME IN NARRAGANSETT BAY



USS SARATOGA
GETS NEW HOME


Flying the black flag of a ship under tow the aircraft carrier, USS
Saratoga slipped out of a berth at the old Philadelphia Naval Shipyard
just after dawn Monday, August 3, 1998 bound for it's new home in
Middletown, Rhode Island, at the Naval Education & Training
Center on Narragansett Bay. Thousands were at New York piers
42 years age during the ships commissioning and in Mayport, Florida,
for it retirement in 1994., but,, only a handful of maintenance workers
were on hand Monday to give farewell as under a cloud of diesel
smoke from the tugboats taking her to Narragansett Bay. During the
USS Saratogo's 40 years of service she participated in every major
conflict which the United States was involved.

Source: Tuesday, August 4, 1998, Wilmington News Journal.

Thursday, November 29, 2018

LEE PITTS PARADIGM



IT'S THE PITTS
BY
LEE PITTS
UNSUSTAINABLE

Two of the biggest catchwords of the 21 century are “paradigm”
and “sustainable”..

College professors and overeducated use paradigm a lot while the
fancy pants of society tend to over use sustainable.

When you hear someone use these words, bet your life that you are Iin the
midst of pink palmed country club people who ' attend ' the theater
while you and I 'go to the theater'. Why use paradigm when you don't
even know what it means. Using plain talk, easy understood, it is just a
nickle short of a quarter. Sustainable, your guess is as good as anyone. Is
it a hip word popular with the environmentally conscious ?

A sustainable bank went bankrupt because it had more vice presidents
than it had depositors. A cowboy is not a sustainable career, they say,
nor is a cowboy writer. Maybe a homeless person, living under a bridge
with his possessions in a shopping cart is sustainable.

All of this sustainable stuff is unsustainable. You can have a rock solid
business, then all of a sudden, it stops raining, a mad cow will get to you,
your horse will spook and put you in a body cast, the climate will change
or your wife will leave you and take your sustainability with her.

Life is not sustainable, Steve Jobs died did he not. He founded the largest
sustainable corporation in the world. We all have an expiration date no
matter how sustainable we think we are.

Love is sustainable, love your spouse, your children, your God and
country. That has been the paradigm for more than 6000 years.

Lee Pitts in November 27, 2018 , Delmarva Farmer Magazine.

1909 DECEMBER SNOW



HISTORY
1909 DECEMBER SNOW STORM

Monday, December 27, 1909, Wilmington Morning News;

Wilmington is in the grips of the worst snow storm of many years,
probably the 1888 March snow storm. It started Saturday morning
and did not abate until Sunday at noon and was not considered a blizzard,
only a severe snow storm, however, railroads are blocked, street cars
stalled all over the city, and walking is next to impossible. Wire are
down, alarms are off, few telephone working, Wilmington is isolated
and it may take a week to get back to normal.

The street car company has hired all the labors it can find to clear their
tracks. The railroad rain are stalled a few miles out of town, with out
food, caught up in giant snow banks.

Steam boats are running between here and Philadlephia with the Wilson
Line in operation after noon Sunday as the snow was so heavy the pilots
could not see the river at times.

There were 15 inches of snow with wind drifting snow in huge piles and
freezing temperatures cause problems to remove them .

Abstract: Wilmington Morning News, December 27, 1909



USS SARATOGA AT BREAKWATER



USS SARATOGA AIRCRAFT CARRIER
AT
DELAWARE BREAKWATER
1968 HISTORY


Lewes resident, Delaware Bay & River pilot, J. Wright Rowland,
had no problem as the pilot of the Saratoga , going up river from the
Delaware Breakwater Monday, January 7 1968.

There was a 25 knot or higher wind from the northwest as Rowland
stood on the navigation bridge with about 40 Navy officers and seamen
for the trip from the Delaware Breakwater to Philadelphia Navy Yard
where she will be most of this year until December undergoing overhaul
costing forty million dollars. The waters were choppy, lots of ice , it was
cold at 6:30 am when he was able to board.

He spent the day until 3 pm on the bridge with the carriers captain and
10 Navy men talking with crew in the engine room, the steer engine room,
the bow, the stern and all along the sides. There he stayed until the docking
pilot , a Coast Guard officer, took over and spent two hours docking.
The Saratoga is 1039 feet long with a 130 foot beam at her keel and
weighs about 68,000 tons.

For Rowland is was part of a days work as the night before he took a ship
through the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal to Philadelphia up the
Delaware River.


Abstract: Wilmington News Journal , Tuesday, January 9, 1968

Wednesday, November 28, 2018

1943 ST PETER'S HISTORY DR CHARLES TURNER MEMORIAL



HISTORY 1943 LEWES
ST. PETERS EPISCOPAL CHURCH
REV. DR. CHARLES TURNER

Lewes, Delaware. Tuesday, November 16, 1943, Wilmington Morning News


The historic St. Peter's Episcopal Church at Lewes is considering a
Memorial to Rev. Dr. Charles H. B. Turner, a beloved former rector
who was rector there longer than any other minister except the first, the
Rev. Beckett, English missionary from 1721 to 1743.

Dr. Turner was rector for twenty years total, serving on two occasions,
1901 to 1913 and returning to serve another eight years in 1916.
He was much interested in keeping records and data of the parish and of
Sussex county and published a book “ Some Sussex County Records” .
He also had historic exhibits in the sacristy of the church which he had
built in 1903.

A Dr. Turners Memorial Committee has been formed with Nathanial H.
Evans, chairman, members, Howard MacIntire, George Chambers,
Capt. Harry Lyons, Don Evans, USN, Mrs . Marshall Bertrand and
Mrs. William P. Orr.



Abstract: Wilmington Morning News , November 16, 1943.





1943 DELAWARE BREAKWATER REFUGEES





REFUGEES CAUSE NO CRISIS
AT DELAWARE BREAKWATER IN 1943


The Portuguese Serpa Pinto sailing from Lisbon, under a travel
agreement approved by both Washington and Berlin , brought
188 passengers, among them 100 war refugees and 36 children
through the Delaware Breakwater early Sunday morning to the
safety of Philadelphia Port waters. They had spent the night off
Marcus Hook.

All though it is safe at a Philadelphia dock passengers are not allowed to
disembark for several days.

There were 43 Americans who had been waiting months for passage
home and 35 men and women one time residents of now Nazi
countries.


The ship made the Atlantic under full illumination and the captain
reported his location each day to both Washington and Berlin under
the “agreement” of safe conduct so no one would fire upon her.

This is the second trip the Serpa Pinto has made within the year when
it brought 200 refugees here last November:

Abstract: Monday, January 25, 1943, Philadelphia Inquirer

Tuesday, November 27, 2018

1943 HISTORY REHOBOTH USO ART CLASS



HISTORY
REHOBOTH U. S. O. 1943



Wilmington News Journal, Saturday, December 18, 1943:

Soldier Art Show to Open

On Monday, a three man soldier art show will open in the USO
Club at Rehoboth with a concert by the Harbor of Defense Band
from Fort Miles.

Water colors and oil paintings of local scenes by the three enlisted
men from Fort Miles will be shown.

Pfc. Howard Schroeder , Tech Sgt 5th Hyman Snell and Staff Sgt.
Thomas Tedesco, members of an art class held by Marie McCloskey
Benjamin, Lewes High School art teacher, at the Rehoboth USO.

Abstract: Wilmington News Journal , Saturday, December 18, 1943



Monday, November 26, 2018

VARIANCE



VARIANCE

Research of the word VARIANCE which has been used or is under
discussion by the 8 am coffee group at the Wescoats – Five Points Arby's.
Variance is a noun, the fact or quality being different, divergent, or
` inconsistent..
Synonyms: difference, variation, discrepancy, disagreement, conflict,
divergence, deviation, contradiction, imbalance, incongruity .
The state of fact of disagreeing or quarreling and in law a
discrepancy between two statement of documents.
Source: Google dictionary.
***
In probability theory and statistics, variance, is the expectation of the
squared deviation of a random variable from its mean, informally, it
measures how far a set of randon numbers are spread out from their
average value. Variance has a central role in statistics where some ideas
that use it include descriptive statistics, hypothesis and goodness of fit.
Variance is an important tool in the sciences. The variance is the square
of the standard deviation, the second central moment of a distribution
and the covariance of the random variable with itself and is represented
by o.2, s.2 or VAR (X)
SOURCE: WIKIPDIA
***
Variance is a measurement of the spread between number in a date set and measures how far each number in the set is from the mean. Variance is
calculated by taking the difference between each number in the set and
the mean, squaring the difference to make them positive and dividing the
sum of the squars by the number of values in the set.

SOURCE: INVESTOPIDA.COM

I sure hope you consider all above the next time you use VARIANCE.

By Harrison H. for Facebook readers. 11/26/18.



Sunday, November 25, 2018

ALLEN CHORMAN



ALLEN CHORMAN SPEAKS
AGRICURTURAL AERIAL SPRAY PILOT
LAMENTS URBAN SPRAW 1988



When Chorman takes off the Eagle Crest airport near Lewes, he is able
to view route 1 toward Rehoboth and all the new developments.
He knows by flying over them he is jeopardizing the people below as he
is flying low as Ag sprayer's generally do.

In 1988 he had to give up 5% of his business because of encroachment
of homes and businesses on once open farmland. In spite of his 23 year
record of no accidents he just can't risk it. Farmers in the Cape area
have to do without the service.

Agricultural aerial spraying is an essential service and rescue farmers
from disaster and it helps keep food prices down.

Chorman thinks county officials need to take a stand against development
as a native Sussex Countian and not blacktop nor cement over the lands
to create another Washington, DC or Philadelphia.




Abstract: 11/25/18 by Harrison H. from Friday, November 25, 1988,
Wilmington Morning News by Sussex Bureau reporter Carlolyn Lewis.



GRAND OPERA HOUSE OF WLMINGTON


GRAND OPERA HOUSE
WILMINGTON

1970'S RESTORATION


Friday, November 25, 1988, Bill Frank, a New Journal columnist,
wrote in the Wilmington Morning News, that the Grand Opera House,
on Market Street, recently received an award from the federal government
as an exciting center for arts and culture.

The award was presented by President Reagan on behalf of the National
Historic Preservation Council to Catherine Reese, president of the
Grand Opera House, the history of which dates back to 1871 when it was
built as part of the Masonic Building and was Delaware's real theater.
As time passed it deteriorated until 1970 when John Craig executive
editor of New Journal newspapers, and Bill Frank, columnist, got
together and 'discussed' the history of the Grand Opera House. What
came about was the multi million dollar restoration project. It became
one of the most rewarding and satisfying projects ever staged in the city.

One goal of the Masons in establishing the the theater was to expand the
cultural level and still today the Grand is a lively center for local and
world class artists.

A 1979 News Journal editorial on December 22, tells a good bit about
the project's success.
“ What brought everyone together in 1971 was to restore the Grand Old
Lady of Market Street to her former glamor, which now was in disuse and
disrepair , and enrich the cultural life of the community and provide a
suitable stage for performances such as the Delaware Symphony and
to bring in an array of musical and theatrical talent from all over the world.

John Craig's dream 1970 dream has turned into reality.


FORT McHENRY 1988 DIG.



FORT McHENRY
MILITARY ARTIFACTS FOUND 1988

Archaeologists discovered a trench presumably used by
infantry men during 1814 Brittish attack on Baltimore and
in this trench were found a pewter button from an infantryman’s
coat and a 10 pound fragment of a British cannon ball.

A major discovery says the archaeologist in charge, Charles
Creek, who were digging to find the fort's original underground
drainage conduits. The trench is on the western flank of the fort, the
side farthest from the harbor and the British fleet.

History tells there were 600 infantrymen that would have used the
trench had the British tried to land troops.

September 13, 1814 the night of the British attack artillerymen
manned the cannon on the bastions facing the outer harbor. The
British gunboats were two miles down the Patapsco River. The troops
unable to make landing retreated , leaving four dead and two dozen
wounded.


Abstract: 11/25/18 by Harrison H. from Wilmington Morning
News, Friday , November 25, 1988 for Facebook readers and www.delmarhistory.blogspot.com.

PEA PATCH ISLAND, FT DELAWARE & MISS KATHY.



PEA PATCH ISLAND
AND
MISS KATHY


Friday 26 November 1988, Wilmington Morning News.

The Miss Kathy , the 42 foot which carries 42 passengers from the
Branch Canal at the foot of Clinton Street in Delaware City, one mile
trip to the Pea Patch Island State Park, is retired and replaced by double
the size, 20 year younger, 90 passenger custom built ferry boat.

Pea Patch Island, with Fort Delaware, once a Confederate POW Camp,
is a tourist attraction and the largest nesting grounds for wading birds
on the East Coast.

The 20 year old Miss Kathy, a all wooden vessel , got too old to maintain.
It is difficult to find anyone to work on a wood ship nowadays and it is
feared the coast Guard will shut her down any time. Plus that she is to
small at 49 passengers since attendance to Ft. Delaware is increasing
every year.

The new ferry vessel will be 57 feet long, made of fiberglass with twin
diesel engines and carry more than 100 visitors each trip, and cost th
Parks Department $200,000. She is to be named Delafort.

Miss Kathy's fate is uncertain but she will probably go up to auction.


Abstract: 25 November 2018 by Harrison H. for Facebook readers
26 November 1988 Wilmington Morning News

Saturday, November 24, 2018

PROMISED LAND FISH PRODUCTS SHIP



PROMISED LAND
OLD FISH PRODUCTS VESSEL
TO GO TO
SNOW HILL, MARYLAND SEA SCOUTS.

Baltimore Evening Sun , Tuesday, May 21, 1968
Twenty one Sea Scouts of Snow Hill , Maryland have taken a
giveaway fishing ship, a 180 ton, a 125 foot sea going vessel, the
stripped down wooden hull thereof, to be their meeting place and
training center of Sea Scout Ship 155.
It is one of fifteen outmoded fishing ships given away by the Fish
Products company of Lewes according to Bob Kennedy, company
comptroller. They were replaced by more up to date steel hull ships.
Other ships were given to Ocean City to become a reef to aid vacationing anglers. One became a waterborne restaurant on the
Naticoke River in Seaford,, the Chestertowm Methodist Church camp got one.
A New Jersey beach home owner took on an used it as a sunken
bulk head. The Baltimore Seaman Union made one of several they took to use as a museum.
These ships were known as “Purse Seiners” and stripped of engines and other gear. Promised Land, the sea scouts boat, was built in 1938, 125feet long, 21 feet wide, has crew quarters and mess that will keep 29
boys comfortable. It came to Snow Hill on the Wicomico and Pocomoke
Rivers, under the low level bridge at Pocomoke by tug.
Promised Land is a mess now but there are great plans for it, most of it's equipment was stripped, the wheel and navigational gear was stolen
from the pilot house by vandals The scouts intend to redeck, repaint,
and 'fitted out' for the scouts unit.. No engine but she will be shipshape
again. The deck to be used for seamanship training, and, open air
dances. The quarters and mess will hold over night meetings and affairs,
the pilot house will have a wheel and navigation gear for training.


Abstract: 11/24/18 by Harrison H., from May 21, Tuesday,
1968, Baltimore Sun written by Frank Megargee of the Eastern Shore
Bureau.

Friday, November 23, 2018

1944 THANKSGIVING IN EUROPE



A EUROPEAN THANKSGIVING
FOR TWO MILLION AMERICAN TROOPS
1944

Paris, France, November 22, 1944 :

Two million American troops will observe Thanksgiving tomorrow
at turkey dinners in six European countries, including Germany. Many
will be able to attend Divine Services in cathedrals they helped to liberate.

In Paris a solemn high mass in Notre Dame will be held, protestant
service at the American Episcopal Church and Jewish Services are in
the Rothschild Synnagogue.

In the Seine base section, a 16 voice Army choir will sing at Catholic
and Protestant churches. The Oise base section at Reims services at
Reims Catherdral will be had. In Cherbourg, the first French city to be
liberated, French citizens, English troops and American will join in a
Thanksgiving Festival with French choral groups.

Britain plans a typical American Thanksgiving Day celebration.. In
Lincolnshire the little village of Boston will have a parade and a evening
ball with American troops and nurses as special guest.

Protestant services at Westminster Abby, high mass at Brompton Oratory
and Jewish services at West London Synagougue will be had.

In Rome the first Thanksgiving since the liberation of that place will
take place with American servicemen in attendance.

Abstract: 11/23/18 by Harrison H from Thursday, 23 November,
1944, Wilmington Morning News by UP Correspondent J. Edward
Murray.



Thursday, November 22, 2018

LEE PITTS COW BOY COURAGE



COWBOY COURAGE
AND
THE RING MAN JOB

The job of 'ring man' is not for sissies. Nor are we talking about
the guy with coat and silk tie, eating barbecue, outside, the auction
ring, the bid collector, at the auction market. We are taking about the
real guy, inside the ring, matching wits with a killer cow. Yes, the
auctioneer gets top billing but it is the ring man, risking his life, so the
show may go on. The ring man profession is not listed as one of the
most dangerous jobs but it can be a widow maker, something like a
bull fighter. He's a decoy to get a raging bull or a huffy heifer in line.
Ring men wade into a herd of pair to sort off a cow and calf, they have
been seen walking across the backs of steers to get to a maverick.


Tennis Shoe Tommy was one ring man worth watching. Yes, he
had an attitude, but, he had an unequaled skill , a ducker and dodger,
and knew which steer need to be sorted off, most times before the buyer
knew. Always a step ahead of a hard charging cow. Tommy never got
hurt. His manure stained tennis shoes kept him agile and as he got older
at work. Cigarettes got him in the end.


Things at the auction gate did change, gate that the ring man opened
and closed were opened and closed with a button pushed by the
auctioneer. No more ring men. Total dismay. No more cowboy
courage.


Abstract: March 12, 2017, Steer Planet – Show Steers & Club
Calf Fourm by Lee Pitts.

Wednesday, November 21, 2018

LEE PITTS LESSONS





LEE PITTS
LESSONS LEARNED
THOSE STILL TO LEARN


The FencePost.com, 15 March 2016:

Lee Pitts has been writing a syndicated column for 35 yeas now.
Three of those years her wrote a humor column under an assumed name
because he didn't want to disgrace the family name. Before all this he
worked for a livestock weekly news letter on contract trying to sell
cattle advertising. He was not good at it. He wasn't a salesman.

Pitts wanted to write, unfortunately, the publisher didn’t share
his glowing opinion's of his writing skills. Pitts asked to be editor but
a plagiarist, a literary thief, an egomaniac was hired

What the publisher didn't know was he was writing a column
titled “ Grandfathers Collections “ written by the guy who couldn't
write. For a while he worked as a free lance writer, so named because
that's what you work for., free.

Over the years, Pitts says he has known several writers who met
their writing demise when they questioned the integrity of female steer
jocks, the Hereford breed and a town in the Texas panhandle that has a
certain odor as it is surrounded by several feedlots.

Now, to be perfectly clear, Lee Pitts loves the Hereford breed and
the town by the same name. He also happens to think the lady steer
jocks are really “cool “ . He feels political correctness makes it very
difficult to be “funny “.
Funny things written often are offensive to small groups of
people. Like use 'rear end' to avoid the “A “ word.






Lee was in trouble once for a title he did not write and was called
every name in the book for an article written by a competitor but he
never lost a publication because of offensive writtings.

The big reason he stays out of trouble is his wife of 43 years. She
reads every word he writes. Poor girl. If she had not censored his
articles he doubts he would still be in the business.

His wife and he had the same number of English classes in school
but her teachers must have been better teachers, or , maybe she paid
better attention because she knows the rules. What is the difference
between a split infinitive and a idiomatic expression. He had trouble
with its and it's. Like is it Pitt's cow or is it Pitts' cow.

He said his wife knows his audience better and has said “ the
ladies in Nebraska aren't going to like this “. Remember they do not
care for the “ A “ word even when referring to politicians or a male
donkey.

Lee feels it has been his experience that women in Nebraska have
exquisite taste, extremely high morals and are exceptionally bright,
not that the ladies in Indiana, New Mexico, Delaware and Florida
aren't. He near dodged a bullet there. He says, repeat he says, to be
perfectly clear he thinks all women are just like his wife, 200%
perfect I every way.

That my friends is how Lee Pttts has survived four decades
as a columnist and husband.

Abstract: 11/21/18 by Harrison H., from The FencePost.com 2016.

LEE PITS GIFTS



LEE PITTS
GIFTS TO THE AUTHOR
MY HOUSE RUNNETH OVER”


An abstract from a Lee Pitts article from the November 20, 2018,
Delmarva Farmer new's paper out of Easton Maryland for the Mid-
Atlantic farmers.

He says there are many benefits to being a syndicated columnist and an author although the pay is a 'pittance' the gifts you get more than make up the difference.
Once he wrote about his barb wire collection and a long time reader in South Dakota sent his his entire barb wire collection and another reader in Nebraska sent a three foot windmill made from barb wire.
At home he says he has very little room for the books people have sent because the bookshelves are full of a miniature anvil collection.
The Renaissance Magazine ran a few of my columns and paid me
off with a 1957 red Chevy Bel Air convertible but it was only three inches
long. I have collections of everything, knife, spurs, bits, hats, bullet,
pencil, art and clocks. In the branding arm collection I have one that
folds from Will & Debb, Bob sent a mniature with my name, Range
Magazine gave me a bigger golden version with my brand that is cherished even if it is not pure gold.. Skinner gave a cutting board
from the wood from his own ranch, EC sent 40 years of date books so I
can tell where to be and when. Butch sent several “blabs” for that
collection . A blab prevents a calf from sucking. The Red Bluff
Bull Sale gang sent me a bridal, reins and Garcia bit. John has
sent a art piece of a pencil drawing of the stages a pony goes through
to become a cow horse that will become of value when we are both dead.
Mad Jack cartoons created a a shrine of eight for me. Western States
Beefmaster folks a plaque with clock, Brangues Association a Cross
pen and pencil set and Bubba of the Akaushi Association sent great
tasting steaks .

People who think I am skinny and need to fatten up send
every food from Almonds to Zucchini. Also people who watch how I
dress , try to dress me. I have a lifetime supply of caps and jackets and
several Pendleton shirts and a Mark Dahl belt buckle. There is the
Certified Angus Beef jacket and the Charolais shirt that I take care not to
were to an Angus sale or vice versa.

Lee has been thinking of starting a “ registration service”, like new weds have, only for writers. That way you would know we need a 72”
TV and satellite dish a whole lot more that a silver chafing dish.

It perhaps would put an end to the odd gifts received, like the
box of “flies” one time. No they were not the kind for fishing.
Nor were they from an irate reader.

These flies were from a company that sells “castrated” male
flies to help decrease the fly population Can you imagine how small
the callicrate banders must be for them. A bander is the tool used
to “ cut 'em off “ .

The flies gift was fleeting because they were turned loose
and never heard from again.


Source: Lee Pitts, November 20, 2018, Delmarva Farmer Magazine

Tuesday, November 20, 2018

SWITCHGRASS



SWITCHGRASS


Switchgrass ' panicum virgatum', is a perennial plant, this means the
crop needs several years of growth before it is at max production, like
the third year, when you can realize a three or more ton per acre harvest.
Switchgrass is aka Big Blue Stem , Indian Grass and warm season grass.
In 2006 President George W. Bush mentioned switchgrass as a viable
alternate energy source which was going to run our automobiles, heat
our homes, and eliminate our dependency of foreign oil. There were
farmers jumping on the bandwagon to meet the demand anticipated.
After the three year maturity the switchdgrass is harvested after it is dry
and been through several killer freezes , usually early spring. Typical
hay harvest equipment is used to cut and bale the crop. At maturity
the moisture is around 10%.
In 2009 there were thousands of acres of dry warm season grass and
thousands of tons of baled material for the energy market. However,
there was no energy market. The production of cellulose ethanol was
not economical, the processing to pellets was difficult and did not
compete with the wood pellet market and other switchgrass projects
failed.
2016 at Penn State the Warm Season Grass Association formed to
promote, educate, and develop the use of warm grass in all areas of
agriculture. The mushroom and stock bedding people were not interested.
It was found that switchgrass makes an excellent filler for silt socks.
Silt socks are the long snake like thing used to control erosion at building
sites. Traditionally the silt sock is filled with wood barks, sawdust or
mulch and are heavy and hard to handle, plus the filler soon becomes
alkaline.
A silt sock filled with switchgrass is light, easy to handle, is absorbent
but dries quick and does not harm the environment, thus, a market was
developed and today the demand for switchgrass is exceeding the supply.

Abstract: 11/20/18 by Harrison H. from the Delmarva Farmer , Ag
Decisions, November 20, 2018, by Will Brandau, chairman of the
Association of Warm Season Grass Producers who operates a grass farm
in Luzerne County Pennsylvania & Facebook.

CRAB POINT DORCHESTER COUNTY MARYLAND



DORCHESTER COUNTY MARYLAND'S CRAB POINT
HOOPERS ISLAND & STRAITS
HUNGER RIVER & CHESAPEAKE BAY


Crab Point juts out into the Honga River, I call it Hunger River because
that what the people there called it. The Honga and Fox Creek run together
at Duck Point cove and Crab Point cove into the Chesapeake Bay at
Hoopers Strait's and Tangier Sound , west of the towns of Toddsville,
Wingate and Bishops Head. , north of Crocherton and south of Crapo,
( if your are there better pronounce it Crapeo) , The above should give you
the general location of Crab Point.

The Hunger River, or Honga; in Lakes Division named so in 1829 for
the Lake family; one mile wide, flows 14 miles southeast to Hooper
Strait. It has the name from the Powatan Indians name “Kahunge “ meaning “Goose”. The river is the historical center of the oyster
business of Dorchester County Maryland . The Honga is actually the
wide southern end of a strait which includes Slaughter Creek, Upper
Keene Broad,, Dunnock Island Creek and Lower Keene Broad.

The Lakes Political Division came from the Strait Division , which had
settlements in 1660, in 1829 and named for the prominent and patriotic Lake Family who lived there.
Some of the earliest eastern shore settlers who lived there were the
Keenes, Hoopers, Gootees, Insleys and Shentons.
Lakes had vast tracts of old growth oak and pine timber which were the
last to be harvested in Dorchester..


Source: History of Dorchester County Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland,
by Elias Jones, 1902

Monday, November 19, 2018

REFUGEES AND THE ORR





CARAVAN OF CENTERAL AMERICAN MIGRANTS 2018


This group of Central American citizens, wanting to migrate to the
United  States , numbering more than a 1000, will end it's trek in Mexico
City according to the latest news reports.

If they had made it to the United States they would have been greeted by
the ORR, Office of Refuge Resettlement.

The Office of Refuge Resettlement , the ORR, is a program of the
Administration for Children and Families, a program within the United
States Department of Health and Human Services created by passing the
United States Refugee Act of 1980, the public law 96-212.

ORR offers support for refugees seeking haven within the United States,
which include victims of human trafficking, persecution , the survivors
of torture and wars and unaccompanied alien children, assist them in
relocation , services, to those granted asylum in the United States.

Since 1975 the United Stare has assisted the resettlement of more than
three million refugees and since the 1980 Refugee Act he numbers
range between 27,100 to as many as 207,116.


Abstract: 11/19/18 WIKIPEDIA of the World Wide Net. By
Harrison H for Facebook :

Wednesday, November 14, 2018

1882 LIFE SAVINGS SERVICE HISTORY



HISTORY
LJFE SAVING SERVICE 1882

After the Civil War the Life Saving Stations became a professional

service with stations at Lewes, Cape Henlopen, Rehoboth, Indian River

Inlet and Fenwick along the south east coast of Delaware, active from

September to May by a Keeper and a crew of at least six surfmen

that operated like a city firehouse where the crew worked, played, ate

and slept under the same roof. Saturdays were devoted to house

cleaning . Sunday were rest days and the week days there were

gun practice days , boat drills, and beach patrol tours. During

winter months, freezing rains, snow and bitter cold wind were difficult
to contend with.

So said Martha Lamb in the February 1882 issue of Harpers Monthly

Magazine.


Abstract: 11/14/18 by Harrison H., from Michael Morgan's
Delaware History in Delaware Coast Press , November

14, 2018 to Facebook's Lewes to Ocean City Memories





Tuesday, November 13, 2018

1993 BLOCK HOUSE POND PARK PLAYGROUND



BLOCKHOUSE POND PARK

PLAYGROUND



The City of Lewes had request bids for the site preparations

and landscaping, fence construction , for the Lewes Community

Playground in the Block House Pond Park on duPont Avenue.

Also the town had request bids for playground equipment

and supervision of installation by community volunteers for Block

House Pond Park. Bids are to be opened January 6, 1994.


Reported in Friday's 17 December, 1993, Wilmington News

Journal.


Sunday, November 11, 2018

GRATITUDE



GRATITUDE


Be grateful for the kind friends that walk along your way

Be grateful for the skies of blue that smile day to day

Be grateful for your health, the work you fine to do

for round about you there are ones less fortunate than you.



Be grateful for the growing trees, the roses when in bloom

the tenderness that shared your gloomy days, the morning dew,

the grass under your feet, the babes , and their laughter.

Acquire a grateful habit, learn to see how blest you are, how

much there is to gladden life.

And if rain shall fall today and you are with grief and sad

Be grateful that you can recall the joy you have had.

Author Unknown


Abstract: November 11, 2018, by Harrison H. from the
program of Groome United Methodist Church in Lewes
Delaware to Facebook.