Currently Reading: Maryland history

About the Event In continued recognition of the lost Eastern Shore history of Dr. Frederick (Bailey) Douglass, a special presentation on Rev. Henry Augustus Monroe will be delivered Friday, September 20, 2019, at 6:30 PM at the Dorchester County Historical … Continue reading →

Happy Maryland Day! We love our great state for more reasons than we could possibly list here,  so we’ll abridge our love letter to Maryland with ‘Ten Reason to Fall in Love with Maryland Again and Again’. We might be … Continue reading →

We love an excuse to head north to the town of Easton. With the Waterfowl Festival just around the corner, we plan on joining the thousands of visitors that will flock to Talbot County next weekend. If you didn’t already … Continue reading →

As you travel south down Route 112, you’d be amiss if you didn’t make a detour to the Town of Snow Hill. Impossibly quaint and boasting some terrific shops and restaurants, it’s a day trip within itself. However, if you … Continue reading →

Put on your black, red and yellow to celebrate Maryland’s 380th birthday! Yesterday was  Maryland Day, the anniversary of our state’s founding in 1634. In appreciation of our state’s heritage, we decided to spend the day putting together a timeline … Continue reading →

We recently visited the Western Shore of Maryland for a family birthday party and decided to take the opportunity to go Day Trippin’ to St. Mary’s County. This peninsula of land juts into the Chesapeake Bay and is filled with … Continue reading →

With Valentine’s Day over, ShoreBread has gone back to focusing on February as Black History Month. In that vein, we decided to do some historical digging by tracing the story of another great abolitionist from the Shore, Harriet Tubman. Tubman … Continue reading →

The Eastern Shore is a hotbed of historical sites, particularly those associated with the Civil War era and the abolition of slavery. One such star from the Eastern Shore is Frederick Douglass, best known as an abolitionist and a statesman. … Continue reading →

In between parties and family gatherings, we decided to take some time to look back at the events that transpired in 2013. We found one in particular that made us smile with pride. In April, the Maryland Senate announced that … Continue reading →