‘Get On the Bus’: A Chat With Justinian Dispenza
The movie “Get on the Bus” premiered on Wednesday, February 14 to a packed house at the Decker Theatre at Washington College’s Gibson Center for the Arts. The hour-long production documents a six-day field trip in July 2022 by 42 Kent youths and adults who traveled to Civil Rights era landmarks in Alabama and Georgia, […]
Mike ‘Dirty Legs’ Detmer Crowned Muskrat-Eating Monarch in Kent Island’s Zaniest Championship
On Saturday, February 17, Kent Island’s Cult Classic Brewing Company hosted the Annual Crawfish Boil & Muskrat Leg Eating World Championship, and a new king was crowned. Going against such heavy competition as the defending champion Daniel “Chunky’ Hesson, “the man known only as Dink, the Last Redneck in St. Michaels,” “Wild” Will Linthicum, Chesapeake […]
Larry Hogan Is Back in the Political Arena; What’s Next by David Reel
Larry Hogan’s recently announced U.S. Senate campaign is off to a good start. Shortly after his announcement, a survey conducted by Emerson College Polling, The Hill and DC News Now showed Hogan tied with one possible strong Democratic opponent (David Trone), with 42% supporting each in a general election matchup and 16% undecided. The survey […]
Salt by Kate Emery General
Thousands of years ago Hippocrates discovered that sea water helped heal wounds, prevented infections, and eased pain. Most afternoons when living in Coronado, California, my children and I would climb the dunes on The Strand. We’d carry beach toys, towels, and a picnic basket. Once we’d get to the beach, we’d play in the icy […]
Adkins Arboretum’s Mystery Monday! Can You Guess What’s Pictured Below?
The answer to last week’s mystery is turkey tail fungi, Trametes versicolor. Turkey tail fungi grows in rows or clusters of tiered layers on dead wood. It prefers stumps or logs of deciduous trees, mainly hardwood, such as beech or oak. Turkey tail breaks down the lignin portion of dead wood, leaving behind white, stringy […]
Before Folk Music There Was . . . Folk Music!
Easton-based music group Ampersand delights in sharing early American traditional music with a modern audience, drawing connections between colonial sensibilities and current-day topics and interests. They are celebrating their new CD of “old” music with a concert at the Stoltz Listening Room on Friday, February 23rd at 7pm. Called the “Swiss army knife of folk music,” this […]