Eastern Shore stories, history, places, and field notes.
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Simon Babycat Soap Co., based in Cambridge, Maryland, is a handmade soap and functional beauty-products business from artist and maker Camilla “Cammy” Lewis. Since 2016, Cammy has treated soap as an extension of her work in painting, hot glass, acrylic, printmaking, and design — affordable functional art sold through local markets, booths, online channels, and Dorchester County-area stops.
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Native American Heritage & Artifact Day brought people to Easton’s Waterfowl Festival Building on February 21, 2026, for a free day of artifact displays, cultural demonstrations, and presentations focused on Indigenous history and living traditions on the Eastern Shore.
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RL Grooming, LLC, based in Denton, offers in-home dog grooming across Caroline, Queen Anne’s, and Talbot counties, with a practical focus on pets who may do better outside a traditional salon setting.
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Discover the 28,000 acres of sanctuary where eagles and fishers and migratory birds find refuge in the heart of Dorchester County.
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Things happening around the Shore.
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When July 4, 2026 | 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM
America’s 250 Car Show is scheduled for Saturday, July 4, 2026, from 10 AM to 2 PM in Hurlock, Maryland. The family-friendly car show welcomes cars, trucks, bikes, tractors, imports, classics, customs, muscle cars, and daily drivers, with trophies, food, drinks, music, and entertainment planned.
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Historic sites, landscapes, and local ground worth knowing.
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US 50/301 at Kent Island Stevensville, MD 21666
The Chesapeake Bay Bridge at Kent Island is Maryland’s great threshold between the Western Shore and the Eastern Shore. Officially the William Preston Lane Jr. Memorial Bridge, the dual-span US 50/301 crossing links Sandy Point near Annapolis with Stevensville on Kent Island and reshaped travel, tourism, commuting, and local life across the Chesapeake.
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Hoopers Island Road and Hoopersville Road Fishing Creek and Hoopersville, MD
Hoopers Island is a chain of Chesapeake Bay islands in southwestern Dorchester County, Maryland, reached by Hoopers Island Road south of Cambridge. Upper and Middle Hoopers Island remain working watermen communities, with marsh, bridges, seafood houses, birding, churches, and broad water views between the Chesapeake Bay and the Honga River.
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26280 Alfred J. Lawson Drive Crisfield, MD 21817
Janes Island State Park near Crisfield, Maryland, protects a remarkable saltmarsh-and-water-trail landscape on the lower Eastern Shore. The park combines a mainland campground, marina, cabins, picnic areas, and boat launch with more than 2,900 acres of island marsh, more than 30 miles of marked water trails, and remote Tangier Sound beaches reached by boat or paddle.
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Profiles, memory-keepers, and Shore-connected lives.
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Nanticoke living history interpreter
Daniel Firehawk Abbott is a Nanticoke tribal member and living history interpreter from Dorchester County who specializes in pre-contact Native American skills and culture. He designed and guided the construction of the Chicone Village replica at Handsell and later served as Coordinator of Native American Interpretation at Colonial Williamsburg.
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Photographer and graphic designer
Cambridge-based photographer and graphic designer whose work explores Maryland’s Eastern Shore landscapes, waterways, communities, and sense of place.
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Cambridge/South Dorchester artist, maker, and founder of Simon Babycat Soap Co.
Camilla “Cammy” Lewis is a Cambridge/South Dorchester artist and maker whose creative path includes painting, printmaking, hot glass, design, jewelry-making, and Simon Babycat Soap Co. Her soap and functional beauty products extend her art into everyday use, connecting her studio background with local markets, booth sales, and Dorchester County arts spaces.
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Objects, finds, and the stories tied to them.
