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Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Heart of the Chesapeake – Visitors Guide to Dorchester County Maryland
Heart of the Chesapeake – Visitors Guide to Dorchester
County Maryland
Last fall I had a delightful trip to the 2011 Fall Maryland
Municipal League’s Fall Legislative Conference at the Cambridge Maryland Hyatt
Regency Chesapeake Bay… MML – Maryland Municipal League Fall Conference October
31 - November 2, 2011…
See also: http://kevindayhoffwestgov-net.blogspot.com/search/label/MML%20Municipal%20League
and MD
MML Muni League Disclosure and November 2, 2011, Work Cut Out For
Municipal League by Kevin E. Dayhoff: “This week officials from Maryland
cities and towns throughout the state converged on the Cambridge Hyatt
Chesapeake Bay conference facilities for the three-day Maryland Municipal
League’s fall
legislative conference… http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=4723
I’m now planning another trip to Cambridge at the end of
September 2012. I pulled the Visitors Guide to Dorchester County Maryland from
my 2011 Fall Maryland Municipal League’s Fall Legislative Conference at the
Cambridge Maryland Hyatt Regency Chesapeake Bay files and have posted it for
easy access while I am on the road.
If you ever have a chance to visit anywhere on the Delmarva Peninsula,
please take advantage of the opportunity. Be sure to put Cambridge, Blackwater
Refuge and Dorchester County on your itinerary.
I’m just saying… August 22, 2012 Kevin Dayhoff
Maryland
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Dorchester County, Cambridge Maryland, Chesapeake Bay,
nature, Maryland Eastern Shore, sea food, vacation, Maryland Municipal League
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Tuesday, June 19, 2012
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Farm pollution lawsuit spurs public relations battle
Farm pollution lawsuit spurs public relations battle
Poultry industry, environmental groups fund lawyers for national bellwether
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By Timothy B. Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun
March 19, 2012
With a catch in her throat, Kristin Hudson talks in a video posted online about her young daughter asking if "they" will take away her daddy's farm.
The video, featured on SaveFarmFamilies.org rallied farmers and others across the country to the side of an Eastern Shore farm couple fighting an environmental group's lawsuit alleging that the farm polluted a Chesapeake Bay tributary.
The Web-based organization has raised more than $200,000 to date from Perdue Farms, agricultural groups and other farmers to help Alan and Kristin Hudson pay legal bills in the 2-year-old case, according to one of the group's leaders. Meanwhile, two Maryland foundations with environmental agendas have poured a comparable amount into supporting the suit filed by the Waterkeepers Alliance… http://www.baltimoresun.com/features/green/bs-gr-chicken-farmer-campaign-20120319,0,1037150,full.story
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Monday, January 9, 2012
Farrell Keough: UMD law clinic sues on behalf of the 1 percent
UMD law clinic sues on behalf of the 1 percent
Farrell Keough December 30, 2011
The University of Maryland Carey School of Law Environmental Law Clinic's pro bono legal services for the Waterkeepers Alliance are supporting organizations that would qualify as 1 percenters if they were individuals. Associate Dean Teresa LaMaster defended this action in a recent radio interview, stating that the Waterkeepers Alliance "don't really have the resources to fund a case," and their "local organizations are not well funded and don't really have the resources to bring a case like this."
The evidence portrays a very different scenario. The 2010 tax returns from the Waterkeepers Alliance confirm that their New York organization had over $400,000 in cash, generated $3.6 million in revenue, and over $16 million in contributions over the last five years.
They also provide their organizations, including Assateague Coastal Trust (co-plaintiffs in this suit), "with a wealth of resources including a team of experts in environmental law." The New York organization also spent over $300,000 in 2010 on one of their annual conferences in La Paz, Mexico.
The group's annual fundraiser is Skifest — a celebrity filled event hosted in Deer Valley, Utah. This fundraiser brings in $435,000 for the title sponsor and $135,000 for corporate sponsors. The 2010 tax forms for Assateague Coastal Trust shows over $333,000 in cash and investments and $336,057 in revenue generated.
With millions in cash and revenues, the justification by Ms. LaMaster for pro bono support has no merit. By this logic…
And oh, read the Waterkeepers’ response here: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/readersrespond/bs-ed-waterkeepers-letter-20120106,0,1528058.story
Related: Maryland environmental law clinic focuses on
enforcement
University program under fire for pursuing pollution case
Governor right to defend family farm
O'Malley voices disapproval of law school clinic's pollution
suit
Governor calls action against Eastern Shore farmer and
Perdue 'costly litigation of questionable merit'
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Friday, January 6, 2012
Save Farm Families Fundraiser planned for the Hudson Family on February 18, 2012
Save Farm Families Fundraiser planned for the Hudson Family
on February 18, 2012
When: Saturday, February 18, 2012
Time: 3:00pm until 8:00pm
At Queen Anne's County 4-H Park; Centreville, MD
The Hudson Family of Berlin, Maryland is being sued by the
New York based Waterkeeper Alliance. They operate a poultry and beef farm in
Worcester County, Maryland. 100% of the funds raised will go to help the Hudson
family pay their legal bills. This event is sponsored by the Caroline, Cecil,
Kent, Queen Anne's and Talbot County Farm Bureaus.
Our goal is simple: Stand up and protect struggling farm
families from bankruptcy triggered by extremist groups and their lawsuits.
For more than two centuries, family farms have been critical
to the Maryland economy and the state’s way of life. Many of us are the sons
and daughters of men and women who farmed, fished and raised their families in
every corner of the Free State.
The Maryland Family Farmers Legal Defense Fund, Inc. was
created to help Alan and Kristin Hudson, who run a family farm located near
Maryland’s Eastern Shore, pay their mounting legal bills and to call attention
to the threat that radical groups like the Waterkeeper Alliance pose to every
family farm in America. Unless we stop them in the courtroom, Maryland’s
largest industry, responsible for 14 percent of the state’s workforce, could
disappear forever.
Website http://www.SaveFarmFamilies.org
[20120218 Save Farm Families Fundraiser]
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Monday, October 31, 2011
Haunted Eastern Shore: Ghostly Tales Shoal Creek Manor- Cambridge, Dorchester County - by Mindie Burgoyne
Haunted Eastern Shore: Ghostly Tales Shoal Creek Manor- Cambridge, Dorchester County - by Mindie Burgoyne
http://www.writingthevision.com/hauntedeasternshore/shoalcreekmanor.htm
Today, there is nothing left of Shoal Creek Manor, the home or John Woolford and Gov. Charles Goldsborough. This plantation house was built around 1750 and once stood on nearly 400 acres in East Cambridge. Originally it was part of the Choptank Indian lands, and was purchased from the Indians by the Ennalls family. Many tales are associated with Shoal Creek Manor – tales that are still told today even though the building was razed in 1970 to make way for a new waste-water treatment plant.
The folklore collection at the Nabb Center in Salisbury University had the following transcripts of tales told by locals about Shoal Creek Manor.
http://www.writingthevision.com/hauntedeasternshore/shoalcreekmanor.htm
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http://www.writingthevision.com/hauntedeasternshore/shoalcreekmanor.htm
Haunted Eastern Shore: Ghostly Tales
Shoal Creek Manor- Cambridge, Dorchester County http://www.writingthevision.com/hauntedeasternshore/shoalcreekmanor.htm
The folklore collection at the Nabb Center in Salisbury University had the following transcripts of tales told by locals about Shoal Creek Manor.
http://www.writingthevision.com/hauntedeasternshore/shoalcreekmanor.htm
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Thursday, August 26, 2010
Scientists Warn of Smith Island's Demise, Residents Are Skeptical
Scientists Warn of Smith Island's Demise, Residents Are Skeptical
Article | 04.20.10
By Ben Giles
Maryland Newsline
Maryland Newsline
SMITH ISLAND, Md. - Capt. Larry Laird ferries passengers and cargo to and from Smith Island twice a day, each time navigating the narrow channel that grants passage to his boat through the shallow Chesapeake Bay waters.
A wrong turn to the left or right, and he’ll run his vessel aground.
Shallow waters are part of daily life on Smith Island, the last inhabited island on Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay that has no roads connecting it to the mainland. For generations, the water has been the source of the island residents’ livelihood, providing crab in one season and oyster in another.
But now, erosion and rising sea levels in the Chesapeake threaten the island’s existence.
“In the worst-case scenarios, Smith Island could be gone in, let’s say by 2025, 2030 or so,” said Raghu Murtugudde, professor at the University of Maryland’s Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center...
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Thursday, May 21, 2009
Arts On The Dock Returns To West OC by Joe Albero
Arts On The Dock Returns To West OC by Joe Albero
Arts on the Dock is an entertainment filled evening on the docks of one of Ocean City's most scenic marinas, the Ocean City Fishing Center.
[…]
Every Thursday, June 18th - September 24th, from 4:00PM - 8:00PM…
[…]
Are you an artist, who'd like to show at Arts on the Dock? Any Questions? Call the Ocean City Fishing Center at (410) 213-1121.
Read the entire post here: Arts On The Dock Returns To West OC
Arts on the Dock is an entertainment filled evening on the docks of one of Ocean City's most scenic marinas, the Ocean City Fishing Center.
[…]
Every Thursday, June 18th - September 24th, from 4:00PM - 8:00PM…
[…]
Are you an artist, who'd like to show at Arts on the Dock? Any Questions? Call the Ocean City Fishing Center at (410) 213-1121.
Read the entire post here: Arts On The Dock Returns To West OC
20090520 SbyNews Art on the dock returns to West OC
Wednesday, May 20, 2009 Arts On The Dock Returns To West OC
http://sbynews.blogspot.com/2009/05/arts-on-dock-returns-to-west-oc.html
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Thursday, May 25, 2006
Joe Trippi Fighting for his Eastern Shore home
Joe Trippi Fighting for his Eastern Shore home
From the Baltimore Sun: Fighting for his Eastern Shore home By Rona Kobell Sun reporter May 1, 2006
Political campaigner turns grass-roots environmentalist to protect the Chesapeake Bay
WITTMAN -- Just before the sun sets over Cummings Creek, Joe Trippi ambles over to say hello to Yoda, the one-horned goat, and Mrs. Lucky, one of his favorite ducks.
He seems a world away from where he was three years ago: inhaling Diet Pepsi, stuffing his cheeks with Skoal, and trying to elect an obscure former Vermont governor as president of the United States.
These days, when Trippi's not in Italy advising Romano Prodi's campaign or in Moscow addressing the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, he is here, surrounded by old-growth pines and noisy chickens, trying to safeguard the Eastern Shore's open spaces from fast- encroaching development.
For the past several months, Trippi has quietly been working with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation in an effort to stop the Blackwater Resort, a 3,200-home development slated to be built near Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge and Cambridge. He has joined the board of the Eastern Shore Land Conservancy, an organization dedicated to preserving the Shore's rural landscapes.
But his biggest plans are ahead of him. He wants to coordinate grass-roots gatherings and mass Internet drives in the style of the Howard Dean campaign, this time to rile the public about imminent threats to the bay. Trippi hopes to connect people who care about environmental issues, whether or not they live along the estuary and regardless of their political affiliation, and help them collaborate.
It's a different sort of cause for the inveterate campaigner, who has worked seven presidential runs. This one is not ideological, not focused around a cult of personality, and not likely to end anytime soon. It is, he says, about fighting for his home.
[…]
Trippi, 49, still advises congressional candidates, among them Democrat Kweisi Mfume, who is running for U.S. Senate in Maryland. But he seems to have settled in to life on the Eastern Shore.
In a barn on his 47-acre farm between St. Michaels and Tilghman Island, and just a few creeks away from the weekend homes of Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and Vice President Dick Cheney, Trippi is restoring one of the bay's few remaining two-masted wooden bugeyes. A smaller sailboat is tied to his dock.
There are few signs of the rumpled, mile-a-minute talker who ran himself and his young staff ragged. He looks relaxed in his faded jeans, denim jacket and work shirt.
"The second I get over the Bay Bridge, this big sigh of relief happens, and I let go," Trippi said.
[…]
Trippi's ability to tap into voter anger prompted Republican media consultant Frank Luntz to call him for the job of unseating Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Prodi, the challenger, was looking to refine his message and beat the incumbent billionaire. Prodi won by a hair; Berlusconi indicated that he will resign this week.
During their trips to Italy, Luntz said, Trippi spoke often of his beloved farm.
"His comment was, 'If you saw what I see every morning, you'd live there, too,'" Luntz said. "This is something very special to him. This is part of his definition of quality of life. He lives what he preaches."
[…]
Trippi has experience wrangling with developers. In the late 1990s, he and his wife, Kathleen Lash, fell in love at first sight with a 20-acre waterfront farm near St. Michaels. They bought it that day.
Before long, Trippi said, a developer bought the two large tracts on either side and got Talbot County to upzone all three parcels so his company could build hundreds of houses. By the time Trippi learned what had happened, county officials told him he could do nothing to stop it.
So, when the Cummings Creek farm went up for sale, Trippi offered the developer his farm in exchange. Trippi says his condition was that the company move to the new farm the barn and chicken coop he'd built with his sons. The developer agreed.
Trippi and Lash have settled into their new house, which is actually three structures - a one-room schoolhouse, an old waterman's cottage and a farmhouse fused together. Trippi's longtime friend, Newsweek contributing editor Peter Goldman, said the house is like the man - elements you wouldn't think to put together, but work once they're merged.
"If they try to move me off of this, we'll be seceding from the state of Maryland," Trippi said. "This is where I intend to die. As far as I'm concerned, this is where they're going to bury me."
rona.kobell@baltsun.com
Read the entire article here: Joe Trippi Fighting for his Eastern Shore home
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-te.md.trippi01may01,0,3860993.story?coll=bal-home-headlines
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From the Baltimore Sun: Fighting for his Eastern Shore home By Rona Kobell Sun reporter May 1, 2006
Political campaigner turns grass-roots environmentalist to protect the Chesapeake Bay
WITTMAN -- Just before the sun sets over Cummings Creek, Joe Trippi ambles over to say hello to Yoda, the one-horned goat, and Mrs. Lucky, one of his favorite ducks.
He seems a world away from where he was three years ago: inhaling Diet Pepsi, stuffing his cheeks with Skoal, and trying to elect an obscure former Vermont governor as president of the United States.
These days, when Trippi's not in Italy advising Romano Prodi's campaign or in Moscow addressing the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, he is here, surrounded by old-growth pines and noisy chickens, trying to safeguard the Eastern Shore's open spaces from fast- encroaching development.
For the past several months, Trippi has quietly been working with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation in an effort to stop the Blackwater Resort, a 3,200-home development slated to be built near Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge and Cambridge. He has joined the board of the Eastern Shore Land Conservancy, an organization dedicated to preserving the Shore's rural landscapes.
But his biggest plans are ahead of him. He wants to coordinate grass-roots gatherings and mass Internet drives in the style of the Howard Dean campaign, this time to rile the public about imminent threats to the bay. Trippi hopes to connect people who care about environmental issues, whether or not they live along the estuary and regardless of their political affiliation, and help them collaborate.
It's a different sort of cause for the inveterate campaigner, who has worked seven presidential runs. This one is not ideological, not focused around a cult of personality, and not likely to end anytime soon. It is, he says, about fighting for his home.
[…]
Trippi, 49, still advises congressional candidates, among them Democrat Kweisi Mfume, who is running for U.S. Senate in Maryland. But he seems to have settled in to life on the Eastern Shore.
In a barn on his 47-acre farm between St. Michaels and Tilghman Island, and just a few creeks away from the weekend homes of Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and Vice President Dick Cheney, Trippi is restoring one of the bay's few remaining two-masted wooden bugeyes. A smaller sailboat is tied to his dock.
There are few signs of the rumpled, mile-a-minute talker who ran himself and his young staff ragged. He looks relaxed in his faded jeans, denim jacket and work shirt.
"The second I get over the Bay Bridge, this big sigh of relief happens, and I let go," Trippi said.
[…]
Trippi's ability to tap into voter anger prompted Republican media consultant Frank Luntz to call him for the job of unseating Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Prodi, the challenger, was looking to refine his message and beat the incumbent billionaire. Prodi won by a hair; Berlusconi indicated that he will resign this week.
During their trips to Italy, Luntz said, Trippi spoke often of his beloved farm.
"His comment was, 'If you saw what I see every morning, you'd live there, too,'" Luntz said. "This is something very special to him. This is part of his definition of quality of life. He lives what he preaches."
[…]
Trippi has experience wrangling with developers. In the late 1990s, he and his wife, Kathleen Lash, fell in love at first sight with a 20-acre waterfront farm near St. Michaels. They bought it that day.
Before long, Trippi said, a developer bought the two large tracts on either side and got Talbot County to upzone all three parcels so his company could build hundreds of houses. By the time Trippi learned what had happened, county officials told him he could do nothing to stop it.
So, when the Cummings Creek farm went up for sale, Trippi offered the developer his farm in exchange. Trippi says his condition was that the company move to the new farm the barn and chicken coop he'd built with his sons. The developer agreed.
Trippi and Lash have settled into their new house, which is actually three structures - a one-room schoolhouse, an old waterman's cottage and a farmhouse fused together. Trippi's longtime friend, Newsweek contributing editor Peter Goldman, said the house is like the man - elements you wouldn't think to put together, but work once they're merged.
"If they try to move me off of this, we'll be seceding from the state of Maryland," Trippi said. "This is where I intend to die. As far as I'm concerned, this is where they're going to bury me."
rona.kobell@baltsun.com
Read the entire article here: Joe Trippi Fighting for his Eastern Shore home
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-te.md.trippi01may01,0,3860993.story?coll=bal-home-headlines
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