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Elkton shivers as the county is in the grips of the arctic weather.

 Perryville, January 28, 2014 — As Maryland continues to shiver in this frigid weather, the mouth of the Susquehanna River is beginning to freeze over.

Jo Ann Gardner, one of our volunteers, has been producing brief videos of Cecil County history to share with our audience.  Since we are presently in the middle of a polar vortex that is creating some frigid January nights, she thought this one would be appropriate as the weather brought to mind the winter of 1852.  That year…

After thirty-seven years of “sudden suppertime departures and early moving arrivals,” Singerly Fire Company Chief Edgar “Spec” Slaughter, Jr. told the Cecil Whig it was time to “hang up his hat” in 1970.  The 53-year-old had been a firefighter at Cecil County’s busiest department for 22 years, eleven of those as the chief.  Before that,…

Whenever there is a major snowstorm, Cecil County police officers, paramedics, firefighters and other public safety professionals face a significantly increased workload as they patrol and respond to 911 dispatches in snowy, wind-blown conditions.  \ But whatever Mother Nature hands them, these men and women are always geared up and ready to go.  This evening…

Congressman J. Parnell Thomas, the chairman of the Un-American Activities Committee, began suspecting that Communists might have infiltrated the ranks of Cecil County’s Law Enforcement community one autumn day in 1947.  As the New Jersey Representative with plenty of experience investigating all sorts of high profile Hollywood radicals, the naturally suspicious politician knew when he…

The Historical Society of Cecil County’s Winter Speakers Series continues on Saturday, February 1, 2014, with a talk on Early Black Methodism on Delmarva by Syl Woolford. John Wesley, in his vision of the Methodist Episcopal Church, established a denomination in which all human beings were considered equal.  When his disciples, Francis Asbury, Richard Whatcoat and…