A new title, Edge Effects: The Border-Name Place, by Dr. Robert D. Temple focuses on border towns. The author provides a fascinating and entertaining look at more than eighty north American border towns in Edge Effects. With an adventurer’s heart and a historian’s keen eye, Temple explores life on the edge and how these places…
Officer’s 1910 Sacrifice Being Remembered by Philadelphia PD; Searching for Relatives of the Rowlandsville Man
Chief Inspector James Tiano of the Philadelphia Police Department and his staff are trying to locate the relatives of Officer George Barnett, who was shot and killed in the line of duty on Nov. 28, 1910. A plaque-dedication honoring his sacrifice is set for July 22 at 42nd and Pine streets, West Philadelphia, where he…
Chautauqua 2009 Coming to Cecil County July 10, 11 & 12
Chautauqua 2009 – “Rights & Reformers” – July 10, 2009 When:4 pm – 6 pm Where: Perryville Outlet Center, Heather Lane, Perryville, MD Description: Performers bring important historical personalities and their accomplishments to life, in live, free, summer presentations. This year’s theme is “Rights and Reformers”. On Friday the 10th, listen to Woody Guthrie celebrate…
Cecil Observer — Elkton jet crash of 1963 in the news again due to missing plane
From Cecil Observer — While the search continues for an AirFrance jetliner carrying more than 200 people that disappeared over the Atlantic this week, the possible role of lightning in that tragedy recalls a similar air disaster in the skies over Cecil County. On a December night in 1963, the sky lit up when a…
On Memorial Day 1947, Eastern Airlines Flight 605 Crashed Near Port Deposit
Sixty-two years ago on a gorgeous Memorial Day, a DC-4 with 53 people on board suddenly plunged from the sky into thick woods outside Port Deposit, MD. With about an hour of daylight remaining, Eastern Airlines Flight 605 departed La Guardia on time for its scheduled trip to Miami. As the southbound craft neared the…
The Polk Directory: The Village of Pilot in 1908-09
For many of the 19th and 20th century directories that provided travelers, business people, and others with needed information about distant places were published. The ones called gazetteers (geographical dictionaries) described towns, villages, counties, rivers and other natural features. Depending on the amount of content in one of these interesting works, you may find information…
Video on Robert F. Kennedy’s Funeral Train
On the 40th anniversary of the passage of RFK’s Funeral train down the northeast corridor, through Cecil County, we posted a piece on some recollections of that sad day as many Cecil Countains stood along the tracks to honor the fallen leader. A few days ago, a documentary producer reported that they are looking for…
Cecil Observer: Spanish Flu Epedemic Killed More Than 150 in Cecil County
The newest area blogger, the Cecil County Observer, has published an interesting historical piece on the an earlier flu Epedemic in Cecil County. We’re clipping the introduction here. Click on the link at the bottom of this post to go to the full piece. ———————————————– Flu fears are beginning to subside in Cecil County and…
Witnesses to Robert Kennedy Funeral Train Sought by Delaware County Newspapers
Our news aggregator grabbed this interesting piece of regional news published by the Delaware County Times. An HBO producer is looking for witnesses to the passage of Robert Kennedy’s Funeral Train through this region. We are sure that many of our citizens recall that June day in 1968 as the train passed sadly through here…
Bringing the Train on Down the Line in Western Cecil
The Oxford Area Transit Service, a nonprofit group, is working to restore rail service between Philadelphia and Perryville on the old Philadelphia and Baltimore Central Railroad, which once served towns and villages in northwestern Cecil County. The public transportation advocates say that “with the influx of people connected to BRAC” this move would provide a…