Category: People & Places

It’s been nearly 75 years since a fire stripped Easton of the famed Avon Hotel; and 70 years since local business man Arthur Johnson Grymes opened the doors to the iconic Tidewater Inn. Over the years, the Tidewater has become a landmark of downtown Easton welcoming guests from near and far to stay, dine, and […]

For jazz lovers across Maryland and beyond, Labor Day weekend means one thing: The Monty Alexander Jazz Festival. Back for its 10th year, the “best small jazz festival in America” will be held Friday, August 30th through Sunday, September 1st, at the Avalon Theatre in Easton. As an added bonus, there’ll be a Sunday morning […]

The Trippe Gallery, located on Harrison Street, is poised to celebrate its sixth anniversary at its current location in November 2019. What began in 2011 as a collaboration of studio and gallery space between two artist friends, fine art photographer Nanny Trippe and watercolor painter Don Hilderbrandt, has evolved into one of the Eastern Shore’s […]

Caroline Wrightson and Alice Lloyd remember seeing each other growing up in Easton. Caroline worked in her Aunt’s downtown shop American Pennyroyal. Alice popped in there from time to time, but they also had mutual acquaintances and their families are long-time friends. Little did they know their paths would cross again much later. Since leaving […]

May 4th, 1979.  Little did owner Linda Laramy think that Crackerjacks Toys and Children’s Books would still be around 40 years later.  As she says, “It seemed like a good idea at the time”.  Yes indeed, and so it began.  Forty years brings changes to all of us. Two of Laramy’s children grew up in […]

  I scheduled my first meeting with Ryan Groll of Eat Sprout for 9:00 a.m. on a Thursday. When I arrived, his wife and business partner Emily Groll said that he wasn’t in yet and was likely still trying to get the kids straight for daycare. Within minutes of returning to the office I had […]