Wawa Station Trail (6/29/2025)

Sunday, June 29, 2025

Last chance for a hike before it is too hot, on
the 3/4-mile paved Wawa Station Trail that will
eventually connect to the Chester Creek Trail

Wawa Station and Chester Creek

Paved hike and bike trail, with cement
fence posts and wooden fence rails

Franklin Station connector trail of gravel,
with a "Tarzan" vine swing on the right

It was a steep climb up to the beginning of 
the Franklin Station connector trail,
at the SE corner of the neighborhood

It did not feel like 1.5 miles out and back.

Academy Art Museum (6/13/2025)

Friday, June 13, 2025 (continued)

Another stop on the Eastern Shore was the Academy Art Museum in Easton, MD. (We did a Historic Walking Tour of Easton on 2/12/2024.)

The museum is housed in the first
chartered school (c 1820) of Easton

Courtyard entrance (2020)

Exhibit: Richard Estes: Urban Landscapes:

Bus with Reflection of the Flatiron Building (1967-1968),
which is a painting; the rest of his works are prints

Cafeteria, Vatican (1981)

Trial proof of Subway (1981)

Final print of Subway (1981)

D Train (1988)

Exhibit: Anne Lindberg: seen and unseen:

seen (2025) is created with graphite and colored pencils

unseen (2025)

unseen detail

seen and unseen (2025) is created with thread

seen and unseen detail

Exhibit: Fields, Voids, and Translations: Works on Paper and Textiles by Piper Shepard:

Threadlines So Bittersweet (2022)

In a World (2022) is hand-cut muslin

Shadow of In a World

Passementerie Samples (2023-2025)

Passementerie Samples detail shows the pattern of
threads through pinholes

Thicket (2023)

Thicket detail

Thicket close-up

Cursive Weaving (2023-2025)

Exhibit: Kin: Rooted in Hope:

Katy in the Kitchen (2022, by Jeffery Boston Weatherford,
digital etchings used to illustrate Kin: Rooted in Hope
by the artist's mother, Carole Boston Weatherford, 2023)

Frederick Douglass: Men of Color

Daphne Irons

Wye House, the setting of the book at the largest
enslavement plantation in Maryland

Tale of Two Monuments

Exhibit: Art | History | Archive:

Dancing on the George Washington Bridge II
(2020, by Faith Ringgold)

Mother: Archive Files Number 3
(2023, by Darlene R Taylor) using
vintage textiles

Stairwell:

Density of Air (2015-2023,
by Alyson Shotz, a RISD grad)

seen and unseen, seen from above

Exhibit: Haitian Drapo: The Art of Mireille Delice:

Drapo are Vodou flags, sequin-covered banners used in
ceremonies and in sanctuaries, although Mireille Delice
or Delismé uses tiny seed beads; pictured is Ézili Balyann,
a Vodou spirit associated with love, healing and calming,
who is often depicted as the Virgin Mary with a child

Marasa Dosou-Dosa (2020) are Divine Twins
representing opposing forces, who are pictured as mermaids

Seremonie Granbwa Zile (2020) shows
a leaf-gathering ceremony

St Michaels, MD (6/13/2025)

Friday, June 13, 2025 (continued)

Now for a Walking Tour of Historic St Michaels:

Eagle House (1893) of the Dodson family

Dodson House (1851, raised to three stories in 1886
to be used as a hotel)

Higgin's House (1856)

Shannahan House (1853) with a small inlet from the harbor

The Second Empire-style Shannahan House
is unique in St Michaels

The Snuggery (1790s) is thought to be one of the few
remaining log houses in town

Dr Dodson House/Bruff House (c 1799 as a tavern,
enlarged in 1872)

Haddaway House (late 1700s); the family
operated a shipyard behind the house

Small Frame House (1800-1810)
is typical of homes of of sailors
and shipyard workers

Wickersham (1750) was moved from near the airport
to this location near the water in 2004

Thomas Harrison House (before 1798) is the oldest
two-story frame structure still standing in St Michaels

Church Cove Park (1920s) with two replica
cannons of those given in 1813 by
Jacob Gibson after his prank during the
War of 1812 when he raised a red
handkerchief on his boat to make the
 townspeople think the British were coming;
the cannons were then used in the real
Battle of St Michaels against the British

View of St Michael's Harbor from the restaurant
where we had lunch

Shrimp roll and black bean salad/salsa

Fish taco and coleslaw

The Cottage (c 1840)

Amelia Welby/Captain Wetheral House (c 1772-1783);
Amelia Welby is considered the first Poet Laureate of Maryland

Nice grouping of hydrangeas and large hostas

Hydrangea macrophylla 'McKay'/Cherry Explosion Hydrangea

Cannonball House (1805) was apparently the only
house damaged during the War of 1812, with a cannonball
penetrating the roof and bouncing down the stairs

St Mary's Square with a cannon used during
the Battle of St Michaels in 1813, and placed
here during a centennial event in 1913

Revolutionary War Cannon placed here in 1961

St Michaels Museum comprised of the Chaney House
(c 1850, of free Black brothers) and the
Jeremiah Sewell House (L side built as a mill
before 1819, R side addition in 1865)

Colonel Joseph Kemp House (1805, in Georgian style)

Berkeley's Hall (c 1840)

The Old Inn (1816)

Thomas Bruff House (c 1800, in Eastern Shore style
called a telescope house)

Mount Pleasant (c 1806)

St Luke's United Methodist Church (1871)

Christ Episcopal Church (1878)

Tarr House (c 1800-1810)

Bruff-Mansfield House (c 1800)

Freedom's Friend Lodge (1883) may be the
oldest Black lodge in Maryland

Union United Methodist Church (1895,
in Gothic Revival style) is the oldest
African American church in St Michaels

Horace Turner House (1904, in Queen Anne style) was
constructed by Black builder Horace Turner who was
also involved with the Union United Methodist Church

The Parsonage Inn (c 1870, in Queen Anne style)