Shortly after her husband’s death, a young widow is murdered while sitting in her rocking chair…
Five children at play are visited daily by a strange woman in black, who disappears mysteriously when she reaches the doorstep…
The Union army, heading south to suppress insurrection, is duped by a local farm into traveling ten miles out of its way while greatly outnumbered rebels escape to safety…
While on a hunting trip, the President of the United States drops in at an isolated farmhouse and meets a little boy who bears the name of his greatest political enemy…
Scheduled to open on a tiny island, a traveling circus must figure out how to get a 2,775-pound elephant across the waters of the Chesapeake Bay…
…These are just a few of the True Tales of the Eastern Shore, a storied little peninsula east of the Chesapeake, fervently Virginian despite being attached geographically to Maryland. This varied collection, spanning four centuries, began as separate articles in “Chronicles,” Kirk Mariner’s column of local history in the Eastern Shore News. It is filled, of course, with the exploits, follies, and accomplishments of the people of the Shore, but also with appearances from a surprising number of prominent figures from “across the bay:” presidents and generals, preachers and abolitionists, spies, saloon wreckers, pirates, photographers, and politicians. And all of it is (as the title says) true.
This is Mariner’s seventh book about his native Eastern Shore, and he combines careful research and good writing. Almost every corner of the Eastern Shore of Virginia has its tale, and this book is further proof that Mariner is among the peninsula’s best storytellers.
Kirk Mariner was a minister in the United Methodist Church who had written extensively about his native Eastern Shore of Virginia.
Paperback
Shortly after her husband’s death, a young widow is murdered while sitting in her rocking chair…
Five children at play are visited daily by a strange woman in black, who disappears mysteriously when she reaches the doorstep…
The Union army, heading south to suppress insurrection, is duped by a local farm into traveling ten miles out of its way while greatly outnumbered rebels escape to safety…
While on a hunting trip, the President of the United States drops in at an isolated farmhouse and meets a little boy who bears the name of his greatest political enemy…
Scheduled to open on a tiny island, a traveling circus must figure out how to get a 2,775-pound elephant across the waters of the Chesapeake Bay…
…These are just a few of the True Tales of the Eastern Shore, a storied little peninsula east of the Chesapeake, fervently Virginian despite being attached geographically to Maryland. This varied collection, spanning four centuries, began as separate articles in “Chronicles,” Kirk Mariner’s column of local history in the Eastern Shore News. It is filled, of course, with the exploits, follies, and accomplishments of the people of the Shore, but also with appearances from a surprising number of prominent figures from “across the bay:” presidents and generals, preachers and abolitionists, spies, saloon wreckers, pirates, photographers, and politicians. And all of it is (as the title says) true.
This is Mariner’s seventh book about his native Eastern Shore, and he combines careful research and good writing. Almost every corner of the Eastern Shore of Virginia has its tale, and this book is further proof that Mariner is among the peninsula’s best storytellers.
Kirk Mariner was a minister in the United Methodist Church who had written extensively about his native Eastern Shore of Virginia.
Paperback
