Adkins Arboretum Mystery Monday: Guess the Photo!
Happy Mystery Monday! Can you guess what is pictured in photo #1? The answer to last week’s mystery is black cohosh, Actaea racemosa, pictured in photo #2. The black cohosh is an upright rhizomatous perennial native to eastern North America. This Summer-blooming woodland wildflower has deer-resistant foliage topped in June with tall, narrow, upright spikes […]
Time for a High-Priority Traffic Safety Improvement on Route 50
Drivers on Route 50 in Easton already know the delays from vacation and special events traffic to and from Ocean City are currently even longer than usual. That is largely the result of a $9.9 million Maryland Department of Transportation’s State Highway Administration “Serious About Safety” traffic improvement project. This project includes: New sidewalks along […]
A Name. A Date. A Call. by Kate Emery General
The morning-shift nurse wrote her name and the date on the dry-erase board in my husband’s room at Johns Hopkins almost a year ago. I remember pausing when I saw it: the nurse’s name was Yvonne, the date, August 25. At first, it felt like nothing more than a coincidence. My mother’s name was Yvonne […]