Chicken Scratch: All clear. Are you ready? By Elizabeth Beggins

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Editor Note: With permission of the author, the Spy is delighted to share local author Elizabeth Beggin’s latest addition to her Subtack website Chicken Scratch.  I followed two ladies down the grocery store aisle, like a bad odor, unpleasant and ignored. One woman walked alongside her cart, talking on her phone, while the other, a […]

A Word Girls Teaser – Part One: Meredith Davies Hadaway

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[youtube id=”Dg2_9knTbig In a few weeks, the Spy will once again be collaborating with the Avalon Foundation on our evening program entitled Spy Nights. On the 28th, we will be taking over the Stolz Listening Room in downtown Easton for a remarkable evening of poetry with a special performance of the Word Girls. Made up […]

Thinking of Spring on the Shore by Deena Kilmon

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Who is ready for spring? When I saw the daffodils and the hellebores peeking their shoots through the leaves, it got me thinking about some adventures from last summer. We found an amazing place to kayak, but my spouse and paddling companion forbid me from telling anyone where we were for fear of my giant […]

A Conservation Journey From Cordova to Palaka and Back to Delmarva by Norman Greenhawk

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Editor’s Note: As part of the Spy’s welcoming of the new year, we thought our readers would particularly enjoy this inspiring story by Mid-Shore native Norman Greenhawk and his conservation journey from Cordova to the Philippines to create the Harris Conservation Initiative and his plans for the Eastern Shore. Twenty years ago, if you told […]