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From: "Sara Kate Hammer" <>
Subject: Re: [LDR] Re: LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS-D Digest V03 #290
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 21:40:09 -0500
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Indeed this is more than correct. As a local, my family (on both sides) has
lived on the shore for close to 300 years. Many of my relatives have been
forced to sell farm land and homes that have been part of our heritage for
long times due to the price of the land, taxes and what not. Of course,
some sold for the riches, but in reality farming (at least on the eastern
shore side of the peninsula) is being sold out to the man. It is quickly
becoming the end of an era.
Sara Kate

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Dayton" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 8:49 PM
Subject: RE: [LDR] Re: LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS-D Digest V03 #290


> You are correct. They have increased living costs so much that locals can
> no longer live on the shore.
> Ask any store or shop owner where he or she is from and they will name
> someplace on the Western Shore.
>
> Jim Dayton
> Ozark, AL
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carter Dick (LegHall) [mailto:]
> Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 10:32 AM
> To:
> Subject: RE: [LDR] Re: LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS-D Digest V03 #290
>
> The only thing you neglected to mention in this otherwise admirable
summary
> of events is that all too many of the descendents who were willed the
summer
> homes by their Eastern Shore relations sold them for big bucks to
developers
> of high rises, golf courses, gated communities and Walmart stores. Oh,
and
> the rebellious teens are still surfing and charging the cousins, who can
> well afford it. - Dick C.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [mailto:]
> Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2003 7:05 AM
> To:
> Subject: [LDR] Re: LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS-D Digest V03 #290
>
>
> "I now have figured out logically from this discussion that:
> The western shore including John Smith always vacationed on the
> eastern shore and their descendants were willed their summer homes
> here. Therefore, our ancestors were the rebellious teens who chose to
stay
> and surf year round and charge are cousins for summering with us."
>
>
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