Moonvine in Easton, MD : A Unique Little Shop
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Moonvine in Easton, MD : A Unique Little Shop

If it’s Black Friday, shopping locally is on my mind. Happily, my gal Pama’s shop Moonvine will be open for her second Christmas season on Harrison Street in Easton, Maryland across from the Tidewater Inn. And like last year, I plan to do some of my Christmas shopping here. While visiting and gathering decorations for…

Bally Eden’s TV Commercial
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Bally Eden’s TV Commercial

 And finally I bring you the television commercial for Bally Eden. A 30 second spot I paid big bucks to have produced and shown on local cable. I think HGTV was one of the stations I chose to run it on. This was a risk for me because there was no money. And sadly, it…

The Pretty Little Shop I No Longer Have
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The Pretty Little Shop I No Longer Have

Do you remember the movie Out of Africa? “I had a farm in Africa”, Meryl Streep’s voice says somberly at the very beginning in that foreboding way that you know she no longer does and you’ll find out why… …I had a shop in Denton. I named it Bally Eden. Baillie is Gaelic for ‘at…

Threshermen’s Event
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Threshermen’s Event

Down here on the “slower lower shore” in Caroline County, Maryland, they have an Annual Wheat Threshing Steam & Gas Engine Show in August. This was their 53rd. Located on the route south from Denton, Maryland to Federalsburg, this hootinanny is held in a great big field and features an antique tractor show, flea market…