Current Series

Millsboro Public Library in Millsboro, DE

We all know that our region has changed because of human activity – we see it around us every day. But what kind of impact do these changes have on the animal and plant life of the area? How do they affect the people who make their living off the land? And what about everyone else who lives here? This series explores the history of the region and the influence of humanity.

Please join us on these Thursdays from 6 to 8pm!

September 17 - John Wennersten, Maryland’s Eastern Shore
This book charts the evolution of both the region and its people and characterizes the lifestyle of the Eastern Shoreman.

October 1 - Gilbert Byron, Done Crabbin’
This novel tells a story of growing up on the Chester River during the halcyon days prior to World War I.

October 15 - Curtis Badger, Salt Tide
This book’s engrossing description of marshes and inlets is both ecological writing and memoir of a family’s love for the Eastern Shore.

October 29 - Tom Horton, Bay Country
These essays by a veteran environmental reporter provide a disturbing portrait of an estuary in decline under the pressure of a burgeoning population.

November 12 - George Alfred Townsend, The Entailed Hat
This historical novel weaves fact and exceptional description into the stories of the development of the Iron Furnace near Snow Hill, the kidnapping of slaves by the Patty Cannon gang, and the unusual story of a hat willed to its owner’s descendants.

Meetings are free and open to the public. Sign-up is requested. Books may be picked up at the site at least two weeks before each session; participants should read the books in advance of the sessions.

This program is partly funded by a grant from the Delaware Humanities Forum, a state program of the National Endowment for the Humanities.