Monthly Archives: May 2019

Liz Paterra started our group in the late 1980’s or early 1990’s. A few members of the Eastern Shore Writers split and formed the Writer’s Bloc. Liz split again to form the First Saturday Writers. By then Jo Campbell had … Continue reading →

From the blurb of Jean Fullerton’s book, "The Murder at Sea Haven Beach." What is the real reason Dr. Thomas Erickson engages Leigh McCarthy to work undercover as a substitute teacher at Sea Haven High School? There are certainly problems … Continue reading →

Tom Range wrote "The History of New York City Subways." He traces the history of mass transportation in Manhattan and New York City’s outer boroughs with the use of old postcards. Public transportation has long been vital to the city, … Continue reading →

OCEAN PINES — Olga Audrey Rybak, 93, of Ocean Pines passed away Wednesday, June 29, 2011, at Atlantic General Hospital in Berlin from double pneumonia. She was born March 17, 1918, in New York City to Peter and Sophia Fenchynsky … Continue reading →

(obit) Antiquarian bookseller, artist and poet, Irene Munson Rouse died at home in Alexandria on December 6, 2017 at the age of 89. Raised in Arlington, Rouse graduated from James Madison College in 1950. In her 2009 poetry collection, Petty … Continue reading →

Don Vogel retired to Ocean City after selling his advertising company in Washington, DC, Don Vogel and Associates. Back then, Drug Fair was a big drug store chain on the East Coast. Don came up with the slogan, “Don’t say … Continue reading →

John Somori showed up at one of our meeting. This is the blurb for his book. The Kid From Budapest is the story of John Somori, a little Hungarian boy born in Yugoslavia, raised in Bosnia and schooled in Hungary. … Continue reading →

On March 1, 2006, in Petaluma, CA, of complications from Cancer, Journalist, Environmentalist, Civil Rights Activist, gun owner and doglover, JOSEPHINE CONRAD CAMPBELL passed away. Sometime around 1988, our son went somewhere and left us with a brand-new Tandy 2000 … Continue reading →

Watch your mailbox. A serial will soon begin. It traces the history of our writers’ group through past members beginning with Josephine Campbell.