Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/02/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Barney, A very nicely done night shot showing the Inn in a good light. Don don.dory@gmail.com On 2/11/06, Bernard Quinn <bquinn@sgi.com> wrote: > > > > There are a lot of Inns and Bed and Breakfast places on the Eastern Shore > of the Chesapeake Bay. This is one of my favorites. It is The Oaks, located > in Royal Oak, Maryland. Usually I stay there during the warm weather, but > on > this particular evening I pulled up to it on a dark and stormy night, as > the > clich? goes. I have been going to this Inn since I was a teenager, and that > was forty years ago. This is where I learned to sail years ago. In those > days it was called the Pasadena and was owned by Bill and Louise Harper. It > is located on Oak Creek, which in days gone by allowed the owners of the > plantation to ship its products by water, which was how things were done on > the Eastern Shore in Colonial days. > > > > It is what we call a manor house, meaning a plantation house. It's the > mansion s where the owner and his family lived. It was built in 1748, and > sits on land granted by Lord Baltimore. This aspect of Maryland's history > is > troubling to me but the reality is that we were a tobacco and a slave > state. > There is a plantation on the western shore where the slave quarters still > exist. In the interest of fairness and equal time I will post a picture of > them in due course. The contrast is both startling and shameful. The > Underground Railway which helped southern slaves escape to the north ran > not > all that far from here. I'll get to that in due course, too. > > > > The inside of the mansion has been totally renovated. Highly recommended, > by musing's on Maryland's past not withstanding. > > > > www.leica-gallery.net/barney/image-91524.html > > > > Thanks for looking. Comments welcomed. > > > > Barney > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >