[Leica] The Bay 101 - The Oaks

[bruce at ralgo.nl (bruce)]

Another memorable picture, complete with history.

The diagonal boarding on the front of the manor house, in that light,  
gives more impact.

Thank you for displaying,
B.


On 12-feb-2006, at 4:01, Bernard Quinn wrote:

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>
> 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.
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> 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.
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> Barney
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