Elaine Bunting

Counties of Maryland's Lower Eastern Shore

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This fourth book in a series about Maryland's counties includes Somerset, Dorchester, Worcester, and Wicomico Counties on the Eastern Shore of the state. Written for children in elementary school, the book not only acquaints readers with the basic facts about the area's history, geography, climate, plants, animals, education, religion, and sites of interest, it also features some fascinating facts about the various counties. Typical of the things children will learn from this book are these: - Smith Island in Somerset County has a most unusual form of government. It has no mayor or town council and residents do not pay local taxes. The leaders of the community have always been the ministers of the church. - Harriet Tubman led more than three hundred slaves from Dorchester County northward to freedom. Apparently she would do anything to help a runaway slave escape. She and a band of slaves once hid in a pile of manure until the coast was clear. - Annie Oakley of Wild West Show fame lived for a time in Cambridge. When her neighbor complained that his walnut tree hadn't produced walnuts that year, Oakley showed up at his house with a basket of purchased walnuts and apologized for having shot the walnuts out of his tree. - When the Boardwalk at Ocean City in Worcester County was first built in 1902, it was about two blocks long. Because it was low and high tides affected it, the Board-walk was picked up and stored each night. - The Whitehaven ferry in Wicomico County, which is guided by a cable and carries three cars at a time across the Wicomico River, has been in operation for more than three hundred years. It is thought to be the oldest continuously operating ferry inthe United States.

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Produktdetails

• Our Maryland Counties Series
• Verlag: Schiffer Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 156
• Altersempfehlung: 8 bis 12 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: Februar 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 183mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9780870335556
• ISBN-10: 0870335553
• Artikelnr.: 22049903

Autorenporträt

Born and raised in Ocean City, Maryland, Elaine Bunting received a BA from James Madison University and a MS from Towson State University. She is retired from Harford County Public Schools as an elementary school librarian. Bunting is a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, Harford County Reading Council, the Edward H. Nabb Research Center for Delmarva History and Culture, the American Association of University Women, and Harford County Historical Society. Patricia D'Amario, coauthor of the Counties of Maryland series, was born and raised in the suburbs of Baltimore, Maryland. She graduated with a BS from Towson State University (magna cum laude) and a master of education degree from Johns Hopkins University. She started teaching at age seventeen in the parochial school system in Baltimore and taught grades two through eight in various U.S. cities until her retirement. D'Amario was a schoolwide enrichment specialist for the Harford County School System. She is a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators and the Edward H. Nabb Research Center for Delmarva History and Culture. The Counties of Maryland series includes: Counties of Central Maryland, Counties of Maryland's Lower Eastern Shore, Counties of Northern Maryland, and Counties of Southern Maryland. Artist and longtime illustrator of children's books, Marcy Dunn Ramsey is a graduate of Emmanuel College where she received a BA degree. She lives with her family on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Ramsey has been painting and drawing all her life, and since beginning her illustration career in 1988, has produced more than fifty books, including Awesome Chesapeake, Counties of Central Maryland, Counties of Maryland's Lower Eastern Shore, Counties of Northern Maryland, Counties of Southern Maryland, It's Up to You, Griffin!, Leonard Calvert and the Maryland Adventure, Oyster Moon, Rosie's Posies, Santa Claws: The Christmas Crab, Secret of Belle Meadow, Suppose, The World Turned Upside Down, Osprey Adventure, and Beetle Boddiker. Ramsey's long experience with children has helped her keep in tune with their likes and dislikes. Her greatest efforts are directed at communicating a sense of humor, excitement, and spontaneity in her work that encourages children to continue their discovery of the magic of reading.