Chincoteague (Accomack, Virginia)

Teachers, students fill the Columbia Art Center

2012-05-22 08:53:00

The annual Faculty/Student Exhibition at the Columbia Art Center lets you know that its teachers and students have been busy. Paintings, watercolors, drawings and other artwork cover the walls, with ceramics and jewelry occupying pedestals and seemingly...

Eastern Shore federal court eyed for closure

2012-03-22 15:54:00

The federal government is considering closing dozens of rural court sites across the country, including one that serves Maryland's Eastern Shore — a move that would force people to drive up to 110 miles to the nearest courthouse to have their...

Retire to Baltimore, or retire from it?

2012-02-21 04:30:00

Eileen Pollock's ruminations on her possible retirement to Baltimore ("Retirees can boost Baltimore's population," Feb. 16) draws similar but reverse parallels to my own life choices. I too grew up in Baltimore, having been born there in 1950, and like...

Restaurant Review: Waterfront Kitchen delivers a ravishing new dining space

2011-12-03 00:00:00

The Waterfront Kitchen, a lovely and rewarding new Fells Point restaurant, is a model of sophisticated understatement. A straightforward and compact "spirited American dining" menu is being executed with quiet precision by chef de cuisine Levi Briggs...

Dr. Edwin H. T. Besson

2011-12-09 13:10:00

Dr. Edwin H. T. Besson, a retired pediatrician who was the former chairman of the St. Agnes Hospital pediatric department, died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease, Dec. 4 at his Ellicott City home. He was 85. In a memoir, he...

On eve of pony swim, some horse sense for Assateague visitors

2011-07-26 10:09:00

Tomorrow is the annual summertime pony swim across the Assateague channel. The wild ponies that inhabit the Chincoteague, Va., portion of the Assateague Island National Seashore will be rounded up sometime around "slack tide" and herded across the water...

Waterfront Kitchen opens Friday: A peek at the menu

2011-10-28 03:00:00

Waterfront Kitchen opens on Friday, Oct. 28, in the Living Classroom's Frederick Douglass-Isaac Myers Museum in Fells Point. The new restaurant, which seats 75 inside and 100 outside on a waterside promenade, is owned by Charles Nabit and Michael Klein....

Immigrants: Make them swim with the ponies, too

2011-07-03 08:00:00

We are indebted to Dan Rodricks's litany of arduous prerequisites demanded of children of illegal immigrants before they can qualify for in-state college tuition rates ("Immigrants: We detest them — and need them," June 30). The requirements...

Chincoteague annual pony swim and auction is Wednesday

2011-07-25 21:25:00

The pony swim is a summertime tradition that's not to be missed. The wild ponies at the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge on Assateague Island — the Virginia portion of it — are rounded up for a swim across the channel to Chincoteague...

Chincoteague pony crossing goes swimmingly

2011-07-27 16:06:00

About 130 wild ponies were herded across a strait between Assateague and Chincoteague islands Wednesday during the 86th July crossing, said a spokeswoman for the Chincoteague Volunteer Fire Company, which runs the event. More than 40,000 people watched...

5 places to go stand-up paddleboarding in Maryland

2011-08-20 15:22:04

Ocean City Located near the Fager's Island pier (Route 90 bridge and 60th Street on the bay side), sunset rides accompanied to 1812 Overture as well as daytime yoga classes. Operated out of Fager's Island Bar and Grille. Solomons Island A flat water...

Authorities in the Carolinas readying to gauge damage

2011-08-28 05:06:03

Hurricane Irene fell short of the doomsday predictions of record-breaking storm surges in North Carolina and Virginia. But a slow-crawling storm that spread out hundreds of miles was still hurling heavy rain and high winds at a wide swath of the East...

Bill and Linda Lane, a husband-and-wife team, have been teaching outdoor photography together for 17 years. During their trips exploring central West Virginia (Oct. 5-8), southwestern North Carolina (Oct. 16-19) and Chincoteague, Va. (Nov.

2011-09-20 11:05:00

Chincoteague Ponies make their way across Assateague Channel.

2011-07-27 00:00:00

A wild Chincoteague Pony grazes at the landing site.

2011-07-27 00:00:00