Here’s the view of downtown Main St. tonight, on a quiet Christmas evening. Businesses come and go but all the same buildings….
It was quiet, peaceful and a beautiful balmy night tonight, Merry Christmas Everyone! 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄
Here’s the view of downtown Main St. tonight, on a quiet Christmas evening. Businesses come and go but all the same buildings….
It was quiet, peaceful and a beautiful balmy night tonight, Merry Christmas Everyone! 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄
Heard the saying “ Don’t eat oysters in months without the letter r”? There was some truth to that back in the day. May through August months are missing the r but they’re also the hottest months of the year. I wouldn’t eat an oyster back in 1870 that had been sitting on the dock for too long. A breeding ground for bacteria.
Also, wild oyster are spawning during the summer, so why not leave them be so they can reproduce and expand the harvest. Summer oysters were said to be in their milk too, meaning, they are putting most of their energy in reproduction and less into be fatty and sassy and salty....
The first mention of this summer respite in “recent” years that I could find was in a cookbook in the 1600’s but that wasn’t new news. There have been Indian spoil piles from 4,000-5,000 years ago right here in coastal Virginia that indicate that oysters were left alone in the summer months for many generations. So, the word was out. Enjoy your oysters in the off season.
Today, all that has changed... great refrigeration and hygiene practices, check✔️, sterile oysters being developed so they don’t spawn in the summer, check ✔️
You can now get delicious Chincoteague oysters any time of the year, but hey, it’s October, so I’d say it’s prime time to sit back and slurp a few salts along with a beverage of your choosing.
I’m sure most of you know a little something about Marguerite Henry. Many think she was from the island, and that is what led her to write Misty of Chincoteague. Nope. Not so....
Marguerite was born in 1902, in Milwaukee. Her life took a dramatic turn, when at age six, she was diagnosed with rheumatic fever. Forced to be bedridden, Marguerite found joy in reading and eventually writing. This was some of her only joys because she was not allowed to leave the house or have friends over, for fear she would catch a virus. ( sound familiar???). This was her life until she was twelve.
Eventually, she moved on to a more normal life, although always a tad frail, she lived a full life, got married, and had a yard full a pets.
Right around the time Marguerite and her husband moved to Wayne, Illinois, she was prompted by her editor to come to Chincoteague to learn about Pony Penning. She was excited to come and asked her new friend and collaborator, Wesley Dennis to join her. ( Wesley continued to be her illustrator until his passing).
Marguerite met the Beebe family, fell in love with the ponies including the newborn Misty, and the rest is history.
Misty of Chincoteague was published in 1947 and the acclaim and attention from that book helped put Chincoteague on the international map.
Marguerite loved the island and returned to visit many times, supported fundraisers around the country to support Chincoteague after the flood in 1962, and spoke fondly of the people of Chincoteague in interviews until her passing in 1997. ( her later years were spent in California) As a side story, Marguerite came to visit Chincoteague around 1993, she was visiting with my mother ( at the time, Director of the Museum of Chincoteague) and told my mother that she was writing a book about a Misty descendent and refused to die until she was done. This was Misty’s Twilight. She managed to finish that one and one more before she passed away.
How different woul
I’m sure most of you know a little something about Marguerite Henry. Many think she was from the island, and that is what led her to write Misty of Chincoteague. Nope. Not so....
Marguerite was born in 1902, in Milwaukee. Her life took a dramatic turn, when at age six, she was diagnosed with rheumatic fever. Forced to be bedridden, Marguerite found joy in reading and eventually writing. This was some of her only joys because she was not allowed to leave the house or have friends over, for fear she would catch a virus. ( sound familiar???). This was her life until she was twelve.
Eventually, she moved on to a more normal life, although always a tad frail, she lived a full life, got married, and had a yard full a pets.
Right around the time Marguerite and her husband moved to Wayne, Illinois, she was prompted by her editor to come to Chincoteague to learn about Pony Penning. She was excited to come and asked her new friend and collaborator, Wesley Dennis to join her. ( Wesley continued to be her illustrator until his passing).
Marguerite met the Beebe family, fell in love with the ponies including the newborn Misty, and the rest is history.
Misty of Chincoteague was published in 1947 and the acclaim and attention from that book helped put Chincoteague on the international map.
Marguerite loved the island and returned to visit many times, supported fundraisers around the country to support Chincoteague after the flood in 1962, and spoke fondly of the people of Chincoteague in interviews until her passing in 1997. ( her later years were spent in California) As a side story, Marguerite came to visit Chincoteague around 1993, she was visiting with my mother ( at the time, Director of the Museum of Chincoteague) and told my mother that she was writing a book about a Misty descendent and refused to die until she was done. This was Misty’s Twilight. She managed to finish that one and one more before she passed away.
How different woul
Hey! The season has started! Walking tours are a fun, entertaining and memorable way to learn about the island with your family and friends!
4 Distinctly Different Tours:
*Chincoteague Sampler Food Tour
*Misty Ponies & The Beebe Ranch
*Historical: Heros and Happenings
*Pirate Legend & Lore
Call for more details or check out the page bio 😃🐴😃🐴
757-894-1953
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