Tidewater

Great design takes time to evolve. This Tidewater-style library by Innerspace's Gerry Ebert, Maryland chapter president of the American Society of Interior Designers, and partner Daniel Proctor represents an examination of the use of time in design. xTC The design approach might be called a study in the evolution of a space.The room was built in 1927 as an addition to the main structure, which is nearly 200 years older. At some point an owner had paneling moved from the old section into the new library.

Tidewater Players, the community theater of Havre de Grace, is tackling the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning drama, "Proof," by David Auburn. The plot revolves around a brilliant theorem, or proof, discovered after the death of a famous mathematician. But the former professor was mentally ill during the last years of his life, when he was cared for by his younger daughter, Catherine. Is it possible that he wrote the proof? If not, who did? Robert Oppel directs. For Tammy Crisp Oppel, who plays Catherine, it's not the first time she's been in a play directed by her husband.

As a teen-ager, Lucille Collins dreamed of living in a glass house perched atop a wind-swept hill.Years later, in the incongruous setting of Tidewater Village, a fading apartment complex in eastern Baltimore County, she keeps a piece of that dream -- glass-covered walls, crystal chandeliers and cabinet knobs, glass tables and gleaming aluminum blinds.And she is attempting to prevent Baltimore County and federal officials from shattering it.During a stormy meeting last week, housing officials and the property manager formally announced -- with no warning -- that they would demolish 432 vacant or rundown townhouse apartments and force hundreds of residents, including many single parents, to relocate.

Tidewater Yacht Service Center in Port Covington was named winner of the 2012 Maryland Clean Marina contest in the large boatyard category. The business was commended by the Department of Natural Resources for taking steps to protect the environment such as: having a recycling program for plastic shrink wrap, oil, cardboard, glass and plastic; taking part in oyster aquaculture to help clean the water; installing fixed and portable pump out stations; and...

It looks more like the historic manor houses of southern Maryland than a classroom building for scientists of the 21st century.But that was considered the best way to create a $16 million science center for St. Mary's College of Maryland, the state institution whose picturesque campus borders the site of Maryland's first colonial settlement and state capital.Characterized by massive paired chimneys that double as fume exhaust vents for the high-tech laboratories inside, the science center takes its character from the indigenous architecture of the region.

The Tidewater Inn, an anchor of the town center of this Eastern Shore community since the 1940s, was sold at auction yesterday for $4.225 million to a Montgomery County-based developer known for its residential projects in Fenwick Island and Bethany Beach in Delaware. Carl M. Freeman Associates, a 60-year-old company with headquarters in Olney, has assured the town that the building will remain a hotel, Easton officials said. But a company spokesman declined to discuss plans yesterday.

Toshio "Doobie" Williams is a study in pint-sized cool.His bright red, baggy athletic shorts fall lower than low, almost to his shins. He wears blacktop Reeboks without socks. He likes to perform in front of the karaoke machine, and he plays point guard with reckless abandon.Henry Mack Jr. is a powerfully built man of 51 years, a clerk with a truck rental company. He is on a quest to give back to the youth of his community what police and adult volunteers gave to him 40 years ago.Their paths cross in a large, impersonal rental development called Tidewater Village in the Eastern Baltimore County community of Chase.

A quarter-century ago, the name Tidewater Insurance was synonymous with political influence in Maryland. The company, owned by the friends of then-Gov. Marvin Mandel, wrote millions of dollars worth of insurance contracts on state projects. One subsidiary alone had 28 state contracts during Mandel's tenure. But Tidewater's fate changed when three of its owners were convicted along with Mandel on mail fraud and racketeering charges. Though the convictions were overturned, Tidewater's political lifeline appeared to be severed and, with new owners, it dropped from view - or so it seemed.

OXFORD - A newspaper advertising man came up with the idea for the curious little magazine aimed at the tourists, day-trippers, retirees and second-home buyers who began streaming across the brand new Bay Bridge in 1952. The formula was pretty simple: It should be free. It should be black and white to keep costs down. It should say something about the history of Talbot County, the Eastern Shore's Colonial capital. It should showcase the area's elegant waterfront real estate. It should avoid controversy.

Many travelers who visit Delaware's historic tidewater coast experience the unexpected: they find themselves being transported back in time. That's because the First State offers a wealth of opportunities to escape modern times and experience life in another era. Within a few dozen miles, one can visit descendants of the region's first residents, cook dinner on a Colonial hearth, march to the colors with the Blue and Gray, or enjoy the serenity of...

Tidewater Players, the community theater of Havre de Grace, will its spring Musical next month. Back by popular demand, the players present the hilarious musical comedy, "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee," on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, May 4 through May 20. Showtimes at the Opera House, 121 N. Union Ave., are 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 3 p.m. Sundays. All tickets are $15. To make reservations, visit http://www.tidewaterplayers.com to purchase online seats or call 410-939-TIDE.

Even in the Great Depression of the 1930s, dreamers hoped for something better. In John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men," itinerant field hands George Milton and Lennie Small dream of buying land of their own someday. At Tidewater Players, director Todd Starkey leads a group of talented actors in a moving production of the classic, which opens today (March 2). It is set in a sunny harvest season in northern California, 1937. "Of Mice and Men" runs upstairs at 121 N. Union Ave. at Tidewater Players, the community theater of Havre de Grace, weekends through March 18. Friday and Saturday shows are at 8 p.m. and Sunday matinees, at 3 p.m. Tickets are $10. Visit http://www.tidewaterplayers.com or pay at the door.

Tidewater Players opens a musical production Dec. 2 that sees the War Between the States through the eyes of Union and Confederate soldiers who fought, slaves whose freedom was at stake, loved ones left behind and a nurse who cared for the wounded. "The Civil War" has been described as a "thrilling, gut-wrenching and awe-inspiring dramatic theatrical concert. " Reminiscent of Ken Burns' acclaimed documentary, the play draws on letters, diaries and first-hand accounts as well as the words of Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass and Walt Whitman.

On June 13, 2009, Ruth Lloyd Services will be held at Calvary Baptist Church, Bel Air, MD on Friday, June 19, 2009 at 11 A.M. Interment will be in Bel Air Memorial Gardens, Bel Air, MD. Friends may call at the family owned McComas Funeral Home, P.A., Abingdon, MD on Wednesday, June 17, 2009 from 5 to 8 P.M. Those who desire may contribute to Operation Smile, 6435 Tidewater Drive, Norfolk, VA 23509. Memory tributes may be sent to the family at mccomasfuneralhome.com

On May 28, 1840, the city of Havre de Grace celebrated the opening of the Susquehanna and Tidewater Canal. Six hundred guests from Philadelphia and Baltimore paraded with brass bands onto seven magnificently decorated boats to begin the journey up to Deer Creek. There, they met guests aboard five packet boats from Wrightsville, Pa. After celebratory speeches, all twelve boats returned to Havre de Grace, where guests boarded the steamboat Carroll for a feast and more speeches. Before the canal, the shallow and rocky waters of the Susquehanna River were barely navigable.

Disney musical -- Tidewater Players Community Theater will present the Harford County premiere of Disney's High School Musical at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, and at 3 p.m. Sundays, through Dec. 16 at 121 N. Union St., Havre de Grace (no show Nov. 23). Tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for children age 12 and under. A credit card is required to hold reservations. 410-939-5046.

EASTON -- From the vantage point of Larry Albright's gun shop, the venerable Tidewater Inn looms over the bustling corner of Harrison and Dover streets like a grand dame of the Eastern Shore. But lately rumors are flying about the future of the red-brick, Federal-style hotel that for half a century has successfully mixed upscale elegance with such hunter-friendly traditions as a 4:30 a.m. breakfast and a welcome to those who want to keep their retrievers in their rooms. A bank is threatening to foreclose on the inn's latest owner, and downtown merchants are worried.

Their course is repetitious but rarely dull. Uniform, but hardly boring. That is a ferry boat's grace. Before bridges and tunnels became practical or popular, homely ferry boats shuttled travelers and commerce from this shore to that and back again.Flat and utilitarian, ferries function as floating extensions of the roadway. They are the oldest means of dry-crossing the waterways that punctuate the mid-Atlantic landscape. But more than historic relics, the eight working Tidewater ferries flourish today as cherished and useful elements of their communities.

Jane L.W. Bailey, former owner, publisher and editor of the Tidewater Times, an Eastern Shore monthly magazine, and a patron of the arts, died Friday of complications from leukemia at Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury. The longtime Somerset County resident was 81. Born Jane Lenore Wulf in Scarsdale, N.Y., she moved with her family in the 1930s to Royal Oak and later Salisbury, when her father established the Eastern Shore Gas Co. After graduating from Wicomico High School in 1943, she attended Sullins College in Bristol, Va., for two years before enrolling at the University of Missouri, where she earned a bachelor's degree in journalism in 1947.