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Glor Johnson
 Glor
Johnson is an author, writer, and researcher of local history. She
joined the Writers Bloc in May of 2001 and now serves as secretary, and
co-editor for their newsletter. She is currently writing local history
with her friend and co-author Ann Foley, and is trying her hand at a romantic comedy of sorts with inspiration from friends and family. Glor's favorite pastime is to read—anything, an interest encouraged from childhood by her father, Bu.
Cambridge
 Cambridge,
Maryland, ideally located along the Choptank River, has been home port
to people of every description, from Native Americans, patriots, and
state governors to oyster pirates and their nemesis --- the Maryland
Oyster Navy. Today, Cambridge embraces the diverse cultures and rich
past evident in its historic homes and buildings and exhibited in its
museums. The city owes much to maritime and agricultural resources,
including oysters and crabs from the river and Bay, and crops from the
surrounding fields. The town's Colonial history, proximity to
Chesapeake Bay, and dauntless spirit lend a certain charm that is
distinctively Cambridge.
Images
and postcards culled from a variety of sources bring to life the vivid
and varied past of one of Maryland's earliest settlements. This unique
volume of vintage photos and memorabilia, with its well-researched
captions, will engage young and old alike. Highlighted in this photo
journal along with the oyster fleet, businesses, churches, and events
are the ordinary and extraordinary people who make this area special.
Visitors
and natives alike will pick up a nugget or two of history from Images
of America: Cambridge, in which authors and long-time Dorchester
residents Gloria Johnson and A. M. Foley celebrate the history of their
county seat.
Available From:
Dogwood Ridge Books
2336 Elliott Island Road
Elliott Island, MD 21869
Reviews
Vignettes of
Dorchester County history from old and forgotten photographs in
attics, albums and old books, were rediscovered...The Cambridge book
features many never-before-published photos of the community and its
residents.
--Brice Stump
The Daily Times
Six weeks after Images of America: Cambridge hit bookstore shelves last summer, it was gone.
--Jason Rhodes
The Banner
Authors
capture Cambridge's past in heirloom photos...The most interesting
juxtaposition of present and past occurs on the book's final page. One
picture shows people in the waves of the Choptank at the Oakley Beach
Hotel. The other is an aerial view of the Hyatt Regency Chesapeake Bay
Golf Resort, Spa and Marina...
--Gail Dean
The Dorchester Star
Wonderful books![Cambridge and Images of America: Dorchester County]...an
excellent job on what initially must have been a daunting task....I
hope that in Maryland they have been given the praise that they well
deserve. Both certainly would serve as an excellent model for anybody
attempting a pictorial history...
--Michael O'Donnell
Co.Tipperary
Ireland
Dorchester County
 Dorchester
County's special blend of past and present, treasured by locals,
appeals to visitors from all walks of life. Presidents Franklin
Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and Jimmy Carter, performers Annie Oakley;
Buffalo Bill Cody; and Ella Fitzgerald, and Pulitzer Prize-winning
authors James Michener and Richard Ben Cramer all enjoyed sojourning
here. Dorchester County is surrounded almost entirely by scenic waters:
the Choptank and Nanticoke Rivers, Hunting Creek, and Chesapeake Bay. A
cruise along these waterways offers long stretches of pristine marsh
and uplands to transport visitors to earlier days, when Native
Americans traveled these same waters in log canoes. Occasional glimpses
of historic homes evoke colonial times. Within these watery boundaries,
this largest of Maryland counties encompasses landscapes and activities
to gladden any heart. Railroad and history buffs, hunters,
birdwatchers, epicures, and visitors from more hectic locales all find
their heart's content in this land of pleasant living.
Images of
America: Dorchester County is a unique history for all to enjoy, filled
with priceless images of people, places, pastimes, and events.
Culled
from local archives, postcard collections, and cherished family albums,
these photographs will stir up fond memories of everyday Eastern Shore
life. Much of its uniqueness endures, but much that made the area
singular lives only in memory or in print. In this follow up to their
first book in the series, Images of America: Cambridge, the authors
strive from different perspectives to preserve a representative glimpse
of their county -- A.M. Foley from remote Elliott Island and Gloria
Johnson from the "high-lands" of Eldorado.
Available From:
Dogwood Ridge Books
2336 Elliott Island Road
Elliott Island, MD 21869
Reviews
......a
vibrant and sensitive survey...The reader will find poignant
images...Photos of people and places shed light on unique personalities
and thriving communities now gone.
--Mary Bargion
The Daily Times
I love the books! [Dorchester County and Images of America: Cambridge]
I just page through them and look and look and read and read. The
photos are great and many really brought back memories of growing up
down the Necks...The thing I love about photographs is how much they
tell me, as a writer, all the things words don't or can't capture.
Then I have your captions to remove the mysteries.
---Helen Chappell,
Author of Oysterback Tales
A Whole World of Trouble
Chesapeake Book of the Dead
Oysterback Spoken Here.
Surely this
is the perfect book to give your friends who were either born and
raised in Dorchester County or who've lived there...the photos, -
culled from numerous public archives and private collections - will
surely stir up fond memories of everyday Eastern Shore life...
--John Goodspeed
The Star Democrat
What a fine, fine book! I hated for it to end. Now I'm going to read Cambridge again.
--Ann Slattery
Washington, D. C.
...a superb job of locating photos and their history...Dorchester County fills a long-standing void in county history.
--Brice Stump
Author of It Happened in Dorchester
Unforgettable Treasurers: People, Places and Culture of the Eastern Shore
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