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Over the River and Through the Woods, After the Fox We Go!

Barbara — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 19:46:29 GMT

Story by Edna Troiano

St. Mary’s City, the first settlement in Maryland, is now a historical tourist attraction, and Southern Maryland’s economy is no longer based on tobacco farming and fishing. Although much of our early history is just that, one flourishing remnant of colonial Southern Maryland remains – foxhunting.

Margaret Brent: A Colonial Heroine

Editor — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 02:53:57 GMT

Margaret Brent, a key figure in Maryland colonial history, has been much honored in the 330 years since her death, but not always for the right reasons. She has been called America’s first suffragette and first woman lawyer, claims that some historians question. Yet relatively little recognition has come to her most important role: She was nothing less than the woman who saved the Maryland colony.