After months of expectation and inaction on the part of the O’Malley Administration the Gregorian Fault shifted once again and this time left a 6 foot crack between the end of the St. George Island Bridge and the island making travel by vehicle onto the island for tourists and residents impossible.
Point Lookout was the site of a Union Army hospital and prisoner of war camp during the civil war where more than 3,000 Confederate prisoners died. Dubbed the Andersonville of the North, the camp kept prisoners in tents, many without blankets and medical care as harsh winter storms ravaged the point. A monument to the dead is located nearby.
Now, I am not some wacko trying to shove you aboard a space ship for an elliptical rendezvous with destiny, and I promise you won’t be given any cyanide-laced kool-aid. I just want you to be aware.
PINEY POINT (Special) — In spite of warnings from the Coast and Geodetic Survey, the O’Malley Administration has failed to act to secure and safeguard St. George’s Island from drifting away from the mainland at the same time that the local politicians have been conducting secret negotiations with the Mattaponi Indian tribe to use the [...]
ST. GEORGE ISLAND, Md. (SPECIAL) — A serious disturbance in the Gregorian Fault which lies underneath the Potomac River and affects an island attached to the mainland of St. Mary’s County only by a bridge is once again showing signs of shifting. Not since 1989 when the island actually broke loose from the mainland, causing [...]
By Jack Rue Special Correspondent for THE CHESAPEAKE (Editor’s Note: Jack Rue has been a longtime resident of St. Mary’s County. We asked him to tell us how the beginnings of Lexington Park as the business hub of the county took form. — This was Jack Rue’s first column in The Chesapeake and was [...]
