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The Best of Caroline County at my lens to my friends in 2023, yet I likely won’t. Too awkward,
I suppose, and I’m awkward enough already!
the Threshermen’s Show
What you get, my friends, when you stop by the Th reshermen’s
by Bryan Gadow Show, is the best of Caroline County with an all-star cast. Few
things bring me more joy than walking about, smelling the
As the page on the old feed-store calendar turns to August, burning coal of the steam engines, hearing an old Farmall or
I peer upon its first week and witness that annual day of Case purring along, and just being around the salt of the earth.
melancholy. A birthday, perhaps, or the anniversary of some True, when it’s all over I’ll once again find myself feeling a bit

tragic event? Hardly. With great highs come great lows. Each down. It just comes from missing an old friend. Lord willing,
year brings for me a number of “can’t miss” events, but one in the show, and I, will be back in twelve. Meanwhile, my friend,
particular trumps them all. Th e first weekend in August means will I see you there?

but one thing to me: the Eastern Shore Threshermen’s Show. A
constant, it was there in that year of Covid, as few things were.
On it, you can depend.
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think back to 2022, which in some ways was much like 2002 B • Residential & Commercial
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on will come forth Wendy Adams with our National Anthem;
her husband Ellery will follow with a word of prayer. Hope- FREE ESTIMATES!
fully she can talk him into driving his fine old Cadillac out

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for us all to admire. George Jackson will be under a tent,
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yet to figure out why a bridge doesn’t yet bear his name. Jill

and Jim Phelps will show off a fine array of green equipment.

Tell him you want a personal demonstration of how fast his
John Deere bicycle can go! I’ll run into Caroline’s gentle giant,
Tommy Blockston, and I’ve yet to make it through the fl ea
market without hearing Carl Frase’s voice. Janie and Michael
Eskow were there last year handing out Gideon Bibles. Ronnie

Fearins could be found selling raffle tickets for the Preston
Volunteer Fire Company. The gang from the Federalsburg
Historical Society usually has a raffle or two of its own, includ-

ing a nicely restored antique trunk by Tom Daffi n.

I thought of each of those folks last year, after the show was
over. I glanced at photos I had taken, of various tractors and
equipment, yet there was not one image of those people. How
much more important is Tommy or Janie, George or Ronnie, Classic Cars • Vintage Cars • Barn Finds
Carl or Wendy, than a Hart-Parr tractor? I thought of turning
(Especially Mustangs, Shelbys, and Convertibles)
Calvary Baptist Church
Restored & Unrestored Finders
1120 Market St., Denton • 410-924-6404 Running or Not Fee
www.calvarybaptistchurchofdenton.org ANY CONDITION
Don Reynolds, Pastor Paid
10 AM Sunday Bible School – All ages ¡“Žš—­ Ž¡©“ŒŽ $$$ CASH PAID
11 AM Exciting Praise / Worship
Also, great Junior Church (5-11 yrs.)
7 PM Sunday Evening Worship & 410-320-7522
Children’s Class
7 PM Wednesday Bible Studies Any pictures can be emailed
Going Forward Together in 2023 to lightbd@comcast.net

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