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EASTON
Then and Now
by Mindie Burgoyne
ISBN: 0738553122
PRICE: $19.99
Published by Arcadia Publishing
Then and Now series
REVIEWS
of Easton, Then and Now
Released November 23, 2007
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Book Description:
Named Easton in
1788, the principal town on
Maryland's Eastern Shore grew to be
its center of government and
commerce. The images in this
book chart Easton's transformation
into Maryland's eastern hub for the
arts, culture, and entertainment,
revealing the town's treasure trove
of Victorian and Colonial buildings,
historic streetscapes, and the
oldest Quaker meetinghouse in the
United States.
Chapters include:
Each page contains
an historic photo of Easton
juxtaposed against a current photo
image of the same site showing how
Easton has changed and remained the
same over the last century.
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Amazon.com.
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Review by Jack Shaum
Staff Writer for
The Star Democrat
December 21, 2007
Easton, MD
How many times has someone said to
you, "I remember that," or "When my
grandmother was growing up, she did
thus and so?"
Recalling what once was is a lot of
fun for many people, and it's being
made even easier through an ongoing
series of books published by Arcadia
Publishing that feature old
photographs of specific places or
long-lost ways of life.
Then and Now Easton, by Mindie
Burgoyne, offers a fascinating look
at life in the Talbot County seat in
a series of 168 photographs that
depict locales and individual
buildings as they looked 100 years
ago with how they or the sites where
they stood look today. It highlights
the successes of the historic
preservation movement, showing how
some old structures have been
adapted for modern use.
Take, for instance, the former
Ebenezer Methodist Church, built in
1856, and now serving as a
combination office and auditorium
for the Historical Society of Talbot
County. Or there is the site of the
former BC&A Railroad station, which
has been converted to an industrial
and commercial area with the old
rail bed now an access road. In
another instance, a building that
began life as a bank is now a
church.
Drawing on the resources of a number
of local libraries, museums and
other sources, Burgoyne has provided
vintage photographs, capturing for
posterity what life was like in a
less hectic time. The modern
photographs are from her camera.
The book is divided into five
chapters: The Court House Square;
Public Services; Easton's Economy;
Faith, Home and Hospitality; and The
Ghosts of Easton. It is a testament
to a town with a rich heritage.
AMAZON CUSTOMER
REVIEW
Easton, Then and
Now by Mindie Burgoyne
This is the second time that I have
taken an illustrated, sightseeing
tour through a small colonial town
on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. It
was as informative and absorbing as
my first tour of an Eastern Shore
town with Mindie Burgoyne’s book,
“Snow Hill.”
I grew up in Maryland, just north of
Washington, D.C. and we always
thought of Maryland as being in two
parts: where I lived and east of us
somewhere was the Eastern Shore.
We never knew much about the Eastern
Shore except that we thought that it
was old, “behind the times” and on
the other side of the Chesapeake
Bay. And so it was, in a quiet but
elegant sort of way. Now, through
Ms. Burgoyne’s books, I’m learning
more about the Eastern Shore that
now rises as a gem of Americana,
quite preserved in its simplicity
and its modest grandeur.
The authenticity of this book rests
upon Ms. Burgoyne’s extensive,
personal research in the
accumulation of archival and
cotemporary photographs, plus her
research of facts for her editorial
comments. In Ms. Burgoyne’s hands,
these photographs and facts make
this book a truly historic document.
I would certainly recommend “Easton,
Then and Now” to anyone interested
in the Eastern Shore of Maryland and
to anyone who would like to take a
stroll through a historic part of
colonial Maryland that has changed
“Now,” since “Then”…but not that
much.
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