TED SHOCKLEYOct 23, 20202 min read25 years ago, Northampton football moves to 5-0, with Sussex Central showdown nextFrom left, Andre Elliott (number 56), Kareem Sparrow and Nick Bravo chase the opposing quarterback. Where are you, Keith Layne? And do...
TED SHOCKLEYSep 11, 20202 min read25 years ago: Northampton football blanks Seaford, 16-0, moves to 2-0 on seasonPhoto: Jeff Wayman was Northampton High School's quarterback in 1995. Twenty-five years ago, it was finally the second weekend of...
TED SHOCKLEYSep 2, 20203 min read25 years ago, Northampton's football team began a season for the agesPhoto: Running back Sam Ames, number 10, carries the ball for Northampton High School in the fall of 1995. Twenty-five years ago this...
TED SHOCKLEYAug 17, 20201 min read75 years ago today — an Eastern Shore headline for all timeWouldn't this be a great front-page headline for a newspaper these days, this year, right now? One wonders if peace on any large scale is...
TED SHOCKLEYJul 24, 20202 min readToday's Eastern Shore question: What vice president's wife had family on the Eastern Shore?(Caption: The remains of this vice presidential grandmother-in-law are interred at the Liberty Cemetery in Parksley.) Here’s a piece of...
TED SHOCKLEYJul 23, 20202 min readRecalling the great John William Sample, 15 years after his deathYesterday marked 15 years since my friend and former co-worker John William Sample passed away. I drank a couple of beers in his memory....
TED SHOCKLEYJul 22, 20202 min readAn old-school hankering for a Stewart Sandwich for lunchI was driving down the highway last week when I had an old-school hankering for a Stewart Sandwich for lunch. Of course, I was 30 years...
TED SHOCKLEYJul 21, 20201 min readIn search of: A pair of Florsheim "Exmore" shoesThere once was a Florsheim shoe called “The Exmore,” spelled the exact same way as the town in which I am sitting. It must have been a...
TED SHOCKLEYJul 17, 20202 min readThe Rev. Donald Broad, quietly mightier than the elected officialsOne of my favorite all-time interviews was in 2008 with the Rev. Donald Broad, who died Wednesday at the age of 94 at his home near...
TED SHOCKLEYJun 18, 20202 min readWhere are you, Mary N. Smith's Anthoney James? A look at the 1970 All-District One baseball teamWho is Anthoney James? Or is it spelled Anthony? And where is he these days? He was a catcher for Mary N. Smith High School’s baseball...
TED SHOCKLEYJun 16, 20202 min readFormer Northampton superintendent was VCU's first leaderThe Bridgetown gravesite of former Northampton Superintendent George J. Oliver and his wife, Machipongo native Clara Bell. One hundred...
TED SHOCKLEYJun 15, 20202 min readWhat have you done for your community today?What have you done for your community today? That’s what a friend of mine asked on social media a couple of days last weekend. It’s a...
TED SHOCKLEYJun 12, 20201 min readThe 1970 Line of Duty Death of Parksley's Police ChiefI was taken aback this week wandering through old newspapers when I found a Parksley Police Department chief was killed in the line of...
TED SHOCKLEYJun 11, 20202 min readA poignant and emotional Saturday with Norris Bowen Sr. PICTURED: Norris Bowen Sr. in a scene of Hog Island documentary, "Our Island Home." The place: The Painter fire hall. The time: A...
TED SHOCKLEYJun 10, 20201 min read25 years ago, Northampton decided against state prisonHow time flies. Twenty-five years ago this month, the Northampton County Board of Supervisors voted against a plan from the Commonwealth...
