Members of Alpha Kappa Alpha on the lower Eastern Shore wanted to celebrate the national sorority’s 70thanniversary in a spectacular way in 1978, so they invited a high-profile guest to their party. During the last weekend of February that year, Coretta Scott King came to the Lower Shore, where she received the key to the…Read more The Day Coretta Scott King Visited UMES
When rock-n-roll music was in its infancy, Maryland State College students would tune their radios north to a Salisbury AM station in the late 1950s to hear the Big Nyack spin chart-topping platters à la Wolfman Jack. The Wolfman became a pop music and cultural icon, and “Nyack,” as it turns out, did A-OK, too. Lower Delmarva’s DJ was Maryland…Read more The Big Nyack
Robert A. Grigsby, the sixth chief executive of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore – when it was known as Princess Anne College – penned a heartfelt tribute to a deceased colleague in early 1942. “The (college’s) history cannot be written without a large portion of it being centered around the life of the late…Read more Daniel J. Pinkett
