{"id":2293,"date":"2023-01-05T20:01:33","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T01:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=2293"},"modified":"2023-01-06T14:20:39","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T19:20:39","slug":"backyard-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=2293","title":{"rendered":"Backyard History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last month, I took a quick trip up the Eastern Shore to Salisbury, Maryland, and then on to Annapolis to visit with family. I hadn&#8217;t been over the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel for years. Hampton Roads was its bustling self, of course, but the traffic fell away as I headed north on Route 13, over and under the Bay, touching down briefly on Fisherman&#8217;s Island where my husband and I once took a nature walk to see terns, and then onto the Delmarva peninsula. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was immediately reminded of the experience of taking the Jamestown Scotland Ferry from Williamsburg to Surry: you leave suburbia behind and find yourself in the rural South, fields dotted with small houses and barns, chickens wandering the front yard with a row or two of collards in a winter garden, and, in the few small towns, a post office, gas station and dollar store. I could have been driving along a road near my own home except for the flatness that reached to the horizon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed alignright is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/therichardsons\/52609850708\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52609850708_f5d81e0e82_c.jpg?resize=600%2C800&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Harriet Tubman Statue\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass were Eastern Shore natives. I didn&#8217;t have time to visit the sites on the <a href=\"https:\/\/harriettubmanbyway.org\/\">Harriet Tubman Byway<\/a> and the road to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/hatu\/index.htm\">National Historical Park <\/a>was flooded, but I did visit the Harriet Tubman Statue on the grounds of Salisbury University in Salisbury, Maryland. The sign features a quote from Douglass about Tubman: &#8220;The midnight sky and the silent stars have been the witness of your devotion to freedom and of your heroism.&#8221; For good reading about Tubman, I can recommend <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.librarything.com\/work\/22740113\">The Tubman Command<\/a><\/em>, a historical fiction biography of this fascinating woman that gets beyond the myth and includes details about the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Raid_at_Combahee_Ferry\">raid at Combahee Ferry<\/a> in South Carolina, which Tubman led and which freed over 700 slaves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, I took a quick trip up the Eastern Shore to Salisbury, Maryland, and then on to Annapolis to visit with family. I hadn&#8217;t been over the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel for years. Hampton Roads was its bustling self, of course, but the traffic fell away as I headed north on Route 13, over &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=2293\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Backyard History<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[64,129],"tags":[597],"class_list":["post-2293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-travel","tag-harriet-tubman"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4X3L0-AZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2293"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2297,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293\/revisions\/2297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}