“Don’t judge a book by its cover.†You’ve all heard that phrase but nowhere does it apply better than to the Chesapeake Children’s Museum. Housed in a small building in a residential neighborhood, the museum doesn’t reveal its treasures until you enter – hopefully with a child or two – and see the array of [...]
Now that Memorial Day Weekend is upon us, beach season officially begins. Imagine my surprise, then, when I read a newspaper’s list of the 10 Best Beaches and it omitted one of my favorites. It had the usual candidates – France’s Nice, Spain’s Costa del Sol, Mexico’s Acapulco and one in the United States, California’s [...]
West Street has a pretty new face—several of them, in fact. Once a major eyesore of ramshackle buildings and down-on-their-luckers, West Street has undergone a major nip and tuck. And it looks mahvalous. A short stroll from the Naval Academy, and the Main Street and Maryland Avenue shopping districts, West Street has morphed into a [...]