Excerpt from Land of Legendary Lore, Sketches of Romance and Reality on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake The "Poet Priest of the South," the Reverend Father Ryan, has beautifully and pathetically expressed the sentiment that "A land without ruins is a land without memories." and the words find a chord to vibrate in the heart of each one who holds a love for one's country, his birth-place and the soil that rests lightly upon the ashes of his dead. Go where one will, become what one may, remembrance wil turn longingly to the dead past, and "Be it ever so humble" the heart treasures the recollections of home and with tenderest feelings recalls the "days of Auld Lang Syne." In all this broad country of ours, its mountains, valleys and prairies, dotted with cities, villages and homes, there is no single spot more filled with memories of the earlier history of America than is the favored spot of which I write - this "Land of Legrndary Lore." Settled afar back in American history, a century and a half before the United States sprung into existence as a nation, under the touch of the magic wand of Freedom, the country washed by the deep blue waters of the ever restless Chesapeake, the Eastern Shore of Maryland, once the favored dwelling place of the Indians, whose graves and war implements alone remain to mark the passing away of an aboriginal people, was the Mecca of early settlers, the haven of mariners from the wide world over, as well as the ideal haunt of buccaneers, and from them all, in the passing panorama of life, have sprung the legends, romance and reality of this story told of old times in Maryland. From the ashes of the past has sprung up a Land of Promise, as it were, and Talbot, the Garden Spot of the Eastern Shore of Maryland, today inhabited by a hospitable, progressive people, will never forget its past as long as there are graves, legends and fireside tales to keep memory alive. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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