The Onancock Chronicles the Eastern shore

Good article,plenty of things to do there,that's for sure,next on my list is tangier island,just waiting for he weather to cool

the special election last night in the south, “ the peeps are not liking all the northerners coming down... ??? cellie... ??

Last time down I was told the locals call people like me, wader, macks and sandspinner the "Come heres".

Well, the Come Heres and the Been Heres
They don’t get along
I’ve been here fifteen minutes
I knew something was wrong
The waitress was not friendly
Neither was the cook
To ask how far it was
To the town of Stonybrook

The Come Heres live in cabins, the Been Heres live in Shacks
They say hello in passing
And talk behind each other’s backs
White collars vs red necks
Horses vs mules
City kids they come here and make the teachers look like fools

Come Heres come with Laptops, Nintendo, VCR’s
Some have their telephones, beside their foreign cars
They wanna make no smoking zones in all the public spaces
They want to pass ordinances outlawing turkey races

Well, the ancestors of Been Heres
They came here early on
When there were just the Indians, and once they’re gone
They claim themselves the New World
There’s lots to go around
Claimed bunch of properties
And built this little town

Now the Come Heres nearly have the votes to make their own mayor
In the last election they won half the council chairs
They took over the school board
They outlawed morning prayers, teach evolution, sex education, there

Been Heres do their drinking in their own saloons
In the Come Heres’ Microbrewery there’s a separate dining room
Been Heres shop Kmart and at Walmart, where they mix
They think of one another as Cavaliers? and Hicks

The Come Heres have the pussy cats and their little white French poodles
Been Heres have their hound dogs with names like Yankee Doodle
Comes Heres like to watch the ducks and some like to feed them
Been Heres like to shoot them and take them home and eat them

The Come Heres keep on coming
New ones everyday
They come for second chances
The new world as they say
They buy and sell these properties
For unheard of amounts
Come Heres keep on coming they’ll map this little town
The Come Heres and the Been Heres
To towns that overlap
You would not even see it
By just looking at the map
And alls there
At Christmas time when the tree is just the tree
And you could not tell whose kids were whose
Sitting there on Santa’s knee

The Come Heres and the Been Heres
There’s talk about a fence
The whole town is divided half for and half against

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Civil War mentality... cellie...

If I’m gonna move south it’s gonna be south Florida with liberal Jews and Latinos... cellie... ??

Mostly Latinos and a few liberal jews ?

Friendliest place I've ever been to,drive down the road the guy mowing his lawn stops in his tracks just to wave hello,sit a bench in town and every car or mostly pickups wave to you,maybe they just know I used to be a farmer..lol

I was gonna say something similar.

I had a woman walking two dogs past my house one morning as I sat on the front porch finishing my coffee. I said good morning & complemented her animals (Russian Wolfhounds). She came right up the walk - sat down next to me & began a 20 minute conversation.

And then there was the "Turkey Whisperer".
You ask them how they're doing in passing - like you do up in NY - & don't be surprised if they actually tell you whether you wanna know or not.

Just don't ask 'em where the fishing spots are. They won't tell.
:LOL:

Mostly Latinos and a few liberal jews ?

just sum humor... cellie...

Friendliest place I've ever been to,drive down the road the guy mowing his lawn stops in his tracks just to wave hello,sit a bench in town and every car or mostly pickups wave to you,maybe they just know I used to be a farmer..lol

Same for me too. Just a laid back, very friendly place. My wife and I were down over labor day weekend. We had our two dogs, a lab and a dopey mutt, with us. We sat down on a bench by the kayak launch and a woman walking by just walked over, pet the dogs and we had a very nice conversation. Here people power walk by avoiding eye contact.
I've experienced the driving wave to the point where I do it all the time now. I had a friend down in July. I waved at a pick-up going by. He's like, "you know that guy ?? " . I said no, we all just smile and wave at each other here. :)

Just don't ask 'em where the fishing spots are. They won't tell.
:LOL:

I don't tell either ...... I get that.

I am really good at observing ! 8-)

Last time down I was told the locals call people like me, wader, macks and sandspinner the "Come heres".

We have 3 classes...

Maineahs: Folks whose families have been here at least 4 generations.

PFAs (People From Away): Any one who doesn't fit the above or below categories

And last, but not least, my favorite, Massholes: no need to define that one...

could Amazon be coming to the Shore?

[[SIZE=5]AMAZON REPRESENTATIVE TOURS THE EASTERN SHORE Sep 28, 2019[/SIZE]]('https://shoredailynews.com/headlines/amazon-representative-tours-the-eastern-shore/?fbclid=IwAR32jKqwJGss8Tc6BCFC1vFM_kGkjh5cgXy1_PrqY_SV283voPLOQVrt34Y')

An official from Amazon spent all day Thursday touring the Eastern Shore of Virginia.

[Ardine Williams, Amazon’s Vice President of Workforce Development, ]('https://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2019/08/22/ardine-williams-is-hq2s-people-person.html')spent the full day on a tour of Accomack and Northampton Counties set up by the Eastern Shore of Virginia Chamber of Commerce.

Her day began with a tour of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel with CEO Jeff Holland, followed by a tour of Northampton County with County Administrator Charlie Kolakowski. Williams, Kolakowski, and Eastern Shore of Virginia Chamber of Commerce and Eastern Shore of Virginia Tourism Commission Executive Director Robie Marsh toured Cape Charles, Cheriton, Eastville, the former Shore Memorial Hospital in Nassawadox and areas around Exmore, including Willis Wharf to show aquaculture.

Upon reaching Accomack County, Williams and Marsh were joined by County Administrator Mike Mason, Zoning Director Rich Morrison, Senator Lynwood Lewis, Delegate Rob Bloxom and Eastern Shore Broadband Authority Executive Director Robert Bridgham.

In Accomack, Williams was shown the Industrial Park, the Eastern Shore Community College, the Airport, Onley, Onancock and the future site of the Eastern Shore Public Library and Heritage Center in Parksley.

Following the tour of Parksley, Williams was treated to a tour of the NASA Wallops Flight Facility by Jeremy Eggers and Dale Nash, CEO of Virginia Space.

Next was a tour of Chincoteague Island, followed by a tour of the solar farm in northern Accomack County, which Amazon originally built before selling to Old Dominion Electric Cooperative.
[COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)](I pass by there regularly on my way up to Lowes in Maryland - never knew Amazon built it - it's huge)[/COLOR]

According to Marsh, the ‘fam(short for familiarization) tour’ with Williams spent more time off 13 than on. Williams asked a lot of questions about the Community College and their CDL program, the abandoned hospital building and the Wallops Flight Facility.

The tour was the result of a suggestion by Governor Ralph Northam following the Amazon deal for their ‘H2Q’ in northern Virginia. Northam urged Amazon officials to tour southwestern Virginia, the Suffolk area, and the Eastern Shore of Virginia to see if any future projects could be located in either of these areas.

Williams promised this would not be her last visit to the Eastern Shore.

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could Amazon be coming to the Shore?

[[SIZE=5]AMAZON REPRESENTATIVE TOURS THE EASTERN SHORE Sep 28, 2019[/SIZE]]('https://shoredailynews.com/headlines/amazon-representative-tours-the-eastern-shore/?fbclid=IwAR32jKqwJGss8Tc6BCFC1vFM_kGkjh5cgXy1_PrqY_SV283voPLOQVrt34Y')

An official from Amazon spent all day Thursday touring the Eastern Shore of Virginia.

[Ardine Williams, Amazon’s Vice President of Workforce Development, ]('https://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2019/08/22/ardine-williams-is-hq2s-people-person.html')spent the full day on a tour of Accomack and Northampton Counties set up by the Eastern Shore of Virginia Chamber of Commerce.

Her day began with a tour of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel with CEO Jeff Holland, followed by a tour of Northampton County with County Administrator Charlie Kolakowski. Williams, Kolakowski, and Eastern Shore of Virginia Chamber of Commerce and Eastern Shore of Virginia Tourism Commission Executive Director Robie Marsh toured Cape Charles, Cheriton, Eastville, the former Shore Memorial Hospital in Nassawadox and areas around Exmore, including Willis Wharf to show aquaculture.

Upon reaching Accomack County, Williams and Marsh were joined by County Administrator Mike Mason, Zoning Director Rich Morrison, Senator Lynwood Lewis, Delegate Rob Bloxom and Eastern Shore Broadband Authority Executive Director Robert Bridgham.

In Accomack, Williams was shown the Industrial Park, the Eastern Shore Community College, the Airport, Onley, Onancock and the future site of the Eastern Shore Public Library and Heritage Center in Parksley.

Following the tour of Parksley, Williams was treated to a tour of the NASA Wallops Flight Facility by Jeremy Eggers and Dale Nash, CEO of Virginia Space.

Next was a tour of Chincoteague Island, followed by a tour of the solar farm in northern Accomack County, which Amazon originally built before selling to Old Dominion Electric Cooperative.
[COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)](I pass by there regularly on my way up to Lowes in Maryland - never knew Amazon built it - it's huge)[/COLOR]

According to Marsh, the ‘fam(short for familiarization) tour’ with Williams spent more time off 13 than on. Williams asked a lot of questions about the Community College and their CDL program, the abandoned hospital building and the Wallops Flight Facility.

The tour was the result of a suggestion by Governor Ralph Northam following the Amazon deal for their ‘H2Q’ in northern Virginia. Northam urged Amazon officials to tour southwestern Virginia, the Suffolk area, and the Eastern Shore of Virginia to see if any future projects could be located in either of these areas.

Williams promised this would not be her last visit to the Eastern Shore.

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don’t know if that a good thing or a bad thing for that area

There goes the neighborhood...

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don’t know if that a good thing or a bad thing for that area

what we lack out here is jobs.....................

Being a mostly Agricultural Based Economy - the only other employment is Walmart, two Chicken Processing Plants (Tyson & Perdue) or fast food joints. There's nothing to hold young folk here. So they leave.

Was recently at one of my Planning Meetings where it was brought up that the average age in Onancock is 62 & getting older based on census data. This would provide much needed jobs & probably be a boost to the economy & property values. Would help the tax base as well.

The only people moving into the area are well heeled individuals who are looking for a second home or retirees or near retirees like myself, Capt13 or Mack.

There's plenty of land to build on.

I think it would be a good thing...........

There's plenty of land to build on.

I think it would be a good thing...........

I'm confused. Wasn't the small town feel, open spaces, and reasonable real estate property prices accompanied by low property taxes, a major part of the allure that attracted you, Macks and Capt 13 to the Eastern Shore? Now you're embracing the potential influx of economic powers that would threaten that charm??

Sounds like you're envisioning "LI Suburbia South" and are forgetting many of the reasons you left LI. Personally I'd go alinear if I heard that a Bevy of Bezos Bozos were touring Midcoast Maine.

Be careful of what you wish for...

The ES is something like 80 miles long & 10 miles wide with only 48,000 people living on it - there's plenty of room for an Amazon distribution center that will provide a bit of an economic boon without infringing on anything the Shore represents Dom.

Im gonna venture a guess here young kids arent leaving because of no jobs maybe its something else?

no - it's jobs - there are none

Maybe its a place for retired people??