Cities on Maryland's Eastern Shore part 2

Ex-Ithacan · #1 Posted: **Jan 16, 2007, 9:40 PM**

Only got one town this time. Salisbury is the biggest city on the Eastern Shore (pop ~ 25,000). Agricultural center (lots of poultry farms around it), and home to Salisbury University (about 5,500 students), Salisbury has some great older buildings. Fairly small, compact downtown with a main street that's a hybrid pedestrian mall. One of the negative aspects of the city is a high crime rate, about twice the national average.

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Hope you enjoyed.

Evergrey · #2 Posted: **Jan 17, 2007, 3:07 PM**

all i ever saw of Salisbury was the Food Lion... quaint downtown!

marc1969 · #3 Posted: **Jan 17, 2007, 3:15 PM**

Nice Pics. They also have a neat baseball stadium which looks like a miniature Camden Yards. I wonder if the new highway 50 bypass around the city has affected the economy at all since all that beach traffic doesn't go through downtown anymore.

Tombstoner · #4 Posted: **Jan 17, 2007, 4:00 PM**

Looks incredibly charming. Too bad about the crime rate...I wonder why that is?

boden · #5 Posted: **Jan 18, 2007, 12:13 AM**

Looks to be a pretty little place. Good pics.....a new camera!?

dc_denizen · #6 Posted: **Jan 18, 2007, 2:51 AM**

Great pics! Someone I know went to Salisbury. Is the school walkably close to downtown?

Ex-Ithacan · #7 Posted: **Jan 18, 2007, 11:52 AM**

Thanks for the replies fellas.

marc & tombstoner - sorry, I can't answer your questions, I just don't really know enough about the place.

boden - same old Sony

dc_den - I think the campus is a bit of a distance from downtown. I didn't explore the rest of the city, but I'll try to get to more of it next time.

Cirrus · #8 Posted: **Jan 18, 2007, 2:17 PM**

Thumbs up.

Ex-Ithacan · #9 Posted: **Jan 18, 2007, 4:19 PM**

Thanks Dan.

PhillyRising · #10 Posted: **Jan 18, 2007, 4:20 PM**

So...where can you get some Salisbury Steak?

I haven't been there in years.

Ex-Ithacan · #11 Posted: **Jan 18, 2007, 11:33 PM**

Salisbury Steak? The waitress told me it was a real Philly Cheesesteak. That b*tch.

flar · #12 Posted: **Jan 19, 2007, 12:07 AM**

To look at it you wouldn't think there's a lot of crime there. It looks pleasant.

BTinSF · #13 Posted: **Jan 19, 2007, 12:09 AM**

Nice, but Easton's still my fave.

You should consider some really obscure places like Tangier Island and Crisfield

Ex-Ithacan · #14 Posted: **Jan 19, 2007, 12:37 AM**

Thanks flar, yeah, the crime thing does seem out of charater.

@ BT, I really should check those places out sometime. btw, Easton is in part 1 if you didn't see it.

PhillyRising · #15 Posted: **Jan 19, 2007, 3:22 AM**

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Originally Posted by Ex-Ithacan

Salisbury Steak? The waitress told me it was a real Philly Cheesesteak. That b*tch.

Did she call you "hon"? Or is that only in Balamer?

BTinSF · #16 Posted: **Jan 19, 2007, 9:30 AM**

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Originally Posted by Ex-Ithacan

@ BT, I really should check those places out sometime. btw, Easton is in part 1 if you didn't see it.

Yeah, I did see it. Very nice. I grew up in the MD suburbs of DC but spent a fair amount of time wandering the Eastern shore, by car and by boat and I loved the place back then (1960's). My uncle had a softshell crab business near Cambridge and many a summer weekend we'd cruise over to Kent Island from Annapolis. Summers meant two weeks vacation in Ocean City and fall/winter meant fishing for large mouth bass and pickerel and/or duck hunting on some land near Easton owned by a friend of my dad. Also, since I went to school in Baltimore, I met guys there from Salisbury, Ocean City and other Eastern Shore towns.

I mentioned Tangier Island especially as a place you might want to explore because it's an amazing place. It and its people are so isolated that as recently as the 1970's they spoke an English dialect reminiscent of Shakespearian English (the place was settled in the 1600's--their language remained untainted by outside influences that long). A documentary on PBS by Robert McNeil called "The Story of English" about how the language has evolved included a segment of recorded speech from these people demonstrating how Shakespearian speech probably sounded: http://ling.cornell.edu/teachling/AV/story3.html

Ex-Ithacan · #17 Posted: **Jan 19, 2007, 10:47 AM**

PN - waitresses all across this great country of ours call me Hon.

BT - Good stuff about you living back here. I feel so guilty about not visiting Tangier Island. I might wait until my step-father visits. Small world too since the link you posted is from Cornell, and that's where he graduated from.

xzmattzx · #18 Posted: **Jan 19, 2007, 2:55 PM**

I was going to post earlier, but SSP was screwed up. Anyway, I haven't been to Salisbury in over 5 years. I remember that downtown was pretty dense, and parking was hidden away. I was impressed with the city.

Ex-Ithacan · #19 Posted: **Jan 19, 2007, 5:55 PM**

Might be time for a trip to the Eastern Shore again, eh Matt? Thanks for the response.

Wheelingman04 · #20 Posted: **Jan 19, 2007, 9:56 PM**

I have not been in that area in at least 6 years. Thanks for the pictures.