{"id":571,"date":"2012-02-18T23:34:49","date_gmt":"2012-02-19T04:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mldixon.com\/historyblog\/?p=571"},"modified":"2024-02-04T20:27:51","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T01:27:51","slug":"stories-worth-repeating-in-crisfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/stories-worth-repeating-in-crisfield\/","title":{"rendered":"Stories Worth Repeating In Crisfield"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">This past week, I was at the Corbin Memorial Library in Somerset County for a talk called \u201cStories Worth Repeating from Crisfield.\u201d Over ten years ago, I wrapped up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/remembering-three-fallen-officers-in-crisfield\/\">extensive fieldwork in the waterman\u2019s town<\/a>, digging up archival\u00a0materials and interviewing sources. Those days down there talking to people, paging through newspapers, and digging around the courthouse records in Princess Anne were some of the most fascinating that I have done. So, when the library called to ask if I could do a program, I decided to share some of the quirky, offbeat, and obscure narratives\u00a0I collected, along with my methods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t going to be your standard Chamber of Commerce lecture. Here is how I explained it to the large audience:\u00a0 There are many ways to explore our rich past in small towns, but I often use a non-traditional technique to examine community history. When I arrive in a town as a stranger, seeking out stories that create a unique sense of place, I am apt to decide I need a police officer right away. It is not because there\u2019s some trouble brewing, and mind you, I\u2019m not looking for your average 20-something beat officer. No, I need someone special, say an 80-year-old who has worked our small towns&#8217; streets and back alleys day and night for at least a generation. When these old-style lawmen weren\u2019t busy taking care of wayward types and carting drunks off to jail, they kept an eye on everything on their beat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This technique, which I have honed over my decades of rummaging around small towns, provides me with some of the most fascinating historical insights and stories one could hope to unearth. You get a cop&#8217;s eye view of the day-in and day-out goings-on from someone who knew their beat and their town as no one else could.  This makes my stories much richer and more complete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Chief Carmine<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">When I first went to <a href=\"https:\/\/cityofcrisfield-md.gov\/history\">Crisfield <\/a>to gather information, my first stop was the city hall. While talking to the clerk to see if I could find some leads, she mentioned Jesse W. Carmine, an 82-year-old working as an inspector in the public works department. The lady suggested I talk to him since he was an employee of the city for almost half a century, most of it as a police officer. By the way, he had also served as the chief, she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That sounded like a great lead to me, so they called him on the radio. It wasn\u2019t too long before the city public works truck pulled up with Mr. Carmine behind the wheel. After explaining my purpose, we talked for a good bit. Chief Carmine, in such a fascinating and informative way, took me back to a time when policing was far different in Maryland and this watermen\u2019s town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His stories were about the passage of nearly 50 years while prowling the night, chasing speeders, corralling troublemakers, and putting jailbirds behind bars as the long arm of the law in a tough Chesapeake Bay Town. The patrolman started in the old days long before they were SWAT teams, crisis negotiators, computers, CSI, female officers, or for that matter patrol cars and two-way radios. After we finished talking, we hopped into the city truck for an informative tour of Crisfield, a place that he knew so very well, having grown up there in the decades before World War II.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"crisfield-stores\">Crisfield Stores<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">I was so fortunate to have met Mr. Carmine and had the opportunity to learn so much about a different time and place. And I was pleased to repeat some of the stories he and others shared. These were stories worth repeating as the audience appeared to thoroughly enjoy this approach that sure wasn\u2019t your standard Chamber of Commerce talk.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/delmarvahistory.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/11\/dsc_0283.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"Crisfield Police Department; officer carmine\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Crisfield Police Department around 1960. Officer Carmine is the 3rd man from the right.  (source:  City of Crisfield)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past week, I was at the Corbin Memorial Library in Somerset County for a talk called \u201cStories Worth Repeating from Crisfield.\u201d Over ten years ago, I wrapped up extensive fieldwork in the waterman\u2019s town, digging up archival\u00a0materials and interviewing sources. 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