Easton, Maryland

Then and Now

by Mindie Burgoyne

Named Easton in 1788, the principal town on Maryland's Eastern Shore grew to be its center of government and commerce. These images chart Easton's transformation into Maryland's eastern hub for the arts, culture, and entertainment, revealing the town's treasure trove of Victorian and Colonial buildings, historic streetscapes, and the oldest Quaker meetinghouse in the United States.

96 pages, Paperback

First published November 21, 2007

About the author

Mindie Burgoyne, is a travel writer, blogger, author, tour operator and speaker. Her focus is traveling within the context of a story to mystical – magical places that stir the mind and spirit. She’s also the organizer of a travel club for girlfriends called The Travel Hags.

All six of her published books focus on travel destinations but Haunted Eastern Shore: Ghostly Tales from East of the Chesapeake is the most popular (10th printing) with its 19 haunted tales of sites east of the Chesapeake Bay. This book was followed by a series of three - Haunted Ocean City and Berlin (2014), The Haunted Mid-Shore: Spirits of Caroline, Dorchester and Talbot Counties (2015) and The Haunted Lower Shore: Spirits of Somerset, Wicomico and Worcester Counties (Oct. 2106).This collection not only shares mysterious events and haunted activities on the Delmarva Peninsula, it also offers a deep, insiders view of the people and traditions of the "Shore."

Mindie also operates a tour company that offers group travel excursions to mystical places in Ireland and western Europe, and she is the founder and operator of Chesapeake Ghost Tours, which offers over a dozen different ghost tours year-round on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.

Travel inspires her to write.