KITTY KNIGHT HOUSE

DESPERATE DINERS  Cool name, interesting historical background…the Kitty Knight House is now even better–the same folks who run the Granary have just opened a restaurant there. Now I love the Granary’s food, and the atmosphere is improved since the smoking ban, but it’s loud. Especially when Wash Coll’s in session. The noise comes from the table where I’m seated as often as not, but still. This new place looks classier and quieter, which I like. But what that ambience will do to the prices, that’s to be seen…

Last Night

 

In the Day Late Department….

I just discovered the Chestertown web site, which is probably old hat to most people here. It’s excellent!

NY Trip to see HHK

        

Time article              MSNBC     

Too short on time to write about, so visit Time & MSNBC links.

TRUE OR FALSE?

Test your Chestertown demographics knowledge by guessing whether the following sentences are true or false. (Answers at bottom.)

1. People over the age of 85 outnumber young’ns below age 5.
2. There are more renters here than home owners.
3. According to the census bureau, 98.6% of all Chestertown residents belong to the human race.
4. A group of federal nerds have calculated the mean center of population as thus: a population “center” is determined as the place where an imaginary, flat, weightless, and rigid map of the United States would balance perfectly if all residents were of identical weight. “The first center in 1790,” so say the feds, “was located near Chestertown, Maryland.” Note: an official town building has a sign that proclaims this center was Chestertown. One of them might be right…

MET THE DONALD

Donald the street drummer was doing his thing in DC last weekend. A DC institution, he says he’s been at it for 20 years now and that Ben Affleck recently stopped by and gave him a C-note. He’s also got some groupies, I noticed.

SOMEBODY’S S*** SURE DOES STINK

THERE’S A DIRTY EVILDOER IN OUR MIDST
I stopped by a waterway in Millington MD a few days ago, and the water looked like it had been loaded up with Mr. Bubble. Upstream, downnstream, the foam was everywhere. But the stuff didn’t smell like soap. I can’t say what it smelled like exactly because I never came across it before. But I can tell you this chemical funk was so strong I had to run back to the car after two minutes to avoid puking.

 

BIMBO BIMBO, QUE BUENO!

So if you’re not reading this on a laptop in the laundrymat on High Street, the one next to Subway and Lewes Dairy Mart, pretend that you are and that you’re leaving. Look left, across the parking lot and you will see a new sign: BIMBO BIMBO….OPEN. Unless you’ve been living under a rock the past 50 years, you’ll know that Bimbo Bimbo is a bakery, along the lines of Pepperidege Farms, that produces Mexican goods. So this new store sells Bimbo Bimbo baked goods, and other imported items. . . tortilla presses, dubious looking calling cards, pan, produce, laundry soap. ¡Viva! Viva el mercado nuevo en chestertown, una ciudad del alimento agujerear y muerto. ¡Necesitamos tan desesperadamente opciones tales como esto!

I WISH THERE WERE A DOUBLE STANDARD

I was out on the town with a friend/recent transplant the other day, when she approached the door of a local business and gave it a good yank. Ah, the telltale sign of a newcomer.

The door of course was locked. So she pressed her face to the glass to look in, and sure enough, people were in there and the lights were on. So she pulled on the other half of the double door–viola, it opened.

That was a ritual I often repeated when I relocated here, to the town where it’s typical that half of the double doors are unlocked.

WHAT ARE YOU DOING THIS WEEKEND? 5.8.08

Plenty of options for live music around these parts. Here be but a few.

Local band, Chester River Runoff Check their ever-changing calendar for the latest.

Andy’s, a music venue & Chestertown institution

Shame on me! Never been myself but EVERYBODY says it’s great: the Mainstay in Rock Hall.

Here’s a general calendar for spots nearby.

Why not the Irish Breakfast Band? Bit of a drive but looks good.