There’s a newish publication that’s available for free around town, or by visiting: http://www.chesapeaketimes.net/

First, the very awesome Friends of the Library has a very awesome new web presence: http://kentfriends.wordpress.com/

Second, bless the Kent News’s heart: they have gotten a much hipper web page. (It used to be a mailing address, and that’s it, if I remember correctly.) Granted, the web address that pops up on Google isn’t um memorable, but it’s an improvement:https://secure.townnews.com/shared-content/subscription/authenticate/index.php?mode=start&domain=thekentcountynews.com&usereg=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thekentcountynews.com%2F%2Farticles%2F2008%2F05%2F22%2Fbusiness%2Fdoc4834d996986af642441533.txt&discover=0&amex=0

Hmmm, what are you going to do this weekend? Perhaps you can be persuaded to attend first Friday here in Chestertown?

1. The opportunity to view art, eat cheese, and drink wine for free.
2. You may despise Chesapeake cliches in painting and photograph, but there’s always Massoni’s (my fav) and other fine hits mingled in with the misses.
3. And after a few glasses of wine, it’s all good.
4. You’ll have plenty of company if you decide to break the open container law during your stroll.
5. This event that happens for only 4 hours every month.
6. If the weather is nice, there’s great seating outside Play It Again Sam after the galleries close.
7. It’s a casual way to spend your Friday without driving far.
8. You may find a conversation piece for your empty dorm wall.
9. If you want a thought (or gossip) provoking evening with friends, this is the way to do it.
10. Chill environment, good vibe.

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…

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

Time article              MSNBC     

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

There’s a resemblence, no?

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…

All are true according to sources below

#1-3, as of 2000: http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:pi9VmhGAj-EJ:censtats.census.gov/data/MD/1602416225.pdf+census+chestertown+site:gov&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=4&gl=us
#4 http://celebrating200years.noaa.gov/survey_marks/population/welcome.html