Happy New Year to all my readers as I head into my 26th year writing for Bank Note Reporter. I hope everyone has a happy and healthy New Year. For my first article of this new year, we will visit Maryland’s Eastern Shore, that part of the state that is on the eastern side of the Chesapeake Bay. The Western Shore, which contains the metro Baltimore and Washington areas, is very cosmopolitan as part of the D.C. – Boston Corridor. The Eastern Shore, along with adjacent Delaware, is a rural farming area with traditions and families stretching back centuries.
After crossing back into Maryland from a brief trip to central Delaware, I took a short detour on State
