Red Hats of Chesapeake

Kudos to our November Event planners CM, ER, and BR. The girls deserve a huge round of applause for planning a very delightful afternoon despite the weather.

It was a very cold, very rainy, very blustery fall day but we Red Hats donned our colors and ventured to Cambridge, MD anyway. Our first stop was the Harriet Tubman Museum and Educational Center. All thirteen of us in our soggy Red Hats and wet umbrellas were quite literally blown in off the street by the strong winds. We saw an excellent documentary about Harriet Tubman and her work. Tubman was born in the Cambridge, MD area and finally settled in Auburn, NY after assisting about 300 people to freedom. A volunteer, a local gentleman that was born in Cambridge, gave a very interesting talk about the creation of the Harriet Tubman Museum and Driving Tour through Dorchester and Caroline Counties.

This tour is something that I will most definitely include when visitors come to the Eastern Shore to visit.

Our brave Red Hatters went back out to the unpleasant elements and drove to the Hyatt in Cambridge. The resort is huge and hugs the banks of the Choptank River. The same river that James Michener made the focal point of his book Chesapeake. The people on Dorchester County are grateful for the jobs the hotel has created.

We had a lovely lunch at the glass enclosed porch of the Waterview Restaurant over-looking the Choptank River. After lunch we treated our two November Birthday Red Hatters to a special cake and the chance to wear 'the Birthday Hat' while the rest of sang Happy Birthday.

Next month we are off to a 'Girls Night Out' for a concert at the Avalon Theater and refreshment at the Tidewater Inn at Easton, MD.