von Brunn used to live in Eastern Shore town I live in...local Public Radio piece

[deutsey]

http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/delmarva/news.newsmain/article/0/0/1517006/Local..Headlines/Easton.residents'.encounters.with.von.Brunn

[tularetom]

1. IIRC, Cheney and Rummy don't live too far from there

[TygrBright]

2. Cheney does have a place around there. Rummy's up the road from us in Taos.

His neighbors give him the cut direct, mostly.

Back when we lived in Chestertown, on the Eastern Shore but north of Easton, we used to spend time in Easton from time to time. It never appealed to me much, in spite of being a charming colonial relic with many well-preserved buildings, good restaurants, and interesting upscale shores.

Like a lot of Eastern Shore towns, it is sharply segregated economically; unlike most it has a fairly high percentage of big money. All over the Eastern Shore you see the repeated pattern: A miniscule-to-tiny percentage (in Easton and St. Michaels that is upgraded to a "small" percentage) of wealthy and VERY wealthy people, a smallish middle class, and a lot of struggling-to-get-bys.

Most of the Eastern Shore is pretty conservative, but for the most part it's paleo-conservative. Still, there are plenty of neocon troglodytes.

sadly,
Bright

[Hannah Bell]

3. which class did von brunn come from, do you think? because scullin

steel has some interesting connections.

[deutsey]

4. Rummy has one around here too.

I've heard from many sources it's the plantation that Frederick Douglass escaped from. Somehow fitting that Rummy would want to own it. Joe Trippi (Dean's former campaign manager) also lives just past St. Michaels. I've been to his place a few times (I was a grassroots local leader for the Dean campaign so I still get an occasional invite).

Anyway, you know what you're talking about in terms of the Shore (I'm one of the struggling-to-get-bys). There is a relatively potent progressive undercurrent here in Easton, although a lot of gentrification is crushing what was a little spurt of bohemianism there for a while.