The most striking artifact is the 1879 Hooper Strait Lighthouse, an octagonal, three-story house on stilts that was transported here from its original site. This is one of three ultra-elegant properties owned by Sir Bernard Ashley, who was the husband of the late Laura Ashley. You can imagine how the place is decorated. No, actually you can't. This is not done in theatrical Ashley fabrics such as you might see in the malls, but rather in the style of an English country house, complete with Snooker Room.
Antiques are everywhere.
Time to go home. Next time I want to go over to Tilghman Island, just beyond St. Michaels, and spend some time with Cap'n Wade Murphy. He's got the oldest working boat on the Chesapeake, the Rebecca T. Ruark, built in 1886. She's a skipjack, the mother of all skipjacks, I suppose, since she was out working the water five years before they began building boats like her and calling them skipjacks. There you enter the heart of Maryland's Eastern Shore.