The occasional Moroccan belly dancer, psychic, foreign ambassador, and Abe Lincoln character actor fill out the programming schedule. Just Off Main Street was named by retired National Geographic exploring journalist Tom Abercrombie, of Shady Side. The apt name stuck. Topics on the show run the gamut from the ridiculous to the sublime. For spice, you learn to make a poultice out of oregano.
Little spin is needed with guests whose fame is secure and whose works or faces are well known.
King Leatherbury, Maryland's number-one thoroughbred horse trainer, showed Teal the reins at Laurel Park Race Track's paddock. Teal caught them reminiscing over professional past times and travels in politics, photography and the arts. To instruct Teal and viewers how to pick and eat crabs, Crab guru Whitey Schmidt came on her show. Teal says that Just off Main Street talent is inexhaustible. So there's no telling just where her viewers might catch the exuberant host when next they tune in.