Word: chestertown
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...Paul S. Cowan, a former Executive Editor of the Crimson, is in Chestertown Maryland with a group cs'led "Project Eastern Shore," sponsored by the Baltimore Civic Interest Group and the Northern Student Movement...
...Chestertown, Maryland, July...
Many local radio stations from Baltimore and Philadelphia have trouble finding their way down here. For news, as a consequence, most of the townspeople must depend largely upon national net-works, or daily editions of the Philadelphia Inquirer and Baltimore Sun whose twin appearance on local newsstands is Chestertown's largest concession to cosmopolitanism...
...Chestertown is segregated to its very roots. Negroes, of course, catch it worst, most of them living in down-at-the-heels wood frame houses, unable to find employment in the town's stores or service in its restaurants. But Jews don't fare so well either, and for the real Shore citizen no one born elsewhere can ever be regarded quite as an equal. "If you're not born here you'll always be an out-sider" the town's mayor told a group recently. What he meant was that only the natural elect can arrive at relevant judgements...
...attacked the Tory notion that power follows property. But news travelled slowly in those days and apparently this piece of information never did get to the Eastern Shore. Only citizens who posses title to more than $500 worth of property within the town's limits can vote in Chestertown elections. The great majority of citizens, both white and colored, either rent their land or own considerably less than $500 worth: in the last election only 234 of the town's 2,400 residents were eligible to vote for their mayor. They signed write-in ballots, as is the custom...