Milford Murray
Chestertown
“I have lived in Chestertown since I was 6 months old. My mom worked at the Uptown Club for 35 years. She started up there as the cashier, then a bartender, and then she became manager. She was very strict. She would never serve me till I became of age. But I got to meet just about all of the performers. But I couldn’t go to the bar. My grandmother used to take me to Philadelphia on the train. You know where the Tidewater Trader is? That was the station. And we’d get onboard there, and go to Philadelphia. We’d stop in Worton, then Wilmington and then Philadelphia. It was about 2 or 3 hours. It had wooden seats, and every crack in the railroad track we felt.”
Interviewed by Lani Seikaly and photographed by Pam White
Editor Note: The Chestertown Spy and RiverArts have partnered in 2016 to share the art organization’s community arts project “Humans of Kent County,” designed to celebrate the wonderful, unique folks who live and work in Kent County. Citizens are invited to interview and photograph from young to old from all corners of the county and to submit a photograph and brief story to be part of the project. It will be posted on the Spy each week and each quarter the most interesting photos and stories will be enlarged and produced for an exhibition at the RiverArts gallery in Chestertown.
Thelma Campbell says
I would LOVE to hear more!