For reasons Moorhead Vermilye can’t truly explain, he became a very active civic leader in Talbot County as a very young man. Named as chair of the Easton Hospital board in his mid-thirties, Moorhead would find himself leading countless community causes, including the United Way and the formation of the Mid-Shore Community Foundation for the next several decades. As a result, the former head of the Talbot Bank has had a first row seat to the growth of philanthropy on the Eastern Shore over the last fifty years.
In the first in a series on Mid-Shore Lives, the Spy recently interviewed Moorhead to talk about philanthropy on the Shore and the genesis behind the founding of the Mid-Shore Community Foundation. He also reminisces about the small town nature of Eastern Shore business life, the growing social needs of the community, and the serious demands for more Mid-Shore private giving in the future.
This video is approximately eight minutes in length
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