Leaving Chestertown: the next phase

We just attended a lovely service at the Episcopal Church which defines the town square, and were dismayed only by the aged population of the parish. It is a wonderment that some churches still survive. It is perhaps fitting that we will be leaving tomorrow; I think this is what happens as young people leave small towns such as this to seek their futures in larger cities and those left behind must try to continue without them. So we are leaving Chestertown with a great sense of the history and tradition, the importance this town commanded in Revolutionary War times, and it's ultimate decline with the establishment of super-highways and abandonment of the waterways as primary transportation arteries. The attached pictures are of the schooner Sultana under full sail, a lovely sunset over Chestertown Harbor, and Wayne planning the next leg in the darkness that falls early here in the Chesapeake. Surely any visitor to Chestertown will be enchanted by this friendly little town - we attended a men's varsity soccer game at Washington College yesterday and to our suprise there is never any fee to attend their games! This is also perhaps indicative of our feeling that - if there was a fee - no one would come...but all we can say is if ever in the Chesapeake with a few days to spare, the trip up the Chester River is well worth the time.