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Originally Posted by Bill Murphy
Roy Walsh was a Talbot County lawyer who apparently liked waterfowl hunting and history better than lawyering.
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For those not of the (marsh) cloth, he was ever so much more than that. He is essentially responsible as the main sparkplug that ignited the Easton MD Waterfowl Festival, a giant affair of decoys, sculpture, flat art, and guns held every November beginning the Friday of Veteran's Day weekend. They kicked it off in 1970 and except for a COVID break last year it has held up a full head of steam ever since.
He had the biggest collection of commercial waterfowl hunting artifacts ever assembled; gunning punts, punt guns, battery guns, sinkboxes, gunning lamps, and some of the crudest and rarest decoys ever made. At a seminar talk he gave one year at the high school, he said he came close to divorce twice: when he insisted on first building a new 30 x 80 ft. barn to hold all his artifacts, then filled it and told his wife they needed a bigger farm with more land and bigger barns. She reluctantly agreed and said later it probably added 10 years to his life. We of the Tidewater owe him a great deal.
12-05-2021, 08:44 PM
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