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S Sabina Grand Member (1 year) The Lounge of the Seven Pleasures! Joined: Apr 08, 2002 Posts: 373	S Sabina Posted posted on Sun, Jan 5, 2003 3:39 AM I did a little more digging on "Vera's white sands" mentioned briefly on the tiki bar review pages- http://home.earthlink.net/~tikibars/tiki/tikilist.html I hadn't seen these two articles before- Polynesia on the Patuxent from 1999 http://www.bayweekly.com/year99/issue7_26/bites7_26.html Summer’s Last Fruit Vera's banana trees http://www.bayweekly.com/year00/issue8_37/earth8_37.html Come May, we need to check and see if Vera's is still around- if it is, it sounds like a TC pilgrimage is in definite order! She's kept the Tiki torches burning and been a destination for boats traveling up the Patuxent for decades. (An an aside, Jack Sherwood's book, "Maryland's Vanishing Lives" is a definite read for anyone interested in watermen and the Chesapeake Bay, and a vanishing way of life.)

I did a little more digging on "Vera's white sands" mentioned briefly on the tiki bar review pages- http://home.earthlink.net/~tikibars/tiki/tikilist.html

I hadn't seen these two articles before-

Polynesia on the Patuxent
from 1999
http://www.bayweekly.com/year99/issue7_26/bites7_26.html

Summer’s Last Fruit
Vera's banana trees
http://www.bayweekly.com/year00/issue8_37/earth8_37.html

Come May, we need to check and see if Vera's is still around- if it is, it sounds like a TC pilgrimage is in definite order!

She's kept the Tiki torches burning and been a destination for boats traveling up the Patuxent for decades.

(An an aside, Jack Sherwood's book, "Maryland's Vanishing Lives" is a definite read for anyone interested in watermen and the Chesapeake Bay, and a vanishing way of life.)

Post #18281 by Sabina on Sun, Jan 5, 2003 3:39 AM