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Dennis Forney has been a journalist on the Delmarva Peninsula since 1972 and has been writing his Barefootin’ column for The Whale and then the Cape Gazette for more than 30 years. Like his Barefootin' Facebook page to get notified of blog updates.

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Jack Lewis, Gilbert Byron, nostalgia and our times

Dennis Forney

3 weeks ago

I write from time to time about crisscrossing Delmarva novelist and poet Gilbert Byron. His life...
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2021 Chesapeake crab season off to slow start

Dennis Forney

5 months ago

Philemon – In Greek mythology, a good old countryman living with his wife Baucis in Phrygia who...
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Cruciferous flowers now brightening Delmarva fields

Dennis Forney

5 months ago

A broad, gently rolling field of brilliantly yellow flowers along the road between Easton and St...
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Jamie and Jamie Plummer seining mud shad in February

Dennis Forney

7 months ago

Jamie Plummer and his dad - also Jamie - stand waist deep in their waders in the upper reaches of a...
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Johnny Kinnamon builds boats on Tilghman Island

Dennis Forney

8 months ago

TILGHMAN ISLAND, MARYLAND - Johnny Kinnamon builds boats. He eyes boards through pupils of black,...
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The beauty, and harshness, of nature in winter

Dennis Forney

9 months ago

We live in the midst of so much beauty, no matter the time of year. Here are a few photos I’ve...
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Dramatic sky following conching adventure with Shawn...

Dennis Forney

11 months ago

I joined Shawn Moore and Zandar Planches on a day of conch fishing this past Tuesday. The weather...
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The biggest campaign sign I’ve ever seen in Delaware

Dennis Forney

11 months ago

The biggest political campaign sign I have ever seen in Delaware showed up the past few weeks...
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Black snake climbing river birch, and wild turkeys

Dennis Forney

11 months ago

Words are great but pictures even better. We’re so blessed with wildlife in Sussex County. It never...
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DELMARVA WILDLIFE: Piebald fawn, eagle, wolf spider...

Dennis Forney

1 year ago

The wildlife in Sussex County and across Delmarva can be an endless source of entertainment,...
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ST LAWRENCE ADVENTURE: 3Es at River Yoga in Clayton...

Dennis Forney

1 year ago

LEWES•DELAWARE - Home now after a month in upstate New York. But remembering an afternoon about a...
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ST. LAWRENCE RIVER ADVENTURE: Fishing parties and...

Dennis Forney

1 year ago

By this point this should have been called St. Lawrence River Adventure but I’m not one to...
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ERIE CANAL ADVENTURE: Catching bluegills in the St....

Dennis Forney

1 year ago

ALEXANDRIA BAY, NEW YORK - In the gray light of dawn yesterday, I heard Terry’s steps on the public...
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ERIE CANAL ADVENTURE: Buzzing islands in the St....

Dennis Forney

1 year ago

CLAYTON, NEW YORK - The harbor at Clayton, along the St. Lawrence River in upstate New York,...
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ERIE CANAL ADVENTURE: Anchored in the shadow of an...

Dennis Forney

1 year ago

SOUTH BAY, CARLETON ISLAND -- After exiting Sackets Harbor yesterday, we headed further north and...
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ERIE CANAL ADVENTURE: Crossing Lake Ontario

Dennis Forney

1 year ago

SACKETS HARBOR - We passed through the last lock of the Oswego Canal yesterday, in the city by the...
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ERIE CANAL ADVENTURE: Connecting equal rights dots...

Dennis Forney

1 year ago

Connect the dots. Frank Capra’s famous film It’s A Wonderful Life, Black Lives Matter, Elizabeth...
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ERIE CANAL ADVENTURE: Nothing is as it’s supposed to be

Dennis Forney

1 year ago

BALDWINSVILLE, NEW YORK - We spoke yesterday with a sailboater heading eastbound, He’s tied up...
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ERIE CANAL ADVENTURE: 23 locks so far and counting

Dennis Forney

1 year ago

5 AUGUST 2020 - If you want to skip to the most entertaining part of this blog go to the bottom and...
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Grateful Dead and deer on a summer morning

Dennis Forney

1 year ago

MONDAY 6 JULY 2020 “We will get by; We will survive.” This morning I'm a deer, strolling...