DeeDee Wood

Nov 1, 2024 | shorehomeandgarden.com | DeeDee Wood

(Editor’s note: DeeDee Wood is the owner of Black Cat Curiosities, an online antiques research and sales venue.)n modern times, we get our butter stick out of the refrigerator, take it out of the plastic or paper container, and either cut it from the rectangular shape a machine has pressed it into, or scoop it out of a container made of plastic. There was once a time, however, that butter was treated with the upmost care, and embellished with wooden molds for presentation.

Oct 1, 2024 | shorehomeandgarden.com | DeeDee Wood

(Editor’s note: DeeDee Wood is the owner of Black Cat Curiosities, an online antiques research and sales venue.)few days ago, on an overcast, gloomy morning, I made a trip to a local cemetery on the Eastern Shore of Maryland to contemplate cemetery antiques.

Sep 1, 2024 | shorehomeandgarden.com | DeeDee Wood

(Editor’s note: DeeDee Wood is the owner of Black Cat Curiosities, an online antiques research and sales venue.)Driving out to Tilghman Island, with a long, curvy road and twists and turns that offer views of the Chesapeake Bay and surrounding tributaries, you can feel like you are driving back in time, to a place where watermen made their living off of the mighty Chesapeake and left behind artifacts and history for us to study and present, even to this day.

Aug 26, 2024 | shorehomeandgarden.com | DeeDee Wood

(Editor’s note: DeeDee Wood is the owner of Black Cat Curiosities, an online antiques research and sales venue.)Elizabeth Ferguson, president of the Trappe Rural Life Museum, met me at the entrance to their main building on the farm campus, just outside Trappe, Md.Large shade trees invited me further into the property, where old rural buildings whispered tales through the summer heat of yesteryear.

Jul 1, 2024 | shorehomeandgarden.com | DeeDee Wood

(Editor’s note: DeeDee Wood is the owner of Black Cat Curiosities, an online antiques research and sales venue.)You might be walking down the beach this summer and stop to consider a shell that has just washed up from out of the surf at your feet. Shell collecting and display is part of the “antiques world,” as antique shells can be found in the world markets, and some people put them in what was once termed a cabinet of curiosity.