Everyone (including me) loves to hear how people came to live in our lovely town. Here is my story.
More than a decade ago our closest friends came here and we began visiting regularly. We were already somewhat familiar with Talbot County – my wife’s ancestors came here from England in 1662 and lived on the Eastern Shore for several generations before heading west.
It did not take us much time for both of us to fall in love with Oxford.
After I retired from practicing law in Washington, DC at the end of 2018, we spent a couple years looking at where we might move and finally realized that Oxford had literally everything we were looking for — a small, walkable town in a truly breathtaking setting, friendly people, a well-preserved historic district, and a location close to our children (and now grandchildren).
Almost immediately after we started house-hunting, a home became available on the river on N. Morris St., and we jumped at it.
Turning a 1960s-era ranch house into the home we will spend the rest of our lives in took more than a year, and there were a few bumps in the road, including so many appearances before the Historic Commission that at one point one of its members suggested reserving a chair for me. But everything about living here has turned out better than we could have hoped.
