A Sussex native turned journalist reflects on home

When I first decided to take on this project, I did so as much out of a sense of nostalgia as I did out of ambition. I wanted to give people who live here a chance to reminisce about days gone by. More importantly, I wanted to tell people who don’t live here full-time all about our wonderful area, an area that exudes more history than I could ever come close to covering in just one book.

Our friends and neighbors north of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal jokingly refer to us here in the south as being from “Slower Lower” Delaware, but you know what? That’s fine with us; we like it that way. What some think of as an insult, we consider a compliment. Things do move more slowly here, but that’s a good thing. In many parts of Sussex County—okay, maybe no longer in the county’s easternmost areas—a traffic jam is still defined as “two consecutive red lights,” as my father always says.

Sussex County is a place to be treasured, and I hope this walk down memory lane will be half as fun for all of you to read as it was for me to write.

God bless Slower Lower Delaware!

An award-winning journalist, James Diehl spent several years with The Daily Times of Salisbury, Md. as a writer and editor. After serving as managing editor for two separate publications in Delaware, he moved into the field of copywriting and public relations. James graduated from University of Arkansas at Little Rock’s School of Journalism.

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