‘Preservation is also making the history’: Inspired by Harriet Tubman, two Eastern Shore aunties are determined to be the elders their community needs

‘Preservation is also making the history’: Inspired by Harriet Tubman, two Eastern Shore aunties are determined to be the elders their community needs

In the brilliant July sun of this Monday afternoon in Preston, a family of five bald eagles soars overhead. Their wings are the only image interrupting the bare blue sky as they circle above the creeks of the Choptank river and the 111 acres of farmland known as Mt. Pleasant Acres Farms. Here on the Eastern Shore, decorated community leaders Donna Dear and Paulette Greene steward this land, its soil connecting their own childhoods, the life of a…