Longtime Pocomoke journalist and author dies at age 95

[L. Coyote]

POCOMOKE CITY — Isabelle Keeler Leach, a longtime journalist, author and columnist, died Monday at Hartley Hall.
http://www.delmarvanow.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070515/WCT01/70515026/1002/NEWS01

Leach, who would have been 96 in two weeks, was a longtime columnist for The Daily Times, as well as a reporter for the Times and the Worcester Democrat (a forerunner of the Worcester County Times), the author of a play on Isaac Costen’s life, and finally, at the age of 90, the author of a novel.

In 1958, she began working for The Worcester Democrat, where she began her column, “Peeking around Pocomoke” for which she became quite well known. She was soon covering the Worcester County Commissioners and the Pocomoke City Council.

In 1960, she wrote for William E. Green, crusader for the Preservation of Assateague. Her writing was instrumental in the federal government’s decision to create the National Seashore on that barrier island.

At the age of 90, when already a resident of Hartley Hall, she published her novel, “The Sower Went Forth”

[Bitwit1234]

1. I was born and raised in Maryland

Four years ago I moved to Minnesota to be near my son and his family. But what I wanted to say, people out here think I have an accent. Wonder what they would think if they heard someone from the Eastern Shore or especially those from around St. Michaels. I can hardly understand them myself.