Thanks to my grandpa, he pointed out where one of the race tracks some of my relatives raced on back in the 60's and 70's. He said one of the tracks were down Matthewstown Road and this is what I found:
If anyone knows about this track or has any more info on it, please tell me. My great uncles Alton and Bobby Griffin raced on this 1/2 mile track
Don't know anything about Easton's old stock car tracks, but many proponents claim that the Blue Crabs that make their way from the Chesapeake Bay to Easton are the world's finest!
The good news, Eric, is that you still have time to make it up to Easton for New Year's Eve and the annual midnight Maryland Crab Drop to ring in the new year!
On a sad note, an old friend, Helen McKnight and her husband, Sumner McKnight , a NASCAR Winston West driver of note in the 70s-80s lived in Easton, Maryland for a good while.
Sumner Mcknight in a 1981 NASCAR Winston West race at Canada's Langley Speedway. Brent Martin photo as posted here at RR.
When Helen and Sumner married in 1982, it was one of the high society events of the year, carried in the New York Times due to the "pedigrees" of each family.
Helen Dodson Hobbs, daughter of G. Dever Hobbs of Los Angeles, and Mrs. Dodson Hobbs of Wilmington, Del., was married yesterday to Sumner Thomas McKnight 2d, son of June H. McKnight of Monkton, Md., and the late Henry T. McKnight of Great Falls, Va., and Wayzata, Minn. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Mark Harris at the Christ Episcopal Church, Christiana Hundred, in Greenville, Del.
The bride is a senior at California State University. Her father, who is retired, was marketing director of the Celanese Corporation in Mexico.
Mr. McKnight is a vice president of the Sumner T. McKnight Foundation in Minneapolis, a private charitable foundation. He was graduated from the Fountain Valley School in Colorado Springs, attended Boston and American Universities and served with the Peace Corps in India. His father, a former Republican State Senator in Minnesota, was president of the McKnight Company, a holding company for the McKnight family investment interests, and the Jonathan Corporation, a land-development organization, both in Minneapolis.
The bridegroom is a grandson of John Wesley Hanes of New York and Thomasville, Ga., who is a director of the Olin Corporation and was Under Secretary of the Treasury during President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Administration.
The strikingly pretty, Helen passed at the all too young age of 41 in 1999, my last year at the Richmond track, where she often came down to our events, especially the truck races featuring many of her old west coast friends, competitors and officials.
Helen is buried just down the road from Easton.
I remember my times with relatives in Maryland eating raw crab meat. Good times.
Eric,
I know there was an old horse track on Matthewson Rd called Barnwell Race Track about 3 miles east of Easton. This was from ads I saw in old Denton newspapers from 1946 to 1949. I do not remember any auto racing there, but I am checking into it.
Larry Jendras Jr.
Oh boy! We might have a winner!
