09/22/2026
"It is easy to say the arts are important. It is harder to pay the rent for the warehouse that makes those arts possible."
This one stings. More than thirty years ago, a group of Easton neighbors needed costumes for a show. What they started grew into a resource that quietly supported schools, churches, and theatre companies across the Eastern Shore. Cecile Davis of Groove/Factory (formerly The Factory Arts Project) writes about how The Costume Shop came to be, why it's gone, and what a community loses when its infrastructure disappears.
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More than thirty years ago, a group of Easton neighbors needed costumes for a show. What they started grew into a resource that quietly supported schools, churches, and theatre companies across the Eastern Shore. Cecile Davis of Groove Factory (formerly The Factory Arts Project) writes about how the...