Longtime residents to share Ocean Pines history during live panel discussion, Oct. 10  

 Event will be part of Worcester County History Week   

 As part of Worcester County History Week, Ocean Pines will host a live “History Panel” discussion about the early days of the community, on Sunday, Oct. 10 from 2-4 p.m. at the Community Center.    

 Guest speakers are scheduled to include longtime Ocean Pines residents Sue Adkins, Jack Barnes, Sharyn O’Hare, Gloria Richards, Alta Weiss, and Ed Moran.   

 The event, organized by the Ocean Pines Public Relations Department, will expand upon the history section of the Ocean Pines Academy, a virtual, self-paced civic education course about the Association.  

 Jenny Cropper Rines, who previously chaired the 50th Anniversary Committee, will moderate the panel discussion.   

 “We hosted a similar panel as part of the yearlong 50th-anniversary celebration and it was very well received. However, there was no video of that event and several of our key speakers have since passed away,” she said. “With this new History Panel, we hope to give the live audience a fun and informative view of the early history of Ocean Pines, where they can hear from our guest speakers, but also interact and ask questions.”   

 For those who cannot attend, the History Panel will be recorded and will become a permanent part of the Ocean Pines Academy.   

 The Public Relations Department also recently produced a new Academy video, “Early History of Ocean Pines, with Marlene Ott and John Talbott.”    

 Ott and Talbott were involved in the real estate business when the community was first developed by Boise Cascade in the late 1960s.

 For more information on the Ocean Pines Academy, visit www.oceanpines.org/web/pages/ocean-pines-academy.  

 For more information on Worcester County History Week, visit www.facebook.com/WorcesterCountyHistoryWeek.