Coastal Living Magazine Dubs Solomons Island One Of America's Happiest Seaside Towns
SOLOMONS ISLAND, Md. (WJZ)-- It's always nice to get a compliment or to be recognized.
Now, as Mike Schuh reports, that's exactly what's happening on a national level to a small town in Southern Maryland.
Just when you can't drive any farther in Calvert County, a boardwalk appears-- a perfect place for families of all sorts.
Dave Brown, Solomons Island Visitor: "What do you girls like about the boardwalk?"
Brown's Daughters: "Duckies. Feeding duckies."
Solomons Island is a place where watermen deliver crab meat directly to the restaurants. It's a place with a laid-back vibe, a place where we learn about what made Maryland great.
"Right now, just sitting and enjoying the breeze," Jane Swiegert, who is visiting Solomons Island for the day, said.
It's a place generational bookends can relax in the gazebo.
"And I think that's what's nice about it. You can be a pedestrian. You don't have to be in the car," Swiegert said.
It's such a nice, relaxed place that you might think by now, someone might have spread the word.
Schuh: "So this was named one of the friendliest coastal towns in America by a national magazine. What do you think?"
Lauren Kessler, a tourist from Virginia: "So far so good. I made it on the news and I just got out of the car."
More than a dozen restaurants are here, most-- like Stoney's Seafood House on the Solomon Pier-- are on the water. They figure this accolade by Coastal Living magazine will help.
"Hopefully, it will bring more people down to the area and have a good time and check out the sights," one Solomons Island resident said.
Solomons is located about an hour south of Annapolis.
