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No Cookie-Cutter Community: Bayberry Believes in Dirt, Difference
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Segree, 67, came to Bayberry "as part of the new generation." Now the next generation is arriving.
"The ones that come in are younger, and that's great," she said. "Now there's an influx of a lot of little ones."
One of those little ones, 4-year-old Gus Garrett, and his mother, Catherine Garrett, strolled down the community pier on a recent brisk afternoon after seeing off two sailors -- Gus's dad, Mike Garrett, and neighbor Nudell.
The family moved to Bayberry from Silver Spring in 2006.
"We knew we had to move" as Gus grew older, Catherine Garrett said. "We asked ourselves, 'Do we move to the city or the water?' It was a no-brainer." Now she and Gus walk down the hill from their back yard to the beach almost every day. That's become their tradition.
Then there are the community traditions "that we carry on," Garrett's neighbor, Theresa Nudell said, such as "Santa at the beach" and the Easter egg toss. The Fourth of July brings a kids' parade of decorated bikes to the beach.
"People bring covered dishes, and people swim," Garrett said.
The October oyster roast draws many former residents and their grown children. A neighbor roasts a whole pig. Even the shellfish caterers are an institution.
"The same family from the Eastern Shore has been shucking the oysters for 32 years," Theresa Nudell said.
Perhaps Bayberry's harmony endures because it "is a good size," as Segree said. "It's big enough to have activities as a community. It's small enough that you can even have an annual meeting in someone's house."
