Inducted into MDDC’s Hall of Fame in 2014. This article is based on information submitted at the time.

Raised on a truck farm near Vienna, Md., Brice Stump began writing professionally at the age of 15 for The Daily Banner in Cambridge, Md., as a freelance contributor of stories of historical perspectives and folklore. With a Brownie camera, he also provided artwork, getting $5 per picture. 

Within a few months, the competitor newspaper, The Dorchester News, a weekly, also in Cambridge, offered to pay him more per inch than The Banner. He freelanced for them until I graduated from high school. A the same time, he freelanced for The Star Democrat in Easton, a sister paper of The Dorchester News, and used that little bit of money to take several semesters of college. 

By 1976, he was a staff writer and photographer with the Somerset Marylander & Herald until economic times forced the owner to lay him off. He joined the staff of The Daily Times in Salisbury in 1979 as chief photographer, but soon began writing news and features. Over the years he became the paper’s farm editor and did pagination. 

He has won numerous Associated Press photography and writing awards and was honored by Gannett Co. Inc. with a 2010 Best of Gannett award for his column on rural life. 

In 2001, the Ward Museum of Salisbury featured Stump as a “one-man show” of photographs. His stories and photos about Eastern Shore history and culture earned him the Maryland Historic Trust’s History Award in the 1990s. 

Most recently, Stump has begun publishing a once-monthly series on the Civil War’s impact on the Eastern Shore. It will run for more than a year. Already, Stump has unearthed documents and information that local historians are marveling at.