Scott English Resigning As Executive Director Of APS

I understand the move to Hip though. It was about money. Hip has more eyeballs.

and no need to maintain IT resources and money to maintain the sales software.

Thanks to everyone for the kind words and warm wishes. It has been a pleasure to be a part of this community for nearly a decade. I'll still be around while the APS works on forming a search committee and deliberates on the next Executive Director. We'll focus on wrapping up those projects, like the new website, and keep serving the APS membership.

I am an APS and APRL Life Member and have been putting together a collection on the Scott U.S. 1013, Women in Our Armed Services stamp. I want to show it as an exhibit by Boston 2026, and hopefully, with more time, I can do that.

I have no decision on the next chapter other than more time taking care of my aging mother and taking my wife on a vacation that does not involve a stamp show. :)

Scott

I grew up in Trappe, on the Choptank River, which separates Talbot and Dorchester Counties. Trappe is just on the Talbot County side, though my parents worked across the bridge in Cambridge, Dorchester.

Not to bore everyone, but when you grow up there, you'll usually be a waterman or a farmer. Growing up, I got to try my hand at both, along with mechanic and carpentry work. Ultimately, all of those helped me finance college at the University of Maryland.

I miss those simpler days and hope getting back home might be an option.

Scott

At the risk of exposing my ignorance as a landlubber living in the middle of the Sonoran Desert, what is a "waterman"? A producer of fine writing instruments?

That is a perfectly fair question. In Maryland, watermen are crabbers in the spring and summer and harvest oysters in the winter. We had an old 78 Ford with a motor that doubled as our boat motor, so our first and last job at the boat was taking the motor out and putting it on the boat and vice versa. We got it down to 45 minutes.

Boy do I have some stories.

My sincere apologies Scott. I know the shore and people take very seriously their County of origin. Trappe is a very nice place.
Some watermen also fish or gill net during the year. A good friend and colleague who farmed told me he would not eat a rockfish (Striped bass on the westcoast). As a child his daddy kept all the rock he could not sell(oversized,illegal) and that's what they ate. To this day he was sick of fish.

"Boy do I have some stories"; I am sure you do.
Congratulations as you move on Scott. I wish you and your loved ones the best.
regards, mark

No offense taken. We lived close enough to Dorchester, and my mother was born and raised there, so I take it in stride.

The rockfish limits kicked in during my teen years, so I joined an intense bartering ring that allowed me to send my abundant supply of soft crabs, hard carbs, waterfowl, and deer around to get rockfish and other fish or some free work done, usually welding time or carpentry work.

It's good to know someone who gets the Shore. :)