I worked primarily in the Washington D.C. area, but I also worked in New York City. We bought a boat and kept it in Annapolis and everyone kept talking about the Eastern Shore. So we got in our boat and every single weekend we would go to a different place. Oxford. Then St. Michaels. All different ports on the Eastern Shore all the way up to Delaware and down south as well. The quality of the people was number one. Number two was the Chesapeake Bay which we love and would do anything for. The Shore is not a hustling and bustling city. You can have as much country life as you like. Bringing up our daughter in that sort of environment was extremely important to me.
Originally from Michigan, C.G. Appleby studied at Hillsdale College, American University, and the University of Virginia, before serving in the Vietnam War where he was awarded a Purple Heart and two bronze stars of valor. Appleby clerked for NASA and the U.S. General Accounting office, then spent 40 years practicing law internationally with a home base in the Washington, D.C. area. In addition to serving on the ESLC Board of Directors’ Advancement Committee, Appleby is an emeritus member of the Board of Directors at the Chesapeake Maritime Museum and has also served on the Washington Metropolitan Area Corporate Counsel Association, Community Foundation for Northern Virginia, Professional Services Council, Fairfax County Virginia Chamber of Commerce, Council for Excellence in Government, and the CharityWorks Advisory Board.. Appleby and his wife, Nancy, frequently split their time between Talbot County, Bray’s Island, South Carolina, and Michigan’s Mullett Lake where Appleby’s mother Marion first formed the Mullett Lake Area Preservation Society (MAPS) in 1985. Her passionate dedication conserving the Appleby’s home landscape is one of the reasons C.G. first became involved with ESLC.