13 and U.S. Route 50, which meet in Salisbury. Airports Salisbury-Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport, in Salisbury, is the only commercial airport on the Delmarva Peninsula. Airports for private aircraft include: Bay Bridge Airport in Stevensville Cambridge-Dorchester Airport in Cambridge Crisfield Municipal Airport in Crisfield. Easton Airport, in Easton Ocean City Municipal Airport in Ocean City Secession The Eastern Shore has made several attempts to separate from Maryland. Proposals were debated in Maryland's General Assembly in 1833–1835, 1852, and 1998. There were earlier proposals visualizing a state encompassing the Delmarva Peninsula. The 1998 proposal by state Senators Richard F. Colburn and J. Lowell Stoltzfus did not specify a status for Eastern Shore's nine counties following secession, but suggested the new state's name could be "Delmarva". Sports The Delmarva Shorebirds are a minor league baseball team who play Class A baseball in the South Atlantic League at Arthur W. Perdue Stadium in Salisbury, affiliated with the Baltimore Orioles. Culture Salisbury hosts the largest bicycling event east of the Mississippi – the Sea Gull Century and two major Maryland wine and craft beer festivals. Easton hosts a three-day artist event, the Waterfowl Festival, every November. Duck and goose hunting from blinds is a popular activity using carved wooden duck decoys, which can also be prized works of art. Media references In 2005, the film Wedding Crashers was filmed on locations at Maryland's Eastern Shore, including the historic Inn at Perry Cabin. In 1978, Chesapeake, a novel by James A. Michener and published by Random House, deals with several families living in the Chesapeake Bay area, from 1583 to 1978. Notable people John Andrews, clergyman. Born in Cecil County. Frank "Home Run" Baker, baseball player John Barth, fiction writer. Born in Cambridge, Dorchester County. Erin Burnett, News Anchor. Born in Mardela Springs, Wicomico County. Gilbert Byron, "Poet of the Chesapeake" William Claiborne, first English settler within Maryland. Settled in Kent County. Frederick Douglass, abolitionist. Born in Talbot County. Jimmie Foxx, baseball player. Born in Sudlersville, Maryland in Northern Queen Anne's County. Robert Goldsborough, delegate to the Continental Congress Lambert Wickes, Revolutionary War naval hero. Linda Hamilton, actress. Born in Salisbury, Wicomico County. Edward Lloyd, delegate to the Continental Congress. Born in Talbot County. Dale Midkiff, actor. Born in Chance Somerset County. John Needles, Quaker abolitionist and a master craftsman of fine furniture Bill Nicholson, baseball player Frank Perdue, entrepreneur. Born in Salisbury, Wicomico