In Tyaskin, why is there a purple house next to a pink one? What does Tyaskin mean? Why did the steamboats stop coming? Here are the answers in an easy-to-read book with large type and more than 200 photos from this tiny town on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Here is how the town changed from the days of the Nanticoke Tribe and plantations to a cable ferry moved by a “pull stick” to watermelon parties and pineapple ice cream to a volunteer fire company to the new bridge over the creek. This is a story of how Tyaskin went from a bustling river-boat town of 300 people, a canning factory (Tyaskin Choice Tomatoes), a fish and crab processing plant, a saw mill, oyster sheds, a large general store with a post office and a shirt factory to a serene place today with half the population. This is a fun read!