Jim Duffy of Secrets of the Eastern Shore is here to tell us about Tench Tilghman and his famous, frantic “ride” to share the news that independence was won.

Tench Tilghman, right, is pictured in a 1784 painting by Charles Willson Peale. Entitled “Washington, Lafayette, and Tilghman at Yorktown,” the painting is a portrait of George Washington at ...