Lifelong Aberdeen resident's book depicts town's homes, businesses and churches

Charlotte Cronin sat leafing through a book of sketches, recalling stories about the places they depicted. "This is a photo of an early tavern at the crossing of the 17th century Post Road and the Bush River Neck Road," she said, pointing to a pencil rendering. "There are no actual photos of the tavern. I dreamed this building. "And this sketch shows the intersection of Broadway and West Bel Air Avenue as it would have appeared in 1910," she said. Read on.