Spy Profile: Jim Richardson and the Bay Hundred Community Volunteers

For most of Jim Richardson's time in Talbot County, he ran the beloved county store and post office in Claiborne with his wife Martha and got his children through college while pursuing his lifelong passion as a art. During that time, he often thought about donating his time to some appropriate charity, but like many of his peers, that was wishful thinking until circumstances changed.
Those circumstances have now indeed changed for Jim. With his children now well into adulthood and with the store being closed a few years ago, the time was right to revisit his priorities, and he was almost immediately drawn to the work of the Bay Hundred Community Volunteers and their mission of providing ramps to low-income families and individuals with physical disabilities.
As he notes in our Spy interview, Jim not only knew that his carpenter skills were a good fit but also the enormous satisfaction of seeing how a simple project like a ramp could dramatically change a person's life and send of independence.