ABOUT

William James Howard, a native of Easton, Maryland, has spent a lifetime developing knowledge and expertise across an array of different areas, accomplishing feats of business, preservation and charity in the process.

While he now runs one of the nation’s largest producers of tourism videos, reaching travelers through hotel televisions and online, Howard is better known for his contributions to local communities.  His work as a journalist in Baltimore was interrupted to return to Easton and help his father Charles run several businesses including the local bowling center that remains, recently renovated and reopened under the name “Good Time Charlie’s.”  With the help of many others who wanted to preserve Easton’s historic district, Howard helped save the Avalon theatre from being turned into a parking lot, buying it in 1986 and completing restoration in 1988, eventually opening three restaurants in the building.  Utilizing his media and business skills with the support of local businesses, he was able to organize several community projects over the years, including Operation Christmas serving and delivering hundreds of dinners, coats, groceries to needy families on Christmas since 1982, Habitat for Humanity’s building of two houses in two days, Operation Safe Home, installing 1,000 smoke detectors in 5 counties utilizing all fired departments and volunteers in one day, writing a series of 7 exposés stories published on the front page of the Star Democrat in 1996 on substandard housing (nominated for a Pulitzer Prize) which led to Talbots housing initiative, producing a video that brought attention and eventually running water to the community of Chester Park, and the installation of AED defibrillators to 100 local businesses, among other initiatives.  He was also chairman of the founding of Easton’s Community Pool. You can learn about these projects and more at WillHoward.net.