A Little More About Earl

I came across this little story about My Name is Earl being set in Western Maryland.

Credit Gregory T. Garcia, creator and writer of "My Name is Earl," with putting a lot of mountain Maryland into the NBC sitcom. Garcia, a 1992 graduate of Frostburg State University, recently had his lovably scruffy characters consider taking a bus to Hagerstown and catching up with someone near Cumberland, two of the biggest cities in the state's Appalachian panhandle.

Frostburg State alumni may recognize the Crab Shack, where Darnell works, as a replica of the Diamond Lounge, a basement pub in downtown Frostburg, right down to the red-and-black felt wallpaper. And Frostburg State will be featured when the characters visit the school in an upcoming episode, Garcia told the Cumberland Times-News.

The show is obviously shot in California but fans have surmised it is set in Maryland. Garcia wouldn't say which state is home to the show's fictional Camden County, named for one of his two sons with Kim Ludke, another Frostburg State grad.

I spent many a night in the Diamond Lounge (A.K.A. Re-Pub) and man is that place a hole. The men's rooms didn't have urinals they had troughs that ran the length of the room. Those bad boys were in heavy use every Thursday night, which was dime draft night. Those were the days ...