Mike Fitzgerald’s Emmitsburg James Rada, Jr. Editor’s note: This is a reprint of a 2014 story we ran about some of Mike Fitzgerald’s early memories of Emmitsburg. It might be Rube’s Crab Shack now, but in the 1930s, the building that sat on that piece of property was a chicken house…literally. “My father got a…

James Rada, Jr. It might be Rube’s Crab Shack now, but in the 1930s, the building that sat on that piece of property was a chicken house…literally. “My father got a tractor and dragged a chicken house down the road to there,” says Mike Fitzgerald. Two gas pumps were added and the site became a…