Home of the Week: Jane and Mike Stricker

Down, all the way down, Route 8 in Stevensville is the community of Cove Creek Club. This community began its life as the personal getaway spot of the Kettler brothers, perhaps best known as the builders of Montgomery Village in Gaithersburg.

With a meandering golf course running through it, a handful of ponds and streams, prime eastern Chesapeake Bay frontage and beautiful homes easily distinguished from one another, Cove Creek Club seems to be Eastern Shore living at its best.

That's exactly what brought retired teachers Jane and Mike Stricker here.

"After our boys left home to start their lives, my husband...