• Roger Steward, owner of Jimmy John’s is hosting a “Funday”
to help rebuild the restaurant that was gutted by fire last month. The event
will be at the Radley Run Country Club, 2-6 p.m., June 27. There will be live
music. A $15 donation at the door is suggested.
• The Chadds Ford Civic Association is planning a canoe trip
down the Brandywine as part three of its four-part effort to raise money for
the Brandywine Battlefield Park. The canoe trip will take place on Sunday, June
13, from 11:30 a.m. until 3 p.m. The meeting point is the Wilderness Canoe
Outfitters, 2111 Concord Pike, Wilmington. A safety program will be given along
with outfitting for gear. The cost is $65 per canoe. To sign up for the event,
go to http://the.chaddsfordcivicassn.org/4theLoveoftheBattlefield/BattlefieldEvents.htm
• Another event to raise money for the park will be held
Saturday, June 5, at the park. This will feature Loic Barnieu portraying
General Marquis de Lafayette at 1 p.m. At 2 p.m. Alan R. Hoffman, author of
“Lafayette in America,” will talk about Lafayette’s return to America in the
1800s. The lecture is free, but donations will be accepted, a press release
said.
• The Brandywine River Museum will host a bonsai display in
the museum courtyard this weekend, June 5 and 6 from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Members of the Brandywine Bonsai Society will demonstrate training techniques
and answer questions regarding special care of the trees.
• The Brandywine River Museum will offer free admission to
active duty military personnel and their families through Labor Day 2010 as
part of the Blue Star Museums’ program, a partnership of the National Endowment
for the Arts, Blue Star Families, and more than 600 museums across America.
• Sculptor Stan Smokler exhibits metal works inspired by the
sea at Steel Currents, open June 4 through July 18 at the Delaware Museum of
Natural History. The opening reception on Friday, June 4, is part of the City
of Wilmington's "Art on the Town" loop. Smokler's welded steel
sculptures represent abstractions of a horseshoe crab, lobster, seaweed,
nautilus and other marine life. Each piece is accompanied by the artist's own
interpretations and those of Elizabeth Shea, Ph.D., the Delaware Museum of
Natural History's Curator of Mollusks and specialist in the biodiversity of
deep-sea cephalopods. The exhibit runs through July 18. Admission is $7 adults,
$6 seniors, $5 children (3-17), free for children 2 and younger.
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