Birmingham Township supervisors have begun their search for a replacement for Supervisor Al Bush who died Aug. 28. Bush’s term ends at the end of 2013. Supervisors’ Chairman John Conklin said the best case would be a volunteer who would be willing to fill the unexpired term and stand for the primary election in May of 2013. The supervisors will canvas the homeowner associations and…
Visitors to Longwood Gardens this summer increased by 51 percent when compared to last year. According to Paul Redman, Longwood’s director, good weather and the Munro light show contributed to the successful summer. Longwood Gardens admitted its one-millionth visitor last week. Halsey Spruance, Director of Delaware Museum of Natural History, said that good weather isn’t necessarily good for an indoor venue when people want to…
Friday night, July 27, was a classic win-win situation. The Wilmington Blue Rocks surged to a 6-2 victory over the Carolina Mudcats, and the Brandywine Battlefield Park got the support of 116 area residents who bought tickets for the game. For the second year, Chadds Ford area residents and businesses went to Frawley Stadium to see the Blue Rocks play baseball and to show support for the park. Friends…
Guns, brothers, and booze mix explosively at premier of “Mr. Hart and Mr. Brown.” People’s Light and Theater Company might have been called People’s Light and Sound Company Wednesday, July 18 when the show opened. A Duesenberg arrives in a small town inNebraska. The era is the 1920s and prohibition. A larger-than-life Mr. Brown appears with picnic basket, a bottle of wine and phonograph record playing…
An invitation might read: Welcome to The Gates of Hell. The Rodin Museum’s reopening July 13 reveals the largest collection of the French sculptor’s work outside of Paris. Timothy Rub, Director and Chief Executive of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, read a letter of congratulations to the Rodin Museum from its sister museum Musée Rodin in Paris. The renovation represents more than three years of…
The cure for Stephanie Kirk was to become an artist. In the pharmaceutical industry, Kirk excelled in starting new programs from scratch. Her “tolerance for chaos” was high enough to survive while she structured a solution to a problem. Twelve years ago, though, Kirk fled from the corporate cubicle and started to figure out the next step in her life. Part of the process included…
The clock has started for Birmingham Township supervisors to decide whether or not to approve outdoor seating for P.J. Whelihan’s in the Shoppes at Dilworthtown Crossing. The board held a conditional use hearing for the seating application on June 18 prior to the start of their regular meeting, and has 45 days in which to render a decision. Testimony included that from Jim Fris, the…
Eric Miller tells the story of how his father taught him the meaning of terroir when driving through the countryside of Burgundy, France.Derived the French word for land, terre, terroir means the combination of geography, soil and climate as relates to produce such as grapes.
WW II Photographs ordered by Eisenhower as guard against the possibility of Holocaust denial
