DNREC’s First State Heritage Park joins in Dover Days festivities May 4 and 5
Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control | Division of Parks and Recreation | Date Posted: Wednesday, May 2, 2018
Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control | Division of Parks and Recreation | Date Posted: Wednesday, May 2, 2018
DOVER – DNREC’s First State Heritage Park will present “Favorite Pastimes” as the theme for the First State Heritage Park’s monthly “First Saturday in the First State,” during the annual Dover Days celebration on Saturday, May 5. The program will feature a variety of free events and activities. Visitors to The Green can also see the John Bell House during the “Archaeology – a Time Travelers Event,” where they can visit an active dig site, and find out more about life in the past.
At the John Bell House, middle school students from the First State Club at Campus Community School will also help to transform it into an 18th century tavern for “A Traveler’s Life: Getting from Here to There in the 18th Century.” Visitors will experience some of the perils of travel in a themed obstacle course, and can try their hand at some typical tavern chores, as well as some games enjoyed as pastimes.
Here is a list of other programs and activities for First Friday and First Saturday in the First State:
Each month during “First Saturdays in the First State,” the First State Heritage Park offers a variety of free programs at each of the park’s partner sites, including tours of the two capitol buildings in Delaware’s capital city – the Old State House and Legislative Hall – hourly walking tours leaving from the John Bell House, and the monthly “Biggs Kids” program at the Biggs Museum of American Art. Exhibits are also on display at the Delaware Public Archives, the Johnson Victrola Museum, the First State Heritage Park Welcome Center and Galleries and the Biggs Museum.
Admission to all park sites and programs is free. Centrally-located free parking is available at the First State Heritage Park Welcome Center and Galleries, located at 121 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard North. For more information about “First Saturday” events and all First State Heritage Park programs, please call 302-739-9194 or visit www.destateparks.com/heritagepark. Information on all the events of Dover Days weekend, sponsored by Delaware’s Quaint Villages, can be found at www.visitdelawarevillages.com.
The First State Heritage Park is Delaware’s first urban “park without boundaries,” linking historic and cultural sites in the city that has been the seat of state government since 1777. The park is a partnership of state agencies under the leadership of DNREC’s Division of Parks & Recreation, working in collaboration with city and county government, nonprofit organizations and the private sector.
Contact: Sarah Zimmerman, DNREC Division of Parks and Recreation, First State Heritage Park, 302-739-9194 or sarah.zimmerman@delaware.gov.
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Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control | Division of Parks and Recreation | Date Posted: Wednesday, May 2, 2018
DOVER – DNREC’s First State Heritage Park will present “Favorite Pastimes” as the theme for the First State Heritage Park’s monthly “First Saturday in the First State,” during the annual Dover Days celebration on Saturday, May 5. The program will feature a variety of free events and activities. Visitors to The Green can also see the John Bell House during the “Archaeology – a Time Travelers Event,” where they can visit an active dig site, and find out more about life in the past.
At the John Bell House, middle school students from the First State Club at Campus Community School will also help to transform it into an 18th century tavern for “A Traveler’s Life: Getting from Here to There in the 18th Century.” Visitors will experience some of the perils of travel in a themed obstacle course, and can try their hand at some typical tavern chores, as well as some games enjoyed as pastimes.
Here is a list of other programs and activities for First Friday and First Saturday in the First State:
Each month during “First Saturdays in the First State,” the First State Heritage Park offers a variety of free programs at each of the park’s partner sites, including tours of the two capitol buildings in Delaware’s capital city – the Old State House and Legislative Hall – hourly walking tours leaving from the John Bell House, and the monthly “Biggs Kids” program at the Biggs Museum of American Art. Exhibits are also on display at the Delaware Public Archives, the Johnson Victrola Museum, the First State Heritage Park Welcome Center and Galleries and the Biggs Museum.
Admission to all park sites and programs is free. Centrally-located free parking is available at the First State Heritage Park Welcome Center and Galleries, located at 121 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard North. For more information about “First Saturday” events and all First State Heritage Park programs, please call 302-739-9194 or visit www.destateparks.com/heritagepark. Information on all the events of Dover Days weekend, sponsored by Delaware’s Quaint Villages, can be found at www.visitdelawarevillages.com.
The First State Heritage Park is Delaware’s first urban “park without boundaries,” linking historic and cultural sites in the city that has been the seat of state government since 1777. The park is a partnership of state agencies under the leadership of DNREC’s Division of Parks & Recreation, working in collaboration with city and county government, nonprofit organizations and the private sector.
Contact: Sarah Zimmerman, DNREC Division of Parks and Recreation, First State Heritage Park, 302-739-9194 or sarah.zimmerman@delaware.gov.
Related Topics: culture, dover, dover days, heritage park, history, outdoors and recreation, parks
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