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Zwaanendael Maritime Festival: “A Sailor’s Life for Me” to take place in Lewes, Del.

May 24, 2014 program explores the adventure, romance, excitement and hardships experienced by 18th- and 19th-century seafarers.



Delaware Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs to offer 16 special events during July 2014

Programs to be held at the state of Delaware’s six museums. Independence Day festivities, hands-on history and DeBraak tours to be featured.



Symposium on the Early Colonial Archaeology of the Delaware Valley Region to be held at Delaware’s New Castle Court House Museum on May 10, 2014

Program seeks to identify the uniqueness of the early colonial cultures in the region.



Dover Days, fabric arts, herbs, and battledore and shuttlecock to be featured at Dover, Del.’s John Dickinson Plantation in May 2014

During the month of May 2014, the John Dickinson Plantation, located at 340 Kitts Hummock Rd. in Dover, Del., will present four special programs that explore different aspects of everyday life as it would have been lived during the 18th century when John Dickinson was in residence at the property.



Lecture/tours of the hull of the DeBraak, a shipwrecked 18th-century British warship, to return to Lewes, Del. beginning on June 2, 2014

Beginning on June 2, 2014, the Delaware Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs will again offer public lecture/tours of the hull of His Majesty’s Sloop DeBraak, a British warship that was escorting and protecting a convoy of British and American merchant ships en route to the United States when it was capsized and lost off the Delaware coast on May 25, 1798.






 Pages Tagged With: "museums"

Zwaanendael Maritime Festival: “A Sailor’s Life for Me” to take place in Lewes, Del.

May 24, 2014 program explores the adventure, romance, excitement and hardships experienced by 18th- and 19th-century seafarers.



Delaware Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs to offer 16 special events during July 2014

Programs to be held at the state of Delaware’s six museums. Independence Day festivities, hands-on history and DeBraak tours to be featured.



Symposium on the Early Colonial Archaeology of the Delaware Valley Region to be held at Delaware’s New Castle Court House Museum on May 10, 2014

Program seeks to identify the uniqueness of the early colonial cultures in the region.



Dover Days, fabric arts, herbs, and battledore and shuttlecock to be featured at Dover, Del.’s John Dickinson Plantation in May 2014

During the month of May 2014, the John Dickinson Plantation, located at 340 Kitts Hummock Rd. in Dover, Del., will present four special programs that explore different aspects of everyday life as it would have been lived during the 18th century when John Dickinson was in residence at the property.



Lecture/tours of the hull of the DeBraak, a shipwrecked 18th-century British warship, to return to Lewes, Del. beginning on June 2, 2014

Beginning on June 2, 2014, the Delaware Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs will again offer public lecture/tours of the hull of His Majesty’s Sloop DeBraak, a British warship that was escorting and protecting a convoy of British and American merchant ships en route to the United States when it was capsized and lost off the Delaware coast on May 25, 1798.