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Contest to illustrate what makes New Castle unique. Photos accepted Oct. 17 to 31, 2021. Voting open Nov. 1 to 5, 2021

Series presents a wide-variety of folk-music styles from across the region in the warm acoustics of The Old State House.

Coastal Style Magazine’s Best of 2021 celebrates the finest museums, programs and services that the Eastern Shore has to offer.

18th century trades, true crime in song and walking tours of a historic cemetery among programs/topics to be explored.

Event commemorates the 339th anniversary of Penn’s disembarkment at New Castle, his first landing in the New World.

Audio programs explore a wide variety of topics related to Delaware history and the programs and services of the Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs.

Recently accessioned collections items reflect the calls for racial justice that surged across the nation in 2020.

Archaeology and landscape-design projects to help tell the stories of African Americans who lived and died at the John Dickinson Plantation.

Three history majors in the University of Delaware’s E. Lyman Stewart Internship Program worked for the division during the summer of 2021.

Programs explore the experiences of the enslaved and free African Americans who lived, labored and died on the John Dickinson Plantation.