Float Your Boat
Zwaanendael Museum 102 Kings Highway, Lewes, DEPart of the Zwaanendael Museum Pirate Passport activity. Learn how boats float, and make your own. For children of all ages. 2 PM on the second floor of the Zwaanendael Museum.
Part of the Zwaanendael Museum Pirate Passport activity. Learn how boats float, and make your own. For children of all ages. 2 PM on the second floor of the Zwaanendael Museum.
Thomas Lunt, the owner of the Fort Casimir Honey Company and Apiary, will present a program on bees and honey. He will also talk about Delaware's native bees and honeybees their importance as pollinators.
One of the co-owners of Mercury Cafe & Teahouse will talk about tea making from field to cup.
Meet the Three Sisters (Corn, Beans, and Squash), tobacco and the many other edible and medicinal plants native to eastern North America and discover how to incorporate them into a modern garden. Learn how to harvest, dry and store seeds/leaves, develop strains of plants that best suit your needs, where to buy or trade for […]
The Delaware State Review Board for Historic Preservation will meet from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024, at the Delaware Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs’ Center for Material Culture at 1351 W. North St. Suite 102 in Dover. The meeting will be conducted in person and remotely. During the meeting, […]
Carlton Hall, historian with the State Historic Preservation Office, will discuss his work on Delaware listings in the Green Book, a segregation-era travel guide for African Americans created by Victor Green and published annually from 1936 through 1966.
Visit to experience a variety of pastimes from over two hundred years ago. Outdoor games 10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the East Yard and indoor games 10:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. in the Dining Room of the Mansion.
Historian John Medkaff will focus on brewing in the 17th century colonial period in Delaware. The focus will be on the Swedish, Dutch, and English periods. Discussion will extend to areas a bit outside New Castle but the latter will be the area of focus.
Join us as New Castle Historical Society director Mike Connolly discusses taverns located in the city of New Castle in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Some taverns were famous, and some infamous, but all offered services for travelers and residents alike.
The Delaware Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs (HCA) is a proud sponsor of this year's powwow.