TSD Review Dec 1

Town Square LIVE Weekly Review – Dec. 1, 2022

Sonja FreyTown Square Live, Weekly Review

Click on the image below to view the PDF This Week’s Top Headlines Include: Community Hale Byrnes House to unveil painting of witness tree Odessa Houses’ Christmas designer takes on the White House ‘Sister Act’ offers Del. actor chance to repeat fun role Food & Dining Sneak Peek: Chancery Market Food Hall and Bar Del. man vies for $10,000 on …

Prelude to Brandywine Hale Byrnes House Battle of the Brandywine Virginia artist Bryant White

Hale Byrnes House to unveil painting of witness tree

Betsy PriceCulture, Headlines

  The Hale Brynes House this weekend will unveil a painting featuring an American sycamore tree under which George Washington once held a council of war with the Marquis de Lafayette. The Newark nonprofit commissioned the painting because the 300-plus-year-old witness tree — called that because it was alive during a historical moment — may soon die or be removed. …

a man riding a bicycle in front of a building

Man biking along 1781 route of French soldiers to stop in Wilmington

Charles MegginsonCulture, Headlines

Sal Lilienthal   A Connecticut man is traveling nearly 700 miles by bicycle and kayak to retrace the routes of George Washington and France’s Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau during the Revolutionary War.  Sal Lilienthal is a history buff, author and owner of Bicycle Tour Co. in Kent, Connecticut.  His voyage will bring him through northern Delaware Sunday, …