Click on the image below to view the PDF This Week’s Top Headlines Include: Community Delaware wedding: Matt Meyer, Lauren Cooksey marry in Rehoboth State letter carriers to collect food at mailboxes Saturday Angelique Kidjo among Clifford Brown Jazz Fest performers Longwood brings back Illuminated Fountain Shows this summer New Castle police: ‘Senior assasination game’ alarming Business Jane Brady joins …
Longwood Gardens’ tulips will be blooming at their peak this week and next. The Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, attraction’s famous Flower Walk and Idea Garden feature 200,000 bulbs and more than 80 varieties of tulips—including single blooms, double blooms, and fringed. Roger Davis, the gardens’ outdoor landscape manager, has an idea about why visiting the flower walk is an annual pilgrimage …
Click on the image below to view the PDF This Week’s Top Headlines Include: Community Amado gets new title at Delaware Symphony Orchestra Wilmington gets $200,000 in Safe Streets and Roads funding Del. State Parks set attendance record: 8 million-plus Longwood gets bit more du Ponty by adding Granogue estate Tiny art in park brings joy to North Wilmington Delaware …
Longwood Gardens, founded by Pierre S. du Pont in the early 1900s, is about to get another dose of du Pont. The Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, gardens and The Conservation Fund will acquire and operate the longtime du Pont estate Granogue located in New Castle County. The 505-acre private estate includes the long-time residence of the late Irénée “Brip” and Barbara …
Visitors to Kennett Square’s Longwood Gardens this holiday season will be met with glimmering botanical ornaments, more than half a million dazzling lights artistically accenting the landscape, strolling carolers bringing holiday cheer, and crackling firepits adding warmth to cozy winter evenings. The holiday display will be around from Nov. 18 until Jan. 8. Tickets are available online. This year’s theme …
Click on the image below to view the PDF This Week’s Top Headlines Include: Community ‘Revisionists’ is latest addition to haunted NCC scene I-95 southbound to close as project nears completion Wilmington glass artisan specializes in cremation art It’s raining bonsai at Longwood Gardens Hagley’s ‘Nation of Inventors’ hopes to inspire creativity Business Delaware retailers must accept cash under new …
Longwood Gardens this week received a gift of 150 extraordinary bonsai trees and will receive a $1 million bequest to take care of the eminent Kennett Collection. Hailing the donation as the finest private collection of bonsai in the Western World, Longwood officials said the addition raises the garden’s collection to world-class. “These important bonsai trees, which have been so …
Click on the image below to view the PDF This Week’s Top Headlines Include: COMMUNITY Bruce Munro hopes you find Longwood light art joyous Winterthur brings back its Artisan Market July 16-17 Delaware bans 37 invasive plants (with more to come) Delaware state parks offer after-dark fun BUSINESS Water firm invites customers to buy coverage on e-devices Food Bank CANgineering …
When light artist Bruce Munro this year brought his night magic back to Longwood Gardens, it was the first time he’s brought a new exhibit to the site of a former one. Ten years ago, his “Bruce Munro: Light” exhibit delighted audiences at the former du Pont estate in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. It also electrified his career, partly because …
Click on the image below to view the PDF This Week’s Top Headlines Include: COMMUNITY Mark Fields to retire from The Grand after 16 years Mt. Cuba’s 5 kestrel chicks get banded Longwood Gardens to light up June 30 with Munro exhibit Brandywine Zoo pudu Haechan dies after short illness Your guide to Delaware fireworks, and so Fourth BUSINESS Abandoned …
