Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Monday, March 5, 2012

Dela-WHERE? First State is actually ... interesting!

DOVER, Del.-- "Delaware? Why are you going to Delaware?" askedfolks in Florida, where I live.

"Delaware? What are you doing in Delaware?" asked folks Iencountered here.

Dela-WHERE? read a T-shirt sold in a building constructed in thiscity before the Colonies declared their independence. Maybe the statethat dangles below Pennsylvania and New Jersey, snuggled next toMaryland, is too shy to tout its surprising range of attributions:

The abundant array of Colonial and post-Revolutionary War erabuildings, many of them still used. The vast collections of works byAmerican painters and illustrators, on display not only in museumsbut also in a bank an a library. The …