Archived Blog Posts:  September 2012


Date Posted: Wednesday, September 26th, 2012

It’s been fifty years since four young men from Liverpool, England known collectively as The Beatles walked into a recording studio to record their first single “Love Me Do.”   The Delaware Public Archives (DPA) is celebrating this anniversary with a program about this legendary group who changed the musical and cultural fiber of the 1960s.  […]


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Date Posted: Friday, September 14th, 2012

Did you know that Monday was “Delaware Day” at the Antietam Battlefield in Sharpsburg, Maryland?  Antietam is remembered as the bloodiest one-day battle of the American Civil War and many of the Delaware troops present were involved in some of the most terrible parts of the battle. The Delaware Heritage Commission and the Delaware Public Archives, along with […]


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Date Posted: Friday, September 7th, 2012

Sometimes our researchers ask if I ever get out of the building.  Well the other day I had an occasion to, just not the kind that I like….. An agency called to say they had some moldy books.  I went to take a look and indeed they were moldy.  It’s amazing what 80 percent humidity […]


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