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Date Posted: Wednesday, September 29th, 2010

Yeah, you read that right. Delaware Tramp Art.  I had a patron come in the other day to show me this decorated cigar box.  It was her great-grandmothers.  It was made in Ellendale around 1890. It seems tramp art is very collectible. These decorative boxes were made by blue-collar workers as gifts for their sweethearts during the […]


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Date Posted: Friday, September 24th, 2010

Have you ever had a relative tell you what a great sports star they were and if it hadn’t been for that darn knee injury they’d have gone pro?  Well that’s exactly what happened the other day.  A kid came in to see if he could find information on his uncle. It seems his uncle keeps […]


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Date Posted: Friday, September 17th, 2010

Homework, seeing school buses on the roads, and the collective “YES” from parents all around: it’s back to school time!  We had a mother come in the other day after dropping her son off at school. There was a historic marker outside the school and she wanted to learn more. She looked at annual reports from […]


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Date Posted: Friday, September 10th, 2010

We expanded the Kent County Probate Collection so get ready to fill in some of the blanks in your genealogical chart and learn about the life and culture that existed in the post-World War II era.  The Delaware Public Archives has recently received a new group of Kent County Probates from the Kent County Register […]


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Date Posted: Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

So have you been to DMV lately to renew your driver’s license? You may have read about this in the newspapers.  On July 1, DMV started issuing the new secure driver license and identification cards.  Delaware is not the only state doing this.  We have been receiving calls from Delawareans in Florida, Tennessee, Georgia, Maine, New Jersey, […]


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Date Posted: Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

This weekend Delawareans were saddened with the news of the passing of former governor Sherman W. Tribbitt. Governor Tribbitt served from 1973-1977.  Most people say he is best known for saving the State of Delaware from bankruptcy during the Farmer’s Bank crisis.   He also had many other accomplishments.  If you would like to learn first […]


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Date Posted: Wednesday, August 11th, 2010

I was on my way to work this morning and thought “Man what a great day to go to the beach.”  Ironically enough,  this afternoon a couple from Idaho came in who had been to Rehoboth. They wondered if the boardwalk always looked the way it does now.  They had popped into the Rehoboth Public […]


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Date Posted: Wednesday, August 4th, 2010

Have you ever been walking around an old barn or farm area and found something really cool?  That’s what happened the other day when a patron was walking around a barn on Miller Road off of Route 202.  She came across an old book entitled “Lessons from the Book of Common Prayer”, published in 1855.  […]


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Date Posted: Thursday, July 29th, 2010

Have you ever had one of those days where you just can’t seem to remember anything?  I know it seems to be happening to me more frequently.  I had a gentleman call the other day.  He was calling for his uncle who now lives in Phoenix.  It seems his uncle couldn’t remember the date of […]


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Date Posted: Wednesday, July 21st, 2010

It is that time:  the sounds of the midway, the excitement of seeing your favorite act, the sounds of crunching at the demolition derby, and the smell of all sorts of deep fried items.  It’s Delaware State Fair week. Woo hoo!!! Did you know that it used to be called the Kent- Sussex Fair? So […]


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