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The Green - November 15, 2019

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The much-anticipated plans to remake the former GM Boxwood Road plant into a giant logistics center may be accelerating.

A new player has emerged in the process, taking on a significant piece of the 142-acre site in Newport earlier this month.

Who is this new player – and what can be divined from their entry into this project? Those are questions contributor Jon Hurdle tackles in his latest piece.

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Delaware Public Media's Tom Byrne and contributor Jon Hurdle discuss recent changes in plans to develop the former GM Boxwood Rd. plant site in Newport.

This week’s frigid temps and the avalanche of emails you may be receiving about pre-Black Friday deals are a sure indication that – even with Thanksgiving still two weeks away – the holiday shopping season is here.

So, how does this year’s season shape up for retailers and consumers?

Each year, we turn to contributor Eileen Dallabrida for answers.  She says expectations in 2019 are high, and notes some new trends are taking hold.

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Delaware Public Media's Tom Byrne and contributor Eileen Dallabrida discuss the 2019 holiday shopping season.

November is Native American Heritage Month.

To celebrate, Cheyney University professor and painter Marietta Dantonio-Madsen, with help from 10 of her students and some volunteers, created a mural depicting the story of the Lenape Indian Tribe of Delaware.

Dantonio-Madsen says the 10-foot by 6-foot-mural required extensive research and the Lenape community in Cheswold assisted with that research, weighing in on what it wanted included in the piece.

For this edition of Arts Playlist, Dantonio-Madsen spoke to Delaware Public Media’s Kelli Steele shortly after a November 1st opening reception for the mural at the Biggs Museum of American Art in Dover.

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Delaware Public Media's Kelli Steele interviews Cheyney Univ. professor and painter Marietta Dantonio-Madsen about her Lenape Indian Tribe of Delaware mural.

The Delaware Historical Society is embarking on a new effort to help preserve another part of First State history – and make it available to researchers and the public.

The Jewish Historical Society of Delaware was founded in 1974 and since then has worked to acquire, preserve, and publish material pertaining to the history of Jewish settlement and Jewish life in Delaware.

But it hasn’t had a truly functional physical home. So it is teaming up with The Delaware Historical Society to transform the Coxe House, one of the Historical Society’s buildings on Willingtown Square in Wilmington, into a space that can properly store objects and archival material and make them accessible.

For this week’s Enlighten Me, the Delaware Historical Society’s executive director David Young join us to discuss the project and the Campaign for the Coxe House that launched this month to start raising funds for it.

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Delaware Public Media's Tom Byrne interviews Delaware Historical Society executive director David Young about the 'Campaign for Coxe House.'

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