Culture, Lifestyle & Sports

The success of this summer’s Virtual Clifford Brown Jazz Festival is prompting a year round effort, available virtually and in person.

The Johnson Victrola Museum in Dover is presenting a virtual program Halloween weekend. 

Goggin Manor at Brecknock Park in Camden could become home to the Kent County Historical Museum.

The Dover Public Library is preparing to reopen next month.

The library ends its coronavirus pandemic imposed shutdown November 3.

Delaware’s Division of Public Health released its guidance for Halloween activities this year earlier this month.

The Salvation Army’s annual “Red Kettle Campaign” is already underway.

This summer, two statues were taken down in the City of Wilmington.

One, of Christopher Columbus. The other, of Declaration of Independence signer and slave-owner Caesar Rodney.

Delaware Public Media’s Sophia Schmidt talks with Delaware Historical Society director David Young, about what monuments really say about history, and why they stir up controversy.

The COVID-19 pandemic will keep the Dover Public Library closed to the public for at least another month.

The Brandywine Conservancy in Chadds Ford, PA is offering a new way for people to engage with the region’s history. 

Sen. Chris Coons and South Carolina Congressman James Clyburn introduced legislation to commemorate historic sites connected to the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision.

A multi-vendor food hall in Wilmington closed by the COVID-19 pandemic is ready to return this week.

The First State will try to have a fall high school sports season after all. 

After getting Division of Public Health approval, the Delaware Interscholastic Athletic Association (DIAA) Board of Directors voted in favor of plan for football and other sports to start later this month.

Delaware’s 22nd annual Chautauqua tent shows run two successive weeks - starting this Thursday and Friday.

Kent County residents missing their trips to the library can resume them soon as the Kent County Public Library is moving closer to welcoming the public back:

AARP has awarded a $20,000 Community Challenge Grant to the Delaware Children’s Museum (DCM) in Wilmington.

Recent extreme weather in the Wilmington area did not damage Hagley Museum and Library. But the straight line winds seen August 7, 2020 on the 235-acre property downed many trees, including three state champions.

The Dover International Speedway hosts its busiest NASCAR race weekend ever this week, but it will also be a bit quieter than usual.

The Brandywine Conservancy in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania released its final feasibility study for the Brandywine Creek Water Trail.

When the doubleheader of NASCAR races takes place in Dover next month, the only sounds on the monster mile will be from the race cars and the crew.

Delaware hunting licenses and conservation access passes are now easier to purchase online.

Deer and wild turkey hunting season shows Delaware is a successful destination for deer and turkey hunters.

The 2019-2020 hunting season set a record with 16,969 deer harvested. 

Dover International Speedway will get NASCAR racing back on track this year, despite the COVID-19 pandemic.

And it's doing so in a big way next month with a historic weekend of doubleheaders in late August.

The Zwaanendael Museum in Lewes is getting a facelift.

The Delaware Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs started the rehabilitation effort two weeks ago with exterior work on the Museum.