Sixty-five years ago, a group of women had the idea to raise much-needed funds for children’s charities by renovating their Victory Gardens, so useful during World War II, and opening their newly designed estate gardens to public view. It worked. They charged $1 a ticket and pulled in a few hundred dollars, and the event [...]

Everyone except the cheap-beer-bellied TSA agent snickered when I exited the examination dungeon, winked at the crowd in line and declared, “Thanks for the happy ending!”  How do we commiserate over humiliations like being fondled by one of Janet NaGropeItano’s minions?  (Yes, Napolitano has minions and it’s easy to picture her sprawled out, legs akimbo, [...]

The liberalism and thrilling lifestyle of the Jazz Age has often inspired American artists, designers and musicians. A celebration of jazz evokes feelings of excitement and wonderment, just the emotions we hope to strike when Opera Delaware and the Delaware Art Museum team up this month to present The Jazz Age in Art and Song. [...]

Growing up with an artist as a mother had its benefits. We were exposed (some might say, dragged) to museums at an early age. She constantly made us aware of our surroundings: the fresh green (tendre vert, as she calls it) of new leaves, the sculptural quality of bare trees, the ever-changing landscapes. And the [...]

For those who grew up in the Delaware Valley, there are local cultural icons that will always be part of our lives.  Some have passed into history – Strawbridges, Path Mark, and on the entertainment side, Gene London, Captain Noah and Al Alberts and his “Showcase” (ok, I didn’t say all would be missed), to [...]

Spring has sprung in Rehoboth at Schnauzerhaven in Food Lion Estates. If I’d known just how much of my disposable income would go for mulch, I’d be writing from my condo overlooking the boardwalk. Before I had this house I didn’t know it was possible to go to Lowes three times in a day. My [...]

Just because you are a busy mom, it doesn’t mean your appearance has to suffer. We understand that looking glamourous may not be priority number one once you have a little one.  However, thanks to Jessica Galoff, owner of Elayne James Salons in Greenville and Middletown, we have some quick hair tips and tricks to achieve [...]

This week’s successful NCAA Final Four in New Orleans was another signal that the city is back, doing what it does so well, once again hosting big, gauzy American spectacles with elan. Brought to the edge of apocalypse by the furry of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 – some 1500 died and nearly forty percent of [...]

Part two of Bree’s interview with David Larned. Click here for part one. – TSD. Life on Stock Grange Farm for Sarah and David Larned is dynamic, to say the least. Between keeping up with their careers as artists, raising their young daughter, two goats: Bette and Maude and pug, Weezie meanwhile restoring the historical, charming farm that they [...]