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CONTACT: Meg Marcozzi, Public Relations Coordinator IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wilmington, Delaware - November and December 2009 - "Glad tidings we bring to you and your kin...." This year's "Christmas at Hagley" exhibit is inspired by thoughts of friends and family gathering to share a meal and wish each other good will. We welcome you to visit the "Christmas at Hagley?" exhibit, open Friday, November 27, 2009, through Sunday, January 3, 2010. Hours are 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The first bus leaves for the exhibit at 10 a.m. and the last bus at 3:30 p.m. The holiday display is included in the cost of admission and free for members. Hagley, located in the beautiful Brandywine Valley is where the du Pont story begins, and features the original du Pont mills, estate, and gardens. Glimpse nineteenth- and early twentieth-century holiday entertaining in Eleutherian Mills, the du Pont family ancestral home. The morning room is ready for the New Year's Day Calling, a tradition in which men visit ladies with whom they are related. An elaborate dessert service to celebrate Twelfth Night, called "le Jour des Rois," is displayed in the dining room. Downstairs, the terrace room looks inviting as the table is set for an afternoon lunch. "Getting together with family and friends over the holidays has been a very long tradition that has stood the test of time," says Debra Hughes, curator of collections and exhibits. "The warm, friendly holiday displays at Eleutherian Mills evoke an earlier time before the advent of today's hectic world." Families will also enjoy the activities on Workers' Hill. Visitors to the Gibbons House can warm up with a cup of hot tea or coffee and sample a freshly-baked snack. Children will enjoy making crafts and playing games in the Gibbons House and Sunday School. Activities on Workers' Hill will be November 27 through 30; weekends in December (December 5, 6, 12, 13, 19, 20); and December 26 through January 3. On Sundays, December 6, 13, and 20, the Belin House Restaurant is offering a special holiday brunch from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Reservations are required. Call Fleur de Lis Catering (302) 425-5540 for details. The Hagley Store will be festively decorated and brimming with a unique selection of books, gifts, and children's items for the season. The store is opened seven days a week, 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Hagley Members enjoy a 20% discount on November 13, 14, and 15 and free gift wrapping for purchases over $50. Members receive a 10% discount at the Hagley Store daily. Hagley Museum and Library collects, preserves, and interprets the unfolding history of American enterprise. Hagley is located on Route 141 in Wilmington, Delaware. Admission to the 235-acre museum site is $11 for adults, $9 for students and senior citizens, $4 for children six to fourteen, and free for children five and under. For more information, call (302) 658-2400 weekdays.
IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wilmington, Delaware - January 2010 - Calling all creative kids! Come to the 2010 Invention Convention at Hagley, Saturday through Monday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., January 16, 17, and 18, 2010. Build an invention using cereal boxes, paper towel rolls, oatmeal containers, and other odd parts. Families are sure to enjoy a day or weekend of discovery and hands-on fun! Admission, including supplies, is $3.50 per child and $5 per adult. Free for Hagley members and children 3 and under. Use Hagley's Buck Road East entrance off of Route 100. New this year: middle-school students from local schools will compete in an essay contest called "Paths of Progress." The students will discuss copyright and patent laws that protect individuals' intellectual property. A winner will be presented with an award at the Invention Convention. Information on the contest is available at www.hagley.org. Favorite activities will return! At the Tinkering Tables, children can safely take apart electrically-powered machines like discarded computers, telephones, and radios. Kids and parents alike will find a job on the assembly line making powder at the Factory System Workshop. The Hagley patent office will be present to give young inventors patents for the inventions they make in the Create-an-Invention workshop. Science shows will be performed at 11 a.m., 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. with a different theme each day. "Every year I hear from parents whose kids loved Invention Convention so much that they've started 'tinkering' at home," says Hagley Education Coordinator Briana Feinberg."It's great that this event can spark that kind of interest in science. We hope we're inspiring a future generation of inventors and engineers." The Hagley Store booth will have a selection of science-related games and toys to complement the event. Lunch service will also be available. Hagley Museum and Library collects preserves, and interprets the unfolding history of American Enterprise. For more information, call (302) 658-2400 weekdays. ----- CONTACT: Meg Marcozzi, Public Relations Coordinator IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wilmington, Delaware - November and December 2009 - "Glad tidings we bring to you and your kin...." This year's "Christmas at Hagley" exhibit is inspired by thoughts of friends and family gathering to share a meal and wish each other good will. We welcome you to visit the "Christmas at Hagley" exhibit, open Friday, November 27, 2009, through Sunday, January 4, 2010. Hours are 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The first bus leaves for the exhibit at 10 a.m. and the last bus at 3:30 p.m. The holiday display is included in the cost of admission and free for members. Hagley, located in the beautiful Brandywine Valley is where the du Pont story begins, and features the original du Pont mills, estate, and gardens. Glimpse nineteenth- and early twentieth-century holiday entertaining in Eleutherian Mills, the du Pont family ancestral home. The morning room is ready for the New Year's Day Calling, a tradition in which men visit ladies with whom they are related. An elaborate dessert service to celebrate Twelfth Night, called "le Jour des Rois," is displayed in the dining room. Downstairs, the terrace room looks inviting as the table is set for an afternoon lunch. "Getting together with family and friends over the holidays has been a very long tradition that has stood the test of time," says Debra Hughes, curator of collections and exhibits. "The warm, friendly holiday displays at Eleutherian Mills evoke an earlier time before the advent of today's hectic world." Families will also enjoy the activities on Workers' Hill. Visitors to the Gibbons House can warm up with a cup of hot tea or coffee and sample a freshly-baked snack. Children will enjoy making crafts and playing games in the Gibbons House and Sunday School. Activities on Workers' Hill will be November 27 through 30; weekends in December (December 5, 6, 12, 13, 19, 20); and December 26 through January 1. On Sundays, December 6, 13, and 20, the Belin House Restaurant is offering a special holiday brunch from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Reservations are required. Call Fleur de Lis Catering (302) 425-5540 for details. The Hagley Store will be festively decorated and brimming with a unique selection of books, gifts, and children's items for the season. The store is opened seven days a week, 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Hagley Museum and Library collects, preserves, and interprets the unfolding history of American enterprise. Hagley is located on Route 141 in Wilmington, Delaware. For more information, call (302) 658-2400 weekdays. ----- CONTACT: Meg Marcozzi, Public Relations Coordinator IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Hagley Car Show on Sunday, September 20, features pre-1916 rarities. Some of America's oldest vehicles, also known as brass era cars, will be displayed, including a 1907 Autocar Runabout, 1909 Mitchell Open Touring, and 1911 Ford Touring among this special group. Tickets are on sale now! Visit the Hagley Store or www.hagley.org to purchase tickets. Pre-event tickets are $8 adults and $4 children six through fourteen. Tickets purchased at the Car Show will be $10 adults and $5 children six through fourteen. Admission is free for Hagley members and children five and under. Parking for 2009 will be on-site at Hagley. The event is 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and will be held rain or shine. The event is sponsored in part by AutoPort, Inc., Delaware Cadillac-Saab-Subaru, Eagle Transportation, Homsey Architects, Inc., Nuclear Electric Insurance Ltd, and Weymouth, Swayze and Corroon Insurance, Inc. The first fall lecture features David Pensak on Wednesday, September 23, presenting "Innovation--It's Not Just For Breakfast Anymore...." In his lecture, Pensak will discuss methodologies of identifying opportunities for innovation. For the second lecture on Wednesday, October 21, Norman Henry presents "Radiation Awareness." Henry will explore radiation as a source of energy in the future and its potential to be a solution for problems such as greenhouse gas emissions and global warming. Both lectures begin at 7 p.m. in the Copeland Room of Hagley Library. Lectures are free and open to the public. Use Hagley's Buck Road East entrance. Kick off holiday shopping at the annual Hagley Craft Fair on Saturday and Sunday, October 17 and 18. The show features the fine arts and crafts of fifty artisans working in a variety of media including wood, pottery, jewelry, fibers, metal, and more. Event is 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is $4, free for members and children under six years old. Use Hagley's Buck Road East entrance. Join Hagley for two research seminars this fall. The first, on Thursday, October 1, is Jennifer Armiger presenting her paper, "The Gender of Industrial Decline: Race, Gender, and Corporate Change at Western Electric in the 1970s." On Thursday, November 12, Janneken Smucker will present her paper, "The Amish Brand: Cottage Industries Making and Selling Quilts." Both lectures begin at 6 p.m. in the Copeland Room of Hagley Library. Research seminars are free and participants are asked to read the paper in advance. The Hagley Fall Conference is "Understanding Markets: Information, Institutions, and History" on Friday and Saturday, October 30 and 31. The conference celebrates the opening of the papers of Ernest Dichter, a pioneer in the field of market research. The conference is co-sponsored by Hagley and the German Historical Institute. Please visit www.hagley.org to register. Hagley Museum and Library collects, preserves, and interprets the unfolding history of American enterprise. Hagley is located on Route 141 in Wilmington, Delaware. For more information, call (302) 658-2400 weekdays. ----- CONTACT: Meg Marcozzi, Public Relations Coordinator IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wilmington, Delaware - October 2009 - Get inspired by the work of crafters who rely on Mother Nature as their muse. Hagley's Craft Fair features the work of approximately fifty artisans practicing in a variety of media. Join us on Saturday and Sunday, October 17 and 18, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $4 per person and free for members and children under six years old. Use Hagley's Buck Road East entrance off of Route 100. Artists use nature in different ways - some try to replicate it, others try to capture it, and still others incorporate it. Ramona Maziarz of Middletown, Delaware, works in pen and ink to create colorful nature scenes of flowers, trees, wildlife, and other curiosities she finds. Cynthia Lawrence of Downingtown, Pennsylvania, creates one-of-a-kind clay birdhouses decorated with a bumblebee atop a flower or a ladybug relaxing on a petal. Using copper and brass, John Shultz of Lititz, Pennsylvania, sculpts sundials and armillary spheres. Scott Blackson of The Soap Fairy, Inc., Milford, Delaware, makes herbal soaps, sugar scrubs, balms and lotions using natural products only. "October is a beautiful time to enjoy the colors of nature at Hagley. These textures and colors are often reflected in the work of the artisans displayed at the Craft Fair, making it a great place to find unique gifts for anyone who enjoys nature, the environment and quality craftsmanship," says Hagley's Craft Fair Coordinator Candy Dunson. The weekend festivities include a raffle of items donated by each artisan. Each visitor will have the opportunity to win just by coming to the Craft Fair. Shoppers will receive additional raffle tickets with each purchase. This marketplace of fine crafts is held on Hagley's upper property in the Soda House and library with free shuttle service between both buildings. Lunch service is available. Hagley Museum and Library collects preserves, and interprets the unfolding history of American Enterprise. For more information, call (302) 658-2400 weekdays. ----- CONTACT: Meg Marcozzi, Public Relations Coordinator IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wilmington, Delaware - September 2009 - "Innovation--it's not just for breakfast any more..." will be presented by David Pensak on Wednesday, September 23, 7 p.m. in the Copeland Room of Hagley Library. In his lecture, Pensak will discuss methodologies of identifying opportunities for innovation. The lecture will be followed with a question and answer session as well as book sales and signing by the author. The lecture is free and open to the public. Use Hagley's Buck Road East entrance. Pensak worked at DuPont for thirty years in the corporate research area. He then founded two companies: Raptor Systems, which produced the commercially successful internet firewall, and Authentica, a pioneer in the field of digital rights management. Currently, Pensak is on the faculties of the George Washington University Law School and the University of Delaware Alfred Lerner College of Business & Economics. In 2008, he published a book, Innovation for Underdogs. This lecture complements Hagley Museum and Library's latest exhibit, "Nineteenth-Century Patent Models: Innovation in Miniature," on display through December 31, 2010. These scaled-down, one-of-a-kind prototypes illustrate the creativity of Americans addressing problems, making improvements, or just finding a better way to make things work. The exhibit also includes larger, hands-on reproductions of some patent models and a guessing game for visitors to try. W. L. Gore & Associates is the Innovation Sponsor of the patent models exhibit. This exhibit is also sponsored in part by RatnerPrestia. "David Pensak brings a keen appreciation for the past and applies that knowledge to current, contemporary problems," says Hagley Deputy Director for Library Administration Terry Snyder. "His insight on the innovative process is at the center of what Hagley documents and interprets - the unfolding story of American enterprise. We are looking forward to what will certainly be an interesting and lively lecture." Hagley Museum and Library collects preserves, and interprets the unfolding history of American Enterprise. For more information, call (302) 658-2400 weekdays. |
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