Milford chronicle., 1959-07-24
States Resorts Are
Having Best Season
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Exhibit, now underway at the Will
age Improvement Association Club
house on the Boardwalk there. This
exhibit opened July Is and will
continue through Sunday, August
2. A wide diversity of paintings,
selected by jury of well known
artists, are on display. This year,
for the first time, cash prizes, as
well as ribbons, are being award
ed.
The Rehoboth Art Leagues an
nual Cottage Tour of Art, generally
held in early August, has this year
been moved up to July 22-23. Paint
ings of contemporary artists are
being displayed in twelve private
homes and in the Henlopen Acres
studios of the Art League. Tour
hours are from to p. m. each
day. Special exhibitions of art will
also be on display in the Art
League studios from July q to
August 13.
The annual Artists Costume Ball,
always a high spot in the areas
social whirl, will be held the eve
ming of August IA at the Rehoboth
Country Club, and the annual
Fashion Show will be held at the
some location the afternoon of
August 26.
A students tea at p. M, Au-
gust 16, will serve to open a five
day Students Exhibition at the
Art League Studios. From August
23 through September %, the Art
League will feature an exhibition
of the works of five other artists.
An always eagerly awaited
event on the Rehoboth Beach cal
endar is the annual Atlantic Ocean
Swim Races, which, this year, will
be held August 1892. AS in pre-
vious years, ten events, involving
South Atlantic AAU and Delaware
State Championships will be staged.
Indications are that record num-
ber of entries, including former
Olympics competitors and holders
of national and regional swim tt
ties, will compete in the eight SAA-
AAU championship events. Two
state championship events, limited
to Delaware residents, complete
the program. Members of the Re-.
hoboth Beach Patrol will partici-
pate in a surf board event as an
added attraction August %.
The popular teen-age hops, held
each Wednesday evening on the
concrete plaza at the foot of Re-
hoboth Avenue, are being contin-
ued through the remainder of the
summer season.
Over at nearby Lewes, the big
attraction is the Horse Show spOn-
sored annually by st. Peters Epis-
copal Church. This years version,
offering more than 200 show horses
competing in % classes, gets un-
derway at 10 a. m, this Sunday,
July 26, at Bay Manor Farm, the
residence of Mayor Otis Smith.
Band concerts, boat races and
other special events will highlight
Lewes' annual Homecoming
Week" August 9 to 16.
Another big event on the Lewes
calendar is the Delaware Bay Swim
and Marine Flotilla Parade held off
Lewes Beach each Labor Day.
; Meanwhile, the popular sailboat
racing programs spOn or d
throughout the summer by the
Lewes Yacht Club, are being held
each Sunday, beginning at 2 p. m,
in the bay off Lewes Beach.
Up the Delaware Bay, at Slaugh-
ter Beach (eight miles east of Mil
ford and Delaware Route No. 14),
plans are going forward for an
August 16 through % "Homecom-
ing" that will feature carnival,
fireworks displays. boat races and
other attractions. The once popu-
lar and traditional big Thursday"
will be revived at Slaughter Beach
August 20.
Within short driving distance of
the resort area are: Harrington,
where the Kent and Sussex Fair
will be staged, July 27 through
August /; Delmar, which will OBJ
serve its centennial with week
long celebration, August 23 through
August 20; and Dover, the state
capital, with it's museums and his
torical. buildings, and Dover Air
Force Base, one of the worlds
largest air freight terminals.
All the foregoing events are in
addition to the unusually fine swim
, ming and fishing that is to be had
in Delaware's coastal and inland
waters during late July, August
and September, noted the Develop
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