Milford chronicle., 1960-05-13
Plenty OF ActiUity For
First State Is
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New Castle Flower Market will be
held Saturday.
Finals of the Miss Delaware Con-
test will be held Saturday even
ing, beginning at $3.50, at the Scot
tish Rite Cathedral, Lea Boule-
ward, Wilmington.
The Drama League presentation,
Mark Twain Tonight, is sched-
uled for The Playhouse, Whining
ton; with curtain going up at $3.50
p. m, Saturday.
On Saturday, May 21, a wide Sc
lection of events will be available.
Dividing public attention with Arm
ed Forces Day observances at
Dover Air Force Base and New
Castle County Airport, will be "a
Day in Old New Castle, tradition
ally observed the third Saturday in
May benefit May Mart and Horse
Show at Seaford; a Hospital Fair
at Milford; Folk Guild Festival
at Arden; and college sporting
events at Newark.
Large crowds, including many
out-of-state visitors, are expected
at New Castle where the residents
of Delaware's colonial, capital, in
Dutch and early American attire,
open their museum, homes-and
arms to those who would renew
acquaintance with or visit for the
first time what has been described
as one of Americas best preserv-
ed colonial communities.
Several thousand Delawareans
are expected at the Dover Air Force
Base and at the New Castle Coun-
ty Airport on the 21st for Armed
Forces Day observances.
Large crowds are also expected
at the benefit May Mart and Horse
Show to be held at the Tull Farm
near Seaford, and the Hospital
Fair, to be held on the Memorial
Hospital grounds, Milford, on the
21st.
The Folk Guild Festival, at Ar
den, will feature well known folk
dancers and singers from to
p. m., May 81, and will be fol-
lowed by square dancing at p. m.
The University of Delaware Blue
Hens will meet the Rutgers Uni
versity baseball team at p. m.
in the featured attraction of a
varied May 21 offering at Newark
Poppy Days will be observed
May 19-2O-21, when the colorful
little Flowers of Remembrance"
are offered for sale throughout the
state by posts and Auxiliaries of
the Veterans of Foreign Wars and
American Legion.
The approach of Memorial Day
brings closer the opening of Della
ware Park, one of Americas most
b eautif ul thoroughbred racing
plants. A 55 day meet at the Stan
ton track gets underway on May
%.
May % also marks the opening
of the 1860 season at Delaware's
bay and ocean resorts, and the
residents of Lewes, RehobOth
Beach, Dewey Beach, Bethany
Beach and Fenwick Island are
getting ready for what is expected
to be record influx of early sea-
son vacationists.
Also beginning May %, boat
transportation will again be a.
valuable, from IL noon to p. M,
on week-ends and holidays, from
Delaware City to historic Fort
Delaware on Pea Patch Island in
the Delaware River. This pic
turesque old bastion, whose prin-
cipal claim to fame is based upon
its having been used as a prison
for Confederate prisoners during
the Americal Civil War, is develop
ing into one of the states greatest
tourist attractions, according to
the Development Department
Services and parades are sched
uled for virtually every Delaware
community on or near Memorial
Day, with what possibly will be
the largest parade of all scheduled
for Newark on Sunday, May 20. 4
A current attraction having wide
spread appeal is the Spring tour
of Winterthur Museum and Gar
dens, which continues through May
%. A breathtaking array of Spring
flowers are to be seen in the spa