Milford chronicle., 1961-03-31
LEWES

Activities at the Zwaanandael
Museum will shortly include tours
of many school groups in connec-
tion with their study of Delaware
history.
Civil War relics, pertaining to
Sussex County are being solicited
for featuring during the present
Civil War Centennial. says the cur
ator, Mrs. Dorothy Lank Collins.
In anticipation of many summer
visitors, special exhibits are also
planned featuring antique glass &
china.
The Zwaanandael Museum will be
open to visitors for its holiday
hours. 1890 to $3.50 pm. on Good
Friday. March 81. But the museum
will be closed on Easter Sunday.
April 2.
Mrs. Collins says in connection
with the tours of school groups,
THE staff is always pleased to re-
ceive such groups of children. But
because the museum is rather small
il is preferred that the museum
be notified of such planned visits
to prevent conflict with other
groups"
The regular museum hours are
weekdays, Tuesday through Satur-
days from 10:30 am. to $3.50 pm,
and on Sundays and holidays from
1890 to $3.50 pm. The museum is
always closed on Mondays and Eas-
ter Sunday.
Harry w. Lynch, of Wilmington
and Rehoboth Beach, retired ex-
ectutive of the DUPONT Company,
has been elected treasurer of the
Board of Directors of the Beebe
Hospital in Lewes. His election was
announced by DR.. James Beebe, Sr..
board president. A member of the
Beebe Hospital Board since 1857.
Mr.. Lynch is also chairman of its
finance committee.
AS board treasurer, he succeeds
the late Cornelius c. Marshall o
Lewes. who had served as a direc-
tor of the hospital from its found
ing in 1851, until his death on Mar
ch l. Mr.. Lynch is a member of the
Advisory Board of the Lewes office
of the Farmers Bank of the State
of Delaware. He also is a director
of the Rehoboth Beach Country
Club. of which until recently. he
was president for many years.
One of the highlights of the 1861
summer season in the historic town
of Lewes, will be the Third Annual
Lewes Antiques Show and Sale. to
be held in the Fellowship Hall of
Bethel Methodist Church. July II.
Is. and IA. This Antiques Show is
the main project of Bethel Church.
the sponsoring organization, to
raise funds to help reduce the in
debtedness on its Fellowship Build
ing. which serves the commun-
ity of Lewes for many recreation
al, social and educational purposes.
The spacious Fellowship Hall.
with its many tall windows. has
been acclaimed by both exhibitors
and visitors as being the perfect
setting for the displays of rare
old glass, china. brass. jewelry,
silver. bric-a-brac. prints, as well
as fine old furniture. grandfather
clocks. etc. that twenty four of the
finest exhibitors in the East will
set up.
Visitors to the last years show
will regret to learn of the death of
Mr.. c. r. Conn. the general collec-
tor who specialized in early pine
furniture. Another exhibitor. who
may be prevented from returning
to Lewes because of i'll health.is
Mr.. Sewell Moore, of Palisades. N.
]. Everyone will remember Mr.
Moore as very delightful person
who attracted large crowds to the
Lewes Show with his exhibit of rare
old guns. many of which were
brought in Lewes, England. as were
two handsome old grandfather
clocks. II is fitting that both of
these clocks will remain in Lewes.
One has been bought by the City
Fathers of Lewes. and will be
placed in the new City Hall. while
the. other has become the property
of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Marshall
Jr.
Henry Marshall, who is one of
the enthusiastic boosters for both
old and present day Lewes. will
again serve as treasurer of the Le-
ives Antiques Show. with Mrs. NAL