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2022 Fall Members'
Event
Join us for our 2022 Fall
Fling
Sunday October 2, 2022
1:00 - 3:00 pm
at the end of Old Battery Lane in Fort DuPont in
Delaware City.
We will be
celebrating under a tent with
refreshments, a tour of historic Fort DuPont, and a few
words from our members.
See you there!
Click
here for a flyer!
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2021 Fall Members'
Event
Join us for our 2021 Fall
Fling
Sunday October 17, 2001
1:00 - 3:00 pm
at the Cleaver House in Port Penn.
We will be
celebrating our 40th Anniversery under a tent with
refreshments, a tour of the Cleaver house, and a few
words from our founding members.
See you there!
Click
here for a flyer!
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2021 Port Penn
Open House
Saturday, September 11,
2021
12 - 4 pm
at the Port Penn Interpretive
Center
We are having a special open house at the Port Penn Interpretive Center on Saturday, September 11, from 12 pm until 4 pm. This is a great time to see the museum, as well as provide feedback on what you like and what you might like to see changed. Hope to see you there!
Click
here for a flyer!
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2019 Spring Fling
Sunday, May 5, 1:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
Mark your calendars for
our annual Members' Event
This year we will be at the Interpretive
Center in Port Penn.
Click
here for a flyer!
Here is a map.
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2018 Fall Fling
Sunday, September 16, 1:00
pm - 3:00 pm
Mark your calendars for
our annual Members' Event
This year we will be at the Ashton
Tract just north of Port Penn.
Click
here
for a flyer!
Here is a map.
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2018 Wetlands
Festival
Celebrating a tradition
of boats, hunting, fishing & trapping
at the
Grass Dale Center in Delaware
City
108 North Reedy Point Bridge
Road
Saturday, May 19 2018
11:00am - 4:00pm
Details
Here!
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2017 Members'
Event
Sunday, April 2, 1:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
Mark your calendars for
our annual Members' Event
This year we will be at the Thousand
Acre Farm in Port Penn.
Here
is their website.
Here is a map. Please note that the 5th Street Bridge
in Delaware City will probably be closed so you will have
to come through Port Penn from the south.
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2016 Wetlands
Festival
Celebrating a tradition
of boats, hunting, fishing & trapping
at the
Grass Dale Center in Delaware
City
108 North Reedy Point Bridge
Road
Saturday, September 10
2016
11:00am - 3:00pm
Food – Music – Beer & Wine
Entertainment by: ‘Crabmeat’ Thompson
Free Admission and Parking
Voices of Tradition
On the Marsh: Hunting, Proggers & Trappers
Crafting Tradition: Nets, Traps, Calls & Decoys
River & Bay: Fishing, Crabbing & Eeling
Delaware River Maritime History: Interpreting small wooden
Delaware River working boats
Featuring the “Groeningen Miss” sailing shad skiff
Click here for a flyer!
Corporate Presenting Sponsorships:
Delaware
City Refining Company at The Green Winged Teal
Level
The Thousand
Acre Farm at the Snapping Turtle Level
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Spring
Fling 2013
Our annual members' event will
be held on Sunday, May 19 from 1 to 3 pm.
Join us to see old friends, hear
about what the Historical Society accomplished last year,
and learn about our plans for 2013.
We'll be meeting at the Interpretive
Center in Port Penn, enjoying wine, punch, and hors d'oeuvres,
with the music of The Piney Hollow Drifters.
But wait, there's more...starting
at 12 there will be a guided town tour.
Suggested donation $5, life members
free.
Click here for
a flyer.
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Marsh Feast 2013
Join us on Sunday April 7th at
Kelly's Restaurant in Port Penn for a Marsh Feast.
We'll be serving snapping turtle
soup, fried muskrat (or baked chicken breast for the not-so-brave)
and several side dishes.
Jerry "Crabmeat" Thompson
will be playing and singing. There will be a silent auction
and chances to win a St. Michaels MD getaway package.
There will be three seatings: 1:00,
2:30, and 4:00 PM.
Tickets are $15 per person.
Sorry, this is an "adult-only"
event, no-one under 21 admitted.
Kelly's is located at 101 W.
Market St, Port Penn, DE 19731.
Click here to see the photos!
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Vintage Baseball Game 2012
Last October, when the weather
was crisp but the sun was still shining, we got together
at the old cannery lot across from the Interpretive Center
for some Old-Time Baseball. The Diamond State Base Ball
Team played, and the fans enjoyed hot dogs, snapping turtle
soup and the music of Jerry "Crabmeat" Thompson.
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Spring
Fling 2012
Annual Members' Event
Sunday May 20, 2012
The weather was perfect and we
all had a good time.
Tracy Beck and Becky Webb talked
about the Society's accomplishments in 2011 and our
plans for 2012.
See the photos
here
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Spring Fling 2011
Annual Members' Event
May 1, 2011, 1 - 3 PM
See the photos
here
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Tree
Planting at Augustine Beach 2010
October 23, 2010 9:30 AM
Our last project for 2010 was planting
20 native trees in the picnic area at Augustine Beach.
We enlisted the help of four local
Boy Scout troops and their friends, and some of the Augustine
Beach neighbors.
Mary Ann Hardesty from the NC County
Conservation District came to talk to the scouts and oversee
the project. She also took the kids on a tour of the area
to identify trees.
After the planting we all enjoyed
hot dogs and looking at the new trees with all the volunteers.
Thanks to the Port Penn Volunteer
Fire Company for supplying water for the trees, and to Sean
Johnson (Cutting Edge) for supplying mulch.
We came back in April of 2011 and
put up fencing around each tree for deer control.
See the
photos here
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Vintage Baseball Game 2010
Old-Time Baseball, Hot Dogs, Snapper
Soup, Silent Auction
Sunday October 17, 2010
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Spring
Fling 2010
Annual Members' Event
April 18, 2010, 1 - 3 PM
The 2010 Spring Fling was a great
success - lots of our friends attended. We honored Thelma
Bendler, long-time Port Penn resident and one of the founding
members of the Port Penn Historical Society. David Orr
talked about Thelma and her influence on all of us, and
Linda Beck and Tracy Beck presented her with a plaque.
See the photos
here
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2009 Marshland-A-Fare
Lunch - Music - Silent Auction
October 3, 2009
See the photos
here
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Spring
Fling 2009
Annual Members' Event
April 19, 2009
See the photos
here
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2008 Marshland-A-Fare
Lunch - Music - Silent Auction
October 18, 2008
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