The adventures of Jen and Doug and a black cat named Mr. Knightley.
The last of the du Pont-related visits we made in Wilmington, Del., was also the most opulent – the Nemours Estate (the other visits were Hagley and Winterthur). This 200-acre “country estate” has a 77 …
Looking for a quiet place to walk-n-talk on the phone with my BFF Jenni, and then take Mr. K on a walk, I arrived at Rockford Park in Wilmington only to find a full-blown carnival …
Winterthur, pronounced “winter-tour” and named after an ancestral home in Winterthur, Switzerland, is one of the famous du Pont-related estates in Wilmington, Del., (we also toured Hagley and Nemours, and they are very different experiences). …
There’s a lot going on at the Hagley Museum, the site of the first-built of the trifecta of remaining du Pont estates in Wilmington, Del. (the others being Winterthur and Nemours, both of which we …
The Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington, Del., was founded in 1912 and has a collection of more than 12,000 objects. It was founded in honor of famed illustrator and artist Howard Pyle, and contains many …
In 1844 John Rodney Brinkle built an Italianate mansion in Wilmington, Del., and named it Gibraltar for the high, rocky outcropping upon which it was built. 55 years later, Hugh Rodney Sharp and his wife Isabella …
