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Hagley’s Fall Conference: Crisis and Consequence

  Wilmington, Delaware – November 2010 –  Not since the Great Depression have Americans been faced with an economy as challenging as the current situation.  To gain an historical perspective on our current economic and political challenges, join Hagley Museum and Library’s Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society for the keynote address of its Fall Conference “Crisis and Consequence.” Richard Sylla, NYU Stern School of Business, will present “Consequence of Crises” in the Copeland Room on Thursday, November 4, 7 p.m. Sylla is a nationally recognized expert on the history of American financial markets, depressions, and economics. 

                Richard Sylla is Henry Kaufman Professor of the History of Financial Institutions and Markets and Professor of Economics at the Stern School of Business, New York University. He is the author of The American Capital Market, 1846-1914 (1975); co-author of The Evolution of the American Economy (1993; 1^st ed., 1980) and A History of Interest Rates, (4^th ed., 2005; 3^rd ed. Rev., 1996; 3^rd ed., 1991); and co-editor of Patterns of European Industrialization—The Nineteenth Century (1991), The State, the Financial System, and Economic Modernization (1999); and Founding Choices: American Economic Policy in the 1790s (forthcoming 2010), as well as numerous articles, essays, and reviews in business, economic, and financial history.

                “Professor Sylla is an astute analyst whose opinions are widely quoted in the press, most recently the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal,” observed Roger Horowitz, conference coordinator at Hagley.  “Sylla’s lecture will be an opportunity for those in our area to hear his views firsthand – and how he sees history helping us understand our current predicament.”

                The Fall Conference will focus on the history of financial crises and their impact on American culture. It will offer context and consideration of the current economic crisis. Visit our website www.hagley.org for more information and to register for the conference.

The conference is sponsored, in part, by the Delaware Humanities Forum.

                The Hagley Library is the nation’s leading business history library, archives, and research center. Current holdings comprise 36,000 linear feet in the Manuscripts and Archives Department, 290,000 printed volumes in the Imprints Department, and 2 million visual items in the Pictorial Department.  The Library operates a research grant program, and offers conferences, research seminars, and a public lecture series. 

Hagley Museum and Library collects, preserves, and interprets the unfolding history of American enterprise. Hagley is located on Route 141 in Wilmington, Delaware. For more information, call (302) 658-2400 weekdays or visit www.hagley.org

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Nineteenth-Century Pastimes and Pursuits in “Christmas at Hagley”

Wilmington, Delaware – November and December 2010 – This year’s “Christmas at Hagley” exhibit is inspired by the winter pastimes of the property’s former residents. We welcome you to visit the exhibit, open Friday, November 26, 2010, through Sunday, January 2, 2011. The museum is open 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. with the first bus leaving for the exhibit at 10 a.m. and the last bus at 3:30 p.m. The holiday display is included in the cost of admission and is free for members. Hagley, located in the beautiful Brandywine Valley, is where the du Pont story begins and features the original

du Pont mills, estate, and gardens.

Picture the du Pont family in the winter sitting together to play backgammon, reading, listening to music or drawing.  Girls could practice sewing techniques.  Children could entertain themselves by layering different colored sands in a glass bottle. In the Terrace Room, notice the ice skates and sled waiting to be used on a snowy slope. Visiting Eleutherian Mills for the “Christmas at Hagley” exhibit provides an intimate look into the common winter activities of the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.

 “During the winter, adults and children spent a lot of time on indoor pursuits.  Children engaged in activities that would prepare themselves for their adult lives but they also had time for playing.  These activities are represented in this year’s holiday display” said Debra Hughes, Curator of Collections and Exhibits. 

Families will also enjoy the activities on Workers’ Hill. Visitors to the Gibbons House will find recipes for traditional Gibbons’s family desserts. Children will enjoy musical instruments, playing games, and making crafts in the Gibbons House and Sunday School. Activities on Workers’ Hill will be November 26-28, weekends in December (4, 5, 11, 12, 18, 19, 26), and December 26 through January 2.

The Belin House Organic Café will be serving some seasonal favorites. Check the web site for details and specials.

The Hagley Store will be festively decorated and filled with a unique selection of books, gifts, hand-crafted pieces, and children’s items for the season. The Hagley store is open seven days a week, 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Members receive a 20 percent discount on November 13, 14, and 15, as well as free gift wrapping for purchases over $50.

Hagley Museum and Library collects, preserves, and interprets the unfolding history of American enterprise. Hagley is located on Route 141 in Wilmington, Delaware. Admission to the 235-acre museum site is $11 for adults, $9 for students and senior citizens, $4 for children six to fourteen, and free for children five and under. For more information, call (302) 658-2400 weekdays or visit www.hagley.org.

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