Fun-filled Family Weekends in October at Hagley

CONTACT: Meg Marcozzi, Marketing Manager

                     (302) 658-2400, ext. 238    mmarcozzi@hagley.org

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            Wilmington, Delaware – October 2012 – Hagley Museum and Library is where the du Pont story begins. For youth and families, it is where the magic begins every weekend in October.

Hayrides and Crafts

On Saturdays in October (6, 13, 20, and 27), families can take a unique hayride along the Brandywine, admire fall foliage, and see stone mill buildings and structures that date to the nineteenth century. Kids can get crafty and make cornhusk dolls, apple wreaths, and other seasonal crafts. Live musical entertainment and local apple cider will complete the autumn outing. Rides leave every half hour from the Millwright Shop, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Hayrides and crafts are included with admission and free for members.

“All-American” Day

On Saturday, October 27, visitors can watch a nineteenth-century “Base Ball” game and enjoy nineteenth-century games. The Diamond State Base Ball Club takes on the Mechanicsburg Nine in this season finale game.  Nineteenth-century base ball is different from the baseball today. It was a fast-paced and dramatic game, played without gloves and with some different rules.  Marshall Steam Museum at Auburn Heights Preserve will have a steam-powered popcorn popper making popcorn. The Belin House Organic Café will be selling baseball-favorites. Seating is informal: please bring a blanket and chairs. Activities begin at 1:00 p.m., and the game starts at 2:00 p.m.  All-American Day is $2 for members, $3 non-members, and free for children 5 and under.  Use Hagley’s Buck Road East entrance. 

Activities and Demonstrations

Water Power Self-Guided Tour: a walk along the Brandywine reveals how water power was used to run the mills. Stops include a line shaft, dam, millrace, turbine-powered roll mill*, a restored machine shop*, an operating waterwheel, and a steam engine.* Be sure to stop and see the gunpowder testing explosion!

Social History: experience life in a nineteenth-century mill community on Workers’ Hill.* Families can visit a school and try activities like writing with a quill pen and on a slate board, deciphering rebus puzzles, and solving problems on lesson boards, then tour the foreman’s home and learn about the daily life of families.

*Scheduled demonstrations and/or hands-on activities

Hands-on exhibits

“DuPont Science and Discovery”

Sit in Jeff Gordon’s #24 DuPont NASCAR, have a close encounter with a space shuttle suit, watch and wonder about the “happy and sad balls,” and pick out the polymers. Plus there’s so much more to learn and do in this dynamic exhibit of interactive fun. Open daily, 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. 

“Easy Does It!”

Keep the wheels and axles turning, lift the levers, switch gears, and learn the ropes with pulleys! Discover the amazing secrets of machine technology in this hands-on exhibit.  Open weekends, 1 to 4:30 p.m. 

Community Support

            In the spirit of the du Pont family who founded the black powder mills along the Brandywine, Hagley Museum and Library is committed to giving back to our community. Visitors are encouraged to bring donations of canned goods for the Food Bank of Delaware.  Food donation barrels will be in Hagley’s Visitor Center lobby through the month of October. 

Admission

            Admission to the entire 235-acre museum, including the exhibit, is $11 for adults, $9 for students and senior citizens, $4 for children six to fourteen, and free for children five and under.

Hagley Museum and Library

            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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Leading Business History Library Pushes Acquisition of Born-Digital Documents with New Technology

Hagley Museum and Library chooses Tessella’s Preservica as cornerstone of its eRecord collection development efforts.

Oxford, UK | September 20, 2012. Tessella, world leaders in digital preservation, are proud to announce that the Hagley Museum and Library has selected Preservica, Tessella’s cloud-based digital preservation service, to archive its born-digital acquisitions. Hagley is one of the leading business history libraries in the world. Its collections include 37,000 linear feet of documents, ledgers, and personal papers 2 million visual items and 290,000 printed volumes, and over 300,000 digital artefacts. Using Preservica allows Hagley to acquire and process digital records such as electronic publications and correspondence, digital audio and video, and digital photographs.

Dr Erik Rau, Director, Library Services, Hagley Museum and Library said: “Businesses are making strategic business decisions and communicating them internally, no longer strictly by paper, but instead via born-digital documents. To continue our reputation into the twenty-first century as a leading repository for the history of American business, technology, and industrial design, we have equipped ourselves with the ability to capture and preserve born-digital documents.”

“Tessella’s Preservica is a cost-effective and production ready solution to challenges in the digital age. Preservica is the next logical step for the library to use technology to further our mission.” continued Dr Erik Rau.

Jon Tilbury, Director of Archiving Solutions commented: “Tessella are honoured to be working with Hagley Museum and Library and are looking forward to collaborating with the Hagley team and demonstrating the difference that Preservica can make to organizations both small and large world-wide.

Jon continues: “Preservica really lowers the barriers to entry for organizations looking for full life cycle digital archiving and is suitable for commercial organizations or public institutions, in fact anyone who wants a high quality digital archiving system. Preservica is available via an affordable yearly subscription for the full application and then you only pay for the storage you consume.”

Preservica is based on the advanced SDB technology in use at leading National Archives and Libraries and runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS), making the same level of digital preservation service available to businesses, organisations, and memory institutions that need to protect their digital wealth without incurring all the human and capital costs of running such a specialist service.

Preservica conforms to the OAIS digital archiving standard (ISO 14721:2003) and provides workflows and tools to operate a long-term digital preservation solution including:

• Ingest – upload digital content and metadata from a variety of content sources into Preservica using a fully quality-assured process
• Content storage – store multiple copies of digital objects in a safe, backed-up location which is checked continually and, if necessary repaired
• Flexible metadata and security – choose the way content is arranged, described, and protected
• Access – full search, browse, and download facilities via a browser interface
• Preservation tools – analyse risks and ensure that content is protected against future obsolescence.

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Notes to the editor:

About Hagley Museum and Library
Hagley Museum and Library collects, preserves, and interprets the unfolding history of American enterprise.  As a member of the Independent Research Libraries Association, the library services scholars from the USA and abroad.  The library has collected the papers of companies central to the story of American industrialization—such as Bethlehem Steel Company, the Pennsylvania Railroad, Sun Oil Company, Radio Corporation of America, MCI, and Sperry Univac—banks and insurance companies, as well as business advocacy organizations like the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, the National Foreign Trade Council, and the National Association of Manufacturers. The library also documents the rise of American consumer culture through businesses from Avon to Seagram & Sons, industrial and product designers such as Raymond Loewy and Thomas Lamb, and described by consumer researchers such as Ernest Dichter. Visit www.hagley.org for more information.

About Digital Preservation at Tessella
Tessella is the world leader in digital preservation solutions, technology, consulting and research. Customers in 9 countries across 3 continents rely on our on-premise solution, SDB, to preserve their priceless digital information. The same world-leading solution is available on a pay as you go plan with our Software as a Service offering Preservica. Our core technology, now in its fourth generation, has won the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the Innovation category. It provides a stable, professionally supported platform with the flexibility to deliver individual customer needs.

Find out more about Preservica at our dedicated microsite www.preservica.com

For more about Digital Preservation visit www.digital-preservation.com

Corporate website: www.tessella.com

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Think&Drink

Thursday, September 27, 2012 • 6 p.m.

Mix a little history and great stories with the opportunity to visit Wilmington’s newest taproom, Ernest & Scott, for a beer-and-food pairing.

Enjoy a short talk on the history of beer making in Wilmington given by Hagley Museum and Library.

Take a short walking tour along Market Street given by the Delaware Historical Society.

Partake in beer tasting and food pairing at Ernest & Scott.

Cost is $20 for five beer samples and five food samples.

Reservations required, register at http://conta.cc/RYxuN8 or call (302) 295-2382.

The event starts at Old Town Hall, Fifth and Market Streets, Wilmington, DE 19801.

Hagley Car Show Features Antique Automobiles from 1900s through 1980s

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CONTACT: Meg Marcozzi, Hagley Museum and Library Marketing Manager

                     (302) 658-2400, ext. 238    mmarcozzi@hagley.org

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            Wilmington, Delaware – September 2012 –The Hagley Car Show returns on Sunday, September 16, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.  Visitors may browse more than 500 antique and restored cars, trucks, and motorcycles. This year’s special feature is pick-up trucks. Parking for the Car Show is on site. Advance wristbands at a discount may be purchased in the Hagley Store or www.hagley.org beginning August 15. Wristbands may also be purchased at the Car Show.

            The earliest vehicles resembling today’s pickup trucks were produced for the military during World War I. Both Chevy and Dodge were producing pickup trucks for the public by 1918. This year’s feature section of the show field will include examples of these earliest American pickup trucks. 

            In addition to perusing the antique trucks and cars on display, visitors can also try pedal-powered go-kart racing and NASCAR simulator, watch vehicle parades, enjoy motoring music and festival food, and delight in walking around a room full of fabulous operating vintage jukeboxes.

Admission and Parking Details

            Parking for Hagley’s Car Show will be on site. Visitors can enter through Hagley’s main entrance off of Route 141. Wristbands to the show will be offered in advance. Wristbands are available at the Hagley Store or www.hagley.org from August 15 through September 10 (online) or September 15 (store). Pre-event wristbands are $8 adults and $4 children six through fourteen. Wristbands purchased at the Car Show will be $10 adults and $5 children six through fourteen. Admission is free for Hagley members and children five and under. The event will be held rain or shine.  

Sponsorship

            The Hagley Car Show is sponsored, in part, by Alderman Automotive Machine, Delaware Cadillac-Saab-Subaru, Edward J. Henry & Sons, Inc., Last Chance Garage, Weymouth, Swayze and Corroon Insurance, Inc., WSFS Bank  and the support of the following car clubs: Brandywine Region Antique Automobile Club of America, Chester County Antique Car Club, Historical Car Club of Pennsylvania, Historical Vintage Car Club of Delaware, First State Corvair Club, and First State Mustang Ford Club. The display of antique juke boxes is made possible by the American Historic Jukebox Society.

Hagley Museum and Library collects preserves, and interprets the unfolding history of American Enterprise. For more information, call (302) 658-2400 weekdays or visit www.hagley.org.

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