One Dollar Admission returns to Hagley Sundays in February and March 2013

CONTACT: Meg Marcozzi, Hagley Museum and Library Marketing Manager

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

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One Dollar Admission returns to Hagley Sundays in February and March 2013

            Wilmington, Delaware – February and March 2013 - Enjoy the picturesque winter landscape along the Brandywine at Hagley Museum and Library for $1 every Sunday in February and March 2013 (excludes Easter Sunday, March 31). Experience the warmth of the Steam Engine house and industrial ambiance of the Machine Shop, tour Eleutherian Mills, and dine at the Belin House Organic Café. One dollar admission gives visitors 235-acres to explore. Use Hagley’s main entrance off Route 141 in Wilmington, Delaware.

Eleutherian Mills

            A tour of Eleutherian Mills, the first du Pont family home built in America, reveals the stories of five generations of du Pont family members, from E. I. du Pont, founder of the DuPont Company, to Louise du Pont Crowninshield, his great-granddaughter. Tours of the residence are guided and run every half hour from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Powder Yard

            Walk through remains of the original DuPont gunpowder mills on a self-guided tour or stop to watch demonstrations of nineteenth-century equipment.

Belin House Organic Café

            The Café will feature $1 hot dogs and blueberry lemonade every Sunday in February and March. It will also serve a seasonal menu.

Family Activities

            Children and their parents will enjoy the exhibit “DuPont Science and Discovery.” Gaze at polymers under a microscope, peer through a space suit, or pose for a picture in Jeff Gordon’s #24 DuPont NASCAR. Take a short walk by the Brandywine to the “Easy Does It!” exhibit where kids can lift their parents on a platform and move a wheelbarrow with a fifty pound weight using simple machines.

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

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Hagley Film on African American Painter Edward Loper, Sr., Available Online

CONTACT: Meg Marcozzi, Marketing Manager

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

Hagley Film on African American Painter Edward Loper, Sr., Available Online

                Wilmington, Delaware – January 2013 – Hagley Museum and Library celebrates Black History Month by making its film, Edward Loper: African American Painter, available to view online and to download without restrictions for educational and non-commercial purposes at www.hagley.org/library/exhibits/ed_loper/watch.html. This film is based on oral history interviews with the late Edward Loper, Sr.

                In Edward Loper: African American Painter, Mr. Loper reflects on growing up in Delaware, his education at Howard High School, early influences on his painting, and his painting philosophy. He is painting through much of the interview, filmed on a sunny, crisp fall day in Wilmington’s Brandywine Park. The footage is interspersed with stills of Mr. Loper's paintings, historic Delaware scenes (such as the Allied Kid leather factory where Loper worked as a young man) and famous national figures mentioned in the interview, such as Horace Pippin, Alain Locke , and Aaron Douglas.

                Edward Loper: African American Painter is a short film created from a 1998 interview with Mr. Loper filmed as part of research for the film, A Separate Place: The Schools P.S. du Pont Built (2003).  

            This film was made possible with funding provided by the Delaware Heritage Commission, Delaware Humanities Forum, Hagley Museum and Library, and the Longwood Foundation.

 About Edward Loper, Sr.

             Edward Loper, Sr., who passed away on October 11, 2011, was born on the east side of Wilmington on April 7, 1916, and lived in Delaware for his entire life. From 1936 to 1941, Loper worked for the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Art Project, a New Deal program designed to provide work for unemployed artists. He then took a job at the Allied Kid leather tanning factory in Wilmington and continued painting after working hours. In 1947, he became a full-time art instructor. Loper taught at the Delaware Art Museum, Lincoln University, and Wilmington's Jewish Community Center, in addition to other places. His paintings are found in many of the nation's most prestigious art collections including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C., Howard University, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and Clark-Atlanta University Collection of African-American Art. Locally, Loper's paintings are found in the collections of the Delaware Art Museum, the Biggs Museum, the University of Delaware's Paul R. Jones Collection of African-American Art, as well as private collections.

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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Let Hagley’s Valentine’s Day Celebration Warm Your Heart

CONTACT: Meg Marcozzi, Hagley Museum and Library Marketing Manager

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

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Let Hagley’s Valentine’s Day Celebration Warm Your Heart

                Wilmington, Delaware – February 2013 – Bring your loved ones to Hagley Museum and Library for Victorine’s Valentine’s Day on Saturday, February 9, 12:30 to 4 p.m. Families can enjoy making Valentine’s Day cards, decorating candy bar wrappers, and snacking on hot chocolate and gingerbread hearts. Activities are included in the cost of admission. Use main museum entrance off Route 141.

                Share the love! Discover how Valentine’s Day was celebrated in the past by viewing a display of antique Valentine’s Day cards and chocolate-themed treasures from Hagley’s collection. Tap your inner-artist and create a valentine for your special someone. Make a second valentine for someone living in a local nursing home to show that he/she is remembered.

                Get sweet, eat sweets! In the Gibbons House, learn how food was cooked and how families lived in the nineteenth century. Taste gingerbread hearts baked in the wood stove. Warm up with a cup of hot chocolate decorated with fixings from our Hot Chocolate Bar. For a gourmet treat, stop in the Belin House Organic Café and try a selection of $1 desserts.

Cherish your love! Honor the memory of Victorine du Pont Bauduy, the eldest daughter of the DuPont Company’s founder, who spent time as superintendent of the Brandywine Manufacturers’ Sunday School during the nineteenth century, by writing Valentine verses with a quill pen. Victorine lost the love of her life only ten weeks after her marriage, but she found love again in her passion for teaching. In the Brandywine Manufacturers’ Sunday School, visitors can experience what school was like in the nineteenth century.

Hagley Museum and Library collects, preserves, and interprets the unfolding history of American enterprise. The museum is located on Route 141 in Wilmington, Delaware. Admission to the entire 235-acre museum is $14 for adults, $10 for students and senior citizens, $5 for children six to fourteen, and free for members and children five and under. Call (302) 658-2400 weekdays for more information or visit www.hagley.org.

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Discover and Uncover Mysteries of Science at the 2013 Hagley Invention Convention

CONTACT: Meg Marcozzi, Marketing Manager

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

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Discover and Uncover Mysteries of Science at the 2013 Hagley Invention Convention

Wilmington, Delaware – January 2013 – Hagley Museum and Library invites children and their families to the 2013 Invention Convention on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, January 19, 20, and 21. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., youngsters will invent, examine, discover, and uncover the many ways science affects life. Admission, including supplies, is $4 per child (4-14), $6 per adult, and free for Hagley members and children 3 and under. Use Hagley’s Buck Road East entrance off Route 100.

“Invention Convention piques the interest of children. They learn to question and seek answers through exploratory play,” says Education Coordinator Jeff Durst.

The Create-An-Invention Workshop challenges kids to imagine a creation and, then, build it. Kids construct their invention using familiar household items like cereal boxes, paper towel rolls, oatmeal containers, and more. The Hagley Patent Office will give these young inventors patents for the inventions they make.

Parents and children are welcome to explore the Science Fair. Scientists and science groups will conduct science demonstrations and display information on their projects. Much of the hands-on fun seen here can be duplicated at home.

At the Tinkering Tables, children can safely take apart appliances, machines and other discarded items like computers, telephones, and radios. Goodwill of Delaware and Delaware County is donating items to be used at the Tinkering Tables.

Information and a schedule on the Science Shows and other activities are available at www.hagley.org. Toscana Catering at Hagley will provide family-friendly foods for purchase.

Hagley will have Goodwill boxes on site for people to bring donations.

            Invention Convention is sponsored, in part, by Agilent Technologies, Inc.; CDA Engineering, Inc.;  Nickle Electrical Companies; Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, and Goodwill of Delaware and Delaware County.

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

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