Spring 2013 - Vol. 42 No. 1 SAVE THE DATE

February 24 Hagley Bridal Show April 6 Nylon Exhibition Opening and Family Event HagleyMAGAZINE May 4 NatureFest

“Fashion Meets Science: Introducing Nylon” From The Executive Director

Geoff Halfpenny I hope that you have pinned up the spend time with friends and family. Executive Director recently mailed 2013 Hagley Calendar And we demonstrate that innovation in a favorite spot so that you can keep and discovery continue to change the yourself up to date and plan to attend world! Cover: Models at the some (or all) of the many 1939 New York World’s events planned for the Fair modeling nylons. year at Hagley. This past year was another great This past year was another Back: One of the mills year for Hagley, with great year for Hagley, along the Brandywine. increased visitation, wonderful additions with increased visitation, to our collections, well wonderful additions to our attended and appreciated events and programs, collections, well attended and very positive feedback that the work of and appreciated events our staff and volunteers and programs, and very is very much respected and valued by our positive feedback. Board of Trustees Henry B. duPont IV community. And, you President only have to thumb Howard E. Cosgrove Vice President through the pages of this magazine to The Hagley Magazine continues to Augustus I. duPont see that the excitement continues! highlight the many and varied offerings Treasurer More and more people are that this dynamic institution brings to Ann C. Rose Secretary discovering that one of Hagley’s you, our members, and our community. Carol A. Ammon strengths is the ability to present events I hope to see you at as many events as Edward J. Bassett, CFA on a large scale to large audiences or possible. Thank you for your continued E. Matthew Brown Thomas M. Connelly, Jr., Ph.D. provide areas for quiet reflection and support and Happy New Year! Darla Pomeroy du Pont solitude. We offer life-long learning Edward B. duPont* opportunities or simply a fun place to Charles M. Elson Louis Galambos, Ph.D. Robert V. A. Harra, Jr. Hagley Magazine is published quarterly by Hagley Editing: Jill MacKenzie, Meg Marcozzi, Blaine T. Phillips Museum and Library, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Catherine Riley Address: P. O. Box 3630, Wilmington, DE 19807-0630 M. Gary Talley Design: Adam Albright (302) 658-2400 • www.hagley.org JoAnne Yates, Ph.D.

* President Emeritus COVER STORY

Introducing Nylon Hagley celebrates the seventy-fifth By 1942, it had even been used in anniversary of the announcement of the first wedding dress. Menswear, nylon with “Fashion Meets Science: too, was made out of nylon, with Introducing Nylon.” This exhibition, first uses in socks and ties, and which opens Saturday, April 6, shows continuing to how nylon revolutionized the fashion sportswear, industry. “Fashion Meets Science” undershirts, will be the largest clothing exhibition and dress shirts. produced by Hagley and will feature These early steps garments from common to couture. into synthetic Beginning with stockings, the product fibers for clothing that nylon is most known for, the changed the exhibition looks at what it took to take fashion industry nylon out of the lab to finished product, forever, eventually while also building a market for an leading to wash- unknown material. and-wear clothing DuPont displayed the new hosiery at and high-fashion the 1939 World’s Fairs in San Francisco styles available to and New York even before they were the masses. available for purchase. Much of the On February 10, 1942, the entire clothing that will be production of nylon was allocated to displayed is “one- the war effort during World War II. Not of-a-kind” made for until after the war in 1945 did nylon marketing and has hosiery come back on the market. The never before been on phenomenal demand created “Nylon display. Riots” as thousands of women turned The exhibition is open daily from out on the first day to buy the latest and 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and is included A two-ton model of greatest fashion essential—the synthetic in general admission. Exhibition- actress Marie Wilson’s stocking. only admission is $6 for adults, $2 for leg, produced to advertise During this time, DuPont was children ages 6 to 14. Hagley members a Los Angeles hosiery developing new fashion applications for will be invited to an exhibition reception shop on August 6, 1949. the fiber. By the 1940s, nylon was used on Friday, April 5, from 5 to 7 p.m. in lingerie, foundation undergarments, Hagley thanks W. L. Gore & slips, nightgowns, and then in blouses, Associates, Inc., our “Fashion Savvy” day dresses, evening wear, and more. sponsor for this exhibition. 3 HAPPENING AT HAGLEY

The Fiber that Changed the World The day’s activities will On April 6, Hagley’s visitors are The Brandywine Badminton Club will feature nylon, which invited to create, play, and learn in a be offering visitors a chance to try is used in everything fun-filled event, “Fashion, Sports, their hand at badminton played with from kites to rope and Fun with Nylon!” to celebrate the nylon shuttlecocks and nylon-stringed to toothbrushes. opening of the new nylon exhibition. racquets. The New Castle Sailing Club Nylon, the first synthetic fiber, has will be demonstrating nylon sails and its become part of the very fabric of our importance in sailing as a sport. lives, and after enjoying the exhibition Visitors are invited to win prizes visitors can experience the science by wearing their funkiest nylon or Fashion, Sports, and behind the DuPont invention and synthetic fashions or by attempting to Fun with Nylon! discover first hand some of the wonders put together a modern fashion ensemble Saturday, April 6 of nylon at work. The day’s hands- including no synthetic materials at all. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on activities will feature nylon used Activities are included with regular Activities included with in fashion, parachutes, fishing, kites, admission and are free for members. regular admission racquet sports, jump ropes, toothbrushes, Use Hagley’s main entrance off of Route Free for members games, camping, and more. 141 in Wilmington, Delaware. Several community partners will participate in this event including Boy Scouts demonstrating nylon at work 4 in knot tying and camping activities. HAGLEY COLLECTIONS

Don Pedro Statues Donated Hagley received a gift of two life- These two ram sculptures were Life-sized statues of the sized statues of the du Pont family’s originally made for the gate posts du Pont family’s prized prized Merino ram, Don Pedro, from at Eden Park, former home of Peter Merino ram, Don Pedro. Helen Carnevale. Don Pedro was Bauduy. Frank V. du Pont had these imported in 1801 by E. I. du Pont in concrete replicas made in the early the hopes of starting a Merino wool twentieth century to replace two earlier industry in America to compete with versions made out of wood. Carnevale’s the English textile trade. Don Pedro husband Egidio (1921-2005) was a was the only ram of four shipped by stonemason who updated the gate du Pont to survive the journey. After posts and was given the statues more four years in New England, Don Pedro than forty-five years ago. Since that came to Delaware to help launch the time, the rams adorned the Carnevales’ forty-six-year du Pont experiment in front yard and have been a favorite of the woolen industry. The business was neighborhood children. Hagley looks created for E. I. du Pont’s older brother, forward to sharing these sculptures Victor, who partnered with Peter Bauduy with visitors once conservation and established the business opposite treatment is completed. the powder mills on the Brandywine at Louviers in 1811. 5 HAGLEY COLLECTIONS

Skyscraper Work Preserved Before- and after- Important original documents from each rolled drawing to relax the fibers treatment photographs the construction of the Philadelphia and allow the paper to be flattened. of photographic Savings Fund Society Building are Tears were mended with removable negatives from Hagley’s now available to researchers. In 2011, strips of kozo fiber paper and wheat Philadelphia Savings Hagley was fortunate to receive support starch paste. Fund Society archives. from the National Endowment for the The cellulose acetate photographic Arts’ Save America’s Treasures grant negatives that document the building program, making possible this project had buckled and the image-bearing to preserve photographic negatives and emulsion layer was flaking. An outside architectural plans from the firm Howe vendor performed a specialized and Lescaze. treatment, dissolving the acetate support William Lescaze and George Howe to allow preservation of the chemically designed the PSFS Building, the first stable image layer. International style skyscraper in the The images were digitized and United States, which was completed in printed on new 4x5-inch film for 1932. Over the years, soot, concretions, improved access and longevity. and grime had accumulated on the Hagley’s PSFS collections can be rolled plans. viewed online at digital.hagley.org. Conservation treatment included 6 surface cleaning and humidification of LIBRARY COLLECTIONS

Preservation of Digital Records The Digital Collections Department routinely checked for corruption Inspection of nylon yarn at Hagley is addressing the challenge or decay, virtually eliminating data bobbin in the Seaford, of preserving history in the digital loss. Preservica also includes a Delaware DuPont plant. age by building a electronic records comprehensive set of migration tools to preservation program. The library convert obsolete digital file formats to This photo is part of a recently purchased a system called current, more accessible ones. recently added digital Preservica to manage its born-digital By setting up a digital preservation collection, “DuPont records. Preservica is from a company infrastructure, Hagley can support the Textile Fibers Product called Tessella whose preservation active collecting of electronic records. Information.” systems were originally implemented With this technology in place, Hagley by the UK National Archives in 2003. will maintain its prominence in the Their services are now used by some twenty-first century as a leading library of the world’s leading archives and and archive for scholars studying libraries such as the National Library of the unfolding history of American Australia, Swiss Federal Archives, and enterprise. In turn, Hagley has the FamilySearch International. unique opportunity to be a leader of Preservica will safeguard other independent research libraries Hagley’s born-digital records by collecting and preserving digital records. storing numerous copies in a highly secure environment where they are 7 HAPPENING AT HAGLEY

Hagley’s Treasures for Just $1 Visitors can tour On Sundays through March 24, to the DuPont Company’s first office Eleutherian Mills (top left), Hagley is offering its popular Dollar offers insight into the workings of a explore the Machine Shop Days, a wonderful opportunity to burgeoning industrial corporation. (right), and enjoy $1 menu stretch membership benefits. Save your The Brandywine Manufacturers’ items at the Belin House guest passes for another day and invite Sunday School and the Gibbons House, Organic Café (below left). your family, friends, and neighbors to home of company foreman John Gibbons, experience the delights of Hagley for convey a sense of the lives of the powder just $1! yard workers and their families who There is much to entertain lived on Workers’ Hill and the vibrant Dollar Days Dollar Days visitors: the picturesque community they created there. Sundays through March 24, 2013 Brandywine winter landscape, warmth Complete your Dollar Days visit 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and excitement of the Steam Engine with a taste of some delicious $1 menu Visit www.hagley.org for house, fascinating industrial ambiance items at the Belin House Organic Café, tour schedule of the fully working nineteenth-century also on Workers’ Hill. Admission $1 Machine Shop, and exciting gunpowder You know how much Hagley Free for members. demonstrations. Museum and Library has to offer Visitors can tour Eleutherian Mills, visitors year round and we invite you the du Pont family’s first home in to spread the word about Dollar Days America, and hear intriguing stories of to encourage membership and support 8 the generations who lived there. A visit Hagley in a very meaningful way. HAGLEY CENTER

Changes at Hagley Center Hagley is ringing in some changes Dr. Horowitz will be supported Dr. Roger Horowitz to the Center for the History of Business, in the annual conferences, seminars, (left) takes the helm of Technology, and Society in 2013. After book series, and public events by a the Center, replacing twenty-one years as director of the new Center Advisory Committee, Dr. Philip Scranton (right). Center, Dr. Philip Scranton retired from consisting of four eminent scholars in Hagley. A gathering of staff and friends fields informed by Hagley collections: was held in the Library’s Copeland Dr. Richard R. John, historian Room in December to celebrate his many of communications at Columbia contributions to Hagley, which included University’s Graduate School of outreach to scholars and academic Journalism; Dr. David Farber, business organizations all over the world. and political historian at Temple Dr. Roger Horowitz, associate University’s Department of History; Dr. director of the center since 1994, took Stuart W. Leslie, historian of technology over the helm in January. Horowitz and industry at Johns Hopkins continues to serve as secretary-treasurer University’s Department of History of of the Business History Conference, the Science and Technology; and Dr. Arwen nation’s largest organization of business P. Mohun, historian of technology historians, which is administered at and American culture at University of Hagley by Horowitz and coordinated by Delaware’s Department of History. Carol Lockman. 9 HAPPENING AT HAGLEY

How Earth Day Sprouted Earth Day has become On April 25, University of Delaware legislation protecting the environment— a day to appreciate our Associate Professor Adam Rome will can be traced to the first Earth Day. natural environment. talk at Hagley about his just-released Rome is an environmental historian. Tree planting is a popular book, The Genius of Earth Day: How a His first book, The Bulldozer in the Earth Day activity. 1970 Teach-In Unexpectedly Made the First Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise Green Generation. of American Environmentalism, won the His book is the first complete Organization of American Historians’ Adam Rome Lecture story of how April 22, 1970—the Frederick Jackson Turner award and Soda House Auditorium “National Teach-In on the Crisis of the Society for American City and April 25, 7 p.m. the Environment,” better known as Regional Planning History’s Lewis Use Buck Road entrance off Earth Day—resulted in hundreds of Mumford award. Rome worked as a Route 100. educational events around the country. journalist for the Wichita Eagle-Beacon Admission is free. In its aftermath, thousands of Earth Day for five years before deciding to pursue Reservations requested, organizers and participants decided to an academic career. An engaging contact Carol Lockman at devote their lives to the environmental teacher, speaker, and writer, he often is [email protected] or (302) 658-2400, ext. 244. cause. In the book, Rome shows how approached by the media for his views much of the environmental movement’s on environmental issues. infrastructure—lobbying organizations, environmental-studies programs, 10 community ecology centers, and HAPPENING AT HAGLEY

Get the Dirt on NatureFest Join us on Saturday, May 4, for The Girl Scouts, American Chemical Visitors to Hagley’s Hagley’s second NatureFest. This fun Society, and other community NatureFest explore the family day combines Earth Day, Arbor organizations will also join us with fun- natural world through Day, and May Day to celebrate the filled activities. hands-on activities. beautiful natural world. Eleuthère Irénée du Pont, the This year families can try new patriarch of the du Pont family at Hagley, hands-on activities that focus on the declared his occupation as “botanist” earth—rocks, soil, dirt, and the creepy when he immigrated to America with crawlers that live there. Kids can learn his family. E. I. and his wife, Sophie, NatureFest about ants, including their different shared their love of nature with their Saturday, May 4 jobs, how they communicate, and their children. The family established a 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. homes, by becoming an ant for the day tradition of taking a nature walk on the Admission is $5 for and climbing through a giant ant hill. first day of May. It is in their honor that children six to fourteen, Other activities include tree Hagley holds this celebration every year. free for members, adults, and children five and under. climbing with the help of Hagley staff, Use Buck Road entrance nature walks, and tours of the gardens off Route 100. and greenhouse.

11 HAPPENINGSUMMER CAMP AT HAGLEY

Summer Camp at Hagley Warm days and sunshine mean the In Gears, Engineers, and Science return of summer camp at Hagley. Our Frontiers, campers take on engineering Summer Camp 2013 season will feature three weeks challenges, while conducting Lost Skills and Arts of camp, each with a different theme. experiments to uncover the properties June 24-28 – ages 7-10 During Lost Skills and Arts, campers of mystery materials. They will see how Brandywine Naturalists July 8-12 – ages 9-11 discover the tasks and activities that technology has changed over time from Gears, Engineers, and children did every day in the 1800s. the waterwheel to the steam engine. Science Frontiers Before shopping malls and fast food, Camps start at 9 a.m. and end at July 29-Aug. 2 – ages 10-12 children learned to make their own 3 p.m. on weekdays, with extended care $225/week for members, clothes and toys, prepare snacks from available in the morning from 7:30 to $250/week for fresh ingredients, work with wood, fish, 9 a.m. and 3 to 5:30 p.m. in the afternoon. not-yet-members. and many other “lost arts.” For full details, visit www.hagley. Multi-camp discount of $25 per additional camp. Brandywine Naturalists explore org/camp or contact Jeff Durst at (302) Extended care $50/week. the environment of the Brandywine 658-2400, ext. 285, or [email protected]. Early-bird discount - River. No stone will go unturned as Sign up before April 1 and campers go on a nature scavenger Top left: Campers exploring aquatic life receive a $10 discount. hunt. They will test stream water and during stream-water testing. Right: Fishing learn how people have impacted the on the Brandywine is always a popular land around us. summer camp activity. Bottom left: A 12 volunteer assists a camper with a craft. Hagley Bridal Show - Sunday, February 24 Did your special someone pop the question on Valentine’s Day? Visit our Bridal Show and Fall in Love with Hagley! Imagine your wedding ceremony and reception in Hagley’s Soda House. This beautiful and charming building dates back to 1888 and is like no other venue in the Brandywine Valley. Our historic French heirloom garden next to the original du Pont family home makes an elegant backdrop for seasonal outdoor ceremonies and photographs. Your guests will appreciate the culinary skills of our exclusive caterer Toscana@Hagley and Chef Dan Butler, owner of Piccolina Toscana, Brandywine Prime, and Deep Blue. Put it all together and create the wedding of your dreams. Join us for complimentary hors d’oeuvres, music, and the opportunity to meet our preferred wedding vendors at the “Fall in Love with Hagley” Bridal Show. Visit www.hagleyweddings.com to register for the show. 13 Volunteers by the Numbers in 2012

742 volunteers total 575 adults, 167 young people the youngest is 11 and the oldest is over 90 34 years longest term of service so far by a current volunteer almost 500 largest number of hours from a single volunteer in one year $1,200 donated to the Hagley school scholarship fund through the volunteer handwork group efforts 8,172 objects have been inventoried by volunteers hundreds of flowers have been planted, cared for, and arranged by volunteers thousands of books have been shelved, filed, and catalogued by volunteers tens of thousands of visitors have interacted with volunteer historical interpreters

Hagley Volunteer Janet Lala priceless in the E. I. du Pont is the value of volunteers’ contributions Restored Garden to Hagley Museum and Library.

14 Want to sign up? Visit www.hagley.org/volunteer today! HAPPENING AT HAGLEY

Recipes for Success Sam Calagione, the owner of a Think & Drink event, which was part Detail of Chromolithograph Dogfish Head Craft Brewery in Milton, lecture and part walking tour exploring of Hartmann & Fehrenbach Delaware, has found some intriguing Wilmington’s brewing history. Brewing Company, possible beer recipes among Hagley’s Beer and brewing have long held Wilmington, Delaware holdings. He founded Dogfish Head an important place in American ca. 1900 in 1995, and his business of producing history, particularly in the Delaware “extreme beers” has proven to be River Valley region of southeastern highly successful. Furthering that Pennsylvania and Delaware. The success was what brought him to online exhibition features items from Hagley for research. Wilmington breweries such as Diamond Hagley holds trade catalogs, books, State Brewery, Joseph Stoeckle Brewing trade journals, photographs, and Company, and Hartmann & Fehrenbach manuscripts concerning local brewers. Brewing Company, as well as items From these resources, Hagley staff from regional and national breweries. produced an online exhibition on “Beer During his October 4 visit, Calagione and Brewing History,” which can donated to Hagley an autographed copy be found at http://www.hagley.org/ of his 2011 book, Brewing up a Business: library/exhibits/beerexhibit/. Hagley Adventures in Entrepreneurship From the also collaborated this past September Founder of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery. with the Delaware Historical Society for 15 HAGLEY’S CREEK KIDS

Nurturing Young Leaders Creek Kids is sponsored Entering its sixth year, the Creek communicate with self-confidence. PBF Energy - Delaware Kids Youth Leadership Program has Running large events allows the Creek City Refinery , Mercer developed into a nine-month job-like Kids to practice teamwork, organization, Health & Benefits experience for area high school students. and problem-solving. Company, and Nordstrom. Twenty-four young adults from fifteen These young adults are mentored by high schools are designing unique six Hagley guides and volunteers who Hagley Creek Kids family experiences for the Creek Kids use their own Hagley experiences to A Day in the Life summer events. help the Creek Kids mature. In turn, the May 18 Beginning in November, the Creek Creek Kids mentor Junior Creek Kids, The Natural World Kids meet twice a month to learn middle school students who volunteer at June 15 and practice twenty-first century life the summer events. It is very rewarding Black Powder and leadership skills that are critical to see former Junior Creek Kids join the July 16 and 20 to succeed in college and the work Youth Leadership Program when they 1 to 4 p.m. force. The students put these skills enter high school. Events included with into practice while planning and This year will introduce great new general admission. implementing their summer events. activities and bring back some old For details, visit www.hagley.org Exploring ideas for new activities favorites. Be sure to bring your friends fosters creativity and research skills. and family to our Creek Kid events! By interacting with visitors, Creek For more information about the 16 Kids learn to clearly and articulately program, visit www.hagley.org/ck. POWDER KEG KIDS PAGE

WORD HUNT DOLLAR DAYS MAZE At Fashion, Sports, and Fun with Nylon! on During Dollar Days on Sundays in February and March (except March 31), April 6, you can have fun with this amazing synthetic the Belin House Organic Café will feature special $1 items. Can you help the fabric. Find nylon-related words in the grid below. Powder Keg Kid find his way to the Belin House Organic Café?

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CARPET PARACHUTE STOCKING CLOTHING POLYMER SYNTHETIC FASHION ROPE TOOTHBRUSH

FLAG SPATULA ZIPPER Belin House

Organic Café GRASS, LEAVES, CLOUD. BONUS WORD: NATURE WORD: BONUS CLOUD. LEAVES, GRASS,

WHAT IS IT? ANIMAL, PLANT, SEED, WATER, BIRDS, RIVER, TREE, ANSWERS: At NatureFest on May 4, visitors can celebrate May Day, Arbor Day, and Earth Day! Can you unscramble the nature-related words below, and then unscramble the letters in the yellow boxes to make a bonus word?

ERET VRRIE DSIBR RWTEA EDSE ALNPT IAANLM ARSSG BONUS - What word do the yellow letters SVEAEL spell out? Hint: We’re celebrating it! DUCOL

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Hagley Museum is open daily Sundays through March 24 April 11 - Thursday - 6:30 p.m. from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Dollar Days Research Seminar: Shennette Garrett-Scott, Case and closed Thanksgiving Day Admission to Hagley is only one dollar every Sunday Western Reserve University and Christmas Day. in February and March. Visitors can tour the du Pont “’All the Other Devils This Side of Hades’: Jim Crow ancestral home, Eleutherian Mills, and lunch at the and State Regulation of Negro Banks in Mississippi The Belin House Organic Café Belin House Organic Café. It will feature several items during the Progressive Era” is open daily 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. costing $1 each. Admission free for members. The seminar is free and open to the public; please read the seminar paper before attending. For a copy, contact For guided tours, research February 24 - Sunday - 12:30 to 3 p.m. Carol Lockman at [email protected]. Held in the library hours, and event Hagley Bridal Show Library Copeland Room. Use Hagley’s Buck Road East details, visit www.hagley.org. Your special day deserves a special place....Hagley! entrance off Route 100 in Wilmington, Delaware. Join us for complimentary hors d’oeuvres, music and the opportunity to meet our preferred partners. Free April 18 - Thursday - 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. admission, registration required, visit www.hagley.org. Advance Reservations Only Golden Pheasants Friendraiser “Better Things for March 14 - Thursday - 6:30 p.m. Better Living: Introducing Nylon” Research Seminar: Susan Strasser, Join Hagley’s networking group, the Golden University of Delaware Pheasants, for a 1938-themed evening in our latest “Snake Oil Revisited” exhibition, “Fashion Meets Science: Introducing The seminar is free and open to the public; please read Nylon.” Meet other professionals and enjoy light the seminar paper before attending. For a copy, contact refreshments, cannon firings, and exhibition tours Carol Lockman at [email protected]. Held in the with Curator Debra Hughes. Cost is $15, must be 21 Library Copeland Room. Use Hagley’s Buck Road East years or older to attend. Reservations required, call entrance off Route 100 in Wilmington, Delaware. (302) 658-2400, ext. 235., or visit www.hagley.org. March 8, 9, and 10 – Friday, Saturday, Sunday April 25 - Thursday - 7 p.m. Delaware Foundation for the Arts 14th Annual Public lecture: Adam Rome, University of Delaware Spring Art Show - visit www.dvfa.org for info “The Genius of Earth Day” An impressive group of more than seventy This lecture is free and open to the public. It begins outstanding artists from the Brandywine area will promptly at 7 p.m. and takes place in the Soda House. exhibit and sell original new works of art created for Call (302) 658-2400, ext. 244, or e-mail clockman@ this event. $10 for Friday Reception, $5 on Saturday hagley.org to reserve a seat. and Sunday, FREE for Hagley Members and those 18 Models show and under. Use Hagley’s Buck Road East entrance off May 4 - Saturday - 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. wedding gown Route 100 in Wilmington, Delaware. NatureFest Come and join us for NatureFest, where you can fashions at Hagley’s April 5 - Friday - 5 to 7 p.m. celebrate May Day, Arbor Day, and Earth Day at this 2011 bridal show. Exhibition Opening - by invitation only fun-filled family program! Play and learn with exciting Hagley members are invited to celebrate the nylon earth-themed, hands-on activities brought to you exhibition opening at Hagley’s Visitor Center. by local community partners. Admission is $5 for April 6 - Saturday children six to fourteen, free for members, adults, and New Exhibition Opens: “Fashion Meets Science: children five and under. Use Hagley’s Buck Road East Introducing Nylon” entrance off Route 100 in Wilmington, Delaware. Seventy-five years ago on October 27, 1938, a brand new material named nylon was announced to the public. Created in DuPont’s labs, nylon replaced silk in the ladies hosiery industry. Nylon was so popular Cheers to our Golden Pheasants that its early sales created near riots because demand Members and our two winning Seagram Connect with us! was so high. Hagley’s exhibition will discuss the early Signature Cocktails. Guests at the development of nylon and its impact on the fashion October 25 Golden Pheasants Seagram’s industry. Exhibition included with admission. sampling were invited to submit their own April 6 - Saturday - 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. original signature cocktail. Two winning cocktail Fashion, Sports, and Fun with Nylon! recipes were chosen: Kara’s Cocktail is made Discover the wonders of nylon—the world’s first with 2 ounces Seagram’s Rum, 1/4 cup dairy synthetic fiber! Enjoy hands-on activities made cream, a dash of vanilla and a dash of cinnamon possible by nylon used in fashion, parachutes, to taste. The other winner is the Jersey Peril fishing line, flags, badminton racquets, jump rope, Cocktail, with 1-1/2 ounces Seagram’s Rum, toothbrushes, and more. Experience the science 1 ounce of Triple Sec, 1/4 ounces lemon juice, behind the discovery that changed the world of and 2-1/2 ounces cranberry juice. Enjoy! 18 fashion and make your own fashion creations. Activities are included with general admission. IN THE HAGLEY STORE

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