Summer 2018 - Vol. 47 No. 2 SAVE THE DATE Bike & Hike & Brews PRESENTED BY DOGFISH HEAD CRAFT BREWERY Wednesdays in June, July, & August Fireworks at Hagley PRESENTED BY M&T BANK AND WILMINGTON TRUST $5 Fridays after 5 HagleyMAGAZINE August 3 & 17 2017 ANNUAL REPORT AND DONOR LISTING Fireworks at Hagley! From The Executive Director As May turns to June and warmer days Summer also brings new installments Executive Director David A. Cole invite us outdoors, my family and I, like so of Science Saturdays and Summer Saturdays many members, start looking forward to the where families can try their hands at building numerous opportunities for active learning— rubber-band cars, learning about principles Cover: Fireworks at Hagley. and fun!—that animate summertime at Hagley. of light in Hip Optics, and digging into Hagley Photo by Jackie Kane. As always, we’ll kick things off in June with as amateur archaeologists. And for those who Back: A goose swimming our signature fireworks evenings, complete want to start the weekend early at Hagley, we in the millrace at Hagley. with food, games, and two Photo by Elton Grunden. demonstrations of the latest in pyrotechnic innovation from our friends at Fireworks Start the weekend early $ by Grucci. This year’s theme at Hagley with 5 Fridays is the spirit of invention, and Grucci’s show will make after 5, extending dazzling reference to Hagley’s museum hours to 7 p.m.! groundbreaking “Spirit of Invention” patent model exhibition, which is touring China in 2018. will offer $5 Fridays after 5, extending open This year’s fireworks shows are a prelude hours in our Visitor Center and powder yards to a season of outdoor programming that until 7 p.m., firing signal cannons, and offering Board of Trustees Henry B. duPont IV features several new events, as well as dinner at the Belin House Organic Café until President expanded and enhanced presentations of 6:45 p.m. Carol A. Ammon familiar themes. By popular demand, our And if you have a chance to tour the Vice President Augustus I. duPont Bike & Hike & Brews evenings will run every powder yards this summer, please stop by Treasurer Wednesday from June through August. Enjoy our updated “Water Works” exhibit. This Ann C. Rose these chances to walk, run, or bike along the hands-on presentation models the dams, mill Secretary Brandywine and cap your evening with dinner races, water wheels, and turbines that have Edward J. Bassett, CFA E. Matthew Brown from the Belin House Organic Café, and a generated waterpower at Hagley for more Mati Bonetti de Buccini Dogfish Head beer, while you relax under our than 200 years. I look forward to joining you James C. Collins, Jr. new picnic pavilion on Workers’ Hill. during a festive summer at Hagley! Charles M. Elson William J. Farrell II Margaret B. W. Graham, Ph.D. Hagley Magazine is published quarterly by Hagley Museum Hagley Magazine welcomes your feedback. Blaine T. Phillips and Library, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Contact us at [email protected]. M. Gary Talley Address: P. O. Box 3630, Wilmington, DE 19807-0630 Steven W. Usselman, Ph.D. (302) 658-2400 • www.hagley.org John S. Wellons COVER STORY Celebrating the Spirit of Invention Hagley’s fireworks shows are an annual bursts of pyrotechnics, visitors will hear short tradition for many Hagley members. Held anecdotes about E. I. du Pont’s labor-saving Fireworks at Hagley at the time of year when summer days are patent, Charles Goodyear’s discovery of the Fridays, June 15 & 22 (rain dates the following at their longest, guests can enjoy a relaxing vulcanization of rubber, inventions brought Saturdays and Sundays) evening of food, music, and fun before about by city life, and more. Buck Road Gates open at 5 p.m. witnessing what has been called “The Best Hagley’s show is unique in that it is one Members can purchase tickets Fireworks in Delaware.” of the few in North America that still uses by visiting www.hagley.org or contacting Kim Kelleher This year, Fireworks at Hagley, presented set pieces, or “fire paintings,” to enhance at [email protected] by M&T Bank and Wilmington Trust, the show narrative. These large, complex or (302) 658-2400. celebrates the spirit of invention, marking an structures of scaffolding, wires, and carefully important milestone in Hagley’s history—a arranged fireworks create bright, fiery partnership with Tsinghua University in pictures that can be viewed for just a few Beijing for a path-breaking exhibition of minutes. Make sure to have your phones and nineteenth-century U.S. patent models from cameras ready! Hagley’s collections. The exhibition will reach Hagley’s fireworks is a members-only more than a million people in China and event. If you haven’t received your invitation, brings a cultural exchange of people, ideas, please contact Kim Kelleher at kkelleher@ technology, and expertise to both countries. hagley.org or (302) 658-2400. The show explores invention with both music and narrative. Between sky-filling 3 HAPPENING AT HAGLEY Yoga Debuts at Hagley Exclusive yoga classes with instructor Mary or Soda House, with class locations listed on Currie is a new benefit for Hagley members www.hagley.org. Fee is $10 per class, paid Yoga at Hagley at the Household and above levels. Currie is directly to Currie. Tuesdays and Thursdays, see the director of yoga at the Wilmington Club “This is an amazing location for a yoga www.hagley.org for dates and is a lifelong fitness enthusiast. She began class,” said Currie. “I mean, look at this view!” 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. practicing yoga in 2001 and has since received Currie gestured toward the windows of the $10 per class Hagley Soda House / Library, her professional teacher’s certification. Copeland Room and the trees outside. “Perfect use Buck Road entrance Yoga has become widely popular, with for yoga—so beautiful and peaceful.” more than 100 different types to choose from. Hagley members are invited to bring a Most yoga sessions typically include breathing friend to try out the class. If these guests enjoy exercises, meditation, and assuming postures the experience, they can join at the Household Hagley members enjoy a srping yoga class in the Copeland Room. that flex and stretch various muscle groups. level or above at their next class. Individual, The physical benefits of yoga include Scholar, or Dual members can upgrade their Inset: Mary Currie increased flexibility, increased muscle strength membership to participate in this exclusive and tone, and improved respiration and new member benefit by contacting the circulatory health. The relaxation techniques membership office weekdays at (302) 658- incorporated in yoga can lower blood pressure 2400, ext. 235. and reduce insomnia. Classes are held 9:30-10:30 a.m most 4 Tuesdays and Thursdays in Hagley’s Library HAPPENING AT HAGLEY Photos by Ashley Schroeder Bike & Hike & Brews Turns Twenty Hagley’s popular Bike & Hike & Brews On Workers’ Hill, visitors can take a break series, now in its twentieth year, returns this from their exercise and enjoy games and Bike & Hike & Brews summer on Wednesdays from 5 to 8 p.m., activities. At the Belin House Organic Café, Wednesdays, June 6 - August 29 5 to 8 p.m. June 6 through August 29. visitors can order from the menu or pre-order Dog Days - June 27, July The event, previously titled “Bike & Hike,” a picnic dinner to share down by the river. 25, August 29 now has the added “& Brews” to its name Also new for 2018, Woodside Farm Free for members, $ celebrating that the event will now feature Creamery will have locally made ice cream 3 for non-members Dogfish Head Craft Brewed Ales available for available for purchase every Wednesday. Save $5! Get 10 admission tickets for $25, online only purchase every summer Wednesday evening. Canine companions are invited the last at www.hagley.org Bike & Hike & Brews is presented by Dogfish Wednesday of each month: June 27, July 25 Head Craft Brewery. and August 29. Visitors can enjoy Hagley’s 235 acres Admission is free for members and $3 for and access the entire three-mile loop from not-yet members. Ten admission tickets are the Visitor Center to the Residence, normally $25, available online-only beginning May 1 at accessible only by bus. This is a wonderful www.hagley.org. Through Dogfish Head Beer and Benevolence, 100% of Dogfish Head beer chance to see some spectacular views of sales will support Hagley’s mission. the Brandywine—a favorite spot is from the boulders at the base of the Iron Bridge. 5 HAPPENING AT HAGLEY Photos by Jackie Kane Photography Summer Saturdays are Fun Days Visitors to Hagley’s Summer Remember when playing a game with a July 21: Fender Blender Smoothies and Saturdays enjoy water balloon friend didn’t require two cell phones and a Hand-Cranked Ice Cream launching, archaeology, and data plan? August 4: Fishing on the Brandywine and fishing in the Brandywine. Summer Saturdays at Hagley take visitors Water Balloon Game back to lazy summer days lounging along the August 18: Hand-Cranked Ice Cream river, enjoying a scoop of homemade ice cream, or cooling off from the heat. Returning after a High school teens in the Youth Leadership successful first year, Summer Saturdays feature Program will plan a fun new activity for the fun outdoor activities that everyone can enjoy. August 18 Summer Saturday, and it will be They run from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., every announced on Hagley’s Facebook page.