Located on the Brandywine Creek in Brandywine Park in the city of Wilmington, Delaware, the Brandywine Zoo is a great place to take the kids. They have a new tiger, who I saw last month strutting around his pond and showing off. Hours and map http://www.brandywinezoo.org/ And for an amusin
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11/14/2011
A lecture last week given by the Lower Merion Conservancy gave me the opportunity to visit a great historic home on Philadelphia's Main Line. It is so close to the old Pennsylvania RR tracks (which were the "Main Line" from Philadelphia to the suburbs) that a train whizzed by the parking lo
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11/11/2011
Saturday brought a mass reinactment of an 18th Century Market Fair that ran from 1764 to 1785 on The Green in Dover, the capital of Delaware. Sarah (left, above), my guide for a walking tour, noted that the green would not have been a place of grass and trees back then (a bit frivolous for co
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11/06/2011
Many labyrinths set in floors or on the ground are large enough that the path to the center and back can be walked. They have historically been used both in group ritual and for private meditation. The labyrinth in the Sculpture Garden at the Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington was created inside
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11/01/2011
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