June 24th, 2010
Little Chief Owl - 8/31/1994
Many years ago, 1976, even before I considered living in Bethany Beach, I came to this town and right on Garfield Parkway there was a fairly young man, with his dog, and a small fire; it was fall. He was sculpting and his name was Peter Wolf Toth. I engaged him in conversation and he proceeded to tell me that he was donating the sculpting of the indigenous wood of the State of Delaware as a gift. The sculpture was to be known as Chief Little Owl and Peter Wolf Toth was paying honor to the Nanticoke Nation.
He was working there for so long that residents would bring him food.
Peter Wolf Toth was self taught and a humanitarian who wanted to give thanks to the United States. His journey was called “Trail of the Whispering Giants”.
He created more than 50 sculptures of famous Indians and donated one to every state. Some larger states have more than one.
His original sculpture, of Chief Little Owl, who welcomes everyone that visits Bethany Beach was weakened by termites and in 1992 it was destroyed by heavy winds. The remains are at the Nanticoke Indian Museum in Millsboro, Delaware.
The second Totem Pole was done by Dennis Beach and this one lasted until 2000; rot forced the town to take it down.
My picture is from the second one, taken on 8/31/94.
Peter Wolf Toth, again, created the newest version from a red cedar log from the Pacific Northwest which should last 50-150 years. It was dedicated on 7/15/02.
You cannot miss it. It is really a landmark in Bethany Beach.
Bethany Beach Bandstand performances start at 7:30 p.m. unless otherwise noted. For updates please call 302-539-5484. Bandstand Schedule is on line: www.townofbethanybeach.com/activities/bandstand.
Friday, June 25 is Keyboard America Piano Concert.
Saturday, June 26th – The Crime Stoppers Music of Woodstock Remembered. This is a new event for 2010.
Sunday, June 27th – the 2nd Annual Bethany Beach Firecracker 5K Fun Run/Walk. Pre-register at www.bethanybeach5k.wordpress.com. Race day registration is at 7:00 a.m. on the Bandstand. Race starts at 8:00 a.m. Please remember that this event is an official 4th of July Parade Fundraiser. Hopefully, all visitors can join.
Sunday, June 27th – Chesapeake Brass Band at 7:30 p.m.
Boardwalk Exercises: 7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m., Friday, Saturday, Monday. No Sunday Class. Drop in Fee. Thursdays to be determined. For info. call Christel at 302-542-8363.
Yoga Summer Months on the Boardwalk & Bandstand – $5 fee. Friday, Saturday, Sunday from 6:00 a.m. – 7:00 a.m., also 4th of July and Labor Day. For more info. call 302-537-7838, or visit www.beth-anybeachyoga.org.
Farmers’ Market – Summer Sundays until September 5, 2010. From 8:00 a.m. until Noon at the bank parking lot on the corner of Penn. Ave. and Garfield Parkway.
Ride the Bethany Beach Trolley – If you are staying in Bethany this could be the easiest way to get around. Wave down the driver anywere along route for pickup, except on Rt. 26 or Rt. 1. No service on Jefferson Bridge Rd.
Fare is 25 cents; exact change, please. Driver does not make change.
The Trolley runs until September 12th. Daily from 9:30 a.m. until 10:00 p.m. Driver takes a break from 12:30 – 1:00 p.m. and from 7:00 – 7:30 p.m. More information needed? Then please call 302-539-8011. Or visit www.townofbethanybeach.com.
Have a great week-end….kick back and relax…that’s why you are here.
Note: Information on the totem pole was taken from www.townofbethany.com.
September 7th, 2009
Lewes, Delaware
Saturday, Sept. 12th – Parade of Ponds – 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Starting at Garden Ponds & Landscaping. Location is 14680 Coastal Highway, Milton, DE 19968. Tel. 302-645-7841. Website is www.gardenpondsandlandscaping.com. This event is to benefit the Children’s Beach House in Lewes, Delaware.
Saturday, Sept. 12th – Farmers’ Market, 8 a.m. until Noon at the Lewes Historical Society located at 110 Shipcarpenter St. Tel. 302-645-7670. Website http://www.historiclewes.org .
Saturday, Sept. 12th – 4th Annual Chocolate Tasting, 1 p.m. until 4 p.m. sponsored by the Friends of Cape Henlopen State Park at the Biden Center at the Cape Henlopen State Park.
Sunday, Sept. 13th until Sept. 17th – Annual Delmarva Antique Bottle & Sea Glass Club’s Show and Sale at the Cape Henlopen High School on 1250 Kings Highway. 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Winswept Stables Petting Zoo is open daily from 3 p.m. until 6 p.m. On Saturdays, pony rides are available for a fee. The address is 34184 Eventers Way. It is off of Rt. 24 which is also John J. Williams Highway, Tel. 302-645-1651
Rehoboth Beach, Delaware
Tuesday, September 8th – Farmers’ Market, Noon until 4 p.m. at Grove Park, behind the Chamber of Commerce. Parking available at the Chamber of Commerce and at Columbia and Henlopen avenues. Website http://www.RBFarmersmarket.com.
At the Farmers’ Market you will find the Empty Bowls Project. This is a joint project between the Rehoboth Art League and the Rehoboth Beach Farmers’ Market. Purchase a bowl and it will be filled with soup for $20. Cash or check only, please. This is to benefit “Just Soup Ministry”.
Started by a teacher in Michigan in 1990, the Empty Bowls Project holds events around the country to raise awareness and funds to alleviate hunger.
Thursday, September 10th, 5 p.m. until 8 p.m. – Fund Raise for the Delaware Humane Society (http://www.dehumane.org), at the Seafood Shack on 42 1/2 Baltimore Ave., in Rehoboth Beach. Dogs are welcomed out back in the patio.
Raffle tickets will be available for purchase. Some of the items are: 2 Ravens football tickets and also certificates for grooming, day care and night care donated by Doggies at The Beach, www.doggiesatthebeach.com (302-644-8200). Please attend and support the DE Humane Society (all pets).
Friday, September 11th, 5 p.m. until 8 p.m. – Exhibit opening at Philip Morton Gallery, 47 Baltimore Ave.-Members of the Delaware based Artist Exchange. Visit the website www.philipmortongallery.com
Friday Sept. 11th, until Sunday, Sept. 13th – Delaware Coast Antiques Show and Sale at the Rehoboth Beach Convention Center in Rehoboth Beach, located on 229 Rehoboth Ave.- 10:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m. Friday and Saturday and on Sunday 10:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. It is a collector and dealer show. Admission with ad is $5.00, otherwise general admission will be $6.00. For information, please call 302-226-5456 or 302-542-3286
Saturday, September 12th – Mosaic Second Saturdays – Destination Art Walk. Visit a dozen of Rehoboth, downtown art galleries from 6 p.m. until 9 p.m. Mosaic is the new gallery collective for downtown Rehoboth. Website is www.mosaicrehoboth.com
Saturday, September 12th – Rehoboth Walk to Defeat ALS. Boardwalk 2 Mile Walk to raise funds for ALS Assoc. to support patients and research. Registration at 8 a.m. and walk begins at 9 a.m. For more info. call Mary Ann Wollten at 302-684-4151. ALS stands for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (Lou Gehrig’s Disease). It is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects cells in the brain and the spinal cord.
Saturday, September 12th and Sunday, Sept. 13th – In Millsboro, Delaware is the Annual Nanticoke Indian Powwow. For information and directions, please check the website www.nanticokeindians.org/news.cfm.
Dewey Beach, Delaware
Saturday, September 12th – Bottle & Cork 10 Miler/5K – Seven Sisters, Two Brothers Running/Walking Series 2009. Event starts at 7:45 a.m. for the 10 miler, with registration at 6:45 a.m. and for the 5K the starting time will be 8 a.m. Checks and cash only, please. For more information, please go to the website www.sevensistersdeweybeach.com
Bethany Beach, Delaware
Saturday, September 12th – 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. is the 31st Annual Bethany Beach Boardwalk Arts Festival. It is sponsored by the Bethany-Fenwick Area Chamber of Commerce. Location is the boardwalk and adjacent streets. More than 100 artists will display their work. Live music. Silent auction of works donated by participating artists will benefit local schools. It is a juried show as well. For more information, please call 800-962-7873.
In Berlin, Maryland, near Ocean City, Maryland
Saturday, Sept. 12th from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. A Fundraising Event for Paws of Tomorrow – Pet Rescue Association. It will be at A Novel Idea on 11033 Cathill Rd. in Berlin, Maryland, 21811. Tel. 410-641-5211. A successful fundraising event will let them continue their pet rescue effort which has been very well received by the community. Donations are welcomed too.
A Novel Idea is the sponsor of this event and they will be donating many items for Paws of Tomorrow to sell.
Please go to Paws of Tomorrow’s website www.pawsoftomorrow.com and see which pets will be atending this event, in case you see a pet on their website and would like see it. In their website you will be able to see what other events are coming in the next weeks.
Paws of Tomorrow is located in Ocean View, Delaware. They need foster parents for the pets until they find their forever home, as well as people that really want to adopt a pet. So, if you are not sure if you are ready for a pet full time, this might be an opportunity to foster a pet and see if you are ready.
I do know this organization, because this past May, I adopted Addy from them and she is great. I will talking about her one of these days on this blog.
July 28th, 2009
It does not matter what town you are visiting, there is a resurgence for fresh produce, baked goods and local findings and what better place to get all these goodies than at a local farmers market. I have been to some in San Diego, Boulder, and you will also find them in all the beach towns.
In Lewes, Delaware, every Saturday from 8 a.m. until noon, the farmers market is located on 110 Shipcarpenters St.
Rehoboth Beach, Delaware has its own farmers market on Tuesdays from noon until 4 p.m. at the Grove Park by the round about and behind the Chamber of Commerce.
Bethany Beach is not staying behind and this beach town holds its market on Sundays from 8 a.m. until noon.
Fenwick Island, Delaware, south of Bethany Beach has one on Fridays from 8 a.m. until noon in the Chamber’s Information Center’s parking lot on Rt. 1, North of Fenwick.
Ocean City, Maryland, don’t worry I am not forgetting you either because I know that one of your markets is at the Phillips Restaurant’s parking lot on 142nd St. and Coastal Highway on Sundays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays from 8 a.m. until 1 p.m. For more information call Paul Wood at 410-860-2607.
What I am looking forwward the most in the summer is that sweet local white corn. In our household, we practically eat it every day. I told you before how my husband is a fan of corn and loves the one served at Agave in Lewes. I have been trying to duplicate that one. Not yet, but soon, though.
So, Freeman, has, I kid you not, the best corn in the area. You might find other sweet corn and you may say “no, I found a sweeter one” but in my eyes, his is the best and has it until mid September. I don’t think anyone can match that one. You can find Freeman’s corn at the Farmers Markets in Lewes and Rehoboth Beach. But, you can also find him every day in the afternoon on the 1D road that runs parallel to Coastal Highway, Rt. 1. He is by the Plantations complex. I am such a fan of this corn that I package it and send it to my parents in Puerto Rico as a gift. So let us say I pay $5.50 per dozen and then I just sent 3 dozen, well with the shipping being $103, hmmm it is like liquid gold. By the way, you would think that in Puerto Rico they would grow corn but they can’t. They can only grow the field corn; something in the soil, I believe.
With the kind of rain we have had in the Delmarva Peninsula, this year’s crop should be spectacular so steam it, boil it, bake it or grill it. It should be great!! See you, later. Gloria
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