March 6th, 2012
On Spring Break? If you are visiting Rehoboth Beach, check what’s going on this week.
Wednesday, March 7th – Around the World is a monthly film series presented by The Rehoboth Beach Film Society. This series features critically acclaimed, award-winning international independent films. Location? Upstairs Screening Room, at Movies at Midway on Coastal Highway.
A Screaming Man – This drama explores the relationship between a father and son fraught with sacrifice, selfishness, and guilt….It is not rated and it is in French and Arabic with English sub-titles. Visit http://www.rehobothfilm.com/film_events_around_the_world.html, if you want to see the trailer.
Until Sunday, March 11th – This will be your last opportunity to see the Rehoboth Beach Museum Exhibit “Skimming the Surface”. See vintage surf and skimming boards, bathing suits and images from the 60s and 70s. The Rehoboth Museum is located at 511 Rehoboth Ave. It opens Mondays, Thursdays, and Fridays from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. and Saturdays and Sundays from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. More info.? Please call 302-227-7310. Or, visit www.rehobothbeachmuseum.org.
Announcement – Since AboutMyBeaches is a member of the Rehoboth Beach/Dewey Beach Chamber of Commerce, e-mails are sent with info. and updates. The following just came in.
Dewey Beach Arts Fest – Dewey Business Partnership is seeking artists and crafters for the first Dewey Beach Arts Fest scheduled for Saturday, May 12th. So, they are calling all of you artists!! For an application, email deweybusinesspartnership@yahoo.com. The deadline is March 15th.
Saturday, March 10th – Second Saturdays Destination Art Walk. Visit downtown Rehoboth Beach galleries from 2 until 5 p.m. as part of the Second Saturday Art Walks presented by Mosaic, the gallery collective for downtown Rehoboth Beach. Stroll through the galleries, the art, enjoy the receptions and much more. Please visit www.mosaicrehoboth.com.
Saturday, March 10th – Having been selected by the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation to be a host site for the first year of the On Screen/In Person Film Touring Program, the Rehoboth Beach Film Society is bringing on this date Family Talk (Fambul Tok). Time? 7:00 p.m. Location? Movies at Midway at their Upstairs Screening Room, on Coastal Highway (Rt. 1). Admission $4 for members and $5 for future members. You can visit http://www.rehobothfilm.com/film_events_special_screenings_events.html. You can purchase tickets through the website. Tickets are also available at the door.
Family Talk – This documentary shows how victims and perpetrators of Sierra Leone’s brutal civil war are finding methods of healing in an unprecedented program of tradition-based truth telling and forgiveness ceremonies.
Artwork Contest for 2012 Film Festival – The Rehoboth Beach Film Festival is seeking original art submissions to be adapted for the 2012 Independent Film Festival. The selected artwork will be used in the creation of the Festival’s poster, program, t-shirts, and other memorabilia and/or Film Society publicity. Due date is March 21st at 4:45 p.m. If you are interested please visit http://www.rehobothfilm.com/festival_artwork_guidelines.html.
My Fair Lady – March 16th until April 1st at Clear Space Theatre, at 20 Baltimore Ave., with performances Friday and Saturday evenings at 7:00 p.m., Sundays at 3:00 p.m., and a special matinee on Thursday, March 22nd at 11 a.m. Tickets are $30 for adults, $25 for seniors and $15 for students/children. You can purchase them online at www.clearspacetheatre.org, by phone at 302-227-2270, or in person at the Box Office, located at 20 Baltimore Avenue in Rehoboth Beach.
My Fair Lady is a timeless musical and the day it opens will be exactly 56 years since it originally opened on Broadway. Based on George Bernard Shaw’s play “Pygmalion”, My Fair Lady centers on cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as she is taken in by Professor Henry Higgins, who attempts to turn her into a proper English lady…
Have a great time!! Talk to you later….
August 1st, 2011
The Rehoboth Beach Museum was opened to the public in 2007. I think that for most of us that love Rehoboth Beach and promote it, the Museum gives us a starting point in order to show our friends and families that visit, what a gem this town has become. A visit to the Museum will show you Rehoboth then; you are already experiencing what it is now. So, why not dive into the local history of our town and see why so many call Rehoboth Beach “The Nation’s Summer Capital”.
Both, the Rehoboth Beach Museum and the Rehoboth Beach Historical Society call home the Old Ice House, which is near the canal. John A. Lingo built the first wooden ice house at that location in 1912. At the time, ice was harvested from Silver Lake, in Rehoboth Beach. While visiting the Rehoboth Beach Museum you will be able to see the Lingo’s Family Bible on display as you come in.
The location for the Museum is 511 Rehoboth Avenue, right by the roundabout, and next to the Rehoboth Beach Chamber of Commerce Visitors’ Center. The tel. is 302-227-7310 and the website is www.rehobothbeachmuseum.org.
The Rehoboth Beach Museum has been busy and these are a few of the upcoming events:
Saturday, August 6th – It is The 6th Annual Rehoboth Museum Beach Ball from 7:00 p.m. until 10:30 p.m. at Kings Creek Country Club in Rehoboth. There will be great food, silent and live auctions, as well as music by Sol Knopf.
This is a fundraising event to benefit the Rehoboth Beach Museum. The theme for this year’s bash is Surf’s Up! The attire is Surfer Chic. For more info., please call 302-227-7310. You can purchase tickets online by visiting www.rehobothbeachmuseum.org.
Skimming the Surface Exhibit
Wednesday, August 10th – Surf Talk at 6:00 p.m. – A lively panel discussion about surfing off the Delaware Coast in the 1960s and 1970s.
Longtime local surfers Gary Revel and Neil Stevenson will be joined by Eastern Surfer shop owner George Pittman and others who made the Delaware surf scene a lively one. The informal discussion will be moderated by Terry Plowman, publisher of Delaware Beach Life magazine.
Light refreshments will be served. Please call 302-227-7310 to reserve a space. Admission will be $3. Free parking available.
Continuing with the “surfing” theme is the Museum’s newest exhibit “Skimming the Surface: Surfing, Skimboarding and Floating Off the Delaware Coast”. The exhibit is a celebration of the surfing community that was along the Delaware coast during the 1960s and 1970s. Some of these surfers made their mark on the regional surf scene.
I stopped to check it out. You will see surfboards and surfing related items from those years; boards that were used for fun and competition in regional contests by local surfers.
Skimboards from the 1940s through the 1980s help tell the story of the development of skimboarding, particularly in Dewey Beach. Photos, surfing accessories, a vintage inflatable raft, among other items, provide a peek into the past. For more information, please check the website above mentioned.
Besides the Skimming the Surface exhibit, the Museum has a Funland exhibit. If you grew up in Rehoboth Beach, have vacationed here with kids, or have had your kids grow up here, then, I am sure you took them to Funland. Lots of rides, food and games, right on the Rehoboth Beach Boardwalk.
Part of the original train is at the exhibit, beautifully preserved.
Information on the Old Ice House is also available. Did you know that before household refrigerators were common, people would store their watermelons at the ice house for 25 cents? They would carve their initials for identification.
The Rehoboth Beach Historical Society celebrates this tradition with the Annual Watermelon Festival, which will take place on Saturday, August 13th in Grove Park from 3 – 6 p.m. Admission is $3 for ages 13 and older, $2 for children 5 to 12. Children 4 and younger are free. Admission to the festival also includes admission to the Rehoboth Beach Museum.
There will music from 3-4 p.m., 4-5 p.m. watermelon eating contests by age and from 5-6 p.m. watermelon seed spitting contests by age. Hula Hooping and Paddle Ball, as well.
The Rehoboth Museum is a very manageable museum. I know you want to be on the beach but I assure you, it will be worth visiting.
Rehoboth Then
Note: Information for this post was taken from the Exhibit itself and from other literature available at the Rehoboth Beach Museum.
Have a good one….talk to you…later…
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