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Join Delaware Humanities for a lecture by Dr. Danielle Ofri.  Dr. Ofri is one of the foremost speakers about the doctor-patient relationship and bringing humanity back to health care.  At a time when frustration is at an all-time high for doctors, nurses, patients, and their families, Dr. Ofri’s unique voice and extraordinary perceptiveness help unravel the complex layers of modern medicine.  Dr. Ofri is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the NYU School of Medicine and author of titles such as What Doctors Feel, What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear, and Medicine in Translation: Journeys with My Patients. 

The lecture will be preceded by dinner and the awarding of Delaware Humanities’ Joseph P. del Tufo Award for Distinguished Service to the Humanities to Bayhealth for the Literature and Medicine Program.  Ticket includes dinner, lecture, and book signing.  Check in at 5 PM, dinner at 5:30 PM.

The Air Quality Partnership of Delaware is getting ready to recognize Air Quality Awareness Week

from April 30 to May 4.

During this time, the Partnership encourages everyone who lives and works in Delaware to practice clean commuting

and other good air quality practices such as bicycling, walking, taking transit, carpooling, telecommuting, etc. While

you're at it, why not commemorate your good deeds by snapping a selfie or having someone take a photo of you and

then post it to social media with the hash tag #TryItDayDE. That way, you can be entered into a drawing to win a $25

gift card. How easy is that?

Businesses can join in the air quality action too. RideShare Delaware and the AQP will award an Air Quality Awareness

2018 Champion. Employers or businesses can self-nominate their work site for the opportunity to be recognized

as the Air Quality Awareness 2018 Champion. All interested businesses must complete the attached AQA Criteria

Checklist and submit to general@ridesharedelaware.org by April 16, 2018. Don’t forget to post your selfies to social

media. Bonus points will be given to those employers whose employees log a clean commute in their RideShare Delaware

account.

To sign up for RideShare Delaware visit RideShareDelaware.org and select “Register My Commute” or download the

free RideShareDE app.

Join the AQP from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Friday, April 20 at Rodney Square in Wilmington where the Partnership will

join the City of Wilmington, The Partnership for the Delaware Estuary and others in the Wilmington Earth Day & Arbor

Day celebration. The AQP will be on hand with an activity table for children. Tropo, the Air Quality Partnership’s

loveable friend, will pay a visit to the event as well.

You can find other air quality tips such as trip chaining, the importance of not idling your vehicle's engine and other

information on the AQP's website at www.wilmapco.org/aqp. When you give clean commuting and other air quality

tips a try, even for just one day, you can help to lower air pollution in the First State. So give it a try. You might like it.

The stories of those buried in this historic cemetery help reveal the meanings behind the elaborate rituals associated with death and mourning in the 19th-century as you are guided among the ornately decorated tombstones of the Wesley United Methodist Church’s old historic cemetery. Uncover the meanings of the carefully chosen and crafted funeral art that decorates the tombs of the high and low alike and what those symbols might reveal about the people buried beneath them. Varied and often unusual funerary customs of the Victorian Period will be revealed including mourning clothes and customs and how the Civil War helped develop methods of preserving the dead.

Space is limited; call 302.739.9194 for reservations.

Lantern tours cancelled due to inclement weather will not be rescheduled.

$10 per person