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Saturday, April 07, 2018Community Event

First Saturday: Celebrating Delaware Agriculture

Join the Heritage Park for the monthly First Saturday in the First State program. The many partners provide special thematic programming that changes each month.

Here is a list of programs for "Celebrating Delaware Agriculture" on April 7:
Its something new every month! #FirstSaturday #FirstState

First Saturday – April 7: Delaware Agriculture

Biggs Kids: Popsicle Barn
9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Biggs Museum
Celebrate Delaware’s agricultural history by making a Popsicle stick barn. Don’t forget to try the monthly scavenger hunt through the museum.

From Woods to Farm: How to Survive in the American Colonies
9:30, 10:30, 11:30 a.m., 12:30, 1:30, 2:30, 3:30 and 4 p.m.
John Bell House
Learn how primitive survival skills lead to establish agriculture and society, and learn how the early American Colonists learned to survive in the New World. Primitive Skills expert Jeff Moore will be on hand to teach primitive survival skills.

Guided Tours
9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Legislative Hall

Prohibition in the First State
9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
The Old State House
Tours will examine the ratification of the 18th Amendment, its enforcement, its impacts on Delawareans, and its eventual repeal through the ratification of the 21st Amendment.

Songwriting: Poetry through Music
9 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Johnson Victrola Museum
In celebration of National Poetry Month, guided tours will highlight the great songwriters of the Victor Talking Machine Company. Hear their music on authentic talking machines.

The History of Delaware Forests
10:30 a.m.
Delaware Public Archives
Dr. Robert Tjaden will share stories and photos captured on his Delaware Forest Oral History Project.

”If These Trees Could Talk” Walking Tour
10 a.m. – 3 p.m. John Bell House
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Tours of the Governor’s House
10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Woodburn – The Governor’s House

Anniversary Rededication
11 a.m.
Johnson Victrola Museum

The Once and Future Courthouse
1:30 p.m. – 4 p.m. Kent County Courthouse, 38 The Green
From the 1690s to the present, learn how this building went from a courthouse to a hotel and back again.

When:

Saturday, April 7, 2018 9:00 AM thru 04:30 PM

Where:

First State Heritage Park Welcome Center & Galleries

121 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. North

Dover, DE 19901

302-744-5055

For More Info:

First State Heritage Park
302-739-9194
www.destateparks.com/heritagepark

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