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Lewes' 375th Anniversary!
Podcasts produced by The Lewes Historical Society are a service of the Society to help bring us closer to the community and our community closer to its history.

Available Podcasts

2008

April 22, 2008 - Executive Director Mike DiPaolo discusses the history of the Lewes Union School with historian Hazel Brittingham. (MP3 file - 9.29 MB - 00:10:09

April 17, 2008 - Executive Director Mike DiPaolo discusses the upcoming Lewes Seafaring Days, June 27-28, 2008 and the great speakers that will be a part of it, especially Gilbert Byron. (MP3 file - 6.52 MB - 00:07:07

March 18, 2008 - Hazel Brittingham provides an overview of education in Lewes from the 17th century through 1969 in History of Education in Lewes, Part 3 (MP3 file - 10.7 MB - 00:11:46

March 11, 2008 - Hazel Brittingham discusses the consolidation of Lewes, Rehoboth and Milton schools into the Cape Henlopen School District History of Education in Lewes, Part 2 (MP3 file - 7.69 MB - 00:8:23

March 11, 2008 - Considering the recent controversies that have arisen in the Cape School District, Hazel Brittingham talks about some others in the Cape Henlopen School District such as desegragation in History of Education in Lewes, Part 1 (MP3 file - 14.3 MB - 00:15:42

February 19, 2008 - The Wilmington University house in Shipcarpenter Square has a colorful history associated with the murder of Ebe Lynch. Hazel Brittingham talks about Dr. Parker's House. (MP3 file - 4.73 MB - 00:05:09

February 12, 2008 - Passions in Lewes over baseball in the early 20th century were intense as the murder of prominent Lewestowner Ebe Lynch attests. Hazel Brittingham discusses. (MP3 file - 9.76 MB - 00:10:40

2007

December 17, 2007 - Historian and Society Past President Judy Roberts discusses when she was president in 1989 and the remarkable bequest of John Farrace (MP3 file - 14.3 MB - 00:15:39

December 14, 2007 - Historian and archivist Tom Brown discusses his research on Lewes's menhaden industry (MP3 file - 9.35 MB - 00:10:13

December 11, 2007 - Local historian Hazel Brittingham discusses the life and collection of Helene Carter Potter (MP3 file - 9.95 MB - 00:10:24)


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