Tag: Gallery

In Yorklyn, Creativity Has a Home

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In Yorklyn, Creativity Has a Home Nestled in the historic mill village of Yorklyn, Delaware, the Center for the Creative Arts has served as a creative gathering place for the community for more than forty years. The nonprofit arts center offers visual and performing arts programs for people of all ages and abilities, creating a welcoming space where creativity, learning, and self-expression can thrive. From painting and photography to theater, music, and mixed media classes, the center brings together students, working artists, and curious beginners under the same roof. At the heart of the Center for the Creative Arts is

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What Remains After Living

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Gardens, history, and the stillness left behind I recently spent time exploring the DuPont estates in Wilmington, Delaware; Winterthur, Hagley, and Nemours. In a way, Hagley started all of this for me. I visited it last year while traveling through on my way to Tennessee. I tend to leave room in my trips for unexpected stops, the kinds of places you stumble across without planning to. Hagley was one of those places. What I expected to be a quick visit turned into hours wandering through buildings, gardens, workshops, and the beginnings of the DuPont story. Before the estates and elegance,

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“The Moment Is Enough”

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Bethany Beach I’m starting this first post of this series of posts from my trip to Delaware on the last day of my trip.  We got up before sunrise to go to the ocean side of Bethany Beach.  There’s something a little ironic about that. The trip was ending just as the day was beginning. While everything around me was starting fresh, I was standing there at the finish line.  I was packed, the van loaded and I was dreading to go home.  Camera in hand, we arrived just as the entire sun rose above the horizon.  But that was

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Monitcello, Slave Row Galler

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Monticello (46 of 99)

Monticello, Slave Row Gallery   I left slave row for last, as it is by nature an issue still being resolved today through the “Black Lives Matter” and similar movements.  It was easy to find a quote by Thomas Jefferson about slavery, but the point that he owned and used slavery to advance his life made that almost mute.  The quote that I’m offering from him, I think reflects more the contradiction of the time he found himself in, without excusing the way he lived.  While the Fredrick Douglass quote reflects the advancement of a people moving out of this

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