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See Nightscape
BEFORE IT FADES AWAY
After dark, Longwood Gardens turns into a vast canvas onto which the artists of the Klip Collective project beams of light that spin, dance, tell stories — and bring the gardens to life in an entirely new way. After it’s
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Things You Can’t
Be dazzled BY SPRING’S AWAKENING AT POINT-TO-POINT
Join a spring tradition that will transport you to a time and place where horse-drawn carriages bring the finely dressed to the country for a day at the races. What will draw your eyes more
— the jumping horses during the steeplechase races, or the endless people watching? Wear your finest floppy hat, bring a picnic and enjoy the return of spring.
Visit with history and herons
ON PEA PATCH ISLAND
3 Craft your own trail THROUGH LOCAL BREWERIES
Start in Newark, which gave birth to regional powerhouse Iron Hill Brewery. Visit Stewart’s and Argilla brewing companies, and then pop in on the young turks at the just- opened Bellefonte Brewing Company for a Diamond State Bourbon Stout.
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Fort Delaware once protected the ports of Wilmington and Philadelphia shortly after the War of 1812. Today, historical re-enactors
will take you back in time to the fort’s
busy days during the Civil War. Afterward, spend some time with the island’s
happy (if temporary) inhabitants —
flocks of migratory birds and the
largest heron rookery on the East Coast.
MOONLOOP PHOTOGRAPHY
22 | Wilmington and the Brandywine Valley
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Celebrate WITH THE ORIGINAL SECESSIONISTS
Delaware celebrates its simultaneous separation from both England and Pennsylvania (a full month before the rest of the country caught up) during the annual Separation Day
in Historic New Castle. The weekend is full of parades, live music and fireworks. Come celebrate (as locals would call it) “241 Years of Not Being Pennsylvania.”