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CAPE GAZETTE, Friday, June 9 - June 15, 2000 - 43
Humorists to tour Sussex towns June 24-28 at Chautauqua
Mark Twain, alias scholar
George Frein, will visit Rehoboth
Elementary School June 25-28.
Delaware Humanities Forum is
sponsoring the event.
A Chautauqua is a 19th century-
style evening tent show in which
scholars portray historical and lit-
erary figures.
Besides Twain, the June event
will feature Will Rogers,
Langston Hughes, Dorothy Parker
and James Thurber, portrayed by
Anne Howard, Charles Pace, Car-
rol Peterson and Doug Watson.
The scholar-actors interact with
audience members in and out of
character.
Each evening's characterization
is preceded
with entertain-
ment by local
performers.
Workshops
with the
scholars are
scheduled at
libraries
around Kent
TWAIN
and Sussex
counties. Frein, complete with a
classic Twain white suit and mus-
tache, is a showman whose ex-
pressions and interactions with
spectators make arresting enter-
tainment.
The Chautauquas are modeled
on the summer training camps
that started in the New York lake
region of the same name in the
late 19th century.
By the early 20th century, they
had evolved to tent shows that
carried culture through the Mid-
west.
Chautauquas faded by the
1930s, but the North Dakota Hu-
manities Council revived the mix
of entertainment and education in
1978.
Frein is professor emeritus of
philosophy and religion at the
University of North Dakota at
Grand Forks; he now lives in
South Carolina.
Since 1986, he has spent sum-
mers performing for the Great
Plains Chautauqua Society. He is
the director of The National Chau-
tauqua Tour, a group of humani-
ties scholars who offer programs
of historical characterization na-
tionwide. He holds a Ph.D. from
the Catholic University of Ameri-
ca.
The Delaware Humanities Fo-
rum is an independent, nonprofit,
educational organization operat-
ing in Delaware since 1973. Its
mission is to help Delawareans
reach a fuller understanding of
themselves and their world by en-
couraging them to explore the ex-
citing perspectives of the humani-
ties.
The forum offers grants for hu-
man|ties exhibits, lectures and
other programs to nonprofit or-
ganizations in Delaware. Other
programs include the Speakers
Bureau of humanities scholars
that is free to nonprofit groups; a
free Visiting Scholars Program for
schools; and an annual lecture
featuring a nationally known
speaker in a humanities field. The
forum is governed by a volunteer
board that meets regularly to set
policy and award grants.
Its programs are supported by
the National Endowment for the
Humanities and the state of
Delaware, and by contributions
from individuals and corpora-
tions.
Page
Continued from page 41
about how Delaware's senators
work to enact laws that impact the
lives of Delawareans and others
in the nation.
Senate pages receive a salary
for their work on Capitol Hill and
take part in the day to day opera-
tion of the Senate. At Worcester,
Clark is a leader in academics as
well as extracurricular activities.
He was selected for membership
in the National Honor Society
and the Spanish Honor Society
and has received many awards for
top averages in academic courses.
A member of the Performing Arts
Chorus and the school's ensem-
ble, he played leading roles in
each of the school's past two
Broadway musicals. He is treas-
urer of the junior class and a
member of the Big Brothers pro-
gram and the yearbook staff. He
was selected by the faculty at
Worcester as Best All-Round stu-
dent for grades 9-11 during the
1998-99 and the 1999-.2000
school year. He is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Patrick Clark of
Bethany Beach.
Oyster
Continued from page 39
can cultural diversity and provide
a snapshot of the nation at the
dawn of the 21st century, the
project is a joint effort with mem-
bers of Congress to document lo-
cal customs and heritage from
communities around the country.
For the project, which is part of
the library's bicentennial celebra-
tion, more than 1,300 traditional
artifacts, customs and events
were selected by members and
have been catalogued in the li-
brary's American Folklife Center.
Mike Miller, manager of the
Delaware Folklife Program of the
Division of Parks and Recreation,
worked with Castle's office to
document the Oyster Ears 62-
year history. Miller put together
an excellent compilation of news-
paper articles, pictures and per-
sonal oral histories which will be
on display at the Library of Con-
gress.
The Sussex County flag license tag comes with stainless steel screws for easy mounting.
Cape Gazette Salutes Sussex
On the eve of the nation's
1976 bicentennial, Bill Scott, of
Selbyville and Lewes, set out to
create a flag for Sussex County,
Delaware. The boundaries of
the state's largest county as
they exist today were finally
established just a year before
the thirteen colonies of England
declared their independence in
1776. Through the following
200 years, Sussex County had
no flag nor any real need for
one.
The design created by Scott
includes elements related to the
county's earliest European set-
tlers: the Dutch who landed and
established a community in the
area of Lewes in the early and
mid-1600s, and the English
who later, under William Penn's
guidance, confirmed that
Delaware's southernmost
county should be known as
Sussex.
Scott wrote the following
background history for his
design: "The flag of the Nether-
lands since 1630 has been
equally divided horizontal
stripes of red, white and blue.
The flag for the county has
adapted this pattern but instead
of equal distance the propor-
tions of the colors are 1/4 red
(on top), 1/2 white, and 1/4
blue. The sheaf of wheat
comes from the fact that when
Sussex County was under the
jurisdiction of William Penn, he
decreed that the Sussex County
seal should be identified by the
sheaf of wheat, Kent County by
ears of corn, etc. Since flag
design should be as simple as
possible, the sheaf of wheat is
superimposed on the horizontal
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Dutch colors, thereby making a
colorful and easily recognizable
flag ."
Scott's design was present-
ed to Sussex County officials
on Return Day in 1974.
The Cape Gazette recently
ran with Scott's design idea and
has created a new license tag
for the front of Delaware vehi-
cles. The newspaper joined
forces with Lewes' award-win-
ning artist Connie Costigan and
commissioned a new version of
Scott's design with a little artis-
tic license. Using a representa-
tion from a stained glass win-
dow in Groome Methodist
Church in Lewes as her guide,
Costigan drew a shock of stalks
bending under the weight of
mature wheat grains. Costi-
gan's shock was then superim-
posed on the Dutch colors to
create the latest edition of the
Sussex flag.
This new version arrives at a
time when Sussex County is
focusing on the need to pre-
serve its valuable farmland.
The tag punctuates the histori-
cal and contemporary impor-
tance of agriculture to the Sus-
sex community.
The new Sussex County flag
license tag is available free to
new Cape Gazette subscribers
or for the nominal fee of $3 for
current subscribers. The tags
are also available to nonsub-
scribers at a cost of $10.
The tags, metal with baked-
on enamel paint to capture the
vibrant colors of the Sussex
County flag, come with a pair of
stainless steel screws for easy
mounting.
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