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Honoring Elizabeth: One daughter’s journey Yuletide at Winterthur Helping Hockessin plan for the future Photo Essay: The last of the autumn leaves Local holiday destinations

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Letter from the Editor: Welcome to the winter edition of Greenville & Hockessin Life.

As we were preparing the stories in this magazine, we met some of the people who care deeply about Greenville and Hockessin and are involved with making the communities such special places to live and work.

We talked to Mark Blake, the president of the Greater Hockessin Area Development Association, about that organization’s efforts to work with commercial and residential developers to ensure that the community’s concerns about things like traffic, stormwater management, landscaping, and the designs of homes and buildings are addressed proactively and productively.

We recently visited the Greenville offices of Morgan Stanley Wealth Management, where for two hours each month, staff are invited to attend sessions with the Mindfulness Club, a global initiative developed by Morgan Stanley that renews spirit and energy through meditation.

In this issue, we interview artist Linda Harris Reynolds, who has been capturing likenesses -- and personalities -- in her portraits for several decades. Her Centreville studio is also a place where she shares her expertise with other artists, carrying on an ancient artistic tradition.

And we meet Ben Anemone, who is marking 20 years of creating jewelry that celebrates milestones in people’s lives. But as a competitive cyclist and a recent climber of Mount Kilimanjaro, Anemone is much more than a jeweler.

We also profile Hockessin resident Carol B. Amos, whose book H.O.P.E. for the Alzheimer’s Journey takes readers into her heartwarming 11-year journey as a caretaker for her mother, Elizabeth.

We also offer a glimpse of Yuletide at Winterthur, one of the Brandywine Valley’s most beloved holiday traditions, which is celebrating its 40th year this year with the most dazzling displays from across the decades. Yuletide at Winterthur is open through January 5, 2020.

The photo essay, titled “The last of the autumn leaves,” showcases the beauty of the Coverdale Farm in Greenville, just before winter arrives.

We hope you enjoy the stories in this issue of Greenville & Hockessin Life and, as always, we welcome your comments and suggestions for future stories.

In the meantime, the staff at Greenville & Hockessin Life would like to wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and a happy holiday season. We’re already hard at work planning the next issue of the magazine, which will arrive in the summer of 2020.

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e than a likeness Linda Harris Reynolds captures the spark in each one of her subjects

By John Chambless Staff Writer “I just love doing portraits of people,” Linda Harris Reynolds said, sitting in the Centreville studio where she has worked for 30 years. “I’m always questing after personality. I want something that actually says something as a painting, in addition to being a representation of a person.”

Growing up in Wilmington and drawing since the age of 3, Reynolds said, “It was always my thing. I’ve always had a hand in some kind of art. In high school, I was experimenting more with theater and singing and dance, but in the end, I went back to painting, because I didn’t have to rely on anybody else to do it.”

She planned to be an illustrator, and attended what is now the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, “But I wasn’t really sure I wanted to be an illustrator. I wanted to pursue painting. Which was even crazier, because realist painting was really not in vogue at all at the time, which was the late 1970s,” she said.

“I went to the Pennsylvania Academy for a year, got a scholarship, and then decided I had to get out of Philadelphia. So I worked in advertising for about 10 years in New York City. When I got married, my husband wanted to move back to Delaware. I said OK, but if I did come back, I wanted to start my portrait studio. I’ve been here 30 years.”

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Self-taught until she went to art school, Reynolds had an inauspicious start in her first summer after college. “I needed a job desperately at the beach in Stone Harbor, and I was the worst waitress on earth. I literally got fired after two days,” she said, laughing. “So I showed a piece of my artwork to a gift shop owner and he asked me if I did portraits. I really didn’t have any formal training doing them, but I got some supplies and just started a week later. I always had the ability to draw faces, so I just jumped in. The owner had a walk-in business, and people would come and watch me do portraits in the gift shop. People would have scheduled sittings for a half-hour or an hour.”

In her longtime studio, surrounded by “lots of stuff,” as she put it, Reynolds has rooms filled with preliminary sketches and drawings, and the walls of the studio are pleasantly packed with art, notes, scraps and photographs. A raised platform, a chair and lights serve as a place for models to pose while Reynolds teaches participants in her art classes.

“Since 2009, I’ve taught classes in classical oil portraiture, in which we start with black and white drawings, and then we transfer them onto a canvas and start doing an underpainting, then add color on top of that,” she said. “It’s a process-oriented class.”

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‘Man’s Best Friend,’ an animal portrait commission.

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Linda Harris Reynolds in her Centreville studio.

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But for decades, Reynolds has made her living by capturing people’s likenesses, one on one. It’s a way of working that’s centuries old. The delicate dance between the person paying for a portrait, and the artist creating it, hasn’t changed at all.

“First, patrons have to like my style,” Reynolds said.

“And 90 percent of the time, there are no problems. I do try to present people in the best light.”

Reynolds has been asked to leave out some details in a portrait, a request she usually grants. “That’s why people have portraits done,” she said. “It’s not that it’s easy, but it’s still something where, as an artist, you can use your imagination and fill in the blanks a little bit for people that really aren’t particularly photogenic. There are plenty of people – and I’ll include myself in that – who really don’t love pictures of themselves. I just try to capture what I see, but in a positive light.”

Reynolds particularly enjoys working with children, and her portraits of them capture both innocence and energy.

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“I pose them outside a lot, with no props,” she said. “I like the sense of children being free.” She also captures families or groups, working at their homes, or working from photos she takes on site and refers to as she draws and paints.

But the kind of close observation required of artists who paint portraits is a rare commodity in today’s world. “People have no time to sit,” Reynolds said, sighing. Photographs are a frequent way of keeping a person’s likeness in front of her while she works, “but I’m never trying to do a photorealistic image anyway.

I’m trying to be as accurate as I can with my subjects.”

While her technical skills are dazzling – her subjects often appear just about to breathe – it’s the indefinable spark inside each person that is the goal, Reynolds said. “Painting serves an emotional need for me, or I wouldn’t want to do it all the time. I know some artists hate doing commissioned portraits and don’t like getting input from people. But I feel that everything I do is collaborative effort. I want to be proud of the finished Continued on Page 18

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work, but also, the client must be happy.”

Toward that end, elements of a portrait can be changed, revisions can be made, and negotiation is always a vital part of the process. In the end, the result is a piece of art that captures a moment in time and will be passed down for generations through families. Reynolds has built long-term relationships with several families, having painted portraits of the parents, and then the children, through the years.

The acclaim for her work continues, and she will be painting Delaware First Lady Tracey Quillen Carney’s official portrait that will hang in the Governor’s Mansion. She’ll be the first female artist to have a portrait in the collection. In 2019, she received a certificate of excellence from the international Portrait Society of America in a competition of 3,000 entries from all over the world. She also recently was selected to participate in the International Figure Painting Exhibition at the historic Salmagundi Art Club in New York City.

Reynolds is always eager to share ideas with other artists, and to pass on what she’s learned. Her Centreville Art Student’s League is a continuing education group that helps regional artists hone their skills in a particular area.

“Generally, people who come to me have had some art education, but don’t really have a lot of specialized training,” she said. “So they want to get better at doing portraits, or the figure.

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“My philosophy on teaching, if I had one, is that art should be about sharing information with other artists,” she said. “I think of this space as a cooperative, in some ways. So often, you go into art classes and the teacher -- that you’re paying -- is not telling you much. I don’t see any other reason to teach, other than to share information. So I talk about everything. All of it goes into making art.”

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|Greenville & Hockessin Business| For two hours a month, the Greenville office of Morgan Stanley Wealth Management turns its attention away from stocks and portfolios, and engages its staff with sessions in mindfulness meditation. It’s giving them a renewal of energy and spirit in the workplace and in their lives

‘May you be happy, may you be healthy and may your life be full of joy’

By Richard L. Gaw Staff Writer

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hortly after noon on a recent November workday, the conference room at the Greenville offices of Morgan Stanley Wealth Management is transformed from the corporate to the spiritual -illuminated by two white battery-operated candles placed in the center of the table.

Nine employees quietly step into the room and seat themselves at the table and on the floor. They all wear the uniforms of corporate America – suits and ties and dresses and formal slacks – but one employee unfurls a purple yoga mat and curls her body into a human ball, as if she is surrendering herself to the work that is required when one goes searching for quiet – to a world of concentration, breath and stillness.

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As the overhead lights are dimmed and the conference room blinds are drawn, the voice of Douglas Martin, a meditation and mindfulness teacher, is heard from New York City, just as he is heard by other Morgan Stanley representatives who have also phoned into the session from around the United States: Baltimore, East Lansing, San Diego and St. Paul.

For two one-hour sessions every month, every person in this darkened conference room is here to honor their minds, which in turn honors their value to their colleagues, their company and the clients they serve.

This is a gut-check breath between meetings and phone calls; an essential inhale and exhale down the hall from a wall calendar crammed with obligations; a chapter marker placed in the continuing narrative of their career.

This is the Mindfulness Group at Morgan Stanley’s Greenville office, a global employee collective and initiative started two years ago, where practice mindfulness and meditation benefits hundreds of Morgan Stanley employees around the world – including those in Greenville, Delaware.

Class is now in session. ****

Morgan Stanley Wealth Management’s Greenville office dedicates two hours a month to its staff to attend the Mindfulness Group’s sessions.

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When Morgan Stanley Portfolio Associate Johanna Jackson began to meditate three years ago, she immediately realized the effects and benefits of her practice were having not only in her work life but also in her personal life. She experienced a newfound sense of peace, clarity, inspiration and mindfulness, and she wanted to share those experiences with her colleagues at Morgan Stanley. Soon after getting approval to begin conducting hour-long sessions twice a month in the conference room, a colleague of Jackson’s told her that Martin had begun the Mindfulness Club out of Morgan Stanley’s Manhattan office, where he has worked for the past 8 years. In addition to his duties at Morgan Stanley, Martin, a former monk, has been teaching meditation and mindfulness for more than a dozen years in a variety of settings that include corporate, non-profit, youth and under-served communities. Soon, the Greenville office was linked to Martin’s global sessions.

“Meditation was literally changing my brain and changing me as a person, and I knew that my coworkers would benefit from meditation, because this industry can be very stressful,” Jackson said. “Forty years ago, if you were to say that you were going running, you’d likely to be hit with, ‘Why are you running? Is someone chasing you?’

“The Harvard Business Review recently wrote that mindful meditation is no longer a nice thing to have for business leaders, but a must-have for business leaders. It focuses on the company’s most precious resource, which is attention.” * * ** Martin welcomes everyone to the Mindfulness Club. Today’s topic is Bringing Compassion into the Workplace. He points to studies and surveys that reflect a growing trend in many Fortune 500 companies Continued on Page 26

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and large corporations to increased employee dissatisfaction. More and more, he says, employees feel disengaged and underappreciated, and are having difficulty adapting to their roles in such stressful work environments.

“These things spill into the workplace, and can affect an entire team,” Martin says. “More and more, however, companies are recognizing the positive effects of compassion in the workplace – the recognition that we are a whole being coming to work every day, and that our world impacts our effectiveness to the team and the workplace. By showing compassion and loyalty, it creates an atmosphere of safety, learning, collaboration and innovation.

“If we’re feeling appreciated as workers in our workplace, and it’s translated into learning, collaboration and innovation, then that impacts the bottom line of any organization,” he said. “It allows everyone to find solutions, together.” **** For many companies like Morgan Stanley, incorporating mindfulness meditation into the workplace is far more than an excuse to give their employees a brief recess from work a few times a month – it has become a healthy and essential part of its business – and one that works to reverse modern trends. In study after study of business environments, job stress in the workplace has skyrocketed in the last few decades, with little sign of slowing down. In a report issued by The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), it found that of those who participated in the study, 40 percent of respondents said that their job was extremely stressful; 75 percent said that workers have more on-the-job stress than a generation ago; and 25 percent view their jobs as the number one stressor in their lives.

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At its core, the increased movement by businesses and corporations to meld mindfulness meditation into the workplace is best summed up by the words spoken by Sharon Salzberg, a Buddhist meditation teacher and writer, who said, “It’s hard to give from a source of depletion.”

Morgan Stanley joins a rising roster of companies that have adopted mindfulness meditation, which include Aetna, Apple, Blackrock, Facebook, General Mills, Google, Intel and LinkedIn. The footprint of Morgan Stanley’s Mindfulness Club is also a global one, and includes participation from offices throughout the U.S., and in Bangalore, Budapest, Frankfurt, Glasgow, Kowloon, London, Mexico City, Montreal, Moscow, Mumbai, Glasgow, Paris, Tokyo and Toronto.

“There’s something special when we take a pause and meditate together,” Jackson said. “It makes a large firm feel smaller and more connected, and it’s in that stillness where you create space to allow peace, clarity, inspiration and ideas to come in, which in turns makes us better contributors to our teams.” **** Martin engages his audience in mindfulness and meditation – “Cohesion Practice,” he calls it -- that includes breathing exercises meant to “synchronize our body and our mind.” He encourages everyone to remove their cell phones, disconnect from computers at their work stations.

It is their time, Martin says. The only light in the room is from the two candles, and a shade of office lighting from an outside hallway that permeates the drawn blinds.

“Here we are in the middle of the day, November seventh, 2019, and your job right now is simply to be present with yourself, for yourself,” Martin says. “There is no role that you have to play right now. There is no problem that you have to solve. There is no issue to mitigate.

There is just the next few minutes, and that is enough.

“How does your body feel now? Does it feel nervous?

Does it feel sleepy? Can you make contact with it, without putting a story about it, or making judgments about your body? Can you make a small adjustment in your posture to relieve the tension to become more relaxed and awake?”

Martin tells the Mindfulness Club to pay attention to everyone’s in breath and out breath. For 25 uninterrupted minutes, every one of the 9 Morgan Stanley employees are completely still, measuring their breaths in a collective rhythm.

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**** In many ways, the journey that led Jackson to become the head of operations for the Greenville office’s Mindfulness Club is one of preordained destiny. In addition to her responsibilities at Morgan Stanley, she is a Registered Corporate Coach™ through the Worldwide Association of Business Coaches™, a meditation coach and writes a blog about mindfulness and spirituality (www.johannagbjackson.com).

“I always tell people that if they think they are operating here at a high level, that after they start to meditate they will start to operate at an even higher level,” she said. “The brain is trainable. It’s the same brain that I use at Morgan Stanley, and the same brain I use to be a mother to my daughter Grace, and I tell people that if you can help guide your brain, there is so much more than you can do with your approach to business, and to your life, as well.

“It’s easy to be a meditation man on a mountain, but it’s actually more rewarding to be one in the office. I like to say that I think like the owner of a business. The firm encourages all of us to think like we’re owners, and when I see something that is beneficial to the greater good, then I want to share that. I could not have done this without our management’s support and encouragement. I told them, ‘This is what I want to do, and this is why I want to do it.’” **** During the “Kindness Meditation,” Martin asks everyone to imagine four people: a person they love, someone they know only peripherally, someone with whom they may be having difficulties with at work, and themselves.

He asks his audience to conjure up all four in their mind’s eye, one by one, and then to internally tell each of them, “May you be happy. May you be healthy. May your life be full of joy.”

Within the span of a few minutes, Martin has signed off at the end of another Mindfulness Club session, the lights in the conference room are turned back on, the blinds are lifted again, and nine members of the Greenville office of Morgan Stanley Wealth Management return to work, each nourished and renewed in mind, spirit and body, each inspired by compassion, and each radiating goodwill.

To contact Staff Writer Richard L. Gaw, email rgaw@ chestercounty.com.

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verybody’s happy when they’re buying jewelry. Ben Anemone gets the benefit of that every day.

He just marked 20 years in the jewelry business – the last six of those at his location on Limestone Road in Hockessin. Since he started in 1999, he has begun seeing the children of his first customers coming in. “I end up becoming friends with a lot of my customers,” he said. “And now the kids of my first customers are coming in for engagement rings.”

There’s more art than business in what Anemone does. Working from a customer’s design ideas, he turns whatever they want into jewelry that will last a lifetime, and be passed on to the next generation. But his start in the business certainly didn’t give any hint that he’d still be here, two decades later.

“I got into it accidentally. I used to work for a law firm in Wilmington,” he said. “I bought myself a pinkie ring, and my girlfriend at the time said she thought her cousin ran a jewelry shop in Wilmington. The next day, I went in and I hit it off with the owner.

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Ben Anemone has owned Anemoni Jewelers for 20 years, currently at the Limestone Crossing Shopping Center in Hockessin.

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Anemone’s distinctive designs are made to be both beautiful and sturdy, able to be passed down for generations.

I thought it was really neat that he sized rings while people waited. It reminded me of building model airplanes when I was a kid. Two months later, I got a job as an apprentice at the jewelry store, in 1995. I worked there for six years. I had

three jobs at that time. I was hustling.”

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He toured the site of his present shop at Limestone Crossing “when it was still just a hole in the ground” and knew he had found the right spot, on a highway with good visibility and parking. He signed up that day. He’s been in business there for six years.

“I do a lot of design work. I design pretty much all the engagement rings I sell,” he said. “It’s rare that somebody comes in and picks something out of the case. Most people know what they want, but if they don’t, I work with them.

It’s a face-to-face business, and I enjoy it.”

Anemone has a friend in Philadelphia who does computer-generated designs, which allows customers to literally turn anything they can dream up into jewelry. Presenting a virtual design of a piece to a customer, and tweaking the details, is vastly easier than constructing a piece that a customer ends up changing. With the cutting-edge technology, every aspect of a piece is rendered and approved before it is cast – a process that takes only about two weeks.

Anemone is the owner of the store, and the main designer, but his staff of two – Darla and Dina – make the business run smoothly. His father comes in once a week to do the bookkeeping. “He also built the cabinets in the shop and

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he said. “I did everything from casting to repair work. One night I sized 52 rings. I got good at reading people. When I was in the repair trade, I repaired a lot of junk. Sears and Boscov’s and Zale’s – all the big box stores. That showed me how not to make stuff. If you get good at repairing junk, you’re really good at repairing something that’s well made.”

Gradually, repair work has disappeared in the region as stores send repairs to other locations. Anemone, a graduate of the Gemological Institute of America, began doing repair work out of his home in 1999, and his store is one of the few remaining Delaware locations that still provides the service.

After his initial stint in Wilmington ended, Anemone took his father’s advice and opened his own store. “I had bought display cases from stores that were going out of business, and I had them in my dad’s garage. My dad was in construction so he could build and install them. So that’s what we did,” he said. “For 14 years, I had a shop at the Shoppes at Louviers,” he said. “I knew nothing about running a business, but I had learned from working at the other jewelry store.” The location of his first store was not ideal, he said, “and I wanted to move somewhere really nice.”

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put everything together. He’s awesome,” Anemone said.

The store offers a wide range of brands and price points, including LaFonn, Ania Haie, Citizen Watches, Belle e’toile, Shefi Diamonds, Rembrandt Charms and more.

Anemone lives in north Wilmington right now, but is planning to buy a home in Hockessin. “I love this area, I’m moving here,” he said. “My customers are the best, the restaurants here are amazing. I just love this area.”

The store has distinctive touches, such as racing bikes atop the display cabinets. They are Anemone’s bikes. “I’m a master’s level cyclist,” he said. “I used to race a lot. I’ve always ridden my bike through the Hockessin area, and I’ve always liked it.” Just inside the front door is a motorcycle – also his – “because it looks cool, and most guys don’t like being in jewelry stores, so this helps put them at ease,” he said, smiling.

As a dedicated cyclist, Anemone is in the kind of top physical shape that allowed him to climb Mount Kilimanjaro in late October, basically without a lot of preparation. “I just turned 50,” he said. “A couple of weeks ago, I went to Africa and climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. I’m not your average jeweler,” he added, smiling.

“The porters had oxygen bottles with them if you needed it, but we didn’t need it. It’s only 20,000 feet, as compared to Everest, which is 29,000. Kilimanjaro is basically at the death zone. On Everest, you have another 9,000 feet to climb in the death zone. I had hiked in Colorado, but I had never done Anemone recently climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in anything where mountaineering Africa. He’s also an was involved. It’s the best experi- experienced bicycle racer. ence I’ve ever had.”

While the store sells vintage and antique jewelry, Anemone enjoys sometimes taking old jewelry that’s out of fashion, and reusing the raw materials in new pieces.

“I like hand-making things,” he said. “One of my favorite things about jewelry is that all the materials are recyclable.

Gold and diamonds are recyclable, so you can melt it and make something that you’re going to enjoy.”

For more information, visit www.anemonijewelers.com.

To contact Staff Writer John Chambless, email jchambless@chestercounty.com.

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|Greenville & Hockessin People| When Hockessin resident Carol B. Amos’ mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2004, Carol embarked on a journey of love and care. Her story is now captured in a new book that serves as a message of H.O.P.E. to those who are now traveling the same journey

Honoring Elizabeth

By Richard L. Gaw Staff Writer Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

Exodus 20:12 Elizabeth Thomas Boyd was born January 15, 1920 in Abbeville, South Carolina.

She was the fifth of eleven children born to Rev. James B. Hunter and his wife, Addie.

When she was three, her family moved to Youngstown, Ohio and after she graduated from high school in 1939, Elizabeth moved to Cleveland, where she first worked as a domestic and later in the steel mills of that city. In 1946, she married Clarence Richard Boyd and united in fellowship with Mt. Moriah Baptist Church and later the Shiloh Baptist Church. The rich and full company of her church and family was the center of her life.

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Elizabeth worked in cafeteria services for 20 years at Parkwood Elementary and East High Schools, until she retired in 1987. She was both a deaconess for their church and a self-taught seamstress. Rare was the visit to a church service when Elizabeth did not enter without a fashionable outfit she herself had made, which was usually accompanied by a matching hat that she had also made. Elizabeth and Clarence saw to it that all three of her children – Ronald, Michael and Carol – would receive college educations, and all three did; partly financed by the ribbon flower corsages she made for churches, weddings, and for Mother’s Day that were sold by the family.

Along with Clarence, Elizabeth was the primary architect of her children’s lives, which were lived in the close-knit lower middle class neighborhoods that surrounded the family home. At the center of Elizabeth’s involvement in her children’s lives was the importance of education.

“She didn’t go to college until we were ready to go to college,” said Elizabeth’s youngest child Carol B. Amos, who lives with her husband Alvin, in Hockessin. “So

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before my oldest brother Ronald went to college, my mother took a few courses at a local community college, just to prove that if she could do it at her age, that we all could do it.”

In time, Elizabeth’s dream was realized -- all three Boyd children attended and graduated from college – and eventually, they left Cleveland to pursue careers and begin families of their own: Ron to California, Mike to Cincinnati and Carol to Delaware, where after graduating from Cornell University with a Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering, she began a 35-year career at DuPont.

Beginning in 1999, on their visits to their mother in Cleveland, the Boyd children began to observe incidents that were not consistent with Elizabeth’s normal behavior. By 2002, they began to see the “red flags” of memory loss and lack of comprehension. Their concern was elevated due to the fact that their father had died in 1987 and Elizabeth had been living in the house alone for 15 years.

On Jan. 15, 2003, on the occasion of her mother’s 83rd birthday, Carol wrote an email to Ron and Mike. “We’re at a point where we need to keep a watchful eye on her,” it began. “It would be good if we can each call her at least once a week to check in.”

Carol and her brothers not only increased their calls

to Elizabeth, they began documenting the symptoms they saw.

They began attending her doctor appointments, and soon, Elizabeth underwent a neuropsych evaluation that indicated that while she didn’t meet the formal definition for Alzheimer’s, she was at risk for the disease. She was officially diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2004, and for the next decade, Ron, Mike and Carol sent several emails back and forth that gave updates on Elizabeth’s well-being.

These emails, as well as the touching, 11-year journey of how the Boyd children loved their mother through Alzheimer’s disease, is captured in Carol’s book, H.O.P.E. for the Alzheimer’s Journey (Morgan James Publishing, 2018). Throughout its 243 pages, Carol’s book serves as a primer for any caregiver who is helping a loved one through Alzheimer’s, and shares the knowledge and advice that she learned and applied as a caregiver.

Using the acronym H.O.P.E., the book’s mission is to Helps, Organizes, Prepares and Educates caregivers. Each chapter begins with a personal reflection and ends with a checklist for caregivers.

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caregivers develop a deeper understanding of a person with Alzheimer’s, by looking at the total person – based on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs (Physiological, Safety, Social, Esteem, and Self-Actualization). According to Carol, the equation of “The Caregiving Principle” is the Needs of the Person Minus the Needs to be Filled by the Person Equals the Needs to be Filled by the Caregiver.”

“Simply, if a person cannot provide for all of his or her own needs, then someone else must provide them,” Carol writes. “The ‘someone else’ is a caregiver.”

Alzheimer’s disease is a degenerative type of brain disease, and is thought to begin 20 years or more before symptoms arise, with small changes in the brain that are unnoticeable to the person affected.

Only after years of brain changes do individuals experience noticeable symptoms, such as memory loss and language problems.

The symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease occur because nerve cells – or neurons -- in parts of the brain involved in thinking, learning and memory (cognitive function)

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have been damaged or destroyed. Individuals typically live with Alzheimer’s symptoms for years, but over time, symptoms tend to increase and start interfering with an individuals’ ability to perform everyday activities.

Throughout the first part of Elizabeth’s struggle with Alzheimer’s, she remained in Cleveland – an eight-hour drive from Delaware. The distance was difficult for Carol and limited her ability to make regular trips, but when she was able to come to Cleveland, she witnessed her mother’s slow decline.

“My mom was a very strong independent woman, and she fought for her independence, and it was hard seeing her decline,” Carol said. “You know that it’s going to happen – that she would decline – but you just don’t know how and when it’s going to happen. It’s not so much me seeing that she’s struggling, but seeing her internal struggle, and knowing that she knows she is declining.

“A lot of times, I would be talking to her on the phone, and I just wanted to reach out and give her a hug, but I

couldn’t, because I was eight hours away.”

Carol said that she was inspired to write H.O.P.E. from her frequent conversations with God. “Throughout the journey, there were things that He would reveal to me about the whole situation, and there were times when things were going bad, and then I saw what I called ‘God’s Rays of Hope,’” Carol said. “One time we were walking out of her building, and Mom saw the thermometer dial and said, ‘Oh, it’s 80 degrees.’ There were so many times when hope served as a confirmation from God.” If there were any reservation in releasing the book, it was that Elizabeth Boyd was a very private Continued on Page 40

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person, and Carol struggled with whether she wanted to share her journey with readers.

“The purpose of this book is to help others, and I debated to the last minute whether I would release this, because it’s about her life,” she added. “The reason why I did it was that I felt I had something to say, and I think my mother would do the same thing.”

While the story of Elizabeth Boyd is central to the book, H.O.P.E. also provides a chapter-by-chapter list of what caretakers can do during each stage of Alzheimer’s. Part V, for instance, includes chapters entitled “Preparation for the Next Move,” “Caregiving in the Personal Residence,” “Caregiving in the Assisted-Living Facility,” “Caregiving in the Memory Facility,” “Caregiving in the Nursing Home” and “Caregiving during Hospice Care.”

During the diseases’ progression, neurons in other parts of the brain are damaged or destroyed. Activities that used to be core to the individual’s identity, such as planning family events or participating in sports, may no longer be possible. Eventually, neurons in parts of

the brain that enable a person to carry out basic bodily functions, such as walking and swallowing, are affected.

People in the final stages of Alzheimer’s disease may be bed-bound and require around-the-clock care.

Ultimately, the disease is fatal. It is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States.

In September 2004, Elizabeth entered an assisted care facility in Cleveland, and a caregiver was hired to help her, but in 2005, Carol and her brothers made the decision to move their mother to Sunrise of Wilmington, an assisted-living facility on Shipley Road. While it would allow Carol and her husband to make frequent visits to her mother from nearby Hockessin, it was a huge change for Elizabeth, who had spent the past 65 years in Cleveland.

“She mentioned if she moved she might not see her family or friends again,” Carol wrote. “Unfortunately, I knew she was right, but we felt it was more important for Mom to live close to one of her adult children.”

It turned out to be the best move possible. Over the nine Continued on Page 42

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years, Delaware became Elizabeth’s home.

She participated in Bible study, went on lunch and family outings and attended musical performances and a performance at the Wilmington Skating Club. She was cared for by a caring staff of medical professionals. She befriended other residents, had what she called “her apartment,” and was known by residents and staff as Mrs. Boyd, Ms. E and Ms. Liz. “If she was happy, I was happy,” Carol said of her mother’s years at Sunrise. “I knew that she was being taken care of. I knew that she would be able to interact with people there. I knew that they had activities during the day, and I knew that she would eat well.”

Studies have consistently shown that active management of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia can improve quality of life for affected individuals and their caregivers.

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Active management includes: • Physical exercise five days a weeks including strength training.

• A heart healthy diet and adequate sleep.

• Appropriate use of available treatment options.

• Effective management of coexisting conditions and managing blood pressure, cholesterol, A1C, and weight.

• Coordination of care among physicians, other health care professionals and lay caregivers.

• Participation in activities that are meaningful and bring purpose to one’s life.

• Having opportunities to connect with others living with dementia; support groups and supportive services are examples of such opportunities.

• Becoming educated about the disease.

• Planning for the future.

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5.6 million people age 65 and older, and approximately 200,000 individuals under age 65 who have early-onset Alzheimer’s, though there is greater uncertainty about the early-onset estimate.

Of the 5.8 million people who have Alzheimer’s dementia, 81 percent are age 75 or older, and out of the total U.S. population, one in 10 people age 65 and older has Alzheimer’s dementia. The percentage of people with Alzheimer’s dementia increases with age: 3 percent of people age 65-74, 17 percent of people age 75-84, and 32 percent of people age 85 and older have Alzheimer’s dementia.

During her final days at Sunrise, Elizabeth stopped eating and had difficulty swallowing. Carol asked the attending caregiver what she thought Elizabeth was trying to tell them. “I think she’s trying to tell everyone that she’s done her work,” the caregiver said.

Elizabeth Boyd left this world on June 15, 2014.

She was 94 years old. Ironically the family had planned to have the song “I’ve Done My Work,” originally sung by Mahalia Jackson, performed at her funeral in Cleveland. It was the same song that was performed at her husband’s funeral.

“My mother had a very good life,” Carol said.

“She approached dementia with dignity, grace and humor, and often thanked God for waking her up in the morning and keeping her throughout the day.”

For Carol, one journey may have ended, but another has begun. On the heels of her book, she has been sharing “The Caregiving Principle” at conferences, workshops, churches, businesses, retirement facilities, senior centers and Alzheimer’s support groups.

Topics for her seminars, support groups and lunchand-learn sessions include “What Everyone Needs to Know about Alzheimer’s Disease,” “Caregiving” and “The Caregiving Principle.” In addition, she is now a certified CARES Dementia Specialist and volunteers for the Delaware Valley Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association. On Nov. 20, she participated in a panel session at the Association’s conference at the Delaware Technical Community College in Dover.

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I left my mom, and now I don’t cry anymore.’ Most people don’t immediately recognize that being a caregiver requires education. It’s like having any other job. If you change jobs, you usually receive training in order to do the job as well as you can.

“I hope that the people who read this book will be a better caregiver, that they will be able to reach out to develop a circle of support, that they will reach out to the medical community, and that they will be able to realize that they can’t do it all by themselves.”

To learn more about Carol B. Amos and to order H.O.P.E. for the Alzheimer’s Journey, visit www. carolbamos.com. If you would like Carol B. Amos to speak at an upcoming event, please email her at info@carolbamos.com.

To learn more about managing Alzheimer’s dementia, as well as obtaining practical information for living with dementia and being a caregiver, visit the Alzheimer’s Association website at www. alz.org.

To contact Staff Writer Richard L. Gaw, email rgaw@chestercounty.com.

Help and Support Whether you’re experiencing symptoms, living with Alzheimer’s, caring for someone who is, or just have questions about Alzheimer’s or memory concerns, get connected with help. The Alzheimer’s Association 24/7 Helpline (800-272-3900) is available around the clock, 365 days a year. Through this free service, specialists and master’s-level clinicians offer confidential support and information to people living with the disease, caregivers, families and the public. The helpline lets you speak confidentially with master’s-level care consultants for decisionmaking support, crisis assistance and education on issues families face every day; learn about the symptoms of Alzheimer’s and other dementias; find out about local programs and services; and get general information about legal, financial and care decisions, as well as treatment options for managing symptoms.

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By Steven Hoffman Staff Writer

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uletide at Winterthur, one of the Brandywine Valley’s most beloved holiday traditions, is celebrating its 40th year with the most dazzling displays from across the decades.

Yuletide at Winterthur is open through January 5, 2020.

“Holidays are about memories, so this special anniversary Yuletide Tour is a walk down memory lane,” explained Debbie Harper, the senior curator of education and coordinator of the Yuletide Tour. “Last year, we surveyed 1,850 guests about their favorite rooms and displays so visitors will see those, plus a record number of Christmas trees.”

According to Harper, the 40th year Yuletide at Winterthur will be exactly what visitors have come to expect— only the displays will be bigger and brighter than ever. This year, visitors will have the opportunity to delight in the holiday traditions of the du Pont family, find inspiration for decorating their own homes, and marvel at 17 stunning Christmas trees at the Winterthur Museum, Garden, & Library.

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A survey was undertaken to determine the favorite displays from the first 39 years of Yuletide at Winterthur. This year’s event showcases many of those favorites.

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to install the displays, there is an experienced team to handle those duties as well. Harper said that there could be as many as 40 people working in the house on a given day when the work of setting up the displays is in full swing.

“We plan it out well in advance,” she explained. “From creating to marketing it, there is not a person at Winterthur who is not involved in Yuletide at Winterthur.”

When Harper mentioned that this year’sYuletide at Winterthur is a walk down memory lane, she wasn’t exaggerating. She first started working at Winterthur in 1984, and she became the assistant to the Yuletide Coordinator in 1988. So she has a lot of memories of the special holiday event. In fact, the first time that she ever visited Winterthur was as a college student at Gettysburg College. She can still recall being at the top of the staircase and looking down to see a large table that was decorated with Christmas wreaths and a massive bowl of punch. It was a part of the Yuletide at Winterthur guided tour, which was just being set up at the time of that first visit. Although she didn’t get to go on a Yuletide tour during that first visit, when she started working at Winterthur, the holiday display was a highlight for her.

The heartwarming displays in Yuletide at Winterthur will stir memories of Christmases past.

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The displays have evolved and changed through the years, and because of her involvement there are a lot of memories. “It has never really lost its magic for me,� Harper said of Yuletide at Winterthur.

For those who make Yuletide at Winterthur a regular part of their holiday celebration, this year’s program will offer a unique opportunity to revisit some of the favorite displays from the last four decades.

And first-time visitors to Yuletide at Winterthur will be in for a real treat as they experience all the dazzling displays for the first time.

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Harper explained, “When we surveyed visitors last year about what they wanted to see in the 40th year of Yuletide at Winterthur, it was really about big displays. This year, it is literally just bigger.

It’s a bigger experience all around for visitors.”

From the history of the holidays to the beauty of the breathtaking driedflower tree to the Dazzling holiday displays will be featured on this year’s Yuletide tour. magical dollhouse mansion, as well as opportunities to shop, dine, and experience special programs and events, Yuletide at Winterthur is a festive celebration that will be enjoyed by people of all ages.

The festivities begin with shopping. In a spectacular display first seen in 1996, the Court will be transformed into an 1860s market square. In the rooms upstairs, visitors will see how the greens, gifts, and delicacies bought there were used to create unforgettable holiday displays.

Special collections will include an array of antique giftgiver figures and a cupboard filled with vintage candy containers.

The stunning displays of trees include cookie-laden evergreens from Pennsylvania German communities in the 1810s and imported German feather trees of the late 1800s to the cotton-wrapped sassafras trees of the early 20th century and gleaming aluminum trees of the mid20th century. Winterthur Museum founder Henry Francis du Pont’s own trees also will be seen, including the 1890s tree of his boyhood decorated with candy-filled cornucopia set among flickering candles and his 1930s tree embellished with glass balls, tinsel, and the still-new strings of colored electric lights.

Winterthur’s signature dried-flower tree, first seen in 1985, will be featured in the Conservatory. Other uniquely designed trees celebrating the March Bank and Peony Garden will remind everyone of the delights that await visitors every spring and summer in the Winterthur Garden.

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In a nod to the popular costuming “The Crown” exhibition, which features 40 costumes from the Emmy award-winning Netflix series about the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, several Yuletide displays will look at royal influence on American winter celebrations, including the popularization of the Christmas tree by Queen Victoria in the 1850s. Guests will also see the traditions of American royalty—the du Pont family— reflected in several displays.

One of Harper’s most important duties is ensuring that the displays flow well with each other. They don’t want people to have to jump from a tour display showcasing 1860 to another one that showcases life 100 years later in quick succession. The displays have to tell a story, and organization is important.

Harper explained that Yuletide at Winterthur focuses on three different things: historic holiday practices; how the du Pont family celebrated the holidays; and then spectacular holiday displays. All three focal points have the potential to delight audiences.

Harper recalled one display that was set up to resemble Bracebridge Hall from the novel by Washington

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Irving. When visitors commented on the accuracy of the display, and were able to appreciate the nod to Bracebridge Hall, it was heartening for the staff.

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It is also wonderful, Harper explained, when a visitor sees a display that showcases Christmas from the 1930s or the 1950s and the visitor is reminded of what the holidays were like when they were children. The heartwarming nostalgia of it can be very meaningful for visitors.

“That kind of response is always great,” Harper said. “To think that you could bring back memories of something that is so special is really great. The things that stand out in my mind—always—are the visitors’ reactions.”

The popularity of Yuletide at Winterthur has proven to be enduring. That’s why the holiday event has lasted for four decades.

“For so many of our families,” Harper explained, “this is a part of their holiday tradition.”

She also noted that there are special holiday programs at Winterthur that take place throughout the season. These include the weekly Yuletide Jazz and Wine series, which features favorite holiday music ensembles on Wednesday evenings in December, live one-man performances of “A Christmas Carol” featuring Gerald Charles Dickens, the great-great-grandson of Charles Dickens, and the popular

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Yuletide Brunch with Santa. Visit winterthur.org/yuletide for a list of these and other events to make your holiday season special.

To contact Staff Writer Steven Hoffman, email editor @ chestercounty .com.

Winterthur, known worldwide for its preeminent collection of American decorative arts, naturalistic gardens, and research library for the study of American art and material culture, offers a variety of tours, exhibitions, programs, and activities throughout the year.

For those visiting Winterthur from Nov. 23, 2019 to January 5, 2020, please note that the Yuletide Tour replaces the Introductory Tour and is included with general admission. The prices for admission during the holiday season are $22 for adults, $20 for students and seniors, $6 for children ages 2 to 11. Witnerthur is open Monday to Sunday, from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. (closed on Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day).

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Winterthur garden commemorated on stamp

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People across the United States will soon get a glimpse of the beautiful gardens of Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library as part of a new Postal Service series of stamps that celebrates 10 classic American gardens.

“Winterthur is extraordinarily pleased to be so honored by the Postal Service and grateful that it will share the beauty of our historic gardens with the nation,” said Carol B. Cadou, the Charles F. Montgomery Director and CEO of Winterthur. “I believe our founder, Henry Francis du Pont, would have been very proud to have Americans everywhere see his stunning landscape designs.”

An experienced and extraordinarily capable horticulturist, Mr. du Pont personally designed the 70-acre naturalistic garden that surrounds his former home. The garden is internationally renowned for its distinctive color schemes, remarkable specimen trees, and unique palette of plants, which created an aesthetic that was unique among American gardens of its time.

Winterthur also includes a formal garden designed by Mr. du Pont’s close friend, the pioneering woman landscape architect Marian Coffin. The stamp features a photograph of

azaleas blooming around the reflecting pool in the Coffindesigned garden.

“The Winterthur garden is Mr. du Pont’s masterwork, so it is a remarkable artifact,” says Chris Strand, director of garden and estate at Winterthur. “We manage it carefully to preserve the design intent and skill of Mr. du Pont and the many staff who have cared for it for over a century, and we love sharing that vision with visitors every day.”

With this issuance, the Postal Service celebrates the beauty of American Gardens. This pane of 20 stamps features ten different photographs of botanic, country estate, and municipal gardens, taken between 1996 and 2014. The gardens include: Biltmore Estate Gardens (North Carolina); Brooklyn Botanic Garden (New York); Chicago Botanic Garden (Illinois); Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens (Maine); Dumbarton Oaks Garden (District of Columbia); The Huntington Botanical Gardens (California); Alfred B. Maclay Gardens State Park (Florida); Norfolk Botanical Garden (Virginia); Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens (Ohio); and Winterthur Garden (Delaware).

Art director Ethel Kessler designed the stamps with existing photos taken by Allen Rokach.

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Helping Hockessin plan for the future

For more than a half a century, the Greater Hockessin Area Development Association has helped the community have a voice in commercial and residential development in the area Courtesy photo

Mark Blake, the current president of the Greater Hockessin Area Development Association, has been involved in the organization for the last 16 years.

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n recent months, the Greater Hockessin Area Development A s s o c i a t i o n (GHADA) has been involved in meetings regarding a multiuse project called Hockessin Station that has the potential to be one of the most significant developments in the community in many years.

Hockessin Station could include residential homes, commercial and office space that is situated in a town square-style area, and preserved open space. With its wide

Photo by Steven Hoffman

Hockessin has seen a lot of residential and commercial growth over the last five decades. GHADA has played an important part in ensuring that the growth is managed well, and that the community maintains adequate water, sewer, and road infrastructure.

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streets and walking trails, the Hockessin Station plans aim high—the final product could be a charming village setting reminiscent of a Norman Rockwell painting.

The developer of the project, Delaware-based Blenheim Homes, spent several years assembling ten parcels along Valley Road that total about 60 acres in preparation for making Hockessin Station a reality. It could take a decade—or longer—to completely build out the project.

But GHADA is involved now, in the early stages, when the concepts of the plan are still being developed.

Mark Blake, for one, is thankful that there is an organization that works with developers proactively so that the concerns of local residents about things like traffic, stormwater management, landscaping, and the designs of homes and buildings are addressed now, when there’s still time to chart a successful path forward.

Blake, the president of GHADA, has seen dozens of projects go through the planning process during his 16 years with the organization. The finished product is always better if a developer is willing to work with the neighbors of a project to ensure that all reasonable concerns are addressed.

This is particularly true of a project like Hockessin Station. According to Blake, the project has the potential

to provide a real sense of place for Hockessin.

That’s why input from the public—through the work of GHADA—at an early stage is so vital.

Without GHADA, developers would only need to meet the minimum requirements of the county codes.

In Hockessin, thanks to the work of dozens of citizens who volunteer their time and talents, the goal is always to be better than the minimum.

“We want better than code by a factor of two or three,” Blake explained.

Developmental pressures are nothing new to the residents of Hockessin and the surrounding areas. When farms and open space was being replaced by both commercial and residential developments in the 1960s, a group of residents thought it was important to take a more proactive approach to planning issues. GHADA was formed in 1967, and at first the group focused on community issues like traffic control, police protection, park land and community recreation, local sanitation, and street lighting. The first president of the organization was Francis Swift, Sr. His son, Francis Swift, Jr., would also serve as GHADA president and was very active in the organization for years.

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Photo by Steven Hoffman

Distinctive designs and good landscaping in residential and commercial developments help Hockessin maintain a sense of place.

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Hockessin has changed a lot since 1967, but one constant during that time is GHADA’s work aimed at improving the quality of life for residents and business owners in the community. The group accomplishes this by collaborating with developers to help improve the community. If the community benefits, everyone benefits. GHADA’s focus is now largely on land-use and development issues, with an eye toward maintaining the quality of the Cockeysville aquifer, providing adequate water, sewer, and road infrastructure, and preserving the residential character of the Hockessin community.

While GHADA has no authority, the developers now recognize the benefits of working collaboratively with the neighbors.

Blake explained that there was a time when developers were still very adversarial with GHADA, but after so many projects over so many years, most developers now see the wisdom of working with GHADA and the community to get the best possible results for everyone.

“It’s much more cooperative now,” Blake explained. “We can take the time and work at it. We let the developers know that we’ll support you, but please make it look good. Make

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sure the development has some interesting features. We want it to have some of that Hockessin look with a flavor of the Hockessin history.”

GHADA works to prevent cookie-cutter developments that have no character or, worse, include designs that are inconsistent with the historic character of Hockessin.

“We definitely want buildings that look more upscale than the standard big box store,” Blake explained. One illustration of a business that doesn’t have a cookie-cut look is the local CVS, which features backlit signs and architecture with really nice features.

GHADA will also work with a developer on coming up with plans for attractive landscaping designs. Each project is unique and there will be different hurdles and challenges. But through good, old-fashioned cooperation, the end result can be better if the community and a developer work together.

“We work in tangibles,” Blake explained. “We want code, plus, plus.”

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local residents to oppose any project that might take up valuable resources, add to expenses, or increase traffic. But through the years, GHADA has successfully managed to listen to all concerns raised—and then get down to work on the problems that the proposed development has.

Public meetings are held so that concept plans can be shared. Focus groups are formed so that residents and businesses have representation in the discussions.

“The focus groups bring together all the nearest people who are neighbors of the project,” Blake explained.

These focus groups are comprised of neighbors— people of different professions and with different areas of expertise. The focus groups will work directly with the developers on coming up with ways to ensure that a project addresses the concerns of local residents.

GHADA will look at a variety of issues for a particular project, including stormwater management, the impact on local roads, and traffic.

By working collaboratively with neighbors who are going to be the most affected by a proposed development, developers are spared the expense of legal

challenges, repeat filings of documents with the county, and a lot of unpleasantness. Working with GHADA paves the way for the process to go smoothly once the plans are filed with the county. This benefits the developers immensely.

After more than a half of century at work, GHADA has proven its value to the Hockessin community time and again. More than 35 neighborhoods, regions, and civic organizations are considered to be a part of the Greater Hockessin Area.

The work of GHADA has been instrumental in making a difference in the community in a variety of ways that may go unseen by newer residents. One illustration of this is the innovative storm-water management plan that was developed for the Hockessin Fire Hall property to ease flooding issues. Additional parking was needed, but the amount of impervious surfaces was creating issues with excessive rainwater run-off.

An underground rain garden was built to capture the run-off. This innovative system of dealing with run-off offered a solution for an important part of the Hockessin community.

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“The fire company is a lifeblood of the community,” Blake said. “We want to help them.”

The creative method of addressing the storm-water issue not only worked flawlessly, it became a model for the county and state.

“We’ve done a lot to address some of the ills of the past to get the engineers to get creative and come up with solutions,” Blake said.

One of the reasons for the organization’s success is the enduring dedication of people who are willing to serve as board members and officers of GHADA. This started with the organization’s founder, Fran Swift, Sr. who was involved for many years. Blake worked alongside Fran Swift, Jr. There has also been help from supportive lawmakers like Councilwoman Janet Kilpatrick, who represents District 3, and Representative Michael Smith, who represents the 22nd District in the Delaware General Assembly.

Blake added that the organization wouldn’t be able to function without the dedicated community volunteers and the GHADA board members and officers.

“We’re a strong, community-based organization.

We couldn’t be as effective or do what we do without their tireless input and participation,” he said.

The Greater Hockessin Area Development Association welcomes community participation. Its meetings are held at the Hockessin Fire Company Memorial Hall at 7 p.m. on the third Monday of each month except July, August, and December.

To contact Staff Writer Steven Hoffman, email editor@chestercounty.com.

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The last of the Autumn leaves

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Generously spread out over 377 acres on the edge of Greenville, Coverdale Farm Preserve offers a panorama virtually unmatched in northern Delaware, and a complex network of vegetable gardens and grazing pastures that surround a historic farmstead. Nestled alongside the 200acre preserve is a 177-acre working farm that showcases regenerative agriculture methods. Farm livestock includes cows, sheep, goats, pigs, chickens and Thanksgiving turkeys.

Open to the public from May through October and year-round for special programs, Coverdale is also a continuing classroom, whose offerings include farmbased and natural history programs, seasonal events and a professional kitchen where culinary classes are taught. It’s also

the home of two popular annual events – the Harvest Moon Festival held in early October and Farm to Fork, which takes place every Autumn that features farm-to-table culinary delights actually grown at Coverdale.

At the center of its mission, Coverdale’s Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program produces the vegetables and meat that helps feed the local community, as well as provides programs that connects the community to the sources of their food. Coverdale’s regenerative methods and practices are an environmentally accountable approach to growing food that increases biodiversity, enriches the soil, improves watersheds, enhances ecosystem services, and facilitates resiliency to climate instability.

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To learn more about Coverdale Farm Preserve, its programs and its events, visit the Delaware Nature Society’s website, www.delawarenaturesociety.org.

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With the holidays in full swing, it’s time to share some local traditions that make the season special. Three nearby landmarks – Longwood Gardens, Hagley and the Brandywine River Museum of Art – are lavishly decorated and ready to welcome thousands of families this season.

In northern Delaware, “Holidays at Hagley” is continuing through Jan. 1.

The 1803 du Pont family ancestral home, Eleutherian Mills, will feature holiday decorations and interpretation of the French traditions of exchanging gifts on New Year’s Day and the celebration of Twelfth Night.

Visitors will experience the du Pont ancestral home decorated for the holidays and the “Christmas Trees: Past and Present” exhibition, celebrating the history of Christmas trees in America. It starts with an 1840s Victorian tabletop tree with handmade ornaments and candles; then continues to a 1930s with a tree decorated with colorful electric lights, shiny glass ornaments, and tinsel; and ends in the present with several modern reinterpretations of decorated trees.

On weekends and through Dec. 29 and Dec. 23, 24, 26, 27, 30 and 31, visitors of all ages can enjoy cookie decorating and ornament making in the Visitor Center, sample cookies in the Gibbons House, and write with a quill pen in the Sunday School.

On Dec. 7, bring your camera for a photo with Santa. Visit Santa’s workshop and take a special holiday photo. Santa appearances are at 10 a.m., 1 and 3 p.m.

Twilight Tours will be offered on Dec. 11, 12, 18, 19 and 26, every half-hour from 4:30 to 7 p.m. The residence and trees will be lighted for the tours.

Hagley is closed on Thanksgiving Day (Nov. 28), and will close at 2 p.m. on Christmas Eve (Dec. 24) and will be closed all day Christmas (Dec. 25). Visit www.hagley.org.

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Families can visit with Santa Claus at Hagley Museum this year.

Lavishly decorated trees in a historic mansion draw visitors to Hagley.

-In nearby Kennett Square, it’s shaping up to be “A Longwood Christmas” to remember. On view daily through Jan. 5, the holiday display is inspired by the contours of traditional holiday favorites, such as poinsettias, pinecones and snowflakes, as well as shapes unique to Longwood.

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Inside Longwood’s four-acre Conservatory, the Exhibition Hall holds a 400-foot-long ribbon entwined with giant ornaments, nestled among trees, culminating in a towering Christmas tree decorated in red, gold and silver ornaments.

The Music Room is transformed into a confectionary shop decorated for the holidays, featuring two 18-foot Fraser firs dripping in pastel-colored Christmas candy.

In a collaboration with America’s oldest candy store, Shane’s Confectionary in Philadelphia, the Music Room showcases vintage candy molds and clear toy candies, a Pennsylvania German Christmas tradition. The display counter is filled with horticulturally themed chocolates, lollipops and cookies, while apothecary jars are filled with artistic lollipops and other sweet favorites.

The East Conservatory holds the largest indoor tree in the display, a 24-foot white fir with a pinecone motif that’s flanked by cut white pine trees and fountain jets. In the Rose House is a living tree decked out in more than 150 pink poinsettias as handcrafted chandeliers glow from above.

In the Ballroom, an 18-foot Fraser fir is covered in crystal ornaments fashioned in shapes reminiscent of the crystals found in the 90-year-old chandeliers and sconces in the room.

Thousands of poinsettias, amaryllis, fragrant paperwhites, and other floral finery fill the Conservatory.

Living wreaths fashioned from everything from orchids to succulents, and trees fashioned from a variety of plant materials, highlight the skills of Longwood’s many horticulturists.

Outside, more than 500,000 lights are strung on 150 trees. New displays include dancing lights that simulate the fountain jets in the Main Fountain Garden. The towering trees bordering the Large Lake are the backdrop for a repeating illuminated light show set to holiday music.

In the Meadow Garden, visitors stroll through a 140foot tunnel of light in the winter landscape, and discover a grove of glowing architectural orbs that pulse and change to the rhythm of holiday favorites.

The Wildlife Tree is swathed in skeins of yarn, while hundreds of handmade ornaments serve as a holiday buffet for wildlife. The 25-foot Gardener’s Tree showcases some of nature’s most unique shapes – ornamental gourds.

In the Open Air Theatre, fountains dance day and night to holiday classics. And Longwood’s outdoor train display will be operating daily. Three fire pits invite guests to warm up by the fire on chilly evenings.

Throughout the season, Longwood’s Ballroom will be the site of free and ticketed holiday-inspired performances, as well as daily carol sing-alongs performed on Longwood’s pipe organ. The Strolling Olde Towne Carolers add to the holiday charm on select evenings, while Longwood’s historic Chimes Tower plays holiday music every half-hour.

Admission to the Christmas display is by timed admission ticket, purchased in advance for a specific date and time. Members require free, timed reservations every day if arriving after 2 p.m. Gardens Premium Members do not require reservations. Tickets and reservations are available at www.longwoodgardens.org.

-The magic of the holiday season returns to the Brandywine River Museum of Art in Chadds Ford during “A Brandywine Christmas” through Jan. 5.

This holiday experience for all ages includes a gallery filled with a landscaped model train display; a special exhibition featuring a selection of three beloved fairy tales and their evolution through time and different cultures; towering trees decorated with whimsical Critter ornaments; and a wide selection of holiday events and programs for the whole family.

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across cultures. The exhibition includes more than 100 drawings from books illustrated by 35 artists, revealing both cultural and stylistic diversity.

Brandywine Railroad On view through Jan. 5 The model train display, a holiday family favorite since 1972, offers both toy and scale model trains made by Lionel, Williams, Atlas, Mike’s Train House, K-line and others. The Brandywine Railroad features trains running on 2,000 feet of track and includes more than 1,000 pieces, including locomotives, passenger and freight trains, and trolleys that pass through a small town, a farm, factories and a carnival.

Special holiday events and activities throughout the season include: Breakfast with the Trains (Saturdays, Dec. 7 and 14, 8:30 to 10 a.m.): A behind-the-scenes visit with the Brandywine Railroad to discover how the extensive layout is created and the complicated multitasking it takes to keep everything running. This before-hours event includes a private tour of the trains in action with Brandywine Railroad engineers, special activities for the younger train fans, and a

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continental breakfast in the Museum’s Millstone Café. $20 members; $25 non-members.

Stroller Tours (Tuesday, Dec. 10, 10:30 to 11:30 a.m.): Enjoy a relaxed morning out with your little one while engaging with art in the galleries. This guided tour is designed for adults accompanied by babies. Free with museum admission.

Children’s Christmas Party (Wednesday, Dec. 11, 6 to 8 p.m.): Visit with Santa and Mrs. Claus and enjoy entertainment, costumed characters, face painting, model trains, trees adorned with hundreds of “Critter” ornaments, and Cookie Land. Members: $12 adults, free for children. Nonmembers: $15 adults, $5 children (3-11), free for children under 3.

Piano Performance by Jennifer Nicole Campbell (Wednesday, Dec. 18, 1 to 2 p.m.): Award-winning pianist and composer Jennifer Nicole Campbell will perform a variety of classical and holiday songs in the museum atrium for visitors. Free with museum admission.

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sensory processing disorder and their families are invited to get early access to the Brandywine Railroad. Created in conjunction with local families and occupational therapists, this inclusive and accessible program strives to provide a welcoming experience through offering: pre-visit social stories; reduced crowding and noise; a sensory break area; on-hand support of skilled and friendly volunteers which include occupational therapy graduate students and faculty; and fidgets and noise-cancelling headphones to borrow. This program welcomes participants of all ages and their families (siblings welcome). For more information or to register, contact Laura Westmoreland at lwestmoreland@brandywine.org or 610-388-8120.

Free with advance registration.

The museum is open daily from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (except Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day), and is on Route 1 in Chadds Ford. Admission is $18 for adults, $15 for seniors ages 65 and over, $6 for students

Handmade ornaments like this kayaker are displayed on trees and throughout the Brandywine River Museum of Art in Chadds Ford.

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