Greenville & Hockessin Life-Winter 2014

Winter 2014

Greenville & Hockessin

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• Keeping fit in the winter • Greenville woman cycles across the U.S. for good cause • Then & Now along Route 52 • The philanthropy of J Christian Studio

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Inspiration to create

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Hockessin’s edible classroom

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Greenville woman cycles across the U.S. for good cause

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Echoes of the past along Route 52

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Their seasons of giving

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Cops and horses convene at Carousel Park

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Q & A David Ludlow

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The new Centreville Layton School

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Keeping fit in the winter

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Hockessin resident helps tell the story of the Brandywine Battlefield

On the cover: (Photo by Lane McLaughlin): Staying fit in the winter Cover design: db Stirrat

GREENVILLE & HOCKESSIN LIFE Exploring what makes Greenville & Hockessin special Greenville & Hockessin Life • Fall/Winter 2014 Letter from the Editor: The great joy in covering communities like Hockessin and Greenville is that there are so many interesting and talented people who live or work in the area. In this issue of Greenville & Hockessin Life, we introduce readers to just a few people who have helped make the community around them a better place.

We introduce readers to Greenville resident Beth Friedman, who biked from Portland, Oregon to Portland, Maine to raise money to fight Parkinson’s disease. Friedman was inspired to take the challenge of cycling 3,600 miles from one end of the country to the other by her father, Tom McDowell, who has faced the neurological disorder with the same positive attitude that he has lived his entire life. Friedman has already raised more than $17,000 that will help the Michael J. Fox Foundation, the leading organization in the campaign against Parkinson’s.

We also introduce you to J Christian and his wife Marcy, who began a style studio in Hockessin seven years ago with two simple missions: To provide great service, and to give back to their community. They’ve since become one of the leading style salons in Delaware, and their philanthropic efforts have exceeded their wildest dreams.

Writer Richard Gaw takes read-

ers inside the cooking school at Everything But The Kitchen Sink in Hockessin, which introduces foodies and weekend chefs to the pleasures of both the palate and the plate.

Writer Carla Lucas provides a recap of Mt. Cuba’s first annual Art-In on Sept. 26. The event attracted more than 30 artists from five states, and she talked to some of the artists about where they find their inspiration to create.

We were also there when New Castle County’s Mounted Patrol hosted the 2014 North American Police Equestrian Championships (NAPEC), an annual highlight for these police officers. Thousands of spectators turned out to watch more than 80 mounted policemen and women from 22 agencies across 12 states and Canada participate in the event at New Castle County’s Carousel Park.

The subject of the Q & A in this issue is David Ludlow, who has been the executive director of the Wilmington & Western Railroad since 1993. Ludlow is a licensed locomotive engineer and a certified track inspector.

We also talk to Hockessin resident Andrew Outten, who has served as the education director for the Brandywine Battlefield in Chadds Ford for the last two years. Outten teaches school programs for students, helps organize interpretative exhibits, gives house tours of the homes

on the property, and conducts guided battlefield tours for military groups, students, and senior citizens.

In his “Then and Now” feature, John Chambless traveled along Route 52 to capture images of some of the places that have survived the century since the Kennett Pike was new, and compares those images with those that were included in Andrew Engel’s book, “Along Route 52: Delaware’s Historic Kennett Pike.”

Lane McLaughlin’s photo essay focuses on how residents in the Greenville and Hockessin area keep fit during the winter months when it’s too easy just to stay inside bundled under warm blankets.

We hope that you enjoy the stories in this issue of Greenville & Hockessin Life as much as the writers and photographers enjoyed preparing them. As always, we welcome your comments and suggestions for future stories. Enjoy the holidays, and we’ll see you again in the spring of 2015.

Sincerely, Randy Lieberman, Publisher randyl@chestercounty.com, 610-869-5553 Steven Hoffman, Editor editor@chestercounty.com, 610-869-5553, ext. 13

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Mt. Cuba’s Art-In attracts artists from across the region

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Deena Ball was inspired by the light in the trees and the field as she worked on a watercolor painting.

By Carla Lucas Correspondent Artists interpret life through color, shape, line and texture to express what they see.

Inspiration starts the process.

“We invited artists to come to the gardens as a source of inspiration,” said Maggie Brock, the education and research assistant at Mt. Cuba Center.

More than 30 artists from five states came for the first annual Art-In on Sept 26. Some just walked the grounds and photographed what caught their attention for later work. But others brought their easels, paints, pens, canvases and sketch books to work on site.

Sitting in the gazebo with a sketch pad in her hands, Kathy Ruck of Landenberg looked out over the pond, where the towering trees framed the sloping meadow. “I noticed this view on another visit and knew it would be best in the

Roe Murray likes to be surrounded by what she is painting.

fall,” she said.

Ruck is known for her watercolors of local places, and has done several paintings of Mt. Cuba.

“The leaves are just starting to change their color and the meadow’s colors are gorgeous,”

All I could think of was pink fireworks as the sun backlit the flowers.

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she said. “Mt. Cuba is one of my favorite subjects because of its natural beauty.”

Across the pond was Roe Murray of West Chester. She works in oils with an impressionistic style.

Roe prefers to paint on site, immersed in the location, as opposed to painting Kathy Ruck works on a piece from the from a photograph. gazebo.

“This is a beautiful day to paint, and the weather is perfect,” she said. “This spot called to me. It is peaceful. The water is so still.”

Connie Newby, an artist from Wilmington, specializes in trees. “This was a great opportunity in a beautiful space,” she said as she sketched a bent branch in a grove of evergreens. “It is peaceful and Continued on Page 12

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Kathy Ruck used this view as inspiration.

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gorgeous here. There is a mix of landscaped trees and wilder areas.”

When she returns to her studio, Connie will translate the small sketches she did at Mt. Cuba into a four-byfive-foot charcoal drawing.

Home schooler Billie Rose Newby used the Art-In as a learning experience. She came with her mother, Connie, and found her own inspiration near the pond.

“The little things near the water’s edge caught my eye,” she said as she sketched.

“Every time I turn my head I see another beautiful thing,” said Laura Pucceschi, a photographer from Wayne, about her first visit to Mt. Cuba Center. She’d heard wonderful things about the site and decided the Art-In was the perfect opportunity. Pucceschi’s closeups of plants remind her that beauty is around all the time, and all you have to do is observe. For her subjects, she looks for patterns, textures and shapes.

“It’s important to get shots in context, the global landscape,” she said. At Mt. Cuba, she found many opportunities to explore plants in their natural setting.

It was a first visit for Julie Dixon, a photographer from

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Artists came to Mt. Cuba for the first annual Art-In to be inspired.

Laura Pucceschi works to capture her photograph before the light changes.

Chester County. She spent the morning walking the grounds and capturing fall images. For her, this was a new local landscape. The reflection of the trees in the ponds inspired her.

Catherine Carney, from Boothwyn, spent her morning working on a pastel of a cherub sculpture near the main house. For her afternoon, she planned to work under the trees, interpreting the little island in the Continued on Page 14

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Sunlight slipping through a tree canopy highlighted this delicate spike of flowers.

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Connie Newby found inspiration for her sketch in a grove of evergreens.

Right Photo: Catherine Carney shows the first piece she created at the Art-In.

middle of the pond.

“There’s too many places here that are inspiring,” she said.

“All you have to do is look around.”

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Executive Chef Peter Fortaine teaches a cooking class at Everything But The Kitchen Sink.

The early stages of a dish that is part of a Dickens Feast cooking demonstration.

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A slanted mirror placed above the test kitchen allows students to see how a dish is prepared.

Hockessin’s edible classroom Throughout the year, the cooking school at Everything But The Kitchen Sink in Hockessin introduces foodies and weekend chefs to the pleasures of both the palate and the plate.

By Richard L. Gaw Staff Writer There is a school in Hockessin that promises its students trips around the world.

This year, they have embarked on journeys to Peru, to India, to Asia, to Mexico, and to 19th-century England for a holiday dinner. Their visits are culinary in nature and resemble veritable feasts that introduce their palates to the harmony of new flavors: chicken saltimbocca, dulce de leche custard topped with Italian port meringue, and pan-roasted squab with pear chutney.

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talented and experienced cooks and chefs the area has to offer. For the hundreds of foodies and weekend chefs who have attended classes there, the school has become a recipe book brought to life, a “Master Chef” television program in their own backyard, and an interactive conversation between chef and students, with all of the scents and flavors that accompany it.

For a reasonable fee, students receive printed copies of all of the recipes on the evening’s menu, as well as a step-by-step cooking demonstration by guest chefs who explain how the particular dishes are made. With a glass or two of red or white wine poured by sous chefs, students then get to enjoy that evening’s offerings.

This fall, students were introduced to a class on craft beer introduced by local wine and beer writer Michael Steinberger; given a tutorial on the many ways that a poultry entree can be kicked up with a blend of spices and side dishes, taught by executive chef Peter Photo by Richard L. Gaw

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Fontaine; introduced to the flavors of Peru, taught by chef Bianca Russano; attended a class about the delights and delicacy of serving crepes, given by chef Michele Uy; and took classes on preparing a seafood dinner, cooking with oysters, preparing gluten-free dishes, and making an Asian fusion meal.

“Everything in life comes down to relationships, and there’s a relationship that occurs when cooking is taking place, whether it’s between family and friends, or the chef and the food,” said Julie Sebring, director of the cooking school at Everything But Continued on Page 22

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Executive chef Peter Fontaine shares his recipe for making chestnut soup.

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The Kitchen Sink. “There’s a mini-Thanksgiving every time someone goes into a kitchen and prepares a meal, a certain kind of fellowship that crosses all cultures, all ages, and every barrier.”

Sebring sees these same relationships forming at the classes. “Every class has its own personality, and it begins to take on that personality in the first few minutes,” she said. “In many ways, each class is a way for people to express themselves.”

For every one of the dozen students who attend the cooking school at Everything But The Kitchen Sink, there are just as many reasons that draw them there. Margie Gehrmann of Landenberg has a huge family, and for many years, she would prepare a complete dinner for as many as 30 people at her home. This year is no exception; she’s already preparing ideas for what will be on her Thanksgiving table.

“I love to entertain and have guests sitting around talking while I prepare the food,” she said. “I always learn something new from these classes, little tidbits that I Photo by Richard L. Gaw

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can bring to my own home, such as a new style of presentation. I always learn something I didn’t previously know. For instance, I’ve learned how to peel and prepare garlic the right way.”

One could say that the penchant for cooking runs in Pike Creek resident Maile Rydgren’s DNA. Her parents own a catering company in Baltimore. While she was an undergraduate at the University of Delaware, Rydgren cultivated her culinary skills as a student in the Department of Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Management. As part of her learning, she prepared dishes at the Vita Nova, the on-campus restaurant. She admitted that her mind was hard at work during a class she recently attended with her friend, Erin Betterman of Hockessin.

“I said to Erin that this class brings me back to school,” Rydgren said. “I would attend classes in a similar demo room just like this, taking notes and looking at how to develop knife skills and selecting the right pans to use.

Now, I’m remembering back and correcting what I learned back then.”

On the other hand, Betterman, a Hockessin resident, admitted that her husband is the chef in the family, and began to attend the cooking classes with her mother.

“My husband is the man in the kitchen, and I don’t mind that he likes that role, but it’s nice to be able to know a little about cooking,” she said. “I’m taking away everything from these classes that I can.”

For Corey Beattie of Lincoln University, however, the classes she is taking with her mother Marie represent a bridge to a career she has dreamed of for the past few years.

As the 2010 school year got underway, Beattie was an active senior at Avon Grove High School. She played softball, participated in track and field, was on the diving team and a member of a competitive cheerleading team. She loved music, and was a member of the choir and played the trumpet in the school band. After graduation, she intended to attend culinary school when, on Oct. 2, she suffered a broken neck and traumatic brain injury while a passenger in a car crash at the intersection of Routes 896 and 841.

Through rehabilitation and therapy, Corey’s recovery has been a slow but steady one, but through it all, she has never lost sight of her goal to become a chef.

The Beattie family has found a local chef who has agreed to start working with Corey. Under his tutelage, Continued on Page 24

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she is learning the basics of cutting and cooking, as well as becoming familiar with the tools a chef needs in a kitchen.

Corey recently attended a class with Marie at Everything But The Kitchen Sink that introduced students to creative ways of making dinner with refrigerator leftovers. Corey sat in the front row, just to the left of chef Russano. She constantly wrote notes all over the pages of recipes she received for arugula salad with walnut vinaigrette, and butternut squash and kale lasagna.

“Corey has met so many chefs and she’s begun e-mailing them, so she’s networking with future colleagues,” Marie said. “For me, to see her excited and committed means everything to me, and these classes are such a valuable extension of her commitment. Part of what she does for her therapy is write grocery lists, and she’s now at a point where she can push the grocery cart.

“We learn things from these classes, to the point where she attempts to make these dishes at home.

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strength of her left hand, to become a better master at her craft. Most importantly, she gets to use her creativity.”

Sebring is already beginning to plan the schedule at the school for next spring. Ideas are everywhere, she said; throughout the year, she scans food blogs and magazines for the latest trends in food preparation and popular culinary choices, and asks students what types of classes they may be interested in attending.

“What I try to do is get to target my audience and get a sense of what people would like to learn about,” she said. “If, for instance, they hear about a type of food they may be interested in trying at a restaurant, they may be somewhat hesitant to talk to the restaurant’s chef about it, but the school gives them the freedom to ask those questions in a much more comfortable setting, while the dish is being made.

“It’s all part of the experience here,” Sebring added.

“Everyone is here to learn, to observe and to enjoy.”

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Greenville woman cycled across the U.S. for good cause Inspired by her father, Beth Friedman biked from Portland, Oregon to Portland, Maine to raise money to fight Parkinson’s disease

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Beth Friedman began the 3,600-mile journey by dipping the back wheel in the Pacific Ocean on Aug. 24.

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n August 24, Beth Friedman dipped the wheels of a bike into the Pacific Ocean and embarked on a 3,600-mile ride of a lifetime, starting in Astoria, Oregon and heading east toward Portland.

Over the course of the next 44 days, the Greenville resident biked an average of 92 miles a day across the U.S., raising money and awareness about Parkinson’s disease.

Friedman’s inspiration for the ride was her father, Tom McDowell, a man who has inspired her all her life. She considers him her hero.

“A hero is someone who leads by example and uses his positive attitude to affect the world around him,” Friedman wrote on a blog post about her trip.

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Beth Friedman with her dad, Tom McDowell.

Climbing Medicine Wheel Pass one pedal stroke at a time.

A sign at the top of Medicine Wheel Pass in Bighorn National Forest in Wyoming. Friedman climbed this grade.

Friedman riding in Badlands National Park in 40-degree weather.

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been a stellar example of strength and bravery to everyone around him.”

According to Friedman, her father has been facing the degenerative neurological disorder with the same, resolute “Semper Fi” attitude with which he served his country in the Korean War. “My dad was a Marine for four years,” Friedman explained. “He helped raise six children and he always encouraged us in whatever we were doing. He’s always been this incredibly positive person. You hear about people who look at the glass as being half-full and others who look at the glass as being half-empty. He’s someone who looks at the glass and it’s overflowing. He always chooses to be positive and that’s what he’s doing with Parkinson’s.”

Friedman said that her father’s Parkinson’s diagnosis came after he suffered some problems with his his back and some rigidity when he was walking. He continues to struggle with those symptoms, which come and go, and also suffers from issues with his vocal cords. He does not have tremors, a common affliction associated with Parkinson’s. The way that he has responded to the ailment has been an inspiration, and Friedman wanted to do something to help others with Parkinson’s.

She knew about the good work of the Michael J. Fox Foundation—the actor suffers from the disease—and wanted to help that organization. Her father had inspired a love of outdoors, so cycling across the country

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The view from Bighorn National Forest in Wyoming.

A barn in New York.

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Beth Friedman with her father Tom McDowell, his wife Nancy Coning, and Friedman’s son, Max, in Portland.

seemed like a good way to not only raise money for the cause, but honor him, too.

“I love to travel and I love to travel by bike,” Friedman explained, noting that she only took up cycling about three years ago after an injury forced her to curtail running.

Once Friedman decided that she was going to make the cross-country journey in January, she stepped up her training. She was not at all sure that she would be able to accomplish the feat even though she has several impressive athletic accomplishments on her resumé. She has run marathons on seven different continents, climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro, and hiked the Inca Trail to Machu Pichu, but it would take a lot of hard work to prepare for this 44-day endurance test.

“I’m always looking to challenge myself physically,” Friedman explained. “I like to live an active lifestyle.

Even when I go on vacation, I like to incorporate different activities.”

She would routinely bike between 45 and 90 miles at a time trying to prepare herself for the long rides. By August, she was able to do back-to-back 100-mile rides.

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might not be able to.”

In late August, she joined 21 other bicyclists who were taking part in the same tour of the northern tier of the U.S. that was arranged by Trek Travel. Most of the cyclists were making the trip for fun, but Friedman was one of three who were using it as a fundraiser for a cause.

Trek Travel’s schedule had a strict timeline that had to be adhered to: Over the course of 44 days, the cyclists had to cover an average of 92 miles per day, with just four of those days reserved as off days.

“It didn’t matter how you felt or what the weather was like, you rode 40 out of 44 days,” Friedman explained.

“Everything was planned out in approximately 100-mile increments each day.”

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rigorous the trip was going to be.

“Iowa is not flat at all,” Friedman said with a laugh. “You’re either going up or you’re going down. It was not flat.”

She had a close call in Iowa when a cyclist in front of her went down

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as a result of an accident. She was able avoid the other rider, but she did suffer a road burn during the incident.

Another difficult stretch of the ride was when the cyclists approached the Rocky Mountains on long, steep roads that went up and up and up.

As she made her way across country, Friedman stayed in touch with family and friends by texting, calling, and emailing. She also posted regular updates on a blog.

The most beautiful part of the trip, she said was the New England area.

“I really liked the scenery and the variety of the roads,” she explained.

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The cyclists occasionally ran into road construction. In Iowa, they had to ford a stream because the bridge was out.

Ohio was another highlight because she was pleasantly surprised at how many bike trails the state has. Even as she approached the center of a major city like Cleveland, the riders were able to stay on bike trails.

She will always remember the pleasing smell of alfalfa in bloom in Wyoming.

She will cherish many memories from the trip across the U.S., and is proud of the fact that she cycled every inch of the trip across the U.S., but she was very happy to complete the ride on Oct. 6 and return home and see her family again. It was difficult being away from her family,

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including her husband, Eddie, and their two grown children.

“This was by far the longest I had ever been away, and I realized how much I missed seeing my family,” she explained.

Friedman said that her father was very proud that she made the ride to raise money for the fight against Parkinson’s disease. She has already collected more than $17,000 in contributions as a result.

“Dad taught me the importance of family and to work hard for what I believe in,” Friedman explained.

She definitely believes in the work that the Michael J. Fox Foundation is doing. The organization has a unique model that is very personal and very effective at making sure that the funds that are raised are used for aggressive research to find a cure for Parkinson’s disease. Eighty-eight cents of every dollar raised by The Michael J. Fox Foundation

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goes directly to research program efforts. Since 2000, the foundation has funded more than $450 million in Parkinson’s research. The organization’s Team Fox is a grassroots initiative to help raise funds and awareness for Parkinson’s research as members take part in various

A beautiful sunrise in Iowa.

activities—running marathons, flipping pancakes, climbing mountains, hosting concerts, or golfing for a cure.

“They are doing some amazing things,” Friedman said, noting that medical researchers have done a good Continued on Page 36

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job of coming up with different combinations of medications to help treat patients.

Friedman is still collecting contributions for the fight against Parkinson’s. A blog about her journey across the country and information about how to contribute to Team Fox can be found at www.p2p4parkinsons. com.

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

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——|Greenville & Hockessin Then & Now|——

Echoes of the past along Route 52

Contemporary photos by John Chambless

By John Chambless Staff Writer

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oute 52 runs from Wilmington into Pennsylvania through some of the most spectacular real estate on the East Coast. Not only does the road lead to internationallyknown Winterthur, but it passes private estates that beckon drivers with questions of, “Who could afford to live there?”

The road, which was incorporated in 1811, began as the Wilmington and Kennett Turnpike.

Travelers were charged a fee based on what kind of vehicle they were using and what they were carrying. The open hills along the road became home to wealthy families connected to the DuPont Company in Wilmington. Pierre S. du Pont was a frequent traveler, and he set out to

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This view of Dalton’s Store in Centreville, from early in the 20th century, shows the 1876 building that held the Centreville Lodge No. 37 of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

Today, shops occupy the ground floor of the building.

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modernize the road at the dawn of the automobile age. He became the head of a turnpike company he formed before the outbreak of World War I, and work proceeded in stages through the 1920s, at a cost of more than $764,000.

Today, travelers benefit from the many improvements made to the original road, as well as du Pont’s edict that billboards not be allowed. The beauty of Route 52 is that it remains uncluttered and it offers a passing glimpse, through the trees or just over a hill, of jaw-dropping elegance.

Outfitted with a camera and a copy of the book “Along Route 52: Delaware’s Historic Kennett Pike,” by Andrew Engel (Arcadia Publishing, 2014), I traveled along Route 52 to capture some of the places that have survived the century since the Kennett Pike was new. Here’s what I found.

To contact Staff Writer John Chambless, e-mail jchambless@chestercounty.com.

The Chandler-Dixon Frederick House was built in 1880, and was home to generations of the Frederick family.

Frederick’s Country Center holds shops and boutiques in the heart of Centreville.

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This late 1940s photo shows a vacant gas station that used to stand next to what is now Buckley’s Tavern. The side windows and door of the tavern are visible under the overhang.

Today, Buckley’s Tavern is the place where area residents meet to dine and mingle.

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Conner’s Store served as the Centreville post office from 1900 to 1948. The building was moved in 1920 when Kennett Pike was widened.

A bike shop now occupies the ground floor of the former Conner’s Store building.

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In 1960, a new entrance was constructed for Winterthur to allow easier access to the site’s many visitors.

The entrance to Winterthur as it looks today.

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The gatehouse and original Winterthur entrance still stand on the east edge of Route 52.

This photo, taken around 1917, shows the road, with the Winterthur gatehouse, before the 1920s road improvements.

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When J Christian and his wife Marcy began a style studio in Hockessin seven years ago, they had two simple missions: To provide great service, and to give back to their community. While they’ve become one of the leading style salons in Delaware, their philanthropic efforts have exceeded beyond their wildest dreams

Their seasons of giving

By Richard L. Gaw Staff Writer It is a Sunday afternoon in the fall, sometime in the 1970s, and an impressionable kid sits in the living room of his Queens, N.Y., home.

He is watching football on TV as the aroma of meatballs and red gravy is wafting from the kitchen, the promise of yet another banquet of love and food he will share soon with his big Italian family. A commercial comes on featuring the legendary Bubba Smith of the then-Baltimore Colts. In the commercial, Smith is helmetless and smiling that famous gap-toothed smile. Gone is the ferocious gridiron identity; he sits in what appears to be a classroom, beside little children, who wedge in beside him like he is a larger-than-life teddy bear.

The kid from Queens hears that Smith has volunteered his time to improve the lives of these children through a United Way campaign. Perhaps for the first time in his Continued on Page 48 Photo by Alessandra Nicole

Left page photo: Led by J Christian and his wife Marcy, back, the staff at J Christian Studio in Hockessin produce several philanthropic events every year. Also pictured are, seated: John Barba, Becky Passante and Kathy Fragale; and standing, Jesse Episcopo, Marianne McFee and Donna Moore.

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life, the kid acknowledges that professional athletes – the heroes of his childhood – lead other lives, ones that include helping others who may be less fortunate. Wait, the kid thinks, you mean you can be famous and still do wonderful things for others?

At the end of the commercial, Smith looks into the camera – let’s just say for the sake of this story that he peers right into the eyes of the kid from Queens – and says, “Thanks to you, it works for all of us. The United Way.” “Every kid has a superhero, someone they look up to, whether it’s Superman, an athlete or a rock star,” said J Christian of the J Christian Studio in Hockessin. “Football players were at least someone who were fairly approachable. I could go see a Jets game at Shea Stadium and recognize my heroes in real life. I knew I would never be able to play professional ball, and my talents went elsewhere, but I knew that I could still be that United Way guy.”

Now, nearly 40 years after that commercial was first

aired, the kid from Queens has grown up to become one of the leading stylists in Delaware. He has also become its Bubba Smith.

Along with his wife, Marcy, and their talented staff, J Christian has raised nearly a half million dollars for charitable organizations in Delaware since he first opened the salon in 2007.

Throughout those seven years, the salon has merged charity with creativity by producing several theatrically themed hair and clothing runway shows, with 100 percent of the proceeds going to the charitable organization.

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Donna Moore.

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cutting-edge style of hair, nails, makeup, executive barbering services and bridal preparation, then the “back of house” of the business has been their selfless commitment to their community. In any given month, J Christian and his staff will be preparing for a runway event, coaching other salon owners through their foray into the world of philanthropy, giving style makeovers for women who are residents of homeless shelters, or helping to style women who have lost their hair due to cancer treatments.

“We opened the salon in August 2007, and J Christian said to me, ‘We need to have a show for someone by April of 2008,’” Marcy said. “I think we ended up paying money at our first event, rather than giving it. We were fumbling around. At the pinnacle of our work, we raised $56,000 and had 1,500 people come out to Crazy Catwalk for Kidds. We had 150 volunteers and 40 local businesses who donated their time, working together in a tangential effort to provide scholarships to families and children in need of access to grief counseling.

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be professional in their jobs, but also responsible citizens of their community,” J Christian said. “Yes, part of that Continued from Page 50 is about offering top customer service, and part of became so large, we had to establish criteria to select that is delivering an experience that our clients can’t among 500-plus worthy causes that came across our desk. find anywhere else ... but the other part of it is humbly giving back to the One, that they had to be community you are a a 501-C(3) organization; part of.” and two, that they had Do you or your business wish to give back to your community?

“J Christian has not to guarantee the funds Here are some tips on how to get started, as recommended by J only been cutting hair would be spent only in Christian Studio in Hockessin: practically his whole Delaware.”

• Go local. Look around for an organization in your community. life, he’s been teachJ Christian Studio has • Before you talk to the charity, talk it over with your fellow ing over the course of done charitable work employees/employer. that time,” Marcy said. with Supporting Kidds, • Determine what exactly you could do to raise funds. Be cre“He tells his staff all Ronald McDonald ative. Use your skill set or your organization’s expertise. the time that your ego House of Delaware, • Focus on the organization’s need by learning what it is they do. will kill your talents Delaware Hospice, and Many organizations have multiple facets to their work. as quickly as anything Autism Delaware, to • Get buy-in from everyone you work with, talk with leadership, make a plan, and bring the plan to the organization you wish to help. else. Rather than have name a few.

• Don’t ever use your work at a charitable event as a marketing your ego drive you, In addition to the thrill tool for your company, or with a profit motive in mind, or you teach the person next of being able to raise will surely fail. to you how to be a much-needed funds for these organizations, there is another benefit to what has good citizen. Once people get a taste of that, they want to do more for others. Giving back is infectious.” become the other half of J Christian Studio.

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It is customary for Marcy and J Christian to greet the audience on a personal level at every show. Marcy recalls one conversation. While touring the audience at a Crazy Catwalk for Kidds, she’d noticed a group of women sitting together, wearing turban headwear, watching their young children playing around by the catwalk. She approached them, as she does all the time at J Christian Studio events, and asked them what brought them to the event.

“And then one woman said something I have never forgotten,” Marcy said. “She said, ‘I’m here to help raise money. Next year, my daughter is going to need Supporting Kidds to help her, because I won’t be here at this time next year.’ I was devastated, and the more we walked around, the more people told us that they, too, would eventually need the services of Supporting Kidds.”

“One of my mentors in the hair industry told me two things -- be humble, and share,” J Christian said. “That all began when I saw Bubba Smith when I was a kid growing up in Queens, to now. The light bulb went off for me a long time ago. Giving back to the community has become just another part of who we are.”

One year, on break from the “Faery Tale Hair Show” for Ronald McDonald House, while sitting in a Red Robin restaurant, Marcy noticed and came to speak with the parents of a daughter with severe autism.

The child didn’t respond during the conversation. She just sat there, dressed in a white summer outfit. Marcy invited her to get a haircut at the Faery Tale Hair Show to raise money for kids in the Ronald McDonald House of Delaware. The haircut on stage would be free. Her parents didn’t think she would ever do something like that. When J Christian arrived a few minutes later, he too was dressed all in white.

“I told J Christian to go over and speak to that little girl,” Marcy said. “The little girl and J Christian made an instant connection.”

An hour later, Marcy spotted the little girl at the event. There she stood, unable to take her eyes off of Christian. He came up to the edge of the stage and asked her, “Do you want a hair cut, young lady?”

The girl jumped right on the stage and got a haircut from J Christian. Then she jumped out of her chair, and began to dance in jubilation to the music that she was hearing.

She must have danced there for an hour.

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Social Stylate is, from left to right, Kelly Hockenberry, co-founders Carroll Ivy Laurence and Lauren Golt, and Sydney Sullivan.

For the past three years, Carroll Ivy Laurence and Lauren Golt of Social Stylate have invented new marketing strategies for their clients that reflect what a business truly wants to say about itself

Finding the things that matter

By Richard L. Gaw Staff Writer In the world of work, there are some days when you just have to leave the office and go play with Superman.

Recently, Carroll Ivy Laurence and Lauren Golt disappeared for a day into the world of comic books. As the co-founders of Social Stylate, a local marketing firm they began together in 2011, Laurence and Golt often find themselves chained to a seemingly never-ending carousel ride of client meetings, event planning, campaign pitches and brainstorming sessions, so when they 64

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received an invitation by their client Olga Ganoudis Designs to attend the Comic-Con convention at the Javits Center in New York City, it was just the creative elixir they needed.

They saw people dressed up in costumes, portraying heroes and villains and characters that reminded them of childhood. Outside the convention hall, the New York City streets were teeming with stories, styles and ideas, all wrapped in a grand collage that offered a new way of seeing things. Afterward, while waiting for the train back to Delaware, Laurence and Golt sat a cafe overlooking the bustle of Grand Central Station and thought, “We

need to do this more. This helps us do what we do, better. We need to get out of our environment and into the flow of the world.”

With these one-day adventures firmly in their creative kit bag, Social Stylate -- the collective energy and imagination of what Laurence and Golt bring to a company’s marketing plan -- is defined simply by the fact that they color outside the lines. It’s seen in the many marketing and public relations initiatives they have developed for nearly 20 businesses, both here in Delaware and now for national companies. Working with staff members Kelly Hockenberry and Sydney Sullivan, Laurence and Golt provide a wide array of services, including website design; social media networking opportunities and management, such as developing blogs and online promotional content; search engine optimization; e-mail marketing; event planning; print advertising campaigns and overall marketing guidance.

“It begins with conversation between Carroll and me, and slowly, we begin to see our ideas come to fruition,” Golt said. “Carroll has a different way of thinking than I do, and we have different resources to go for inspiration.

It ends up becoming a whole plethora of ideas.”

“Between all of us, we have a different eye,” Laurence said. “It’s not always common when you can get four women with different ideas who get along so well together, and share ideas so freely.”

It may have been preordained that Laurence and Golt would someday form their own company. They worked together for years at a shape wear merchandising company, where they found that their ideas clicked. Golt then went on to QVC, where she further honed her skills for the company’s online marketing team.

All along, she kept in touch with Laurence, who, through her long experience in retail and design -including working for Michael Kors in New York City -- had begun to develop working relationships with several local clothing and accessory stores.

“Lauren would call me from time to time and tell me that she wanted to begin her own company, and then I realized I had a lot of contacts in the area, so between our different skill sets, we decided that we would begin a company together,” Laurence said.

Since they first opened the doors to the business, Social Stylate has counted among its clients Houppette, Janssen’s Market, Olga Ganoudis Designs, the Wilmington Country Store and Union Park Automotive, as well as several other Delaware-based businesses. They also count among their clients Scotch Naturals, an eco-friendly maker of nail polish.

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At Social Stylate, marketing plans for clients are often generated from a lot of brainstorming sessions, and inspired by on-line ideas.

“The national clients see what we can do for them,” Laurence said. “It’s taking what we do to an entirely new level. We’re at the point where we’re bursting at the seams, but we really want to keep our company at the boutique level.”

When they first began Social Stylate, Laurence and Golt found that many of their clients didn’t have the time to manage their own marketing while also keeping up with the demands of operating their business.

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really had no time to optimize it because they were busy running their business,” Golt said. “I don’t think that a lot of them thought that having an online presence would boost their sales.”

“They needed to develop a professional presence and manage their marketing,” Laurence said. “It’s exciting to see the results of what we do.

Now they get a chance to see that they have followers on Facebook. It’s great to be able to help our clients enhance that entrepreneurial spirit.”

In a world of nebulous definitions, the term “marketing” is often an openended one, but for Social Stylate, it’s about bringing the heart of a business to the many mediums it can use to share the message of who they are, what they do and how they do it.

“Marketing should be an extension of who the company is,” Laurence said. “If a client doesn’t have a brand

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Social Stylate has created marketing initiatives for some of Greenville’s leading clothing, jewelry and accessory boutiques and designers.

clients, and tie it into the company’s messaging.”

It’s one thing to measure the effectiveness of a marketing campaign by counting how many eyeballs see a company’s Facebook page, visit its website or buy a product online, but for Social Stylate, that’s only half of what they provide.

“It’s not just about another handbag,” Laurence said.

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Police and horses convene at Carousel Park Thousands watch competition that simulates day-to-day work of mounted police and their horses

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t took months of hard work and preparation – the grounds were immaculate, the horses and barns spotless, the indoor and outdoor riding arenas refurbished, the cross-county riding trails groomed, and the temporary stalls set up. But when more than 80 mounted policemen and women from 22 agencies across 12 states and Canada arrived at New Castle County’s Carousel Park, all the work was worthwhile.

New Castle County’s Mounted Patrol hosted the 2014 North American Police Equestrian Championships (NAPEC), an annual highlight for these police officers.

“It takes a lot of work to put it all together, but I am really glad we volunteered to host the event this year,” said New Castle County Mounted Patrol officer Eric Selhorst. “This is a great competition and everyone looks forward to it. The last time it was held here was in 2001, so it was definitely our turn.”

Officer Bill Brown was thrilled with how well it was received. “This is definitely one of the best competitions in years,” he said.

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Above: Although this horse looks down at the grate, he marches through the obstacle bravely.

Right: Carrying a barrel on horseback is tricky enough, but the officers had fun making it even more difficult by adding a cow bell and a mechanical weasel to the mix.

“We have gotten such great feedback from everyone.”

He discussed the obstacle course, which was the focus on Sunday. “As hosts, we are in charge of designing the course,” he explained. “The idea is to simulate things we might see while working. For example, the big ball is something we use as a training tool for crowd control.

The idea is that the horse pushes against it with his chest.”

Brown added that the members of the Mounted Patrol worked together to ensure the event was a success. Not only did they design and build the challenging obstacle course, but they also selected judges for all the classes.

Retired mounted police officers were a perfect choice as judges.

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About halfway through the obstacle course class on Sunday, Senior Sargent Mary Devine said, “It’s going extremely well.

Everyone is raving about the facility and how well we prepared.

Remember, we’re just a bunch of cops who ride horses – we are police officers first,” she said.

“It’s great that we have so many spectators, but I am not surprised.

The local population loves our mounted unit,” she added. “They come out in droves to see anything we do.” The total number of spectators for the two-day competition was more than 8,000.

Devine described the various competitions. The uniform competition is “military old guard.”

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Officers are judged on their uniforms and how their horses are groomed. “It is very precise -- the judges even get out a ruler and measure the distance between pins,” she said.

Also held on Saturday, in both the outdoor and indoor arenas, were equitation classes. Divided into three sections -Novice, Expert and Western riders -- the officers each rode a pattern at a walk, trot, and canter, demonstrating their ability and control.

“We created everything for the obstacle course and then we rode it ourselves to make sure it was all okay,” Devine said.

“We had to make a change at the last minute because one of our obstacles just wasn’t working out in practice. It was a bit shaky, and the last thing we would want would be for an officer or a horse to be injured.”

She gestured to the various obstacles and described what each simulated.

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Greg Bruno and Royal have a special bond, whether they are working or in the barn.

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a crowd on horseback,” she said.

Another obstacle is designed like a car stop. The officer dismounts and puts a ticket on the window and then remounts. “Not so easy when your horse is, like, 19 hands,” Devine said. Many police horses are large breeds, like Percheron or the Clydesdales favored by NCC. In the barrel exercise, the rider picks up a barrel, which has a loud cow bell in it, and carries it through a pathway of rails on the ground and deposits it in a specific spot where a small mechanical toy weasel is running around. Two clowns in a carnival booth make up another obstacle. The officer rides up next to them in the booth and has his horse stand in a marked Continued on Page 74

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spot while the one clown blows up a balloon until it pops.

A very realistic simulation of a disabled car stop requires the horse to stand within a specific area, outlined by chalk markings, while a fire extinguisher is discharged near its feet. The water obstacle proved difficult for many, as it involved walking on a narrow wooden bridge, into dark water and onto the bridge again.

A banquet at the Christiana Hilton, where a perpetual trophy is presented to the highest scoring officer overall, concluded the weekend. “You only get bragging rights for one year,” Devine said.

Last year’s winner, Greg John from the Toronto Mounted Unit,

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Above: This horse didn’t appear to be fazed by a fire extinguisher discharged near him.

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swept all three divisions – uniform, equitation, and obstacles -- a hard feat to equal. He did not compete this year, but watched his fellow officers do so. One of them rode the horse that John rode to top honors in 2013.

“We’ve really set the bar,” Devine said. “The footing in the arenas, the judges, and the 215-acre park itself – it will be hard to top.”

Greg Bruno, one of newest of the six officers in the New Castle County unit, enjoyed introducing families to the horses in the courtyard area of Carousel Park’s stable. “I have learned so much about riding and horses. It’s been amazing,” he said.

Bruno pointed out Tonka, the very easygoing Clydesdale he started on. He then progressed to Mick, and currently rides Royal, another Clydesdale. “I have a bond with all of them. Each has its own personality,” he said as he patted Royal.

Although he would have loved to compete, Bruno explained, “As hosting unit we don’t think it is fair to compete. That’s okay because it’s been great working as a unit to get everything prepared to make this a really good

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event for the other officers and the public.”

For Katie Swarthout, an officer with U.S. Park Police in the Mounted Patrol Unit, Carousel Park is a different world from Washington, D.C. The horses in her unit, six of which were competing at the 2014 NAPEC, are stabled right on the mall in downtown Washington. The location is ideal for proximity to the White House, as well as numerous memorials and monuments.

Swarthout explained that a big responsibility of their mounted unit is to monitor demonstrations and “make sure everyone plays nice.”

Competing with her flashy chestnut Thoroughbred, A.J., in all three classes at Carousel Park, she was pleased with her eighth-place finish in Uniform and ninth-place finish in Expert Equitation. However, she was most excited about her fellow officer, Rebecca Murphy, a first-time competitor, winning the Expert Equitation class.

“This venue is amazing and the crowd it has drawn is fantastic. In my opinion, horse mounted units are the best PR for police,” Swarthout said. “No one asks to pet a cop’s motorcycle, but everybody loves our horses!”

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DAVID LUDLOW, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE WILMINGTON & WESTERN RAILROAD

By John Chambless Staff Writer David Ludlow has been the executive director of the Wilmington & Western Railroad since 1993, and a volunteer since 1990. He’s a licensed locomotive engineer and a certified track inspector. He oversees and develops all railroad operations, schedules, capital improvements and restoration projects. He’s also responsible for volunteer recruiting, training and staffing.

In the afermath of Hurricane Floyd, he managed a $3 million flood-related reconstruction project. His hobbies include collecting railroad artifacts. He holds a BS degree in agricultural engineering from the University of Delaware.

Q: Can you remember what first sparked your interest in trains?

A.: I guess the apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree.

My grandfathers worked for the Illinois Central and the Louisville & Nashville Railroads. Interest in railroading?

I’d say it is something that you are born with.

Q: Did you grow up in the Delaware Valley area, and how did you discover the Wilmington & Western?

A: I grew up in North Wilmington, in Brandywine Hundred. If my memory serves me correctly, I first visited the Wilmington & Western in the early 1970s. I think I took my high-school sweetheart out for a picnic lunch at Mount Cuba Picnic Grove.

Q: Did you ever drive locomotives as a profession?

A: Previously, I was not actively involved (or employed for that matter) in the railroad industry. I came to the Wilmington & Western as a volunteer, wanting to preserve a piece of our local history. I started out on the all-volunteer track gang, changing crossties by hand.

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I still have the back pain to prove it. We have machines doing that work now.

Q: How has the W&WRR grown since you started volunteering there in 1990?

A: Oh wow! Where do I start? There have been many significant accomplishments. A new Greenbank Station was built, a “backshop” maintenance facility was built, a steam locomotive was rebuilt, a new office and “world headquarters” was constructed, much of the track has been rehabilitated, all of the railroad bridges have been rebuilt to modern standards, and we are expecting our early generation 1940 diesel locomotive No. 8408 to return to service in early 2015 after a three-year rebuild.

Things are very different from my early years.

Q: As the man responsible for volunteer recruiting, would you say that volunteers are what the railroad needs the most?

A: Yes. Volunteers are the energy that fuels the Wilmington & Western. We couldn’t even come close to doing what we do without a strong volunteer force. We have about 65 to 85 volunteers at any one time. We see some of them weekly, some of them monthly, and some maybe quarterly, but all of them are contributing to the overall prosperity of the WWRR. Q: Is the fall/winter a busy season for you? Do you run full Santa trains?

A: When we turn the corner towards the fall, sometime after Labor Day, the activity really picks up. The volume of traffic ramps up quickly. Charters, private events and Autumn Leaf Excursions really keep us busy. Our Santa Claus Express trains begin right after Thanksgiving. At first they may not sell out, but as we get closer to Christmas, advance reservations are highly recommended.

Q: There really is no “off season,” right? Do you do track maintenance during the winter months?

A: There is no “off season” for the administrative staff.

Even after the trains shut down for the winter, we are busy planning budgets, operating schedules, prepar-

ing for our annual art festival in February and holding training classes for volunteer staff promotions. We don’t perform much track work during the winter months as the grounds are frozen and it just isn’t practical with volunteers.

Q: After Hurricane Floyd, did you think that the railroad was finished? How did you secure funding for the reconstruction?

A: Hurricane Floyd really spun our heads around. It was such a shock to see so many years of hard work washed away in a matter of hours. No one could believe what had happened. It looked like operations were over, but in my heart I knew that many people were behind us to rebuild. The Wilmington & Western Railroad is a Delaware icon, and I was certain that no one wanted to see us fold under. The state, the county and our representatives in Washington rallied to save us. Our rebuilding funding came from FEMA disaster relief funds.

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do this” or “We’d be better off if you’d listened to me.”

The truth is, the organization today is strong. We have no financial debts. We have a great safety record, our ridership is up, our income is steady, and we are completing many of the restoration projects we set forth in our strategic plans. I think, overall, the team has proven themselves.

Q: What would you like to tell people who have never visited the railroad? What makes it special?

A: Come and see us. Ride with us and see what we have to offer. Your train ride will be staffed by loyal, knowledgeable and courteous volunteers who are dedicated to their commitment. It will be evident by their actions that they are passionate about what they are doing and they will want you to share in their enthusiasm. The history, the landscape, the beauty of the Red Clay Valley, our preserved equipment from the industrial revolution, allows our riders the opportunity to experience a simpler time in American life.

That’s what makes it special Q: Do you sometimes ride the W&WRR just for fun?

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Centreville School merges with Layton Prep Photo courtesy Dragonfly Leathrum

Centreville Layton School is now the only independent school in Delaware or Pennsylvania offering a comprehensive pre-K-12 program for students with learning differences.

By Steven Hoffman Staff Writer

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wo Delaware schools that focus on serving children with learning differences have merged to create a unified pre-Kindergarten through twelfth grade program on a 23-acre campus along Kennett Pike. The merger between Centreville School and Layton Preparatory School became official on Aug. 1 and the new school, Centreville Layton School, is now the only independent school in Delaware or Pennsylvania offering a comprehensive pre-K-12 program for students with learning differences.

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continuum of education on a single campus with the elementary, middle, and high school programs being able to draw on each other’s strengths to provide an exceptional overall experience.”

The two schools enrolled 130 students during the 2013-14 school year, 95 at Centreville and 35 at Layton Prep.

Barton Reese, who served as the head of Layton Prep, is now the head of Centreville Layton School.

Deborah Maguire, who previously served as the acting head of Centreville School, is now the assistant head of the merged institution.

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Keeping fit in the winter

Photos and text by Lane McLaughlin www.lanemclaughlinphotography.com Do you feel like hibernating when it’s cold out? I sure do. But if you want to stay in shape or get in shape, go out there, try new things and do what you love. The following photos show a few fitness choices you have in the Greenville and Hockessin areas.

Continue to take a daily walk with a friend or your dog, and make sure you both stay warm. Swift Park near the library is convenient.

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Stacie Larkin, physical therapist and yoga instructor.

Yoga This yoga class was in the Mid County Senior Center. Stacie Larkin also teaches at the Hockessin Activity Center, located inside Hockessin PAL facility.

“Most people think of yoga as an exercise routine. But the physical practice of yoga is just one limb of yoga. It is learning to tune out and tune inward. It is a time-out to listen to our bodies, to breathe deeply and slowly, and to quiet the mind. It is loving and respecting our body,” explained Stacie Larkin, a physical therapist and yoga instructor.

“Yoga can be used for various goals: Pain relief, stress relief, increasing mobility, increasing stability, improving balance, improving posture, increasing strength ... but not all yoga practices will achieve all these outcomes. And not all yoga classes are appropriate for all people. That is why I like offering private and small-group instruction. I can create a class specific for meeting their needs and be confident that the practice I offer is safe for them. I want everyone to be able to enjoy the benefits of yoga, regardless of their health, weight, or ability to get around.”

For more information about Stacie’s yoga sessions and classes, visit www.restorationyoga.com.

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Snap Fitness Most everyone I spoke with has been coming three to five times a week for three to four years, since Snap Fitness in Hockessin first opened. “Everyone knows everyone,” they said, and they and love the friendly, helpful atmosphere.

Want to be able to exercise any time of day or night?

At Snap Fitness, “We offer 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-aweek convenience in a clean, friendly, non-competitive environment. We offer a full line of cardio and strength equipment, and a staff of certified personal trainers, to guarantee you’ll attain the results you are looking for,” said Jeff Koff, owner of Snap Fitness (7209 Lancaster Pike, Suite 1). For more information, call 302-235-2180 or visit www.snapfitness.com/gyms/hockessin-de-19707/1233.

Zumba “Ditch the workout …join the party!” is Michele Morgan’s ZHealth Zumba slogan. The music will get you moving. Just follow the visual cues and dance along. “I found Zumba over four years ago, and from day one, I knew it was different than any group fitness class I had ever taken, simply because I actually enjoyed being there and wasn’t watching the clock for an hour,” Michelle said. “The class was fun, I loved the music, and every time I came I learned a new step or felt like I was getting better. And the best part was I was breaking a sweat while having fun.” Classes are held at Take the Lead Dance Studio (320 Lantana Drive, Hockessin) on Saturday mornings. New students get a free class. For more information and other class locations, visit www. zumbahealth.com.

All ages enjoyed this first Saturday of the month $5 class.

Catch Michelle Morgan’s spark of enthusiasm.

Travis Algarin was a guest instructor.

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ZHealth Instructors: Left to Right: Michele Conley, Shawn Campbell, Michele Morgan, Karla Julian.

Maria, shown with her mom, Jessica Burrows, is 17 months old in this picture and was enjoying Zumba even before she was born.

Karla Julian, in yellow, assisted and also teaches.

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If you haven’t visited the Hockessin Athletic Club, you will be as amazed as I was. Just about everything to do with fitness is available here. Lisa Maguire, marketing director, showed me around.

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Before joining, Liz Alfree lost 80 pounds after having a baby, but hit a stopping point and still wanted to lose another 40 to 50 pounds.

With guidance from personal trainer Bettinita Harris, Liz gets the most from her exercise time.

The huge aquatics complex is great for swimming laps during the winter. They also offer aqua fitness classes, personal training, swim lessons and much more. On warm days, the roof also opens!

For five years, Elizabeth Hershey Ross has been working with personal trainer Ron Shoop, who designed a fitness program for her.

They have more than 100 cardio workout stations with TVs.

Body Pump class

You can also buy drinks, snacks, smoothies, breakfast, lunch and dinner. There’s a kids wing with dance and martial arts, a preschool area, arcades, summer camp, before and after care and more. You can even bring your laptop and take care of business before or after your workout or class. A conference room is available for members. Memberships are all-inclusive. They also have discounted senior and student memberships. For more information, visit www.hachealthclub.com or call 302-766-7482.

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Get your kids moving after school and start them on a track to keeping fit for life.

Police Athletic League The Hockessin PAL center offers free memberships for ages 8 to 18. They have educational as well as athletic activities, including flag football, ping-pong, basketball, karate, drug/alcohol awareness programs, plus a homework club, to name a few. School year hours are 2 to 7 p.m. They also offer special presentations, trips and summer camp.

Fees are charged for some activities.

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The Hockessin PAL also offers some adult drop-in sports and fitness programs for small fees. Volunteers are welcome to visit and offer their time. For more information, call Chris Colby at 302-239-8857 or visit www.palde.org/home/ hockessin-pal-center.

Come out of your cave this winter and enjoy moving your body. Go with a friend or make friends along the way. Walk or bike around your neighborhood or a park for free, join a class, club or fitness center. Do whatever fits your schedule and budget. You will look and feel better for the effort!

Flag football practice and games are offered for boys and girls, ages 8 to 14.

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Centreville School was founded in 1974 as the Delaware Learning Center, a formative play program for children with learning differences. The school gradually expanded into a pre-kindergarten through eighth grade program that moved to its Kennett Pike location in 1984.

Layton Prep opened in 2005 with a class consisting primarily of ninth-grade students before expanding to serve all high school grades.

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moving to the Centreville School campus in 2012.

Because the two schools already shared a similar mission, the merger is a very logical next step, officials at the schools said. Most of the families served by the schools are residents of New Castle County, but some live in southeastern Pennsylvania and nearby communities in Maryland and New Jersey.

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of sharing resources almost as soon as Layton moved onto the Centreville campus. The merger is expected to enhance and expand the academic, social, and cultural opportunities for current and future students, while also creating efficiencies in both the academic program and the business office.

“The faculty and staff of both schools are very excited for the merge,” said Dragonfly Leathrum, the director of marketing for the school.

“The merger also provides both stability and sustainability for both programs and helps to ensure that we will continue to serve as many children as possible for a long time,” said Edward B. Rosenthal, chairman of the Centreville School Board of Trustees.

Some of the unique offerings of each school will now be available to all the students at Centreville Layton School. For example, the language, speech, and occupational therapy services that have long been a part of the Centreville program will now be available to all students.

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counseling and therapy services to students in our upper school,” Reese said.

He is also excited about the lush and expansive 23-acre campus for the merged schools.

“We are eager to utilize the entire campus to enhance the delivery and broaden the scope of our academic offerings,” Reese said. “By way of the outdoor classroom, the garden, the stream and pond, and the barn and its inhabitants—two goats, two ponies, two pot bellied pigs, and four sheep—we’ve enriched our core curricula to include animal science, agricultural economics, primitive technology, and environmental biology electives.”

Maguire talked about the benefits of having a pre-Kindergarten through high school program housed on one campus like many traditional private schools in the area. “{This} will provide opportunities for cooperative learning for students of all ages across all three instructional levels—lower, middle, and upper,” Maguire said. “We are creating a learning community not yet seen in Delaware—one that can serve students with learning difficulties from the start of their education through high school graduation.”

Even those not enrolled in Centreville Layton School can access therapeutic and tutoring services through Centreville Learning Center.

Anyone seeking information about admissions or academic programs at Centreville Layton or the learning center should contact Reese at 302-571-0230, Maguire at 302-571-0230, or visit the new website at www.centervillelayton.org.

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

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Hockessin resident helps tell the story of the Brandywine Battlefield

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ockessin resident Andrew Outten has served as the education director for the Brandywine Battlefield in Chadds Ford for the last two years.

“For my role as education director, I wear many hats,” Outten explained during an interview in October. “I teach school programs for students, help organize interpretive exhibits, give house tours of the homes on the property, and conduct guided battlefield tours for military groups, students, and senior citizens.”

The duties of education director at the Brandywine Battlefield suit Outten well.

He has always had a preference for 18th century history and he also likes military history, so the job gives him the opportunity to explore both areas of interest.

He enjoys sharing history with others.

Outten grew up in Landenberg, Pa. He majored in history at Bloomsburg University and worked during summers with the Brandywine Battlefield’s history camp. After he graduated from Bloomsburg University in 2011, he was hired as the assistant education director in December of that year. By October of 2012, he became the education director. He also serves on the Brandywine Battlefield Preservation Task Force, which is working with a grant from the American Battlefield Protection agency to preserve what is left of the battlefield Continued on Page 98

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and to help create interpretive tools that tell the story of the battle.

According to Outten, the Battle of the Brandywine “often goes overlooked in history,” even though the clash occurred at a critical time during the American Revolution. The battle took place in and around Chadds Ford on September 11, 1777. The American troops, under the command of Gen. George Washington, clashed with the British Army, which was under the command of Gen. William Howe during a day of heavy fighting that took place with the course of history resting in the balance.

Outten often leads tours of the battlefield, sharing many interesting facts with visitors. Even people who live close to the battlefield, don’t realize all the secrets it holds.

“They know about the battlefield but they don’t usually realize how the battle fits into the grand scheme of things,” Outten explained.

Hockessin itself has a connection to the Battle of the Brandywine. On the night of Sept. 9, 1777, some of

the British troops, under the command of Charles, Lord Cornwallis, stopped to camp briefly in the area before moving on toward the direction of Chadds Ford. The troops camped on the hill by the Hockessin Friends Meetinghouse.

Visitors to the Brandywine Battlefield will learn much more about the battle, and the important historical figures who played a part in it, but Greenville & Hockessin Life asked Outten to help us compile a list of ten interesting facts about the battle.

Here’s what we learned: The size of the battle: The Battle of the Brandywine involved 30,000 troops, making it one of the largest battles of the American Revolution.

While 52 acres of the preserved Brandywine Battlefield were where Gen. Washington set up his encampment, the troops fighting actually spread out over 35,000 sprawling acres.

“This was the largest land battle of the American Revolution,” Outten explained.

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History is written by the winners: The Battle of the Brandywine was a victory for the British Army. Consequently, Outten explained, you don’t find extensive details about the battle in U.S. history books.

The British ruled the world with the bayonet: The British Army had a distinct advantage whenever the fighting on the battlefield included the use of a bayonet, a fierce weapon in the practiced hands of the British soldiers. Even though the British Army had a tremendous advantage with the weapon, the American soldiers stood up to the British in this battle. Afterward, British officers even wrote about it, commending their American counterparts on the effort.

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Washington almost lost his life during the Battle of the Brandywine—maybe: Major Patrick Ferguson was a Scottish officer in the British Army and the designer of the Ferguson rifle. In 1777, Ferguson led an experimental rifle corps for the British Army. Ferguson may have had George Washington in his sights when the general was at the river.

Ferguson knew that he had a shot at an American officer, but the man’s back was turned and Ferguson didn’t take the shot. Later in the day, as fate would have it, Ferguson got shot through the right elbow joint. When he was being tended to by a surgeon, he was informed that Gen. Washington had been in that area at the time.

Lafayette sees combat action: Lafayette Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, the French aristocrat and military officer whose remarkable military career also included key roles in the French Revolution of 1789 and the July Revolution of 1830, was 19 years old when he left his home country to fight in the American Revolution because he believed in the American cause.

Outten explained that American leaders, including Washington, were skeptical about foreign officers. But Lafayette earns Washington’s trust by assuring the American general that he’s not there to impose his own will on things, but rather wants to learn. Lafayette sees combat action. Unfortunately, he was shot in the right leg within 15 or 20 minutes of being on the field at the Battle of Brandywine, but he survives and goes on to play a significant role in the Battle of Yorktown and also is instrumental in getting France to increase its support of the American cause.

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Did Lafayette stay at the Gilpin House?: Gideon Gilpin, a Quaker farmer, owned a home with his family that was plundered by foraging soldiers after the Battle of the Brandywine.

Outten explained that it was thought at one time that Lafayette may have stayed at the Gilpin House. Most historians, however, believe that Lafayette would have stayed at the nearby Ring estate with Washington.

“There’s significant question about whether he stayed at the Gilpin House or at the Benjamin Ring House,” Outten explained. “We can’t really judge whether he was there or not.”

The changing role of the cavalry: The first Continental cavalry charge took place at the Battle of the Brandywine. A cavalry would typically be assigned the duty of handling scouting missions. Casimir Pulaski organized the American cavalry for a charge that allows the American troops to escape and retreat after the American Army had been outmaneuvered

by Howe.

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A costly fight: The exact number of casualties—killed, wounded, or imprisoned soldiers—is unknown.

But, according to the Brandywine Battlefield website, the best estimates are that between 500 and 600 British troops and between 1,000 and 1,300 American troops lost their lives.

Outten explained that the Birmingham Meeting House was used as a hospital after the battle. Gen. Howe informed Gen. Washington that he did not have enough physicians or surgeons to care for all the wounded so Washington sent Dr. Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, to the Birmingham Meeting House to help care for the wounded.

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Local residents suffered as a result of the battle: Local residents, including Quakers in the area, suffered severely as a result of the battle. Gen. Howe’s troops were always foraging for supplies and they took what they wanted.

The fighting was taking place at a time of the year when crops were ready to be harvested.

“It took this area a few years to get back into the full swing of things economically,” Outten said.

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How the battle is viewed through the lens of history: The American Army suffered heavy losses at the Battle of Brandywine and the British troops were able to continue the move toward Philadelphia, which was the American capital at the time. However, Washington and his troops were able to escape and fight another day. Within a month of the Battle of the Brandywine, the American and British forces clashed during the Saratoga campaign and the American forces succeeded to the point where they proved to French leaders that they were capable of defeating the British Army.

The Brandywine Battlefield is located at 1491 Baltimore Pike about one mile east of Chadds Ford and offers full tours for individuals and groups. It is open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. on Sunday between now and Dec. 21. For more information, visit www.brandywinebattlefield.org or call 610-459-3342.

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There will be family crafts and activities at the Marshall Steam Museum in Yorklyn on Dec. 7 and 14.

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at the Dawn of the Automotive Age,” visitors will see how winter travel changed as a result of the growing popularity of the automobile. Some early motorists would store their cars for the winter and revert to more traditional modes of travel, such as sleighs, while others sought to adapt their automobiles for the snowy months through accessories.

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