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For more than 100 years, the Lewes-Rehoboth Canal has provided commercial and recreational boaters an easy way to travel from Delaware Bay to Rehoboth Bay. A recent online presentation by the Rehoboth Beach Museum called Floating Through History: The Lewes-Rehoboth Canal explored the history of the canal and set the stage for a renaissance of sorts with the city’s new canal dock at the backdoor steps of the museum.
Paula Roberts, museum exhibit manager, did the research and conducted the presentation. The museum’s original presentation on the history of the canal was postponed because Roberts broke her arm just before it was scheduled to take place. She acknowledged the delay, but also noted it coincidentally happened at the same time as the week-long blockage of the Suez Canal in Egypt.
Waynne Harmon Paskins March 11, 2021
My sincerest thanks and appreciation to Nancy Alexander and Margaret LaFond at the Rehoboth Beach Museum and Chris Flood’s story taken from the museum’s “In Their Own Words” oral history series, for sharing a bit of my life experiences growing up as a native in my hometown. It was truly humbling to have many of my former students and their parents, friends, co-workers, church family and my family members attend the virtual program! Thank you all. Indeed, my life has been one of favor, blessings and love!
I could not have served our community without having had each of you touch my life in some way.
March 4, 2021
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The Rehoboth Beach Museum will present a Conversations on History program online at 2:30 p.m., Thursday, March 11.
Paula Roberts, museum exhibit coordinator, will narrate a slide presentation of her research on the history of the Lewes-Rehoboth Canal, and the industry and commerce that once thrived on the canal banks in Rehoboth. The presentation will include excerpts from various oral histories that include memories of residents through the years.
Participants will hear stories about crabbing and fishing as well as general mischief from those who grew up during this busy commercial time on the canal. Audience members may come prepared to share memories and stories as well.
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Waynne Paskins has lived in Rehoboth Beach long enough to remember a time before West Rehoboth was called West Rehoboth.
When she was growing up, it was never called West Rehoboth, said Paskins. It was just a thriving community where a lot of the local Black families lived, she said.
Paskins recently participated in a Rehoboth Beach Museum program called In Their Own Words. She recounted her childhood experiences growing up in Rehoboth and her professional career as a teacher at Rehoboth Elementary School. The online presentation took place Feb. 18, and more than 70 people listened.
February 25, 2021
Volunteers for the Rehoboth Beach Museum transcribed Cape Henlopen City meeting minutes from the 19th century. SUBMITTED PHOTO
A group of interested members and friends of the Rehoboth Beach Historical Society and its museum joined forces to help with a recent research task, adding detail to the earliest days of what became Rehoboth Beach.
After helping transcribe a brief poem from the museum’s collection, the transcription team group took on a larger project of transcribing 44 pages of meeting minutes from an early group of area leaders in the late 19th century.
In a well-documented attempt to create a religious retreat in the late 19th century, a committee of ministers and laymen from Wilmington formed the Rehoboth Camp Meeting Association. Led by the Rev. Robert Todd, the association bought property from five area landowners in 1873.