Inland Bays science survey volunteer training continues March 24
Volunteers with the Center for the Inland Bays Shorezone Fish & Blue Crab Survey use 30-foot-long seine nets to catch fish and document what was caught before returning the animals to the water. SUBMITTED PHOTOS March 10, 2021
James Farm volunteer docents teach visitors about the history, resources and ecological importance of the James Farm Ecological Preserve.
Since 2011, the center’s shorezone fish and blue crab survey has been collecting data on local fish and blue crab species, such as this summer flounder.
The Center for the Inland Bays’ newest volunteer program, the osprey survey, will set a baseline for the number of currently active osprey nests in the Inland Bays watershed.
New York Times bestselling author Sean Carroll will discuss his book “The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself” in a live, online event from the Lewes Public Library and Browseabout Books at 5 p.m.,Tuesday, March 16.
The United States Postal service has been in the news across the country recently. That timeliness sent us searching for historic photographs of local post offices. This card, showing Rehoboth Beach Post Office with its original, decorative cupola.
The Delaware Division of Motor Vehicles will begin offering a digital identification credential to residents via a new app, Delaware Mobile ID. The app allows more than 800,000 Delaware-licensed drivers and ID cardholders to use their smartphones as.
March 9, 2021
The image is from the Lewes Historical Society Archives, circa 1929.
The Lewes Historical Society will launch its monthly Lewes Museum Speaker Series virtually Friday, March 12, at 7 p.m.
Connor Lee Graham, the manager of Archival Collections for the Delaware Public Archives, will be presenting a program on Preserving Your Family Treasures. She will discuss how to preserve a family historian s treasures: old photographs, documents and digitized memories. The program will highlight cost-effective steps for a home archivist to preserve family records.
To view this free program, go to historiclewes.org/programs/museum-speaker-series.html, at 7 p.m., and click on the link to join the presentation.