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I am coming up on the green from Delaware public media it's been almost a year since Lisa Bloom Rochester was elected to fill dollars loan congressional seat becoming the 1st woman and 1st African-American to represent the 1st date in Congress and it really wasn't until the day that I was born and I was standing on the floor. Is it it really hit me day we made history we talk with Lisa but Rochester about her 1st year on Capitol Hill I'm your host. Will also hear more about efforts to reopen the short Center for the Arts in Dover and learn how University of Delaware researchers are helping NASA see how vulnerable is wall of our launch site is to climate change plus we have new additions of history matters and our arts playlist the green word work for the common ground is next but 1st the latest news from n.p.r. . Live from n.p.r. 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Welcome to this week's edition of The Green I'm your host Tom Byrne It was just over a year ago that Lisa Bloom Rochester want to competitive Democratic primary for doublers lone congressional seat setting her on the path to become the 1st woman and 1st African-American to represent the 1st state in Congress after winning the general election easily in November to make history but Rochester entered a tough political climate for a freshman House Democrat not only did Republicans maintain a clear majority in the house but they also control the Senate and the White House and how lead to this of issues like Dhaka racially charged political speech and repealing the Affordable Care Act moved to the forefront with that as a backdrop Delaware public media political reporter Sarah Mueller spent some time this week speaking with Congresswoman Lisa point Rochester discussing her 1st year in office what was that like to run for this office and then you know get there but you know you're right it's been actually one year when you're in a week since our primary and you know for me I had never run for office before and so I didn't really have a Primakov you know what it would be like to one but my daughter always said I think my lowest moment to reach for the high high and it was on the one year anniversary of the passing of my husband at the age of 52 then I had heard all of the. Felt like a negative campaign on the on the Washington level and I saw a lot of people around me suffering different loss you know. Home and I I decided you know sitting back and feeling sad I just wanted to do something so I've stepped up and do my hand and range and it was probably one of the hardest things I've ever done in my life had never been in a seat I had never. Raised money I connect but but the more I listen to people stories the more inspired I got the more fired up I got in and I didn't even realize at the time that who would be president or who would with the situation would be like in terms of the atmosphere but I felt compelled and I am so thankful and glad that I did what does it mean to you to be the 1st woman and person of color to be elected to this seat you know when I when I was running I didn't really think that much about that as much as I did about trying to get across that finish line and it really wasn't until the day that I was sworn in and I was standing on the health floor that it's just it is it really hit me that we had made history and that it was this collection of all kinds of background because Delaware we have one congressperson represents the whole state and so it really meant getting up and down the state meeting farmers meeting people in the city talking to people who had come out of court like it was a a a real collection of individuals that made it possible for me to win and so that moment is hitting the and also I if you believe that my hips my heritage my history my my sister had got found a document from our family my great great great grandfather's voting card and to his stand on the floor of the house we took that card and we made it into a scar and I carried it that day that I sit on the floor of the house and to stand there with that scar knowing that a former 1st lady great great great granddaughter is now the 1st person of color and 1st woman to represent the 1st state it was it was overwhelming so we've entered in interesting political time where there seems to be this resurgence of white nationalism some. Put into context your election and this resurgence that we seem to be seeing but you know I guess the question is is it really a resurgence I mean to me what we are now seeing you know represents some feelings that some people have had for a long time and so the positive thing about it is that we are now facing you know the past we are now having to deal with something that had been you know locked away and is now in our face and exult it is is it is a time where people are questioning the identity of us as a country and so I really see it as a as a pivotal moment in history for all of us and and it is nothing else that you can't fix what you don't face and so for me that's the real positive thing that people are now engaged and aware of things that they just want to wear out so you know I guess here to your question. When you just suppose that with the fact that a black woman just walk in and much already state I'm a minority one in a majority state it shows with the possibilities are the other day you called Charlottesville a tipping point why was that a tipping point for you it was a tipping point for me because I you know when I turned on the television and saw all folks with with these torches and with swastikas and just the symbols of hate. I felt like I had been transported in time and in that it is truly. In that moment I was I all I could do was pray because I could not for the life of me figure out what I was looking at but it also was a tipping point in terms of during. Action. You know I like I said I I I still so positive coming off of the heels of of my election but it also said we still have a ways to go you know when it and I think that that was one of the things that you know even with President Obama's election I think for some people they had hoped that those the old days were gone but that's not what improved it proves that we are still dealing with the vestiges of slavery Jim Crow discrimination and that's not the end that that includes for black people for an apology would be easy to move to to to move move and meaning this year in and of itself to me Charlottesville was the tipping point of all of these different conversations and I can see that more people again are stepping up and stepping out and and it made me really double down on my own personal commitment to this work. Regarding health care if it passes and it comes back to the house what do you think is the possibility that could pass the House and then you know it's it's really hard to predict because this is been a very predictable unpredictable here but what I can say is that. You know if they come back to that how the chances could be good and so it's really key that the Senate make sure that Bill doesn't get back over to our side we were fortunate I was alone on the floor of the house when the 1st bill was actually pulled on the House side and I was just about to get up and talk about the impact that that would have on the state of Delaware I mean you know the numbers of people that would be impacted by even when you look at our country 3X2WW people could lose their health care so we now have a nother bill that's worse than the 1st bill it's kind of hard to see hard to believe and so what I'm hoping is that. You know it will not even make its way to our side I was disheartened when when I heard that the Senate. Where they were working on a bipartisan bipartisan bill you know we stopped and that's really what people want to see the American people want to see us get things done in the way you get things done is to come together you have a real process where you have hearings where you do regular order and then people have a better process flawed process flawed process product that's been that's what we can get it do you think it's possible that Congress will pass at the Luciana for the doc every sippin stuck in Delaware we actually have 75 dreamers right at get Delaware State University who are all doing incredible in their school work we have people who served in the military that are dreamers you know for me this is the one issue that I hear both Democrats and Republicans speak favorably about and speak with with high hopes the issue is will leadership let it get to the floor and if they get to the floor I believe that it will pass I believe that there is the support out there for these these individuals these young dreamers who have contributed to our country and contributed to our economy even if you don't from a moral perspective supported overleaf in it you can just look at the millions of dollars that they contribute to the economy and you can be in support of it so I think if they get to the floor it will definitely have the support and that's what my Republican colleagues tell me as well what would you say are your biggest accomplishments for this year or what do you expect to accomplish by the end of the year oh that's a great question biggest accomplishment Well I ran on 2 things 2 major things one was the what and that was about jobs in the economy. You know that is we should sit in our economy and people have good paying jobs they all fall into. Social services they can buy a home they can maybe not go to prison and so I've been named to co-chair the access to jobs task force for the Democratic caucus and so we are able to present a package of bills that help small businesses and help individuals to not have various or employment that will be an incredible achievement and then the other was how which was about bringing people together that to me if we don't do that then everything else is for not and so to have already been a person sponsored by partisan efforts and activities for my freshman colleagues to sign a pledge of civility and to try to find ways to work together across the aisle back to me if I am able to do those 2 things I feel like I will have accomplished a lot for the people of Delaware and for the country and I and it's been a blessing and honor just to serve thanks to Congress and Lisa Bloom Rochester and our Sara Mueller for their time this week there's more to come on the green including a look at the effort to reopen Dover Center for the Arts That's next in the green from the public media. 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You're listening to the green on public media and I'm Tom for the short Center for the Arts in downtown Dover shouted stores this past June the board of the Sports Center cited state funding cuts to the arts and overwhelming overhead costs as their reasons with poor president Tracy nor saying in a release of the time quote the theater has done well this year but has run out of money and time unquote the move prompted this reaction from when the vessel with King County Tourism they were kind of a centerpiece of the downtown Dover area providing really good art entertainment programming for people of all ages now a citizens working group is being put together to discuss possibly reopening the swart center located on South State Street Public Media's Kelli Steele sat down with diversity council president Tim Slaven to discuss the Endeavor citizens are going to be at the heart of the discussion I'm told to reopen the facility during a process that is already started or about to begin there's been a quiet phase that has started which was kind of doing some due diligence looking around asking questions and kind of gathering information that we needed to really kind of take a look at and see whether or not this is something that can move forward and whether there was you know take the temperature of the community and see if there was any any level of support and happy to report that now all the signs are fairly good the community support has been overwhelming to keep this to keep the center open and that's from the arts community but it's also from the business community and other places and so that's where we are right now what we're trying to do is turn the corner here now and really kind of formalize with the process. To bring people in and have that dialogue and have that discussion go back a little bit if you will and talk about the Schwartz Center when did it close why did it close so my understand well it closed this past summer at the end of June and the board of directors at the time I think they made the responsible decision they simply did not have the funding to maintain operations and they couldn't spend in deficit so I think they were they were careful stewards and they did what they thought was the right thing to do at the time and. You know this is an iconic building and downtown go right this is been kind of in the in the heartbeat of our downtown 1904 it was an old vaudeville theater it was a movie theater if you talk to a lot of people who have spent any amount of time in Dover if this is a place where they went they went for concerts they went for movies they went for a variety of things and people very much want to see that type of attraction available and that's what we're trying to do now is we're trying to take what the board previous board learned from their time. And pick out what worked and pick out what didn't work and see if we can kind of make it work a little bit different maybe with a different economic model and make this thing viable economically we know we can make it viable artistically but we have to make it viable economically All right beside State Arts officials you've also been in contact with the presidents of Wesley College and Delaware State University How did that go. You know that Wesley College and University for a little more than a decade have been the owners of the building and have also been kind of the key financial supporters for the short Center for the Arts and they came to a point both came to a point where they simply couldn't sustain that given their their educational mission. And they were very polite about it. But there they're very nice about it the conversations that we've had with Dr Harry Williams and President Clark from Wesley have been have been open and cordial they're very supportive and I think they want to see this succeed as much as we want to see it succeed but they've also been very frank to say. We really shouldn't depend on them for any more additional funding and we get it we have to pivot away from that model and just kind of create an economic model that that is a little more sustainable than just relying on a couple of big donors All right so let's go back to this working group you're looking for input from the public what is the best way because I'm sure there are members of the public who are very vocal about this. About the short center how can the public get comments to you or other members of the working group sure so we're going to have really kind of 3 pools of people involved one is a working group that will be announced here by the end of September kind of putting the last names together and vetting some of that those are the people who will kind of for 90 days they'll do the heavy lifting of listening to all the ideas distilling all that and coming up with kind of a plan going forward in the middle of that there's going to be an event in the 1st week in November called our Charette and the charade is where we'll bring probably 40 to 50 people together a good cross-section of our community and other communities by invitation to come to the Ford Center and give us a day of their time and give us their thoughts for the day and then the Charette methodology really kind of allows you to gather these ideas and by the end of the day really kind of pull out some key findings that you have and then the 3rd group is who will the new board of directors be for an organization that's going to operate this this this center and as part of all of that process will have opportunity for public comment people been reaching out to me via. Mailer but they see me if you Google me and I'm on city of Dover's website you have my with my cell phone and my e-mail address is on their social free to send your comments or call me with your comments All right Tim you've been involved in discussions to reopen the Schwartz Center and city government may facilitate discussions going forward but the city of Dover really doesn't have any plans to take over that building's ownership or a right you know my my my approach to it is the municipal government has like core functions it has to do right we have police we have an electricity utility we have water and sewer we keep our streets swept and clean and we get trash out of the way we get snow out of the way owning a and operating Performing Arts Theatre is simply not something we do it's not in our wheel house it's not something that I think our taxpayers really kind of expect when they pay their property taxes that it's going to go for that kind of activity now that said we have a vested interest in making sure that our downtown is by Brant and that our arts community is by Graham because this is an important part of our community so we're going to try to facilitate as much of this discussion as possible pull the right people together and I think we're going to see an energy kind of develop from that where then the city can kind of know its role back away a little bit and let the new organization take over I've been to the Schwartz Center many times it's a lovely facility let's say it is reopened what's the plan for talent. So we had some preliminary preliminary discussions. When when you operate a. Performing Arts Center like this what we've learned is that talent can be your one of your highest costs paying for talent to perform it's also when your riskiest ventures right if you don't have the money and you're paying the talent and you're kind of hedging at all on ticket sales and then your ticket sales don't materialize you find yourself in trouble and we want to go away from that model and it could be that the 1st year the 1st 2 years might be a no risk or low risk model where we just turn to our community and say Who needs a stage who wants to do a performance in the short center and just kind of work out the details of how we might do that there's a lot of talent in our community here there's a lot of performing arts organizations whether they be theatrical performing arts like the children's theater and the Kent County Theater guild or whether there are musical performance like the Delaware friends of soul and some other groups that are holding concerts we have dance troupes and and dance classes that are looking for recitals space these are all things that we can kind of tap on and bring in at low low to no cost with no risk involved and it may be that those 1st few years we are a community stage that we're not going to try to compete with some of the other venues that are in our area that that get high priced talent to come in because we just simply won't be there but we might get there sooner rather than later thanks to Dover city council president Tim Slaven And double Republican is Kelli Steele for their time this week on the green stay with the Green continues with a look at u.t. 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Welcome back to the green on Delaware public media I mean host Tom Byrne NASA facility all while the solemn Virginia gets plenty of attention for the Rockets it launches but as impressive as those launches are the city is on a barrier island and less vulnerable to erosion and sea level rise caused by climate change so the University of Delaware is going to Virginia institutions to show state and federal officials what kinds of technologies they can use to understand the ever changing coastline of Virginia's Wallops Island and perhaps prepare for what's to come. Public be a science reporter Katie Pike speaks with art from Venice a uti oceanography professor and one of the leaders of this effort so Arden studying climate change in this particular area at Wallops Island How would you compare it to studying climate change and mapping the coasts here in Delaware you know where's the need to study climate. On Wallops Island wall of silent is really a next door neighbor to us and we're part of the same system which is the larger Delmarva Peninsula we see the same kinds of processes of storms and tides and generally of sea level rise the same kinds of in coastal environments and marshes and dunes and barrier island so there's a lot about what we know and understand about Delaware beaches and barrier systems that can help inform our understanding of this portion of the Eastern Shore that includes Wallops Island and adjoining Assa t. And t. Garia but that area around wallops is particularly dynamic and in many ways much more so than you know what we see along a Delaware shoreline where we tend to have a lot of older place to seeing headlands that provide sediment and a slightly higher elevation down around wallops it is very thin low lying very dynamic barrier islands with a very active inlets there the inlet there shitty as it has been moving and migrating around such that they have to change the buoys on a on a fairly frequent basis just for the boaters getting in and out and the whole area is being influenced by the growth of the southern end of acetate island of an area called fishing point that has been accumulating a lot of sand and sediment over the last 150 years and that is influenced by your eyes to the south from Wall ups further south they're part of what's called an erosion arc and so we can see a very high signal to noise ratio in terms of the kinds of coastal processes so of wallops area makes for a very useful natural testing environment for us because that signal of coastal processes and that includes sea level rise and climate change are so pronounced there that that makes it easier for us to to identify those processes at work. And can you talk about the types of technologies you used to demonstrate mapping the coast in front of the Virginia governor and secretary of technology so last week was an exciting time where we spent the week prepping a whole host of our coastal geophysical mapping equipment that myself and my colleagues use in our in our sort of routine science endeavors along this and other parts of the coastline and that included things like side scan sonar sub bottom profiling systems ground penetrating radar camera systems multi-beam sonars. Those are all the kind of sensing technologies and the added component that I think was of great interest to the governor and the secretary of technology was that we were utilizing these sensor technologies off of robotic platforms so we're using autonomous systems aerial drones autonomous surface vessels basically autonomous boats robotic boats and underwater robotic systems and even ground robotic systems so all these can sort of robotic platforms as our as our agents basically like pick up trucks or taxi cabs to get our sensors into the environment where we wanted to study and it's we really need those kinds of enabling robotic technologies because it's really difficult to work in this sort of white cap zone that little narrow strip of area where waves are breaking and coming on to the beach and we found it difficult just to work in an environment where there are so many mosquitoes and things there was for my students that I we were we were very much encouraged to get the robots launched and let them do the work while we could try to huddle away and hide ourselves from the the attacking on mosquitoes and other biting insects and you've used these technologies a lot over the last year what made this particular assignment different we're coming at the tail end of what's been a long field season stretching back to to May where we've been using various combinations of these technology to map now for shipwrecks in the Great Lakes or look for. For a down planes in the Mediterranean or map other portions of our of our coastal systems and what made this unique was that we were trying to pull off coordinated air land and sea robotic operations and that we had a variety of other sampling technologies going on as well we were taking cores into the ground running a quad ski which is a 50 s The a.t.v. Jet ski system so what was unique about this is we had a one day window for it for a demonstration where we were trying to to operate and run as much of our equipment in a coordinated fashion that we could so it was really really concentrated and usually when we got to we're doing our science operations we're kind of left to our own own devices and our own challenges and here we had you know many. Many years upon us and during it so there was certainly a heightened level of challenge and tension associated with you know knowing that we very much had to perform and execute everything in a in a limited time window so coastal erosion and flooding have been talked about a lot lately especially with the recent hurricanes that we've seen do you think that these hurricanes make it more important than ever to study and understand our coast I certainly think that the storms that we had in the last few weeks underscored and provided you know a heightened backdrop to the demonstration and the technologies and the need for the kind of studies that we were outlining last week you know we know that we are in the peak part of just past the peapod of tropical storm season that the the because normally about historically around September 10th or 11th so we're still in a in a very active what is historically a typically a very active portion of the storm season and it forced us to make some changes to our demonstration activities we had really hoped to bring our medium sized coastal vessel of the r.v. David down but the conditions were just too rough for safe and effect. Of operation so we had to change some things around and that was just from the activity of the hurricane has a sort of hanging around offshore and it was making big waves at the end let and big surf on on the beaches but we also know that particular for this portion of the middle land bites of the Delmarva Peninsula and up through into New York by areas that traditionally historically it's nor'easters not hurricanes that are typically the more pressing and the more impactful storm so having not one not 2 but but 3 hurricanes spinning in the in the elastic with a couple of them having the East Coast in their sights certainly you know made us pause and consider the implications that that has in the future because even if we didn't increase the intensity of storms which many of the models and studies looking at climate change suggest or even if we didn't lead to an increase in frequency of some storms and there have been some suggestions that that could be even if we kept them the same we know that year in and year out we're increasing our risk at the coastline because we tend to have more infrastructure more people more buildings that are in in the way there and while it's there's somewhere north of 6 or $7000000000.00 worth of infrastructure just on wall itself that is at risk of storms be they nor'easters or hurricanes and recurrent flooding and sea level rise as are the community adjacent communities of Shin Kitty and the natural barrier shorelines of a city so all the while the natural and the man human made landscape an infrastructure is risky and it is made very real for us because we you know we we were all of us in attendance were constantly looking at our phones looking at updates of the weather to see what these storms were going to do and knowing that it's really more nor'easters in this coast you know soon as you then throw potential hurricanes into the mix that that just increases the impact. That that we can have on on these coastal resources and seeing the risks and the impact can these studies help us work towards a solution for sea level rise in climate scenes Well they're they're part of it I mean these are big and grand challenges that we face that at the coastline and with a number of really challenging societal questions that we still have have yet to sort of address you know how good how will we be able to sustain federal flood insurance program can we continue no will we rebuild Houston absolutely to rebuild in New Orleans yes can we continue to do that for many other smaller and coastal communities around the whole of the u.s. They were really going to have to wrestle with that our piece of that and it's a small but we feel of the Yuval component of it is to have a baseline fundamental scientific studies that will inform that resiliency management effort so before we can manage a resource for resiliency we need to understand what their resources and we need to understand how it changes and so our portion our project goal is to to do the fundamental baseline geological and physical oceanographic studies to understand where the sea and moves along and across and within the barrier island system of of wallops and adjoining kitty in an acetate we need to know where the sand is coming from where it's moving to over Seasonal Annual and decadal to century scale time frames to be able to evaluate what sort of scenarios are more likely for the natural evolution of the coastline because that tells us where we're going to have hotspots where we're going to need to put the focus and effort for defenses be they sea walls or grinds or beach nourishment and the like before we can really you know have those in for management discussions when we need to understand well how is the system how has it been evolving and how might it continue to evolve and that's where where we come in is to do that. Base level and recurrent napping investigation both on the beach on the off shore measuring the waves in the current getting samples of of the sediment to know what 7 types are there and how they move around from place to place so when you process your data as you would you know any time you go out and map the coast how much insight do these kind of results typically gives in to climate change and seal the rise and beach erosion probably for every hour that we have in a field there's probably 100 hours that we spend back in the lab processing and analyzing and interpret ing and reprocessing reanalyzing interpret ing our data the demo was just that so it was a very limited you know period of time in a limited little area that we were trying to operate so we didn't get a great amount of of of this science applied data out of this well although we we did get to experience how we can operate in this setting and to gather some some little at least tidbits of data on that going forward with the goal of running the executing the larger project which would be for a holistic mapping of the whole portion of wall of silence to fill in the known gaps that we have in in the maps and in our understanding you know that's going to take a couple of years just intensive field effort by myself and colleagues and a squadron of student volunteers and that then we'll provide the baseline and then in response to storms will be able to go and really occupy some of those mapping here is that's how we'll be able to actually get the delta where we start to look at changes because you have to 1st you have to have a base a map and we know we don't have that yet here but then a base map is just that that's just a frozen moment in time what we're really interested in is that change through time the dynamics the morphological dynamics of the coastal system that tells us really where the sand goes from one area the other so once we've mapped it once and can map it several times after storm events. And seasonal conditions then we'll be able to basically do the addition and subtraction and we'll see the areas where sand is building up and and and we'll see the areas where it's being eroded away from and once we can that allows us to sort of build the patterns in those patterns show us the basically the flow of sediment through the system because with especially with bear on a systems sand is consciously flowing in and through and over over them as part of their natural evolution and we need to get a sense of not only qualitatively but quantitatively how much sand is moving from one place to the next because that's really going to determine which areas are are more rapidly eroding or are more vulnerable to storms and sea level rise and recurrent flooding thanks the u.t. Oceanography Professor Art from Venice and our Katie pipes for their time this week we also have another piece from Chesapeake a journalism collaborative to share with you this week for as long as there's been a Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel at the mouth of the bay there's been a gift shop a restaurant perched on an island in the middle of it all but now the Virginia has broken ground to add another tunnel that rushed on is about to become history Pamela D'Angelo reports for Chesapeake a journalism collaborative. The Mattson family is on their way home to New Hampshire it's their 1st visit to the Virginia originals gift shop and Chesapeake grill gathered around the souvenir penny press machine they watch sons Alex and Kaylan take turns at the Rio. For to get his favorite tunnel behind them are a wall of windows to a spectacular view of the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay where ships and submarines crews in and out the $625.00 foot seagull fishing pier juts out into the water punctuated by fishing poles and eager anglers Heiko a German tourist and his wife and mother in law have stopped to take in the view of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel is very interesting for us so we decided to come back and spend a few minutes to keep costs down on the nearly $800000000.00 project contractors are God as USA and should bony construction company eliminated the restaurant and gift shop booth will close at the end of September New Yorkers Sean Akbar and his parents are return visitors they hadn't heard the news. Sad it's it's exciting and it's fun 7 years ago Chris of e.d.s. And his wife Kelson took over in renovated the original restaurant that opened with the 20 mile long bridge tunnel in 1964 he says it's never a dull day you look out here and we're 3 and a half miles out the military speak bay on a manmade island there's no other place like it. The restaurant sits on a $25.00 foot high pile of rocks offering news of seals whales and migrating birds he's been there during hurricanes and storms one time we're sitting in a seat here and I was having a staff meeting and there were some customers who saw a white line away on the distance it almost looked like there was clouds in the sunlight shining behind it but that kept on getting closer and closer and then next thing you know waves are crashing leaf rocks water's hitting this thing all the staff in the customers are all glued to the windows and you hear this wild whistling and wonder what that noise as oh my god it's wind coming through the windows just like everybody get back surveyed got to get away from the windows and then we see signs from Pier get ripped off and one ripped and tore off and broke some ladies when shield and then. Gone and there are motional days when the wives of sailors gather to weave their last goodbyes as ships deploy and fade out into the Atlantic this has attachment folks I brought my kids across here when it opened I want to bring my grandkids across here now there's people whose families were in are going constructing this place it's not just a stop on a roadside rest area construction of the 2 lane southbound tunnel will take 5 years with plans to reopen the fishing pier I'm Pamela D'Angelo at the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel for Chesapeake a journalism collaborative thanks Pamela and a reminder the Chesapeake a journalism collaborative is funded by the participating stations with Grant support from the Clayton Baker trust the Bancroft Foundation Michael and Hank in the German Paddy Ross foundation the Robert Elizabeth Taylor Foundation and the mid Shore Community Foundation and agree will continue momentarily with a new edition of history matters and a vocal he wants at home on the National Register of Historic Places that you can read on air b.n. 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Well the attorney general said that doco which was adopt Morning Edition digs for facts and nuance and as the news gets more complicated we will bring new understanding stand with the facts listen every day the green on Delaware public media is sponsored by you our listeners in by Cindy and David Small who have adopted Delaware Public Media's the green Do you have a favorite program you'd like to adopt give us a call at 302-857-7228 or go online to Delaware public dot org Thanks. God. Thanks for spending time with us on the green this week I'm Tom Byrne many people are likely aware of air b.n. B. Providing travelers the option to rent a room in someone else's home or a guest house as opposed to staying in a hotel or traditional bed and breakfast it's an option that's popular across the country and here in the 1st state one woman said home with their own air b.n. B. Is also the National Register of Historic Places and likely one of the oldest homes remaining in the city built around $745.00 it's undergone several transformations over the years but was largely restored to its original state in the 1970 s. In 1990 it made the cover of early American Life Magazine last December the West inner city home was purchased by Jan and they have on a quest for $99000.00 before putting it on air b.n. B. This March they made about $50000.00 worth of upgrades in this month's History Matters produced in conjunction with the Delaware Historical Society or public media as they can Paulie spoke with Jan about the home and its historical significance How do you find this house. We have I had a friend well actually I'm a realtor and I sold a house to a lady whose sister became a friend and she's with the creative arts district here and woman and she knew about the house and knew about its. Immediate sale coming up due to a death in a state so we came in and looked at it a couple of times well before it was actually placed on the market and sort of fell in love with the panel in the historic nature so for someone who has never been here just describe the house. The house was built in 745 by a rope maker by the name of Joseph Woodward and he came down from the west Chester area with his wife and it is a stone structure that's 4 stories and a lovely basement which is original to we have the original fireplaces the original paneling it's sort of like being in Williamsburg except you can touch everything this is pretty revolutionary war and that's why the flags out front or the American flag in the Betsy Ross flag because that occurred during the time that this house was you know it was already 2030 years old tell me a little more about the history you've been able to uncover about the place in the rope maker Well he own 64 acres and that's really why there were only 2 houses on the side of the street this one and the house that he built for a son about 10 years later and they were taxed the the property was pretty extensive up to the Brandywine Creek and he had a gigantic rope walk they called it and it was probably a 1000 feet long because they actually walked backwards twisting the hemp. And he had some Him sheds which we don't have anymore. Not looking for him and back in Egypt during the Revolutionary War General Rochambeau of the French army camped around this house on this property and his camp sketches that they made at that time show the house where the rope walk so they have sheds show all the all the things around the house. So he was kind of the head of the company he was the company he owned it and I'm sure it was family and hard people it appears from some of the history that he and his wife and forgotten her name were members of the media Quaker meeting because he was a Quaker and when they married they were. Not thrown out but they were in trouble with the meeting because they were 1st cousins and that was inappropriate a lot of say so they moved down here but during that time they both appeared before the elders of the meeting up there in media and made their appeal to be allowed back into you know good standing and eventually they work and the other historical documents or research that you've come across about the house or or Joseph went after Joseph Woodward passed away his son inherited this house as well as the one next door Mordecai in 795 Mordecai passed away and there is actually his will has an inventory of the house at that time so that's sort of neat and that's at the historic society in Wilmington then it was sold to various families Shipley's tattles all the names that you see everywhere but what's really interesting is if you look at a book on Wilmington say clonal you know one of the historic books on Wilmington it shows the homes of the Shipley's or the tackles that were contemporary contemporaneous with this house and they were living in like clapped bird tiny houses and the Woodwards were living in a mansion and I understand the home is on the National Register of Historic Places Yep it's known as the Woodward house on the national register and that's probably the reason that it's here because when they did. The renovations of the city back in the seventy's everybody like to take down city centers and rebuild them. A presentation was made by the state of Delaware to the federal government they were put in through I 95 at that point to just preserve this house and so it was one of the few that were preserved to tell me about some of the requirements what are there are quire mints you know for the state the federal government to to keep keep up the home with it being on the National Register that's sort of a misconception. A lot of people have about the National Register of Historic Places it protects you if there's federal money involved but as long as you don't take any money from any of the historic organizations they have no control over what you do to the structure now this is in a historic district in Wilmington in the Quaker Hill historic district so they have some requirements for the exteriors How did you decide to put this on air b.n. B. Well I don't know we have decided we're going to buy the house well there was a certain amount of maybe not actual decision I was planning on buying it and David was sort of I don't want to do much work and somehow we came around to it and put an offer into the estate and around that time we met a gentleman who runs an air b.n. B. About 2 blocks from here Joel and he he has a good history with their b. And b. And suggested that we do that with it since we were planning on living here we were going to rent it out maybe just one family or 2 families but we wanted to share the structure and the design because it's like being in Leesburg and you can touch and I go to when they have some of the same things but I can't touch it you know roped off here you can be part of the century part of the history so how are they going you guys have good. We have some sort of friends and workers helping us and. It's just a lot of work not sophisticated work sometimes it's great being in pain and you're dealing with the plaster you know so you have to deal with that kind of thing there's paneling up stairs in there piece of the panel and out of the basement that may be the missing pieces for the 3rd floor rooms so we're going to have to go through all that but it's like a big puzzle. Us there be an be business guy and be as really busy I'm just amazed to be honest it's been busy ever since we opened an especially during you know June and July and August I didn't really know that many people wanted to come to Wilmington. But they do they come for weddings they come to be with family they come for work but some of the big corporations nurses come here at the hospitals gascón who have children's children at the Children's Hospital I mean it's just it's an across the board we've had guests from Beijing China we've had guests from South Africa from Spain and Ireland it's it's very interesting you get to meet lots of great people and you get to chat with them and then let them enjoy the space thanks to Jan All quotes that our make in Poland for their time this week to find a link to the historical links at home on Air b.n. B. And see some exterior and interior photos of it go to the Republic dot org. That's all we have time for the green this week the stories and interviews you've heard online right now at double the public so the Greens page on our website and you can also check out the previous contest at our Web site on i Tunes and on the n.p.r. 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