USHAUAIA SOUTHTMOST TOWN

GEOGRAPHY

WORLDS SOUTHERMOST CITY

USHUAIA, ARGENTINA

Ushuaia, Argentina, considered the most southermost city of earth, aka

“El fin del mundo” , or the end of the world, surrounded by the snow capped peaks of Martial Mountain range and Beagle Channel, with it's

gun metal gray water, the gateway to Antarcita with tours to

Isla Yecapasela, aka “Penguin Island” for the penguin colonies of

3000 pair of Magellanic penguins, 16 pairs of gentoo penguins and 155

pairs of rock cormorants.

Ushuaia is the capitol of Argentina's Tierra del Fuego archipelago at the

bottom of South America. The desolate beauty will take you far, far, away

from home.

The town has an intriguing history. Once a penal colony with the most

dangerous Argentina's criminals who spent most of the time building the

town with timber from the nearby forests and a railroad.

The prison today is a museum which railroad tourist are able to visit.

Here too is the Tierra del Fudgo National Park with scenery of waterfalls,

forest, mountains and glaciers. Birds which visitors come to see are

condors, albatross, cormorants, gulls, terns, oystercatchers, grebes, kelp

geese, and the comical, flightless orange billed steamer ducks.

There is a ship wreck in the harbor, the HMS Justice, aka , Saint Christopher, once a rescue tug boat of the Royal Navy in WW II.

The high temperature in summer is average 60 degree and winter about 40 degree. It has 7 hours of day light in winter, June, July, August, and

17 hours of day light in summer, December, January and February.

Abstract: Weather Channel Travel, by Stephanie Valera, 7 March,

2016, 8 am weather.com

LEEE PITTS AND SNOW

LEE PITTS

IT'S THE PITTS

DELMARVA FARMER MAGAZINE

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

HIS BIT ON SNOW

Lee Pitts said he hates snow but we need moisture and 10 inches of snow

is equal to an inch of rain. He feels a “blizzard” is a dangerous way

to get it. He takes on the title of “chionophobic”, one who fears snow,

and does not believe there is such a thing as 'beautiful snow” .

( maybe he means xenophobic)

He was raised in southern California and only saw snow at a YMCA

snow camp every winter. He has a respect for those who live where it

snows and have icicles hanging from their nose hair . He tells us you need to be born in a blizzard to know how to drive in snow.

He and his wife did spend a year in northern New Mexico, had to purchase

a Carhartt jacket, cap with ear muffs, long undies, wool socks, Sorrell

boots, but moved back to the ocean front where 'winterize' means roll

up the car window. Yes, there is fog. He was once trapped three days at Donner pass at a Shell Gas station with 20 others. He has been advised

by a 89 year old grizzled snow survivor, when driving in the snow, just

swerve into a snowbank and stay with the car. That makes it easier to

identify the bodies after the snow melts.

Baxter Black's “On The Edge Of Common Sencse” article is about

“ Grafting Calves “ and who around here would know what the practice

of “grafting calves” is, so I left it be.

Abstract: Delmarva Farmer, Easton, Maryland, 26 February, 2019.

TSIANINA REDFEATHER AMERICAN INDIAN HISTORY

AMERICAN INDIAN HISTORY

MUSCOGEE CREEK NATION OF OKLAHOMA

TSIANINA REDFEATHER

Tsianina Redfeather was born December 13, 1882 as Florence

Tsianina Evans at Eufaula, Indian Territory, Oklahoma, within the

Muscogee Creek Nation to Creek and Cherokee parents.

Sponsored by Alice Robertson she was trained as a classical singer at

Denver. Colorado and toured with the composer pianist Charles

Wakefield Cadman who lectured for the Indianist Movement of

American Classical Music to create a new American Music which

did not sell to the musical public and ended in the mid 1920's.

The Cadman composition “ The Land of the Sky Blue Waters “ was

Redfeather's signature song when she and Cadman toured America and Europe.

She married David Balz in Denver in 1920, divorced, remarried husband

Blackstone , also divorced. Redfeather became a devout Christian

Scientist and settle in California at Burbank, then San Diego where in 1981

she was baptized in the Catholic faith at St. John's Church and claimed

to be a descendent of Indian Royalty.

During WW I she entertain troops in Germany and was honored by

General Black Jack Pershing as the first woman volunteer entertainer.

Tsianina Redfeather Blackstone Greyson died in San Diego, California, January 10, 1985, at the age of 102.

Abstract: Wikipedia & Santa Cruz Sentinel, California, Monday ,

January 14, 1985

SUSSEX HISTORY WHIPPING POST..

SUSSEX COUNTY DELAWARE HISTORY

THE WHIPPING POST

The 17^th century European Colonists who arrived on southern Delaware soil

they brought with them the attitudes toward criminals with roots back to the dark

Middle Ages and 'justice' was swift and brutal with penalties which included whipping,

branding, lopping off of ears, fingers, hands, and the worst, draw and quartering.

As late as 1873 Delaware had the whipping post as punishment for felonies and

misdemeanors. Wife beaters were frequent cases and its was known to be very effective

in the decrease of this crime.

In 1904 a offender was whipped at the post in Georgetown until blood spurted from

the cuts by the 'cat of nine tails ' across his bare back forty times. Three others received ten

lashes for larceny. In 1932 crowns up to 2000 witnessed prisoners being flogged in

Georgetown's prison yard .

The last whipping was in 1952 and in 1972 the Delaware Whipping Post was

abandoned.

More can be found in the sources of the above abstract, January 7, 1905 Delaware

Register, December 25, 1904, Washington Post, February 19, 1932, Delaware Coast

Press, and December 11, 1873, New York Times.

Abstract: Michael Morgan's Delaware Diary, Delaware Beaches.com, 20 February

2019. by Harrison H, www.delmarhistory.blogspot.com.

WILLARD TRUITT REHOBOTH HISTORY.

REHOBOTH HISTORY

WILLARD TRUITT

The Tuesday, August 23, 1927, Wilmington News Journal reported

an explosion in Rehoboth that caused many summer visitors to hop

into their cars and ride out to find what happened. They found the gas

pool at the ice plant owned and operated by Williard Truitt on Wilmington

Avenue was destrored. No one was injured by the flying concrete as at

the time Mr Truitt and his helpers were away from the plant

LANDFILL JONES CROSS ROAD

SOUTHERN SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT CENTER

The Southern Solid Waste Management Center is the politically

correct name for the trash pit, the dump, landfill at Jones Crossroads

just sw of Georgetown.

Yes, there sit a million tons of garbage in a 572 acre tract of

Sussex County.

550 vehicles, on an average, visit and dump 'garbage' and

trash six days a week, including recyclables, yard waste, electronics,

tires, plastic, cardboard, paper, glass and used motor oil, from 7am

to 5 pm. It is said they actually do separate recyclables from the trash.

Fifty four 'spots' around the 'landfill' are checked to ensure there

is no pollution to underground water and that the garbage stays put ` where it was put.

Dozers push two feet of dirt, clean dirt, over the days dumping,

into clay lined cells, which is disliked by the ever present gulls.

After these cells are filled and closed they are capped with two feet of

clean cover dirt, three layers of “ impermeable geotextitile

gridwork” to collect gas and liquids, 18 inches of more clean dirt,

then topsoil for grass and cover growth. The hill will grow to 220

feet high. The gas made by the garbage dump is used to generate the

power needed to operate the solid waste management center.

The center is also a wildlife gathering place, deer, ducks, geese,

turkeys, heron and seagulls, eagles, buzzerds are always present near

by.

Projections give this center 40 more years, or 10 million tons,

of life.

Abstract of Dennis Forney's 'Barefootin” Cape Gazette, Friday,

February 22, 2019 by Harrison H.

FERMENTATION

FERMENTATION

Another topic under discussion at 8 am Arby's of Wescoat Corner & Five Points coffee break, Saturday morning, 02/23/19, needing instant research.

The Cambridge English Dictionary states 'fermentation', a noun, as an alcoholic type of a chemical change without the use of oxygen in which

sugars are changed into alcohol and a gas, carbon dioxide.

The process of sugars in food and drink changing into alcohol because of a chemical process.

Google Search, also states fermentation as a noun, and the chemical breakdown of substance by bacteria, yeast or other microorganisms

typically involving effervescence , the giving off of gas, and the giving

off of heat.

An archaic destination, an agitation or excitement, like, “I found

Paris in high fermentation”.

Wikipedia tells us fermentation is a metabolic process that produces chemical changes in organic substrates through the action

of enzymes in the absence of oxygen.

That should give an idea of fermentation, but more information there is an article in the 27, July, 1901, Tampa Bay Times, under ' Florida's

Agricultrist ', at

www.newspapers.com/image/314818569/?terms=FERMENTATION

which someone may be interested in reading.

Abstract: www.com, google, wikipedia and Cambridge English Dictionary

for www.delmarhistory.blogsspot.com and Facebook.

POLITICALLY CORRECT

POLITICALLY CORRECT

A recent instant research of a term, topic, under discussion by

8 am ARBY'S coffee group at Wescoat Corner and Five Points Arby's.

The term or phrase , topic, is “politically correct”.

The Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary , Cambridge University Press, states;

Politically Correct is avoiding language or behavior that ANY particular group of people MIGHT FEEL is unkind or offensive.

Such as the politically correct term “firefighter” is used instead of

“fireman”.

Or ;

Someone who is politically correct BELIEVES that language and actions that COULD be offensive to others, especially relating to sex and race, is to be avoided.

Wikipedia, states :

Political correctness, PC, is used to describe language, policies, or measures, intended to avoid OFFENSE to members of particular

groups of our society which plays a major role in a 'culture war' between

LIBERAL and CONSERVATIVES.

The term 'politically correct' has been used in history and appeared in a U .S. Supreme Court judgment as early as 1793.

LEE PITTS HERE AND THERE.

LEE PITTS

IT'S THE PITTS

HERE AND THERE

Lee Pitts has said he has been in every state but feels more at home on the left side of the

Mississippi . He has floated on the River Rogue of Oregon , rode a horse on the

Borderlands , can pronounce the capital of South Dakota correctly, been to Cabelas store in

Nebraska, seen a rodeo in the Astrodome and the first World Series game ever in Kansas

City. Was in Aberdeen and froze his but off, saw a rodeo in Prescott and a parade in Cayucos.

He has never been to a Pyramid in Egypt but has been to the one in Las Vegas. He as haggled

with the Indian at Four Corners, been to the top of the Space Needle, fled bears in Yellowstone,

unknowingly, He has seen the beauty of the Grand Canyon and Disneyland. All of these are

in the West but that does not mean he does not appreciate the East.

He spent a whole week on the beautiful beach at Rehoboth, been to Florida and visited his

brother at West Point on the Hudson. It appears to him that there is more civilization in the

East, more tall buildings and toll roads.

East has more history he feels, Arlington, Gettysburg, in relation to the Wests' Little

Bighorn. There is probably more to do in the Eaat. The west has more of natures handiwork, Carlsbad, The Bad Lands, Black Hills, Mt Whitney, Lake Tahoe, Oregon's seacoast and Big Empty, which is what he calls Montana, aka Gods Back Yard. The East is history, DC

Monuments, architecture and what. West is the oil patch, cowboys, and is outside, the East

is inside and brick. West is adobe.

He's been to the Smithsonian, Kennedy Center, and Cooperstown as he has the bard wire

museum in Emporia Kansas and the George O'Keefe's home in New Mexico, oh, yes, the

Cowboy Hall of Fame. He was more impressed with Mark Twain's dusty office in

Virginia City Nevada than his eastern mansion.

He feels a divide between the North and South more when visiting out East, thinks the West

is less dense and it's people friendlier. We, of the West, resent Congressmen and New York

snobs who try to rid the West of it's cows, which they say, are destroying the world of

loggers, miners and cowboys with their flatulence.

Abstract: February 19, 2019, Delmarva Farmer Magazine of Easton Maryland.

MARCH 1941 NE GALE & SNOW STORM

MARCH 1941 NORTHEAST GALE & SNOW STORM.

Saturday,, March 8, 1941, tonight and tomorrow will see more snow and icy rain in the north and west parts of Delaware. Southern parts will

see light rain the weekend with fair and warmer weather.

Highway workers kept the highways pretty much clear of the seven

to eight inches of heavy slushy snow, that covered the entire peninsula.

Coastal shipping bore the brunt of the storm as northeast gale

reduced visibility and sent scores of vessels into ports of refuge. Atlantic

City posted storm warnings north eastward as gale winds held on over the

coast from Cape Hatteras to Long Island. Eight crew of a floundered

schooner were rescued by a life saving crew of the U.S. Aircraft Carrier

Wasp. The Olaf Bergan, 411 foot Norwegian freighter is fast on a sand

bar just north of Ocean City, Maryland and, in Lewes Harbor the vessel

Ramon Larrinaga is capsized, the tug Resolute and Coast Guard Mohawk

had removed it's cargo and were in an effort to float her but met with two failures.

Wilmington street are open, 37 trucks and 150 men are working day

and night to clear and sand intersections. Downed power lines caused the

trolley to shut down, stranding early morning riders.

All air traffic was grounded and bus and train service were behind

schedule during the last evening and night.

Washington and Baltimore are still engaged in the storm, Washington

with 12 inches of snow to move. New Jersey was hard hit for the second

time in two weeks with a blizzard. Pennsylvania had 12 to 14 inches of

snow from the 15 hour snowfall. Snow was falling in Missouri, New

Mexico and Kansas and temperature were low in the South Atlantic States.

Abstract: Saturday, March 8, 1941, Wilmington News Journal.

HISTORY OCEAN VIEW

OCEAN VIEW , SUSSEX, DELAWARE

WIKIPEDIA

Ocean View, at 38 degree, 32' 42” N x 75 degree, 05' 21” W is one mile west of the Atlantic Ocean, one mile south of Indian River Bay,

the Assawomen Canal borders it to the east, northeast, Bethany Beach

borders it to the true east, Northwest by west it's border is Whites Creek, to true west is Millville, ad south by lands of incorporate Sussex County.

Ocean View has a land area of 2 square miles. There are three churches,

a school and a town park. This data was as of the year 2000 when the

census counted 1006 people there.

Ocean View has a mayor, and a four person town council.

The history of Ocean View began in late 17^th century. It was bypassed

by settlers because of a dispute between Lord Baltimore and William Penn

and no one could get a clear title to lands which too were poor, sandy and

salty to boot.

In 1688 seems to be it's origin, as Lord Baltimore gave a 500 acre

tract of land to Matthew Scarborough which he named Middlesex

Plantation where a few other settlers joined him. In the 18^th century salt

crews came occasionally to tend the salt ponds closer to the coast. This

land became the property of a Hazzard family.

Eventually the W. S. Hall family came into possession of the land

and opened a general store in 1800, The village became known as Hall's

Store, so, the Hall's, which opened a post office in his store in 1822, were

considered founders of Ocean View.

Because one could view the ocean from the second floor of Hall's

Store , it was renamed Ocean View in 1889. It remained isolated for

much of the 19^th century, the railroad in 1874 came no closer than Dagsboro and the Assawoman Canal did little to boost access and the economy.

Not until the early 20^th century when the automobile came out did

visitors begin to come to Ocean View.

Abstract: wikipedia.org/w/indes.php?title=Ocean_View._Delaware&

oldid=875725042 or www.ocenviewde.com

LETTLE VILLAGE MUSEUM PARKSLEY

LITTLE VILLAGE MUSEUM

PARKSLEY, VIRGINIA

DELMARVA PENINSULA

The Monday, February 16, 2009, Salisbury Daily Times, article by

staff writer, Carol Vaughn reports about;

The Little Village Museum located on a quite corner of a back

street of a small railroad town is always open and welcomes a 1000

visitors a year according to it's proprietor Peck Watkinson a Greenbush

native, for the past 37 years Peck has collected easternshore items in

the nine room's and several outdoor displays at the museum in Parksley.

There are 25 tractors dating back to 1937, model ships and airplane models

made from empty beer and soda cans, a dozen or so decoys from a

Quimby man hand carved, 160 new and old.

Colonel Sasses' Camp Arrowhead

CAMP ARROWHEAD

1954

COLONEL RALPH IRVINE SASSE

Funeral services for Colonel Ralph Irvine Sasse, age 65, former West

Point football coach and WW I hero who led a battalion of tanks in

an assault on the Hindebburg Line were held at Smith Funeral Home,

25^th & Market, Wilmington, October 18^th, 1954. Burial was at Arlington National Cemetery, Washington, DC.

Col. Sasse died Friday night at his Rehoboth Beach home following a long

illness. Born in Wilmingtom to the late George W. and Ella Comegys Sasse on July 19 1889. His father was a Wilmington postman.

Sasse was a graduate of Wilmington High School and then West Point

in 1916. From 1929 to 1932 he won wide recognition as coach. He

had started on the coaching staff as an assistant to Captain Biff Jones and

became head coach in 1930. Co.l Sasse's three year seasons as head coach

Army won 25 games, lost 5, and tied 2. Army beat Navy all three of his

years. Notra Dame, Pittsburgh and Harvard were winner over Army twice.

Army football players of recognition under Sasse were tackle Jack Price,

guard, Milt Summerfelt, and halfback , Jack Bucker.

After leaving West Point he coached at Mississippi State 1933, and 1937

took over as director of athletics at PMC in Chester.

In WW II he was called to train mechanized troops. For duty in WW I he

was awarded The British Distinguished Service Order for courage under

fire at Hundenbure Line.

His first wife, Kathryn Nicols Ringgold Sasse died in 1949, he remarried

Ella Robertson Sasse who survives him, also a daughter Kathryn Grigon

of Philadelphia and a granddaughter, Kathryn.

He retired the Army in 1946 and opened Camp Arrowhead at Rehoboth.

Abstract: 18 October 1954, Wilmington Morning News. For Facebook & www.delmarhistory.blogspot.com.

SEPTEMBER 11, 189 LEWES HURRICANE

LEWES HURRICANE

SEPTEMBER 11, 1889

The Wilmington Morning News on September 13, 1969, ran an article which was more than likely written by W. Emerson Wilson, historian of the time, about an 1868 September 11, hurricane that hit Lewes and the Delaware Breakwater harbor with much destruction. Yes, there are

many written articles covering this storm but this one may shed new data for those interested in Lewes and it's hurricanes.

The hurricane, perhaps the worst in previous Delaware history, came in on Lewes and the Delaware Bay about 2 am Monday, September 11, 1889 and held on until late evening Wednesday September 13^th at full fury,

and affected the coast from Norfolk to New England.

Lewes Beach and the Capes were strewn with the wreckage of more than 50 bark, schooners, ships and brigantines. Twelve seamen lost their

lives and at least 190 more were saved by the life savings station surfmen.

In 1889 there were but a few houses and a hotel on Lewes Beach and it

was known as Hugheyville after the Hughey family. The people living in

this section were evacuated Monday night as the marsh between Lewes

Creek and the bay was flooded.

A pilot boat , The Eve Tunnel, with pilots Jake Barns, Lewis Bertrand, and James Rowland , a guest Harry Hickman, and a crew of

eight, which had left Lewes Sunday evening to put a pilot on a ship in the

Atlantic, did not return Monday and it was feared she may have met the

same fate as The Enoch Turley which was swept out to sea in an April storm with the loss of five pilots and five crewmen.

The Il Salvator for Naples with cargo of petroleum was first lost as it

broke anchor cables, drifted ashore at the Marine Hospital after crashing the government pier, that crew was able to safely get ashore with help of Lewes Life Saving station crew, then one by one, the schooner Charles Stickney

loaded with coal, schooner H. M. Clark, with logwood and AlonaOuvert

with a cargo of sugar.

In New Jersey the Cape May boardwalk was washed away and the

town evacuated, Atlantic City was cut from the mainland as it's bridges were washed away. Ocean city, Maryland was under three feet of water

it's bridge to the mainland under water and impassable. . Rehoboth lost it's

boardwalk and Surf Avenue.

By Monday night 18 vessels were ashore between Lewes Creek and Cape Henlopen. There were so many ships in distress that the crews of the

coastal life savings stations in Rehoboth , Indian River, had to help Lewes

at the Breakwater. Schooner E & I Bryant foundered at Brandywine Shoals

up bay of Lewes, three crew were saved and five were lost. The schooner

Walter Parker lost seven crew as it tried to make the Breakwater. The New

Jersey pilot boat, Edmunds, was found across the bay north of Lewes.

Sitting with the tangle of mast and rigging was the three masted Timour,

all of 11000 tons, was largest ship lost.

Thursday morning the Eve Tunnel sailed back in to Lewes with all

it's crew safe and well. They had stayed well out in the ocean, driven to

Cape Henry. The Eve Tunnell weathered the storm well and continued

her long future.

Insurance company agents were very busy the next six months

settling claims and it was a long time before the people of Lewes forgot

this week.

Abstract; Saturday, September 13, 1969, Wilmington Morning News

by Harrison H, for www.delmarhistory.blogspot.com and

Facebook page Lewes to Ocean City Memories..

HISTORY LEWES DELAWARE W. EMERSON WILSON

LEWES, DELAWARE

IT'S HISTORY, HISTORICAL SITES & BUILDINGS

A 1969 ARTICLE BY W. EMERSON WILSON

This is an 62 page article of history maps and appendix regards Lewes and it's historical preservation for the people who are interested in such matters and was

offered in the Tuesday, July 29, 1969 Wilmington News Journal by

W. Emerson Wilson.

W. Emerson Wilson, according to the “Historical Marker Datebase”

lived 1906 to 1982, was a historian, and had the 'to do' of having Pea

Patch Island returned to the State of Delaware's Fort Delaware Society in

1956. The newspaper report was prepared by William J. Cohen, for the

Lewes Planning Commission. Cohen was with the Delaware Planning

Office. The report is to identify historic buildings and sites. It also gives a

history of Lewes.

Covering a six block area from Market Street to one block west of

Shipcarpenter Street, and, from Front Street to 4^th Street, to be a historic

district and zoned as such. It's purpose is to protect the homes of an age

long gone by. Also to be protected is the site of the Dutch Fort at Zwaanendael on Pilot Town Road. Sixteen homes from the 1685 Ryes

Holt house to the 1764 home of Dr. Marvil, the architectural significance

are icluded. The War of 1812, the five state governors, river pilots, the

churches, deVries Zwaanendael museum, David Hall DAR, are covered.

The report is entitled “ The History, Historical Sites and Buildings of

Lewes”, William J. Cohen, assisted by Dr. James Marvil, Helene Carter

Potter, George Fletcher Bennett, architect.

Abstract: July 29, 1969 , Wilmington New Journal. February 14,

2019 by Harrison H. for www.delmarhistory.blogspot.com and

Facebooks page “Lewes to Ocean city Memories” .

ELIZABETH VIRGINIA CULLEN AGE 79

WILLIAM P. “BILL” FRANK TRIBUTE

The Morning News reports Mrs Cullen died last night in a West Chester home .

She was for 35 years a new reporter for the News Journal newspapers.

Until 1966 she was still writing special articles out of the Lewes &

Rehoboth area. She was a Rehoboth resident until 1967 when because of

her advancing age she move to West Chester to live with her daughter and

son in law, Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Ryan at 429 North Church Street. Later

she moved to the Brandywine Hall in West Chester.

While a correspondent for Rehoboth Mrs Cullen covered storms and many ship wrecks and was a history authority. During the 1934 January blizzardwhen telephone and telegraph wire were out she and Richards Roberts set up a amature radio station in an abandoned chicken shed to keep contact with Wilmington newspapers, and despite the low 10 degree temperature scurried about gathering news.

With her knowledge of the shore and her persistence she went aboard tug boats going to assist ships in distress.

Mrs Cullen wrote folklore and history of Lewes and Rehoboth. She was known to be an authority on the DeBraak ship wreck.

Elizabeth Virginia Flannagan was born in Charlottesville, Virginia, daughter of Broadaus an Lottie Goodyear Flannagan.

In 1913 she and Joseph Cullen were married in Brooklyn and divorced 11 years later. She lived in Columbia, South Carolina where she

was secretary to two governors , Robert Cooper and Wilson Harvey, and

in 1923 in Savannah she worked for a U. S. Attorney and until 1931 was on

staff of Savannah Morning News, until she moved to New Castle to live

with a sister, Mrs Lewis Booker and wrote about New Castle, Delaware

City, Middletown and St. Georges. She then moved to Lewes to be the

regular correspondent and in 1943 moved to Rehoboth. Mrs Cullen was a

Associated Press representative for Baltimore, Philadlelphia and New York.

She also was a writer for the WPA and the Delaware Guide.

A Lewes project she did was restration of the Pilot Town Fountain

of Youth and use of the Quakertown name. Active in the Red Cross, Lewes

Cotillion, Soroptimist and all Saints Episcopal of Rehoboth.

Besides her daughter she is surviced by two granddaughters , one great

grandaughter, two brothers Eric Goodyear Flannagan & Oscar Broadus

Flannagan both of North Carolina. Funeral was private.

ELIZABETH VIRGINIA FLANNAGEN CULLEN

ELIZABETH VIRGINIA FLANNAGEN CULLEN AGE 79

WILLIAM P. “BILL” FRANK TRIBUTE

The Morning News reports Mrs Cullen died last night in a West Chester home .

She was for 35 years a new reporter for the News Journal newspapers.

Until 1966 she was still writing special articles out of the Lewes &

Rehoboth area. She was a Rehoboth resident until 1967 when because of

her advancing age she move to West Chester to live with her daughter and

son in law, Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Ryan at 429 North Church Street. Later

she moved to the Brandywine Hall in West Chester.

While a correspondent for Rehoboth Mrs Cullen covered storms and many ship wrecks and was a history authority. During the 1934 January blizzardwhen telephone and telegraph wire were out she and Richards Roberts set up a amature radio station in an abandoned chicken shed to keep contact with Wilmington newspapers, and despite the low 10 degree temperature scurried about gathering news.

With her knowledge of the shore and her persistence she went aboard tug boats going to assist ships in distress.

Mrs Cullen wrote folklore and history of Lewes and Rehoboth. She was known to be an authority on the DeBraak ship wreck.

Elizabeth Virginia Flannagan was born in Charlottesville, Virginia, daughter of Broadaus an Lottie Goodyear Flannagan.

In 1913 she and Joseph Cullen were married in Brooklyn and divorced 11 years later. She lived in Columbia, South Carolina where she

was secretary to two governors , Robert Cooper and Wilson Harvey, and

in 1923 in Savannah she worked for a U. S. Attorney and until 1931 was on

staff of Savannah Morning News, until she moved to New Castle to live

with a sister, Mrs Lewis Booker and wrote about New Castle, Delaware

City, Middletown and St. Georges. She then moved to Lewes to be the

regular correspondent and in 1943 moved to Rehoboth. Mrs Cullen was a

Associated Press representative for Baltimore, Philadlelphia and New York.

She also was a writer for the WPA and the Delaware Guide.

A Lewes project she did was restration of the Pilot Town Fountain

of Youth and use of the Quakertown name. Active in the Red Cross, Lewes

Cotillion, Soroptimist and all Saints Episcopal of Rehoboth.

Besides her daughter she is surviced by two granddaughters , one great

grandaughter, two brothers Eric Goodyear Flannagan & Oscar Broadus

Flannagan both of North Carolina. Funeral was private.

FT MILES CHAPEL

HAPPY CAMPERS ATTEND SERVICES AT FT. MILES CHAPEL

CAPE HENLOPEN STATE PARK 1970

The Saturday, August 15^th, 1970, Wilmington News Journal carried an

article by Eileen Spraker, Religion Editor, titled ' Reporter Goes To

Church ', about the small Old Ft. Miles Chapel, at the Cape Henlopen State

Park .

Her story tells that the former WW II Post Chapel is rather unkempt and

mostly unused except early Sunday mornings the past few years when members of the Lewes Ministerial Association offer services during the

summer camping season. It probably was a rather charming, quite place

for services to all denominations, weddings and such.

The chapel is a simple concrete block one story rectangular building, sitting

on a sand dune. Inside are the wooden straight back bench pews with

wooden kneeling benches, an aqua painted floor with worn out brown

carpet down the aisles, the wood beams stained brown and brown

woodwork altar.

The Rev. William Sanders, of the Midway Assembly of God , held the

service this misty early Sunday morning. Other volunteer ministers for the

summer are, Rev Bundick, Bethel-Groome Methodist Church, Lewes,

John Hays, retired Presbyterian minister, Royden Piper, of Rehoboth's

Presbyterian Church at Midway, Frank Robinson, Lewes Methodist circuit,

Rev John Shaw, Lewes Presbyterian, John Smith, St . Georges, African

Episcopal , Lewes and D. Woodhall, Lewes First Baptist Church.

A Wilmington Morning News, July 1, 1943, announced the dedication on

Friday, July 2. to be attended by Col. Robert Phillips, CO, of Ft Miles,

the post Chaplains, offers and enlisted men and local guest. Also to be

there is Capt. Justus B. Naylor, post engineer, who rushed the construction

the past two weeks. Harbor Defense band will furnish music with solos by Private John Fox of Fort Miles.

I believe the Chapel is still there, next to the new tennis courts.

CATO & PETER LEWIS, SHIPBUILDERS OF LEWES.

FEBRUARY 2019 BLACK HISTORY MONTH

CATO & PETER LEWIS, BLACK SHIPBILDERS OF LEWES

During colonial times the African American Lewes population was

significant and free. Delaware was a 'slave state' but by the time of the Civil War

no slaves lived in Lewes.

The most important free black residents of Lewes were shipbuilders

Cato and Peter Lewis. Peter and his father, Cato, were building sloops,

schooners and smaller sail vessels on a small clearing on the Broadkill

River banks with not more than the “way”, a small shed and open areas to

store and work on the rough cut timbers cut by sawmills.

The Lewis' shipyard was off Pilottown Road and Lewes Creek at the St.

Georges AME Church and cemetery.

Abstract: Delaware Diary, Michael Morgan in February 13, 2019

Delaware Coast Press from LHS Journal 2012 , vol. XV .

LIVESTOCK AND COLD WEATHER

COLD WINTER WEATHER AND FARM LIVESTOCK

Minus 2 degree, cold snowy day, farmer's livestock out in the

field ? All livestock have 'critical tempertures' and need extra energy,

feed, to maintain body condition and functions , which vary by their

coat, moisture conditions, age, size and how much fat they have. Key

factors managing livestock in bad weather are food, shelter and water.

Goats need additional feed sooner, sheep need fleece and should have an

enclosed shelter with dry bedding, other larger stock need a dry wind

break, with water, ice free, heated if possible, available daily.

Abstract: February 5, 2019 Delmarva Farmer, Shepherds Notebook by

Susan Schoenian, University of Maryland, Sheep &

Goat Specialist.

LEAGUE ISLAND

An instant research of a topic under discussion by the 8 am coffee group

at ARBY'S of Wescoat Corner and Five Points 02/12/2019.

LEAGUE ISLAND

League Island WAS an island in Delaware River, was a part of

city of Philadelphia. Located just upstream from the mouth of the Schuylkill

River, the site of Philadelphia Shipyard, eventually Philadelphia Naval

Shipyard , now “ The Navy Yard “.

It is no longer an island since the Back Channel that separated it from the

mainland was closed in on the east to make Mustin Field for military

aircraft but closed in 1963. The western end of the channel is now “ “Reserve Basin “ where the ships of the U. S. Navy Reserve are held.

Source: WIKIPEDIA

LEAGUE ISLAND BEFORE THE NAVY YARD

When Willaim Penn established Philadelphia in 1682 there is no

doubt he sailed around the several islands in the southern Delaware

River of which Petty's Island and Pea Patch still old on. Where the

Schuylkill and Delaware met were Mud Island, Little Mud Island, Hog Island and League Island. Off of League Island were the Horseshoe

Shoals. The ebb & flow of the Delaware has washed away small islands,

Gilbert and Bush. Carpenters and Province evolved into the mainlands.

Mud Island is fort Miffin and hog Island is Philadelphia International

Airport and League Island is the Navy Yard that began in the 1830's,

when a causeway was considered to League Island from Broad Street on the Delaware and piers for coal shipments built on the island.

In 1860 League Island was chosen by the Navy then at the Navy

Yard at the foot of Front Street for a new yard. The new navy yard was

erected in 1871 and remained as such until 1960's when I-95 forever

changed the site of southern Philadelphia on the Delaware.

In 1990's the navy ceased operations at the yard and by 2000 was

once again Philadelphia with many business located there.

Abstract: Pennsylvania Historical Society blog by Joshua Humprreys of

author Cory Hutto. August 22, 2012

IRVEN SPANCER MAULL, LEWES HARBOR MASTER

IRVEN SPENCER MAULL

1969 LEWES HARBOR MASTER

Irven S. Maull of Lewes, an automobile mechanic, has been the

Lewes Harbor Master for the past 12 years but still does not know what

the job is all about. He said somebody called him from the capital in Dover and asked if I wanted a the harbor job. He questioned what the job required, they answered 'nothing' , so that being the sort of job I wanted,

I took the job. They never told me what a harbor master was or just what

he has to do, so I never did anything. They don't pay anything either.

Irven did know that other Delaware River harbor masters had things to do

like keep ships moving about, make sure harbor traffic goes the right way.

That did not happen in Lewes, no pay, no work, only a title.

Maull had spent most of his 79 years on the water, fishing parties, government work and such, took pilots out to ships going up river from 1929 to 1959.

Boats are Maull's life, today he builds them and makes repairs.

The mention of the British brig, the DeBraak, he is all fired up and told

us it is a bunch of foolishness. He had guided Merritt Scott and Chapman

a year or so ago, but did not find her, I told them she is under the sand of

the capes. But no one wants to hear shipwreck tales, bad times at sea stories anymore.

So, Irvin S. Maull, wrong spelling, is still harbor master of Port of Lewes,

and Rehoboth & Lewes Canal, even though his appointment expired July

1, 1965. He has nor been replaced.

Abstract: Wilmington Morning News, Saturday December 6, 1969, Sussex Burau's Peninsula People.

SLAUGHTER NECK COLORED SCHOOL

AFRICAN AMERICAN EDUCATION IN DELAWARE

1867

SLAUGHTER NECK COLORED SCHOOL BURNED

The new school at Slaughter Neck was completed, but had yet to receive

furnishing, and was set afire and burned to the ground. The 40 students

intending to occupy the new school had to use a church building for their education.

There was no public school system in Delaware, either tutors were hired or

communities built a school house and hired teachers at their expense. At

this time there were only seven schools in Delaware for black residents.

There were none in Sussex County until the Slaughter Neck school.

The Slaughter Neck Colored School was rebuilt, students moved from the

church building, and continued their education.

Abstract: Delaware Diary, Michael Morgan, Delaware Coast News. 1999.

JOSHUA BARNEY

COMMADORE JOSHUA BARNEY

OFFICER CONTINENTAL NAVY

1759 – 1818

Joshua Barney, born to William Barney and Frances Holland Watts Barney

July 6, 1759 in Baltimore. On March 16, 1780, he married Anne Bedford, his first wife at Philadelphia . They had four sons and one girl, Caroline, Henry, John Holland, Louis and William Bedford Barney. Anne Bedford Barney died July 25, 1806 in Baltimore county, Maryland. In 1809 he married a second wife, Harriett Cole, age 22, from Anne Arundel county Maryland. Joshua Barney is buried in Allegheny Cemetery. Pittsburgh.

Jousha Barney as a United State Naval Officer was a hero of both the

Revolutionary War aand the War of 1812. He first served as a ships mate at age 12, and a commander of a ship at age 16. He enlisted in the U. S. Navy

in 1776 as a Lieutenant and took part in the defense of Delaware Bay.

In 1779 he was captured by the British and imprisoned in Plymouth

England but escaped within two years. During the 1790's he served in the French Navy then returned to America in 1802. 1812 he resumed active duty and was Captain in the Flotilla Service which defended Washington, DC.

Abstract source: ancestry.com, 'find a grave', and, William Francis Brady

Family Tree , of Willards, Wicomico, Maryland, www ancestry.com .