Rockwood Park and Museum, for the first time in its five-decade history as a New Castle County park, is developing a strategic plan. “This plan is helping the museum to visualize a new mission to be of service to a wider variety of our neighbors,” said Ryan Grover, who’s been directing Rockwood for just over two years. When interviewing for …
Haunted trails of Rockwood feature 170 year-old garden
Haunted Trails of Rockwood Sunday, October 1 through Tuesday, October 31 Rockwood Park & Museum, Wilmington, DE 302-761-4340 FREE Spooky lighting display of Rockwood’s Heritage Garden The twists and bends of Rockwood’s 170 year-old garden paths are lit with dramatic lighting for the haunted holiday. Joseph Shipley built the important six-acre English style garden to surround the quintessentially spook-tacular Gothic …
Haunted Trails of Rockwood
Haunted Trails of Rockwood October 1, 2023 The twists and bends of Rockwood’s 170 year-old garden paths are lit with dramatic lighting for the haunted holiday.This post was originally published on this site
Rockwood’s new Goth Ball to usher in spooky season
Rockwood Park and Museum will kick off its panoply of Halloween and paranormal events with its first Goth Ball, set for Sept. 29. “We’ve been leaning into our Best of Delaware status for paranormal tours – adding October programs like the haunted trails, oddities tour and the Revisionists in 2022 and 2023,” said Rockwood director Ryan Grover. “But the Goth …
Delaware Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’ comes to Rockwood this week
Delaware Shakespeare returns to Rockwood Park this month with the three witches taking on a more central role than usual. “The witches enjoy chaos as a tool for learning,” said AZ Espinoza, who returns to DelShakes to direct the Scottish play, in a press release. “They lean into the power of the natural world to seek balance and to remind …
Faerie Festival at Rockwood September 24
Faerie Festival at Rockwood The Faerie Festival at Rockwood is a magical day celebrating childhood imagination! Children and adults enjoy live performances by the area’s premier dance and theatre companies, with outdoor games, Tinkertown, a variety of faerie crafts, storytimes, costume parades, and more. Also, vendors sell faerie wares and delicious food. Over 3,000 people attended Faerie Fest in 2022! …
‘Tempest’ marks Delaware Shakespeare return to Rockwood
If what’s past truly is prologue — as a famous quote from William Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” says — Delaware Shakespeare couldn’t have picked a better play for its summer offering. The play — about freedom and confinement, betrayal and compassion, forgiveness and family — will run at Rockwood Park from Friday, July 15, through July 31. Producing Artistic Director …
Rockwood open house features lights, artisans, choirs
Rockwood Mansion decorated for Christmas in 2020. Photo by Taya Dianna/New Castle County Community Services Rockwood Park & Mansion’s Holiday Open House Friday and Saturday starts a month of free tours and a new exhibition in the mansion. Tours, which usually come with a free, will be free in appreciation of the community’s support throughout 2021, which County …
Smaller Rockwood festival – but with lots of ice cream
The Old-Fashioned Ice Cream Festival at Rockwood Park (New Castle County) Rockwood Park will host a scaled-down ice cream festival 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. June 26. Confirmed ice cream vendors include Cinnamon Bun Exchange, Dino’s Ice Cream Truck, the Ice Cream Shoppe, Kilby Cream, Kona Ice, Paleteria y Neveria Tocumbo, UDairy Creamery and Woodside Farm Creamery. Live local music …
You KNOW your little needs a photo with a Fairy Fest unicorn
If your little one is a unicorn fan, Rockwood Park’s annual Fairy Fest has a don’t-miss event for you: Pictures with unicorn ponies. It’s one of the many activities geared for childhood attention spans, when the festival returns from noon to 4 p.m. at Rockwood on Sunday, Sept. 15. A celebration of childhood imagination, Fairy Fest includes a costume parade, …