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Delaware LIVE Weekly Review – Feb. 26, 2023

Sonja FreyDelaware Live, Weekly Review

Click on the image below to view as a PDF This Week’s Top Headlines Include: Headlines Brandywine program preps special needs students for workforce  DoMore24: Your chance to help nonprofits you like Learning Collab hires DSU, Empower Schools to manage projects Culture New history trail documents Iron Hill’s free Black families Sussex community event hopes to pack, donate 150,000 meals …

Iron Hill Museum African American History Trail

New history trail documents Iron Hill’s free Black families

Betsy PriceCulture, Headlines

A new history trail at Iron Hill Museum documents the existence and lives of free Black families who began settling there in the 1930s. No one knows if any of those who lived there had been slaves, although it’s certainly possible, historians said after the trail’s ribbon cutting on a gloriously sunny afternoon. The families included the Congos, Websters, Earls, …