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Festival fun: Ice cream, Midsommar compete for attention Saturday

Betsy PriceCulture, Headlines

  Ice cream or Swedish meatballs? That’s the decision festival goers will have to make Saturday, June, 25, as both the New Castle County’s Old-Fashioned Ice Cream Festival at Rockford Park and the first Midsommar Festival at the Old Swedes Historic Site compete for your summer fun attention. There’s music, vendors and food at both. But only one has ice …

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Delaware LIVE Weekly Review – June 12, 2022

Sonja FreyDelaware Live, Weekly Review

Click on the image below to view the PDF. This Week’s Top Headlines Include: Headlines Wilmington Learning Collaborative releases draft agreement McGuiness trial expected to begin Tuesday in Dover House votes against overriding Carney’s marijuana veto Big Brothers, Sisters snags $900,000 MacKenzie Scott donation Culture Delaware Juneteenth celebrations kick off Sunday ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ dancer performs male, female roles …

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Old Swedes to hold its first Swedish summer festival

Betsy PriceCulture, Headlines

  Old Swedes Historic Site, a quiet corner of First State National Historical Park, this month will hold its first summer festival, complete with a Swedish meatball competition. Organizers hope the Midsommar Festival, set for June 25 on Wilmington’s east side, will become an annual event and raise the profile of Old Swedes. Leoné L. Cahill-Krout, who became executive director …