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Hotel, motel, Holiday Inn?How about a Home 2 Suites by Hilton or the
Belhaven Hotel instead?Whatever the name, there are nearly a doz-
en new hotels on deck near the Delawarebeaches that are adding to southern Dela-ware’s building boom.
For beachgoers, it will mean more choices— especially if you factor in rent by owners
and other services — and could eventuallymean lower room prices, but nobody can besure.
“I think we’re in the midst of a huge rede-velopment cycle for Sussex County in terms ofresidential population and a huge redevelop-ment in town city limits of Rehoboth,” saidGene Lankford, who is planning the 40-roomAtlantic Crown Hotel and Suites on BaltimoreAvenue. “Rehoboth is a small area, we have
DELAWARE’SBEACHFRONT
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State’s seasidecommunitiesbrace for influx of new hotels
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“Inventory is just expanding like mad, and competition is
not necessarily a bad thing with our hotels.”Scott Thomas Executive director of Southern Delaware Tourism
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Kids streamed out of Elbert-PalmerElementary in Wilmington Tuesdaymorning as teachers shouted, “Wemade it!”
A fire engine drove past, sounding acelebratory honk. Teachers and staff,some of whom have worked in thebuilding for nearly 15 years, took grouppictures in their blue T-shirts that pro-claimed, “What day is it?”
It was the last day of school for thisyear’s Christina School District stu-dents.
It was also the last day of a 90-yeartour of duty for the school.
Palmer, along with the city’s Pulas-ki Elementary, closed Tuesday, as partof a consolidation plan spearheadedby Gov. John Carney and approved lastyear.
In the fall, first- through eighth-grade students from the two schoolsand Stubbs Elementary will be splitbetween Bancroft Elementary andBayard Middle School. Preschool andkindergarten students will then moveto Stubbs Elementary, which will alsohost adult education and differentfamily support services.
The consolidation is part of the Wil-mington Schools Partnership, anagreement between the district andthe state to try to improve studentachievement in city schools.
This isn’t the first time the schoolshave been on the chopping block — thedistrict considered a similar move in
Last daysignalsfinale forstudents,3 schools
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Christina consolidationplan goes into effect
Teachers and students say theirgoodbyes at Elbert-Palmer ElementarySchool in Wilmington during theschool’s last day of operation.LOUIS MASON/THE NEWS JOURNAL
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Why Winterthur bought this
pre-Civil War painting for
its collection
Winterthur Museum purchased an antebellum landscape by an African American painter as part of its efforts to di-
versify the museum’s massive collection of American art. h “As a museum dedicated to American culture, we have a
duty to represent all of these aspects, and not necessarily define it narrowly,” said associate curator, Stephanie Dela-
maire. h The new painting by Robert S. Duncanson is titled “Short Mountain,” and dates to 1840. h Duncanson is a
member of the Hudson River School, a mid-19th-century American art movement in New York. He’s considered the
foremost African American landscape painter of the 19th century, Winterthur said in a press release. h Delamaire said
the painting is the museum’s first acquisition from that school.
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“Short Mountain” by Robert Duncanson dates 1853 and is now at the Winterthur Museum of American Culture. COURTESY OF WINTERTHUR MUSEUM, GARDENS AND LIBRARY
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The painting of a Southern landscape,believed to be in Tennessee, raises thequestion of why a free black man wouldrisk his freedom to paint landscapes inthe South, Delamaire said.
“Good art is never a straight answer,”Delamaire said. “Good art is somethingthat you can look at and you can askmany questions.”
The museum, at 5105 Kennett Pike,bought the painting out of its acquisitionfund. The price was not revealed.
“Short Mountain” was still shown onits original canvas stretchers, but wasunsigned when Winterthur began con-sidering it. It had stayed with the familyof the original owner until 2000, when itwas sold to a private collector.
Delamaire and Matt Cushman, con-servator of painting at Winterthur, au-thenticated it as a Donaldson work by ex-amining the technical style and compar-ing it to other Duncanson works. Theyalso investigated exhibition records andlooked at a canvas stamp from a Troy,New York dealer whose date correspondsto the period of Duncanson’s travels inthe area.
Like many other cultural institutionsthat have realized their collections arelargely from the white experience, Win-terthur would like to expand its 100,000-object holdings to reflect other experi-ences in the United States, Delamairesaid.
That’s partly because museums aretrying to draw audiences who have haddifferent experiences that those they seeon display.
“It comes from a growing diversity ofpeople going to museums and saying,
‘Why don’t I see myself reflected, why Idon’t see objects by the people that Iknow here?’” said Julie McGee, directorof Interdisciplinary Humanities Re-search Center and associate professor ofart history at the University of Delaware.“Once people start to realize that, thenaudiences start to ask questions.”
One painting by one artist in a largecollection will not make the museummore inclusive, McGee said.
“I think that goes back to the missionof the museum itself and what the mu-seum itself is collecting and represent-ing,” McGee said, “and Winterthur doesaspire to represent a broad range ofAmerican culture from a specific time pe-
riod.”Winterthur focuses on American cul-
ture from the Colonial period through the1940s.
Museums across the United Stateshave lacked diversity in their collectionsand management, according to two na-tional studies.
A survey of 18 national museums saidthey averaged having 85 percent of artpieces created by white artists and 87percent of them were by men, accordingto a 2019 Williams College study.
In addition, a report by the Andrew W.Mellon Foundation, said that 73 percentof staff leadership positions were held bywhites in 2018.
“It’s really public pressure as well aspressures that are brought to bear by do-nors or board members who are increas-ingly interested in diversifying collec-tions,” McGee said.
The painting is not yet on display.Winterthur will devote a study day to
“Discovering Duncanson” on Dec. 6 sopeople can see “Short Mountain” and lis-ten to Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw of theNational Portrait Gallery and Dr. MarthaJones of John Hopkins University talkabout African American life during theantebellum era.
Contact Veronica Martinez Jacobo [email protected].
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Mina Porell, post graduate fellow from the University of Delaware, handles the Duncanson painting at the WinterthurResearch Center. VERONICA MARTINEZ JACOBO/DELAWARE NEWS JOURNAL
Happy Father’s Day to all the dads outthere, even the fictional ones.
The TV dad has been around since themedium began and family sitcoms ruledthe airwaves.
Plenty of fathers on the small screenare notorious for just how terrible theyare at parenting (Homer Simpson, any-one?), but there are just as many thathave been examples of compassion andlove.
Just in time for the holiday, we pickedour six favorite televised dads of all time.Some are fairly recent creations, somehave been around for decades, but we’dhappily look up to all of them.
Eric Taylor (Kyle Chandler), ‘FridayNight Lights’
Coach Taylor isn’t just a dad to his twodaughters (one insufferable, one ador-able), he’s a father-figure to all the boys
on the East Dillion Lions football team, apillar in their chaotic teen years. Andthough Coach is steadfast, loving andfirm, he is not perfect, just like most dads.“Lights” was able to beautifully show hisfatherly flaws as well as his tremendousstrengths.
Andy Taylor (Andy Griffith), ‘TheAndy Griffith Show’
TV series depict single mothers moreoften than single dads, making widowerSheriff Andy Taylor an outlier when theseries aired in the 1960s. He came to rep-resent the platonic ideal of a TV father,shaping Opie (Ron Howard) into a greatkid – and maybe rubbing off on futureaward-winning director Howard in theprocess.
Louis Huang (Randall Park), ‘FreshOff the Boat’
With sensitivity, smarts and impecca-ble hair, Louis is a wonderful father to Ed-
die (Hudson Yang), Emery (ForrestWheeler) and Evan (Ian Chen), neverblowing up (not even when Eddie took asip of beer) but disciplining when heneeds to. More than just being a greatdad, Louis is a particularly great 90s dad,with all the pleated khaki shorts andprint polos he can wear.
Dan Conner (John Goodman),‘Roseanne’/’The Conners’
The sitcom genre is rife with lazy hus-bands and nagging wives, making “Rose-anne” a revelation in how it portrayedboth marriage and parenting. Dan’s char-acter, through Goodman’s performance,helped show a relatable couple as theConner patriarch took an equal share inparenting and worked hard to keep hisfamily happy and as stable as possible.
Uncle Phil (James Avery), ‘TheFresh Prince of Bel-Air’
As the theme song infamously goes,
Will Smith’s teenage character in the1990s sitcom goes “to live with his auntieand uncle in Bel-Air.” Uncle Phillip Banksbecomes a surrogate father, a tough-lovetype who had plenty of soft spots. Willand his children may have driven himcrazy (and spent a lot of his money), butUncle Phil always found ways to expresshis love.
Eddard Stark (Sean Bean), ‘Game ofThrones’
Sure, he may have been really terribleat Westerosi court politics, but when itcame to comforting his children or pass-ing on wisdom, there was no father likeNed Stark.
Admittedly, the bar for good parentingis particularly low in “Thrones,” so com-pared to, say, Craster (Robert Pugh) orTywin (Charles Dance), Ned is the SevenKingdoms’ father of the year severaltimes over.
These are the 6 best TV dads of all timeKelly LawlerUSA TODAY
