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An interpretive center for the colonial history of the Delaware Valley, featuring "Hands-On-History" displays of artifacts from the Prehistoric era to the American War for Independence, with a special focus on native Americans and the New Sweden Colony. New Sweden News
Participants at the New Sweden Forum create a "Circle of Friendship" around the New Sweden Heritage Monument. The tradition was started when the Pennsivlle, N.J. monument was dedicated
June 6th, 2004. The ceremony honors the bond of friendship formed by the Lenape and the Swedish settlers of the 17th century.
This year's forum was held June 6, marking the 5th Anniversary of the monument.
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Hello! Welcome to the New Sweden Centre. Thank you for your interest in the New Sweden Centre and, I hope, thank you for your support of our efforts to share knowledge of an often neglected corner of Delaware Valley and American history. I'm Janet Anderson and I was elected President of the Board of Directors of the New Sweden Centre. I'm excited to have the job! If you are new to the New Sweden Centre, we operate a museum room “Experience New Sweden” at the Kalmar Nyckel Shipyard, 1124 E. 7 th St. in Wilmington, DE. We also have a large group of period re-enactors who share New Sweden with the public at events throughout the year. I'd love to hear from you about your interest in New Sweden. I think we have a wonderful group of supporters and we are looking for ways to provide you more information about what we are doing and for ways to allow you to participate more with the New Sweden Centre, if you are interested. We've been working to keep our website updated in a timelier manner, especially the calendar that covers events throughout New Sweden. If you have ideas for something you think we should be doing as an organization within the New Sweden community, please let me or other Board member know. Plans - For 2009, we're discussing having a potluck dinner at the Kalmar Nyckel shipyard and we may offer some craft workshops throughout the year. If we get a grant we've applied for, we'll have a New Sweden program on a Saturday in June in Pennsville, NJ. We will be supporting the Swedish Colonial Society's 100 th birthday next fall (2009). We are open to ideas that you might have. A Volunteer Opportunity - We invite you to help us share our museum “Experience New Sweden” at the Kalmar Nyckel Shipyard (1124 E. 7 th St., Wilmington, DE 19801) with the public. We ask that you go through our training. Please let me know of your interest and please let me know your general preference for training time (day of the week, time of day, etc.) as we can offer this training at various times to meet your needs. If you are interested in any other area of volunteering (including being a costumed re-enactor (King's Guard or Little Key crew, colonial settler, craftsman, etc), sewing kids' period clothing, helping with our newsletter, helping with marketing/ publicity/fundraising, lots more), contact us! And we will definitely be involved in events that will need re-enactors… Sincerely yours,
Write to us at Post Office Box 163, Yorklyn DE 19736-0163 |
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