While working on a lecture related to women’s suffrage in Maryland, I tripped across some records about a Bel Air police officer falling in the line of duty in 1920. The memory of this tragedy had been lost as time moved on, so I handed the information over to the Bel Air Police Department. A…
Women’s Right to Vote: A discussion Hosted by the Wilmington Library & Wilmington University
A collaborative event between Wilmington University and the Wilmington Public Library celebrating the 95th anniversary of the passage of the 19th amendement to the Constitution guaranteeing the right of women to vote in the United States will be presented August 4, 2015. Mike Dixon, an adjunct history professor at the University will lead the discussion. …
Historical Research into a Railroad Disaster: Greenwood, Delaware
Recently I have been researching a deadly Delaware tragedy that spurred a vice president of the Pennsylvania Railroad to push for national safety transportation regulations. Following several accidents involving powerful explosives, including a catastrophic one in Greenwood, DE, the Bureau of Explosives was created under the American Railway Association. The Sussex County disaster occurred over…
Dorchester County Public Library Has Strong Local and Family History Research Collection
The Delmarva region has many helpful research repositories for studying the past. Many are found in public libraries, and in that group there is the M. Virginia Webb Memorial Maryland Room at the Dorchester County Public Library (DCPL). I have used this collection periodically over the years, and last week I needed to examine newspapers…