Friday Night in Lewes, Delaware

Zwaanendael Museum

Painted Lady

Rehoboth Canal

Re/Max

Friday nights in November aren't very busy in downtown Lewes, Delaware.  Like New Amsterdam, Lewes was "founded" by Henry Hudson and settled by the Dutch in the early 17th century.  Unlike New Amsterdam, which became New York, Lewes never grew into a great port city.  The founding settlers were massacred by the Lenni Lenape Indians and Philadelphia, further upriver, was a better port.  The Zwaanendael Museum was built by the state of Delaware to commemorate the Dutch settlement.  The most popular object in the museum is the merman, which is actually a half-fish, half-monkey creature.

Comments

[Romy]

"Painted Lady" indeed - in Bowling Green, Ohio (where I went to grad school, postdoc'd, and taught, and where Joe taught in the Geology department) there is a similar-looking house also called the "Painted Lady". It is located in a block close to the Court House, and it dates back to the days when there were several houses for, shall we say, "gentlemen's entertainment" (read: brothels) in that location. The clientele in these houses were the Court House employees, recently released prisoners from the adjacent jail, and men who were freed after being found "not guilty" in the Courts.

[isabel]

any victorian house that is painted multiple colors is called a "painted lady", i believe.