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  1. jason330
    March 18, 2023,

    If you have to ask how much tickets cost, you can’t afford it.

    This fall, join us at our Gala for Western Civilization featuring Tucker Carlson, the host of Tucker Carlson Tonight, and one of the most influential figures in America today.

    This is no ordinary evening.

    You won’t just be a face in a crowd listening to Tucker speak; you will also have the chance to speak with Tucker yourself.

    We will host Tucker and the Gala at our brand-new Linda L. Bean Conference Center on our campus in Wilmington, Delaware. Linda Bean’s generosity and passion for conservatism made this Center possible, and without her, we would not have the chance to offer you this incredible event.

    TICKETS
    To buy tickets for this once-in-a-lifetime evening, please email Ethan Swain, our Director of Major Gifts (eswain@isi.org).

  2. nathan arizona
    March 18, 2023,

    Am I right that this wacky Linda Bean Conference Center is somehow connected to the Brandywine Conservancy? What’s up with that? Is the right wing invading Wyeth Country?

    • Alby
      March 19, 2023,

      They’re been there longer than the Wyeths have. See below.

  3. Joe Connor
    March 18, 2023,

    22 acres on Centerville Rd out by Hoopes that sold for 2 Million bucks 28 years ago! their website is beyond bizarre!
    Previously known as the Worth estate. Worth Steel?

  4. Alby
    March 19, 2023,

    It’s directly across the reservoir from Mt. Cuba, the former Copeland estate. Charlie Copeland formerly ran ISI.

    Remembered this from the old Christine O’Donnell files:

    In a 2005 lawsuit that O’Donnell filed against the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, a conservative think tank where she worked less than a year before being fired, O’Donnell said her bosses reneged on a promise to allow her time to pursue a master’s degree at Princeton University.

    • Beach Karen
      March 20, 2023,

      It’s very difficult to get a Master’s Degree from Princeton when your employer won’t give you time off.

      But it’s literally impossible to get your Master’s Degree from Princeton when you never got an undergraduate degree from Farleigh Dickinson because you never finished the coursework OR paid your tuition.

      Let’s not look back sympathetically on Delaware’s version of George Santos.

  5. RE Vanella
    March 19, 2023,

    Inherentance tax on anything over $500,000 should be 100% with zero loopholes or carve outs.

  6. nathan arizona
    March 19, 2023,

    I think I’m mainly bothered by her connection with the Brandywine River Museum and the Brandywine Conservancy it’s part of. Her Wyeth projects in Maine have met with some resistance. Big donors tend to get their way, and I don’t like her way. I don’t like ISI either, but they bought their land even if we wish they hadn’t. “Buying” an art museum is a different thing.

    • Alby
      March 19, 2023,

      I’m not sure how much connection there actually is. She’s on the museum board, which means she gave them some money, but I think she’s mostly interested in monetizing the Maine connection; her businesses all seem centered around Maineness.

  7. Nancy Willing
    March 19, 2023,

    DE GOP can’t get out of their own way. FFS.

    My late partner, as a teen living off of Hillside Road, would bike over to visit Mr. Worth a lot, his story told mostly in context of how kind old Mr. Worth was and how drunk.

  8. nathan arizona
    March 19, 2023,

    Alby — That’s probably true about Linda Bean. But her having a “center” here and cozying up to the museum just irritates me. Hope the next art show isn’t “Hitler and the Brandywine School Tradition.”

    • Alby
      March 19, 2023,

      Judging by her gallery in Maine, she’s more into N.C. than Andrew. She probably wants nothing to do with Jamie.

    • jason330
      March 19, 2023,

      Takes me back.

      Idiots like that guy once commented right here at DL. That was back when blogs were the new fangled way of yelling at Mike Castle. We called sauerkraut “liberty cabbage” back then.

      • El Somnambulo
        March 20, 2023,

        I’d have to check, but I’m pretty sure that Rep. Roger Roy sponsored the resolution to rename ‘french fries’ as ‘Freedom Fries’ in the Leg Hall cafeteria.

        This really happened.

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