Delaware

I broke down and started reading the details of the Miss Delaware Teen USA "scandal" this morning. I had been purposefully avoiding it because I don't consider such things actual news. Who the hell cares that a stupid teenager was stupid enough to allegedly engage in sexual activity on camera? Who the hell cares about a Miss Delaware Teen USA? What the hell is a Miss Delaware Teen USA, and for that matter the winner of any of the other beauty pagents out there? Why do we even hold them up as some kind of paragons of virtue? I guess I can understand holding a contest to determine which of the contestants is the most beautiful and well rounded person in that year's competition. But why then do we act like the winner of that meaningless contest is somehow given royal duties and then acts like a Head of State for a year?

I have to hand it to people like Joanne Christian who have integrity. She opposed the Appo referendum, but at least she did it with some dignity on honest grounds, and under her own name. Right now the anonymous trolls who upended the referendum with their blatant 35% property tax increase lie are now attacking someone running for the school board with lies about them getting illegal campaign contributions from teacher's unions. I'm not going to go into the details of the lies here because I think the chatter serves the liars nefarious purposes. [If there was any wrong doing, you would expect them to seek out the proper authorities.] Rather, I'd like to point out that there seems to be a pattern emerging.

A house on Greenhill Avenue in Wilmington's Wawaset Park.

The Green was the colonial core of the Dover, centered with the state house, seen on the right. The Old State House was built in 1792, after the state capital moved to Dover from New Castle in 1777, and functioned as the capitol until a new one was built in 1932.

The Wilmington Friends Meeting House, on West Street in Wilmington. The Quaker meetinghouse was built in 1817 and is the namesake of the Quaker Hill neighborhood.

The old New Castle Company Library, on 3rd Street in New Castle. The library was built in 1892.

The Shannon Hotel, on Main Street in Christiana. The old tavern was built in 1766, and likely was a lodging place for George Washington during his travels.

The old Sussex County Courthouse, on Bedford Street in Georgetown. The courthouse was built in 1792 when Georgetown replaced Lewes as the county seat. The courthouse served until 1837, when the current courthouse was built.

Beach houses on Bay Drive in Kitts Hummock.

Bing's Bakery, on Main Street in Newark.

My new favorite diner (now that the Golden Castle is a medical center).