Barefootin'

By Dennis Forney

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  Groome Mansion and the heroics of Commodore Dewey

  By Dennis Forney - May 17
  On May 1, 1898, Commodore George Dewey led a fleet of U.S. Navy vessels into Manila Bay in the Philippines and defeated a fleet of Spanish ships ...
  
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  Blossoming beach plums and Verrazzano’s explorers

  By Dennis Forney - May 03
  Why would white-blooming shrubs blizzarding our coastal dunes this week bring to mind an Italian explorer? It all has to do with beach plums. ...
  
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  Hilly and her huskies, trail problems, and storm damage

  By Dennis Forney - Apr 19
  When 90-year-old Hilly Burton Stevens saw the chance to ride through the Southern Delaware Kidney Walk at Cape Henlopen State Park last weekend in ...
  

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  UD grad students advised: adapt, migrate or face extinction

  By Dennis Forney - May 10
  University of Delaware graduate Dr. M. Brandon Jones used fundamental natural law in his advice to students receiving honors at the College of ...
  
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  Setting compasses west, then turning east and pedaling

  By Dennis Forney - Apr 26
  The weather page in the Cape Gazette tells the story. Last week’s low temperature was 38 degrees. Turn that number around and you get the high: ...