What To Do: Remembering history at Brandywine, Christiana

By Denny Dyroff, Entertainment Editor, The Times
The Battle of Brandywine
This is a weekend in which summer events are leaving the area schedule while most harvest and Halloween activities have yet to arrive.
There is still a full slate of attractive events representing a wide range of genres such as cars, food, ethnic, arts and crafts, trains, scarecrows and lots more.
On September 13 and...
At Sandy Hollow, hallowed ground gets respect

Reenactment of 1777 battle brings history alive for thousands
By Kathleen Brady Shea, Managing Editor, The Times
During the height of the battle, a haze of musket fire fills the air at Sandy Hollow in Birmingham Township.
“A most infernal fire of cannon and musquetry”is how one officer described the fighting he witnessed at Sandy Hollow in Birmingham Township during the Battle of the Brandywine...