Hagley Creek Kids: A Day In The Life

Don’t miss the last Creek Kids Youth Leadership Program events of the summer! Experience “A Day in the Life” of a typical Workers’ Hill family. First, learn about immigration in the nineteenth century, something most of the families of powder mill workers went through. Then try your hand at making fresh-squeezed lemonade and butter to spread on your Irish soda bread. Experiment with the latest in nineteenth-century home technology, including a modern laundry wringer! Have some old-fashioned fun with games, music, and dancing. Activities are included with general admission and free for members. Use Hagley's main entrance off Route 141 in Wilmington, Delaware.

All-Day Activities:

Visit Worker’s Hill to learn all about life in the nineteenth century! On your way up the hill, pass through an immigration tent to relive the experience of many families who came to work in America, including the du Ponts. Head over to the picnic tables to learn more about the heritage these families brought to the New World by making an Irish lace doily and playing some nineteenth-century games. Be sure to stay for a game of rounders, an early form of baseball, at 3 p.m.! You can also learn some traditional dances set to live music from the time period. But before you play, you must do your chores! In the Gibbons House you can wash the laundry with the latest in home technology—a laundry wringer! Learn how important wood cutting was to the household as well. Further up the hill try weaving on a tape loom and discover how clothing was made. After you’ve worked up an appetite, stop in the kitchen to sample some food! You can squeeze your own lemons for lemonade, make your own butter to spread on some bread, take a kitchen quiz, and taste some French potato soup.