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Building international cooperation is a slow, painstaking process, one made more difficult when some people don’t see the need for it. To businesses, however, international cooperation is positively necessary as a means to secure intellectual property rights, market share, and profit opportunities.  

Ben Spohn will interview Alessandra La Rocca Link about her new book, The Iron Horse in Indian Country: Native Americans and Railroads in the US West. 

While popular memory may have forgotten them, about half of the sailors, soldiers, missionaries, tradesmen, and colonists that made up the Spanish Empire were Black, people who were part of the African diaspora. Studying their history allows scholars new ways to research and interpret Spanish colonialism, perhaps especially in the Pacific context. 

Relax and enjoy Hagley's beautiful property in the evening, Wednesdays in June, July, & August

Among the objects donated to the museum last September was a large steamer trunk. This trunk (see below) was used at the Granogue Estate to store a collection of 19^th century prints, paintings, and artists’ materials historically connected to Elise Wigfall (Simons) du Pont (1849-1919). Granogue served as a place of residence for the family of Irene Sophie du Pont, daughter of Elise and her husband, former DuPont Company vice president Francis Gurney du Pont (1850-1904).

While I am writing this on a rainy spring day, I look forward to the upcoming dry, warm and sunny days at the Delaware beaches. One of my favorite “beachy” patent models is this one for a Surf Hut.