Program details
Depart at 8 a.m. on Sunday in personally organized car pools. Arrive in Brandywine at 10 a.m.
Options:On Sunday visit either Mt. Cuba Center 10 am – 12:30 pm and Taste of Kennett Square tour from 1pm to 4pm. (See websites listed below for more information regarding these Events). Or, do the Brandywine River Art and Studio Museum 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.(see website listed below for more information regarding this Museum.) Later, check into the Brandywine River Hotel and join others for a get-together Sunday evening at 5 p.m.
Monday morning after breakfast at hotel select options: Longwood Gardens, Hagley Museum (where the Dupont Company was founded), or Mt. Cuba Center (a recently opened Dupont Estate focusing on flower and fauna). Visit websites listed below for more information on these interesting places. Visit your option(s), then leave for home around 4 p.m.
Day: Sunday – Monday Date: September 16-17, 2018
Beginning time: Sunday 8a.m. Ending Time: Monday 6 p.m.
TVIH Contact person: John Eberhard: Mt. Cuba Center (Sunday, 10 a.m.) and Taste of Kennett Square (Sunday, 1 p.m.)
Jean Salkeld: Brandywine River Museum (Sunday 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.); Monday Museums (10 a.m. – 3 pm)
TVIH Person in charge at event: John Eberhard (443-472-0899) or Nancy Krantz (301-596-2727)
Web Sites For: Brandywine River Hotel, 1609 Baltimore Pike, Chadds Ford, PA 19317, Phone number: 610-388-1200
Contact local websites to make own hotel reservations and to purchase tickets for tours and museums:
Brandywine River Hotel – http://www.brandywinehotelpa.com
Brandywine River Art Museum http://www.brandywine.org/museum
Mt. Cuba Center: http://www.mtcubacenter.org (15 minutes from Kennett Square)
Winterthur: http://www.winterthur.org
Longwood Gardens: http://www.longwoodgardens.org
Hagley Museum: http://www.hagley.org
Special Instructions:Each person is responsible for making their own hotel reservations and museum arrangements, Taste of Kennett Square or Garden tour arrangements; transportation to and from Brandywine Valley. Let John Eberhard know if you are making tasting arrangements at Kennett Square, which you should make ASAP.Also let John know your carpooling arrangements. Let Jean Salkeld know if will be doing museum tours.
Fee: Must register. Each person responsible for own fees.
All registrations due by: Museum and hotel registration due by: September 1st
Taste of Kennett Square arrangements must be made ASAP as tour places are limited.