Event Details

End: July 21, 2015
Contact: clockman@hagley.org
More Info: http://www.hagley.org

An Ocean View housewife ordered 50 chicks in 1923 and received 500. DuPont Highway was completed in 1924. Demand for Kosher meat in New York City was high.  Delmarva’s chicken industry was born. Join Hagley and 302 Stories, Inc., Producer Mike Oates for the premiere of this 70-minute documentary. The film takes viewers from the birth of the industry to the 1970s and makes use of 48 oral histories and never-before-seen photographs. Free and open to the public. Reservations requested, call (302) 658-2400, ext. 243, or email Carol Lockman, clockman@hagley.org. The lecture will be held in the auditorium of Hagley’s Soda House building. Use Hagley’s Buck Road East entrance off Route 100 in Wilmington, Delaware.