Joanne Kurz Guilfoil and Barbra Slavin will give a visual review of the 100-year history of the chicken industry-including great stories, a precise procedure for building a chicken farm, introduction to some outstanding/award winning chicken farmers, a look at the fanciers and breeds shown at the Delaware State Fair, and finally the kids: FAA and 4H clubs... with their birds.

Joanne Kurz Guilfoil is a retired art educator and longtime chicken keeper. Joanne has raised and kept chickens as pets her entire life, except for the year she lived in Akiak, Alaska, teaching and doing research in a one-room Eskimo village school. She practiced the ethnographic method of field research as part of her doctoral studies at the University of Oregon. But even while attending graduate school classes and teaching, she kept chickens. Her book, Chickens on Delmarva, is much more to Joanne than just a history of the broiler industry and growers on the Peninsula. It's also a joyful personal journey of self-discovery.

Barbra Slavin, Director of Historic Ocean View, which collects, preserves, interprets, and celebrates the history of Ocean View, Delaware, and the surrounding area of Baltimore Hundred. They strive to meet the challenges of 21st Century coastal living by understanding and embracing the area's rich heritage.

For centuries, Delaware has grown, produced, and brewed foods and drinks that have traveled across the country and around the world. But where do these goods come from and who are the people, past and present, that have made this possible? Through programs and lectures, History Revival: Food and Drink Across Delmarva will connect the public to the rich history of agriculture on the Delmarva peninsula, and the unique goods that have graced Delaware's tables for centuries. This lecture series is a collaborative effort of the Zwaanendael Museum and Lewes Public Library and has been made possible in part by Delaware Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom.

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