Entrance to Sea-Wood Estates

Take a break from your Memorial Day activities and come to our Open House in the wonderful community of Sea-Wood Estates. Located on Robinsonville Road, just off Plantations Road, it’s a great location and this home is a must see.

We will be at the home for sale at 33138 Seahorse Place. With a desirable open floor plan, beautifully landscaped yard and a fenced back yard for family and pets, the deck and hot tub … need I say more? OK, there are 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, eat-in kitchen, gas fireplace, oversized 2-car garage and more.

You know you love to go to Open Houses and we look forward to seeing you there! Whether you’re looking to relocate to Coastal Delaware or buy that vacation home near Lewes and the beaches, this home is a “must-see”!

There is so much to do in the Lewes, DE, area over the Memorial Day Weekend, it’s hard to choose! One of my favorite organizations is holding its 5th Annual Delaware By Hand Members’ Day Fine Arts and Crafts Show, Saturday, May 29, 2010, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., at Zwaanendael Museum park, Lewes, featuring wood, metal, glass, ceramics, photography, jewelry, fiber, sculpture, baskets, prints and paintings; free admission; free parking at Lewes Presbyterian Church lot across street. For details visit delawarebyhand.org.

Lightship Overfalls annual party and auction, Friday, May 28, 2010, 6-9:30 p.m., at the UD Virden Center, Pilottown Rd., Lewes; with food, wine and beer, live and Chinese auction; tickets, $35, and if available, $40 at the door; call 645-8655; or visit Lewes Gourmet/Puzzles, Kids’ Ketch or Lewes chamber.

I’ll try to post some other good ideas before the weekend!

FOOD, INC.  sponsored by
The Lewes Historic Farmers Market & Rehoboth Farmers Market
Saturday, May15, 2010 – Reception at 5:00 p.m.; Movie begins at 6:00 p.m.

In FOOD, INC. filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government’s regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation’s food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health.

Featuring interviews with such experts as Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto) along with forward thinking social entrepreneurs like Stonyfield’s Gary Hirshberg and Polyface Farms’ Joel Salatin, FOOD, INC. reveals surprising and often shocking truths about what we eat, how it’s produced, who we have become as a nation and where we are going from here.

A complimentary reception featuring light, organic refreshments is included and a cash bar is available.
For tickets to the movie at The Milton Theatre

TICKETS:  General Admission – $12.00; Seniors over 65 and students 18 and under – $10.00

The May issue of Money Magazine selected Lewes, Delaware as the best place to retire in what they define as the “Northeast”. The reason? People hate paying taxes and there is also NO SALES TAX.

Homes available range from elegant beach homes that can cost upwards of $1M to homes in town from the $300s to $1.5M and surrounding neighborhoods where home prices range from the $200s and up. There is great variety and something for everyone. The median home value is $310,000 and the median property tax in Lewes is only $582/year! What is your tax bill?

The word is out and Lewes is on the Boomer’s radar screen!

The Lewes Chamber of Commerce is partnering with Lewes in Bloom, The Lewes Historical Society, Lewes Parks & Recreation Commission and the Historic Lewes Farmers Market to create a new event which will blossom on April 23 & 24. Tulips will be on display all over Lewes at the city’s first Tulip Festival. Lewes Canalfront Park will also host an open house from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. If you haven’t been to the new canalfront park, this is the perfect weekend to enjoy the exhibits, prizes and fun along the canal. There will be an opportunity to influence activities that will become part of the park in the future. For more information on Tulip Festival events visit the Lewes Chamber of Commerce.

Have you been to Lewes Beach? I’ve always wondered how the streets were named and I’m doing some research to try to find the answer. Lewes Beach is a narrow strip of land along the Delaware Bay between Savannah Road (Rt. 9) and the Lewes Yacht Club. Once small beach cottages lined the road and many have been passed down through multiple generations. Now you find elegant new multi-story homes interspersed with the original cottages and Victorian homes.

But I digress. As you drive along Cedar Street you notice that most of the streets on your right, between Cedar and Bay Avenue, are named after other states, interrupted by an occasional “O” Street or E. Market Street and some that appear to have no name. There’s New Jersey Ave., New York Ave., Maryland and Pennsylvania. In all I have counted some 23 state streets in Lewes Beach. I’m curious how they got their names. Did the first resident to build a cottage name the street after their state of birth? I was born in New Jersey myself and so many of my real estate clients these days are also from New Jersey, this made me feel right at home. I’ve also lived in other states here represented like New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maine and Maryland.

If it was random, who chose the 23 states and why is there Missouri but no Kansas? I’ve done my Google searches and so far found no explanation, but then I wasn’t born here. Guess I’ll visit the Lewes Historical Society and maybe the Zwaanendael Museum and ask one of the docents. If anyone reading this blog has information to share, please post your comments here.

Do you know all the States of Lewes Beach?

I just had to pull over and take a picture of the flowering cherry trees that flank the entrance to Beebe Hospital in the heart of Lewes, Delaware.

Beebe Medical Center

Beebe is a non-profit community hospital dedicated to excellence in healthcare. In 2010, Beebe Medical Center, recipient of the Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence™, has been ranked in the top 5% in the nation for overall clinical excellence by HealthGrades®.

Winterjam, the Cape Henlopen Educational Foundation’s biggest yearly fundraiser, is rescheduled from 7 to 11 p.m., Friday, March 19, at the Rehoboth Beach Convention Center.
Tickets may be purchased at the door for $15 each. Tickets purchased earlier for the previous date may be used for the new date.
Members of the Funsters, Comfort Zone, 33 1/3 and the Cape Henlopen School District’s Hindsight 20/20 will perform.
Guests can check out more than 50 items in the silent auction, buy a raffle ticket for two tickets to a Philadelphia Eagles game, win door prizes, dance, gather with Cape alumni and have fun to benefit the Cape Henlopen School District students and teachers.
All proceeds support the Cape Henlopen Educational Foundation’s (CHEF’s) teacher minigrant program, Cape’s homeless/at risk program, a student performing arts grant and future programs for the Cape schools. For more information about the Cape Henlopen Educational Foundation and how to help, visit the website capeeducationfund.org.

Mark your calendar! On Saturday, March 27th Teller Wines will have their 7th Annual Wine Expo & Benefit at the Lewes Yacht Club from 1 to 4pm. This is a great event with over 100 top-knotch wines to taste and really great gourmet food (appetizers and small bites). This year, a portion of the proceeds from the event will benefit the Historic Lewes Farmers Market. Tickets are $60, and they sell out quickly.  For tickets, call 302-644-7400 or pick them up at Teller Wines, 1201A Savannah Rd. in Lewes.

This year the HLFM will be offering three fabulous silent auction items at this event that are so special that you will want to get a ticket just to be able to bid on them!