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Rehoboth Beach Historical Society Celebrates 

Women of Rehoboth Beach with 
Audio Oral Histories

 

In celebration of Women's History month the Rehoboth Beach Historical Society presents recorded oral histories of women who made their mark on Rehoboth Beach. These oral histories consist of audio-only. Each Saturday in March at 1 p.m. there will be a presentation of a different oral history. Space is very limited as these recordings will be played in the Anna Hazzard Tent House at 17 Christian Street. Registration is required. A $10 donation is requested

 

To register, click HERE and then click on the date you wish to attend. The program dates and subjects are:

 

  • March 4 - Ann Lynch Dyer reminisces about growing up in Rehoboth Beach, her school years, her grandparent’s store, Pettyjohn’s, the Lifeguard and Art League Balls, and the war years. She recounts in detail what the town was like in her early days. 

  • March 11 – Two presentations: Charlotte Schmierer Quillen was born in 1928 and grew up in Rehoboth Beach. She reminisces about her early life, her father delivering ice and oil, her school days, the World War II years, and working in the family business in Rehoboth Beach. A second presentation will feature Barbara Quillen Dougherty, whose mother’s family had a cottage that had been in Dewey Beach since around 1910, and memories about her life there going back to the late 1940s. 

  • March 18 - Win Macadam reminisces about her early life in Rehoboth Beach, her school days, the World War II years, and her mother, Ruth Emmert, who owned and operated the Dinner Bell Inn. 

  • March 25Evelyn Dick Thoroughgood was a well-known fixture in Rehoboth Beach whose family moved to Rehoboth in the late 1880s. She reminisces about her school days, the war years, and what it was like growing up in Rehoboth Beach.

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