Tugboat fun: The Wilmington riverfront is a bevy of activity when a variety of tugboats—the “workhorses” of the maritime industry—line the Christina River from the Kalmar Nyckel Foundation shipyard to Fort Christina Park. Wilmington maritime heritage comes to life through activities celebrating its rich tugboat history, including tugboat races, a Best Tattoo contest among the tugboat crews, all-day musical entertainment and a shrimp feast. Tugboats will illuminate the Seventh Street Peninsula each evening.

Longwood Gardens hosts the Festival of Fountains, and these waterlillies are part of its horticultural showcase.

More than 100 crafters and exhibitors are expected. The Great Wilmington Tugboat Celebration, July 6– 8. Visit kalmarnyckel.org.

Shakespeare in the park: The Delaware Shakespeare Festival is fast becoming one of Greater Wilmington’s most popular traditions. This year’s featured production is the historical drama Richard III. The open-air festival runs from July 27 to Aug. 11 on the grounds of Rockwood Park, in the shadow of Joseph Shipley’s rural Gothic mansion. Enjoy

a midsummer’s eve picnic while actors discuss the play’s plot and entertain the audience with background information before the show. Visit delshakes.org for details and hotel packages.

Photo op:
The Delaware
Art Museum
in Wilming-
ton presents
Contemporary
Photography
and the Garden—
Deceits and Fantasies.
Featuring a group of Amer-
ican and European pho-
tographers and their wide
range of artistic responses
to the garden—from reflect-
ing upon it as a site of lyrical
beauty to drawing upon it as
a dark visual metaphor for
the manipulation of nature.
Through Sept. 16. Admission
is free on Sundays. Call 302-
571-9590 or visit delart.org
for more information.

Fountains and
trees: Tree-
mendous fun awaits visitors
to Longwood Gardens this
summer as the world’s pre-
mier horticultural showplace
celebrates the beauty, majesty
and importance of trees. The
Festival of Fountains features
a lineup of unforgettable
displays, fun events and pro-
grams for all ages. See trees
in a whole new way during
In TREEgue, an environ-
mental art exhibit starring
Longwood’s most notable
trees. Fireworks & Fountains
lights the night sky July 3 and
21 and Sept. 2 and 8. The gar-
den grooves with concerts on

Tuesday, Friday and Saturday evenings, followed by spectacular, illuminated fountain shows. Every day throughout the summer visitors can enjoy a respite from the heat

beneath Longwood’s shade trees while thousands of fountain jets shower their refreshing mist on the gardens. Daily programs, including demonstrations, plant walks and children’s activities, add to the enchantment. Through Sept. 1. Call 610-388-1000 or visit longwoodgardens.org.

For each of the Delaware
events, save 50 percent off
the best available rail fare for one
companion traveling in coach with a
paid regular (full) adult rail fare ticket
on Amtrak travel to Wilmington, DE.
Valid for sale through Dec. 10, 2007,
and for travel through Dec. 13, 2007.
Request discount code V679 when
you book online at Amtrak.com or call
800-USA-RAIL. See page 70 for black-
out dates and other restrictions.

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Psychedelic love: Forty years later, the Whitney Museum of American Art revisits the period with Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era, an exhibition tracing the explosion of contemporary art and popular culture brought about by the civil unrest and pervasive social change of the 1960s and early ’70s. The