Somebody in this county spent all summer organizing a rubber duck race. Put that under things I love about this place.
AUG 20 – Ghost Crab Hike at the Seaside Nature Center in Cape Henlopen State Park, 8 to 9 p.m., $8. A beach walk in the dark searching for magical creatures who do not want to be found. Runs again the 27th.
AUG 21 – A traffic jam. The Rehoboth Beach Museum holds a 5 p.m. reception for Ode to the Dolle’s Sign, a statewide poetry contest built entirely around the taffy sign they took down. Delaware grieves through verse. The West Side Creative Market runs 5 to 9 on Central Street with Bria Elena playing and twenty-odd artists selling. Friends of the Booth Goldstar, a Rehoboth duo rocking harmonies like no other, is at Crooked Hammock in Lewes, 6 to 9. And Shanty Night at the Sussex Tavern on the Historic Lewes campus, 6 to 8, where people in period costume sing sea shanties at each other without a hint of irony.
AUG 22 – The Great Duck Race at Milton Memorial Park, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Numbered rubber ducks race down the Broadkill, $500 to the winner, five bucks a duck. Food trucks and even a petting zoo mean there will be something to entertain everyone. Meanwhile, the Zwaanendael Museum in Lewes puts a costumed historian on the lawn for Loyalist on the Lawn, playing a Delawarean who sided with the British. Free, 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Somebody has to.
AUG 25 – Squid Dissection: From Pen to Ink at the Indian River Life Saving Station, 2 p.m., $9. You take the squid apart, then write with its ink. Ages 6 and up. I mean, it’s gross but cool but gross.
Marissa’s Picks at The Listening Booth
AUG 22 – Rachael Sage & Grace Morrison
Sage has run her own label, MPress Records, since 1996, which is longer than most labels last and considerably longer than most artists stay independent on purpose. Fifteen albums in, she still writes like someone with a theater background and no real interest in playing it safe, and she has shared stages with Sarah McLachlan, Judy Collins and Marc Cohn without ever sanding down the edges. Morrison, a Booth regular, trademarked her own genre, Saltwater Country, which is a great description of her pop meets country meets folk meets New England. She is a Cape Cod native who has written with Lori McKenna and plays a serious accordion, and the pairing makes more sense the longer you sit with it. 7 p.m.
MORE TO HEAR AND DO AT THE BOOTH:
AUG 22 – Rave Party hosted by 420R.AVE
AUG 28 – Wicked Sycamore with Treefolk
AUG 29 – Noah Guthrie with Captain Blue’s Grass Band
AUG 30 – The Band Memo
Visit listeningbooth.com/shows for tickets.
