In date order here are our Top Ten Holiday Events for 2008!

This year our home in Milton is on the Holiday House Tour December 13^th. That would be a great weekend to visit Milton and get a feel for this town and its new and historic homes. Happy Holidays -

1. Sounds of Christmas at the Theatre of the Arts, Rehoboth Beach – November 23rd – December 20^th – sure to become an annual holiday event!
2. Tanger Outlets After Thanksgiving Sale – November 28^th All Tanger Outlet stores are open at midnight on Thanksgiving night!
3. Holiday Tree Lighting and Sing-a-long & Boardwalk of Lights – November 28^th, Rehoboth Beach Bandstand
4. Milton Christmas Parade – December 3^rd at 7 p.m. in Downtown Milton
5. Scrooge! A Clear Space Holiday Tradition – December 4^th, 7 p.m. – Delaware Technical & Community College, Georgetown
6. Lewes Hospitality Night – December 4^th, 6 p.m. – Lewes merchants host shopping, entertainment and complimentary refreshments.
7. Lewes Historical Society House Tour – December 6^th, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. – Self-guided tour of private homes and historical sites. Visit www.historiclewes.org for more information.
8. Christmas Parade and caroling in Zwaanendael Park (right across the street from the RE/MAX office in Lewes) – December 6^th at 5 p.m..
9. Milton Holly Festival – December 13^th, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Milton Fire Hall and Goshen Hall in the heart of town.
10. Milton Holiday House Tour – December 13^th, 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. to benefit the Milton Theatre.

On Sunday evening, November 16th, 2008, Public Radio Delmarva hosted an evening with Neal Conan, host of Talk of the Nation, and Liane Hansen, host of Weekend Edition for the past 18 years.

Have you noticed what great radio voices inhabit NPR? As soon as I entered the room, I recognized Liane’s voice and we struck up a conversation. Along with an audience full of public radio supporters and fans, we had an opportunity to talk with Liane and Neal over cocktails and hors d’oeuvres and then gathered in the Theatre of the Arts for an hour of stories, experiences and predictions for the future of public radio.

Until Sunday, it was a mostly rainy weekend, perfect for a Film Festival! We managed to see about a dozen films between Wednesday evening and Sunday afternoon of this past week. This is the second Rehoboth Beach Independent Film Festival we have attended and it was excellent. We were able to share some of the films with a few of our clients and ran into many friends all weekend long. One of our favorites did win Favorite Feature – Captain Abu Raed. The cast was wonderful and the story transended the country of Jordan where it was filmed.

Our other favorites included The Grocers Son and Crazy as well as several documentaries like No Denying about the Holocaust and Sizzle, a mock documentary about global warming. When we returned home, we went to the Netflix web site and looked up the films we had missed. Over the next few months, we hope to catch up on the Independent films we missed this year at the Rehoboth Beach Independent Film Festival.

Is there culture here at the beach in Coastal Delaware? More than we have time to take in. Last month was the Jazz Festival; this month was the Film Festival and there are new venues for theatre, live performance, music and film opening all the time.

Bill and I went to two films on Opening Night of the Rehoboth Beach Independent Film Festival and the movies we selected really illustrate the diversity of films you can see at this annual event. First we saw “The Lantern” which was filmed in Ellendale, Delaware, right behind our offices located on Main Street. The director, Gustave Rehnstrom, grew up in Ellendale and his family still lives in town. The audience was full of local residents and many of the actors and crew that worked on this film for the past three years.

The second film was Captain Abu Raed, the first independent film to come out of Jordan. This is a definite must see for everyone who enjoys independent and foreign film. It’s one of those films you never want to end and so far this one is a candidate for our favorite flm of the year. This film has already won many awards at Film Festivals around the country and here it is featured in Rehoboth Beach!

Today is the beginning of the Rehoboth Beach Independent Film Festival. If you enjoy independent film, you really should head to Rehoboth Beach over the next 5 days. There is a great choice of films, great food and comraderie in the tent behind the Midway Theater on Route 1 between Lewes and Rehoboth Beach. I’m going to pick up out tickets this afternoon and our first movie is tonight – The Lantern, filmed locally in Ellendale, Delaware, where Bill and I have our business office and headquarters for Real Living Homes and Gotcha Covered. Bill remembers seeing all the activity right behind our office when they were filming this past summer.

For more about the Film Festival visit www.RehobothFilm.com or call 302-645-9095.

What an Election Day in Delaware yesterday! Not only did our candidate win the Governor’s race, but Delaware’s own Joe Biden is the next Vice President of the United States! So listen up Boomers. For all your friends who say Dela-Where? when you tell them  you are moving to Delaware when you retire, you will not have to explain where Delaware is much longer. We are on the map and in the heart of the next administration. When Joe Biden comes home to Delaware he probably won’t be on the train next time, but in a helicopter with his security detail.