As the name of these posts suggests…. it was about 100F and 100 humidity in Wilmington when were there at the beginning of July. Undaunted we braved the weather and went and visited one of the original inventive homes in Wilmington— the Bellamy mansion, finished in 1861, as the Civil War broke out. Here is a portrait of Dr. Bellamy (a medical doctor, who studied in Philadelphia, but owned a tar, pitch, and turpentine farm near Wilmington by which he... Read more