From my notes when I traveled to Wilmington Delaware after the AWP Meeting in Washington D.C. in 1997: ...there was an old Fort Christina Marina, & along the road where there was an asphalt dike there were men with a truck building a new fence - 
beyond, peeped the silver strips of glittering river - farther there was the park - with some other markers of Swedish Settlers - there was just a tavern there - 
the park seemed like mostly parking lot - there was a postal truck and I gave the driver the post cards I wrote last night. (The logs in the photo are a recreation of the long-ago fort.)
It was too windy, when I tried to play my recorder I kept losing the tune into the wind.
The wind blew my coat a lot. It was sunny but the wind was a little cold. (My coat was eleven years old but I was happy I had it along.)
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Fort Christina Marina & Restaurant Inc. , formerly at 1126 East Seventh Street of Wilmington, Delaware.
. Owned & Operated by Morris Lee Simms Sr. and Norma Estella Higgins-Simms from 1977 until 1988, was a 8.5 acre full service marina with Docking,Slips,Gas,Supplies and Repairs. Also became the home to many Jazz & R/B Bands and Musicians performing on the weekends.
.Historically the first Delaware African-Americans to have such an entrepreneurship on the Christina River.
Captain M.L. Simms Sr. and his sons restored a old wooden 40 ft Thompson Yacht, proudly named the" Sherri Ann" ( second from right below) after his two daughters. He often provided tours along the Christina,River passing the old Seventh St. Rail Bridge into the Delaware River past the twin span of the Delaware Memorial Bridge ,piloting up the C&D Canal to the Chesapeake River in Maryland.
This acrylic painting depicted by artist, K.O.Simms, was a Tribute to his parents Family owned business.
Fort Christina Marina & Restaurant Inc. , formerly at 1126 East Seventh Street of Wilmington, Delaware.
. Owned & Operated by Morris Lee Simms Sr. and Norma Estella Higgins-Simms from 1977 until 1988, was a 8.5 acre full service marina with Docking,Slips,Gas,Supplies and Repairs. Also became the home to many Jazz & R/B Bands and Musicians performing on the weekends.
.Historically the first Delaware African-Americans to have such an entrepreneurship on the Christina River.
Captain M.L. Simms Sr. and his sons restored a old wooden 40 ft Thompson Yacht, proudly named the" Sherri Ann" ( second from right below) after his two daughters. He often provided tours along the Christina,River passing the old Seventh St. Rail Bridge into the Delaware River past the twin span of the Delaware Memorial Bridge ,piloting up the C&D Canal to the Chesapeake River in Maryland.
This acrylic painting depicted by artist, K.O.Simms, was a Tribute to his parents Family owned business.
Fort Christina Marina & Restaurant Inc. , formerly at 1126 East Seventh Street of Wilmington, Delaware.
. Owned & Operated by Morris Lee Simms Sr. and Norma Estella Higgins-Simms from 1977 until 1988, was a 8.5 acre full service marina with Docking,Slips,Gas,Supplies and Repairs. Also became the home to many Jazz & R/B Bands and Musicians performing on the weekends.
.Historically the first Delaware African-Americans to have such an entrepreneurship on the Christina River.
Captain M.L. Simms Sr. and his sons restored a old wooden 40 ft Thompson Yacht, proudly named the" Sherri Ann" ( second from right below) after his two daughters. He often provided tours along the Christina,River passing the old Seventh St. Rail Bridge into the Delaware River past the twin span of the Delaware Memorial Bridge ,piloting up the C&D Canal to the Chesapeake River in Maryland.
This acrylic painting depicted by artist, K.O.Simms, was a Tribute to his parents Family owned business.
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