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Weekly Highlights in Delaware

Every featured event of the week, past and present

Halloween Hustle 5K debuts in
Weekly Highlight Oct 26 – Nov 2, 2026

Halloween Hustle 5K debuts in

The inaugural Halloween Hustle 5K Run/Walk takes over Smyrna High School on Halloween morning, Oct. 31, 2026, with costumes encouraged and proceeds going to the Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition.

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Fall Hike at Blackbird Creek
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Fall Hike at Blackbird Creek

DNREC's free Fall into the Forest Hike returns to Blackbird Creek Reserve in Townsend on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2026, at 5 p.m., with an hour-long guided walk through the estuary's fall woods.

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Dark Tales at DuPont Nature
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Dark Tales at DuPont Nature

DNREC's DuPont Nature Center near Milford hosts "Dark Tales of the Delaware Coast," a Halloween program of stormy seas and lost sailors, on Friday, October 23, 2026 at 2 p.m.

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Spooky Storybook Saturday at
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Spooky Storybook Saturday at

Storybook Saturday (Spooky Edition!) brings a Halloween-themed story and hands-on activity to the DuPont Nature Center near Milford, Delaware, on Saturday, October 24, 2026 at 11 a.m.

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A Closer Look at Old College Hall
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

A Closer Look at Old College Hall

A Closer Look: Collections in Focus, a new 30-minute gallery conversation series at Old College Hall on the University of Delaware campus in Newark, debuts October 20, 2026, with a student-led discussion of Phoebe Beasley's Daybreak in Alabama.

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Caterpillar Film Night at Carvel
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Caterpillar Film Night at Carvel

The University of Delaware's Carvel Research & Education Center in Georgetown hosts a free screening of the 60-minute documentary The Extraordinary Caterpillar on Tuesday, October 20, 2026, at 6:30 p.m.

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Blackbird Creek Fall Festival
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Blackbird Creek Fall Festival

The Blackbird Creek Fall Festival returns to the Blackbird Creek Reserve in Townsend, Delaware on October 17, 2026, with free family fun and 200 free native trees from the TEDI program.

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QHack 2026 Kickoff at UD's Sharp
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

QHack 2026 Kickoff at UD's Sharp

The University of Delaware hosts a free Oct. 12 kickoff for QHack 2026, Xanadu's PennyLane quantum coding competition, where beginners and veterans alike can form teams before the online contest opens Oct. 16.

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Sex Ed Exhibition Tour at UD's
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Sex Ed Exhibition Tour at UD's

Co-curators Beth Wojciechowski and Alison Wessel lead a free tour and discussion of 'Where Do We Go From Here?' at the University of Delaware's Morris Library on October 13, 2026.

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Halloween Murder Mystery at UD's
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Halloween Murder Mystery at UD's

The University of Delaware's phone-free "Unplugged" series turns the Rodney Room at Perkins Student Center into a costumed whodunit on October 14, 2026.

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A Star's 90-Year Tantrum
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

A Star's 90-Year Tantrum

An Australian astrophysicist brings a supercomputer's answer to a 1936 stellar mystery to the University of Delaware.

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Scrapple's Big Weekend
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

Scrapple's Big Weekend

Bridgeville's Apple-Scrapple Festival returns for its 34th year, pairing a polarizing Delaware meat with the apples that grew up alongside it — and toasting the 100th birthday of the company that made the town famous.

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The Censor in the Mailroom
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

The Censor in the Mailroom

A table event at the University of Delaware's Morris Library turns a spotlight on America's most prolific book banners: its prisons.

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Breath as Inheritance
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

Breath as Inheritance

A free symposium at the Wilmington Public Library carries forward the legacy of James Newton, the artist and scholar who built Black Studies at the University of Delaware.

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Free Trees, First Come: How
Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

Free Trees, First Come: How

Now in its fifth year, Newark's fall native tree and shrub giveaway hands out free plants to residents — and quietly reshapes the city's tree canopy in the process.

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The Art of the Assembled: At
Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

The Art of the Assembled: At

A free exhibition at the University of Delaware's Mechanical Hall gathers collage, assemblage, and mixed media by David Driskell, Sam Gilliam, Phoebe Beasley, and others — work built from accumulation, juxtaposition, and transformation.

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The Boss Comes to The Bob
Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

The Boss Comes to The Bob

A New Jersey tribute band that has played Asbury Park's Stone Pony for two decades brings Springsteen's catalog to a free night at the University of Delaware's arena.

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A Clarinetist's Big Night
Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

A Clarinetist's Big Night

Nate Peterson's free degree recital at UD's Gore Recital Hall marks a milestone for a young musician in an intimate, 200-seat room built for exactly this.

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A Century of Chrome and Craft
Weekly Highlight Sep 14–21, 2026

A Century of Chrome and Craft

More than 500 antique and restored cars will fill the grounds of a former du Pont gunpowder works on Sept. 20, as Delaware's self-styled best car show marks its 30th year with a salute to America's independent automakers.

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