Turner Auctions + Appraisals will present American & European Fine Art on Sunday, November 4, 2018. Offering over 210 lots from several collectors, the sale includes oil paintings, watercolors, ...

After years of neglect, Pierre du Pont took over the property in 1906, creating what is now known as Longwood Gardens. The accomplished entrepreneur and philanthropist is responsible for the beautiful ...

Longwood Gardens, originally inhabited by the Lenape tribe, later became a Quaker farm under George Peirce in 1700. Over centuries, it evolved into a stunning public garden, thanks to industrialist ...

There’s also a memorial marker about this history near Peirce’s Park that tells more of the story. In 1906, Pierre S. du Pont bought the property to save its historic trees from becoming lumber. At 36 ...

The Commons Lab of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars has received a two-year, $500,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to continue its work on citizen science, ...

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Former two-term Delaware Gov. Pierre S. "Pete" du Pont IV, who sought the Republican presidential nomination in 1988, died Saturday following a lengthy illness, his former chief of staff announced.

Alfred J. St. Pierre, 78, was surrounded by his loving family when he passed away on April 25, 2012, after a weeklong stay in the Reading Hospital. Born on May 4, 1933, in Winchendon, Mass., ...