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ShadFest 2024
Save the Date!

Sunday, May 19th

A free celebration of the Brandywine River and the return of the American Shad

2024/05/19 09:00:00

A Free Community Event

An annual celebration of the Brandywine River and return of the American Shad, presented by the Brandywine River Restoration Trust. Join us for a day of environmental advocacy, stewardship, fun and festivities.

Sunday, May 19 · 11am - 4pm

  • Food & adult beverage vendors
  • Sustainable arts & crafts vendors
  • Fishing lessons & games for kids
  • Face/body painting
  • Music & fun

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“The BRRT is playing an important role in restoring the free flow of the Brandywine River, reinvigorating the opportunity for shad and other aquatic life to travel up the stream to spawn, as they have for millennia. Many of these dams, constructed more than a century ago, have harmed our environment and put public safety at risk without providing power for the mills along the Brandywine anymore. I can’t tell you how excited I am at the idea of a clean and free-flowing Brandywine River.” — U.S. Senator Chris Coons (DE)

     

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