The 84th Annual Dover Days Festival presented by WSFS Bank, which will take place Friday, May 5th and Saturday, May 6th.
This year’s festival is the kick-off of Dover’s 300th birthday. Dover Days Festival is a free-admission festival that features more than 100 events scheduled for Friday and Saturday for people of all ages, throughout historic downtown district.
The festival is produced each year by Kent County Tourism Corporation.
In honor of Dover’s 300th Birthday, there will be new special programs and re-enactments that will showcase Dover’s history.
Starting Saturday, visitors can take a step back into time with “Passports Through Time”: a series of theatrical scenes depicting the important moments in Dover’s history.
Visitors start at the John Bell House and will be issued a passport to help them mark their journey as they discover the history of Dover over the past 300 years.
The Old State House is celebrating Dover’s 300th Birthday with a historic theater presentation examining William Penn’s conflict with Lord Baltimore.
Sponsors are the City of Dover, WSFS Bank, Del-One Federal Credit Union, Comcast, Chesapeake Utilities Corporation, Weichert Realtors First Class, Shore United Bank, Calpine, Delaware Electric Co-Op, Delaware Lottery Games, DMV & DelDOT, First State Heritage Park, Redner’s, Highmark Delaware, Delaware State News, PNC Bank, Winner Automotive Group, 512th Airlift Wing, Castle and Delaware Today.
