Get deja vu with Tops In Blue’s latest show

     The U.S. Air Force’s premier performing group, Tops In Blue, will entertain viewers with music and dancing at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 19, in the Delaware State University Education and Humanities Center, Dover.   
     The group will be performing its 2008 show “Deja Blue,” which offers a line-up of hot Latin sounds, all-American country music, chart toppers, and hits from favorite movies and Broadway shows.
    Each year, thousands of Air Force members compete in base talent contests to become future Tops In Blue performers, with only the most talented moving onto higher levels of competition. The result is an elite group of 35 of the most talented vocalists, musicians, dancers, comedians, magicians and dramatists world-wide.
    This year Tops In Blue is celebrating 55 years as the Air Force’s “Expeditionary Entertainers.” Their tour schedule spans more than 120 locations, to include Iraq, Qatar, Afghanistan and Kuwait.
    The Air Force also maintains a core of trained band members scattered throughout the United States who entertain civilian audiences and military members alike. However, unlike members of the various Air Force band units, members of Tops In Blue have regular Air Force jobs when not on tour. After their year-long tour with the group is over, they go back to their jobs as security forces members, medics, aircraft mechanics, office workers, cooks, drivers or any other job the Air Force offers.
    For more information on Tops In Blue, visit www.topsinblue.com.

Small-scale houses take up residency at Biggs Museum

    Three dollhouses recently have been added to the Biggs Museum of American Art’s collection, and will be on display until Feb. 22.
    “On a Smaller Scale: Dollhouses” features the recent acquisition of three dollhouses from the now closed Delaware Toy and Miniature Museum (DTMM). Dover resident Barbara Merrell created these homes, which were commended by DTMM for their high degree of naturalistic detail within the incredibly small scale of one-half inch to one foot.
    Merrell’s homes are half the size of the one inch to a foot industry standard for most dollhouses. In addition, nearly every object furnishing these mini homes, from the furniture to the textiles to the household items, were made by Merrell’s hands.
    The Biggs Museum is open from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays, and from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Sundays.
    Admission is free.
    For more information, call 674-2111 or visit www.biggsmuseum.org.
 

Check out Bombay Hook on bike

    Bike riders are invited to join Tina Watson for an eight-mile ride from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 23, at Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge, north of Leipsic on Whitehall Neck Road just off route 9.
    The group will stop for bird identification and to discuss wildlife management techniques.
    Bicycles should have hybrid tires. Riders should remember their helmets, and to check the air in their tires before meeting at the visitor center.
    For more information, call Tina Watson, Outdoor Recreation Planner, at 653-6872 or visit http://bombayhook.fws.gov