A light narrative describes the cultural history of this small waterway in eastern Pennsylvania and Delaware where the Swedes built log cabins, William Penn's Quakers settled, the du Ponts came to Wilmington, and the Revolutionary War Battle of the Brandywine took place.
Thomas Hoving is the former director of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, the former editor of Connoisseur magazine, and the author of the New York Times bestseller, Making the Mummies Dance.