Rehoboth wraps up summer with Piping Out on Boardwalk
Rehoboth Beach visitors and locals closed out the 2024 summer season by participating in the annual Piping Out the Summer Sept. 2 on the Boardwalk. Participants used a variety of musical instruments – kazoos, violins, washboards, toy accordions – during the whimsical event.
Hosted by the Rehoboth Beach Historical Society and Museum and Henlopen Hotel, the annual event was founded by former Henlopen Hotel bandleader and trombonist Sammy Ferro in the 1950s. The original Piping Out lasted for four decades until 1999. It was revived in 2019.
Ferro’s orchestra played for dances held at the old Henlopen Hotel. After the last dance of the summer on Labor Day, Ferro would take his band to the boards, followed by his audience, and then lead a spontaneous musical parade down the Boardwalk to the vicinity of Rehoboth Avenue.
Chris Flood has been working for the Cape Gazette since early 2014. He currently covers Rehoboth Beach and Henlopen Acres, but has also covered Dewey Beach and the state government. He covers environmental stories, business stories and random stories on subjects he finds interesting, and he also writes a column called Choppin’ Wood that runs every other week. Additionally, Flood moonlights as the company’s circulation manager, which primarily means fixing boxes that are jammed with coins during daylight hours, but sometimes means delivering papers in the middle of the night. He’s a graduate of the University of Maine and the Landing School of Boat Building & Design.
