STEPHEN FRY

I'd have to agree. As a not-born-but-bred Delawarean, I don't particularly like the state, but was still dismayed that Mr. Fry could only fill one and a half perfunctory pages with DE info. While my soul is in NOLA and I appreciate that he practically wrote a novella about it, DE, small and boring though it may appear, has its own quirks. For instance, the Governor's mansion is said to be haunted by several spirits, one of whom likes to drink unwatched liquor.
Also, and this is not a fact I include with any pride, riots and civil unrest in the city of Wilmington, DE followed the 1968 assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and in response, on 9 April 1968, Governor Charles L. Terry, Jr. deployed the National Guard to the city at the request of Mayor John Babiarz. One week later, Mayor Babiarz requested the National Guard troops be withdrawn, but Governor Terry refused, and kept them in the city until his term ended in January, 1969. This is reportedly the longest occupation of an American city by state forces in the nation's history. This is something they covered on the History Channel.
DE has the only nominally circular state boundary in the United States.
Also, although attempts to abolish slavery failed by narrow margins in the legislature, in practical terms, the state had mostly ended the practice. By the 1860 census on the verge of the Civil War, 91.7 percent of the black population, or nearly 20,000 people, were free. At the onset of the Civil War, Delaware was only nominally a slave state, and it remained in the Union. Delaware voted against secession on January 3, 1861. As the governor said, Delaware had been the first state to embrace the Union by ratifying the Constitution and would be the last to leave it.
DE is also home to Dover Air Force Base. In addition to its other responsibilities in the USAF Air Mobility Command, this air base serves as the entry point and mortuary for American military personnel, and some U.S. government civilians, who die overseas. On the morning of 9/11, I drove past the entrance to the base and got goosebumps when I saw the ensuing traffic jam of off-duty personnel trying to get on base to see what they could do to help.
Delaware was the origin of Belton v. Gebhart, one of the four cases which were combined into Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court of the United States decision that led to the end of segregated public schools. Significantly, Belton was the only case in which the state court found for the plaintiffs, thereby ruling that segregation was unconstitutional.
While DE was very boring to grow up in and is still rather boring to drive through, it has a rich history and has proven itself, time and again, to be nationally integral.

I completely agree and I was never offended as an objective reader...or really offended at all subjectively. (Well, ok, a little offended...Lewis, really?...He chose Lewis to talk to people?) I think I was just sad that I had spent years as a walmart cashier daydreaming that he would come through DE and, just maybe, my line. Instead of asking him how he was, like I would any other customer, I would ask him what do they say of the acropolis where the Parthenon is...and then I would swoon. Lewis is nowhere near what DE is as a whole and I know he doesn't know that, but summing up DE in Lewis is like summing up Louisiana in Bucktown.
Again, I just wish, well, the person I want to hang out with the most knows that the state in which I hated growing up is still better than the “slower lower” town of Lewis.