SMYRNA — Paula Wolkind is finally ready to call in some favors.
“A whole lot of people have said to me, ‘As soon as you guys have a place for things, I have stuff,’” said the executive director of the Delaware Rock & Roll Society.
Operating out of their Newark apartment, Ms. Wolkind and her husband, George Wolkind, the society’s president, have chronicled Delaware rock ‘n’ roll history since starting the group in 2018.
Now, the society is moving up in the world and down in the state, finding a permanent home at the Smyrna Opera House.
With the Smyrna Public Library, which shares space with the opera house in the South Street building, moving to a larger facility by the end of the year, the area will become the base for the rock society.
“My head is spinning. The ions never stop working. So, here we go. The coolest thing … we talked about is maybe a walk of fame, like the Hollywood Walk of Fame, where each (inductee) would have a star, because there’s an extensive sidewalk around the SOH,” said Ms. Wolkind, whose husband was in the upstate-based band Snakegrinder and plays in the Beatles cover band Magical Mystery, a soon-to-be inductee.