Culture
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Immaculata Presents Fall Concerts, Symphony to Travel to Philly High School
On Nov. 5, the Immaculata Symphony will perform their fall concert entitled “Inspired Visions.” The concert begins at 7:30 PM in Alumnae Hall. The Immaculata Symphony is a university-community organization, with a long and outstanding tradition that goes back to the university’s founding in 1920. The fall concert will begin with Malcom Arnold’s Peterloo Overture, Op.…
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West Chester University’s Department of Theatre & Dance Presents ‘Spring Awakening’ Performance Tonight
West Chester University’s Department of Theatre & Dance presents “Spring Awakening” from Oct. 20 – 23, 2022 with book and lyrics by Steven Sater and music by Duncan Sheik. It is based on the play by Frank Wedekind. Spring Awakening runs Thursday – Saturday, Oct. 20 – 22, at 7:30 PM, and Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 22 and…
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Swarthmore Mural Is First Wheelchair Art in the Region
Swarthmore has a new mural that was created with the help of students in wheelchairs, the first large-scale wheelchair art in the Philadelphia area, writes Gina Lizzo for Main Line Today. Children and Adult Disability and Educational Services (CADES) just completed the mural. CADES is a Swarthmore-based organization that helps children and adults with intellectual…
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Indigenous People Want to See Governments, Big Institutions Take ‘Land Acknowledgments’ One Step Further
The lands belonging to Ann Remy’s Lenni-Lenape ancestors used to cover the entire Philadelphia region, along with parts of New York and Delaware, and the entire New Jersey, writes Jeff Gammage for The Philadelphia Inquirer. This is no longer true, as the Lenape land was taken, stolen, bought, then sold again multiple times across centuries.…
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Havertown Music Therapy Serves People With Special Needs for 20 Years
A lifelong musician is making his dream come true through music therapy. MusicWorks in Havertown came to Jerry O’Leary in a dream, writes Tom Kretschmer for 6 ABC. Once the vision came to O’Leary he got to work. “I got a master’s degree in a local college, started my own business, and gave myself a…
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Swarthmore Students, Faculty Weigh In on Massive Decline of English Majors
Swarthmore College is seeing significantly fewer seniors graduating with degrees in English over the last several decades but a growing number of STEM discipline majors, especially computer science, writes Owen Mortner for The Swarthmore Phoenix. In 1992, 62 Swarthmore seniors, nearly 17 percent of the graduating class, had degrees in English literature. Almost 30 years…
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Newtown Square Firefighters Excavate 45-Year-Old Time Capsule
A group of firefighters in Newtown Square excavated a decades-old time capsule tucked into the walls of the station for nearly 50 years. The two-foot-long copper prism is full of historical artifacts from 1916 and the mid 1960s, writes Pete Bannan for The Daily Times. This is not the first time the capsule has been…
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Philadelphia Among Most Foul-Mouthed Cities in Country
If you think Philadelphians swear more than most other city-dwellers each day, you know both the city of Philadelphia and its residents well, writes Taylor Linzinmeir for the Newsbreak. Philadelphia has ranked among the ten most foul-mouthed cities in the country, according to a new survey by preply.com. The survey found that Americans are not…
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Two Upper Darby Police Officers Help Deliver a New Born in a Parked Car on West Chester Pike
Two Upper Darby police officers are now honorary uncles, thanks to some quick thinking last week, writes John Luciew for pennlive.com. The two helped bring Baby William Orlando into the world, handling the delivery from the backseat of a car parked along West Chester Pike. “By the time we got there, the full head was…
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Prospective Art & Design Students Can Gain Hands-on Experience of the Major at Harcum College
Prospective Art & Design majors are invited to take part in a Harcum College preview of its coursework in an in-depth, personal way. The school’s Oct. 22 “Art & Design Experience” is a morning of hands-on workshops featuring current Harcum College Art & Design majors. The program takes place at the college’s Art & Design…
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Lansdowne Symphony Wins American Prize For Orchestral Recording
The Lansdowne Symphony Orchestra was honored with a national award by The American Prize for its premiere recording of compositions by American female composers, writes A.A. Cristi for Broadway World. Orchestra Music Director Reuben Blundell selected the compositions to be recorded from the Edwin A. Fleisher Collection of the Philadelphia Free Library. This is the…
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Penn State Brandywine Professor Explores Shadow Work in Book
A Penn State Brandywine adjunct professor has written Shadow Work, a book that helps people access the repressed part of themselves that is often the root cause of internal and external problems, writes Laura Brzyski for Philadelphia Magazine. Danielle Massi, a licensed marriage and family therapist is also the founder of the holistic healing center…
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C&N Donates $16,000 through EITC to the Bucks County Historical Society
C&N announces its recent donation of $16,000 to the Bucks County Historical Society under the Educational Improvement Tax Credit Program (EITC). The mission of the Bucks County Historical Society, a private nonprofit organization, is is to educate and engage its many audiences in appreciating the past and to help find stories and meanings relevant to…
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Origin of Popular Nursery Rhyme Is Thought to be West Chester
The popular nursery rhyme “Miss Mary Mack,” which can often be heard on school playgrounds throughout the country, is thought to have originated in West Chester, writes Jacob Uitti for American Songwriter. “Miss Mary Mack,” inspired by a performer in Ephraim Williams’ circus in the 1880s, was originally published in The Counting Out Rhymes of…
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Remembering Jazz Organist Joey DeFrancesco, Springfield Native
Joey DeFrancesco, 51, formerly of Springfield, a soulful keyboard prodigy, particularly on jazz organ, died Aug. 25 in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, writes Gary Miles for The Philadelphia Inquirer. DeFrancesco created a jazz renaissance of the Hammond B-3 organ in the 1990s. He’s a five-time Grammy Award nominee as well as a skilled pianist, trumpeter, tenor…
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‘Irishman’ Mobster Frank Sheeran Is Buried in a Delco Cemetery
Martin Scorsese’s latest mob film offering, “The Irishman,” features many Philadelphia area locations that were part of reputed mobster Frank Sheeran’s life. One location, Holy Cross Cemetery in Yeadon, became his final resting place, writes Nick Vadala for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Robert De Niro portrays Darby-raised mobster Frank Sheeran — a former president of Wilmington’s…
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Andrew Wyeth Drawings Imaging His Own Funeral on Display for the First Time
A collection known as the Funeral Group drawings from Andrew Wyeth contemplating his own funeral, discovered by his son, are now on display at the Colby College Museum of Art in Maine, writes Bob Keys for Colby.edu. A family friend in Chadds Ford contacted Wyeth’s son, Jamie Wyeth, soon after Andrew Wyeth’s death in 2009…
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Havertown Dad Pens Book as an Inspiration for Girls
Dario Mescia, the Havertown father of two girls, has written his first children’s book whose central character is an inspirational role model for young girls, writes Peg DeGrassa for the Daily Times. “Ruby Reindeer and the Magic Antlers” features a young female reindeer named Ruby who is told that only male reindeer have the magic…
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