Culture
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Spring 2022: Budding Flowers, Singing Robins, and Patches of Lanternfly Eggs, Prime for Killing
While the area’s most prolific summer pest won’t fully appear until May, their harbinger — lanternfly eggs — make themselves known earlier. And that appearance provides an apt time to eliminate them, reducing future numbers before the adult bugs can lay siege to area yards, streets, parks, and gardens. Frank Kummer reports on the value…
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Annual Jazz Festival Returns Next Week at West Chester University
For the first time since 2019, the Wells School of Music at West Chester University will bring world-class entertainment and live jazz to the surrounding community during the annual Jazz Festival from March 23-26. Most performances are free and take place in the Madeleine Wing Adler Theatre, located in the Swope Music Building and Performing…
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Delco DA Writes About His Ukrainian Roots and a People Yearning for Freedom and Justice
His grandparents spoke a language he didn’t understand, coming from a place called “The Ukraine,” at a time when it was still a part of the Soviet Union, writes Delaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer in a guest commentary for The Philadelphia Citizen. His grandparents were Ilia and Alexandra Solominow. They were born in Kharkiv…
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WCU to Host First-of-Its-Kind Production of Lincoln vs. Douglass Debate That Never Was … but Should Have Been
The complicated relationship between President Abraham Lincoln and famed Abolitionist/Statesman Frederick Douglass will be brought to life during the world premiere of a heated debate that never was but should have been. Charles Cook, an Emmy-nominated documentarian who resides locally, has reached back in history to create a riveting stage production that draws from the…
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Collingdale Teen, Police Officer Rescue 3 Kids Who Fell Through the Ice
Anthony Alexander was with his three friends at Collingdale Park Monday afternoon when he heard screams from the partially-thawed pond, writes Jaclyn Lee for 6abc.com. Two little girls and a boy fell through into the icy water. Alexander tried to pull them out with a stick but then jumped in after them. “It was…
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O’Hara Grad, Ice Carver Robert LoFurno Takes 5th Place in Vermont Contest
Professional ice carver/chef Robert LoFurno of Concord Township, assisted by daughter Nicole and her boyfriend Mike Blundetto, recently took fifth place out of eight in the 21st annual Stowe Winter Carnival ice carving competition, writes Peg DeGrassa for the Daily Times. Each carver worked with two 300-pound blocks of ice. They carved their entries in…
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Remembering the Sun Oil Tankermen Who Lost Their Lives in World War II
There’s a monument at the former Sun Oil Co. refinery in Marcus Hook dedicated to Sun Oil tanker crewmen who lost their lives in World War II, writes Pete Bannan for the Daily Times. The Sun fleet ships, many built at Sun Ship in Chester, transported 41,000,000 barrels of petroleum during the war. They were…
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Rev. Dr. Evelyn C. Graves; Yeadon Church, Drama School, Theater Founder Dies at 87
The founder of Evelyn Graves Ministries Church, encompassing a drama production company, a drama school and a private Southwest Philadelphia Christian church, now in Yeadon, died Sunday at her Folcroft home, writes Valerie Russ for The Philadelphia Inquirer. The Rev. Dr. Evelyn C. Graves was 87. The drama company performed all over the United States…
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Heated Pool in Winter Turns the Tide for Lawrence Park Swim Club
In 2019, the Lawrence Park Swim Club, an outdoor pool in Broomall, was struggling, writes J.F. Pirro for Main Line Today. The 53-year-old facility saw its membership drop to 175 people. Then something happened that no one expected, The pandemic. It closed indoor pools, the destination of choice for swimmers in wintertime. Lawrence Park…
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When Creating a Local, Enduring Tourism Go-To Spot, It Takes a Village — A Peddler’s Village, in Fact
Peddler’s Village turns 60 years old in 2022, and its active calendar will offer numerous sparkling events for the diamond anniversary. Jennifer Rogers Burns looked back on its beginnings for the Visit Bucks County blog. The site once comprised a simple array of shops and a hotel surrounding a Quaker meeting house in the early…
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Ridley Tattoo Artist Roddie Cooper Climbs Mount Kilimanjaro With Delco Flag
“I did it for Delco,” says Roddie Cooper, posing for a picture at the top of Mount Kilimanjaro holding a Delco sign. The Ridley High graduate is a stilt walker, “Star Wars” stormtrooper, and tattoo artist who decided to climb Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania last year to fly the Delaware County sign at the top…
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Local Author’s Book, ‘Lafayette at Brandywine,’ to Be Featured on Pennsylvania Cable Network on Sunday
The Pennsylvania Cable Network is featuring an interview with author Bruce Mowday in connection with his new book, Lafayette at Brandywine: The Making of an American Hero. “I’m honored to be asked back as a guest on PCN’s excellent show PA Books,” said Mowday. “Host Phil Beckman does a wonderful job. PCN always presents strong…
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Actor to Bring Phillis Wheatley to Life at Neumann University
The acting skills of Dr. Daisy Century will bring to life Phillis Wheatley, a slave who became an American poet, on Thursday, February 10, at Neumann University. Century will portray Wheatley in a program entitled The Life of Phillis Wheatley: Literary Genius at 1:30 p.m. in the Meagher Theatre. Wheatley (c. 1753-1784), a young slave…
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Book Excerpt: History of The Main Line from The Rise: Kobe Bryant and the Pursuit of Immortality
The following is an excerpt from “The Rise: Kobe Bryant and the Pursuit of Immortality,” a new book authored by Mike Sielski, a sports columnist at The Philadelphia Inquirer and Inquirer.com. In The Rise, Sielski takes readers from the neighborhood streets of Southwest Philadelphia where Joe Bryant, Kobe’s father, became an all-city basketball standout―to the Bryant…
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9/11 and a Dream Influenced Ridley YA Novelist Diana Rodriguez Wallach
Diana Rodriguez Wallach was working as a magazine writer at One Penn Plaza in New York City when the Sept. 11 terrorist attack took place. The incident made her re-examine her life, writes Kim Douglas for Main Line Today. “You could smell the rubble and the death every time you were outside—and I decided I…
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What If MLK Had Social Audio for “I Have a Dream”?
If MLK had the social audio technology in 1963 that we have today, he would have reached so many more people than those who heard him from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Listeners would be tapping on their clapping hands’ emoji from their smartphone’s social audio apps and would have heard the power and…
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Here’s How Our Area Looked When the Lenape Lived in Philadelphia
Today’s Native American population in Philadelphia stands at a mere .36 percent, yet the region was once home to the Lenape (translated as “Original People”), a flourishing community, writes Amy Cohen for hiddencityphila.org. Now there’s a map on display at the Museum of Indian Culture in Allentown showing how the land looked before Europeans drove…
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December 2021: The Second-Warmest Holiday Season in Phila.’s 147 Years of Weather Records
If December 2021 felt like Santa needed Bermuda shorts and Frosty could have used an iced tea, there’s a reason: It was the second-warmest final month of a Philadelphia year in 147 years of record keeping. Frank Kummer simmered the particulars for The Philadelphia Inquirer. December 31 registered an average daily temperature of 51 degrees,…
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