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Child Guidance Resource Centers: Be a Super Hero for a Great Cause on Oct. 6
Join Child Guidance Resource Centers on Sunday, Oct. 6, for the 7th Annual Super Hero 5k Run for Prevention and Wellness Festival. The event will take place at Ridley Creek State Park Pavilion #17, from 7:30 AM to Noon. The hope of the fundraising event is to bring awareness to the issue of substance abuse,…
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Tyler Arboretum Has Always Been Beautiful to Look at. Now It’s Tasty, Too.
How does your garden grow? Tyler Arboretum in Media is hoping to show you just that and get you excited about growing fruits, vegetables and herbs, reports Vittoria Woodill for CBS 3. This new edible garden at Tyler will be open to the public by the end of September. Meanwhile, food already growing in the…
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Amy Rigby, Haverford Music Festival Performer, Is Also a Writer
Amy Rigby, who performed this past Saturday at the Haverford Music Festival, has written a memoir, “Girl to City: A Memoir”, writes Dan DeLuca for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Rigby was backed by a band that included drummer Doug Wygal and her husband, Wreckless Eric on bass–the British punk-era songwriter who penned the immortal 1977 anthem…
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Move Over Vivaldi. Delaware County Gets Its Own Four Seasons, at Sept. 22 Symphony Concert
For the first time ever, Delaware County is getting its own musical composition. On Sunday, Sept. 22, at Neumann University, the original piece, “The Four Seasons of Delaware County,” will have its world premiere. The work for violin, cello, flute and piano will be part of the Delaware County Symphony’s first chamber series concert. The…
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Winsor Sisters From 1920’s Radnor Were Eccentric Activists Well Ahead of Their Time
Meet the Winsor sisters, Radnor eccentric activists in the first half of the 20th Century who believed in pacifism, vegetarianism, birth control, equality for all races, genders and sexual orientations, animal rights, and the power of art and literature, reports Main Line Suburban Life. Close to 100 people showed up Aug. 25 at the Radnor…
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Slinky Comes Back to Clifton Heights With Its Own Roadside Historical Marker
The Slinky, which celebrates its 75th birthday in 2020, was made right here in Clifton Heights, near Baltimore Pike and Springfield Road, writes Stephanie Farr for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Now a roadside historical marker dedicated Friday on National Slinky Day will mark the spot near where they were made. Mechanical engineer Richard James invented the…
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A 1700s Stately Manor Was Relocated From Harrisburg to Chadds Ford
A stately stone manor house from the 1700s originally in Harrisburg has been hauled stone by stone to a 34-acre enclave in the Brandywine Conservancy in Chadds Ford, writes Eileen Smith Dallabrida for Main Line Today. The owners—she’s an astrophysicist and he’s a manager of family real estate holdings in New York City—are also partners…
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Haverford College Alums’ City Tour Shines Light on Lesser Known Local Heroes of History
Joey Leroux and Rebecca Fisher hope their company, Beyond the Bell Walking Tours, will tell people about the Philly pioneers that changed history, but are virtually unknown, writes Elizabeth Warner for The Philadelphia Citizen. People like Barbara Gittings, a lesbian activist, the first person to link queer rights to civil rights. Or Gloria Casarez, who…
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Villanova Professor’s Love of Golf Has Made Him a Golf Course Archivist
A Villanova University professor from Wayne has taken his love of golf and created an online catalog of 500 golf courses, writes Jim Finnegan for Main Line Today. Each course is documented hole by hole with pictures, scorecards, a map and other factoids. Joe Bausch was a competitive high school golfer in the Midwest and…
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Mural in 69th Street to Depict History and Highlights of Upper Darby Township
The history of Upper Darby Township is being painted on to a 135-foot long mural at 44 S. 69th Street, writes Kevin Tustin for the Delaware County News Network. The mural is up the street from the Tower Theater and the 69th Street Transportation Center. It will include depictions of the Swedish Log Cabin, Collenbrook…
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1892 Aston Home at Neumann University to Be Restored, Used as Student Residence
An 1892 Victorian home in Aston, which morphed into a bed and breakfast, then an apartment house, is now the property of Neumann University. The university plans to restore it as a residence hall. The home, located at 601A Convent Road, boasts wood floors, high ceilings, an impressive wooden staircase, a vintage oval window, and…
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Woodstock: Delco Residents Offer a Local Spin on 50th Anniversary of Music Fair
When Janet Sanders, a Springfield High senior, announced she was going to Woodstock, her brother and late sister-in-law didn’t want her to go because they had seen photos of nude festival attendees at the Atlantic City raceway concert, writes Peg DeGrass for the Delaware County News Network. “I lied and went anyway, telling my brother…
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Upper Darby High Senior Puts Day to Day Life in Focus at National Geographic Photo Camp
Sylvia Clinton, 18, a rising senior at Upper Darby High School, was one of eight students participating in a July National Geographic Photo Camp, writes Frank Kummer for The Philadelphia Inquirer. A team of photographers from National Geographic came to town to teach the teens their craft, asking the students to capture unique images of…
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Prospect Park’s Mark Marano Brings You History Up Close and Personal at ‘Once Upon a Nation’
Mark Marano of Prospect Park is just as comfortable telling a story at a bench outside a Philadelphia historic landmark as he is performing in a musical at Upper Darby’s Summer Stage, writes Ruth Rovner for the Daily Times. A professional actor, Marano has had varied experience in theater, including Summer Stage, and regional theaters…
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Upper Darby’s Tower Theater Sign Comes Down, Museum Gets Iconic Sphere and Letters
The Tower Theater’s radio tower sign, a landmark for 69th Street in Upper Darby, is unsafe and is being removed, writes Joseph A. Gambardello and Dan DeLuca for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Live Nation, the theater’s owner, said inspections by company engineers determined the signage atop the 92-year-old building had deteriorated, according to Upper Darby Mayor…
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Retired Shipley School Teacher Restoring Historic Home in Haverford Township
Anthony Morinelli has a retirement project going on. He’s renovating a stone home on Mill Road dating back to the late 1600s, writes Linda Stein for the Daily Times. Morinelli, 70, retired this past June from The Shipley School as theater director and humanities teacher. The house, which Morinelli calls Harford Hall in honor of…
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Beloved for Helping Restore Mount Moriah Cemetery, Paulette Rhone Gets a Sign
Cleaning up and restoring the abandoned Mount Moriah Cemetery, spanning part of Delaware County in Yeadon Borough and Philadelphia, was Paulette Rhone’s mission, writes Katie Park for The Philadelphia Inquirer. To those who knew her, or even just passed by 61st Street and Kingsessing Avenue in Southwest Philadelphia, Rhone defined Mount Moriah and cared deeply…
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Chadds Ford Woman Named All-Around Lumberjill at Lumberjack Competition
Martha King of Chadds Ford won her first All-Around Lumberjill title during this year’s Lumberjack World Championships at the 60th annual Lumberjack Bowl in Hayward, Wisconsin, writes Terrell Boettcher for Blue Mountain Eagle. A 2016 Philadelphia Inquirer article by Dan Geringer described King as one of a small group of lumberjills who chop, saw, and…
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