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Upper Darby Artist Creates Featured Works Thanks to Vision Thru Art Program
Rhonda Gray-Upsey, 47, of Upper Darby likes to create functional art. In 2010 she lost her vision completely for a year due to intercranial hypertension. She regained some vision after surgery but lacks peripheral vision and has limited depth perception. Nevertheless, thanks to the Vision Thru Art program in Mt. Airy, she and dozens of…
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From Upper Darby, She Was at Stonewall Inn the Night of the Uprising 50 Years Ago
The Stonewall uprising is a source of inspiration for the modern transgender right movement. Some accounts of the riots say that trans women led the resistance against police. For a long time their stories weren’t well known, but that’s beginning to change, writes Tim McLaughlin for KYW Newsradio. Nance Lomax grew up in Upper Darby.…
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This Country Band has Its Roots in Havertown and the Main Line
Meet the members of Rylan Brooks, the Main Line-area’s country music band. The band earned the Main Line Today 2019 Critics’ Choice Best New Band (Original Music) award, writes Hobart Rowland for Main Line Today. Chris Brooks and Nate Rylan recently shared how they became the best original outlaw country act to hail from the…
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Portrait Honors Villanova Peace Activist Who Opposed Vietnam War
The Rev. Daniel Berrigan, a legendary peace activist who led protests against the Vietnam War and nuclear weapons that landed him in jail, has been memorialized in a portrait by a Philadelphia-born artist unveiled recently at Villanova University, writes Melanie Burney for the Philadelphia Inquirer. A Jesuit priest and poet, Berrigan was known for defiant…
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Five Star Senior Living to Showcase Talent of One of Its Residents, a Former Architect and Artist
Silvio Pietrinferni, a resident at Exton Senior Living, will host an event that displays his original artwork on Thursday, June 27 from 5-7 PM. Pietrinferni, who moved to the United States from Italy in the 1960s, began painting when he was a teenager. He studied fine arts in college and earned his degree in architecture.…
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Memoir Takes an Intimate Look Inside Life at Ardrossan Estate
For decades, Janny Scott’s grandmother, Helen Hope Montgomery Scott, and her husband, Edgar, presided over Ardrossan, an 800-acre Villanova estate established by the Montgomery family in 1912, writes Melissa Jacobs for mainlinetoday. It was the Main Line’s Downton Abbey, a 50-room manor laden with art and antiques, where glamorous people lived glamorous lives. Ardrossan was…
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Top 10 Garden Store List Includes These Seven from Delaware County
Delaware County’s garden enthusiasts may picture nurseries in far off Bucks, Chester, Montgomery and Berks counties, but green thumb-quality garden centers are right here at home, according to a top 10 garden store list by Lauren DePiero and Danielle Fusaro of Main Line Today. Seven of the top 10 list included these Delco stores: The…
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It’s the Third Annual Havertown Irish Festival This Saturday
The Third Annual Havertown Irish Festival takes place Saturday, June 22, noon to 9 p.m., in the rear parking lot of the Manoa Shopping Center, 1305 West Chester Pike in Havertown, reports havertownirishfestival.com Widely referred to as the 33rd County of Ireland, the rain or shine Havertown celebration will feature all things Irish in music,…
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Looking for the Unusual? Check Out the Chadds Ford Sanderson Museum
The Christian Sanderson Museum, 1755 Creek Road in Chadds Ford, offers an unusual and eclectic collection of local historical memorabilia, reports Atlas Obscura. Christian C. Sanderson was a local schoolteacher in Chadds Ford in the early 20th century, and a prolific collector of historical memorabilia, particularly from his hometown. This included many unusual artifacts related…
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Time for a Philly Swim in the Delaware? Not Yet, But River’s A Lot Cleaner Than It Used to Be
The Delaware River watershed was once so toxic it killed fish, and could be smelled by pilots from 5,000 feet up, writes Michaela Winberg for the Philadelphia Inquirer. But it’s been 50 years since the Clean Water Act was implemented. Today, experts note the river is the cleanest it’s been in decades, but not enough…
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Public Input Sought on Recreation Trail Connecting Smedley Park to Glen Providence Park in Media
Delaware County is considering a multi-use trail that would connect Smedley Park in Springfield with Glen Providence Park in Media. The county was recently awarded a $35,000 grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) to prepare a feasibility study for the Media-Smedley Connector Trail. A public meeting to discuss the trail…
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Upper Darby Music Teacher’s a Candidate for 2020 Music Educator Award
The Recording Academy announced last week that Drexel Hill Middle School’s Jason Majerczak is one of 189 quarterfinalists – and the only educator from Delaware County – for the 2020 Music Educator Award, writes Kevin Tustin for the Delaware County News Network. The award is presented annually by the academy and the Grammy Museum to…
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Dave Barry Stops By to Chat at Haverford College 50th Reunion
Funnyman Dave Barry entertained fellow alumni at Haverford College’s 50th reunion Saturday, writes Susan Snyder for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Barry, 71, is a Pulitzer Prize-winning humor columnist who graduated from Haverford in 1969 with a bachelor’s in English. He began his journalism career two years later at the West Chester Daily Local. He moved to…
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Here’s What’s Up Later in June at Jamey’s House of Music in Lansdowne
Jamey Reilly has worked with the likes of Aerosmith, Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, The Beach Boys and more. But there was a time when that career nearly came to an end, writes Brian Bingaman for the Daily Times. “I had an accident with a power saw that almost cut my arm off. My arm was…
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Tinicum Rescues Building That Once Helped Immigrants
Like the 19th century immigrants who sweated through the deadly yellow fever epidemic in the wards of the Lazaretto quarantine station, the red-brick hospital on the banks of the Delaware River in Tinicum Township was not expected to survive, writes Inga Saffron for the Philadelphia Inquirer. It was too big to be converted into a…
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Lansdowne Poet Wins Two Awards at West Chester University Poetry Conference
Lansdowne poet Janie McNeil will be accepting two awards from West Chester University this week at the 24th annual Poetry Conference, June 5-8, writes Ruth Rovner for the Delaware County News Network. The nation’s only all-poetry writing conference is dedicated to formal poetry, drawing renowned poets, teachers of poetry, poetry lovers and student poets. The…
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Good Vibrations at Wayne Music Festival
Wayne Music Festival Co-director Ken Kearns wants to make sure the Festival on Saturday, June 8, appeals to a broad range of people, writes Melissa Jacobs for Main Line Today. “This festival is never boring, predictable or packaged. It’s a curated lineup of excellent music from well-known artists.” The annual event, noon to 10 p.m.,…
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Neumann University Student Spends Her Internship in Brinton 1704 House
Deidra Turner, a Neumann University senior majoring in political science, turned her love of history into college credit through an internship at the Brinton 1704 House. “I love history – like a lot,” Turner said. “I was fortunate enough to intern at a museum.” And this museum is nothing short of history. In fact, the…
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