2014 - CLOSE UP Video Interviews

Chestnut Hill celebrates with music, dancing, food and gardens

Your correspondent went to the Chestnut Hill Garden Fest in the morning when it was still drizzly and cold. But the weather didn't stop the Morris men from dancing and…

May 5, 2014

BUILDINGS ENTERTAINMENT FAMILY

Stagecrafters: barn to theater

Watch video interview here At the next to last performance of “The Importance of Being Earnest” by Oscar Wilde at the Stagecrafters Theater in Chestnut Hill, 78 year old __________…

April 24, 2014

DISABILITY EDUCATION ELDERLY

Overcoming paralysis from multiple sclerosis

Minister Betty Jones Alston was paralyzed from the waist down this January due to multiple sclerosis which she was diagnosed with in 1990. She had begun dropping things and attributed…

March 31, 2014

CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL POLITICS

From Cuba to U.S in Operation “Pedro Pan”

While tying up bags of compost at the Henry Got Crops farm in Roxborough, Raisa Williams, a retired dean at Haverford College, recounted how she was one of fourteen thousand…

March 27, 2014

FOOD + DRINK SHOPPING

Supermarket choices baffle shopper

Not her household's usual shopper, Barbara Collom of Mount Airy confronts the baffling array of product choices for any one brand at her local Pathmark Supermarket. For instance, she opts…

March 11, 2014

ANIMALS BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT

Eating energy bars made from crickets

Weavers Way Food Coop has introduced a new line of energy bars - ones made with crickets. On Tuesday, staff members at the Chestnut Hill store sampled Chapul’s Thai Cricket…

February 26, 2014

BUILDINGS CURRENT AFFAIRS DEATH

Collapse attorney’s tire collapsed by pothole

Driving my daughter from Chestnut Hill to her job in Roxborough Saturday morning, we passed a man making his way on foot down the steep and treacherously narrow, icy shoulder…

February 23, 2014

BUILDINGS POVERTY STORES

Goodwill donation center opens in Mount Airy

Saleece came smiling and protectively gloved out of the brand new Goodwill Donation Center in Mount Airy as soon as I pulled up in my car. Located on Lincoln Drive…

February 21, 2014

EDUCATION ELDERLY FAMILY

Fighting to read at age 77

Frank Simms of North Philadelphia graduated from Overbrook High School many years ago yet now, at age 77, is still learning how to read. He hasn’t spent a day in…

January 30, 2014

ART BOOKS EDUCATION

Antonelli Institute teachers and students got talent

Most students at the Antonelli Institute of Graphic Design and Photography in Erdenheim, Pa, just outside of Philadelphia, enroll coming out of high school. They must first study traditional film…

January 20, 2014