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Violet Oakley musuem exhibit totally impresses her
Retired artist and teacher extols Pennsylvania woman painter of American Renaissance Violet Oakley at Chestnut Hill Woodmere Museum exhibit, Philadelphia.
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Missionaries raise funds for Haiti relief trip
Philadelphia missionaries raise funds for a trip to repair school buildings in Haiti damaged by 2010 earthquake and conduct bible study in an orphanage.
Drive-through Library
Some dogs know that if they bark when their owners pull up in the car they're riding in at the drive-through window of the Worthington Northwest Library in Columbus Ohio,…
3d Printer for Public Middle Schoolers
A generous school parent purchased a 3D printer for James Hilburt's math classes at the J. S. Jenks Middle School in the Chestnut Hill neighborhood of Philadelphia and Hilburt is…
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May a shark swallow Jefferson Davis
Old Frederick County Courthouse Civil War Museum Guide Carol Miller recounts that Winchester Virginia changed hands many times between the Union and Confederate forces during the Civil War. And during…
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“Spite” fence goes up
A tall chain-link fence recently appeared dividing the narrow walkway between two buildings on Germantown Avenue in the posh Chestnut Hill shopping district in northwest Philadelphia. And now, next to…
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Nirvana restuarant opens- fills house
Anita Chhantyal didn't know why the Nirvana Indian restaurant she and her husband had just relocated to Lafayette HIll from Conshohocken was filling up this opening night. But she suspected…
Smelling Wyck’s potent heritage roses
A mother and daughter, Bea Weidner and Emily Linso (not shown in this photo) took time to smell the roses in the bright and fragrant heritage rose garden at Wyck.…
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Expectant parents take a “Waltz in the Woods”
The day before Easter Sunday, Nick Hasselback and his wife, Jenna, who was due to deliver their first child four days later, marveled at Patrick Dougherty's new stick sculpture installation…
City implodes Queen Lane Apartments
Neighbors and former residents of the 16-story Queen Lane Apartment building in the Germantown section of Philadelphia were happy to see the structure deliberately collapsed the morning of September 13,…