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Harry Potter fans descend on Chestnut Hill for Potter Festival

View all photos here. Harry Potter fans swarmed the attractions along Germantown Avenue on Saturday for the Chestnut Hill Harry Potter Festival. At Top of the Hill Market, Dan Lemoyne,…

October 20, 2013

ART BUSINESS Children

New baby, new studio at CH Fall for the Arts Fest

The youngest person at Chestnut Hill’s Fall for the Arts festival Sunday may have been two day-old Xavier Brubaker. Sleep-deprived but happy parents Japheth and Suzanne recently returned to Chestnut…

October 8, 2013

Children Education ENTERTAINMENT

GO MO MATH – Math Museum of NYC

We arrived at the Museum of Math one hour before closing on a Saturday in late summer and zipped through it. The exhibits deserved more than the limited time we…

September 17, 2013

ANIMALS ART ENTERTAINMENT

Vaulting bride and groom sculpted by blind uncle

Michael Gieschen, left Because Mike Gieschen’s niece met her fiancée while competing at vaulting event, a passion they share, the blind artist decided to create a wedding gift depicting their…

June 15, 2013

Family Food and Drink Gardening

Pick your own berries

The “locally” grown strawberries that are now showing up at Chestnut Hill groceries can be yours for the picking at farms in Montgomery and Bucks Counties and in New Jersey…

May 31, 2013

Family KIDS LOVE

Offspring of the European Beech and its admirers

In October of 1999, Bill proposed to his now wife while sitting on a bench under their favorite tree at the Morris Arboretum in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, a huge European…

November 30, 2012

Books Current Affairs Education

Fighting the dark arts on and off the quidditch pitch

October 26th through October 28th marked Harry Potter Weekend in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia. As part of the festivities 16 college quidditch teams competed in the 3rd Annual Philadelphia Brother Love…

October 29, 2012

ART Elderly Family

Grandpa tattoed on her arm

>> MIKAELA JENSON ROSEMAN (MJR): You want me to tell you the story of my tattoos? Okay. So my left arm is pretty much a dedication to my grandfather. I…

October 1, 2012