CLOSE UP Video Interviews

Air stunts with RC Helicopter

A pilot friend introduced Patrick years ago to the hobby of flying remote controlled miniature helicopters. He got hooked and now flies a high end German model. At the Allens…

September 17, 2015

ANIMALS DISABILITY Elderly

52 paws delight nursing home residents

Marjorie Shoemaker brings her "Paws of the Spirit," to nursing homes and other venues. Her passel of animals include an easygoing white Labrador retriever service dog named Archie who, she…

September 10, 2015

CHESTNUT HILL Education HEALTH

Hygienist removes tartar – and invents!

Dental hygienist Kara Hershey assiduously removes tartar from your correspondent's teeth while more than holding up her end of the conversation and guardedly discloses her ideas for inventions that she…

August 27, 2015

Books Children Death

Grandson learns Yiddish

Your correspondent was staying with an old Quaker friend in Maine and her 11 year old grandson came over one evening for an overnight visit. The grandson had decided…

August 17, 2015

ANIMALS ART Education

Hog Island Highlights and Humor

Your correspondent volunteered in the kitchen for two weeks this summer at the Audubon Society's nature camps on Hog Island, some skipping stones length off of Bremen, Maine in Muscongus…

August 9, 2015

ENVIRONMENT NATURE Science

Chasing rainbows and music festivals

When you have three kinds of clouds coming together and catch the "rat's end" of the storm, you have a good chance of catching a rainbow she says. We ran…

July 1, 2015

EVENTS FASHION HOBBIES

Knitting in public, celebrated worldwide

About 20 women and your correspondent gathered in the park outside Lovett memorial library in Mount Airy on Saturday June 13, 2015 to celebrate World Knit in Public day. According…

June 13, 2015

BUILDINGS BUSINESS ENTERTAINMENT

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…

June 13, 2015

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Best Bucks County strawberries

The Hellerick family prides itself on having the tastiest strawberries in Bucks County, Pennsylvania at their farm near Doylestown. And your correspondent is not one to gainsay them. Along with…

May 31, 2015

BUILDINGS Education EVENTS

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.…

May 30, 2015

Czech Republic workaway journal

Ethical hacking, parallel police, graffiti art and more on “Alternative Prague” tour

Ukrainian war refugee drives taxi in Prague

Doktor Water mucks out old well

Granddaughter continues tradition at Czech Bead Factory