Art & Museums
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Longwood Gardens Ranks Fifth Among Most Popular Attractions in Philadelphia Region
New research conducted by the Philadelphia Business Journal has determined the most popular attractions in the Philadelphia region, based on 2015 visitation. Among the Top 25 attractions, five are located in Chester, Montgomery, or Delaware county. The Valley Forge National Historical Park, the site of the Continental Army’s 1777-78 winter encampment during the American Revolution,…
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N.C. Wyeth Felt Kinship with Literary Giant Thoreau
N.C. Wyeth, the great American illustrator who spent his adult life in Chadds Ford, turned increasingly toward the writings of Henry David Thoreau as his success began to disappoint him, writes Sebastian Smee of the Boston Globe. Wyeth’s work had appeared on covers of national magazines, and he had a huge following, tons of commissions,…
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Meet Susan Melrath, One of 53 Artists Opening their Studios Across Chester County this Weekend
After leaving Seattle and returning to her roots in the middle of “Wyeth County,” Susan Melrath is opening the doors of her Oxford studio to the Chester County Studio Tour to help create momentum for an evolving downtown artist’s hub, writes Brian Bingaman for Ticket. During the tour on May 21st and 22nd, close to…
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#FlashbackFriday: Strode’s Grist Mill in 1899
Happy Friday Chester County! Aside from the weekend being practically at our doorstep, Fridays are awesome because we get to time travel for a bit. And since we’re a Chester County publication, we thought we’d begin our #FlashbackFridays by honoring one of the oldest structures in Chester County: Strode’s Grist Mill at Birmingham and Lenape…
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Choosing Art over Despair, Woman Paints Story of Chronic Pain
The chronic pain she can’t escape is now smeared, streaked and splattered across canvases that fellow patients and visitors can’t ignore. A series of emotional paintings by artist and chronic pain survivor Sarah Bigham are currently on display at the Chester County Hospital Foundation. The body suffers; the mind creates. “I have found it challenging…
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May is Full of Excitement Thanks to Chester County Art Association
This month is going to be a busy time for the Chester County Art Association, with multiple shows and exhibitions set to wow visitors over the coming weeks, writes Lele Galer for The Unionville Times. Two new exhibitions will be marked by an opening reception today at the CCAA on 100 North Bradford Avenue in…
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Curtain About to Rise on Uptown! Next Big Act: Groundbreaking
The script has been a thrilling success, and now the Uptown! Entertainment Alliance is turning its attention to transforming the set for West Chester’s soon-to-be new home for the performing arts. A groundbreaking bash will premiere at the old National Guard Armory building on High Street May 18 at 5:30 p.m., featuring the Uptown! “family”…
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Barbara Cohen Honored With Rebecca Lukens Award
Barbara Cohen, a modern day renaissance woman, was honored with the 10th Annual Rebecca Lukens award on Wednesday, writes Brian McCullough for the Daily Local News. Cohen, a resident of Valley Forge Mountain for 42 years, was selected by the National Iron & Steel Heritage Museum and presenting sponsor Citadel Federal Credit Union for the…
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BYPASSED: Changing The Way We Think about Coatesville through Storytelling
By Sarah Alderman, The first inspiration for BYPASSED came to me about 7 years ago, when my twin daughters had just been born. At the time, my grandmother Theresa Chille Puglisi, was still living on S. 8th Ave and would babysit for me a few days a week. I was moved by the many ways…
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Barclay Friends Celebrates With New Mural By Nancy Thompson
With the deliberate strokes of a paintbrush, 15 Chester County seniors illustrated the vitality of their near-century-long lives with a new work of art. The 24-panel Barclay Friends mural, titled after Thomas Chisholm’s hymn”Great Is Thy Faithfulness”, and commissioned as part of the West Chester senior living community’s $1.9 million Spirit of Vitality capital campaign,…
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Martinez Paints a Portal to Chester County’s Storied Past
When internationally renowned Downingtown artist Adrian Martinez took a recent stroll through the woods of history, he walked back in time to parts of Chester County as they were in the late 18th century, and he has returned to paint vivid portrayals of what he saw — and who he met. In a show coming…
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A Professional’s Guide to a Rainy West Chester Gallery Walk
By Arianna Mapplethorpe, It’s raining. You’re going to get wet. Your hair is going to look different. So what? You can have a great time AND see all the best art Chester County has to offer during tonight’s Gallery Walk. Just stay positive and follow this step-by-step guide to surviving a potentially torrential evening of art…
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Opening This Weekend: Art Exhibit to Memorialize the Life of Frolic Weymouth
The unmistakable spirit of George A. “Frolic” Weymouth will fill the Brandywine River Museum of Art in Chadds Ford one more time when the essence of his creative and fun-loving personality is put on display to memorialize a life lived to the full. “The nickname ‘Frolic,’ given to him in childhood, perfectly embodied the joy…
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George A. “Frolic” Weymouth, Artist and Visionary Conservationist, Dies at 79
By Carla J. Zambelli, George Alexis Weymouth, known as “Frolic” passed away yesterday April 24, 2016. He would have been 80 years old in June. Born in 1936 in Wilmington, Delaware, to George and Dulcinea (neé du Pont) Weymouth, Frolic Weymouth grew up in Greenville, Delaware and spent the greater part of his life…
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Chester County Book Company to Close in July
Monday brought disappointing news for book lovers across the county, as the owner of Chester County Book Co. announced that the bookstore in West Goshen Shopping Center will be closing in July, writes Brian McCullough for the Daily Local News. Kathy Simoneaux Fortney said she had decided that, after moving to a smaller space in…
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This Weekend: West Chester Film Festival Showcasing Diversity From All Angles
Get ready to follow compelling characters like a Korean housewife, a black cyclist, and an Indian doctor, and watch stunning storylines that wrestle with racial profiling, gender identity and Middle Eastern prejudice; the West Chester Film Festival is all set to roll the film of over eighty high-quality and diverse short films on April 22-24.…
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Kennett Square Inventor and Ben Franklin Descendant Has Died
The inventive legacy of Ben Franklin lived on in one of his descendants, William Pepper, who passed away last week with many patents and innovations of his own. The Kennett Square electrical engineer pioneered optical character recognition for scanning printed words into computerized text, the design of satellite parts and touchscreen panel technology, according to…
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