What To Do: Get out there! It’s Memorial Day Weekend
Don’t plan to stay in — outdoor events and great weather highlight holiday weekend
By Denny Dyroff, Staff Writer, The Times
It’s time for the annual Brandywine River Museum Antiques Show and Sale this weekend in Chadds Ford.
If it’s Memorial Day Weekend in the Brandywine Valley, it’s time once again for the Brandywine River Museum Antiques Show and Sale. The popular annual event...
Quilters put history on cutting edge
Tourism center’s new creation spotlights Underground Railroad
By Kathleen Brady Shea, Managing Editor, The Times
Blair Mahoney, Brandywine Circle Quilters, Brandywine Valley Tourism Information Center, Chester County Conference and Visitors Bureau, longwood gardens, Longwood Progressive Meeting, underground railroad
Commissioned a year ago to create a quilt with an Underground Railroad theme,...
Red Cross makes it easy to say thanks to military
Holiday Mail for Heroes will be set up at Longwood Gardens
Visitors to Longwood Gardens on Monday night will be able to sign cards for the military, courtesy of the American Red Cross.
For the seventh year in a row, the American Red Cross is sponsoring holiday mail for the nation’s military, and its regional chapter is making it easy for area residents to participate.
On Monday, Dec. 2, from 6...
China delegation to get Chester County tour
Sino-American Regional Business and Culture Exchange is 3-day event
From mushrooms to orchids, QVC to New Bolton, 25 business people from Beijing and the Chongqing region of China will receive a whirlwind tour of Chester County for three days beginning Monday, Oct. 28.
The delegation is part of a Sino-American Regional Business and Culture Exchange hosted by the Chester County Commissioners, the Chester...
A venue where pipe dreams can come true
Longwood Gardens is hosting international organ competition
Ten renowned organists from around the world will compete in the inaugural International Organ Competition at Longwood Gardens.
Organ aficionados, take note: Longwood Gardens’ is hosting an international competition with a $40,000 first prize.
Ten renowned organists will compete in the inaugural International Organ Competition, playing...
For tourism marketing, south of France hits home
New campaign will capitalize on county’s cosmopolitan flair
By Kathleen Brady Shea, Managing Editor, The Times
Blair Mahoney, executive director of the Chester County Conference and Visitors Bureau, explained the importance of boosting tourism in the region.
It wasn’t exactly an identity crisis, but the folks entrusted with promoting the area as a tourist destination have agonized for some...
Longwood volunteers create piece de resistance
Series of quilts chronicle garden’s beauty – from flowers to felines
By Kathleen Brady Shea, Managing Editor, The Times
A detail from the three-paneled, light-themed quilt shows the garden’s bird of paradise flowers.
The goal was grand: Capture the colors of Longwood Gardens in a quilt.
First suggested in 1996, the project failed to leave the drawing board more than once. But that was before...
Local Red Cross collects holiday mail for military
At Longwood Gardens, visitors enjoy light display, light up troops’ lives
By Kathleen Brady Shea, Managing Editor, The Times
Downingtown resident Jennifer Stokker, with her nearly 3-year-old daughter Madelyn, was the delighted winner of a 42-inch TV during a Red Cross raffle at Longwood Gardens.
At first, the visitors at Longwood Gardens Thursday night were skeptical: Were these Red Cross volunteers...
Longwood Gardens to illuminate season in style
Trip to see holiday display a staple on area residents’ wish lists
A new fountain of lights will greet Longwood visitors in the main Fountain Garden.
If Thanksgiving is fast approaching, then so is “A Longwood Christmas,” a popular holiday tradition for many area families.
This year’s winter Longwood Gardens extravaganza – from towering trees adorned with star ornaments to a meticulously...
Downingtown Friends’ fest cultivates diverse tastes
36th annual event features plants, antiques, music, food, history, and more
By Kathleen Brady Shea, Managing Editor, The Times
Downingtown horticulturalist David L. Culp will add his expertise to the plant sale at the 36th Annual Downingtown Friends Fall Festival.
When an urban high school principal thanked a longtime Longwood Gardens educator for a class that fostered empowerment to “change the...
