Tourism officials applaud return of Gaelic games
Four-day tournament in late July likely to generate $1.5 million in revenue
Competitors display their skills during a contest at the 2012 Continental Youth Championships in Chicago.
Hurling is coming back to Chester County full force in late July, and tourism officials will be throwing down a welcome mat in response.
The Continental Youth Championships (CYC), a four-day Gaelic games tournament that...
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...
