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,...
Feasibility study addresses velodrome project
Report concludes that substantial private investment needed to make it work
A rendering shows the proposed velodrome that former Olympic cyclist David Chauner hopes will occupy the area known as “the flats” in downtown Coatesville.
The circumstances necessary for a successful velodrome project in Coatesville are much clearer with the completion of a market feasibility study that shows a...
Lukens’ descendent to join tourism board
Graystone Society president brings history, experience to new post
Scott G. Huston has joined the board of the Chester County Conference and Visitors Bureau.
A man with strong Coatesville ties will join the board of the Chester County Conference and Visitors Bureau, the Graystone Society’s National Iron and Steel Heritage Museum announced Monday.
Scott G. Huston, president of the museum, will...
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...
Tourism officials welcome all to renovated info center
After months of renovations, historic building in Longwood Gardens’ shadow has reopened
By Kathleen Brady Shea, Managing Editor, The Times
The administrative staff of the Chester County Conference and Visitors Bureau has moved into the newly renovated, historic building.
No wonder local tourism officials are excited: new digs on the grounds of Longwood Gardens in a building steeped in Chester County...
