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I won $5m from a scratch-off lottery ticket after final cancer treatment – but they made me give up $1.3m
A LUCKY lottery player recently beat the odds to land a multi-million-dollar prize pot. They discovered the big win just in time for their birthday and after their final radiation treatment for breast cancer. Donna Osborne, a resident of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, told lottery officials last month that the combination...
Visiting the National Watch and Clock Museum in Lancaster County
If you’re looking for information about visiting the National Watch and Clock Museum in Lancaster County, you’re in the right place!. Since its opening in 1977, the National Watch and Clock Museum has grown to house the most extensive collection of horological (time-keeping) artifacts in North America. Located...
Exploring the Ephrata Cloister in Lancaster County
If you’re looking for information about visiting the Ephrata Cloister in Lancaster County, you’re in the right place!. The Ephrata Cloister is a state historic site that was originally home to a distinctive religious community established in 1732 by German immigrant and spiritual mystic Johann Conrad Beissel. Visitors...
Chadds Ford Life: Q & A with Carly Simmons
Carly Simmons is a Chester County-based singer armed with the musical artillery of live performances, an unmistakable stage presence and a handful of songs and videos that are making the rounds of the country music industry. I caught up with her last December, when she was on the bill at the Whiskey Jam in Nashville -- a gig that has become a rite of passage for anyone looking to crack the scene.
Kennett Square Life: Saving Pennsylvania’s bluebirds, one trail at a time
An unhappy Dorothy in “The Wizard of Oz,” wistfully sings, “If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow—why, oh why can’t I?” Bluebirds have often been associated with happiness and good luck. The bird is simply beautiful with its vivid blue back, rusty breast, and soothing warble. Pennsylvania is lucky to be home yearlong to these lovely birds, but it hasn’t been without heartache.
Landenberg Life: Tim Bolt and Mary Schleuter of The Haven Social
Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down with husband-and-wife Tim Bolt and Mary Schleuter at their new restaurant, The Haven Social in Landenberg. Owners of Great Big Jerk & Full Circle Food, Tim and Mary have brought their ample restaurant experience to The Haven Social and given it a diverse menu of great food and mocktails and a cool-vibe ambience. I sidled up to the restaurant’s well-appointed bar to ask Tim and Mary about the inspiration behind their ambitious and well received BYOB restaurant.
Kennett Square Life: Inspired by teachers and comic books and Wyeth and his own faith, Kennett Square artist Neil Carlin has shared those influences with his students at the Carlin Academy of Fine Art for the past 27 years
In 1997, the artist Neil Carlin was on a train at one o’clock in the morning, careening past northern New Jersey towns on his way back to Kennett Square after having spent another Friday in the company of figure painter Michael Aviano at Aviano’s apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
Kennett Square Life: Stay, dream, read: The literary comfort of the Bookhouse Hotel
In 2023, soon after Stephanie Olenik saw that a former bookstore on Union Street in Kennett Square was zoned to be the future site of a hotel, she arrived at the site and was greeted by 5,000 books that had remained there from the previous owners. From those stacks –...
BILINGUAL TEACHING ARTIST & PROJECT LEADER
People’s Light seeks a Spanish and English speaking theatre teaching artist to lead an NEA-funded collaboration with Mighty Writers El Futuro, a non-profit educational organization serving students in the Kennett Square area. With the mission of helping migrant farmworkers and their children, Mighty Writers’ bilingual programming includes both academic and social-emotional learning goals.
Landenberg Life: If you build it, they will come
With their deep blue backs and rusty-colored breasts, bluebirds are one of the prettiest songbirds in Pennsylvania. If a yard has an open or grassy space, bluebirds can be neighbors. It is easier than most people think. Many local bird species build open-air nests in trees and bushes. Others are...
Kennett Square Life: Trevor Blyden of the Beyond Limits Fitness in Kennett Square has redirected his life, and is now providing opportunities for others to do the same with theirs
It is not an uncommon scene. Trevor Blyden bolts into Beyond Limits Fitness in Kennett Square – he has owned it since 2016 -- completely breathless, and actively removes his tie as he runs to his office and pulls a Clark Kent level transition from business attire to gym rat. He is less than a decade removed from the life he once knew – that of a prison inmate -- and he has accomplished more than many who didn’t have to restart their life several times. His best advertisement for training, for motivation, is himself.
Landenberg Life: The Potter of Landenberg
Down a ways from little central Landenberg, in a converted olden-day schoolhouse nestled in a wooded hill within a walking distance from the roving, burbling White Clay Creek, lives a potter named Jenny Wood. She works out of a tiny room that contains little more than a table and chairs,...
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