Bridget Wingert

2 weeks ago | buckscountyherald.com | Bridget Wingert

John U. (Urban) Rees knew he had a vocation – it was to record American history. His day jobs ranged from carpenter, computer operator for the Northampton Township tax collector, and make-do employment as a house painter and a garbage truck loader. He was a leader in Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts when his sons were growing up and he built sets for their school plays. “I worked 36 years as a rural mail carrier at New Hope Post Office, all that time spent on the same mail route, RD 1,” he said.

1 month ago | buckscountyherald.com | Bridget Wingert

Slavery in Pennsylvania was accepted as normal in 1682. Even the benevolent founder, William Penn, owned slaves. But the Quaker conscience took hold in Pennsylvania and by 1776, the Society of Friends banned its members from holding slaves. Bucks County, with its strong Quaker population, was a leader in America’s anti-slavery movement, which ended officially in 1863, with President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation – 200 years from Penn’s arrival on the Welcome.

1 month ago | buckscountyherald.com | Bridget Wingert

Glass, wood, metal, concrete, Plexiglas ... There’s little doubt that childhood in Edison, N.J. served Mark Kobasz well. Much of his artistic inspiration is fueled by memories. Mark remembers visiting the nearby museum at Menlo Park, where Thomas Edison had his first research laboratory and created electric lights. Mark was fascinated by glass blowers making light bulbs. At J.P Stevens Public High School, Mark was just a train ride away from Manhattan.

2 months ago | buckscountyherald.com | Bridget Wingert

When the Coryell Gallery at the Porkyard held an art opening, everybody came – the artists, the art lovers and neighbors from both sides of the Delaware, when Janet Marsh Hunt hosted the exhibitions. The gallery was on the site of a former sausage factory down an alley across from Finkel’s Hardware store in Lambertville. It was part of restaurateur Jim Hamilton’s inventive nest of his Grill Room, an antiques shop, the Coryell Gallery, and the rustic bar at the Boat House.

Feb 13, 2025 | buckscountyherald.com | Bridget Wingert

What better tonic for a February day can there be than a dose of “Mary Poppins”? It’s generating almost as much excitement as the Philadelphia Eagles at Our Lady of Mount Carmel School in Doylestown with students getting ready to take the stage for the musical Feb. 21 to 23. Almost 70 students from grades five through eight will be involved in the showIt’s the Cameron MacIntosh and Disney Junior version of the original show based on P.L. Travers books.