Bridget Wingert

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Slavery in Bucks for more than 200 years

1 week 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.
Glass, wood, metal, concrete Plexiglas

3 weeks 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.
Artists of exceptional lineage

1 month 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.
“Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious”

2 months ago | 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.
Lunar New Year in Bucks

2 months ago | buckscountyherald.com | Bridget Wingert

Last year, the Year of the Dragon, when Pearl S. Buck International (PSBI) sent out an invitation to its Lunar New Year celebration, a thousand people showed up, overwhelming the parking lots at Green Hills Farm. For the Year of the Snake celebration this year on Saturday, Feb. 8, tickets will be limited to 500 guests. And a donation will be requested, with special rates for families because the emphasis is on their enjoyment. kAmkDA2?m%96 {F?2C }6H *62C[ 2=D@ <?@H?
A green Philadelphia Sunday

Jan 16, 2025 | buckscountyherald.com | Bridget Wingert

The City of Brotherly Love was a sea of green last weekend, when I rode a SEPTA train to meet granddaughters for brunch at Rittenhouse Square. Green on the train as it filled to standing-room before clearing out at Jefferson Station. Green as I walked from the next stop, Suburban Station. Philadelphia Eagles fans were everywhere as the team prepared for a critical game against the Green Bay Packers at Lincoln Financial Field later in the day.
If he could see us now

Dec 5, 2024 | buckscountyherald.com | Bridget Wingert

If he could see us now.... In his book “Area Code 215: A Private Line in Bucks County” Walter Teller meanders through Bucks County, season to season. It's a collection of stories that show how the county was making a transition to the 21st century. He starts in the geographic center, about midway between Doylestown and New Hope. With his wife, Jane, and eventually four sons, he put down roots in Lahaska. He had settled there, although, he said, he might have made his home in Calcutta.
Sensitive to walkability and nature

Nov 7, 2024 | buckscountyherald.com | Bridget Wingert

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Morgan Colt remembered at last

Oct 10, 2024 | buckscountyherald.com | Bridget Wingert

Next to a fireplace on the lower floor of the Phillips’ Mill stands an old chest, barely noticed in the flurry of the 95th annual art exhibition in the venerable building. For years the chest was tucked away in the mill basement. Eleanor Miller and her two sons rescued it, mud-covered and moldy, after one of the Delaware River floods when the Primrose Creek overflowed. Members of the Phillips’ Mill Community Association helped to transport the chest to woodworker David H.
Joe Ferry was the quintessential local journalist

Sep 26, 2024 | buckscountyherald.com | Bridget Wingert

This week, all of us at the Bucks County Herald are saluting Joe Ferry, veteran journalist and longtime supporter of local communities, who died Sept. 18. Ferry called himself a communicator. That’s what he had been since 1977, when he graduated from Eastern University in St. David’s, Delaware County. kAm“|J 6?E:C6 AC@76DD:@?2= 42C66C 92D 366? DA6?E 2D 2 4@>>F?:42E@C[ 7:CDE 2D 2 ?6HDA2A6C C6A@CE6C H@C<:?8 @? 2?