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1 month ago |
buckscountyherald.com | Bridget Wingert
When Renny Reynolds walked into Phillips’ Mill for the opening of a show of paintings by the Pennsylvania Impressionists he saw a Harry Leith-Ross painting he had never seen before. Right away, he thought he’d like to have it. Garden designer Renny was downsizing after years of managing Hortulus Farm with his late partner of 42 years, Jack Staub.
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1 month ago |
buckscountyherald.com | Bridget Wingert
Once upon a time, every town had a mill nearby Fifty-six Friends of the Delaware Canal gathered in Point Pleasant May 4 to hear Charles Yeske, president of the International Society for the Preservation of Old Mills, and Mark Fischer, a contemporary miller and owner of Castle Valley Mill just outside Doylestown.
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1 month 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.
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2 months 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.
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2 months 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.
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