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Display Case Exhibit, Thru May 31
Mills of the Pennypack
Huntingdon Valley Library, 625, Red Lion Road, Huntingdon Valley
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Lecture, Wednesday, March 10, 7:30 p.m.
Willow Grove Park: America's Summer Music Capitol, 1896 – 1926
Richard Karschner, former Supervisor of Music for the Upper Dublin Schools and current
director of the Quakertown Band, will give a lecture-demonstration on the music and
musicians who helped make Willow Grove Park the summer music capital of the country in
the early part of the 20th century. Musical greats including John Phillip Sousa, Victor
Herbert and Herbert Clarke all helped to make the musical concerts at Willow Grove Park
a national attraction. Lecture will be held in Homestead Hall, the parish house building of
the Church of Our Savior in Jenkintown on Homestead Road, one block south of the Jenkintown Library.
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Spring Outing, Sunday, March 14, 12:45 p.m.
Brandywine River Museum
Join us on as we visit the Brandywine River Museum in Chadds Ford. We will have a
private tour of the Wyeth family paintings in the permanent collection led by Victoria
Wyeth, grand-daughter of Andrew Wyeth and niece of Jamie Wyeth. This very special tour
features a discussion of the artists’ media, techniques, subject matter and models,
along with personal stories about growing up in the famous and extraordinarily gifted Wyeth family.
After the conclusion of the tour, we will have some time to wander in the museum galleries,
viewing other pieces in the permanent collection and the current exhibition, “Laugh Lines:
Cartoons and Caricatures from the Collection.” This exhibit features over 50 works by some
of the most important illustrators of the 19th and 20th centuries whose drawings comment
on politics, society and ordinary life. The bus will leave the Jenkintown Library parking
lot at 12:45 p.m. and return around 5:30. Cost is $35 for members and $40 for non-members;
registration forms due by March 8.
Click here for a registration form
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Lecture, Wednesday, April 14, 7:30 p.m.
Historic Barns of Bucks County
Jeffrey L. Marshall, Vice President of Resource Protection for the Heritage
Conservancy in Doylestown, will deliver an illustrated talk based on his book Barns
of Bucks County. Bucks County evokes images of stone farmhouses, historic
barns, and quaint villages and towns. Marshall is a planner and historic
preservationist with 30 years of experience in historic preservation, and is
a recognized expert in southeastern Pennsylvania historic architecture. Come
learn more about the historic barns that still dot the landscape of Bucks County.
Lecture will be held in Homestead Hall, the parish house building of the Church
of Our Savior in Jenkintown on Homestead Road, one block south of the Jenkintown Library.
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Lecture and Reception, Sunday, April 18, 2:00 p.m.
Huntingdon Valley Country Club
Help us celebrate the successful completion of our acquisition campaign, “ A Campaign for Postcards”
as we look at some of the most interesting images garnered in the Society’s purchase of over 1600 postcards.
Society President, David B. Rowland, will present a program featuring a sample of the wonderful postcard
images the Society has purchased. We will also recognize the donors to the campaign as part of the
afternoon’s festivities. Following the lecture, there will be a reception. The Society’s entire
collection of postcards will be on display before and after the program. Invitations to the
event will be mailed in mid-March. If you are not on the Society’s mailing list and would like
an invitation to the event, please contact the Society and provide us with your mailing address.
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Lecture, Wednesday, May 12, 7:30 p.m.
Remembering Cheltenham Township
Society member Don Scott, a local author, journalist, educator and historian, will give an illustrated
lecture about his recent book, Remembering Cheltenham Township. Rare images will highlight the
talk about topics ranging from the earliest native dwellers of the area and the first English settlers
to slavery, the Civil War, the Gilded Age and the death of prominent locals on the Titanic. The presentation
will also highlight Cheltenham High graduates such as baseball great Reggie Jackson and Israel's Prime
Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. Copies of Scott’s book will be available following the lecture. Lecture
will be held in Homestead Hall, the parish house building of the Church of Our Savior in Jenkintown on
Homestead Road, one block south of the Jenkintown Library.
The Annual Meeting of the Society will precede the May lecture. Officer and Committee reports will be
presented and the Nominating Committee will present a slate of Officers and Executive Council members
to be elected for the 2010-2011 program year.
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Reception, Sunday, May 16, 2:00 p.m.
Annual Patrons’ Party
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