• U.S. Rep. Joe Pitts, R-16,
will hold a town hall meeting Monday, Nov. 28, at the Farm and Home Center, 1383 Arcadia Road in Lancaster, from
7– 8:30 p.m. Pitts will discuss his legislative plan to encourage job growth
and also will listen to concerns about all issues impacting the 16th District.
In a statement, he said he wants constituents to know what solutions he’s
proposing to revive the economy.
• Twenty mixed media
illustrations created by Jamie Wyeth for the recently published children's
book, Sammy in the Sky, will
be on view for the first time anywhere at the Brandywine River Museum from
Dec. 6 through Jan. 15. Sammy in the Sky,
written by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Barbara Walsh, is the tale of
a little girl's loss of her best friend--"the best hound dog in the whole
world"--and her struggle to understand the finality of death.
• Mt. Cuba Center, the region’s
premier native plant garden, has launched Mt.
Cuba Center Connect, an online resource for the study of native plants,
accessible from a computer or mobile device. Mt. Cuba Center Connect captures a
selection of Mt. Cuba Center’s live education programs, informational handouts,
and plant videos and makes them available online and on demand. The first
class, The Ferns at Mt. Cuba Centeris
now available for purchase for $40. Go to www.mtcubacenter.org and click on the
Distance Learning button to learn more.
• Chadds Ford Historical Society’s 26thannual
Candlelight Christmas holiday house tour will be held on Saturday, Dec. 3, from
1 to 6 p.m. The tour features four festively-decorated private homes in the
Pocopson Township area. Advance tickets are $16; tickets are $20 on the day of
the event. For information, call 610-388-7376 or visit our website www.chaddsfordhistory.org.
The houses featured on the tour include:
Christmas at the Old Homestead, Family Gathering at Stonebridge Farm, Christmas
at the Old Mill, and Holidays at Ravenroyd Farm, a stone, stucco and clapboard
farmhouse built in 1734 to replicate the ancestral home the family left behind
in England.
Also open for the tour is the Barns-Brinton House, the society’s 18th-century
tavern where innkeepers will dispense samples of colonial food and drink.
•The Pennsylvania
Department of Transportation announced that lane restrictions are scheduled on
the Route 82 (Doe Run Road) Bridge over Buck Run in East Fallowfield and West
Marlborough townships, Chester County, on Monday through Friday, Nov. 28-Dec. 2, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.The
work is part of PennDOT’s $1.8 million project to repair 39 bridges in the
Philadelphia region.
•The Delaware Museum of Natural
History's popular Dino
Days presented by Bank of America returns on Tuesday, Dec. 27,
and Wednesday, Dec. 28. This dinosaur extravaganza features a fossil dig, the Giants: African Dinosaurs exhibit, live
animals, and special crafts and activities.
Visitors can uncover a Maiasaura
skeleton at the fossil dig and search for a real fossil to keep as a souvenir.
A paleontology scavenger hunt sends families around the museum to look for
different tools needed on an excavation. Along the way, kids can examine
specimens at the fossil table and view live reptiles from the Philadelphia Zoo
to compare similarities and differences to dinosaurs.
Also on Dino Days, visitors can piece together puzzles of life-sized dinosaur
heads. Other special activities available only on these two days are free Dino
Photos in front of a prehistoric backdrop, a puppet show about dinosaurs, and a
finger puppet craft to take home.
Admission includes the special exhibit Giants:
African Dinosaurs, with 25-foot-long skeletal casts of the fierce
carnivores Deltradromeus and Afrovenator. Hands-on components
include a fossil of a 6-foot-long Jobaria
leg bone and a petrified tree trunk.
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