Around Town June 6: Baseball for the battlefield

Posted by ChaddsFordLive on June 6, 2013

Cheryl Grono, owner of the Pernnsbury Inn, gets her 15 seconds of fame. Emily Myers, of Chadds Ford Live, videos Grono giving a tout about her business. Members of the Chadds Ford Business Association gave their touts during a CFBA lunch meeting in Pennsbury on June 6. The videos will be uploaded to the CFBA Web site.

• Monhegan, a new exhibit at the Brandywine River Museum will run from June 15 to Nov. 17. The exhibit features artistic representations of Monhegan Island, off the coast of Maine, by Rockwell Kent and Jamie Wyeth. The exhibition will include examples of some of Wyeth's most recent paintings and a number of Kent's from major museum collections. Wyeth's paintings are often created with his "back to the sea," as he describes it, focusing on the people who inhabit the island, while Kent gravitates to coastal views of the Monhegan headlands.

• The deadline for ordering tickets for the July 12 Wilmington Blue Rocks game — to benefit the Brandywine Battlefield Park — is June 15. Members of the Chadds Ford Business Association are sponsoring the benefit. The Phyllis Recca Foundation has pledged to double your contribution by matching it. Tickets are $20. To buy, go to https://chaddsfordlive.com/shop/ You will receive a letter stating your tax deduction along with your tickets after June 15.

• Tyler Arboretum will celebrate with live music, decadent food, cocktails and silent and live auctions at the 2013 Tyler at Twilight Auction. Now in its 11th year, the Tyler at Twilight Auction will be held at Tyler Arboretum on Thursday, June 13, from 6-10 p.m. Sue Serio, the weather anchor on Good Day, Fox 29, will be the master of ceremonies. Individual tickets are $85 and a table of 10 seats is $1200. To purchase tickets, please visit http://www.tylerarboretum.org/auctiontickets/. More information about Tyler at Twilight, including a sample of auction items and a complete list of sponsors, can be found at www.tylerarboretum.org/auction.

• Delaware County Communications Officer Trish Cofiell reported that the new Old Forge Road Bridge in Middletown Township is now open. This is of benefit to people going to Fair Acres or Penn State Brandywine, she said in an e-mail.