Farm to bottle to art

Cheers, Wilhelm Schimmel. Young Friends met for in depth research of folk artist Wilhem Schimmel Thursday evening June 12 at the Brandywine River Museum of Art. Museum curator Amanda Burdan read newspaper accounts of Schimmel’s adventures in the area around Carlisle Pennsylvania. Many of his ventures landed him in jail. Newspaper articles from the mid to late 1800s leave a trail of drunken mischief so…

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Letter to the Editor: Returning to the Ford

For six years we lived on Webb Road. Three years ago we left the area and moved to San Carlos, Calif., just south of San Francisco. We've kept up with the community via your on-line journal. Ever since we departed, we've really missed our friends and the friendliness of Chadds Ford. Recently, Robin and I were presented with an opportunity to return and we took it.…

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