Around Town March 17

Posted by ChaddsFordLive on March 17, 2016

• The Poetry of Nature: A Golden Age of American Landscape Painting opens this weekend at the Brandywine River Museum of Art and runs through June 12. Included are masterworks by Thomas Cole, Asher Durand, John F. Kensett, William T. Richards, William L. Sonntag, and other giants of the Hudson River School of ARt. The Hudson River School is considered the first art movement in America and one that celebrated the country’s natural beauty. This exhibition, organized by the New York Historical Society, features more than 40 paintings created between 1818 and 1886 by more than 25 celebrated American artists.

• On March 22, the final presentation in Chadds Ford Historical Society’s lecture series will take place with local author and historian Gene Pisasale as Col. Alexander Hamilton. The program is entitled “Alexander Hamilton: Architect of the American Financial System.” The lecture costs $10 for non-members and free for Chadds Ford Historical Society members.

• Made in the Americas: The New World Discovers Asia, opens at Winterthur on March 26 and runs through Jan. 8. The exhibit examines the influence of Asia on the arts of the colonial Americas. This seminal exhibition explores how craftsmen across North, Central, and South America adapted Asian styles in furniture, silverwork, textiles, ceramics, and painting. Included are folding screens made in Mexico to imitate Japanese and Chinese screens, blue and white Talavera ceramics copied from Chinese porcelains, and luxuriously woven textiles made to replicate fine silks and cottons imported from China and India, among the exhibition's many marvels.

• PennDOT will hold an open house public meeting on Wednesday, March 30, from 5:30 to 8 p.m. for the upcoming project to replace the Route 926 bridge over the Brandywine Creek in Birmingham and Pocopson townships, Chester County. The public meeting will be held at the Pocopson Elementary School, which is located at 1105 Pocopson Road in Pocopson Township. The meeting will feature an open house plans display, a presentation at 6:30 p.m., and a question-and-answer session at 7. PennDOT project team members will be available to discuss the plans with interested citizens.

• The Kennett Area Senior Center’s Walnut Street Café Community Breakfast will be offered on Monday, April 4 from 7 to 9 a.m. The meal will feature a variety of choices, including scrambled eggs, home fries, sausage, bacon, sausage gravy and biscuits, and omelets made to order. All breakfasts include juice, fruit, coffee, tea and milk. Tickets are $5.75 for members and $6.75 for non-members.

• Unionville’s MiniTHON - Stamp out Cancer is set for April 9. The minithon will raise money for Four Diamonds, a nonprofit dedicated to alleviating the financial burden that many families with cancer patients face. Four Diamonds also collaborates with hospitals and research centers around the world in search of a cure for pediatric cancer. This year’s goal is to raise $8,000. Click here to donate to Unionville High School’s UThon: http://fourdiamonds.donordrive.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.event&eventID=1317.

• Unionville High Band Director Scott Litzenberg and Unionville-Chadds Ford School District Superintendent John Sanville have extended congratulations to two students selected for the 2016 Pennsylvania Music Educators Association All-State Band. Dana Dirnberger, a senior who plays the flute, and Michael Dirnberger, a sophomore clarinetist, received the honor last week at a festival hosted by Sun Valley High School. They will move on to the state festival, which will be held from March 30 to April 2 in Hershey.

• The fourth annual Chester County Single Mothers’ Conference will take place on Saturday, April 9, at B. Reed Henderson High School, 400 Montgomery Avenue, West Chester. The Chester County Community Collaborative, in partnership with the Chester County Women’s Commission, is hosting the event, and invites any and every single mother to attend free of charge. The day will run from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. and will include breakfast and lunch, free childcare, panel discussions and clinics on relationships, finances, and legal matters, and - most importantly - a chance to learn from other single mothers and their experiences. See the conference Facebook page for details and a registration link at www.facebook.com/SingleMothersCC or call 484-876-1582 for more information.