It’s Brandywine Christmas at BRM

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The train display is always popular. Neither age nor gender hampers the appreciation of a train set featuring thousands of feet of track and hundreds of cars choo-chooing their way through a variety of model towns and villages.

It’s Christmas time at the Brandywine River Museum of Art. The museum opened its annual A Brandywine Christmas on Black Friday. Visitors had a chance to see the always-popular O-gauge train display, see a Victorian-era dollhouse as well as check out the museum’s new exhibit on Winslow Homer.

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Mind Matters: Talking to children about difficult topics

I grew up in a New Jersey mill town that was literally a stone’s throw across the Delaware River from Philadelphia. It may have been South Jersey, but it was not the south, yet when I was young, my mother told me stories about the Ku Klux Klan burning crosses on lawns when she was young. Their bigotry extended beyond hatred of blacks and Jews to…

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