Township honors volunteers
Chadds Ford Township honored its volunteers Friday night with the annual Volunteer Appreciation Night at Turner’s Mill. Township Supervisors’ Chairman Frank Murphy said the township “couldn’t function as well as it does without the volunteers.”
He also announced that Chadds Ford is “one step away” from having Painters Folly placed on the National Register of Historic Places. The township bought the property from George and Helen Sipala last year.
The home was built in the 1850s and Howard Pyle later used it as a summer house while he was teaching students such as N.C. Wyeth. Andrew Wyeth later became a frequent visitor to the home while the Sipalas lived there and several of his paintings — Widow’s Walk and The Marriage Bed— were painted there.
Murphy’s comments were the only pieces of formality during the evening. The bulk of the time was spent eating, drinking and socializing.
About Rich Schwartzman
Rich Schwartzman has been reporting on events in the greater Chadds Ford area since September 2001 when he became the founding editor of The Chadds Ford Post. In April 2009 he became managing editor of ChaddsFordLive. He is also an award-winning photographer.
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