Around Town March 21

Posted by ChaddsFordLive on March 21, 2019

The exhibit, Thrills, Hills and Spills Lenape Park & Chadds Peak, opens April 6.

• Pennsbury Land Trust is hosting a lecture, “Green Landscape Practices for Homeowners” at the Pennsbury municipal building, 7 p.m. on March 27. Presented by Margot Taylor, a registered landscape architect and the owner/principal of Land Ethics, the presentation will look at how homeowners can apply green landscaping principles in their own landscapes. The event is free.

Grab the brass ring for a $5 raffle now through the end of the month.

• It's the Brass Ring Raffle at the Chadds Ford Historical Society now through the end of the month. For $5 per raffle ticket, people get a chance to own one of the brass rings from the old Lenape Park Dentzel carousel. The rings were donated by the Capps family and five of the rings are being raffled off as part of a fundraiser to help pay for the society’s upcoming exhibition featuring the park. The exhibit, Thrills, Hills and Spills Lenape Park & Chadds Peak, opens April 6. To learn more and to purchase raffle tickets, click here.

• The Brandywine Battlefield Task Force will be participating in the American Battlefield Trust's annual Park Day event at 8 a.m., Saturday, April 6. Park Day is a nationwide movement that brings interested volunteers together to ensure that battlefield sites/landscapes do not fall into disrepair. This year, in partnership with Birmingham Township, efforts will be focused at Birmingham Hill. This location was where some of the heaviest fighting occurred on Sept. 11, 1777. Meet at Birmingham Hill parking lot, Birmingham Township (adjacent to the intersection of Birmingham and Meetinghouse roads). Volunteers should bring work gloves only. All tools and other supplies provided by Birmingham Township. Volunteer registration is required. To register, visit here.

Chadds Ford’s Jennifer Campbell premiers her new work Through A Glass, Darkly, 3 p.m. Sunday, April 7, at the Meagher Theater at Neumann University in Aston.

• Chadds Ford resident Jennifer Nicole Campbell and Artist-in-Residence with the Delaware County Symphony will premiere her new work, Through A Glass, Darkly, composed for solo piano and dancers from the Academy of International Ballet in Media. The special Chamber Ballet Concert also features the ever-popular Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saëns for children and families at the Meagher Theater at Neumann University in Aston on Sunday, April 7 at 3 p.m. Concert tickets are $15 or $12 for seniors and students. For information call 610-879-7059 or visit www.dcsmusic.org.

• Blues guitarists Jimmy Vivino and Bob Magolin will perform an intimate set as a duo as part of their “Just 2 Guitars and 200 Stories” tour at The Kennett Flash on Wednesday, March 27, 2019. Tickets are available at www.kennettflash.org. Advance tickets are $20, and tickets at the door will be $25. Vivino and Margolin have been friends since the 1970s. Together for these special shows, they play original music, familiar tunes and deep blues songs and tell the personal stories about the Blues legends they knew and learned from.