• Mt. Cuba Center has just the thing for caterpillar lovers, Caterpillars 101. Learn about the amazing adaptations of caterpillars from host specialization to defensive mechanisms. Discuss the critical role caterpillars play in food webs. Discover signs of caterpillar activity and tools to identify them, and explore a restoration planting to hone your search skills. This program takes place in person at Mt. Cuba Center on Thursday, Aug. 22.
• Local Chester County communities have postponed National Night Out. The event was scheduled for Aug. 6 because of anticipated storms but has been rescheduled to Aug. 13. West Chester also postponed the event there, but no new date has been announced yet.
• On Tuesday, August 27, Kennett Library will celebrate its first anniversary in its new facility. The day will highlight the dedication of the Community Mural and kick off the first-ever Kennett Library Giving Day. Kennett Library Giving Day supports the library’s mission to continue to provide free resources, educational programs, and a welcoming space for all. Family activities will begin at noon, with the Community Mural dedication ceremony taking place at 6 p.m. at the library (320 E. State Street). Following the dedication, light refreshments will be served on the Melton Terrace, along with live jazz music by the Al Moretti Quartet. Everyone from the community is welcome to attend.
• The Chester County History Center is holding an online event for quilt lovers. A New Deal for Quilts explores how Depression-era federal programs drew on quilts and quilt-making as part of government relief and public relations efforts. Janneken Smucker who wrote the book of the same name will conduct the presentation. It will feature images of quilts Americans made in support of New Deal programs, to send as gifts to the Roosevelts in appreciation, and to express their hopes and fears amid the economic downturn. Her discussion will also include governmental photography of women at work on quilts in WPA Sewing Rooms, quilts in use in precarious living conditions, and women learning quilt making from expert home economists in the many federally planned communities and migratory labor camps established across the country. The quilts themselves are powerful forms of communication, serving as political statements of Americans' hopes and dreams for recovery. This is a pay-as-you-wish event and runs from 7-8 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 20. Reserve a spot here.
• Rachel Kohl Community Library will hold its fourth annual Dinner Fundraiser at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept.18 at The Crown Tavern (the former Mackenzie’s) 451 Wilmington West Chester Pike. There will be a buffet dinner, and a cash bar is available. Go here to donate or to buy tickets.
• Kennett Square announced that a motorcycle ride benefitting the Muscular Dystrophy Association is scheduled to go through the Kennett area along Route 1 between 11 and 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 10. This ride will impact traffic, and travelers are encouraged to use caution. In the event the ride is canceled due to rain, a rain date has been set for Saturday, August 24.
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