• Kennett Square’s Midnight on the Square is next Tuesday, Dec. 31. Bring in 2025 with live music, laser lights, and the mushroom drop with a countdown beginning at 11:59 p.m. It all starts on E. State Street at 6:30 p.m. and goes through 12:30 a.m. on Jan. 1. Parking restrictions and road closures of State Street and Union Street will begin at 5 p.m. State Street will be closed from Broad to Center. Union Street will be closed from W. Linden to Cypress. There will be free parking in the Borough garage on E. Linden Street for this event Roads will reopen around 1:30 a.m.

• Brandywine Christmas at the Brandywine Museum of Art is coming to a close in less than two weeks. The Brandywine Railroad is pulling out of the station on Jan. 5.

• The Chester County History Center is taking a figurative trip to Bucks County in January with a lecture on the Doan Gang. The gang was a group of British loyalists, the most notorious members being five brothers and one cousin from the Doan family of Plumstead, Pa. The gang was composed of around 50 members who were accused murderers, attainted traitors who ferried British prisoners of war to British lines, and horse thieves. They were also guilty of robbing tax collectors; their most famous crime being the theft of the Bucks County treasury in 1781. This 45-minute lecture — beginning at. 7 p.m. on Jan. 14, focuses on the Doan Gang and their activities in Bucks County during the American Revolution. This is a pay-as-you-wish Zoom event but registration is required.

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