Lost Lenape Park: Remembering the Once Bustling Recreation Destination
April 11 at 7pm
by Don McKay
The area currently known as Lenape developed out of a rural agricultural community serviced by a colonial mill that was witness to the British invasion of September 11, 1777. The introduction of a steam railroad in the 1870's opened up new business opportunities for the local residents as well as new avenue to bring visitors to the picturesque region. With the introduction of an early picnic park, the tourism industry was born and enhanced over the years with the recreation and transportation technologies of the times. Take a trip back to simpler times and recall the grandeur of the stop along the Brandywine that we call Lenape.
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED.
There will be a lecture on “Safety of Well Water and Septic Systems” at the Pennsbury Township building, 702 Baltimore Pike, Chadds Ford at 7 p.m.
Tom Quinn, Environmental Health supervisor for the Chester County Health Department will present an overview for homeowners for how to keep their wells and septic systems safe and healthy. Learn about permits, installation, and basic maintenance requirements for each. The event, hosted by the Pennsbury Land Trust, is free.
SOFTEN THE GLARE
What happens when worlds collide? Chaos, power, the unexpected…..when Ryan Martinie , Bon Lozaga and Mitch Hull get together as Soften The Glare, they unleash a new world…. an amalgamation of sounds!!
When Bon and Ryan first met in LA and started talking about getting together to create some music, they didn't know what to expect. Now as Soften The Glare, their music is evolving and constantly changing, bringing in elements from both their worlds and others. Currently their music is headed in an instrumental jazz/rock direction with elements of metal, funk, prog and a touch of chaos! Check it out and decide for yourself!!
Ryan Martinie is known for his bass playing and songwriting for Mudvayne. Numerous world tours (including a stint with Korn), MTV awards and millions of records sold are part of his musical heritage. Bon Lozaga (Gong, Tiny Boxes) is known in the jazz/rock world and jamband scene (playing with moe. and Umphreys McGee) and has released over a dozen albums featuring such noted guests as Allan Holdsworth, Kai Eckhardt, David Torn, David Fiuczynski, with his various projects and has also toured throughout the world. Together, they create Soften The Glare!
iNFiNiEN
Philadelphia-born iNFiNiEN combines eclectic musical personalities into a visionary, unified force. Using rock, jazz, soul, world, and classical influences, the quartet plays intricately composed songs with a focus on improvisation. Far from the typical rock band, they explore new territories of sound by using exotic scales, chords, and rhythms.
State Rep. Stephen Barrar’s shredding and drug take-back event is this Saturday, April 13, from 9 a.m. to noon at the district office on Route 202 at Beaver Valley Road across from the Wawa.
Saturday, April 13 – 10 am to 3 pm
Celebrate the beauty of the daffodil, enjoy Winterthur’s amazing daffodil display, and see the Follies garden exhibition! Henry Francis du Pont used his collector’s eye in assembling his collection of hundreds of heirloom daffodil bulbs arranged in cloud-like drifts on Sycamore Hill. The day’s events will include tours, kids’ crafts, and a daffodil show. Members free. Included with admission.
Children’s Daffodil Show – 10:00 am, Visitor Center (entries accepted through 11:00 am)
Daffodil Day Craft – 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, Visitor Center
Guided Walking Tours of the Daffodils – 11:30 am and 1:30 pm, begin at Visitor Center Patio
Self-guided Tours of the Daffodils – all day, begin at Visitor Center Patio
Looking forward to our open studio on Saturday April 13th. I am having a Unique Clothing Sale. Every item is $20. They are all new, classic pieces from my design collections.
Saturday, April 13th, 11 am to 4 pm
Heron Gallery & Studios
3100 Mount Rd, Aston, PA 19104
2pm Doors
3pm Show
$20 All Tickets
Brad Rau received a scholarship to attend New England Conservatory (NEC), and received a master’s degree in 2015 with academic honors. At NEC, he studied classical guitar under Eliot Fisk who was the last pupil of Andres Segovia. Brad has performed in countless masterclasses with instructors including; Sharon Isbin, and Andrew York both Grammy award winning guitarists.
His extensive classical guitar repertoire comes from the Baroque Classical, Romantic, and Modern period. He performs work by composers such as Bach, Mozart, Debussy, Brouwer, Villa Lobos, Tarrega, Albeniz, Rodrigo, Roland Dyens, Satie, Duarte, Mertz, Morel, Lauro, Brouwer, Guilani. Rau’s Bohium Rhapsody, Jazz Mario, and Take Five, are also crowd favorites.
Individual federal tax returns must be e-filed or postmarked by midnight April 15, 2019
The book club will be discussing The Alice Network by Kate Quinn. No registration required.
The book club will be reading The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead. No registration required.
It’s time to clean up the creek. The Brandywine Conservancy is currently seeking volunteers to assist with its Brandywine River Cleanup on Saturday, April 20, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. This annual event helps ensure cleaner water for more than 500,000 residents who rely on the Brandywine River as their primary source of drinking water—including those living in Coatesville and Downingtown, and the City of Wilmington — and it also aids in providing a healthier habitat for wildlife and a safer environment for recreational activities. The river cleanups are located at Brandywine Meadows Preserve Trail (1355 Downingtown Pike, Downingtown, PA 19335) and Shaw’s Bridge Park (274 South Creek Road, West Chester, PA 19382). To volunteer at one of the cleanup locations, please contact Kaitlin LeRoy at [email protected] or 610.388.8341. Online registration is available at brandywine.org/events. This event is appropriate for adults and children over the age of five.
April 20, 1:00–2:00 pm
Matt Rader, executive director of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, will discuss his experiences learning to see the landscape as a young man at Stowe, the Capability Brown-designed landscape garden in Buckinghamshire, England. $10 per Member. $20 per nonmember. Free for Winterthur Garden and Landscape Society and Garden Associate Members. Purchase tickets online or call 800.448.3883.
Monster Jam®, the unexpected, unscripted, and unforgettable family-friendly motor sport announced today that tickets are now on sale for the 2019 Philadelphia event. The 2019 season will bring a new level of high-flying, four-wheel excitement to the entire family with racing, two-wheel skills and freestyle competitions at Lincoln Financial Field on April 20.
Philadelphia Monster Jam 2019 tickets are now available through TicketMaster.
Monster Jam drivers are trained, world-class male and female athletes who have mastered not only the physical strength and mental stamina needed to compete, but the vital dexterity to control 12,000-pound machines capable of doing backflips, vertical two-wheel skills and racing at speeds up to 70 miles per hour to produce jaw-dropping, live motor sports action seen around the world. Now across all Monster Jam events, fans in every city will have the chance to vote for the winner in the two-wheel and freestyle competitions by real-time, in-stadium fan voting on their smartphones.
Fans also have the opportunity to get up close and personal to the Monster Jam trucks and drivers by purchasing a Pit Party pass that allows them early access to the event for photo opportunities and autographs.
How do you like your rock ‘n’ roll?
If the answer is safe, sterile, sexless, and spat out by the corporate machine, then move along. But if your wish-list includes soul, swagger and smack-in-the-mouth stagecraft, then Jane Lee Hooker is the band you’ve been gasping for. Tearing out of their native New York in 2016 with No B!, their white-knuckle Ruf Records debut, these five rockers fuse the sticky thrills of golden-era punk and blues with a healthy slug of modern attitude.
ARTZ Philadelphia joins with Brandywine to offer this popular program which welcomes a small group of visitors with dementia and their care partners to the Museum to view and discuss art in a supportive setting. ARTZ Philadelphia was founded on the belief that people living with dementia should be accorded the benefits of well-being and quality of life that others enjoy. The Museum is pleased to partner with ARTZ to provide these cultural and creative opportunities.
There is no charge for this program, but registration is required. To register, contact ARTZ Philadelphia at [email protected] or 610.721.1606. Space is limited; please register at least a week in advance.
As part of our Environmental Film Series, we'll be showing the documentary Paris to Pittsburgh with a discussion to follow. Registration is requested.
This guitar legend is considered one of the most influential guitarists of all time, Arlen has toured the world with countless acts and recording with them as well. This includes artists such as Simon and Garfunkel, Bob Dylan, John Prine, Phoebe Snow, Levon Helm, Ry Cooder, John Sebastian, Janis Ian, Eric Andersen, The Bee Gees and so many more. His teaching and creation of Hot Licks Video pioneered music and guitar education all over the world, and his videos have sold in excess of 2.5 million copies. His current online lessons and blogs for Gibson.com have over 1 million followers!
Learn how to start your own pollinator garden with Penn State Master Gardener. Registration required.
$20 Day of Show
Better Than Bacon is Chester County’s best improvisational comedy troupe! They make up every single word and perform every single action completely on-the-spot…and it’s all driven by YOUR suggestions. Every show is a brand new experience, so find out why this group is Better Than Bacon!
Get all-day access to Kuerner Farm, a National Historic Landmark, where Andrew Wyeth found intriguing subjects for hundreds of tempera paintings, watercolors and drawings for more than 70 years. Artists working in all media are invited to explore the property where they can sketch, paint or photograph. Gain insight into Wyeth’s creative process on an optional guided tour. Participants will meet at the Brandywine River Museum of Art parking lot at 9:15 a.m. before driving their own vehicles to the farm. Water and bathrooms are available at the site. Participants are responsible for providing all art materials.
Bio’s are, well, boring and who’s got time to read boastful facts about a musician.
So, here’s the scoop on Pat McGee…
Cart Before The Horse. Always.
October of 1994 McGee, books a studio to record his debut album. One, small concern, he wasn’t written a single original song, ever. “I’ll figure it out” has always been his mentality. Pat’s first two songs he penned that fall in the mid-nineties are, still to this day, the crowd favorites, “Rebecca” & “Haven’t Seen For A While”.
Honest, from the heart songwriting with musical influences deeply rooted in classic rock is prevalent throughout his entire 10, soon to be 11 album catalog. His first obsessions were the guitar driven styles of Eric Clapton, Allman Brothers Band & Grateful Dead paired with the Laurel Canyon singer-songwriters scene such as Jackson Browne and James Taylor.
Chester County participates in National Prescription Drug Take Back Day
Additional temporary prescription drug disposal sites to be added to Chester County’s 26 permanent drug disposal locations on Saturday, April 27th
Chester County’s Department of Drug & Alcohol Services is spreading community awareness for National Prescription Drug Take Back Day taking place this Saturday, April 27th. Organized nationwide by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), National Prescription Drug Take Back Day provides temporary local sites for safe, convenient and responsible means of disposing of prescription drugs, while educating the public about the potential for abuse of medications.
From 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, April 27th, temporary prescription drug disposal sites will be set up throughout Chester County, in locations including Avondale, Coatesville, Downingtown, Paoli and West Grove. Find a location near you
Prescription drug misuse is an ever-growing epidemic not only in Chester County, but across the nation. Commonly misused prescription drugs fall into three different categories which include opioids, which are pain relievers and have a similar chemical make up as heroin; sedatives, which are used to treat anxiety and depression; and stimulants, which increase attention, energy, blood pressure, heart rate and breathing rate.
“In order to decrease first time use of prescription drugs, it is imperative to begin with prevention efforts,” said Vince Brown, Director of the Chester County Department of Drug and Alcohol Services. “In addition to education and awareness, prescription drug misuse prevention includes locking up or monitoring prescription medications that are in the home and disposing of any unneeded or expired prescription medications at a medication collection box.”
Prescription painkillers such as Vicodin, Percocet, Oxycodone, Fentanyl, and Morphine, among others, are in the opioid classification of prescription drugs. Opioid prescription drugs essentially have the same chemical make-up as heroin, which means they affect the brain and body the same. Opioid prescription drugs have had a large hand in the opioid and heroin epidemic which our county, as well as our country, is currently facing.
Chester County remains committed to tackling the opioid and heroin epidemic through intensive prevention, education, treatment and law enforcement measures, coordinated by its Overdose Prevention Task Force. To learn more information, or to get involved, log onto the Overdose Prevention Task Force website, StopODChesco.org, or download the Chester County Department of Drug and Alcohol Services Opioid Epidemic Community Tool Kit, here.
Collection boxes for prescription drugs in Chester County are at 26 permanent locations, and for National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on April 27th an additional 6 temporary locations will be established. For a full list of permanent locations, go to www.chesco.org/DrugandAlcohol, and for temporary locations, go to www.DEA.gov.