Food and Fun and witches at the Colonial Plantation!!

 A sunny weekend at last!! the big happening this weekend is the Foodways workshop at Newlin Grist Mill in Concord Twp. just off Baltimore Pike.

Newlin Grist Mill

Sunday Oct. 2, 2011
Historic Foodways Workhop
219 Cheyney Road

Glen Mills, Pennsylvania 19342
610-459-2359 www.newlingristmill.org

Must register!

Click below for more information

2011 Foodway Workshop_Registration Form

AND if you are like most men you love to see witches in action! They are having a mock witch trial etc. at the Colonial Plantation in Ridley Creek State park

Date - October 1, 2011

Time - 12 to 4 with last entry at 3pm

Adults - $8.00 and children (4 to 12) -$8.00

Fall is here and it a beautiful time to be on the farm. This children's event features, needle in the hay stack, corn husk doll making, lumberjacks, sack races, paper making, bean bag toss, hay maze, candle making, whizzers, and much more. Watch a woman defend herself when accused of witchcraft. Will she be able to avoid arrest and possible burning at the stake? Refreshments will be available for purchase. Leave the electronic games behind and enjoy fun on the farm the way it has been enjoyed for generations.

Just added to my website is the 1949 Delco Farm Bureau booklet. How many farms were in Delco in 1949? And their average size in acres? Would you believe over 800 farms and the average size was 50 acres! Go to my website and take a look

delawarecountyhistory.com

Colonial Plantation, Tavern Night and new books

With all the rain this weekend, it is not the best time to be out. BUT there are things going on.

Ridley Creek State Park
Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation

Saturday and Sunday

September 24th, and 25th.

Farm Chores 

Whenever you see farm chores you know that it will be a peaceful day where you can play "colonial" and enjoy the serenity of the farm. You are invited to work on a project or skill that you want to do

Savor the Past: Tavern Night Fundraiser at Newlin Grist Mill

 When: Saturday September 24, 2011

Time:  7:00pm-9:30pm

Where: Newlin Grist Mill | 219 South Cheyney Road |  Glen Mills, PA 19342 | www.newlingristmill.org

Cost:   $40.00 per person

In celebration of the Nicholas Newlin Foundation’s 50th anniversary, we are holding an evening of sights, sounds, and flavors of the 18th century.  Tavern Night will be held September 24th in the log cabin at Newlin Grist Mill.  Go to my website for more information delawarecountyhistory.com

And last by not least 3 good reads by Mark Dixon of Radnor

New Books by Mark Dixon The books can be ordered from the magazine's website -- https://subs.mainlinetoday.com/subscriptions/book.php -- as well as from the Amazon and Barnes & Noble websites.  They are also in local bookstores - B&N, Chester County Books & Music, etc.  The magazine's price is $19.79, plus $3.99 shipping and handling.  Cover price is $19.99 for the Delaware and Chester County books, and $21.99 for the Main Line book. About the Author Mark E. Dixon has lived in the Delaware Valley since 1987, when he moved from Texas to a Drexel Hill apartment complex where American Bandstand’s Dick Clark once lived. Though not himself a native, he grew up hearing about “the beautiful city of Philadelphia” from his mother, who moved here in 1945 to do social work and ended up marrying a Hahnemann University medical student from Michigan. And the roots go deeper: Dixon’s mother chose Philadelphia based on stories told by her grandmother. In 1886, Dixon’s great-grandmother—a descendant of some of the region’s earliest settlers—was a shopgirl at Wanamaker’s Grand Court, opposite city hall in Philadelphia. And there, though it was surely against John Wanamaker’s rules, great-grandmother let herself be romanced by—and later married—a midwestern Quaker who was in town on business but needing a pair of gloves. Those tales provided a window into the area’s history, later supplemented by Dixon’s joining the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) -- which, he observes, is practically a historical society itself.

Happy Labor Day

Not much is happening this week in Delco History. The big story is the pictorial history of Middletown Township is just out and will go on sale this week. The book was written by Mary Ann Eves and published by Arcadia Press. Lots of great pictures including Sam Riddle, owner of the race horse, Mn of War and for who Riddle Hospital is named for.
   Next week the Colonial Plantation is having a Civil War reenactment on Sept. 17 and 18th and also that weekend at the Lazeratto in Tinicum is their River Front Ramble. Visit my website for more info on theses and other events. delawarecountyhistory.com.  have also added allot on Delaware County Trolley routes and pictures take a look. The link is on the main page.