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Lived Values – The Names of Pennswood’s Buildings

Pennswood Village’s building names honor certain prominent Quakers who manifested important values by letting their lives speak. The PDF below tells their stories. They inspire now as they did in their own times. Topics: not assigned Alice Paul | Audland | Barclay | Benson | Caton | Daisy Newman | Dyer | Ellwood | Fell | Gervase Benson | Gurney | Holme | Ingram | J. Harold Passmore | John Audland | John Kinsey | John Woolman | Jordan | Joseph John Gurney | Kinsey | Loe | Lucretia Mott | Margaret Fell | Mary Dyer | Mildred Scott Olmsted | Mott | Newman | Olmsted | Paul | Penn | Pennswood | Pennswood Village | Quaker | Quakers | Richard Jordan | Robert Barclay | stories | Thomas […]

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Pennswood’s Beautiful Meadow

A river runs through it–sometimes. Our picturesque meadow may seem very natural, but it is actually meticulously designed and engineered to serve a practical storm water management purpose. It captures runoff so that the land can reabsorb it. Unlike conventional stormwater management systems, the meadow doesn’t simply control the rate of outflow, it frequently prevents

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Tree Planting

Topics: not assigned Environmental Stewardship | Events | events | heritage white oak | Land | Land | Pennswood | Pennswood meadow | Tree Planting

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Whimsey

Pennswood residents often display their sense of humor and fun with installations and art at their apartment threshold. Here are some examples. Topics: not assigned Customs & Culture | Fun | installations | Sense of humor | Whimsey

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Pennswood’s Incorporation

November 22, 1976 was the day Pennswood Village went from a good idea to becoming a legal entity. That was the day the founders put pen to paper and made the community a real thing. Much had gone before, and much would follow in the process of forming Pennswood. We celebrate the day that Pennswood

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On Community

“In a community, you are aware of belonging to a totality beyond yourself, one in which you have a stake. It’s made up of people you care about, whom in an emergency you will help care for, and who care about and will help care for you, to whom you are bonded by a recognizable

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Voices from the Past

Residents read selections from past Village Voices issues that reveal the Pennswood community’s spirit. Topics: not assigned community | Customs & Culture | dramatic reading | dramatic reading | Events | events | history | Pennswood | Pennswood community | Performing Arts | performing arts | Residents Past and Present | Residents Past and Present | spirit. | Video | Voices from the Past

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