A Values-based, caring, intentional, community
Theme 5: Well-being & Community: The Good Life at Pennswood (concluding with Shadowlands, a short play written about our founders) Theme 4: Community – A Splendid Patchwork Quilt Theme 3: Environmental Stewardship, Community Spaces, and the Wider World Beyond Theme 2: Early Marketing & Intergenerational Community Theme 1: Celebrating our Heritage Topics: not assigned community | Environmental […]
45th Anniversary Exhibit Openings Read More »
When Ruth Peterson and Jack Bertolino came to Pennswood 30 years ago, they very much wanted to start a Dance Committee. The earliest mention we have of a dance at Pennswood was a Square Dance that occurred in the Activities Room in 2004.
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Topics: not assigned Environmental Stewardship | Events | events | heritage white oak | Land | Land | Pennswood | Pennswood meadow | Tree Planting
In February 2024 the PVRA sponsored a fair to showcase all of the many service and entertainment activities that residents create for the Pennswood community. Topics: not assigned community | Customs & Culture | entertainment activities | events | Events | Fair | February 2024 | Gallery | Pennswood | Pennswood community | service activities | sponsored | unity
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by Leslie Wendel DO YOU KNOW OF SPECIAL OR LONG-TIME RELATIONSHIPS HERE AT PENNSWOOD? Help us update the list of “family connections” as well as longtime friends who followed each other here or friends who reconnected here. (reply here) Pennswood is not just a welcoming, friendly community. There is almost a family feeling, not too
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Opposite the main entrance to our Community Center our new peace pole proclaims in 16 world languages, “May Peace Prevail on Earth.”
Pennswood’s NEW Peace Pole (May, 2024) Read More »
Community A values-based, caring, intentional community. Topics: not assigned community | community | Customs & Culture | Customs & Culture | Demographics | Demographics | Environmental Stewardship | Environmental Stewardship | Events | family | Intergenerational Activities | Intergenerational Activities | peace | peace | Pennswood | PV Services | PV Services | Quaker | Residents Past and Present | Residents Past and Present | unity
RICHARD YARNALL (d., 2013) was a graduate of Germantown Friends School. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Colgate University and his Masters in Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania. During World War II, he served in the American Field Service with the British Sixth Armored Division in the Italian campaign. He was a sole proprietor
ROBERT “BOB” TEEL (d.1983) held degrees in journalism and educational psychology from Temple University. He spent his career as the Personnel Manager at Dun & Bradstreet of NY and was a member of the NY Personnel Management Association. After his retirement from Dun & Bradstreet, he worked at George School developing a deferred giving program.
GEORGE OTTO (b. 1903; d. 1996) was described in the Philadelphia Inquirer as a “community builder.” For 40 years, George and his partner operated Penn Valley Constructors, Inc. The firm built custom homes in Bucks County, but also built pioneering, integrated communities in the region, an expression of George’s Quaker beliefs in equality and affordability.
