This website is built with pages of stories–narratives, videos, photographs describing the Pennswood Community. The home page gives a sample and an index of terms linked to the stories. On this page, you can browse through summaries of all of those stories, and select anything that interests you to read and see more.
The Stories — all of them! (So Far)
45th Anniversary Exhibit Openings
Theme 5: Well-being & Community: The Good Life at Pennswood (concluding with Shadowlands, a short play written about our founders) …
Audland Building
AUDLAND – A Light Within Every Person Pennswood’s “A” Building Quakers believe there is “that of Light/God/Love/Truth within each person …
Barbara Jacobson
BARBARA JACOBSON (b.1915; d. 2011) grew up in Rose Valley, PA. She studied piano with Nadia Boulanger in Paris (1931-32), …
Benson Building
[What’s Behind the Names of Pennswood’s Buildings?] BENSON – Freedom of belief & Integrity Pennswood’s “B” Building One of Quaker core …
Blind Sculptor Creates Flowers
Resident Weezie Wentzel became blind at the age of _____, but that never diminished her art or her passion …
