The April 2025 Issue of Village Voices is the first to print in full color and so, appropriately, begins with Mea Kaemmerlen’s illustrated exploration of the hallway art at Pennswood. Read the whole (searchable) newsletter. Navigation, downloads, and more are possible using the tools in the margins of the document reader window. Topics: not assigned […]
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February is the month with Valentine’s Day at its center. So, for the February 2025 Issue of Village Voices, we asked you to celebrate the love and write from the heart about someone or something you loved. Here is the whole newsletter and it is searchable. Navigation, downloads, and more are possible using the tools
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Topics: not assigned Evelyn Keyser | Joyce’s Committees | Sculpture | Silent Friend | statue | Temple University | twins
Written in March 2005, this play was first performed as part of Pennswood’s 25th Anniversary. It was funny then and remains funny now. Topics: not assigned Edgar Stromberg | Folklore | Fun | Pennswood | Tales
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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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The development of the Pennswood Meadow was a pioneering example of enlightened problem solving. Nancy Spears and Evan Stone guided the process through the development of the concept, winning the support of the Pennswood Community and its corporate directors, and finally constructing it successfully. It is a celebrated achievement that is both an engineering achievement
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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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Famous New Yorker Cartoonist Henry Martin’s humor tempered the necessary disruption of creating Pennswood’s meadow. Topics: not assigned Beautiful Meadow | Cartoonist | Drain | Drain the Swales | Environmental Stewardship | Famous New Yorker Cartoonist | Henry Martin | Humor | Humor | Image | Land | New Yorker Cartoonist | Pennswood | Pennswood meadow | Pennswoods meadow | Pennswood Village | Play | Swales
Topics: not assigned Environmental Stewardship | events | Events | heritage white oak | Land | Land | Pennswood | Pennswood meadow | Tree Planting
Resident Weezie Wentzel became blind at the age of _____, but that never diminished her art or her passion. Topics: not assigned Art | Residents Past and Present | Residents Past and Present | Sculpture | Sculpture | Weezie Wentzel | Wentzel
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