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 […]
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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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Interview with Ruth Bertolino and Jack Williams 10-31-22 Remembering Jack Ruth Bertolino and Jack Williams Interviewer: Marguerite Chandler OK, we’re recording. This is October 31, 2022. And you are? 00:08 Ruth: I am Ruth Bertolino. My husband, Jack, and I arrived in Pennswood on September 9, 2003, when Mott was a brand new building. 00:23 MC
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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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Multi-talented Kurt Martin has supported the Pennswood Singers, memorial meetings for residents, Pennswood’s Got Talent and more. In this interview, Kurt shares his Pennswood journey.
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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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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
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.
