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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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
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
It’s hard to imagine that before 1980 this beautiful campus was a humble cornfield and pasture. The contrasts between then and now are numerous. This section tells about Pennswood’s heritage. Topics: not assigned Buildings | community | community | Customs & Culture | Customs & Culture | Demographics | Demographics | Environmental Stewardship | Environmental Stewardship | Events | events | Intergenerational Activities | Intergenerational Activities | Land | Land | Performing Arts | performing arts | PV Services | PV Services | Residents Past and Present | Residents Past and Present
Topics: not assigned Beautiful Meadow | community | Environmental Stewardship | Ken Burton | Land | Pennswood | Pennswood community | Pennswood meadow | Pennswood Village | stories | storm | unity
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Topics: not assigned Beautiful Meadow | community | Environmental Stewardship | Ken Burton | Land | Pennswood | Pennswood community | Pennswood meadow | Pennswood Village | stories | storm | unity | Video | Video
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