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
Topics: not assigned Environmental Stewardship | events | Events | heritage white oak | Land | Land | Pennswood | Pennswood meadow | Tree Planting
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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[What’s Behind the Names of Pennswood’s Buildings?] Pennswood’s “B” Building One of Quaker core beliefs is living “integrity and truth,” expressed as “Let your life speak.” Quakers do not take oaths on a Bible, believing that a person’s word should always be truthful. Gervase Benson (d. _____) was an influential lawyer of his time, a notary public, an alderman,
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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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
“In a community, you are aware of belonging to a totality beyond yourself, one in which you have a stake. It’s made up of people you care about, whom in an emergency you will help care for, and who care about and will help care for you, to whom you are bonded by a recognizable
