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 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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Pennswood Village’s building names honor certain prominent Quakers who manifested important values by letting their lives speak. The PDF below tells their stories. They inspire now as they did in their own times. Topics: not assigned Alice Paul | Audland | Barclay | Benson | Caton | Daisy Newman | Dyer | Ellwood | Fell | Gervase Benson | Gurney | Holme | Ingram | J. Harold Passmore | John Audland | John Kinsey | John Woolman | Jordan | Joseph John Gurney | Kinsey | Loe | Lucretia Mott | Margaret Fell | Mary Dyer | Mildred Scott Olmsted | Mott | Newman | Olmsted | Paul | Penn | Pennswood | Pennswood Village | Quaker | Quakers | Richard Jordan | Robert Barclay | stories | Thomas
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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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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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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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