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45th Anniversary Exhibit Openings
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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Village Voices, March 2025
The March 2025 Issue of Village Voices newsletter is here, filled with late-winter musings and reminiscences. The newsletter is searchable; and navigation, downloads, and more are possible using the tools in the margins of the document reader window. Topics: not assigned musings | Project | reminiscences | stories
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Village Voices, April 2025
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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Village Voices Valentines, February 2025
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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Folklore Tales by Edgar Stromberg
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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Village Voices on Telling Our Stories
The January 2025 Issue of Village Voices has, as its theme, stories of the context in which the Telling our Stories project was born. Here is the whole newsletter and it is searchable. Navigation, downloads, and more are possible using the tools in the margins of the document reader window. Topics: not assigned Project | stories
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Blind Sculptor Creates Flowers
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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Bocce, Singing, Partying – Jack Bertolino
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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Kurt Martin, Music Man
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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