Voices from the Past (Video)

(Village Voices 2007-2022)
A Telling Our Stories program in Penn Hall on 3/14/23

What can we learn about ourselves from the Village Voices that have been printed over the last 15 years? In 2007, Village Voices’ original vision was for this mostly-monthly publication to be
“casual communications among us on a variety of topics….personal ads, photos, guest columns, thought-provoking commentary, book, restaurant, TV and movie reviews and recommendations, jokes, memoirs, current issues for discussion, letters to the Editor, an occasional contest, and as our esteemed PVRA President so succinctly proclaimed, ‘more noise.’”

Here’s a sampling, presented by 15 resident “readers” under the able direction of Anne Baber in Penn Hall

  1. Launching Village Voices in 2007 – by Paulina Wilker, the founding editor
  2. The serendipity involved in creating Pennswood – Anne Hood’s interview with one of Pennswood’s founders, Sid Cadwallader
  3. Why our entrance road has a “17 miles per hour” speed limit – by Eleanor Maass
  4. A strip tease act in one of Pennswood’s resident talent shows – by Edgar Stromberg
  5. How Pennswood came to be located on this land – by Beulah Tannenbaum
  6. 2007 Letter to the Editor – by Woodie, Pennswood’s resident parakeet
  7. The “garden wars:” creating Pennswood’s original community gardens – by David Swain
  8. Pennswood’s rabbits challenge Pennswood’s gardeners – by Alice Swann
  9. A resident’s donation of garden statuary – by Kay Silberfeld
  10. How one courtyard came to have a gazebo pond – by John and Dianne Orr and Hans Nord
  11. Fresh flowers, our library, concerts – a resident’s bequest – by Kay Silberfeld
  12. The kindness of strangers – by Yoma Ullman
  13. 35th Anniversary “Ode to Pennswood” – by Leslie Wendel
  14. Things they were a’changing (New Year’s in Pennswood’s 31st year – a new café with scooped ice cream, free coffee and tea; a new library; a new gift shop; a new dining room in Woolman; a Japanese garden off the Woolman Enrichment Room; a pre-dinner “happy hour” for residents; a new PVRA president; and a new CEO (following Nancy Spears’ 31 years at Pennswood)
  15. “A Mosaic That Is Pennswood” – by Bernice King
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