Congratulations to my dear friend Cathy Quillman for winning a $2,500 grant from the Leeway Foundation! Cathy, a talented writer and artist, will use the grant money to research and write "Walking the East End," a book about a historic African American neighborhood in West Chester. "She hopes that the community will be rightly celebrated as a place of independence—one that began when the community was settled by free black men. The purpose of the [book] is to record the memories of the diminishing number of local residents and to document certain neighborhood landmarks in an area that is changing drastically."
Cathy's previous books include "Between the Brandywines," a history of West Bradford Township; "Chester County: A Photographic Journey"; "The Conestoga Turnpike"; "The Story of Milford Mills"; and most recently "100 Artists of the Brandywine Valley."
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