Several residents who live near the proposed development at the former Embreeville Center in West Bradford and Newlin Townships are expressing concern that it would have a negative impact on roads (Strasburg Road and Route 162 in particular) and the rural character of the area. They are also concerned about its impact on the Brandywine River and the ChesLen preserve across the road.
Proposed for the site are 1,000 housing units and a shopping center. The heavily used playing fields and the PennDOT maintenance building would remain untouched. Twenty acres of the 280-acre site are in Newlin Township, including the sewage treatment plant on the south side of Embreeville Road and a wooded strip near the township building.
Friday, April 26, 2013
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Open house
I always wondered who lived in that old brick house on West Street Road at Mill Road, and now I know: the fabric artist Jennifer Cauffman! She hosted an outdoor open house on Wednesday, April 24, and I had a great time chatting with her and browsing through her colorful pillows, vests and bags, hand-painted with birds and fish and flowers. I went home with a beautiful, cheerful silk pillow that caught my eye as soon as I pulled in.
You can see Jennifer's art at www.gloryfibers.com. She is happy to do custom work and says she's always trying new things -- like attaching feathers to the edge of her rooster pillows.
Jennifer was also dishing up an amazing bean soup, with chips from Northbrook Orchards, and a friend of hers was selling homemade chocolate peanut butter cups and turtles. So glad I stopped by!
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You can see Jennifer's art at www.gloryfibers.com. She is happy to do custom work and says she's always trying new things -- like attaching feathers to the edge of her rooster pillows.
Jennifer was also dishing up an amazing bean soup, with chips from Northbrook Orchards, and a friend of hers was selling homemade chocolate peanut butter cups and turtles. So glad I stopped by!
For sale
The Kennett Steak & Mushroom restaurant at Birch and Broad Streets in Kennett (formerly the Birch Inn) has just come onto the market; asking price is $1,650,000. That includes the renovated restaurant, a liquor license, a 14-room motel and an ample parking lot.
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
A funny
A Kennett pal of mine enjoys a rude kind of good health but is nonetheless a hypochondriac. He emailed me yesterday afternoon: "Last night I woke up feeling dizzy, and still today if I look upward for any
length of time I get very dizzy."
Since I am a naturally helpful, kind, nurturing person, I replied immediately - and advised him to stop looking upward.
His response:
Very much appreciated your advice not to look up and was reminded of the old, but potentially new to you, vaudeville joke: Guy goes into a doctor's office and says, "Doc, I get a stabbing pain in my eye every time I drink coffee. What should I do about it?" And the doctor says, "Take the spoon out of the mug."
He could not believe that I found this joke completely hilarious.
Yep, wherever there's witty badinage and sophisticated humor, that's where you'll find Tilda!
Since I am a naturally helpful, kind, nurturing person, I replied immediately - and advised him to stop looking upward.
His response:
Very much appreciated your advice not to look up and was reminded of the old, but potentially new to you, vaudeville joke: Guy goes into a doctor's office and says, "Doc, I get a stabbing pain in my eye every time I drink coffee. What should I do about it?" And the doctor says, "Take the spoon out of the mug."
He could not believe that I found this joke completely hilarious.
Yep, wherever there's witty badinage and sophisticated humor, that's where you'll find Tilda!
Monday, April 22, 2013
The Circle Game
If you're looking for something a little offbeat to do on Saturday, May 4 (post time for the Kentucky Derby isn't til 6:24 p.m.), help me mark World Labyrinth Day at the Delaware Art Museum. Labyrinth fans will be walking their labyrinths at 1 p.m. local time at sites around the globe, as they do on the first Saturday of each May.
The Delaware Art Museum's Labyrinth was built six years ago in what used to be the Anthony N. Fusco Reservoir (now drained), just north of the Museum. It's encompassed by tall rock walls and measures 80 feet across, with a circumference of 253 feet. It's not a maze; the path edges are marked by small stones (I spent Sunday afternoon with a group of volunteers smartening up the paths after the winter).
Walking from the edge to the center, you'll make 28 U-turns (to mark the 28-day lunar cycle) and six right-angle turns (there's one right as you think you're about to get to the center!). Walk to the center and back to the outside and you'll find you've done a half-mile of exercise.
I find walking the Labyrinth to be both fun and soothing. It's a combination of walking (always good exercise) and centering, literally and figuratively.
Kids, of course, are welcome to visit, and the ones who were there on Sunday had a great time running around. We also had an impromptu bird-calling contest; you never know what latent skills your friends have!
The Delaware Art Museum's Labyrinth was built six years ago in what used to be the Anthony N. Fusco Reservoir (now drained), just north of the Museum. It's encompassed by tall rock walls and measures 80 feet across, with a circumference of 253 feet. It's not a maze; the path edges are marked by small stones (I spent Sunday afternoon with a group of volunteers smartening up the paths after the winter).
Walking from the edge to the center, you'll make 28 U-turns (to mark the 28-day lunar cycle) and six right-angle turns (there's one right as you think you're about to get to the center!). Walk to the center and back to the outside and you'll find you've done a half-mile of exercise.
I find walking the Labyrinth to be both fun and soothing. It's a combination of walking (always good exercise) and centering, literally and figuratively.
Kids, of course, are welcome to visit, and the ones who were there on Sunday had a great time running around. We also had an impromptu bird-calling contest; you never know what latent skills your friends have!
(Photo from the Delaware Art Museum's website.)
Our "Twilight"
If you are in my demographic, perhaps you have fond memories of rushing home from elementary school to watch the Gothic soap opera "Dark Shadows." I was such a fan of the show that I was fully prepared to dislike the 2012 "Dark Shadows" movie directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp as vampire Barnabas Collins.
Instead I really enjoyed it. The 1970s music, décor and costumes are wonderfully vivid (loved the lava lamp and the rock posters!). Johnny Depp is hilarious as a fresh-from-the-coffin vampire suddenly confronted with 1970s culture (talk about culture shock: his first glimpse of television is Karen Carpenter singing "Top of the World"), the always-dysfunctional Collins family, and his old nemesis Angelique (played by Bond Girl Eva Green, she is now a rival fishing-company owner). Don't miss the cameos by some of the original cast members; they show up for a ball that Barnabas throws (though Carolyn, the hippie daughter of the house, insists that Barnabas call it "a happening").
Instead I really enjoyed it. The 1970s music, décor and costumes are wonderfully vivid (loved the lava lamp and the rock posters!). Johnny Depp is hilarious as a fresh-from-the-coffin vampire suddenly confronted with 1970s culture (talk about culture shock: his first glimpse of television is Karen Carpenter singing "Top of the World"), the always-dysfunctional Collins family, and his old nemesis Angelique (played by Bond Girl Eva Green, she is now a rival fishing-company owner). Don't miss the cameos by some of the original cast members; they show up for a ball that Barnabas throws (though Carolyn, the hippie daughter of the house, insists that Barnabas call it "a happening").
Mushrooms in the news
The May/June issue of "AAA World" (the AAA's mid-Atlantic magazine) has a nice little story about Kennett Square with a great headline: "The Gift of the Fungi." The writer, Jennifer Maguire, quotes Jim Angelucci of Phillips Mushroom Farms and Kathi Lafferty, owner of the Mushroom Cap and organizer of the Mushroom Festival. The article also gives Tina Verrelli's recipe for shiitake, ginger and pork pot sticker soup, which won the amateur division of the cooking contest at last year's fest.
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