"For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together.
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Congratulations on your acceptance as a new college student into the school of your choice. You worked hard as a high school student, and you successfully navigated the admission process. You attended orientation, explored the campus, located your class buildings and familiarized yourself wi…
A first glance of William Hillyer’s 1834 oil painting of Margaret Gray Knowles shows a discerning, aging woman in black and gray clothing set before a neutral earth-tone background.
Darlington Arts Center in Garnet Valley invites the community to its annual Back to School Arts Party Saturday, Sept. 29, from 6 to 8 p.m.
ATSHAN & RAMBERG: Why campus rabbi, Palestinian professor are co-hosting conference on anti-Semitism
While modern anti-Semitism reached a deadly pinnacle in the Second World War, it continues to have serious — and sometimes even fatal — consequences for Jews.
"He that plants trees loves others besides himself."
As high school and college students continue to argue their ability to multitask their electronic devices, research continues to mount that the brain functions best when focused on one demanding activity at a time. For example, when reading, writing, calculating, studying and problem solving…
An exhibition of original artwork by local artist Joan Sobel will be on display from Sept. 5 to 29 at Swarthmore Borough Hall, 121 Park Ave., Swarthmore.
“You who are asleep, wake up. You who are in a trance, arise. Search your doings and repent. Remember Your Creator you who forget constant truth in vanities of the hour and indulge all year in trifles which cannot profit or save, look rightly I into your souls. Amend your ways and your deeds…
"Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light."
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During much of my career in secondary education, August was the month of sports camps for conditioning, practicing and performing. During that athletic preparation in the ’70s and ’80s, I underestimated another summer camp, a much more entertaining team that practiced and prepared just as ha…
It’s a brave new world for the Ludwig’s Corner Horse Show grounds, which has the capacity for a crowd of 15,000.
As evidenced by a Delaware County Historical Society (DCHS) map, Chester Creek and the Delaware River followed different courses in 1682, which explains why the William Penn Landing monument is so far from the shoreline today.
“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.”
You know Jeff Daniels from his Emmy-, Tony- and Golden Globe-winning roles, but did you know that in 2012, the Martin Guitar Co. began selling an OM Jeff Daniels Custom Artist Edition Guitar?
This might go down in history as the Philadelphia Folk Festival’s “Year of the Woman.”
Thoughts of childhood may render peaceful memories of idle, free days, some of which included puttering around on a cycle of some sort, similar to the ones housed at the Delaware County Historical Society.
The Players Club of Swarthmore will conclude its 2017-18 Children’s Theater Series with the classic tale “Alice in Wonderland” Aug. 11 and 18 at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. and Aug. 12 and 19 at 11 a.m. at Players Club of Swarthmore, 614 Fairview Ave., Swarthmore.
As a parent of young children, you may be counting the days until the beginning of the new school year. But your children are counting the days remaining for adventure and summer fun.
All that activity you’ve been seeing by the Christina Riverfront means it’s almost time for the Riverfront Blues Festival in Tubman-Garrett Park.
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An exhibition of original photography by local photographer Rick Prieur will be on display from Aug. 2 through Aug. 30 at Swarthmore Borough Hall, 121 Park Ave., Swarthmore.
“More than anything, I must have flowers, always, always.”
A major life adjustment is coping with death and adversity, a human experience known best by those who suffer it. Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and Wharton School professor Dr. Adam Grant chronicle Sandberg’s raw emotions in “Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy” (…
Haverford High School grad Damon Erik Williams has been shaking things up on TNT’s gritty, mature-audiences-rated, crime drama series “Animal Kingdom.”
KC Dalager — singer/guitarist/keyboardist of indie outfit Now, Now — has been sick almost every time (except one) she’s performed in Philadelphia. Nonetheless, the band’s fans have sold out a July 13 show at Johnny Brenda’s.
“Spacelab: An Interstellar Exhibit of Glass Art,” a new installation at the National Liberty Museum, examines humanity’s relationship with the universe, including space travel; extraterrestrial beings and intergalactic discoveries; and the vastness and mystery of space.
In the mass media age of sports, every game has a pregame show and a postgame show. This previewing and reviewing offers additional analysis to understand our teams and enjoy games.
“Flowers … have a mysterious and subtle influence upon the feelings, not unlike some strains of music. They relax the tenseness of the mind. They dissolve its rigour.”
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A father’s lessons are timeless. Even though I am in the grandfather stage of life, my daily thinking includes the lessons of my father, John Giampalmi, even though those lessons were taught in the ’50s.
“Bees do have a smell, you know,
“Choose good parents and grow up in Ohio,” said Wilbur Wright offering advice for success in life. The names Susan and Milton lack the notoriety of their famous sons, but the aviation achievements of Wilbur and Orville are directly attributed to their parents’ home environment that encourage…
“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”
Located just a few miles southeast of our nation’s capital, Alexandria, Va., offers a pleasant respite from the busy political hustle of Washington, D.C.
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In the corporate world, social responsibility and sustainability are good business practices. When companies optimize their resources, everyone profits.
“Every particular in nature — a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time — is related to the whole and partakes of the perfection of the whole.”
When I coached high school baseball in the ’60s and ’70s, analytics included calculating batting averages with pencil and paper and counting the number of balls and strikes thrown by pitchers. At the end of the game, we totaled runs scored by both teams; the team that scored more runs won the game.
“A spring day feeds a whole year.”
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Those of us who watched NFL (National Football League) games this past fall experienced the frustration of the league’s definition of a catch. And Eagles fans during the Super Bowl experienced the anxiety of an uncertain touchdown catch by Corey Clement. Recognizing the problem, the NFL rule…
“If a plant is in the right place, you can give it what it needs in spring and just wave at it the rest of the year.”
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When I read that the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point, an affiliation of the University of Wisconsin, is considering elimination of English and other liberal arts topics as a major, I checked the date on the source, expecting to see April 1. But the month was March, the month that ce…
“It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is.
I have spent more than five decades in classrooms with teenagers. The enjoyment of most of that time has been serendipitous, never knowing what to expect, including under- and over-performances in the classroom and surprises on athletic fields. But what has always been consistent is their ab…
“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces,
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