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Author: Doug Humes

The Man Who Owned Wyola

The house at Rt. 252 and St. David’s Road has come to us through generations….

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Who Put the Mills in Mill Hollow?

There is an enclave of private homes along Crum Creek in Newtown and Edgmont townships,…

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Clifford Douglas Murray, Jr. 2024 Newtown Square Friend & Neighbor of The Year!

Newtown Square Friends & Neighbors is proud to feature families, groups and individuals who make…

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The Altar of Freedom

Researching the feature article on the 80th anniversary of D Day was a labor of…

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The Countess of Newtown Square, Part 2

Why did Leo Tolstoy’s daughter, Sasha, take up subsistence farming in a dilapidated farmhouse in Radnor?…

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The Countess of Newtown Square

In 1931, the Countess, a “broad-beamed woman of middle age, with hazel eyes behind pince-nez…

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And Sweetly Breathes, “Forget Me Not!”

Over the weekend I drove up to Bucks County to pick up a donation to…

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Governor Earle’s Crash Landing

Last month I was sitting in an exam room at Main Line Health on the…

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The Milk Trolley

  In the early days of West Chester Pike, farmers from Newtown Square and surrounding…

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Notorious Fitz Captured

A voice from the grave, and a research notebook from preeminent Delaware County historian Hilda…

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