Category: History Spotlight

After the Revolution, Delaware County did not exist. Chester County was huge, and its county…

Growing up in the 1960s, you did not refer to Delaware County as “Delco.” It…

Marple and Newtown townships pooled resources in 1914 to establish a joint high school. In…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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