Longtime readers of Newtown Square Friends & Neighbors will recall our popular recurring feature from 2019 through 2020 — “Can You Spot It From The Air?” It was intended originally as a one-issue fun photo feature. But it became one of the most read pages of our magazine with each new issue that followed because readers loved the combination of local trivia questions with the answer hidden by a cryptic hint about a local place and a photo of it taken from the air.
Readers rose up to the monthly challenge of considering a riddled hint through the lens of the drone camera because everyone has pretty good awareness of sites across Marple Newtown. They loved the monthly testing of their hometown geography, even with brain pain realizing that places seen from the ground all the time can look very different from the air. And if the photo or hint could land readers an answer, they could always turn to a page in the same issue for the answer so they could learn or prove that yes, they could spot it from the air.
Can You Spot It From The Air? Take the challenge first published in our April 2019 issue of Newtown Square Friends & Neighbors. Look at the aerial photo while considering this same cryptic hint that stumped readers six years ago this month.
I can’t share all of it yet, but something new is in the air that could have us bringing back “Can You Spot It From The Air?” after five years. Readers are still asking for its return and I have a new idea that can make the feature more interesting for more readers. But I need your help to get this project back up in the air. I need a drone pilot willing to contribute their drone flying skills and their time of only an hour or so each month.
HINT: This site, located in either Marple Township or
Newtown Township, should be known by anyone, 1, 2, 3…,
and for its many years of ABCs. Can You Spot It From the Air?
(If not, the answer can be found on pg 20)
If you’re a drone hobbyist, come fly with us. I can’t pay you, but you’ll meet nice people and become known in your community as a highflier, through your published photo credits. And (if you want), your contact information will be published too, so perhaps readers who may need your aerial
photography can contact you. Even more, your drone-flying hobby will serve your hometown with you on the Newtown Square Friends & Neighbors magazine team, serving our Bringing People Together mission with each new monthly issue in print and online at NewtownSquareMag.com. Call me, or tell your drone-flying family member or friend to email Bob Blaisse at BBlaisse@BestVersionMedia.com or call 610-453-5536.