What’s Happening In Delco
From cultural celebrations to educational workshops, thrilling performances to community gatherings - events sure to inspire and entertain.
Creating fabric and clothing in colonial Pennsylvania took many steps and many specialized tools. Come experience how some of those tools were used and how much work went into making the clothing that people wore every day. Try your hand at spinning wool using handheld drop spindles. Eva Mergen has studied modern and historic textile […]
Brewers Sam Hollis and Keith Hartwig of Succession Fermentory will be demonstrating how beer was made in the mid 1700s. Working with the historically modeled brewing equipment at Newlin Grist Mill they will brew an 18th century farmhouse ale crafted with locally grown and malted grains, heirloom Pennsylvania hops, and yeast harvested from the landscape. […]
In the early twentieth century, John Sloan emerged as a key figure of the Ashcan School, a group of artists focused on portraying the unvarnished realities of modern life in New York City. A painter and printmaker, Sloan worked in oil and etching to depict the urban environment around him, adopting both the loose brushwork […]
The Brandywine will premiere the first ever museum display of a monumental, rediscovered masterwork by the leading Hudson River School artist Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823–1900). A stunning example of Gilded Age patronage, Autumn in the Ramapo Valley, Erie Railway of 1873, has been in private British collections since it was commissioned the same year by Irish-American railroad […]
An exhibition curated by Johnny Irizarry In Celebration of USA250 EXHIBITING ARTISTS: Michelle Angela Ortiz, Priscilla Bell Lamberty, Scout Cartagena, Betsy Casañas, Daniel de Jesús, Linda Fernandez, Natalie Flor Negron, Juan Gomez, Gilberto Gonzalez, Luis Gonzalez, Jomil Irizarry, Johnny Irizarry, Virginia Lemus Sanchez, LuzSelenia Loeb, Damani Lopez, Roberto Lugo, Emilio Maldonado, Kalena Marshall Garcia, Marangeli Mejia-Rabell, […]
Guided tours of the 1704 Grist Mill: Wednesday-Friday at2pm; Sat. & Sun. 1pm While the Mill is not currently operational, visitors on guided tours will get a rare opportunity to see the process of building a new waterwheel and waterbox. Visitors must be on a guided tour to go inside the Grist Mill. Guided tours […]
An informative, guided, two-hour hike that takes you through meadows, woods, and occasionally streamside. These walks are designed for individuals with a passion for plants, their role in ecology, or those looking to learn more. Although the focus is on plants, we will talk about whatever we might see while we are out! In the […]
4-5pm in the Log Cabin $10/person Free for members Come learn about how fabric and clothing were produced during the Colonial era. Textile specialist Eva Mergen will delve into types of tools and raw materials used in fabric and clothing production, division of labor between men and women, how production differed in other parts of the […]
Start Making Sense & The Ocean Avenue Stompers Horns An Evening of Music by Talking Heads, David Byrne, and more Start Making Sense is a Talking Heads Tribute band and they will be joined on stage by The Ocean Avenue Stompers, a four-piece horn section, for the entirety of the show. Many Talking Heads songs […]
Linvilla's Glice Skating Rink offers a unique winter experience surrounded by twinkling lights and holiday cheer! Glice is a synthetic ice surface designed to mimic the feel of real ice—allowing […]
In the early twentieth century, John Sloan emerged as a key figure of the Ashcan School, a group of artists focused on portraying the unvarnished realities of modern life in New York City. A painter and printmaker, Sloan worked in oil and etching to depict the urban environment around him, adopting both the loose brushwork […]
