Category: Other News and Events

Bryan Kravitz, a friend of Joel Spivak’s,  is passionate about typewriters. He has established a workshop with machines and tools for restoring them. Shortly you will see a notice here about a tour of his workshop on March 11, 2023. Bryan was tapped by the Literature Department at Parkway Central Library to present an 8…

UPCOMING TALK by Ned Drinker, local Navigator: DESCRIPTION: “Finding Conshohocken” is a two-hour slide show exploration of the history of Conshohocken from William Penn to the present including the Schuylkill Navigation, iron and steel, J Ellwood Lee, Woodmont and redevelopment. WHEN: Monday, January 30th 5:30 – 7:30 PM WHERE: Conshohocken Free Library, Community Room (downstairs),…

An interesting piece from the online site Atlas Obscura. Accuracy not assured. “Hanover, and a few counties surrounding it, is the biggest producer of America’s favorite guilty pleasures. More potato chips (and pretzels, candy, ice cream, and chocolate) are produced over these few counties than anywhere else on Earth.”

Princeton Preservation Group presents The Campbell Soup Company Corporate Archives: Preserving the History of an American Food Brand November 15, 2022, 7pm via Zoom by Scott Hearn The business that would become Campbell Soup Company was founded in 1869 in Camden, NJ as a cannery. The invention of condensed soup in 1897 fundamentally changed the…

Membership Meeting of the Tri-state Railway Historical Societypresents THE RISE & FALL OF THE RARITAN RIVER: PART II A Zoom talk by Tom ReynoldsThursday, November 10, 2022 For the November show, Tom Reynolds returns to continue his history of New Jersey’s Raritan River Rail Road. The story picks up the railroad’s peak freight tonnages in…

Presented by Environmental Engineer, Drew Brown Thu, November 10, 2022, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM EST Our virtual tour will take virtual visitors behind the scenes at the City’s Southeast Water Pollution Control Plant to follow polluted wastewater step by step through the treatment plant until the cleaned wastewater is cleaner than the Delaware River…

The HISTORICAL SOCIETY of FRANKFORD A presentation byHarry Garforth Tuesday, November 8, 2022, 7:30 PM

The HISTORICAL SOCIETY of FRANKFORD celebrates The Frankford El Centennial A presentation by Harry Garforth Our next in-person program commemorates 100 years of service for the Frankford railway, which opened for business on November 5, 1922.  Our speaker will be Harry Garforth, author of a new book, FRANKFORD’S ELEVATED RAILWAY And Its Predecessors, a cooperative…

A zoom talk by Adam Levine Wed, November 2, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT Thanks largely to investments and regulations stemming from the Clean Water Act of 1972, the Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers are now cleaner than they have been at any time in the past century. Philadelphia Water Department Historian Adam Levine…

Nation of Inventors Nation of Inventors celebrates the American spirit of ingenuity by taking visitors on a journey from the early years of the patent system, in the 1790s, through the “golden age” of American invention, in the late 1800s. The exhibit features more than 120 patent models from Hagley’s unique collection highlighting the diverse…