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At last, a lemonade stand as summer winds down
Photos by Ed Hille At the northwest corner of Marshall Square Park in West Chester, Adelaide Fieldhouse sets up her lemonade stand.“I’ll bring the signs; you take the cups,” she orders her father, who is unloading the trunk of the 2011 Honda CR-V parked on the side of the road. “I’ll bring the signs; you take the cups,” she orders her father, who is unloading the trunk of the 2011 Honda CR-V parked on the side of the road. Her younger sister, Briar, who told anyone who asked Sunday that she “will be 4 in 24 days,” ran to the ...
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Music at Marshall • Last Concert of 2019 • Thursday, August 15
The Tom Craig Band is sponsored Thursday, 8/15, by Meridian Bank, the firm of Unruh Turner Burke & Frees PC Attorneys At Law, and R.C. Construction Services. The potluck picnic starts at 6PM and the music at 6:30. Thank you to all of our sponsors! RSVP using the Evite Invitation and pick a dish to bring to our popular potluck picnic. We supply the tables, the grill, plates and napkins, hot dogs, hamburgers, fixings and water. See “What to Bring” on the Invitation, and let us know what you are bringing. If you prefer not to bring a dish, you can participate ...
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Hear the Dirk Quinn Band at our second 2019 Music at Marshall
The Music at Marshall picnic concert series happens annually on the third Thursday of June, July (July 18, 2019), and August. Our second concert features a newcomer to the gazebo. Dirk Quinn and his jazz/funk, high-energy band starts at 6:30; the picnic gets going at 6PM. RSVP using the Evite Invitation and pick a dish to bring to our popular potluck picnic. We supply the tables, the grill, plates and napkins, hot dogs, hamburgers, fixings and water. See “What to Bring” on the Invitation, and let us know what you are bringing. If you prefer not to bring a dish, you can participate ...
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Music at Marshall Picnic Concert Season Begins!
The Music at Marshall picnic concert series happens annually on the third Thursday of June, July, and August. The first concert features The Sin Brothers on Thursday, June 20, 2019. RSVP here to pick a dish to bring to our popular potluck picnic. We supply the tables, the grill, plates and napkins, hot dogs, hamburgers, fixings and water. See “What to Bring” on Evite Invitation and let us know which you are bringing. If you prefer not to bring a dish, you can participate in the picnic for just a $10 per family cash contribution, payable at FMSP’s donation jar. ...
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Recap: 2019 Park Cleanup Day
Thank you FMSP members, West Chester Rotary Club, WCU students, and Univest for giving our park an energetic Earth Day morning in April. You spread about 40 yards of mulch, picked up sticks and raked, ate about 40 doughnuts and drank about 5 gallons of coffee and water! Marshall Square Park has never looked so good! Nor have you❣️ This kind of community effort doesn’t happen with best intentions alone, so pat yourself on the back and mark April 22, 2020—Earth Day’s 50th Anniversary—for another great party! And thanks to FMSP’s Eric Miller for organizing this year’s party. Photo above: ...
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We have a Champion!
It’s official! Marshall Square Park has a Pennsylvania Champion Tree, a Blue Ash (Fraxinus, quadrangulata). Of this relatively rare species, our specimen is over 90 feet tall. The Blue Ash, mostly native to western Ohio, is so named because early pioneers extracted a blue dye from its inner bark. Champion trees are measured and scored by experts as the largest of their species in our state. A Longwood Gardens team measured our tree. To see it, go to the park’s Matlack side, go down the Lafayette Street stairs and turn right. The Blue Ash is the first large tree in ...