Marshall Square Park
2017 West Chester Preservation Award goes to our Fountain!
We are very happy to announce that our Jack R. Loew Memorial Fountain in Marshall Square Park is the winner of the 2017 West Chester Preservation Award in the Bricks and Mortar category! Presentation of the award is October 19th, so please hold the date. Check here or Facebook for info as it comes in.
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Seventh Annual Music at Marshall begins 6/15/2017
A free Concert by the Sin Brothers, a Face Painter, a potluck picnic, and the famous Dia Doce Gourmet Cupcakes truck! What’s not to like? Join us today—Thursday, June 16, 6:30 PM. Dia Doce is donating part of all cupcake sales to Friends of Marshall Square Park. They’re delicious—buy one. Hey, Sunday is Father’s Day—buy […]
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Annual Park Cleanup Tomorrow
Tomorrow, Saturday, April 22, is your chance to spruce up the park and showcase the new playground! Come join your fellow members and neighbors at 9AM to clean up the debris from this winter. We have mulch to place around the trees to protect them. If you have a wheelbarrow, please bring it with you,
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Save the Date!
Marshall Square Park’s Fountain Rededication September 24, 2016, 4 PM Marshall Square Park E. Marshall & N. Franklin Streets, West Chester Free to All Be there as we celebrate and rededicate our beautiful fountain. Hear the remarkable story of loss, recovery, and restoration. After 65 years, watch the fountain waters spray and rise again. Make history
Writing in Our Neighborhood
Wednesday, June 29, 2016, 2 to 3:30 PM, join us for “Writing in Our Neighborhood” led by Corinne H. Smith, nature blog writer and author of “Henry David Thoreau for Kids.” We meet at the library and walk to Marshall Square Park to be inspired by the nature we see. Participants are encouraged to bring
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Sixth Annual Music at Marshall starts 6/16/2016
A free Concert by the Sin Brothers, a Face Painter, a potluck picnic, and the famous Dia Doce Gourmet Cupcakes truck! What’s not to like? Join us today—Thursday, June 16, 6:30 PM. Dia Doce is donating part of all cupcake sales to Friends of Marshall Square Park. They’re delicious—buy one. Hey, Sunday is Father’s Day—buy
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New West Chester Hiking Club
FMSP President Jeff Beitel addressed the new West Chester Hiking Club on Saturday, April 30, at the start of the Club’s first “urban hike.” Approximately 30 people joined the hike. [Click photos to enlarge.]
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Here they come!
A Beautiful Gift! Last December, Ben & Pete Rotteveel of Dutch Grown LLC donated 2,000 daffodil bulbs — 13 different varieties — to FMSP for planting naturalized drifts in five areas of the park. On the E. Biddle Street drift, many daffodils are up and out. In other areas, many sprouts peek out for their