Friends of Marshall Square Park
Today, April 16, 2020, I woke up to a bright and sunny morning, although unseasonably cold. The daffodils across the street in the Park are especially vivid these days. When I ventured out around 10 a.m. to pick the newspaper up off the sidewalk, a car stopped. I looked up, expecting to be asked directions […]
“What a beautiful park!” with FRIENDS Read More »
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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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Phoenixville chainsaw artist creates art in the park Bill Rettew [email protected] WEST CHESTER — Marshall Square Park is the new home to four owls, two squirrels, a fox, skunk, hummingbird, dragonfly, and new to the job, a wooden park caretaker. On Monday, artist Marty Long was putting the finishing touches on chainsaw art carved into
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On June 21, 2018, we hope you plan to join your friends and neighbors for good food and music. Speaking of good food, could you help us at the grill for about 40 minutes? Feeding the masses is rewarding and greatly appreciated! If you can help, please email our picnic coordinator, Chantale. Must be
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Picnic Concert series Always the third Thursdays of June, July, and August. A free Concert, a Face Painter, a Potluck Picnic, friends, and neighbors! What’s not to like? Join us — Thursday, July 20, 2017, 6:00 PM. Last month’s picnic concert drew over 300 people. Join us at the gazebo for a great evening of
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