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
Music at Marshall • Last Concert of 2019 • Thursday, August 15 Read More »
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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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,
Annual Park Cleanup Tomorrow Read More »
