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“Howard Fremont Stratton: Artist, Teacher, Traveler”
Presentation by Sara MacDonald, former Director for Public Services for the University of the Arts Libraries.
Ms. MacDonald will discuss Stratton’s background and his connection to Rose Valley, his role at the Museum School, his travels to Europe and Egypt, and the 1935 National Gallery of Art Collection of Stratton’s Egyptian paintings from 1924-25. Howard Stratton was a founding member of Rose Valley and a long-time teacher and administrator at the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art (now University of the Arts).
You can access the video of this event for a one-time donation of $10.00. Immediately after payment, you’ll receive a link to the video. The link will also be emailed to you, and you can access it any time from your email.
Hedgerow Theatre in Rose Valley: Panel Discussion “Hedgerow Theatre’s Legacy of Light”
Panel members: Ken Marini, Freelance Director & People’s Light Company member; Paul Kuhn, Founding Co-Artistic Director Curio Theatre Company; Brian Anthony Wilson, Barrymore award-winning Actor; Peter Schmitz, Adjunct Professor at Temple University; Marcie Bramucci, Executive Artistic Director, Hedgerow Theatre Comapny; and Gina Pasasale, Communications & Dramaturgy Associate, Hedgerow Theatre Company.
You can access the video of this event for a one-time donation of $10.00. Immediately after payment, you’ll receive a link to the video. The link will also be emailed to you, and you can access it any time from your email.
Hedgerow Theatre in Rose Valley: “Find Your Light: Playing in the Hedgerows”
Presentation by Ms. Penelope Reed, Artistic Director Emeritus, Hedgerow Theatre.
Ms. Reed’s lecture is based on the premise that to find your own light you must share your yourself with others. She achieves this by relating how “playing in the hedgerows” of Rose Valley was the foundation on which Hedgerow Theatre was built. This presentation is part of the 100th anniversary of Rose Valley becoming a Borough and the 100th birthday of Hedgerow Theatre.
You can access the video of this event for a one-time donation of $10.00. Immediately after payment, you’ll receive a link to the video. The link will also be emailed to you, and you can access it any time from your email.
Hedgerow Theatre in Rose Valley: “The Intersection of Wharton Esherick and Jasper Deeter”
Presentation by Mr. Mark Sfirri, Woodworker, Educator and Esherick Scholar.
Mr. Sfirri follows the lives of Wharton Esherick and Jasper Deeter and how their shared interests provided a natural convergence at Hedgerow Theatre. This presentation is part of the 100th anniversary of Rose Valley becoming a Borough and the 100th birthday of Hedgerow Theatre.
You can access the video of this event for a one-time donation of $10.00. Immediately after payment, you’ll receive a link to the video. The link will also be emailed to you, and you can access it any time from your email.
Hedgerow Theatre in Rose Valley: “A Poor Sort of Heaven, a Good Sort of Earth”
Presentation by Mr. Ryan Berley, Curator, Rose Valley Museum.
Mr. Berley’s talk ties the Arts & Crafts movement of Morris and Ruskin to the founding years of Rose Valley and how those philosophies gave rise to Hedgerow Theatre. This presentation is part of the 100th anniversary of Rose Valley becoming a Borough and the 100th birthday of Hedgerow Theatre.
You can access the video of this event for a one-time donation of $10.00. Immediately after payment, you’ll receive a link to the video. The link will also be emailed to you, and you can access it any time from your email.
” The Communities of Rose Valley” from the Fall Speaker Series at the Preservation Alliance of Greater Philadelphia
Presentation by Morris Potter.
Ms. Potter, the grand niece of William Lightfoot Price, presents a comprehensive photographic journey of Rose Valley from the Arts & Crafts ideals of Mr. Price to the community of Rose Valley today.
You can access the video of this event for a one-time donation of $10.00. Immediately after payment, you’ll receive a link to the video. The link will also be emailed to you, and you can access it any time from your email.
Windows “For (the) Gilded Age New York (and Philadelphia)”
Presentation by Mr. George B. Bryant, historian & retired architect.
Mr. Bryant will present an illustrated introduction to the work of the English artist Henry Holiday and his stained glass windows designed for the United States. Although the focus will be on Holiday’s work in New York, Mr. Bryant will include Holiday’s connection to Frank Furness and windows in Philadelphia.
You can access the video of this event for a one-time donation of $10.00. Immediately after payment, you’ll receive a link to the video. The link will also be emailed to you, and you can access it any time from your email.
Presentation by Mr. Norman Glass, local historian.
Norman Glass, local historian with expertise in the Minquas Trail, will describe the 17th-century trade route that ran from the Susquehanna River to the Schuylkill River. The 80-mile east-west trail was the primary route for fur trading between the Susquehannock people and Dutch, Swedish and English settlers; and also, the primary route for interactions with the Lenni/Lenape people of the Delaware Valley.
This lecture is a video of a real slide show. Unfortunately the older projector’s projection capacity was not up to overcoming the amount of daylight that was in the auditorium, even though we used all the available curtains on the windows.
You can access the video of this event for a one-time donation of $10.00. Immediately after payment, you’ll receive a link to the video. The link will also be emailed to you, and you can access it any time from your email.
Beginning Modern at the right time In The Right Place.
Presentation by Mr. Jim Tevebaugh, AIA, President, Friends of the Furness Railroad District.
Mr. Tevebaugh describes the work of Frank Furness for various railroad corporations in the late 1800s. Furness created 200 projects for the Reading, B&O and the Pennsylvania railroads, which transition from Victorian to Modern design during the Industrial Era.
You can access the video of this event for a one-time donation of $10.00. Immediately after payment, you’ll receive a link to the video. The link will also be emailed to you, and you can access it any time from your email.