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Looking for older and historic homes in the State of Delaware or in Southern Chester County, Pennsylvania? Carolyn Roland is a trained Architectural Historian and a Board Member of the Chester County Historic Preservation Network and Friends of the Furness Railroad District as well as the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Delaware and Chester County Historical Societies.,..

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2011 

                  HGTV's new show, Showhouse Showdown, created quite a stir in the otherwise quiet Darley Green townhouse development in Claymont, Delaware. Often noted as the site of the now demolished Brookview apartment community, its previous claim to fame was as the home of Joe Biden's famil...
07/26/2011
      Saturday brought the 2011 Water Garden Tour sponsored by Gateway Garden Center and The Delaware Center for Horticulture. My friend Brenda and I were looking for ideas, and they certainly presented themselves courtesy of some hard-working and talented gardeners. The first pond was in Hockess...
07/24/2011
                   The Friends of the University of Delaware Botanic Gardens in Newark, Delaware, hosted a plant sale last night, and we had a chance to see the ever-expanding collections in the gardens, as well as roam around the grounds. As you can see from the photos, the shady Lepidoptera gar...
07/21/2011
           A stroll along Wilmington Delaware's Riverfront on Sunday morning found a peaceful scene, with joggers, bikers, walkers, and the Riverfront Wilmington Business Improvement District bicycle patrol covering the vast expanse between the train station and the Environmental Center to the so...
07/18/2011
Thursday night was the 4th in this year's series of Town Tours and Village Walks in Chester County, Pennsylvania. It is at the very northern edge of the county, with the Schuylkill River and Royersford to the north. The Schuylkill Canal, which once ran from Western Pennsylvania's coal country to...
07/17/2011
                         As promised in my last Barnes blog http://activerain.com/blogsview/2378677/the-barnes-has-left-the-building, I am featuring the Barnes Arboretum in Merion, Pennsylvania today. Not much has been said lately about the grounds of the Barnes Museum since the move to the Parkw...
07/04/2011