Delaware County History Book and Dvds

The Mickey Vernon Sports History Museum has released a "Mickey Vernon" dvd sshowing him in the field in his prime with some of baseball's all time greats. This DVD is not for sale but will be shown to any group that is interested. For more information, please contact Jim Vankoski at  610-909-4919 or  vankoski21@comcast.net.

What is new in Delco History Books ?

Collingdale will be out November 19, 2012

Collingdale

by Elizabeth MacGuire

Images of America Series

Price: $21.99

128 pages/ softcover

Collingdale Book

I am pleased to announce the upcoming release of LOCAL author Elizabeth MacGuire’s pictorial history book Collingdale Borough, from Arcadia Publishing.  Set to publish on Monday, November 19th, this new title reconnects people with their past through vintage images – images that may even include you, your family and your friends. 

Available: November 19, 2012, at area bookstores, independent retailers, and online retailers, or through Arcadia Publishing at www.arcadiapublishing.com or (888)-313-2665

Elizabeth will do a book signing November 25th at 4 pm at the Original Coffee Bar.

 

WCP Cover

West Chester Pike

by Stephen J. Edgcumbe

Images of America Series

Price: $21.99

128 pages/ softcover

Available: September 24, 2012, at area bookstores, independent retailers, and online retailers, or through Arcadia Publishing at www.arcadiapublishing.com or (888)-313-2665. 

The Pictorial History of Upper Darby
It’s really special!

IMAGES OF AMERICA – UPPER DARBY
ORDER FORM
The Upper Darby Historical Society hopes that this pictorial history, Images of America — Upper Darby, will be one you will purchase for yourself, your family or a friend. We think you will enjoy reminiscing about old times and learn something new.
Your purchase of the book directly from the Upper Darby Historical Society will better assist us in our efforts to preserve the history of Upper Darby,
We will make every effort to deliver the books personally to those in the area.
If mailing is necessary, please add the cost of postage and handling as follows:
1 book - $3.00, 2 books - $3.50, 3 books - $4.00. For more than 3 books, give us a call.
The cost of this paperback book is $21.99.
Please send ________ copies of Images of America – Upper Darby.
Enclosed is a check for $ _______________.
Mail book/books to the following address:
Name ___________________________________________
Address __________________________________________
___________________________________________
Phone ____________________________________________
E-mail ____________________________________________
If you would like to pick up the book or have it delivered in the local area of Upper Darby, please call 610-789-2324.
Please send this form and check to: Upper Darby Historical Society
PO Box 731
Drexel Hill, PA 19026
Thank you!

NEW BOOK ON MIDDLETOWN TOWNSHIP ON SALE NOW
Middletown Township, Delaware County, PA

a new book in Arcadia Publishing's "Images of America" series is now for sale at the Middletown Free Library, 21 North Pennell Road, Lima, PA (www.middletownfreelibrary.org).  Books will also be sold and autographed by the author, Mary Anne Eves, Vice President of the Middletown Township Historical Society, at the following events this fall:

Sunday, October 16
Book Talk & Signing at the Middletown Free Library, 1:30 to 3:00 PM.

Tuesday, November 1
Book Talk & Signing, AIA Phila Book Store with Deborah DelCollo author of Arcadia's Roxborough, 5:30-7:00 p.m."
Please check the MTHS website, www.mthsdelco.org, for future book talks.  Books purchased at the Library or at MTHS events will sell for only $20.00 and directly benefit the Historical Society. 

 

New Books by Mark Dixon

 

The books can be ordered from the magazine's website -- https://subs.mainlinetoday.com/subscriptions/book.php -- as well as from the Amazon and Barnes & Noble websites.  They are also in local bookstores - B&N, Chester County Books & Music, etc.  The magazine's price is $19.79, plus $3.99 shipping and handling.  Cover price is $19.99 for the Delaware and Chester County books, and $21.99 for the Main Line book.

About the Author

Mark E. Dixon has lived in the Delaware Valley since 1987, when he moved from Texas to a Drexel Hill apartment complex where American Bandstand’s Dick Clark once lived. Though not himself a native, he grew up hearing about “the beautiful city of Philadelphia” from his mother, who moved here in 1945 to do social work and ended up marrying a Hahnemann University medical student from Michigan. And the roots go deeper: Dixon’s mother chose Philadelphia based on stories told by her grandmother. In 1886, Dixon’s great-grandmother—a descendant of some of the region’s earliest settlers—was a shopgirl at Wanamaker’s Grand Court, opposite city hall in Philadelphia. And there, though it was surely against John Wanamaker’s rules, great-grandmother let herself be romanced by—and later married—a midwestern Quaker who was in town on business but needing a pair of gloves. Those tales provided a window into the area’s history, later supplemented by Dixon’s joining the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) -- which, he observes, is practically a historical society itself.

The public relations job that drew Dixon to the area vanished in a spectacular corporate bankruptcy three years later. Eventually, he returned to work as a writer—this time, freelance—building on earlier experience as a reporter for newspapers and trade publications. The stories in this book are columns that he began writing for Main Line Today magazine in 2003. Dixon and his family live in Wayne.  

NEW DVD NOW AVAILABLE
CHESTER, PA
DURING THE 1960’s

A new DVD compiled from film
footage of events occuring in the Chester area during the 1960s is being made
available. The original footage was shot by Robert Steele and features his own
narrative. The material can be viewed and purchased at the Brandywine Conference
and Visitors Bureau at the intersection of Route 202 and Beaver Valley Road in
Chadds Ford, PA . Following are the DVD's highlights: • After the Pittsburgh Pirates
won the World Series in 1960, manager Danny Murtaugh and coach Mickey Vernon,
both Chester area boys, were honored in that year with a parade through downtown,
complete with marching Chester High Band. There's Danny, complete with ever- present
cigar, on the back of a Dodge convertible. • On two occasions, Chester became,
if only briefly, the focus of the 1960 presidential campaign when candidates John
Kennedy and Richard Nixon each paraded down Edgmont Avenue and through the city.
It rained on Kennedy's parade, but not on Nixon's. The opposite was true on election
day. • Here's the Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier floating down the Delaware River
past Chester after leaving the Philadelphia Navy Yard to enter service in April
of '61. • Here you see former president Dwight David Eisenhower visiting Pennsylvania
Military College in 1963. PMC went civilian a few years later to become Penn-Morton
College and, ultimately, Widener University. • Arizona senator Barry Goldwater
visited PMC to receive an honorary degree in 1964, the year in which he was the
Republican candidate for president. • Here's the ceremony that marked the opening
of the stretch of Interstate 95 through Chester. A '63 Ford is the first car through.
• George Romney visited Chester while campaigning for the Republican nomination
for president for the 1968 election. His comment during his campaign that he had
been "brainwashed" into supporting the Viet Nam war marked the end of his effort.
• Here's the last Chester-Bridgeport ferry to cross the Delaware River in February
of 1974, carrying a variety of cars of the early '30s, a '46 Ford, and a brave
soul on a high-wheeler "bonebreaker" bicycle of the late 1800s. There's the new
bridge that sealed the fate of the ferry. • Another parade--this one in September
of 1963, marking the 300th anniversary of the founding of Aston. Note the sign
for the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, no longer with us. For more information
contact Jim Vankoski 610-909-4919 or email bvankoski@hotmail.com $15 • If purchased
at the MIckey Vernon Sports History Museum$20 • If mailed to anywhere in the U.S.
All proceeds benefit the Mickey Vernon Sports History Museum

 

The recently published nonfiction book The Delco Files features 101 stories past and present about the most unusual people, places, and events in Delaware County.  Former Norwood and Radnor resident Jack Myers reports on unsolved mysteries, infamous crimes, memorable heroes and villains, suburban legends, famous historical events, cherished local celebrities, unexplained phenomena, notable landmarks, missing persons, and tales of the supernatural — all pertaining to Delaware County!

            Myers, a former managing editor for the Interboro News of Southern Delaware County, is the previously published author of Row House Days, a fictionalized account of life and times in the 1960s “streetcar suburb” of Kingsessing, Southwest Philadelphia.

            The Delco Files is now available at online booksellers Amazon.com, Borders.com, and BBOTW.com and is expected to arrive at local bookstores and libraries in the near future.

 

Newtown Square Historical Preservation Society Announcement

BARTRAM COVERED BRIDGE: SPANNING HISTORY

Spanning History chronicles the complete history of Bartram Covered Bridge, including color and rare photos, community remembrances and much more . All profits from the sale of this book will help fund the ongoing maintenance of the bridge so that future generations may be able to enjoy this beautiful structure listed on National Register of Historic Places. Only 500 copies printed- order today! Expected to be NOW

The new book on the Bartram Covered Bridge in Newtown Township is In Stores-

     Can be purchased at Bunny Hares Gift Shop at 15 Saint Albans Circle in Newtown Square

                                                  $25 ($5 shipping outside of zip code 19073)

Buy Online-

http://www.historicnewtownsquare.org/store/item_details.asp?Item_Code=REF004

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