DELAWARE RIVER — These days, rafting is kind of the new canoeing. People flock to the liveries, rent their rafts, and launch themselves down the Delaware. (For those of us who remember great …
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By ANNEMARIE SCHUETZ
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8/17/21
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Christian Dorflinger was still a young man of 32 in 1860 when he began to plan his next and most significant project: his huge glass factory in White Mills, PA.
Dorflinger was born in …
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By Ann O’hara
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5/5/21
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Jennie Brownscombe, daughter of a Cornish immigrant and a Mayflower descendant, is probably Wayne County’s most famous painter.
She was the only child of William Brownscombe and …
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By Ann O’Hara
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1/6/21
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Once a vital activity on Wayne County farms, ice harvesting became, in time, a major industry. In its early years, the abundance of lakes made it relatively easy for individual farms or groups …
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By Ann O'hara
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11/11/20
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“The story of the pumpkin flood was one of Richard Eldred’s favorite anecdotes,” recalled Wayne County Historical Society member Ann O’Hara of the late historian and fellow …
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By ANNEMARIE SCHUETZ
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8/19/20
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