Brandywine River Museum celebrates 41 years

March program offers wide range of local subjects from art to nature By Gene Pisasale, Special to UnionvilleTimes.com The path behind the Brandywine River Museum as photographed by Mark Gormel. PENNSBURY — The many rapidly flowing streams in southeastern Pennsylvania were logical places for settlers in the 1700’s and 1800’s to build grist mills, using the power of running water to turn wheels...

History made personal: ‘Troops by the Hundred Were Passing’

By Gene Pisasale, Special to UnionvilleTimes.com N.C. Wyeth's “Troops by the Hundred Were Passing” N.C. Wyeth and Chris Sanderson were both born in the year 1882. Chester A. Arthur was President of the United States, having been sworn in after President Garfield succumbed to injuries related to his assassination. The South was undergoing Reconstruction, yet many people in the South still resented...