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Everything You Want to Know About TREES
Date: March 3, 2010
Length: 1 hour, 19 min.

Tree experts Julianne Schieffer and Jason Lubar discuss all things trees, including the benefits, structure, and maintenance of trees.

Reconstructing Williamsburg for a Second Time
Date: February 16, 2010
Length: 43 min.

Lisa Fischer, Director of the Digital History Center of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, speaks about how digital technologies are helping reconstruct the 18th century Williamsburg.

Businesses in Radnor - An Oral History
Date: January 12, 2010
Length: 53 min.

Cardy Crawford moderates a panel of leaders of long-standing area businesses who share a perspective of their businesses over the years. Panelists include Vince Cappelli, Lou and Bob D'Amicantonio, John Braxton and Art Forster.

Bennett Hill reads Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, 2009
Date: December 27, 2009
Length: 1 hour, 30 min.

Bennett Hill takes the Radnor Historical Society back to Dickens' era with this heartwarming ghost story. Read at the Society's headquarters, the Finley House.

Laura Beardsley: Historic Photos of Pennsylvania
Date: December 2, 2009
Length: 1 hour, 5 min.

Laura Beardsley returns to the Radnor community to provide the background of vintage photographs of farmlands and waterfalls, coal mines and steel mills, museums and universities in Pennsylvania. The images in this collection pay tribute to the people who have made up Pennsylvania’s storied past.

Dr. Guelzo: The Lincoln and Douglas Debates
Date: November 8, 2009
Length: 1 hour,2 min.

The Radnor Historical Society and the Friends of the Radnor Library co-sponsored a presentation by Dr. Allen Guelzo, author, professor at Gettysburg College (former professor at Eastern University), prominent Lincoln historian, and two-time winner of both the Lincoln Prize and the Abraham Lincoln Institute Prize. His presentation honors the Library’s bicentennial and Lincoln’s bicentennial and is based on his book (which just came out in paperback), "Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates That Defined America."

2009 Memorial Day Parade
Date: May 25, 2009
Length: 26 min.

The Radnor Historical Society continues its participation in the 2009 Wayne, PA Memorial Day Parade. President Ted Pollard and ex-President Bennett Hill (garbed in traditional colonial clothing complete with firearm) escorted the Conestoga Wagon in the parade. Mishap befell the wagon's tongue as the wagon was being returned to the barn after the parade had concluded.

Anthony Wayne, Hero of Two Wars
Date: May 3, 2009
Length: 35 min.

At The Radnor Historical Society's Annual Meeting on May 3, 2009, at historic Waynesborough (Paoli, PA), Bennett Hill, a retired teacher, member and former President of the RHS Board, and a guide at Waynesborough for many years, delivers a talk on Anthony Wayne.

History of the Radnor Fire Company
Date: March 3, 2009
Length: 1 hour, 5 min.

Larry Ziglar, the retired Kea Professor of American History at Eastern University, discusses the history of the Radnor Fire Company. Mr. Ziglar has studied and has come to admire the people who provide such a valuable community service, and believes the Company is an important asset to Radnor.

Laura Beardsley: "Historic Photos of the Main Line"
Date: January 14, 2009
Length: 46 min.

The Radnor Memorial Library and the Radnor Historical Society hosted this book talk with Laura Beardsley, author of "Historic Photos of the Main Line." The author discusses her new book and presents the black and white images collected in this handsome coffee-table book that details growth of the Main Line from its early days up to recent times.

Cardy Crawford reads "A Christmas Memory"
Date: December 28, 2008
Length: 33 min.

Cardy Crawford, retired Radnor teacher, author, and RHS Board member, reads Truman Capote’s "A Christmas Memory," the classic memoir of Capote’s childhood in rural Alabama during the Depression when he lived with distant relatives.

Tuskegee Airman Eugene J. Richardson
Date: April 23, 2008
Length: 1 hour, 41 min.

The Tuskegee Airmen were America’s first black military airmen and served during World War II. Eugene J. Richardson spoke to an audience at the Radnor Memorial Library.

Radnor Oral History
Date: March 11, 2008
Length: 1 hour, 11 min.

Marilyn Caltibiano, director emerita of the library, moderated this oral history panel of older Radnor residents who have lived in the area their entire lives. This event was co-sponsored by the Radnor Historical Society and the Radnor Memorial Library. Participants were Margaret Dolan, George Aman, Charles Crawford and Steve Pendergast.

Bennett Hill Reads A Christmas Carol
Date: December 30, 2007
Length: 1 hour, 23 min.

A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens: Bennett Hill reads an abridged version of this classic Christmas tale by the fire in the front parlor. A Radnor Historical Society tradition.

Phil Ritter - History of Wayne Station
Date: March 21, 2006
Length: 1 hour, 1 min.

Phil Ritter, Pennsylvania Railroad historian, gives a detailed talk to the Historical Society about the history of Wayne train station. The historic structure, which has been undergoing renovations recently, was just one station to serve the town.

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