Archive for June, 2009
Los Tres Amigos
Narberth has its share of characters. These three were at the Summer Music Festival on Sunday. From left: John Carmen, Elmer Chestnut, Paul Turner.
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Early each summer Philadelphia’s Manayunk section cobbles together the three-day Manayunk Arts Festival, which this year came on the almost-perfect type of weekend for an arts fair — one with no rain. Organizers predicted huge crowds and the good weather guaranteed the prediction would be fulfilled. This shot was taken after 6 p.m. on [...]
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Tags: arts festival, crafts, fairs, festivals, manayunk, manayunk arts festival, summer
A river, a body, a mystery
The Philadelphia skyline rises in the distance as a police boat and a clutch of officers await the arrival of a detective after a body was pulled from the Schuylkill about noon on June 18. The detective inspected the body that had been moved to the bank beneath the Girard Avenue Bridge, then it was [...]
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Tags: body, crime, drowning, girard avenue bridge, marine unit, philadelphia police department, police, river, schuylkill
Patriotic prescription
The borough of Narberth embraces the Fourth of July like sparks on a fuse, and by this time of year signs of the holiday pop up everywhere, including the window of Narberth Pharmacy in the heart of downtown. That evening the town’s population more than doubles as a throng collects in the park for a [...]
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Tags: fireworks, fourth of july, holiday, july fourth, narberth PA, patriotism
Real boys of summer
A team of three — or three teams of one — conducts the final drills of spring training on Saturday, the day before the first day of summer, in the street league of Narberth, Pa. The trio rotated positions regularly and called a ground-rule time-out whenever cars rolled through the playing field.
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Tags: baseball, humor, narberth
Oops — wet pavement
Late Saturday afternoon the rain ended, the sun came out, a father arrived at the playground to play catch with his kids and this mini-skirted lass took a little spill.We’re not sure what the story was on this playground crasher, but there was evidence a young guy had given her a lift.
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Tags: humor, narberth
The stages of dining on crab
The seagull floating just off the wooden deck of the Deauville Inn, Strathmere, N.J., dipped its head into the shallows and came up with plump crab. The bird flew a few feet to a strip of sand and lingered a few seconds until it was clear the crustacean was secure, then sailed off to dine [...]
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Tags: birds, humor, jersey shore, seagulls, seashore
Dance passion, 5th-grade style
Pierre Dulaine relishes his role as master of ceremonies for the Dancing Classrooms Philly finals competition, held Saturday, June 6, 2009, at McGonigle Hall, Temple University. The founder of the program, which uses ballroom dance to instill positive social values in fifth-graders, charmed dancers and audience alike as he shifted from contest director to head [...]
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Tags: ballroom dance, dance, dancing classrooms, dancing classrooms philadelphia, dulaine
Bubbly whose time had come
Grenville Blackett pours from a double magnum of Gloria Ferrer champagne (Sonoma) that had been chilled for five years, waiting for the right occasion, which presented itself Saturday evening in the form of a small surprise birthday gathering in Bala Cynwyd, Pa.
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Bikers shoot down Pechin Street, the first downhill stretch after cresting the long, torturous climb known as The Wall in the Manayunk section of Philadelphia on Sunday during the TD Bank Philadelphia International Cycling Championship. The cyclists churn through 10 laps of 14.4 miles between Manayunk and Logan Circle near the Museum of Art, 156 [...]
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Tags: bike race, bike racing, biking, manayunk, parties, TD Bank International Cycling Championship
