The Richard Wall House in Cheltenham will host the annual Community Fair and Grand Open House on October 20th

The Richard Wall House in Cheltenham Township will host its annual Community Fair and Grand Open House on Sunday, October 20th from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m

The event is free and open to the public.

From the Facebook event page:

Our event this year will be the biggest yet! Bring your family so they can participate in several hands-on activities.

New attractions this year include:
– Papermaking
– colonial espionage
– a blacksmith
– a mobile colonial pirate, er, privateer museum
– a colonial militia
– a food truck
– others highlighted below with a (New!) tag

Live music and a food truck complete your experience.

Learn more about our community by learning what actually makes us a community: organizations, culture and history.

Participating community organizations:
– Cheltenham Parks and Recreation
– Cheltenham Parish Historical Commission
– La Mott Citizens United
– Cheltenham Township Library System
– Old York Road Garden Club
– Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership (New!)
– Friends of the Curtis Arboretum (FOCA)
– Montgomery County Planning Commission (New!)
– Cheltenham Communities That Care
– Cheltenham Environmental Advisory Council
– Cheltenham Civic Chamber
– Rep. Napoleon Nelson
– Cheltenham Center for the Arts (New!)
– Cheltenham Community Development (New!)
– Friends of High School Park (New!)

Participating historical organizations:
– Citizens for the restoration of historic La Mott
– Researcher for Camp William Penn
– The Millbrook Society (New!)
– Friends of Northeast Philadelphia History
– Oliver Evans Chapter Society for Industrial Archeology (New!)
– Old York Road Historical Society
– AWI Privateer Museum (New!)
– First volunteers crossing (New!)
– William Tennent House Association (New!)
– Historic RittenhouseTown Inc. (New!)
– William Penn Chapter NSDAR (New!)
– Bob Herrmann, blacksmith (New!)
– Regimental brewmaster and spymaster
– General Meade Society of Philadelphia (New!)
–Lynnewood Hall Preservation Foundation Inc

Delicious food
– Humpty’s Dumplings (New!)

Wonderful music
– Objective Perspective with Jay Klales, guitar and Dave Kutzik, saxophone

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