Author: Doug Humes

Our neighbor in Marple lost their historic Pond House, on the 11th fairway of Paxon…

Drew Lewis, the man who gave me my first job as a lawyer, had deep…

The West Chester Pike familiar to us was the child of an existing road out…

General Smedley Butler was a man of contradictions. He was born in 1881 in West…

If you’ve been reading Newtown Square Friends & Neighbors for a while, you know that…

Several years ago, I came across the grave of William F. Snite at the Marple…

We celebrate Memorial Day, the memory of D-Day, the 4th of July and Veterans Day….

We take great pride in reminding Newtown residents that the Father of American Painting, Benjamin…

The early settlement of Pennsylvania, like Massachusetts, was primarily driven by religion. People with views…

Germany had its Brothers Grimm, and Newtown had the Sisters Grim: two local girls who…