I really enjoyed my visit with Frank Gaylord in Williamstown, Vermont on April 14th. Frank is the artist of our William Penn statue located in Penn Treaty Park. He is 91 and living in a senior housing complex in this little town that was settled in 1781. I was greeted...
You may not recognize the name Richard Jordan but you probably know who he is. If you have ever seen English Staffordshire pottery from the 1830s, he’s the farmer in the wide-brimmed hat standing with a cow in front of his farm house in what is now Camden, (who knew!)...
Sunday March 20th at 2 PM members of The Block Church arrived at Penn Treaty Park. They arrived with gloves and lawn bags and plenty of energy. We supplied a few brooms and shovels and after a few hours the Park sparkled. They swept the sidewalks, street and parking lot. They picked...
Martha Washington, our first First Lady, has a connection to the Treaty Tree at Shackamaxon. She created a quilt with a linen panel depicting an engraving by John Hall (1739-1787) titled “William Penn’s Treaty with the Indians when he founded the Province of Pennsylvania in North America, 1681” as the...
No Facebook. No Twitter. Not even a phone camera. Yet, when the Treaty Tree at Shackamaxon was uprooted in a great storm on March 5, 1810, word quickly spread. From Philadelphia’s “Poulson’s American Daily Advertiser” to Rhode Island’s “Columbian Phoenix” to “The Independent American” in Washington, D.C., newspapers across the...