Cheltenham’s Richard Wall House to host annual Community Fair and Grand Open House on Oct 20

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October 11th, 2024 | By Ryan Genova

The Richard Wall House of Cheltenham Township will host its annual Community Fair and Grand Open House on Sunday, October 20 from 1:00pm – 4:00pm

The event is free and open to the public.


From the Facebook event page:

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

New attractions this year include:
– papermaking
– colonial spycraft
– 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 will round out your experience.

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

Participating Community Organizations:
– Cheltenham Parks and Recreation
– Cheltenham Township Historical Commission
– La Mott Citizens United
– Cheltenham Township Library System
– Old York Road Garden Club
– Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership (New!)
– Friends of Curtis Arboretum (FOCA)
– Montgomery County Planning Commission (New!)
– Cheltenham Communities That Care
– Cheltenham Environmental Advisory Council
– Cheltenham Chamber of Citizens
– 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 Historical 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 crossing volunteers (New!)
– William Tennent House Association (New!)
– Historic RittenhouseTown Inc. (New!)
– William Penn Chapter NSDAR (New!)
– Bob Herrmann, Blacksmith (New!)
– Regimental Brewmeister 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, sax

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