BernieCrafts Chester County Pennsylvania

04/29/2026

04/29/2026

We require Bernie immediately.

04/29/2026

View from Knox Covered Bridge

It is believed that sometime during the winter of 1909-10, local photographer Lucy Sampson set her tripoded camera on the floor in the middle of the Knox covered bridge facing north. Valley Creek, backed up by a large dam, extended a backwater from near the Schuylkill River to the Knox cover bridge, originally built in 1851. To the right of the Creek is Valley Forge Road (today’s Route 252 at the foot of Mount Joy). Though the water level, a good mile back from what was then called Phoenixville Pike (now Route 23), is much higher than one would see in recent times, the view is little changed from today. - Herb Fry and Roger Thorne

Image: View from Knox Covered Bridge, 1909-10, Photographer: Lucy Sampson, TEHS Archive, Herb and Barbara Fry Collection

04/29/2026

"When we so cheapen the concept of human life that we can be permissive to the occasional bomb or bullet, I think we've taken a giant step back into the Dark Ages. And I don't think there's a light at the end of that tunnel."
~ Rod Serling

AS I KNEW HIM: My Dad Rod Serling

04/21/2026

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04/21/2026

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30 likes, 2 comments. "Working people are fighting back — and WINNING"

04/20/2026

Tredyffin-Easttown High School

The Joint High School completed in Berwyn in 1908 was the first consolidated high school in Pennsylvania. The structure was locally referred to as the 1908 building and officially as the Tredyffrin-Easttown High School. The school was located on the southwest corner of Howellville and Conestoga Roads, so with Howellville Road bisecting the image, photographer Lucy Sampson was shooting directly west towards the school’s front. This architectural shot of the new school, with no schoolchildren or others in view, is believed to have been taken in the spring of 1908 - several months before the start of its first academic year. One of the dominant features of the school were its four massive chimneys, two on either side, and each containing multiple individual flues. Each room had its own coal-fired stove to generate heat in the winter, and hence all of those flues coming up all through the building. Another notable feature of the new school was a large gymnasium in the basement. The structure was razed in 1970 and it currently the location of the Tredyffrin-Easttown Middle School. - Herb Fry and Roger Thorne

Image: Tredyffin-Easttown High School, c1908, Photographer, Lucy Sampson, TEHS Archive, Herb and Barbara Fry Collection