April 1.1 Acre Project: Historical Springs
As we visited the park’s 1.1 Acre construction area for Broomall’s Dam throughout the month of April, it was exciting to...
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7-13-2013 Our 2nd Anniversary Picnic!
Join us as we celebrate the second year of Friends of Glen Providence Park! It is our 2nd Anniversary Picnic, and this year we will...
read more1941 Nature Guide!
We were delighted and amazed to find a copy of the 1941 Nature Guide to Glen Providence Park in the Media Historic Archives, after...
read moreEleanor Reed Butler Waterfall
One of the loveliest original features in Glen Providence Park might go unnoticed, if it were not still marked with a dedication...
read more4-6-2013 A 1941 Nature Guide & Spring Ephemerals Walk!
See Glen Providence Park through the eyes of a park ranger from 1941! We were intrigued during our historical research to find this...
read more2-23-2013 Naturalist Walk & Talk
Glen Providence Park has been studied by naturalists for many years, dating from T. Chalkley Palmer’s 1889 essay about Scroggie...
read moreLearning winter tree identification
We had a great introduction to winter tree identification in Glen Providence Park on a cold, beautiful, sunny Saturday morning in...
read moreThe 1.1 Acre Project
It’s our 2013 project to document the plants and wildlife in Glen Providence Park! We’ll continue our photojournal of...
read more2013 Schedule of Events
Mark your calendars! We have planned our 2013 Friends of Glen Providence Park events for most months, including History...
read moreAmerican Chestnuts in Glen Providence Park!
This fall, we were delighted to confirm that we found two healthy young American Chestnut trees in Glen Providence Park! At the...
read moreThanksgiving
Following the example of some of our friends, throughout November we have been counting down to Thanksgiving by posting daily thanks...
read moreA Halloween Birthday for Glen Providence Park!
George and Eleanor Butler donated the land for Glen Providence Park in the summer of 1935, and its final approval was reported in the...
read moreGhosts & other park frights
We were in the Halloween spirit at our Nature & Ghost Walk on October 14 with tales of extortion, poison theft, witches, arrests,...
read more10-14-2012 Nature & Ghost Walk
It’s a “historical” ghost & nature walk in Glen Providence Park! We won’t have costumes, makeup, or...
read moreA Magical Afternoon Concert
We could not have asked for a more lovely concert as our inaugural concert in Glen Providence Park on September 9! After a stormy...
read moreConcerts in Glen Providence Park
For decades, summers meant weekly concerts at the stage in Glen Providence Park! The first concert on Tuesday, June 29, 1937 had...
read more8/4/2012 Nature Walk with Tom Reeves
As anyone who has been on a bird or nature walk with naturalist Tom Reeves knows, he is a wealth of interesting information about...
read more7/28/2012 Picnic in the Park
Join us as we celebrate the first year of Friends of Glen Providence Park… with a picnic! We can’t think of of a more...
read moreApril Photojournal
Glen Providence Park burst into color and bird song in April! At the beginning of the month there were just splashes of color, with...
read moreThe Song of the Wood Thrush
We are lucky to have the lovely Wood Thrush, with its ethereal song, in Glen Providence Park! It is a “species of conservation...
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