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Scraping Doylestown’s history

There are times when life treats you with a piece of knowledge about your hometown and you tuck it away, unless it pops up in your memory bank at an unexpected moment.

Much of the history written about eastern Pennsylvania begins with William Penn, but the Lenape people lived here hundreds of years before Penn arrived.

“It’s what I think of as propaganda,” said Lenape artist Joe Baker, standing before paintings of William Penn’s Treaty with the Lenni Lenape. The paintings by Benjamin West and Edward Hicks …

When we think of the Lenape roaming through our woods and fishing our rivers and streams, we tend to picture them in a familiar landscape — in our world. “Not so,” said historian Amy Hollander …

Happiness Farm in Doylestown hosted the 32nd anniversary Garden Party, sponsored by Americans for Native Americans (ANA), on Aug. 29.The party, featured both silent and live auctions, musical …

The 32nd anniversary Garden Party – sponsored by Americans for Native Americans (ANA) – will take place from 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 19 at the bucolic Happiness Farm in Doylestown.

On Sunday, Adam Waterbear DePaul, Chief of Education and Tribal Storykeeper of the Lenape Nation of Pennsylvania, will discuss the past and present of the Lenape people in Pennsylvania.The free …

By the Way: Where have all the Lenape gone?

“To Canada, Wisconsin and Oklahoma,” according to a Newtown area woman, who added, “They are also spread out all over the country and living very modern lives.”

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