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April 2019
Minshall House Open
Media Historical Society's Minshall House will be open to visitors in conjunction with nearby Providence Friends Meeting's Spirit of Our Ancestors Celebration. The Minshall House is the birthplace of William H. Ridley, the first African American attorney in Delaware County and the son of freedom seekers Cornelius and Martha Jane Ridley who were assisted by members of Providence Meeting.
Find out more »Spirit of Our Ancestors: A Celebration of History and Human Spirit
Please join Providence Friends Meeting at a spiritual memorial and historic celebration honoring the courageous freedom seekers and the national and local abolitionists and free blacks who helped them. This celebration of the human spirit will include a Harriet Tubman storyteller, performances by the Lincoln University Choir and recording artist Dani Ocean, inspiration from local religious leaders, and personal recollections from Providence Meeting member Sam Lemon, Ed.D., whose maternal ancestors, Cornelius and Martha Jane Ridley, were among freedom seekers sheltered…
Find out more »Minshall House Open
Media Historical Society's Minshall House will be open to visitors in conjunction with nearby Providence Friends Meeting's Spirit of Our Ancestors Celebration. The Minshall House is the birthplace of William H. Ridley, the first African American attorney in Delaware County and the son of freedom seekers Cornelius and Martha Jane Ridley who were assisted by members of Providence Meeting.
Find out more »May 2019
A Few Friends: Quakers Who Made History
Celia Caust-Ellenborgen, Archivist at the Friends Historical Library at Swarthmore College, is this month's lecturer at Delaware County Institute of Science's Second Monday Lecture Series. Lecture begins at 7:30 pm.
Find out more »1971 (Documentary) – Before Watergate, Wikileaks and Edward Snowden, there was Media, Pennsylvania
A 2014 documentary about an event of national consequence that took place in Media, PA, presented by Media Fellowship House as part of its Film Speaks series. A Q &A session to follow the screening. "On March 8, 1971 eight ordinary citizens broke into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, a town just outside Philadelphia, took hundreds of secret files, and shared them with the public. In doing so, they uncovered the FBI’s vast and illegal regime of spying and…
Find out more »September 2019
Media Open Streets Come Play with Us
Media Historical Society is proud to be a participating sponsor of Media Open Streets, a day of family friendly fun where the children (and adults) can literally play in the streets. And speaking of play, visit the MHS table at the State Street entrance to Glen Providence Park to try out games and activities that children have enjoyed in days past. "Everything old is new again."
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