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This week in Chestnut Hill Local history
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11/5/26
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![“I didn’t sleep good before this [job], but this certainly doesn’t help you sleep better. It’s not conducive to a normal sleep cycle,” Mark Hopkins says.](https://alpha.creativecirclecdn.com/chestnuthilllocal/medium/20261103-150053-e46-2147-vlcsnap-2026-10-29-10h42m18s416.jpg)
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Mark Hopkins, who grew up in Mt. Airy and still lives there, is the chief of an all-volunteer organization, Greater Philadelphia Search and Rescue, dedicated to finding lost people.
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by Len Lear
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11/5/26
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Contract killer Viktor (Joachim Król) leads an invisible life. He carries off his assignments so silently that surveillance equipment cannot detect him.
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by Will Standish
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11/5/26
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In 1999, From the Boot, an unpretentious Italian BYOB restaurant, opened at 517 Germantown Pike in the Shoppers World shopping center in Lafayette Hill.
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by Len Lear
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11/5/26
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You would be forgiven if you never heard the name Doris Rheubottom-Hackley (1899-1985) since very few Americans have.
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by Len Lear
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11/5/26
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This week in Chestnut Hill Local history
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10/29/26
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If you like Saturday Night Live, you will probably love seeing “Who’s In Charge,” a fluffy farce staged by Mt. Airy’s resident satirical comedy troupe, Mt. Airy Home Companion, at Allens Lane Art Center.
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by Len Lear
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10/29/26
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Germantown-born film director, screenwriter and educator Rel J. Dowdell was recently honored in the neighborhood where he grew up as part of an exhibit recognizing the achievements of Black Americans.
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by Len Lear
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10/29/26
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Tuesday Nights at the Movies presents “All the King’s Men,” a 1949 Oscar-winning drama about a small-town idealist whose rise to political heights becomes a case study in the corrupting influence of power.
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by Lily Williams
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10/29/26
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At the time of his death of a heart attack in March of 1974, Louis Kahn, then 73, was widely considered one of the world’s most revered and influential modern architects, leaving behind landmark buildings.
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by Len Lear
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10/29/26
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10/29/26
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Heather Michaelson is a talented artist, teacher and award-winning self-advocate who will be walking the runway in formal attire at a national fundraiser for Down syndrome on Saturday, Nov. 7.
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by Len Lear
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10/29/26
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Since the first spotted lanternflies arrived in Berks County in 2014, the invasive insect has caused a stir.
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by Maggie Dougherty
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10/29/26
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Very few of us like to see the end of Daylight Saving Time, which ends Sunday at 2 a.m. as it ushers in earlier sunrise times, yes — but it also means earlier sunsets and the onset of winter.
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by Jeff Meade
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10/29/26
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10/29/26
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The Chestnut Hill Community Association’s annual Halloween Pet Costume Parade on Sunday brought out the best dressed dogs and their humans as well. Prizes were awarded for scariest (Tarantula), …
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10/29/26
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Vegetarians and those who are at least interested in sampling vegetarian dishes will have that opportunity this Saturday on the first ever “Hop Off, Hop On” Northwest Philadelphia Vegetarian Food Tour.
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by Len Lear
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10/22/26
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If you are a dog and cat lover, as I am, you have probably wished at some point in your life that you could paint your pets and have that keepsake even after they are gone.
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by Len Lear
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10/22/26
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The Chestnut Hill Film Group (CHFG) will be screening “Who Can Kill A Child?,” a 1976 Spanish horror film directed by Narciso Ibáñez Serrador, as part of its Halloween Film Frights programming.
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by Heather Gray
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10/22/26
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10/22/26
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