By Sally Jane Denk

Members of the Sanderson Museum formally recognized the 40th Anniversary of its founding on Sunday, October 12 in the Garden Room of the award-winning Mendenhall Inn.

After President Sally Denk and Second Vice President Dean Camp offered » Continue reading “Sanderson Museum Members and Friends Celebrate 40th Anniversary”

By Sally Jane Denk, President

So how are things going at the Sanderson?” is the question I always hear when someone sees me out and about the village. I have no doubt it was the same question our earliest board members and volunteers heard back in 1967 and 1968 during the initial “big clean-up” and with the opening of the first room.

There was a lot to do then before the public could see the difference: Repair and re-shingle the roof, re-build the porches, repair and paint the walls, modernize the electrical system; not to mention the hundreds of hours put in by » Continue reading “Building a Future – A Paradigm Shift”

By Chip Lohmann
Vice President

Two of our most valuable and charming volunteers, Jean and Les Baiardi, were born quite a distance apart; Jean hails from Willow Grove, PA, and Les, West Springfield, Mass. Les had a long career with Boeing Helicopters. Now that he’s retired he likes stamp collecting, gardening and reading. Jean is also an avid gardener and reader and also enjoys cooking and sewing.

Living in the Hamorton section of Kennett Square since August 1976, Les and Jean have 3 adult daughters, along with two grandsons and one granddaughter. All the grandkids live nearby, so they are seen often.

The Baiardis lived in the Brandywine Valley for more than » Continue reading “Volunteer Spotlight on the Baiardis”

Charles E. (Chuck) Ulmann
Sanderson Collections Curator

As you probably know, I check our responses from the Sanderson Website that are delivered to an email box. About once a week I actually do get a message with the subject ‘From the Sanderson Museum Website. . . ‘.

The other 50 to 100 messages are junk mail, better known as SPAM in the digital era. Thank goodness it isn’t all paper junk mail or there would be no trees left.

Anyway, most of the real messages are asking for » Continue reading “Museum Musings”

By Karen Smith Furst

2007 was an important year for the Sanderson Museum as the Board made great strides toward aligning the museum with Best Practices for Museums.

One of the first things the board did was to form a Marketing Committee that began to focus on public outreach. To this end, we now have full color, professionally designed brochures and rack cards which were distributed widely and received a positive response from » Continue reading “For the Times They are a Changin’”

By Richard Schwartzman
Chadds Ford Post
Reprinted with permission

A group of Chadds Ford Township students took their Power Puzzle Challenge seriously and have now presented their findings to the Christian C. Sanderson Museum. The applicable word is “inefficient.” Colby and Mitchell Camp, along with Jeremy and Haley Manin, Jonathan Jackson, John Cronin and Justin Lindner, all of Chadds Ford attended a First Lego League robotics tryout in January that included teaching students about energy choices, efficiency and solutions. The Power Puzzle Challenge was to select a building and study its energy use. The students chose the museum.
According to the formal presentation, the students found » Continue reading “Students Audit Sanderson Museum”