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An Invitation to Area Businesses
- Tuesday, March 21: Chair Yoga
- Wednesday, March 22: The Irish In America – The Kellys of East Falls
- Thursday, March 30: Are You at Risk of Falling?
News from The Free Library of Philadelphia
An Invitation To Area Businesses!
Join the Friends of the Falls of Schuylkill Library and partner with us in support of our Falls Library, a neighborhood treasure.
Events at Falls Library
Chair Yoga at the Library
Tuesday, March 21, 2023, 1:00 P.M.
(This is a repeat of the Tuesday, March 14 event)
Falls of Schuylkill Library
Chair Yoga allows you to perform yoga poses while seated or using a chair for balance. Chair-based/adaptive yoga offers the same benefits of traditional yoga, like boosting strength, flexibility and mental well-being. The focus of this program is to work with people who may have some form of physically debilitating condition which would make traditional yoga poses difficult to perform. We will also work on stretching, balance and relaxation. Enjoy the calm, peace, and self-acceptance of yoga no matter what shape you are in. This class is taught by Megan Do Nascimento, who has taught extensively in the area. For adults of all ability and skill levels.
Please dress comfortably.
Click here just before 6:30 PM, Wednesday, March 22, to join this Zoom event
The Irish in America – The Kellys of East Falls
A program presented by the East Falls Historical Society
During the nineteenth century, no ethnic group populated the Falls of Schuylkill so much as the Irish. Many Irish immigrants, and their daughters and sons, found work at the immense textile mills of John and James Dobson. Some had likely been skilled weavers in Ireland. Other Irish immigrants escaping the famine worked as laborers, or as domestics and stablemen at the country estates along School House Lane. The Irish of the Falls founded St. Bridget Church. Soon, the Irish of growing Philadelphia learned a variety of trades. Several became prominent contractors, such as John B. Kelly, father of Grace.
On March 22, Mary Burke, Professor of English at the University of Connecticut, will discuss Irish identity and the Kellys of East Falls, with a focus on Grace’s uncle, the Pulitzer-prize winning playwright George Kelly. She will also tell us about Philip Barry, another Irish-American playwright, whose 1939 play “The Philadelphia Story” was reworked into “High Society,” the hit musical whose cast included Grace Kelly. The title of Mary Burke’s presentation is “Grace Kelly, George Kelly and Philip Barry in their Irish-American Contexts.”
Burke is the author of the recently published Race, Politics, and Irish America – A Gothic Tale.
The free program will be presented by the East Falls Historical Society via Zoom on March 22, 2023, at 6:30 pm. Click here a minute or two before 6:30 PM on Wednesday to join the Zoom event.
The program will be recorded and available subsequently on our website, https://eastfallshistoricalsociety.org/ Please email eastfallshistory@gmail.com if you have questions
Are you at risk for falling? Do you have any drug interactions?
Thursday, March 30 – from 1 to 3 pm
Falls Library, 3501 Midvale Ave.
Drop in for FREE screenings blood pressure, balance, fall risk, and hand strength administered by Occupational Therapy students from Jefferson University.
And bring a list of all your medications name, frequency, dosage, and over-the-counter drugs for a FREE review by Janet Eaton, RN, a member of East Falls Village.
Sponsored by East Falls Village. No registration needed.
Lots of News from The Free Library of Philadelphia!
Here’s their March 2023 email.
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Opening Monday, March 6 in the William B. Dietrich Gallery on the third floor of the Parkway Central Library,
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to the United States today. Participants will be able to create their own waistbeads.
Join the Friends of the Falls Library!
Membership is open to all individuals and organizations interested in supporting the Friends.
Click here to learn more.
Our Values
The Friends of the Falls of Schuylkill Library is an all-volunteer community member organization promoting the Falls of Schuylkill Library’s services and supporting the preservation of the Library, an original Andrew Carnegie funded library.
• The Friends value our library for its history, its central location, and its content which is free to everyone.
• We value the Library as a community meeting place; it is the heart of East Falls.
• We value literacy and library programs that work toward it.
• We value meeting the needs of a diverse community by encouraging and funding library programs open to anyone, whether a library card holder or not.
• We value cooperation with other East Falls organizations in supporting a vibrant community.
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