Bake the Season: Pie Baking Workshop
Crust technique and seasonal filling, timed a month ahead of Thanksgiving for obvious reasons. Morning class, three hours, and you leave with what you made.
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Spain: Tapas & Flamenco Vibes
A three-hour hands-on Spanish cooking class in the tasting room, tapas built from scratch and eaten together at the end. Small group, so it tends to book out.
Fresh Pasta Demystified
Dough by hand, rolled and cut and cooked inside one afternoon. This is the class people take when they finally want to stop buying the dried stuff.
Chinese Takeout, Made in Your Kitchen
Potstickers and the rest of the takeout canon, built from scratch across three hours. You cook it, then everybody sits down together and eats it.
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Jen Howard
Jen Howard on a Wednesday night at the Nail. The Nail sits at 2580 Haverford Road and has been booking original music for seventy odd years.
Behind the Scenes Tours: Fonthill Castle From Tower to Crypt
Ninety minutes off the normal route through Henry Mercer's concrete castle: tower stairs, hidden passageways, the rooms the standard tour skips. Steep and dark in places, age fourteen and up.
Solar Viewing Drop-In
A weekday run of the library's solar telescope setup, ten to noon. All ages, no registration, and the observers walk you through what you are looking at. Cancelled if it is cloudy or raining.