Bill Kent is an award-winning novelist, journalist and Hunt Magazine contributor who lives in Wynnewood, Pa. His book, music, and theater reviews have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Philadelphia Inquirer. He lectures in history and biography and teaches novelwriting at Temple University.
Bill Kent's Articles
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Herr Foods Has Faith in the Potato Chip
For 65 years, family-owned business has been making snacks
Published on 3/01/12
On a clear day in Nottingham Township you can smell potatoes sizzling in oil. Read More »
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Pennsylvania’s Mary Cassatt
America’s first Impressionist
Published on 10/26/10
While America has produced hundreds of internationally acclaimed artists, none have approached the achievement of Mary Cassatt, who was accepted as an equal by Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, and her great friend Edgar Degas. Read More »
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A Living Museum
A tour of the Brandywine Valley’s oldest trees
Published on 5/13/10
The London Grove Oak stands in front of a Quaker meeting house about two miles west of Route 1, where the West State Road jogs on to Newark Road. Read More »
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The Union Fair & Farm Show
Teaching kids the importance of agriculture
Published on 7/19/09
A Unionville high school agriculture teacher, John Corman, launched the Unionville Fair and Farm Show in 1924. Back then, the entire event could fit on the grounds of what is now the Unionville Elementary school, for a total budget of $18. Read More »
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Cheep Trick
Tri-State Bird rescues thousands of feathery friends
Published on 12/01/08
If you see a penny on the ground, pick it up. Last year, Dr. Erica Miller removed pennies, nickels, fish hooks, fishing line, discarded lures, metal washers, screws, lead pellets from spent shot, shreds of plastic bags, and even an entire chicken wing from the throats of hundreds of birds fortunate enough to be spotted by humans and taken to the Tri-State Bird and Research Center in Newark, Del. Read More »
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