81st Radnor Hunt Races

On Saturday, May 21, the 81st Annual Radnor Hunt Races were held in Malvern, Pa.

This is one of the events I always look forward to covering. Thundering horses leaping over fences and jumps. Crowds cheering like crazy. Old men writing down odds on white boards and taking bets.

It's like the racing scene in the Quiet Man.

Just a short piece in the Weekly Press. Click here to read it. For some reason, they chopped off the ending. Ah, editors...whattayagonnado? This will make sense if you read the story:

The first horse my wife picked one...
...as did the second.

Proving that you should listen to your wife over a screaming man on the sidewalk.

Maybe I'll see you--wearing a big hat or some pastel colored shorts--at next year's Radnor Hunt Races.

Race Street Pier, Philly's Newest Park Opens

This was a fun one.

Last Wednesday, May 11, Philly got a new park on the waterfront, the Race Street Pier

Amen.

The Philly waterfront has been in need of something like this for decades. The park is beautiful and poeple are already enjoying it.

I got a sneak-peek of the new park at a fundraiser held there for arts programming on the waterfront. Great food, hooch, entertainment...

...and the breeze of a clear and warm night blowing through the blades of green grass and the limbs of the trees and over a running Delaware River.

You can read the story I wrote for the Weekly Press.

You can also check out the video. You'll notice that the intro does not take place in the ol' Pen & Lens study. I had to do this one on the fly and this greenhouse was the quietest place I could find and  make deadline.

(Pictures and video by A.N. O'Connor and Kerry O'Connor Music by 61 North)