The Hadley Memorial Fund

About Us P.O. Box 370, Kennett Square, PA 19348
610-444-1855
hadley@kennett.net

For the first program, October 23, 1962, Hal Holbrook presented A Night with Mark Twain in the Kennett High School. Hadley has also brought entertainers such as Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn: speakers such as Martin Luther King, Linus Pauling, Julius Erving, and Gloria Steinem: Musicians such as Curtis Institute students, Marian Anderson, and Andres Segovia: politicians such as Edmund Muskie, William Proxmire and Shirley Chisholm: and authors such as John Ciardi, Norman Cousins, T.H. White, Art Buchwald, and Ogden Nash. One author spoke on trying to write a book on his family history; a few years later that speaker, Alex Haley, published that book Roots.

Recent Hadley seasons have included lecturers Donald Johanson, paleoanthropologist, Jean Kilbourne, pioneer on advertising and image, James Farmer, civil rights leader, Elliot Engel, on literary figures, Richard Lederer, author, Sylvia Earle, oceanographer, John Jordan "Buck" O'Neil of the Negro Baseball League, Harry Wu, human rights campaigner, and Eric Raymond on the Internet. Programs of music and performance included Guy Davis, Bob Paisley, Roberts and Barrand, Delaware Steel, Libana, Gamelan Lake of the Silver Bear, Chesapeake Silver Cornet Brass Band, the Tamburitzans, and storytellers Regina Ress and Johnny Moses, Mum Puppettheatre, actor Greg Alan-Williams, Curio Theatre, and the DK BMX Bike Stunt Show.

Everyone is welcome at Hadley Memorial Fund programs. Please respect others in the audience, the lecturers, and the performers. Parents are responsible for the behavior of their children. Video and sound recording are not permitted except with advance permission of the lecturer or performer. The Hadley Memorial Fund encourages residents to submit program suggestions. To receive a complete program each fall for the following season, send a self addressed stamped envelope to the address below.

The Hadley Memorial Fund
P.O. Box 370
Kennett Square, PA 19348

Announcements, including postponements, are available by calling 610-444-1855.