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villanova university was “swatted”, now what?

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And the headlines are pouring in. It’s official: Villanova University was “swatted.”

What does that mean? That means false reports were called in causing all of this activity. As per NBC 10 and 6 ABC the two channels I was watching, the call came into the 911 Call Center in Delaware County.

But what I am learning from people who live in close enough proximity to Villanova that they should’ve been the alerted the same time as the on campus population , yet they say that was not necessarily so?

I have spoken to some neighbors down there and I was told basically they found out after everyone else and they’re not happy. It’s not easy being a neighbor of that school. I don’t know how much of a delay there was, or if it’s more a misperception than fact, but it needs to be addressed publicly and rather soon.

Villanova has a security model where they have their own police force and there was quite the contretemps over that. I think it was about 2016. Police Superintendent at that point was Bill Colarulo and he didn’t think it was a good idea. And residents definitely weren’t happy.

I have linked three articles below.

Radnor residents, township officials discuss Villanova University’s plans to have armed police on campus
Panel discusses arming officers at Villanova University
Villanova University students have mixed opinions about armed officers on their campus

So back to today. Someone else told me :

Neighbors are not happy. Did not receive alerts. I heard the news from another friend.

Wonder if Stoneleigh was alerted and the houses on and off County Line Road?

So apparently, when I asked kind of how long it was, I was told:

After the fact and an hour late.

Ouch. Residents and taxpayers of Radnor also asking how much this cost Radnor Township today. I don’t know that they’ll ever get the true numbers but is it safe to say at least $50,000 if not more? I mean it was a massive response from multiple municipalities not just in Delaware County, but all over.

This is not Radnor’s fault this happened. But if it ends up, there was a delay between Villanova University, and any kind of notifications to the public, who obviously are close by, that’s a problem. People have already been concerned over the years of how Villanova has handled sexual assaults and other things, haven’t they? Please, by all means correct me if I’m wrong.

Right now all I have are questions, and so do neighbors closest to the school. Far too many people are being left with an uneasy feeling after this exercise today that wasn’t an exercise, or reality, it was in fact a hoax.

I’m hoping that Radnor, Villanova University, and the district attorney of Delaware County and other agencies will address this so if this is a misperception, it is cleared up immediately.

Now let’s talk about who did this. I think they will find whoever it is. It might take time because the call came into a call center. And once you sift through that information, law-enforcement will next have to go to phone providers and that requires paperwork and fees and like a subpoena or something. You see telecommunications companies tell you they cooperate with law-enforcement, but basically they cooperate for a price. I actually know this personally.

People think those calls are anonymous, but actually they aren’t. And people do get caught and charged. And when they get caught here, it won’t be some minor in fraction, I think something like this probably rises to the category of terroristic threats, or something.

I don’t know what the motivation would be for someone to do this other than to freak out and immediate community, a university campus, and tons of parents dropping their kids off for their first year of college. It’s not funny.

I think the police did an amazing job. I think Villanova got to stress test their plans, and that’s a hard situation. You have people getting these alerts on campus they’re outside for a mass for the beginning of school and then all of a sudden people are running and chairs are getting knocked over. People could’ve gotten hurt any single way you slice this.

And when I think of the people, I know personally, who did not find out at first who had kids stuck in businesses up close to campus on Route 30, and people who are just trying to come home and people who were home, wondering if they were safe is simply not acceptable.

Governor Josh Shapiro stated that this act of swatting Villanova University on move in day was a cruel hoax, and he reminded everyone that this is actually an illegal act. He has instructed the Pennsylvania State Police to help in whatever way they can to find whoever it is who did this. he and other today also reported that what happened today regardless of whether it was real or a hoax was every parent’s nightmare.

If there’s anyone out there who knows who might have done this, they really need to go to law-enforcement. And I can’t help but wonder if every parent who dropped a kid off at that school today is not having a second thought or two, along with every parent everywhere that’s doing the same thing right now.

active shooter at villanova university on move in day.

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Now they’re saying it’s a hoax? If so, whoever perpetrated it should go to jail.

This is crazy. It’s move-in day at Villanova University. I don’t know but I would be hard-pressed not to pack up my freshman and take them back home. People are saying oh they’re shocked that someone got on campus.

For real?

You can get on campus easily enough, especially on move-in day maybe not with a car but all you have to do is walk on campus. It’s not a gated community.

Of course you see the unfortunate tweet as my friend said from Villanova about where are people living this year.

All I can say is, I hope everything ends OK and the students are safe. Who would think that you would find that at Villanova University in the heart of the Main Line ?

The media is saying, there are no reported victims at this time, and that came from Radnor police.

How long before this crap stops? 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15022917/Villanova-university-philadelphia-pennsylvania-shooter-campus.html

ok so who wants to go see n.c.wyeth’s “apotheosis of the family” this fall?

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Apotheosis of the Family used to hang in a bank.
Photo from 52 Pieces Blogspot

OK, sign me mind blown. The huge mural, Apotheosis of the Family by N.C. Wyeth, newly restored, will be available once again to be viewed thanks to his grandson, Jamie Wyeth, as per the amazingly fabulous article in the New York Times this morning.

A friend of mine sent me the article a little while ago. And I’ve just been sitting here, reading it and almost gasping to myself about the crazy story of this mural.

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I remember years ago hearing about this mural. Then it came off the wall when the bank, Wilmington Savings Fund Society now known as WSFS, literally took it off the wall. That was 2007, and I remember reading that at the time and it was crazy to me because well the bank had restored it in 1998. BUT and it’s an important but, according to the New York Times, the building was sold for development. Art vs. real estate profit?

Can you imagine owning a building that had a giant mural painted by a Wyeth in it and then just taking it off of the wall and selling the building?

It’s a huge mural. It is 60‘ x 19‘. So 60 feet wide and 19 feet tall. I never saw it when it was in that bank branch for all those years, but it’s one of those things that pops up on postcards and coffee mugs and you can buy a replica of it.

According to the Fifty Two Pieces Blogspot which wrote about this in 2009:

Commissioned in 1932 by the Wilmington Savings Fund Society (WSFS) in Wilmington, Delaware when N C really wanted to do something other than be “just an illustrator”, the mural is made up of five canvas pieces that span a total of 60 feet by 19 feet…..The mural depicts a family standing in front of a house, surrounded by neighbors….Some say this is a theme N.C. Wyeth may have borrowed from his son-in-law, Peter Hurd. Done in the grand manner style of murals from the 19th century, N C also used bright colors, unusual perspectives and powerful abstract forms of clouds, smoke and sea, reflecting Wyeth’s interest in avant- garde Russian art, and works by Marc Chagall.

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So again, according to this blog, it was removed off the walls of this bank building in 2007, after being restored in 1998. The work to pull this giant piece of art off a wall and I guess store it was done by some company called Ely Inc. (I found a website for the company. They do some kind of museum services. )

Here I interject a little bit of my own opinion about WSFS. They like taking things off of walls. When they acquired the Bryn Mawr Trust Company a few years ago, they yanked the name and letters embedded in the wall of the historic bank building in Bryn Mawr off. Yeah, sorry that sounds a bit snarky, and I kind of meant it that way because I remember when it happened, it struck me as petty, because so many banks keep the original things of the bank building they acquire on it as part of the history. Wells Fargo did this in Paoli, for example. But I digress.

However, I guess everyone’s lucky that the mural was saved, and now will be able to be viewed at some point this fall. I guess I just feel at this point, that this country in general is somewhat disposable with various aspects of its history at times.

So fast-forward to the New York Times article of today. And apparently this giant mural went into storage for a bunch of years. Now, remember it’s oil on canvas, and paintings can crack and stuff as they age. If you read through the New York Times article, they had to do more restoration as the canvas was unfurled to be prepared for hanging.

According to the New York Times and their research, this is the largest mural in US history ever created for a public space. I like looking at murals, and if you think about it, it’s pretty cool that an American treasure of an artist also did one. No, this was done during the depression, and apparently the money received at the time translated to today’s dollars was fairly significant.

Now thanks to Jamie Wyeth, soon if we’re lucky, we’ll be able to take a shuttle bus from the Brandywine River Museum of Art to a special round barn on his property to view it. The farm is called Point Look Out Farm.

Apparently, this work of art celebrates family. N.C. Wyeth’s family is worked into the mural. His son Andrew is the naked boy with the bow, and interestingly enough, the Times reports his sister Carolyn is portrayed as a little girl, although she was eight years older than Andrew. According to Jamie Wyeth, as recounted to the New York Times, point of the mural was to depict two things that were very important to his grandfather, a deep love for family and the land. (OK, I’m going to interject again. What would N.C. Wyeth think of all the development in the area he calls home today?)

I think this is very exciting. And I’m going to hope I can get a ticket to see this in person. N.C. Wyeth was known first as an illustrator. He illustrated a lot of children’s books for example.

N.C. Wyeth’s ‘The Giant’ Is a Moving Tribute to a Friend

One of the favorite things he ever did that I have seen hangs at the Westtown school – “The Giant”. We actually have a print of that. It’s beautiful.

The Giant

This if you like art, and you appreciate the art from the various members of the Wyeth family, is pretty freaking amazing. the Delaware Historical Society had this mural before it came back to Jamie Wyeth’s farm. it sounds like they could never find a place for it. I think from a restoration point of view it’s probably very lucky for the world that this place has been made for this giant mural because it sounds like it wasn’t rolled up right when it was stored. Thank goodness it was given to the Wyeth Foundation.

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-untold-legacy-nc-wyeth-andrews-artist-father

The Wyeth family has had a history of fabulous art and great tragedy. After all, the creator of this fabulous mural, we are all about to see for the first time in many years, N.C. Wyeth died in a tragic accident in 1945. His grandson, Newell, who was four at the time also died with him in the crash.

Of course, this is not the only tragedy that this family suffered, as there have been many twisted tales of complicated lives of this often larger than life amazingly talented family of artists whom we loosely call our own in this area. And thanks to the generosity of Jamie Wyeth will be able to see this mural now.

There is actually a giant Wikipedia page devoted to N.C. Wyeth which is pretty interesting and has many links about his life and work. I really wish I could meet Jamie Wyeth and ask him what it was like growing up in this family except how many writers and reporters and others have done this over the years?

I’ve also never become a member of the Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art. I think this might just inspire me to do so.

Anyway, read the article in the New York Times. It’s amazing from start to finish and it’s also kind of sad that a New York paper is breaking major art news from this area.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/arts/design/nc-wyeth-mural-wilmington-delaware.html

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still rotting: the joseph price house in exton, pa

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I drove past the historic Joseph Price house at Clover Mill and S. Whitford Rd. in West Whiteland today.

It continues to fall into more and more disrepair. Yes, it is technically a historic asset and it is federally, locally, and state recognized as being such, but that basically isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on in Pennsylvania.

This house is built from the most fabulous looking funky green stone that was quarried nearby at the time. I think it is called green serpentine limestone from what I remember.

This house is a wonderful quirky example of Victorian architecture. it is called a rural Queen Ann Gothic style. Built around 1878 and altered around 1894.

Supposedly a developer is in the process of acquiring the property, only it doesn’t show a transfer occurring yet.

At this point in time if this developer is indeed buying this property, it would be nice if they stepped forward into the light and told us they were saving it or whatever they’re planning for the property.

It is also important to note that I do not trespass on this property. Everything was viewed from across the road.

they solicit live people…for death

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Yeah I wonder how I got on the Join Us…..For The Last Supper mailing list.

I cannot tell a lie, my friend thought up the Join Us…..For The Last Supper of it all. It’s brilliant and apropos. I see a Saturday Night Skit…

Anyway, my new friends are from Logan Funeral Home and are in Broomall, Malvern, Philadelphia & Exton. Their website says they have an onsite crematorium too. They must be super fun at Halloween.

But the whole idea of breaking bread over funeral arrangements for the future is well…creepy.

I also got one in the past couple of months from Calvary Cemetery in Villanova/West Conshohocken now run by some company named Everstory Partners who keeps the cemetery like crap. Oh and I know that because my father is buried there. Twice in recent years when I’ve stopped by to visit his grave, there has been dirt from other graves being dug on his grave. And what was really offensive about their solicitation as it was a Dear Occupant letter. One would think they would cross reference their mailing list with families who have family interred there.

I get that businesses have to solicit, but soliciting about death is just really bizarre to get in your mailbox.

If anyone knows who’s mailing list, Logan Funeral Home gets their addresses from, let me know. Drop me a comment.

things we should be talking about: daycare nightmares like in oaks in july

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Photo of Catalina Baldwin from Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office July 2025

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Yeah so this blew up the news recently. A 37 year old woman named Catalina Baldwin from Phoenixville who was an employee of Oaks Early Learning Center in Oaks on Egypt Road.

The Oaks Early Learning Center used to have social media, it seems to have disappeared? Same owners as some place called Hopwood School and Camp (https://montco.today/2021/06/hopwood-school-and-camp-lansdale-sold-lower-merion-school-district/) Yes I verified it on the state website.

Here is some of what I saw on Compass, a PA website which has gotten rather cartoonish:

This is horrible. Parents want answers. Human beings in general want answers. Who hurt babies?

In early July, baby was taken to hospital from the daycare in what media reports tell us were dire circumstances. As this was unfolding, we all learned that something else happened to another baby in May.

WHPO DOES THIS?

https://www.fox29.com/news/montgomery-county-child-care-teacher-charged-assaulting-infants

https://patch.com/pennsylvania/lowerprovidence/new-details-emerge-montco-teacher-who-brutally-abused-2-babies-da

Montco teacher charged with aggravated assault of two babies at childcare facility

This woman who I am not sure is in or out of jail at this point was a teacher in the infant room. So parents who have to put kids in daycare, who are they entrusting their kids to here? Also concerning? If there was some other sort of incident in MAY why was she still there in JULY? Is she still employed?

Also interesting? She has a Bill Cosby lawyer, doesn’t she? But then again he is one of the best.

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I had shared story links to this when it first happened and then I randomly saw a comment today that made me wonder:

It was not the she is still employed comment as that has popped up here and there already, it was about the parents of kids there. Are they really and truly being shall we say discouraged from discussing this? So the owners don’t want kerfuffles in their Main Line existence? OK totally get this is their business in an uncertain time, but umm who are they hiring and wouldn’t they WANT their families to be able to talk about this an also to allay the fears of parents with kids there?

Truly I hope that is a misperception, misunderstanding, don’t you?

Also, this woman who was charged seemingly left a review of the daycare on Google? What kind of hot mess situation is that and why haven’t the owners contacted Google to have it removed?

So reading this you have to ask is this Catalina Baldwin who was charged a MOM? If so, where is her child right now?

I do not and never will understand people who hurt children. I was discussing this topic with a friend today. And we are old enough that we come from the dark ages of being a kid where stuff just wasn’t discussed or acted on a lot of the time.

Why aren’t we doing better today?

I just can’t with this and would be interested to see real reports of this daycare. But I don’t know any of us will get that because this is a criminal investigation now. So I guess that means no one will hear from daycare owners either, right?

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This is just horrible all the way around.

“cold” feds in lincoln court in east whiteland township chester county this morning.

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Earlier this morning in Lincoln Court Shopping Center Chester County. Apparently that was the second time today?

Yes. ICE. I did NOT take the photos. Others who work there in the shopping center did.

Yes police know they are around. They are here on things based on active warrants. That hypothetically means it could be a more traditional criminal type of warrant or a warrant for expired visas, or someone who was previously deported and came back illegally.

Since this surfaced today, I will admit that it is a very odd feeling when it’s a place you specifically know. There are small businesses here, the driver’s license center, a Giant supermarket, state liquor store, oh and a Mexican restaurant that is a community favorite.

I get that the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers AKA ICE have a job to do but seeing it in our home communities? It strikes a sad, odd, uncomfortable, horrible chord.

This combined with Washington DC seeming to morph into a police state the past few days? What is our country becoming ironically as we prepare for the Semiquincentennial?

Purportedly, 2026 marks a time to celebrate the birth of American independence and democracy, but who and what are we now?

I just don’t know. It makes me sad.

from squirrel time to secret squirrel in west goshen

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Ahhh West Goshen Township, the I Spy Municipality.

Always it’s a secret something. Now it’s once again, their residents can’t know what their taxpayer dollars are for.

About a year ago in the land of jolly squirrel time, they meaning West Goshen hired a consultant for HR, Roseann McGrath. It was a name I knew well, because she was the HR Goddess at Lower Merion Township. (Ahh yes the good old days when her hubs was also the police superintendent.)

I always liked Roseann McGrath. Very nice lady, but it always was somewhat of a conundrum for me how she wasn’t a nepo wifey when her hubs became police superintendent? I actually couldn’t figure it all along but it was just one of those great mysteries of Lower Merion Township who still uses their classification of First Class Township to mean other than it should. After all, Caln is also a First Class Township, although I don’t find much first class about it in general, but I digress.

Anywhoooo, Roseann came to try to unsnarl I am sure a giant squirrel time mess in West Goshen. (She also was a consultant in East Whiteland at one time.) Here is what is on West Goshen’s website about her consultancy:

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So, she charges $125 an hour, billed in 15 minute increments?

Anyway, the study is apparently complete yet although it is paid for by tax dollars, it’s a top secret thingymaboo. It’s a pay study. Employee current pay by categories. Only the public can’t see it.

Why can’t residents see this study? Why is West Goshen so secretive about salaries in general? Are salary dollars earned subjective? Do men make more than woman? Are there pay disparities residents and employees are unaware of? I hear that even employees don’t know what is in this magical study contains and wouldn’t you think employees should know? There are no unions in West Goshen except for police department so why not show their math work like you used to have to in math class?

West Goshen Sunshine asked about study results being available at a couple of meetings. It kind was treated as “NEXT.” And then she submitted a right to know. This is what came back:

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Essentially everything was redacted like a classified CIA or FBI document…but they included Mrs. McGrath’s bill…but you can’t see anything else. J. Edgar Hoover where you at? (Kidding as he was a Washington DC horror show long ago.)

I am curious to know what they are hiding and so do residents and employees, right? If there is nothing bad, why can’t anyone see? My hypothesis is they are hiding stuff and what exactly? My hypothesis is squirrel time etc over the years may have been expensive yet there were pay disparities based upon who you were, your sex, etc., etc??? I mean if they aren’t that township any longer why are they still that township?

I mean Ghislaine Maxwell never visited so what’s the problem?

This website has lots of free info : https://govsalaries.com/state/PA However if you look up West Goshen they have not done much updating there since 2017 and why is that? What. Are. They. Hiding??? And why not use the tools PSATS offers municipalities? (https://www.psats.org/get-customizable-salary-insights-now-with-the-psats-salary-survey/)

West Goshen has not liked (I am sure) that they are on the Hello West Chester radar (it’s $24 a year to subscribe and ever edition is chock full of interesting.) And hell they have never like being on my radar ever since the days of residents should be werry werry qwiet.

West Goshen also had an issue this year with wanting to ditch meeting recordings, remember? That didn’t work out in their favor did it? Traditional media should do a deep dive into West Goshen and this salary study of it all in my opinion. And more residents should be submitting right to know requests. And going en masse to meetings demanding answers (politely.)

Taxpayer money paid for the consultant and the study. Taxpayers deserve answers. It’s pretty much that simple.

is it time for suffragettes to be reborn in 2025?

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I don’t write much these days about national politics. In some aspects I think women have to be careful because we’re being targeted. That sounds paranoid, but is it really?

So there’s a headline that’s been bothering me and it concerns the seemingly pickled Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.

It started with a sub stack post by Heather Cox Richardson.

Then I followed her links to NPR and The Guardian.

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/09/nx-s1-5497226/women-pastor-pete-hegseth-vote

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/09/pete-hegseth-video-pastors-women-voting

So Hegseth has reposted and shared an interview from some Christian Nationalist pastor or minister of some militant Christian church who says women shouldn’t be able to vote. Essentially it should be up to our husbands. And there are other cuckoo ministers who seem to agree with this man.

OK, I’m going to curse here and if you don’t like it, turn away from this blog now, but what the actual F people?

None of this is OK. Even having to talk about it is not OK for all that the suffragettes went through with all of the people involved in the suffragist movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries I can’t even believe we are here again? This guy actually has said out loud in an interview for CNN that women shouldn’t vote and the Secretary of Defence for the United States of America in 2025 re-shared this which is his implied agreement and consent.

And this tool also says things that women are people that people come out of, yet apparently according to him we all shouldn’t do that either because I guess he must have parameters on how women should spawn?

It doesn’t really matter what your political persuasion is. I think we can all agree that we all should have the right to vote in this country as US citizens.

Until the National Park Service is forced to take it down, they have a nice list of suffragists we should know. (CLICK HERE)

People we are not all Mississippi on this bus. Why do I mention Mississippi? Simple – Mississippi didn’t ratify the 19th Amendment or woman’s right to vote until 1984!

I guess people take for granted that English common law saw a woman with no legal status of her own and women was legally considered indistinct from their husbands.

The demand for women’s suffrage has roots in the 18th century, but it really didn’t take hold until the 19th century.

The first women’s rights convention was around 1848. It was called the Seneca Falls convention and was an upstate New York in the finger lakes region. Then there was the Rochester Women’s Rights convention the same year also in New York State. In 1850 there was the Ohio Women’s Convention. Also that year there was the first National Women’s Rights Convention in Massachusetts.

The Civil War interrupted suffrage movements in the United States. After the war was over, there was another National Women’s Rights Convention. In the 1870s the suffragist movement grew.

In the 1870s Susan B Anthony was taken to court for trying to cast her vote in a presidential election. Susan B. Anthony was arrested for violating the Enforcement Act of 1870 by casting a vote in the 1872 presidential election.

During Susan B Anthony’s trial, the judge apparently instructed the jury to find her guilty.

According to a Wikipedia page on women’s suffrage:

When [the judge] asked Anthony, who had not been permitted to speak during the trial, if she had anything to say, she responded with what one historian has called “the most famous speech in the history of the agitation for woman suffrage”.[120]She called “this high-handed outrage upon my citizen’s rights”, saying, “… you have trampled under foot every vital principle of our government. My natural rights, my civil rights, my political rights, my judicial rights, are all alike ignored.”[128] The judge sentenced Anthony to pay a fine of $100, she responded, “I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty”, and she never did.[120]However the judge did not order her to be imprisoned until she paid the fine, for Anthony could have appealed her case.[126]

So how ironic is it really the Donald Trump during his first administration pardoned Susan B Anthony? Yep it’s true, On August 18, 2020 he pardoned her on the anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment. The ones so-called women’s suffrage amendment was introduced Congress in 1878. It was not ratified until it became the 19th amendment in 1919.

So now Trump’s Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is supportive of a minister who wants to roll back the clock on women? Is this a drinking game or something?

No one should be OK with this.

For more information on what it took to get women the right to vote I found many interesting pieces to read. Here is one that’s stuck with me:

Women’s Suffrage @100

#Suffragettes2025

what do you think about this potential rock ’em sock ’em robots situation in downingtown?

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Publicly Posted by @abbers6520 approximately 8/5/25

I have no dog in the race and no horse in the race for Downingtown Borough Mayor. The guy they’re talking about in this TikTok video is one of the candidates.

This video seems to be making the rounds enough in the past couple of days, that I do want to say something.

I want to be super clear: I am NOT siding with either party, this is a public video, the creator is obviously soliciting feedback, and I’m sharing my perspective.

What I think is this is a neighbor dispute. It sounds a little Hatfields and McCoy to me to be honest, and I don’t know that this is really a legitimate reason to not vote for someone…unless where there is smoke there is fire? And to be even more clear, there is no record of issues other than this video.

Further an to make an important point, if this young woman if she thinks that he’s doing something unsavory with his security cameras, she needs to file a police report. If not, this mayoral candidate and his neighbors need to sit down and have a powwow with a mediator (AKA disinterested 3rd party) and work it out.

I’m guessing this mayoral candidate is going to be pretty pissy that I’m sharing this video, but I have to remind him that this has been PUBLICLY posted for like three days. On the Internet that’s kind of forever. People need to remember that the girl posting this IS young, I would guess early 20s if that. Her perspective is not going to be the same of an older person. She might not get her neighbor’s position and this could be resolved without further fuss.

I have had several people send this TikTok to me now. (link https://www.tiktok.com/@abbers6520/video/7535128157519760671 ) And as I said to one person who was curious about it and doesn’t actually live in Downingtown who sent it to me, I said for the record I have neighbors who play music outside with little speakers. Two of the neighbors I absolutely am in sync with their taste in music and I love it because it makes doing outside chores go much faster. And further away on clear Sunday mornings, I can hear the amplified music from a Christian church in West Chester. One person from somewhere close-ish by plays really bad country music sometimes.

And security cameras? Who doesn’t have them these days? Like the woman on the video, I looked up the camera. It’s not super expensive. I don’t know what kind of reach it has, but I imagine there is more than one camera in the guy’s yard? And do these properties back on any kind of an alley or something like that? A lot of these in town in the borough properties have cheek to jowl narrow back yards, much like a lot of homes in West Chester Borough. Translation? Not a lot of room to work with.

I would rather hear music than endless fireworks, personally. Security cameras and street cameras are part of our world, there could be a simple explanation.

Work it out people.

This is the guy they are talking about: https://richbryantformayor.com/

And he seems to have a second website, or this could be a parked site for if he gets elected? The site is https://downingtownmayor.com/

I actually heard him speak once on WCHE. He doesn’t sound like the guy this gal is dishing on, but hey, that could be down to neighbor relations, right?

So in the best interest of neighbor relations, can’t they work it out? Rock Em’ Sock Em’ Robots is so 1964.