Pam Sedor and Judy Wicks

For Judy, business is about relationships with everyone we buy from, sell to, and work with. As founder and former owner of the White Dog Cafe, living and working at the famous Philadelphia restaurant not only gave Judy a stronger sense of place, but a different business outlook. Judy is more likely to make decisions from the heart, not just from the head, and those decisions were more likely to be in the best interests of the employees, customers, neighbors, and suppliers she saw every day.  

This is the basic principle of the local living economy movement. Establishing a local economy, producing goods with local resources, and providing the labor for local consumption is just what the Radnor Conservancy is doing.  Judy Wicks was invited here to share her own experiences and support the efforts of the Conservancy.

Rather than growing our size, sales, and profits, we can grow in better ways without destroying the planet. 

Judy with Leslie Bowes, Charles Kline, John Fischer

Lisa Fischer (center)

The Radnor Historical Society along with Radnor Memorial Library invited Lisa Fischer from historic Colonial Williamsburg to the Library for a talk last night.  It was cold outside and cold inside…the  heat wasn’t working but it didn’t seem to matter. The Winsor Room was packed with almost 70 people and we were  warm for sure! 

Ms. Fischer, Director of the Digital History Center of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, talked to us about the use of digital technologies at Williamsburg. The Foundation is working hard to bring 18th century Virginia to the Internet…and into your home! In her presentation, Lisa showed us an online interactive map that allows the user to examine how the town changed during the 1700′s.  If you missed the event, you can visit the website of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation and see the fantastic things they are doing there.  

This event was recorded by our good friend Tom Ellis and you can watch it here:

http://vimeo.com/9616212

Colonial Williamsburg is more than 500 restored and reconstructed buildings, acres and acres of land, and a staff of thousands. I haven’t been there in 25 years and it’s probably time to go back…

Thank you all, for letting me capture you in my blog: Lisa Fischer, Nancy Fischer, John Fischer, Kimberley Donches, Jack, Charles Kline, Beverlee Barnes, Trevor Drake , Anne Albright