Pennypacker Mills Donates Funds to Local Food Banks

The following was submitted by Linda Callegari, of Pennypacker Mills:

With so many Montgomery County residents facing unemployment and needing help to meet basic needs, , one of Montgomery County’s premier historic sites, contributed all the donations they received during the month of December to area food banks.

“The Pennypacker family that owned the site during the early 1900s that we interpret was very involved in that era’s social reform, particularly Anna Maria Pennypacker, so sharing our good fortune seemed like it was the appropriate thing to do,”  according to Historic Site Supervisor Ella Aderman.
She realized that the site had the opportunity to contribute a substantial sum to a needy cause. In total, the site contributed $2,543.53 to the following organizations:

• , which provides a soup kitchen, food cupboard & emergency financial aid to the North Penn region. The soup kitchen is open seven days a week, serving two meals each day with two-thousand meals served each month. A total of 9,000 pounds of food is distributed through the food cupboard, which serves 2,800 people living in the North Penn region.

• Philabundance, the region’s largest hunger relief organization, serves the entire Delaware Valley. Philabundance provides access to emergency food for those who need it most with the help of the food industry, manufacturers, farms and local communities. This organization distributes needed food through five-hundred food cupboards and distribution centers.

Pennypacker Mills is the home of Pennsylvania Governor Samuel W. Pennypacker (1903-1907) and his family. Situated on 170 acres of bucolic farmland, this historic site interprets the early 1900s through its extensive collection of artifacts, official papers, and family history. Today, the site is part of the Parks & Heritage Services Department of Montgomery County and open to the public year-round.

 Pennypacker Mills is operated by the Montgomery County Department of Parks & Heritage Services.