Uniquely TE Holiday Gift Ideas

Are you looking for a holiday present that is unique to this area? Check out the list below for alternate gifts, such as memberships to local gardens or museums, tickets to local performances or books or movies with local ties.

Membership in Local Organizations

• Radnor Historical Society
• (Radnor)
• (Chestnut Hill)
• (Chestnut Hill)
• (Media)
• (Haverford)
• (Gladwyne)
• (Gladwyne)
• (Havertown)
• (Roxborough)
• Newtown Square Historical Society/Paper Mill House Museum
• Marple Township Historical Society
• Thomas Massey House (Broomall)

Tickets, Subscriptions or Gift Cards to Local Performances

• (Berwyn)
• (Chestnut Hill)
• (Mt. Airy)
• (Mt. Airy)
• (Media)
• (Newtown Square)
• (Newtown Square)
• (Media)

 Classes

• Wayne Art Center
• Delaware County Community College
• Marple Newtown Recreation
• Salsa in the Suburbs

Books About the Area

• Valley Forge
• Main Line by Rail by George Harding
• Historic Photos of the Main Line by Laura E. Beardsley
• The Main Line: Country Houses of Philadelphia's Storied Suburb, 1870-1930 by William Morrison
• Chester County
• Historic Newtown Township 1681-1983 by Alice and Carol Lindborg         
• Chestnut Hill
• Chestnut Hill Revisited
• Germantown, Mount Airy and Chestnut Hill
• Lower Merion and Narberth
• Southeastern Pennsylvania Trolleys
• Haverford Township
• Roxborough
• Manayunk
• Mount Airy
• Middletown Township, Delaware County
• Wawa
• Marple and Newtown Townships
• Newtown Square
• Conshohocken
• Conshohocken and West Conshohocken Sports
• Conshohocken in Vintage Postcards
• Plymouth and Whitemarsh Townships
• Suburban Philadelphia Trolleys
• The Philadelphia Area Architecture of Horrace Trumbauer
• Bartram Covered Bridge: Spanning History by George D. Conn, Christopher P. Driscoll, Eric D. Gerst and Doug P. Humes
• Scenes Around Newtown Square: From the Not-So-Distant Past

Books by Local Authors or Set Locally

• Appetizers at Devon (cookbook benefits the Devon Horse Show)

•Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

• Books by Devon resident and author Beth Kephart
• The Evil Mailbox And The Super Burrito by 10-year-old Media Elementary student Garry Wagner-Robertson  
• Chanticleer: a Pleasure Garden by Adrian Higgins
• Bobos In Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There by David Brooks
• The Ghosts of Duffy's Cut: The Irish Who Died Building America's Most Dangerous Stretch of Railroad by William E. Watson
• The Middle Place by Kelly Corrigan  
• Ghosts in the Garden: Reflections on Endings, Beginnings, and the Unearthing of Self by Beth Kephart (set at Chanticleer)
• Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor by Tad Friend   
• Growing Up in Wayne by Henry DeWitt
• The Blackbird Sisters series of mysteries by Nancy Martin
• Strange but True by John Searles (murder after the Radnor High School prom)
• Bluest Blood by Gillian Roberts
• I'd Rather Be in Philadelphia by Gillian Roberts
• Susanna Foo Chinese Cuisine: The Fabulous Flavors and Innovative Recipes of North America's Finest by Susanna Foo
• Susanna Foo Fresh Inspiration: New Approaches to Chinese Cuisine by Susanna Foo
• Father Sky by Devery Freeman

Books With Other Local Ties

Movies With Local Ties

• Lovely Bones
• Philadelphia Story
• Sixth Sense
• Wide Awake
• To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
• Mad Men
• Taps

•Bazaar of All Nations