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Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Top 21 Holiday Kid Friendly Events

Here's whats happening for the kids this holiday season close to home in the greater Philadelphia Patch region.

December is filled with locally hosted celebrations of the season.  Here is a list of top events and we can almost guarantee your kids will have a wonderful time. Christmas Around the Farm Festival of Lights Holiday Garden Railway Grand Opening Santa's Express  Stag and Doe Nights Caroling Hayrides Christmas at the Farm Malvern's Victorian Christmas Holidays at the Willows Dickens Festival SCEE Winterfest Brandywine Ballet The Nutcracker and Tea Hanukkah Celebration Chanukah Extravaganza 2012 Chanukah in Chocolate Land Pajama Party & Ventriloquist Show Germantown Jewish Center Celebrates Hanukkah Dicken's of a Weekend Winter Wonderland Firebird Children's Theater: Winter Holiday Revue Santa Arrives by Whirly Bird          

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Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania (in Chestnut Hill-Mt. Airy Patch), Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation (in Marple Newtown Patch), Linvilla Orchards (in Media Patch), and 14 more ›

Ezzie Klein

10:11 am on Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Also add to this list, Marple Newtown High School's fall play, Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol", December 13-15 at the new Marple Newtown Performing Arts Center! Go to www.mnpac.net for ticket information.   more ›

Sunday, May 13, 2012

The Region's Best Local Attractions

Check out the results of this week's Readers' Choice poll from the Greater Philadelphia area.

  • THE NEIGHBORHOOD FILES
  • Nate Adams
  • Sunday, May 13, 2012

From the Upper Main Line to Northwest Philadelphia and around the Greater Philadelphia area, Patch polled readers to find the best place to brunch location for Mother’s Day. After a week of voting, the winners the Readers' Choices have been tallied. Check out which businesses were Patch Readers' Choice winners below.  If there’s a great place we missed, please be sure to let us know in the comments, and if we hit the best ones, let everyone else know by clicking on the location and leaving a review. Chester County Main Line East Delaware County Philadelphia Make sure to check back Monday and vote for the area's best hoagie.

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Poll: Best Local Place to Visit (in Narberth-Bala Cynwyd Patch), Cynwyd Heritage Trail (in Narberth-Bala Cynwyd Patch), Readers' Choice: Best Local Attraction? (in Ardmore-Merion-Wynnewood Patch), and 28 more ›

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