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Brandywine
Valley
Association
cordially
invites you to our
69th
Annual Dinner & Silent Auction
Wednesday,
October 22, 2014
Mendenhall
Inn
(Grand
Ballroom)
Mendenhall
,
Pennsylvania
RSVP by Wednesday, October 15, 2014
~Members
are encouraged to bring guests
Program
5:30
P.M. …………………. Silent
Auction & Reception
Featuring
Complimentary
Cold
& Hot Hors d’ oeuvres
and
Cash Bar
The
Silent Auction will feature a variety
of art work,
restaurant & museum opportunities, sporting
life
memorabilia
and golf
outings.
6:30 P.M.
………………….
Dinner
Menu
options include:
7:30 P.M.
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Annual Meeting
James P. Nolan, President –
Presiding
Keynote
Speaker
Collin
F. McNeil
Philadelphia,
the cradle of
American
Foxhunting
Collin F. McNeil is a Master of Foxhounds for the Radnor Hunt in
Malvern
,
PA.
He is a
devoted foxhunter and collector of history and ephemera
related to Radnor. He
and his wife Virginia, also a foxhunter and show jumper,
have a joint venture with international Grand Prix rider,
Callan Solem, based in PA. McNeil is also a member of the
Boards of the Devon,
Lake Placid
and Pennsylvania National Horse Shows.
In
addition to his equestrian activities, McNeil has had a
prolific and varied career as a writer and journalist,
business executive, and motion picture producer.
In 2008, he authored Bright
Hunting Morn, published by the Derrydale Press.
The book is an extensive history of
Radnor Hunt
,
America
’s oldest continuously active foxhunting organization,
on the occasion of its 125th Anniversary.
McNeil is currently writing a novel which takes place
during World War I.
His
farm in
Chester Springs
,
PA
is also home to his wife, three children, and a menagerie
of horses, ponies, goats, cats, and a frisky Jack Russell,
a Welsh Corgi, and an imposing Neapolitan Mastiff.
Collin’s
presentation will highlight the colorful history of
foxhunting in the
Chester
County
and
Philadelphia
area and the critical role that fox hunter’s have and
continue to play in land preservation and conservation
throughout the region
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