All posts from Frank Keel
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My Life with Uncle Jake
The late, legendary Villanova University Athletic Director John “Jake” Nevin wasn’t my uncle by blood, but he was closer to me and my family than any blood relative could be. As the Irish like to say, we’ll begin at the beginning. Jake lived near my maternal grandparents’ humble Bryn Mawr apartment near Lancaster Avenue, in which my mother, Doris, and my aunt, Joanie, grew up. Sadly, their father (my grandfather), Buck, had a stroke in […] Read More
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Singer Karan Casey Set to Perform in Wilmington
Karan Casey, one of Ireland’s preeminent female singer-songwriters, may hail from County Cork, but she’s still a Philly home girl at heart. Casey, who just returned to the US for a concert tour in support of her acclaimed new record, Nine Apples of Gold (Crow Valley Records), that will bring her to the Grand Opera House in Wilmington, DE, on March 7 and to the Susquehanna Folk Society in Harrisburg on March 8, lived in […] Read More
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