![]() Neil Phelan from Karate studio usually joins the procession with a Firebird float. Last year the High School made Phoenix models, and the Senior Center created Firebird wands. We have many good organizations in Phoenixville, and new ideas keep developing with them. As a blessing, it has forced me to reach out more. Charles stayed on for a couple of more years as valuable background support. It became something much more than we could have planned.Īfter 2011 our group decided to quit, only I wanted to continue, so I did. It was impressive how the whole town came together, to reclaim what the Grinch took from us. What was left over afterward got donated to PACS, our local food donation program. Giant and Acme donated donuts, coffee, and other food items. The heavy human traffic muddied up the field, so a call was made to Colonial Gardens, and they donated us lots of straw bales, which were spread out in the field. The pallets had to be dropped off at the roadside, and carried to the site. All of this happened in pouring down rain. Soon we had so many pallets, that we didn’t know what to do with, so we decided to build a new Phoenix. Reflecting on it, we had all the ingredients for a great festival, and we needed to keep the clay birds burning, so we put a request out on Facebook for people to bring pallets. In 2014 still in Friendship Field some teenagers lit the Phoenix on fire just before the festival. It was nice to have all the space, yet we missed the daily exposure of people driving by the construction site, and downtown suffered with fewer people. In 2013 we had to move to the North side, to Friendship Field. We put musicians wherever possible, and our downtown was buzzing with colorful life. In 2012 we moved back to our first location, now owned by Manny DeMutis, because of the building of the new Borough Hall.īeing in the downtown area was beneficial for the businesses and considered one of the best sales day of the year. Everybody helped each other out, so nobody got hurt, and that speaks a lot of the good spirit of the community. The very uneven hill was packed with people in total darkness. It was a great spot, but tight to squeeze all the people in. In 2006 we moved to Manny’s property (now the parking lot area of Borough Hall) to make way for promising plans of a 3 stories 900 car garage building. In 20 we built our Phoenixes on the Phoenix Property Group (PPG) land owned by Walt Logan (now Manny Demutis’ Phoenix Village Apartments). Charles Segal made three, Brett Williams made two, Aidan McDowell made two, Derek Wieneke made two, and I made four. She took on our procession with her phenomenal drummers and Bill Minazik, the pyromaniac extraordinaire at her parties, took on building the Phoenix. We also involved Mia Bosna, who had annual extravaganza parties, with music and a big bonfire. I organized the volunteers and was responsible for the building space, and festival grounds. Charles did the website, created t-shirts and other Firebird items, and organized the Firebird booth. Mary Foote did fundraising and balancing the books. ![]() Lisa Muller organized the craft vendors with big support from her husband Paul and made clay bird workshops at the Phoenix Village Art Center. Lynn Miller came up with the idea of the festival, and each of us took on different aspects of the festival. We created several of the murals in town. We were a group of people exploring ways to cultivate the arts in Phoenixville, called The Arts and Entertainment committee – Lynn Miller, Charles Segal, Lisa Muller, Mary Foote, Kathy Bestwick, and me (Henrik Stubbe Teglbjaerg).
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