It’s official: The John Updike Society now owns Updike’s childhood home
Today was the closing for the sale of the John Updike childhood home at 117 Philadelphia Avenue in Shillington, Pa., and after a long process The John Updike Society now officially owns the building...
View ArticleEditorial touts Updike home purchase as first step toward literary tourism
An editorial published today (September 3) in the Reading Eagle, “Sale of Updike home a promising development for Berks,” touts the purchase as “a first step toward encouraging literary tourism in our...
View ArticleReading Eagle interviews former Updike house resident
When the Updikes moved to the Plowville farm, they sold the Shillington house at 117 Philadelphia Avenue to Dr. John and Mrs. Grace Hunter, who lived there with their family for nearly 45 years. The...
View ArticleJU Childhood Home donations begin to come in
Donations are starting to come in for The John Updike Childhood Home in Shillington, Pa. In 2012, the Society received significant monetary donations from the Robert and Adele Schiff Family Foundation...
View ArticleMember donations start to come in; don’t forget to renew
If you haven’t renewed your membership in The John Updike Society by paying your 2013 dues—and only a fifth of current members have done so—please send a check made payable to The John Updike Society...
View ArticleUpdike Society honors Shillington realtor
On Monday, June 10, Shillington realtor Conrad Vanino received The John Updike Society’s second Distinguished Service Award—an 8×10” plaque thanking him “for his invaluable help acquiring and...
View ArticleUpdike house makes literary pilgrims list
We’re still considering bids for the exterior repairs and painting, and Habitat volunteers have only just begun tearing out non-period carpeting and such, but already The John Updike Childhood Home is...
View ArticlePhilly.com highlights Updike house restoration
In an Art Attack feature for Philly.com, Nathaniel Popkin writes about the restoration-in-progress of The John Updike Childhood Home at 117 Philadelphia Ave. in Shillington, Pa. “Bookmarked: Future...
View ArticleUpdike house gets a badly needed facelift
The John Updike Childhood Home at 117 Philadelphia Ave., Shillington, Pa., is getting a badly needed exterior paint job. The exterior had been neglected for many years prior to the Society’s purchase...
View ArticleUpdike house and curator are profiled
Albright College, where curator Maria Mogford teaches, ran a profile of her and the house restoration-in-progress. Here’s the link.
View ArticlePECO Foundation donates $20,000 to help restore The John Updike Childhood Home
The John Updike Society has received a $20,000 donation from the PECO Foundation, a charitable trust based in New York City, “to help support the John Updike Society’s project to preserve the Updike...
View ArticleUpdike house deconstruction moving right along
The outside of The John Updike Childhood Home has been recently painted, and with a break in the weather volunteers from Habitat for Humanity of Berks County and Bellman’s Church got together to strip...
View ArticleArticle on Updike house restoration appears
Today, Berks-Mont News featured an article on the restoration of The John Updike Childhood Home, written by Emily Thiel, editor of The Southern Berks News and Community Engagement Editor for Berks-Mont...
View ArticleUpdike house restoration draws Illinois interest
On May 7, 2014 The Pantagraph (Bloomington-Normal, Ill.) did a story on Updike Society president Jim Plath’s involvement with the ongoing restoration of The John Updike Childhood Home in Shillington,...
View ArticleUpdike house gets a boost from member donations
Sixty-nine members have paid their 2014 dues so far, and 34 of those were generous enough to add a donation to help with the restoration of The John Updike Childhood Home. Donations ranged from $5 to...
View ArticleJohn Updike Childhood Home gets a tenant
The John Updike Childhood Home is still being renovated, but the annex built by Dr. Hunter—who lived in the house after the Updikes left and needed additional space for his practice—is being rented as...
View ArticleEcenbarger updates Philly on Updike house progress
This morning The Philadelphia Inquirer published a story on The John Updike Childhood Home—“Updike’s home to open as museum”—that was written by William Ecenbarger. If the name sounds familiar, perhaps...
View ArticleBerks-Mont promotes David Updike conference talk
As with the previous John Updike Society conference hosted by Alvernia, plenary sessions that would appeal to local residents are “open,” and Berks-Mont recently posted a story on David Updike’s...
View ArticleDavid Updike on Growing up Updike
David Updike, the current John Updike Scholar in Residence at Alvernia University, is featured in a new Alvernia Magazine article titled “Growing up Updike” (pp. 20-24). In it, he talks about what it’s...
View ArticleMichael Updike: Moran’s haul wasn’t trash
We received the following note and accompanying materials from Michael Updike, who notes that the bags that Paul Moran famously hauled away from his father’s Beverly Farms curbside contained much more...
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