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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...

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Editorial 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...

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Reading 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...

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JU 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...

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Member 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...

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Updike 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...

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Updike 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...

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Philly.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...

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Updike 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...

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Updike 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.

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PECO 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...

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Updike 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...

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Article 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...

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Updike 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,...

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Updike 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...

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John 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...

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Ecenbarger 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...

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Berks-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...

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David 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...

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Michael 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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