2023 Officers
Becky Diamond
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Aliza Green
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Dan Macey
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Past HFSDV Presidents:
2017-2022 - Dan Macey
2015-2016 – Dee Ann Smith
2014-2015 – Hilary Heckman (deceased)
2012-2013 – Woody Oughton (deceased)
2010-2011 – Eileen Mercer
2008-2009 – Ed Vansant (deceased)
2006-2007 – Carol Oughton
2004-2005 – Mercy Ingraham
2002-2003—Rita Fillinger
2000 –2001-- Susan McLellan Plaisted
1997-1999—Tom Martin (deceased)
1995-1997 – William Woys Weaver
In October 1994, 30 members gathered to form HFSDV at Grame Park
Rita Fillinger and Polly Scully, “believed that this geographical region needed a culinary historian’s group of its own.”
The First Annual Meeting
"The site of the first annual meeting of Historic Foodways Society of the Delaware Valley was held on October 28, 1995 at the 1716 Chesire House in Upland, Delaware County, Pa. The original part of this lovely 21-room house was erected, as its present name indicates, in 1716, and received such distinguished visitors as Caleb Pusey, early settler, miller and friend of the Proprietary Governor and artist Benjamin West. Additions were made in 1810 and 1895. Our hostess, Carol Firing who purchased the property in 1983 and lives in the house, has done extensive renovations and restoration, including the atrium and the gardens, and now operates the site as a bed and breakfast and well as as reception facility. ...
An extra added attraction for attendees of the HFSDV Annual Meeting was a tour, conducted buy Susie Lucas, of the Caleb Pusey House, site of the first English mill in the colony of Pennsylvania. Pusey called the site Landingford Plantation, and William Penn, himself is known to have visited the house and the Chester Friends Monthly Meeting was often held there before 1700. The Pusey Mill, originally built by Richard Townsend in 1683, was swept away twice by floods. The two-room stone house endured a long string of owners until purchased by John Crozier who secured the future of the building by placing it in trust. The Friends of the Caleb Pusey House was incorporated in 1960 with the goal of saving the house from collapse. Archaeological and architectural studies have been carried out and today the house is furnished with loans from the Philadelphia Museum of Art."
-- Volume 2. No. 1 News of the Historic Foodways Society of the Delaware Valley, Winter 1995-96 Newsletter
2017-2022 - Dan Macey
2015-2016 – Dee Ann Smith
2014-2015 – Hilary Heckman (deceased)
2012-2013 – Woody Oughton (deceased)
2010-2011 – Eileen Mercer
2008-2009 – Ed Vansant (deceased)
2006-2007 – Carol Oughton
2004-2005 – Mercy Ingraham
2002-2003—Rita Fillinger
2000 –2001-- Susan McLellan Plaisted
1997-1999—Tom Martin (deceased)
1995-1997 – William Woys Weaver
In October 1994, 30 members gathered to form HFSDV at Grame Park
Rita Fillinger and Polly Scully, “believed that this geographical region needed a culinary historian’s group of its own.”
The First Annual Meeting
"The site of the first annual meeting of Historic Foodways Society of the Delaware Valley was held on October 28, 1995 at the 1716 Chesire House in Upland, Delaware County, Pa. The original part of this lovely 21-room house was erected, as its present name indicates, in 1716, and received such distinguished visitors as Caleb Pusey, early settler, miller and friend of the Proprietary Governor and artist Benjamin West. Additions were made in 1810 and 1895. Our hostess, Carol Firing who purchased the property in 1983 and lives in the house, has done extensive renovations and restoration, including the atrium and the gardens, and now operates the site as a bed and breakfast and well as as reception facility. ...
An extra added attraction for attendees of the HFSDV Annual Meeting was a tour, conducted buy Susie Lucas, of the Caleb Pusey House, site of the first English mill in the colony of Pennsylvania. Pusey called the site Landingford Plantation, and William Penn, himself is known to have visited the house and the Chester Friends Monthly Meeting was often held there before 1700. The Pusey Mill, originally built by Richard Townsend in 1683, was swept away twice by floods. The two-room stone house endured a long string of owners until purchased by John Crozier who secured the future of the building by placing it in trust. The Friends of the Caleb Pusey House was incorporated in 1960 with the goal of saving the house from collapse. Archaeological and architectural studies have been carried out and today the house is furnished with loans from the Philadelphia Museum of Art."
-- Volume 2. No. 1 News of the Historic Foodways Society of the Delaware Valley, Winter 1995-96 Newsletter