Emma C. Patterson wrote “Your Town and My Town” for the Suburban & Wayne Times from 1949 to 1958. It was written during a time when Wayne’s founders were still around to reminisce about the formation of the area’s prominence. The articles are a wealth of information, with many names and places listed.

The same way historic photographs of Radnor can tell us a great deal about their subjects, Ms. Patterson’s writing draws a vivid picture of Radnor’s history as seen from the lens of the mid-20th Century. At that point venerable institutions that no longer function were still alive in full swing, longtime residents who could remember back to Wayne’s agrarain past were still around to share their memories, and there was still significant enough community interest that the Suburban was willing to print such extensive and descriptive columns week after week for nearly a decade.

Locked in fading newsprint, tucked away inside crumbling scrapbooks for fifty years, each article by Emma C. Patterson is reproduced here in full, in an easy to navigate searchable blog format.