days of summer

Some people summer in Nantucket. Some people summer in the Hamptons. We know better.

Live-ish

The Matsonford Bridge, right now

Traffic estimated from time of day. This is science.

Wait — where?

Conshohocken. Obviously.

One square mile of borough on a bend in the Schuylkill River, just northwest of Philadelphia. Rowhomes, bar decks, a riverside trail, and more bridges per capita than strictly necessary. Every summer, the people who know, know: you could go anywhere. You’re already here.

Read the whole joke
1square mile. That’s the whole thing. That’s plenty.
2bridges over the Schuylkill, both with views you’d pay for elsewhere.
~9,000year-round summerers. Population of the Hamptons in February: sad.
0beaches. And yet.

Local intelligence

Best of Conshy

A short, seasonal, extremely correct list of where to summer hardest.

This month in Conshy

Golden hour on the river trail

August evenings, Schuylkill River Trail, heading west. Bring nothing. Expect everything.

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Walk

Schuylkill River Trail

Our boardwalk. Flatter, greener, zero seagulls fighting you for fries.

Eat

Fayette Street, generally

Start at the bottom of the hill. Work up. Repeat until summered.

View

The bridge at dusk

The Matsonford Bridge does things at sunset that Malibu wishes it could.

Send someone Conshy.

Gift-wrapped shirt, handwritten card, mailed anywhere. Because the kindest thing you can tell someone is where you summer.

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The Conshy Dispatch

Mail, but the good kind

New drops, the seasonal Best-of, and the annual contest. A few times a year. That’s it, that’s the newsletter.

Dear you,
Weather’s perfect. Shirts are soft. Wish you were here — well, you could be.
— ISC