The nonprofit Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education announced the gift Wednesday that will be used to preserve what's known locally as the Boy Scout tract.
The new two-day festival features Kathleen Edwards, Lydia Loveless, Crossed Keys, and The Tisburys. It will be held on Venice Island, close to where the Hause brothers grew up.
Hundreds of students and teachers from Philadelphia magnet schools gathered Thursday at the district headquarters to protest possible budget and staffing cuts.