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Gen. S.D. Butler Marine Corps League Detachment at Newtown Square Historical Society's Paper Mill Museum
The Banana Wars Exhibit was staffed on Saturday by members of the Detachment who were in uniform
Two members of Newtown Square’s General Smedley D. Butler Detachment No. 741, Marine Corps League, were present this past Saturday from 1:00pm to 4:00pm at the Newtown Square Historical Society’s Paper Mill Museum to answer questions about General Butler and the Detachment’s Banana Wars exhibit . Marines Earle Drake, right in photo 1 above, and Paul Donohue, left in photo 1 above, were available to answer questions regarding the Banana Wars and General Butler’s part in them. In addition, Marine Drake brought some original correspondence and billings from 1931 when General Butler had his Goshen Road house renovated. Butler originally wanted to buy a home near Wawa but settled at the Newtown Square house. General Butler’s Newtown Square house has been recently sold and is being renovated again.
Marine Drake is dressed in his summer Marine Corps League uniform and Marine Donohue was dressed in the uniform of a Pennsylvanian Rifleman. They are pictured above with visitors to the museum. The exhibit is open from 1:00pm to 4:00pm and the Banana Wars exhibit will be there through the month of August.
