The Wonderland Puppet Theater developed within in the tight knit Concord Park Community. Morris Millgram’s intentional experiment in residential de-segretation brought neighbors like Alice Swann and Nancy Schmale Penney together and allowed the creativity to flourish as they worked to enhance residents’ quality of life.  Without the Concord Park experience, the environment, and the ambiance of the diversity, The Wonderland Puppet Theater would not exist.

Concord Park, Pennsylvania
Concord Park is a residential neighborhood in the Trevose section of Bensalem Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, originally established as an intentional racially integrated community in 1954 by Morris Milgram, a pioneering social activist and civil rights trailblazer who believed Black people should have the same access to housing as whites.

Concord Park Homes were “the first planned open occupancy homes for sale by a builder determined to build only integrated housing; 139 three and four-bedroom homes were sold and occupied by 55 percent white families and 45 percent Negro families.” Some of the early homeowners included interracial couples, communists, and other nonconformists.

The community’s origin and history were featured at Bensalem Township’s 325th anniversary in 2017 at Growden Mansion and on the Mayor’s Show