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2 unusual facts about Kempton


International Disaster Emergency Service

International Disaster Emergency Service (IDES) is a non-profit organization based in Kempton, Indiana, United States that seeks to meet the physical and spiritual needs of people in times of emergency.

Pennsylvania Renewable Energy and Sustainable Living Festival

Pennsylvania Renewable Energy and Sustainable Living Festival is a three-day festival held every September in Kempton, located in Berks County, Pennsylvania featuring speakers, exhibitors, artists, musicians, films, children's activities, and workshops on topics related to renewable energy, sustainable living, agriculture, forestry, natural building techniques, healthy cooking, and healthy lifestyle.


David Shaber

His film, a semi-autobiographical reminiscence about a summer stock company in the 1950s, set in the fictional Ohio town of Kempton Hills, Those Lips, Those Eyes, released in 1980; the film starred Frank Langella and Thomas Hulce and was directed by Michael Pressman.

Gloria Kempton

In 2013 Kempton published a text book used to teach the Hero's Journey approach to writing, made popular by Christopher Vogler's book The Writer's Journey.

Greta Kempton

Later in 1947, she painted a portrait of Drucie Snyder's friend, Bess Truman, and was also commissioned to paint a portrait of the President himself—the first of five Kempton paintings for which Mr. Truman posed.

Lingfield Park Racecourse

There are only three other all weather courses in the UK, the others being at Southwell, Kempton and Wolverhampton with another all weather track, Great Leighs, currently moth-balled.

Murray Kempton

He was known for his rococo style, so much so that in his collection Hooking Up, Tom Wolfe wrote that "Kempton used so many elegant British double and triple negatives, half the time you couldn’t figure out what he was saying."

Zenonas Puzinauskas

He worked as a translator in the United States Army and played for Kempton Šarūnas Lithuanian emigrants basketball team.


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