Draft:Margaret Chew Barringer

Margaret Chew Barringer (born April 16, 1946) is an American poet and multimedia artist. She led the foundation of the American Poetry Center and the American INSIGHT.

Family background

Margaret Chew Barringer was born on a dairy farm in Radnor, PA in 1946 to Richard Wethered Drew Barringer, son of mining engineer and explorer, Daniel Moreau Barringer, and Anne Sophia Penn Chew, direct descendant of Benjamin Chew, Esq (1722-1810), Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Province of Pennsylvania and later the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Over 9 generations, many members of the Chew Family lived at Cliveden, the site of the American Revolutionary War's Battle of Germantown in 1777.

The Chew Family genealogical chart, constructed by Anne Sophia Penn Chew, is part of the Cliveden historical records collection.^[1] Other items originally housed at Cliveden included original copies of the Declaration of Independence and original copies of the Mason-Dixon Line maps.

Anne Chew was the life-long archivist of The Chew Family Papers^[2]. The Chew Family Papers collection is now permanently housed at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania ^[3].

Corporate activities

Vice president, Barringer Crater Company, Winslow, Arizona, 1982—1992^{[citation needed]}

Literary and organizational activities

In 1983, she founded the American Poetry Center with Jerome Shestack Esq who served on the board of the American Poetry Review^[4] . The American Poetry Center's mission expanded its scope in 2005 with production of its first historical documentary on the works of Philadelphia artist Arthur Beecher Carles.It was renamed American INSIGHT as it began to explore Violet Oakley’s original 13 murals in the State Capitol Building in Harrisburg, PA, which focus on the life of William Penn. In 2012, American INSIGHT launched its global Free Speech Film Festival

She has contributed to fostering literary and cultural activities in the Greater Philadelphia area in various roles including serving as the first female President of the Franklin Inn Club in 1990-1991.

She continues to be a driving force in the promoting and facilitating Free Speech perspectives in the US and other countries by encouraging independent film makers to share their works.