Music historian Jack McCarthy returns to Laurel Hill Mansion 2 p.m., Sunday, August 16, 2015 to present his third lecture program, Music of Antebellum Philadelphia. Philadelphia had an active an...
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George Lippard and Edgar Allan Poe toiled in the trenches of Philadelphia newspaper and magazine journalism in the early 1840s. One writer achieved enormous success, while the other struggled bit...
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Every year, Philly’s Joel Spivak gifts City residents and visitors with a month’s worth of events and displays to honor Philly’s role in wiener history. Details about these special events ...
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Popular historian Jack McCarthy explores Philadelphia’s great musical legacy in a program at 2 p.m., Sunday, June 14, 2015 at historic Strawberry Mansion, located in East Fairmount Park. For m...
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Yellowbacks were eye-catching, cheap, popular reading among rail travelers during the mid-nineteenth century. The Athenaeum of Philadelphia is showcasing some two dozen of these distinctive Bri...
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Historian Jack McCarthy explores the music of Colonial Philadelphia from the 1670s to 1770s in a program on Sunday, November 23, 2014 at 2 p.m., at Laurel Hill Mansion, an historic house museum i...
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The corner of 3rd & Chestnut Streets is the future home of the Museum of the American Revolution. Right now, all that can be seen at street level is an enormous pit. But within this pit, dozens ...
Philadelphia’s intrepid Dumpster Divers are at it again – making fine art out of nothing more than other people’s doomed trash. See their results of their latest project at the National Arc...
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The SS United States eases into port… The SS United States is the greatest mid-century ocean liner ever built. Incredibly it’s still afloat. Although it sits derelict, berthed on the Delawar...
Philadelphia is a vibrant mix of old and new, historic and hip, traditional and trendy. This City of many historic firsts and innumerable legends has long been a popular destination. Centuries be...
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