2013 - CLOSE UP Video Interviews

Korean laundress wary yet hopeful about Koreas

Christina Lee of BonLynn Cleaners was listening to a Korean language radio station when I asked her about the current tense situation in the Koreas. Lee came to the U.S.…

April 27, 2013

BUSINESS Education ENVIRONMENT

Life at Henry Got Crops Farm

During a break from cultivating and weeding a raised bed of peas at the Weavers Way Henry Got Crops farm in Roxborough where he volunteers, your correspondent captured a slice…

April 25, 2013

Education Food and Drink Gardening

Exchanging seeds to preserve heirlooms and feed people

For the third year in a row, Joel Fath and Mira Adornetto of Philly Seed Exchange, set up their table top with seeds and small brown envelopes for packing and…

April 18, 2013

ART DANCE ENTERTAINMENT

Japanese Cherry Blossom Festival – beautiful!

April 15, 2013

ENVIRONMENT Food and Drink HEALTH

Getting early start at community gardens

Marsha Isard of Mount Airy (left) and a fellow gardener, not shown, get an early start planting lettuce, spinach, peas, beets, and radishes in their community garden plots at…

April 9, 2013

ANIMALS Education NonProfits

Grace Kelly Herbert [center] founder of Finding Shelter http://findingshelter.org, a no-kill foster based animal rescue operation based in Norristown and current “foster parents” like Chava Spivak-Birndorf [left] seek permanent homes…

April 7, 2013

ANIMALS NATURE RECREATION

Catching rainbow trout with granddad

A few days after the start of the Pennsylvania trout season on March 30th, Naiyfuz Smith shows off the rainbow trout he caught in the Wissahickon Creek with his grandfather…

April 5, 2013

BUSINESS Current Affairs JOURNALISM

Inky photographer happy to have job

Ed Hille, a staff photographer for the Philadelphia Inquirer was at the Allens Lane Art Center on Wednesday April 3rd taking photos for a future story about the “Vision through…

April 3, 2013

NATURE RECREATION Sports

Mountain unicycles in hilly, rocky Wissahickon Valley

While taking a leisurely, easy bike ride along the relatively flat Forbidden Drive, my daughter and I were amazed to see a young man atop a unicycle on the opposite…

March 29, 2013

BUSINESS Current Affairs ENVIRONMENT

Haitian laments Haiti

During a break substitute teaching at Parkway Northwest High School in Mount Airy, Renaud Dardignac speaks with your correspondent about current conditions in his homeland, Haiti. He laments the poor…

March 21, 2013