Plant swappers compete
"You bring a plant or garden-related item and you get an item that you like" explains Diane Olesik who has been coming to the Northwest (Philadelphia) Gardeners Association plant swap…
Posted inCurrent Affairs ENVIRONMENT EVENTS
Picnic and paddle to stop the oil trains
Under the watchful eyes of a score of officers from the Philadelphia Police foot and marine patrols, the PA Fish and Game Commission and the US Coast Guard, serious but…
Bethlehem and Sad Patrick play music for public
If you've ever had a butterfly collection, "Sad Patrick" says, you know the butterflies didn't die naturally- they were either stuffed in a jar and suffocated or stabbed with a…
Merry Pranskters and Pure Jerry reincarnate the Grateful Dead
Watch video here. "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" author Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters went around the country in the drug fueled 1960s in a school bus encouraging…
Posted inElderly POLITICS Public Safety
Cold War Tattoo
During the Cold War, as a high school freshman Eileen Levenson and her classmates were marched into the nurse's office and without explanation had their blood drawn and the next…
Posted inElderly ENTERTAINMENT Music
They Could Not (keep him in the grave)
A 78 year old retired Pittsburgh public school music teacher who goes by Frank Lavelle serenaded the public with "They could not [keep him in the grave," popularized by Sandi…
Posted inEducation Family PERSONAL GROWTH
High School Graduate overcoming troubles
Elijah Fletcher ran away from the George Junior Republic residential school north of Pittsburgh last July because he was missing home and even missing trouble. That memorable adventure in a…
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Uber Pool confuses riders
I was the first of three riders and we were all a little confused about how many potential riders there could be, how far out of our way we'd be…
Posted inPERSONAL GROWTH Religion ROXBOROUGH MANAYUNK
Reverend offers free prayer for Starbucks customers
The Reverend Paul Adler, installed just last summer as rector at the Episcopal Church of Saint Alban in Roxborough, Philadelphia prays for people who come across him seated and collared…
Posted inEducation ENTERTAINMENT ENVIRONMENT
Entertaining and teaching at Philly Sci Fest Carnival 2016
A Penn Environment representative demonstrates how planting trees will cool the earth and counter global warming using a lamp, a model house and tree and a temperature reading gun. Video…