Selling roses in heavy traffic
Vendor selling flowers works long days outside, sandwiched on narrow concrete between two very busy traffic lanes.
Why her fainting goats fall over
Near Gettysburg, PA Carrie Eastman lovingly raises fainting goats, who due to a genetic condition, fall over sideways when their muscles stiffen when they are excited or startled.
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Free coffee draws crowd on National Coffee Day
Hearing that WAWA convenience stores were giving out free coffee in celebration of International Coffee Day, on Friday morning your correspondent headed over to the Mt Airy store to grab…
Posted inANIMALS Education ENVIRONMENT
Naturalists raise, launch Monarch butterflies
Wissahickon naturalists harvest monarch butterfly eggs from milkweed leaves, feed the caterpillars until they pupate, then release the butterflies for their two thousand mile journey to Mexico forest.
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Toss a Bean Bag for Racial Unity
High schoolers host bean bag toss to promote racial harmony and benefit social justice efforts of Southern Poverty Law Center.
Posted inCHESTNUT HILL ENVIRONMENT HISTORY
Iconic photos of Wissahickon in new exhibit
Exhibition curators discuss iconic historical photographs of the Wissahickon Valley, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Vaudevillian Poet Preacher Karla Milugo entertains and explains
Funny Vaudeville poet also preaches, blows up balloons with her oversize camera contraption, paints your faces on them, serenades and, astoundingly, whistles at a professional level.
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Health care is outrageous
Senior citizen volunteers from AARP display big sign and gather petition signatures against government medicare and healthcare cuts at neighborhood ice cream store.
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Bullied in school, took to martial arts
Bullied in school for his shrunken arm disability, this young man lashed out at classmates but when he grew up, channeled his anger into fighting mixed martial arts with a focus on American Kenpo.
Fiammetta got angry 😠 at God
The artist, as a child on her family's farm villa in Italy happily exploring the ruins of Roman civilization on its expanse, naively thought that were the Allied Forces to bomb her villa, they would make more interesting rubble for her to explore- until the bombing became real.