BUILDINGS - CLOSE UP Video Interviews

Czech Republic workaway journal

Your correspondent and his spouse spent about 2-1/2 weeks in the Czech Republic mostly doing a longer and a shorter “workaways” (work for room and board). And obligatory sightseeing!

July 18, 2024

ART BUILDINGS

Building a cob house

Artist Cara Gravers gives workshops on how to build a cob house, a type of natural house made from clay, sand and straw.

March 13, 2024

BUILDINGS Current Affairs HISTORY

1903 Chestnut Hill stone building demolished for townhouse development

Experienced operating engineer demolishes historic but not historically registered stone building as part of controversial plan to replace it with 8 four story townhouses in Chestnut Hill neighborhood of northwest Philadelphia

June 28, 2022

Books BUILDINGS HISTORY

Anecdotes brighten tour of Rosebach rare book Museum and Library

Guide Charlie Karl gives anecdote filled tour of the Rosenbach rare book Museum and LIbrary on Delancey Place in downtown Philadelphia.

June 20, 2022

BUILDINGS CHESTNUT HILL Construction

New construction will shadow historic Chestnut Hill Baptist Church cemetery

A neighbor reflects on the historic Chestnut Hill Baptist Church cemetery, an open space for the neighborhood, which is about to be overshadowed by 5 story condominium complex.

January 18, 2022

BUILDINGS Construction HISTORY

Finds from a collapsed dairy barn

Chey Bouson helps her friends rescue stuff from a collapsed dairy barn to sell at their eclectic farm stand

October 21, 2021

BUILDINGS CARS AND VEHICLES machines

SEPTA bus and aerial bucket lift collide; “no major injuries”

"No major injuries" reported when part of an aerial bucket lift and a SEPTA passenger bus collide on Germantown Avenue in Chestnut Hill.

October 8, 2021

BUILDINGS CARS AND VEHICLES ENVIRONMENT

Going solar with car and house

A Wyndmoor, PA man with an electric car and solar panel house sees savings selling excess electricity back to the grid at high rates and charging his car overnight at low rates

October 3, 2021

ART BUILDINGS Construction

We build a mudhif

Iraqi refugees, U.S. Iraqi war vets, nature and peace lovers combine forces to build a mudhif, a traditional community gathering place and guest house of the swamp Arabs of Iraq.

June 2, 2021