Yardsale features draftsman chair, convex mirror
Senior talks about vintage furniture, stereo, draftsman's chair, convex mirror offered at his yard sale in video interview
Paint the Cresheim Bridge Mural! Open Call for Artists
Things are looking up. Mural artists including ex-con are expected to submit designs for mural art on abandoned railway bridge in Northwest Philadelphia. #CresheimTrailMural
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Making sea biscuits (hardtack) in Alexandria, VA
A couple blocks away from the Alexandria Virginia Archaeological Museum, sea biscuits were found at the site where a bakery stood in the early 1800s. Also known as hardtack, the…
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
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.
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…
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May a shark swallow Jefferson Davis
Old Frederick County Courthouse Civil War Museum Guide Carol Miller recounts that Winchester Virginia changed hands many times between the Union and Confederate forces during the Civil War. And during…
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Orphan Train – Objects, Memories, Improv
Langston Darby held an icepack to his jaw before his program on “Found Objects: Unleash the Voice of the Everyday through Performance“ at the Chestnut Hill Branch of the Free…
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Historical Society opens archives
Volunteer Shirley Hanson was on hand to greet visitors at the Chestnut Hill Historical Society on their first Saturday of the month open house. The Society’s archives house some 20,000…
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Landscaper continues family tradition
Fifty years ago, when John Antonucci’s grandfather, Frank, immigrated from Italy and established his masonry business in North Wales, Pa outside Philadelphia, there was just a stop sign outside at…