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…
Posted inAfrican-American BUILDINGS HISTORY
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…
Posted inBooks ENTERTAINMENT EVENTS
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…
Posted inCHESTNUT HILL HISTORY HOUSING
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…
Posted inBUSINESS ENVIRONMENT Family
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…
Posted inENTERTAINMENT Film HISTORY
Accompanies WC Fields silent film with digital Wurlitzer
Moviegoers attending the Chestnut Hill Film Group’s inaugural screening of the season this Tuesday evening were delighted by the artful musical accompaniment of veteran keyboardist Don Kinnear. Kinnear improvised…
Living in Princeton U’s 1860s President McCosh’s House
David Meadow leads a short tour through his home, known to the Princeton NJ community as “the McCosh house” because it was the residence of the James McCosh, president of…
Posted inANIMALS Death ENVIRONMENT
Three days on roof, survived Hurricane Katrina
NOTE: INFORMATION HAS BEEN RECEIVED ON 4/21/13 WHICH CALLS THE VERACITY OF THIS ACCOUNT INTO QUESTION.
Jo Quasney is a survivor of Hurricane Katrina. Of French Creole heritage, Quasney is a native of New Orleans who was living alone in her house in the eighth ward when the hurricane struck on August 29, 2005. Quasney bred birds and had no way of transporting or finding shelter for the birds when New Orleans residents were advised to evacuate so she stuck it out. Her neighborhood began to flood after she heard an explosion that she attributes to a Halliburton company oil barge breaking through a levee. (For a discussion on the cause of the breech, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ING_4727)