NATURE - CLOSE UP Video Interviews

Bees make hive in home: Highland Avenue honey

It’s really great. They took the fascia off and the amazing thing to me is as they’re crow barring, and this and that , the bees completely ignored them. So…

July 7, 2011

ANIMALS ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL

Vancouver librarian volunteers in Galapagos

Sally Taylor, a university reference librarian from Vancouver, Canada is finishing up an 8-month stint as a volunteer librarian at the Charles Darwin Research Station in the Galapagos. She spoke…

February 8, 2011

Current Affairs NATURE POLITICS

Israeli traded sand for snow, hopeful for democracy in Egypt

Along the cleared paths of the Morris Arboretum, visitors enjoy a snowy winter wonderland. Jacob and Sarah Pinto come frequently to the arboretum with their sons Shachar (right) and Yishai,…

February 4, 2011

NATURE RECREATION Sports

Downhill skiing in Conshohocken

Just outside the city’s northwest boundary, there’s downhill skiing. Soldiers returning home after World War II joined together as the Wissahickon Ski Club to create their own micro version of…

January 25, 2011

Education MILITARY NATURE

Navy SEAL reservist encountered on sledding slope

"Tracker" Dan is a reservist with the United States Navy SEALS and has served on active duty in Iraq where he had a months-long assignment guarding former Iraqi Prime Minister…

December 28, 2010

NATURE STORES WORK

Tractor Trailer O’ Trees Arrive on Hill

The unit block of East Evergreen was bustling one afternoon earlier this week. Andy Peszka of the Top of the Hill Market managed workers unloading a tractor trailer load of…

December 10, 2010

BUILDINGS NATURE

Andorra’s tree house tree stump down

SO THE TREE HOUSE TREE IS DOWN? “Yeah, it’s been a stump for thirty years. It wasn’t going to last forever. AND BEFORE IT WAS A STUMP? “It was the…

September 17, 2010

ART NATURE ROXBOROUGH MANAYUNK

Light from sun powers gong

Aviva: These things are solar powered so that when the- Zachary: The stronger the light is, the faster you hear the chime. Aviva: Then, when the mallet goes all the…

June 24, 2010

NATURE RECREATION Travel

Geocaches to fight muscle disease

HOW’D YOU GET STARTED GEOCACHING? “A friend introduced me when we went to hawk mountain, you know the bird observatory. He had his IPhone or his Droid and he had…

May 27, 2010

ENTERTAINMENT Food and Drink NATURE

Alice McBee stirs sap by day and lights the stage at night

Alice McBee: “Sap’s coming from the maple trees” Bystander: “Does it get cold enough at night for a run?” McBee: “Oh, definitely. It’s going down below freezing every night.” Rudnick:…

March 10, 2010