CLOSE UP Video Interviews

Shoe repair apprentice is enthusiastic

Young woman, an enthusiastic shoe repair store apprentice, cleans a boot.

August 15, 2018

Turning Pennsylvania Blue

Neighbors gather at a coffee shop in Mount Airy, Philadelphia to write personalized postcards to voters as part of the "Turn PA Blue" effort to get Democratic Party candidates elected to the Pennsylvania state legislature in the fall 2018 midterm elections

August 8, 2018

African-American Current Affairs Education

Palestine Teach-In draws hundreds in Philly

From the Facebook Event Page "Join us on June 30 for our Palestine teach-in! This event brings together an amazing group of scholars, organizers, activists, and teachers for a day…

July 1, 2018

African-American ART Children

Painting like Pollock, campers have fun

Campers, young and old, splash, throw and blow paint on large canvases in the style of abstract expressionist artist Jackson Pollock.

June 10, 2018

ART Books EVENTS

Philadelphia Book Art Fair offers surprising and funny art

"Presented by Philadelphia Photo Arts Center the Philadelphia Art Book Fair is a two-day event, which showcases a wide range of exhibitors, from large and small photography and art book…

June 3, 2018

Current Affairs Death INTERNATIONAL

College bound Syrian refugee survived bombings

In interview, young Syrian refugee describes escaping bombings by his own government and taking refuge in Turkey then the U.S. and the plight of his remaining countrymen and women and kin.

May 20, 2018

ART Books HISTORY

Conservator demonstrates preservation techniques

Protecting treasured objects such as books, artwork and ephemera from decay using archival, acid-free materials was the subject of conservator's workshop demonstration.

May 17, 2018

Books

Flourtown is going solar

Flourtown, homeowners generate their own electricity with solar panels on their roofs and, in the case of one, in her back yard.

May 13, 2018

ANIMALS Books ENVIRONMENT

2018 Wissahickon Day Parade with oldtimer and author

At the Wissahickon Day Parade celebrating the forbidding of cars on Forbidden Drive, old timer Dr Tom rode in a wagon and "Twenty Horses" author Nancy Peter rode her new love, Cheyenne.

May 9, 2018

BUILDINGS Education HISTORY

TCNJ alumni day, 104 year old + the Travers 5

The “Travers 5” students at Trenton State College in Ewing, New Jersey were an “intentional democratic community” of young men and women on the fifth floor of the Travers dorm…

May 8, 2018

Czech Republic workaway journal

Ethical hacking, parallel police, graffiti art and more on “Alternative Prague” tour

Ukrainian war refugee drives taxi in Prague

Doktor Water mucks out old well

Granddaughter continues tradition at Czech Bead Factory