William Penn by Bill Cannon
But Penn only used this term once. “It actually applies to an earlier plan, which really was a very different layout,” says historian Lily Milroy, in an interview for the film series “Philadelphia: The Great Experiment.”
On the other hand? “He was thinking about Philadelphia as a commercial center, as a port, a prosperous port,so he could exploit that for his own financial ends and profit from economic development.”
Hidden City is launching its new roster of programs and the next festival with the help of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. All gifts and memberships will be matched one to one up to $100,000 through the 2011 Philadelphia Knight Arts Challenge, and will be acknowledged on the Hidden City Daily site and in literature for the 2013 Festival.
The secret lives of buildings from the anonymous author of Philaphilia.
Forget Wikipedia, Harry Kyriakodis has the answers.
Joe Brin finds stories the old fashioned way. Serendipity in the streets of Philly.
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