Old stone home in Frankford with ties to the Declaration of Independence goes up for auction at a sherif sale in May. Harry K. has the news and history behind this threatened national landmark

Harry K sets sail for South Philly where shipbuilding and national defense once defined the Delaware River waterfront

Nearly 70 years after Benjamin Franklin’s death, public outcry demanding honor for the Founding Father transformed a battered, overgrown gravesite into a popular tourist destination. But the real story isn’t at all what we’ve been told. Join Mark Dixon as he uncovers truth and public deception behind the hole in the wall at Benjamin Franklin’s grave

Harry K. takes us down to 4th and Callowhill where an out of place fire plug summons the spirit of Old York Road

Harry K. waxes nostalgic about Independence, a 28-minute John Huston film about the American Revolutionary War that has been playing at Independence National Historical Park since the Bicentennial

Across the street from the Wawa at Germantown Avenue and Allens Lane, a historical marker traces the roots of Mount Airy. William Allen, Chief Justice of colonial Pennsylvania—and British Loyalist—built his estate here in 1750. Neighborhood resident Brad Maule profiles Allen’s influence on young Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, then considers s’s and apostrophes on Allens/Allen’s/Allen Lane

In Southwest Philly, traces of the Revolutionary War and Underground Railroad survive if you know where to find them. The Shadow Knows, as he digs into the Garrick House’s history

With Labor day Weekend’s Made In America festival coming up, Harry K takes us back to a much more critical public spectacle, the 1788 Grand Federal Procession, which helped cement public support for the new constitution and Federal-style government. Harry says this was perhaps a better example of “Made in America”