Preservation American Revolution Landmark To Be Auctioned Off At Sheriff Sale 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 ...
History Shaping Up And Shipping Out At Philadelphia’s First Navy Yard Harry K sets sail for South Philly where shipbuilding and national defense once defined the Delaware River ...
History How Franklin’s Grave Became A Monument And Philadelphians Were Persuaded To Like It 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 ...
History On Callowhill, Channeling The Ghost Of Old York Road Harry K. takes us down to 4th and Callowhill where an out of place fire plug summons the spirit of Old York ...
History Losing Our Independence: Bicentennial Film In Last Days 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 ...
History Following Allens/Allen’s/Allen Lane to the Origins of Mount Airy 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. ...
History Three Centuries And Countless Incarnations In Paschalville 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 The Original Made In America Festival 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 ...
