Art & Design Documenta ’76: How an Avant-Garde Art Sensation Almost Happened in Philadelphia Ella Comberg explores the failed plan that would have brought an international contemporary art event to the city during the Bicentennial
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 Bicentennial
History Bacteria And The Bellevue: The Birthplace Of Legionnaires’ Disease The fatal outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease this summer in South Bronx has taken the lives of 12 New Yorkers. Contributor Karen Chernick revisits the bacteria’s history with the first identified epidemic at the Bellevue Stratford Hotel on Broad Street
History A View Of The Bicentennial From The Top Of Penn Mutual A new public observation deck is opening this summer on the 57th floor of One Liberty Place and Harry K. couldn’t be more pleased. Join him in the glass elevator to the top of the old Penn Mutual building as he evokes the Spirit of ’76
Preservation At Laurel Hill, An 1830 Music Room Lives On Thought all the vestiges of the Bicentennial were gone? Not this–a nearly 40 year old music series at Laurel Hill Mansion
Art & Design Echoes of the Bicentennial Faded murals spotted in Kensington and Fishtown recall Philadelphia’s bungled Bicentennial celebration in 1976.
