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Documenta ’76: How an Avant-Garde Art Sensation Almost Happened in Philadelphia
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

Losing Our Independence: Bicentennial Film In Last Days
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

Bacteria And The Bellevue: The Birthplace Of Legionnaires’ Disease
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

A View Of The Bicentennial From The Top Of Penn Mutual
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

At Laurel Hill, An 1830 Music Room Lives On
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

Echoes of the Bicentennial
Art & Design

Echoes of the Bicentennial

Faded murals spotted in Kensington and Fishtown recall Philadelphia’s bungled Bicentennial celebration in 1976.


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