Preservation Lost In The Shuffle: Finding Philly’s Displaced Soldiers In honor of Memorial Day, Mickey Herr tracks the reinterred remains of soldiers who fought in the American Revolution and Civil War from Washington Square to Palumbo Recreation Center to Old Swedes' Church in South ...
Preservation Prefab Future For Former African-American Cemetery In West Philly Harry K. unearths an old African-American cemetery in West Philadelphia that was owned by a church connected to the Underground Railroad. The land is currently being redeveloped for residential ...
Preservation Gardeners Bring Cradle Graves Back From The Dead At Woodlands Cemetery, an army of volunteers preserve the memory of Victorian city dwellers with the Grave Gardeners program. Contributor Ann de Forest has the ...
Art & Design Spiritual Firebrand Of The Revolutionary War Immortalized In Wood A forgotten minister is honored with 100 year old stump sculpture at Old Pine Street Presbyterian ...
History The Tombstone Wall Of Society Hill With October at hand and Halloween on the way, we thought a series on historic cemeteries was most appropriate. Our first story presents the strange tale of thirty tombstones that sit embedded in the back ...
History Remembering Veterans With A Visit To Philadelphia National Cemetery As America honors the brave men and women whose service keep the country free, Matt Szalwinski takes a moment to shine a little light on the Philadelphia National Cemetery in West Oak ...
Preservation Stones And Stories At Mount Moriah Cemetery At Southwest Philly's historic Mount Moriah Cemetery, Mother Nature is reclaiming much of her land, and ownership of the cemetery is complicated and unclear. Dan Papa catches up with the Friends of Mount Moriah, an ...
Architecture Do You Believe In Reincarnation? Maria Gorshin has the story of a counter-intuitive--and well-conceived--proposal to revive the Divine Lorraine. Turn it into a columbarium for the storage, display, and visitation of funerary ashes and mementos of the lives of loved ...
