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The Devil Is The Detail
Urbanism

The Devil Is The Detail

“Notorious” Devil’s Pool? The most beloved place in the Wissahickon may suffer abuse and indignity every summer, but they are no match for its beauty and physiologic significance. Brad Maule defends the natural landmark

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Getting Wise To Watershed Waste With One Man’s Trash

Today is Earth Day and Bradley Maule has a bone to pick with Philadelphia. He just spent 52 weeks picking up our litter in the Wissahickon Valley and his collection isn’t pretty. His evocative environmental art installation, One Man’s Trash, opens today, April 22nd, at the Fairmount Water Works Interpretive Center. HC co-editors Michael Bixler and Maule caught up to get into some trash talk.

The Colorful Canopy: Fall In The Wissahickon
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The Colorful Canopy: Fall In The Wissahickon

All across the Northeast, a relatively mild summer has produced some of the most vibrant fall foliage in years. That’s all the excuse Brad Maule needed to immerse himself with camera in the Wissahickon woods for the past month

How Can You Know What It Means To Be Here
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How Can You Know What It Means To Be Here

What explains the power of place, of Fairmount Park especially, to give meaning to our lives? Nathaniel Popkin on three writers drawn to the park, including the great poet Stephen Berg, who died 12 days ago

Wissahickon East Officially Welcomed Into Fairmount Park
Urbanism

Wissahickon East Officially Welcomed Into Fairmount Park

Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park system grew by six acres on Saturday with the dedication of the Wissahickon East parcel in East Mt. Airy. Elected officials and park commissioners cut a ribbon to make it official, and volunteers staged a three-hour cleanup to get the park off on the good foot

Incident On Wissahickon White Trail, Or, An Open Letter To Dog People
Urbanism

Incident On Wissahickon White Trail, Or, An Open Letter To Dog People

While hiking alone yesterday in the Wissahickon, Brad Maule encountered two dogs running off-leash, and they didn’t respond well to his trash grabbing apparatus


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