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 > more
New Haas Mural Revels In The City’s Many Architectural Layers
Latest work by famed muralist begins, a look at Devil's Pool, and the story of advertising told on doors > more
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. > more
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 > more
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 > more
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