City Life Reporting for Duty: First Troop Celebrates 246 Years of Civic Service From military parades to pandemic learning pods, 23rd Street Armory rises to the occasion amid COVID-19 as a haven for underserved school children. Amy Cohen has the story
History He Sees You When You’re Sleeping, He Knows When You’re Awake: Christmas & Counterterrorism at the Quartermaster Depot Sarah Kennedy takes us to the Quartermaster Depot in South Philly where a Christmas factory outlet and a surveillance center make strange neighbors
History The Vanishing Of Northeast Village David Coyne traverses bramble and broken blacktop along Roosevelt Boulevard to reveal a military housing community that was evacuated and demolished in the 1960s
Preservation Lost In The Shuffle: When Registered Buildings Go Down Why are some buildings on the National Register of Historic Places preserved while others are casually destroyed? The Shadow gives an example of this phenomena through the Wagner Free Institute of Science and the John F. Kennedy Vocational Center
Preservation Farewell To Forrestal Attention Navy enthusiasts and photographers interested in rare events: tomorrow, the USS Forrestal will be towed from the Philadelphia Navy Yard. The historic aircraft carrier’s final voyage will conclude its 59 years at a Texas scrapyard
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 Lane
History Philadelphia During The Civil War: A Medical Perspective, Opening At The Mütter One hundred fifty years have passed since the Battle of Gettysburg turned the tide of the American Civil War. Now, the Mütter Museum — which opened that same year — opens a permanent exhibit commemorating Philadelphia’s medical contribution during that awful war. Joe Brin previews
Architecture Awaiting A New Call To Service In Mantua While South Philly’s Third Regiment Armory is at the center of an ongoing discussion, another armory sits silently deep in West Philadelphia. The Shadow digs deep to bring us its story