History Catching Up With a Baseball Legend in Port Richmond The 2020 Major League Baseball season cautiously begins today with no fans in the stands and just 60 games. Kimberly Haas introduces us to a little-known local celebrity of the sport: The Neatsfoot Oil Refineries Corporation
History Black History Museums Struggle To Survive Amid Philly Revival In need of funding and resources, three museums dedicated to African American history face an uncertain future. Keshler Thibert has the story
History Discovering My Family’s Place In The Workshop Of The World In Port Richmond, Amy Cohen has a chance encounter with her family’s industrial past when she happens upon a sign for her grandfather’s old business, the Philadelphia Rust-Proof Company
Photography Hidden Lens: Fading Industry On The Delaware River In this next installment of Hidden Lens, a new series showcasing the captures of local photographers, we feature the work of Betsy Manning and the final days of the Port Richmond Grain Elevator
Architecture Marked Potential: Graffiti Pier Shila Griffith is back with a new edition of Marked Potential. In this month’s proposal she envisions Graffiti Pier as the city’s next great public park
History Old Church In Port Richmond Parties On At Indiana and Thompson, a catering facility keeps spirits high inside a church that was built in 1893
Development On Sleepy Richmond Street, A Spark Of Renewal Catches Wind After years of gradual decline, efforts to reenergize historic Richmond Street in Port Richmond are putting down roots. Michael Bixler takes a look
History Is This The Train Tragedy We’ll Learn From? (Updated) It’s hard to imagine last night’s Amtrak tragedy being any worse when at least seven people are confirmed dead. But the derailed Train 188 stopped just shy of a parked oil train. Brad Maule ponders the disinvestment of both Amtrak and infrastructure—and the increase in both Amtrak ridership and oil train frequency