A new book explores the banishment of 20 Philadelphia Quakers that refused to participate in the Revolutionary War. Amy Cohen has this review

Harry K. takes us inside an old Quaker meeting house at 6th and Noble that was leveled with the rest of East Callowhill during urban renewal. The industrial area is springing back to life after decades of desolation

With conflict over Philadelphia’s Sanctuary City status heightening, contributor Ann de Forest offers a tour highlighting Philadelphia’s heritage as a refuge and a crucible of freedom of religion

At Butler and Germantown Pikes, plans for a dense suburban subdivision threaten to dissolve the Corson Estate, a 10 acre parcel rich in abolitionist history and an important stop on the Underground Railroad. Michael Bixler reports

The strip mall on the north side of Spring Garden Street between Third and Fourth Streets doesn’t carry much of a pulse these days. Harry K. says almost 200 years ago this sleepy spot was a hotbed of Quaker dissent and where the first major schism within the Religious Society of Friends originated

The Pennsylvania Environmental Council is hosting a block party this Saturday to highlight plans that would transform Spring Garden Street into a progressive urban greenway. Harry K. is optimistic and gives us the history of this once great thoroughfare

In Old City, there’s no better example of a building unchanged by time. Gayle Christiansen gives us the tour

Harry K searches out traces of the old Quaker town, Callowhill, named for William Penn’s second wife