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In Kingsessing, A Colonial Cottage Keeps History In Place
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In Kingsessing, A Colonial Cottage Keeps History In Place

Just off of Woodland Avenue among a block of crumbling rows stands a small, stone farmhouse that has miraculously withstood time and tide for over 250 years. Contributor Ann de Forest has the story behind the tiny colonial cottage on Vogdes Street

All Smiles On Woodland Avenue
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All Smiles On Woodland Avenue

Native daughter Theresa Stigale returns to “The Ave” to find most of the old shops gone, but a new diversity and vitality in its place. She talks to the optimistic shopkeepers about the life of one of Philadelphia’s great shopping streets

Wistful For Modern
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Wistful For Modern

Forget the colonial city or the 19th century city, what happened to the muscular city of the mid-20th century?


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