After the Liberty Bell, see what else Philly has to offer: Reading Terminal Market has almost 90 merchants selling everything from baked goods to produce to fresh-cut flowers; Morris Arboretum's 92 acres is home to more than 6,000 trees and shrubs; and Fox Chase Farm is the only working farm in the city.
For anyone wondering about the weather and climate from the Poconos and Philadelphia to Southern New Jersey and the Jersey Shore to Delaware, here are such facts as the hottest summer, snowiest winter, strongest tornado, and signs of global ...
Harvey Holiday's Top 10 Philadelphia Soul Records Harvey Holiday spun everyone's favorite numbers on 98.1 WOGL for more than 30 years. He retired at the end of 2018. 10. “Love Train” by the O'Jays. “People all over the world, ...
In The Philadelphia Athletics, author William C. Kashatus tells the story of Connie Mack's talented and comedic team.
Chip Kelly was expected to bring a revolutionary, fast-paced, and high-scoring offense when he came to the Eagles from the University of Oregon. He did just that in his first season, when he helped lead the team to the 2013 division ...
Join Kyriakodis as he strolls Front Street, Delaware Avenue, and Penn's Landing to rediscover the story of Philadelphia's lost waterfront.
Photographs show Philadelphia's museums, fountains, bridges, parks, churches, libraries, colleges, office buildings, residential neighborhoods, historic sites, and public buildings
Philadelphia is a walkable city where the modern visitor encounters historic architecture at every turn. In fact, no other American city is so richly endowed with historic buildings as Philadelphia—some...
This is a book about Philadelphia and about photography, but it is not the usual book about either. On one level, this is the pictorial story of a great industrial metropolis in transition.
The original of this half tone was drawn by Frank H. Taylor 721916 , FIGURE 67. Baldwin's Lodge Alley shop , c.1831 , Smithsonian Institution . A talented mechanic , Matthias Baldwin constructed his first locomotive in this three ...
Architects like Frank Furness, Louis Kahn, and Vincent Kling helped transform the city into an international destination. And there are many notables looming outside the margins of this book, waiting for their day of discovery."