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to promote civic engagement in the Philadelphia region.Philly behind as Poe Wars heat up
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008 at 12:05 pm - by Its Our City Staff
Guest commentary
By Ed Pettit
If you haven’t heard, Philadelphia and Baltimore have been locked in battle over the literary legacy of Edgar Allan Poe. Well, maybe it’s just me who has been locked in a battle, but there
has been a lot of media attention. Most recently, the NY Times ran a piece about the [...]
Phillies’ return to the World Series stirs memories of 1980 & 1993
Monday, October 20th, 2008 at 2:29 pm - by Its Our City Staff
By Ed Cunningham
Ahh, 1980: Bill Green was Mayor of Philadelphia, and a young W. Wilson Goode was his Managing Director. Philadelphia was being referred to as “Filthydelphia,” with people’s and businesses’ penchant for littering the streets with trash. It was the end of the Carter era in Washington—a time of “stagflation,” a particularly nasty brew [...]
Movie Producer Sam Katz whets our appetite for Philly History film
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 at 3:08 pm - by Dan Pohlig
I just got my first email from Sam Katz alerting me to the progress he’s making on his latest project - a documentary film series (a la Ken Burns) about the history of our fair city.
In the first issue of what seems like will be a montly update that includes preview of interviews and footage, [...]
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