Other blogs have taken up on behalf of the functions of the libraries which are set to be closed in a couple days.  With this photographic treatment, DesignPhiladelphia wants to make sure that we think about what could be lost in the historical and design significance of the building themselves.  The Carnegie libraries, as Preservation [...]

Up in Fishtown’s Penn Treaty Park, one of the region’s oldest power plants sits dormant as its future hangs in the balance. Will the Delaware Power Station be reused, or will the fate that befalls so many power plants - demolition -meet this one as well?  From WHYY’s Arts and Culture Desk, Alex Schmidt paid [...]

Reader Steve Palmer continues the conversation about the American Revolution Center at Valley Forge National Historical Park and encourages me to tie some of the comments together.  I’ve put links in to all of the previous comments and posts referenced in Steve’s comment:
Here’s an exercise for you Dan, if you’d like to provide some context [...]

This morning on 91FM, WHYY’s Alex Schmidt continued her reporting on the embattled American Revolution Center with a story about the Center’s plans to share a “sample” of their historical holdings.  As Alex reports, the Center is partnering up with the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts to put several paintings and other artifacts on [...]

The saga continues.
Late last week, Thursday night, opponents of the American Revolution Center, a planned museum and hotel complex slated to be built at Valley Forge National Historical Park, got a chance to voice their opposition to the project.
WHYY’s Alex Schmidt was there and filed a report that I’ll be linking to shortly.
You may remember [...]

The story about Senator Casey securing $45 million (yes, that’s million) for the revitalization of that strip of Fairmount Park between the Zoo and the Mann, Parkside Ave to the south and Montgomery Dr. to the north is all over the news today - including in this story by WHYY’s Peter Crimmins.
I don’t have much [...]

At the risk of disrupting the great discussion going on at my original post, I wanted to point out a couple of things that have been brought up by our commenters.
First, WHYY’s Alex Schmidt, the reporter who produced the original piece offered some great additional material that she didn’t have time to include in the [...]

In 1777 American rebels, broken, demoralized, undisciplined and on the edge of desertion, put up camp on some rolling hills about 10 miles from Philadelphia. As explained by USHistory.org, they emerged several months later “anxious to fight the British.”
Well, it’s 230 years later and the battle lines are being drawn once again, but this [...]

Since it has more to do with city government policy and the leadership role of the mayor, I posted an item about the continuing saga of the historic (and endangered) Boyd Theater over on the It’s Our City blog - a place where we are continuing the civic discussion started by The Next Mayor project.
The [...]