Posts tagged with “City Hall”

Magical Beating Heart

4 April 2011

“What do you do when someone says you can’t do anything you’ve ever done before?” she wondered.  Her answer was not to look skyward, but backwards to take cues from the city’s past.

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The Floodgates Open

11 March 2011

At the end of the War, Philadelphia, which had been so crucial to the Union victory, boomed. As historian Shan Holt says in the film, “Anything was possible.” Airing on 6ABC in Philadelphia, April 26, at 7:30PM.

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The People’s Court(yard)

25 January 2007 | Philadelphia City Paper

We come by the hundreds every hour, from Oxford Circle, from Kingsessing, from Grays Ferry, in the form of secretaries and engineers and laborers, dealmakers and the dispossessed, to take shelter under those high parapets for just a moment before emerging again in the harsh and frantic world.

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