Tuesday (4/26), On The Little Screen
25 April 2011
The long-brewing effort to bring the history of Philadelphia to film gets its official start Tuesday night at 7:30 on 6ABC.
Posts tagged with “Octavius Catto”
Dark Sleeve of History No More
3 April 2011
But the story didn’t begin in 1919, which is the very point of two new books, one centered in New York, the other in Philadelphia. One must pull the curtain back even as far back as the late 18th century.
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.
Sounds of These Streets
22 July 2008
Later, as I do, I’ll walk, under the pear trees, around the construction fences, past the low windows, block after block. As I walk I find myself recounting, in my own head, in my own voice, the very rhythm of the street.