Why Fever 1793 Resonates
4 April 2012 | Hidden City Daily
It’s a story of global interconnections, 18th century style.
Posts tagged with “Philadelphia: The Great Experiment”
WOW!
23 May 2011
This Thursday, May 26, I’ll be at Drexel University’s literary fest, “Week of Writing,” participating in a panel discussion, “Making History,” with Paula Cohen, Jay Kirk, and Buzz Bissinger.
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.
Awash in Voices
I’ve spent the last two months wandering, loitering, dancing. Above all, I’ve been listening — to some four centuries of voices; to ideas and inventions, to observations and recriminations, to stories of love and stories of horror.
“To See Something Greater”
19 September 2008 | Philly Skyline
“He was quite a contradictory fellow,” says Sam Katz, explaining his new-found fascination with William Penn. “We tend to think of him as the grandfather of religious freedom, which he was, but he was also the largest private landholder in the world.”