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.
Posts tagged with “Transit”
Surely You Jest
13 March 2009 | Philly Skyline
I’ve been reading D.T. Max’s profile of the late novelist David Foster Wallace, which appeared in last week’s New Yorker. Wallace apparently struggled — in his writing and in his life — to come to terms with what felt to him like an increasingly vapid and seemingly inane American way of life.
Flash of Hope
1 February 2009 | Grid
The third floor factory window frames the view, the restive city in the side-glance of the winter sun. Here’s a swollen plume of white smoke and the granite-colored river, and the Betsy Ross Bridge in the muted but improbable green invented by the Pennsylvania Railroad.
Slow Moving, City Alive
7 January 2009 | Philly Skyline
Perhaps it was our perch — on the balcony of a factory being transformed into a “creative compound” — that gave me the feeling of eyeing a place left behind.
Ready To Go
16 December 2008 | Philly Skyline
The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, the group that PennDOT chief Allen Biehler chairs, says that Pennsylvania has assembled 319 projects worth a little over a billion dollars. That’s the 16th largest amount.