Tours of William Penn's Quaker Colonies http://www.exploring-philadelphia.com/images/rssimage.jpg tag:www.exploring-philadelphia.com,2007-04-10:%2Findex.php George R. Fisher III, M.D. gfisher@philadelphia-reflections.com http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/ (c) Copyright 2004 - 2012 George R. Fisher III, M.D. All rights reserved. 2012-02-06T18:43:27-05:00 tag:www.exploring-philadelphia.com,2007-04-13:%2Findex.php 2006-05-01T22:31:54-04:00 2012-02-06T18:43:27-05:00

Specialized tours of the Philadelphia area by a long-time local resident

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You've seen the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall. <br /><br /> Come now on a tour of the city the Founding Brothers lived in, a smaller city than today which they knew intimately. Their Colonial Philadelphia can be seen in a day's walk through the center of town.

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<img src="http://www.christchurchphila.org/SiteData/imagefolder/strickland.jpg" class="tn-l-w100" alt="Christ Church, Philadelphia" /> When the large meeting house at Fourth and Arch was built, many Quakers moved their houses to the area. At that time, "North of Market" implied the Quaker region of town.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone>

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<img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Indepence%20hall-724037.jpeg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Independence Hall" />It's only open a few days each year, but the red brick building at 5th and Arch was the meeting house for those few Quakers, including Betsy Ross, who fought for the Revolution. The Park Service has made a beautiful restoration, which deserves to be seen by more people.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone>

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<img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/FreeQuakerMeeting.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" />This old local expression originally pointed to where the Quakers live on Arch Street, but over the centuries has taken on a lot of less flattering associations. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone>

tag:www.exploring-philadelphia.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzbetsy_ross_on_hard.html 2006-06-26T14:16:15-04:00 2011-07-01T14:51:30-04:00

<img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Betsy%20Ross.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The famous Revolutionary seamstress lived long into the 19th Century, apparently outliving her savings. A useful tale, perhaps, for Social Security reform.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone>

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<img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/church98.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The Wesley brothers converted so many Americans to the Anglican church, they couldn't ordain enough ministers. Reluctantly, Americans were allowed to ordain their own ministers. When the Revolution was over, they had drifted into a new Protestant denomination. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone>

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<img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/elthreths%20alley-778339.jpeg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Elthreths" />Two of our oldest and most charming tourist attractions are just across the street from each other..<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone>

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<img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/TOWNSHEND2.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Charles Townshend and William Bradford were separated by an ocean, and surely never met. But if any two people can be said to have deliberately provoked the American Revolution, these two must be considered. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone>

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<img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/apstrseal.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The equivalent of the rosetta stone for colonial commerce had been sitting on George Vaux's shelf for six generations.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone>

tag:www.exploring-philadelphia.com,2009-07-19:%2Fgrand_union.html 2009-07-19T22:26:14-04:00 2011-07-06T16:26:32-04:00

<img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Grand_union_flag.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Grand Union Flag" />Thirteen stars and stripes became the National Flag in 1777, but a rather similar flag was the National flag from 1775-1777. It was also designed by a Philadelphia milliner, Margaret Manny.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone>

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<img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/1000.JPG" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The foot of Arch was once the center of town, and Arch Street from the Delaware to the Schuylkill was the center of Quaker life for two centuries.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone>

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<img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/wilson2.jpg" alt="Pierre Augustin Beaumarchais" class="tn-l-w50" />History was made at 3rd and Walnut, but so far, is unmarked.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone>

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<img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/275px-Schuylkill_Fishing_Company.png" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />Unless you listen to some quibbles from White's in London, the Schuylkill Fishing Club of the State in Schuylkill is the oldest organized men's club in the world. And even if that exception is admitted, it's the oldest mens club in America. It's not secret, but it's very private.

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<img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/indepencehall.jpg" class="tn-l-50" width="100" alt="Independence Hall" />Millions of eye patients have been asked to read the passage from Franklin's autobiography, "I walked up Market Street, etc." which is commonly printed on eye-test cards. Here's your chance to do it.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone>

tag:www.exploring-philadelphia.com,2007-04-21:%2Fventuris_franklin_museum_in.html 2007-04-21T17:50:39-04:00 2011-06-30T16:03:25-04:00

<img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/benfranklincourt.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Franklin Court Museum" />For several decades there has been a splendid museum of Franklin's personal life, hidden within the famous block where he once lived. Children love it.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> .

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<img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/glass-armonica.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/glass-armonica.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />The armonica was a musical instrument invented by Ben Franklin, who else. Beethoven and Mozart wrote music for it. It made people sick and may even have killed someone.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone>

tag:www.exploring-philadelphia.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzjoseph_priestley_shaker_and.html 2006-06-26T14:05:08-04:00 2011-08-04T19:51:47-04:00

<img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/josephpriestley.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Priestly" />The father of the science of chemistry was also the founder of the Unitarian Church in America.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone>

tag:www.exploring-philadelphia.com,2006-09-01:%2Falexander_hamilton_celebrity.html 2006-09-01T14:05:53-04:00 2011-06-30T15:26:49-04:00

<img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/AlexanderHamilton.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Alexander Hamilton" />He had the kind of taudry private life and flashy public behavior that Philadelphia will only tolerate in aristocrats, sometimes.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone>

tag:www.exploring-philadelphia.com,2006-06-21:%2Fcarpenters_hall.html 2006-06-21T14:21:56-04:00 2012-01-03T09:48:30-05:00

<img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/carpentershall.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Carpenter's Hall" />Carpenter's Hall now seems a little place, and it was chopped up into still smaller rooms at the time of the Continental CongressBut nevertheless it was the biggest rentable place in the largest town in the colonies, so 53 delegates crowded in and did their work.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone>

tag:www.exploring-philadelphia.com,2005-03-24:%2Famerican_philo_society.html 2004-05-26T16:58:17-04:00 2011-07-14T17:20:01-04:00

<img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/charles_wilson_peale.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Charles Wilson Peale started his museum of curiosities here, and then moved it to the second floor of Independence Hall, where he painted the famous portrait of himself holding up the curtain. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone>

tag:www.exploring-philadelphia.com,2006-12-13:%2Ffranklin_declares_independence_a.html 2006-12-13T14:01:09-05:00 2011-07-06T14:11:22-04:00

<img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Bfranklinportait2.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Bfranklinportait2.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />Franklin made no secret of his goal of national independence, at least a year before the Continental Congress voted and Thomas Jefferson composed his rather rambling declaration.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone>

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<img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/spirit%20of%2076.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />There were about 30,000 residents, just a small town, but it was the second largest city in the English-speaking world. Aside from wagons, there were thirty wheeled vehicles. But this is the town where decisions were made.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone>

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<img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/signersconsti.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" />Two of the main authors of the Federalist Papers -- and hence of the Constitution -- ultimately proved to be acting on entirely different sets of principles, aiming for widely different goals.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone>

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<img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/andrewhamilton.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Andrew Hamilton" />The original Philadelphia Lawyer, Andrew Hamilton gets confused with Alexander Hamilton, no relation. Judged from his life accomplishments, Andrew was one of the most influential people in pre-Revolutionary America.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone>

tag:www.exploring-philadelphia.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzfrench_philadelphia.html 2006-06-26T15:38:16-04:00 2011-07-06T14:59:10-04:00

<img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/longfellow.jpeg" class="tn-l-h50" alt="" />The French and the English fought for centuries; colonies seeking independence played one against the other. Our cooking, clothing and architecture went French when we favored France; traces of many periods still reflect that fact.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone>

tag:www.exploring-philadelphia.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzthe_richest_men_in.html 2006-06-26T15:17:28-04:00 2011-07-12T15:27:05-04:00

<img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/morrisr.jpg" alt="" class="tn-l-w50" />In ten minutes, you can walk between the Society Hill homes of Robert Morris, William Bingham, Stephan Girard, and Nicholas Biddle. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone>

tag:www.exploring-philadelphia.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzcharles_peterson_and_amity.html 2006-06-23T16:01:40-04:00 2011-07-05T11:34:52-04:00

<img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/charlespeterson.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Charles Peterson" />Most of our really historic buildings have an ivory button nailed to the newell post, and there is only word of mouth to explain why. America's most famous preservation architect tried very hard to document some proof but couldn't..<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone>

tag:www.exploring-philadelphia.com,2006-06-20:%2Fstephen_girard_1750_1831.html 2006-06-20T11:23:00-04:00 2012-02-01T10:40:52-05:00

<img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Girard.gif" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Stephen Girard was blind in one eye and never went to school. But he was a successful sea captain, then a successful merchant, then a successful banker. In the last year of his life, he grasped the essence of the Industrial Revolution, made a successful plan for the next century, and wrote a truly remarkable will.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone> <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone>

tag:www.exploring-philadelphia.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzjewelers_row.html 2006-06-26T14:43:03-04:00 2011-10-04T14:23:17-04:00

<img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/jewerlersrow-749624.jpeg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="jewerlers row" />It makes an interesting study in the economics of marketing to visit the collection of dozens of jeweler shops all crowded into a couple of blocks.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone>

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The Franklin Institute of Philadelphia has reproduced Dr. Franklin's last will and testament on the Internet. It is copied here for reader convenience.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone>

tag:www.exploring-philadelphia.com,2007-05-04:%2Fsixth_and_walnut_to.php 2007-05-04T22:22:50-04:00 2011-06-29T17:26:19-04:00

<img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/PennsylvHospital.jpg" class="tn-l-h100" alt="Pennsylvania Hospital" />In 1751, the Pennsylvania Hospital at 8th and Spruce was 'way out in the country. Now it is in the center of a city, but the area still remains dominated by medical institutions.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone>

tag:www.exploring-philadelphia.com,2006-06-21:%2Fcurtis_fainting_spells.html 2006-06-21T14:30:02-04:00 2011-07-12T17:07:34-04:00

<img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/1867-68_Public_Ledger_Bldg_Phila_Ingram_1876.jpg" class="tn-l-w50 alt" />A publishing house employs myriads of young women. They faint a lot. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone>

tag:www.exploring-philadelphia.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzmayors_and_limos.html 2006-06-26T14:43:46-04:00 2011-07-07T15:40:32-04:00

<img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Limo.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Mayors sometimes want to be noticed riding around, and sometimes want to be invisible. They have been both. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone>

tag:www.exploring-philadelphia.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzwashington_square.html 2006-06-26T15:35:07-04:00 2011-07-12T16:30:24-04:00

<img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/washingtonsq.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />All five of William Penn's city squares have proud and colorful histories . Washington Square, however, tops them all. It's had prisons, fish ponds, cemeteries, mansions and skyscrapers. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone>

tag:www.exploring-philadelphia.com,2006-06-23:%2Fzthe_first_and_oldest.html 2006-06-23T17:25:07-04:00 2012-01-03T03:48:16-05:00

<img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/pennsyhosp.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The history of American medicine is the history of the Pennsylvania Hospital.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone>

tag:www.exploring-philadelphia.com,2006-06-21:%2Fdr_cadwalader_s_hat.html 2006-06-21T12:55:31-04:00 2011-07-06T12:24:02-04:00

<img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/20040326004x200.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Cadwalader" />Sometimes it's hard for others to understand what makes Quakers tick.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone>

tag:www.exploring-philadelphia.com,2005-03-14:%2Fmusical_fund_hall.html 2002-09-19T16:58:17-04:00 2011-10-05T12:51:13-04:00

<img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/williamsrickland.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The Musical Fund started as a musician pension scheme, but its hall was used for many historic events. The musicians union has agitated Locust Street ever since; the Musical Fund Society still meets; William Strickland's building now contains condominiums.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone>

tag:www.exploring-philadelphia.com,2006-12-27:%2Feakins_and_doctors.html 2006-12-27T20:11:58-05:00 2011-07-06T12:29:48-04:00

<img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/grossclinic.jpg" alt="{http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/grossclinic.jpg}" class="tn-l-w50" />Philadelphia's art world joined its medical world in reacting fiercely to Jefferson Medical College's sale of the best painting by the best artist of Philadelphia's Nineteenth century.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone>

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<img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/Raquetclub.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />No longer exclusively all-male (or, occasionally, all-female), the downtown club is changing its role but remains a social center of considerable importance.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone>

tag:www.exploring-philadelphia.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzhenry_george_single_tax.html 2006-06-26T14:11:59-04:00 2011-07-06T16:46:29-04:00

<img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/henry-703960.jpeg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The Henry George idea of a single tax still lives on in a school run in his old house on Eleventh Street.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone>

tag:www.exploring-philadelphia.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzthe_kimmel_center_comments.html 2006-06-26T13:42:32-04:00 2011-07-12T14:53:50-04:00

<img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/kimmelcenter.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />Philadelphia needs more than one concert hall, but two of them may be more music than we can manage. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone>

tag:www.exploring-philadelphia.com,2005-03-14:%2Frail_station_broad.html 1997-11-13T16:58:17-05:00 2011-07-08T15:53:07-04:00

<img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/JonBrown.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="John Brown" />Philadelphia was the place where one railroad ended and another began. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone>

tag:www.exploring-philadelphia.com,2005-03-14:%2Fphiladelphia_in_1976.html 2000-05-25T16:58:17-04:00 2011-07-08T14:58:49-04:00

<img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/8239_lores.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="The Yellow Fever" />Philadelphia's ambitious Bicentennial celebration of the Declaration of Independence was ruined by an epidemic of a new disease that seemed to focus on tourists. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone>

tag:www.exploring-philadelphia.com,2006-06-26:%2Fzthe_center_of_town.html 2006-06-26T15:31:42-04:00 2011-07-12T14:26:54-04:00

<img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/PH_City-739585.jpeg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The designs of the city squares, that of City Hall in particular, follow the "diamond" pattern characteristic of the Scotch Irish, who were keen real estate speculators. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone>

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<img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/WilliamPennHead-798755.jpeg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="Billy Penn's hat" />There was a gentleman's agreement not to build higher than the top of City Hall, but business is business.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone>

tag:www.exploring-philadelphia.com,2009-01-07:%2Fphiladelphias_big_ben.html 2009-01-07T23:40:23-05:00 2011-07-08T15:00:20-04:00

The second largest bell in the world tolls at noon in Philadelphia. You can't overlook the sound, but many people don't know where it comes from. <!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone>

tag:www.exploring-philadelphia.com,2009-04-03:%2Fhsp_philadelphias_attic.html 2009-04-03T19:46:55-04:00 2011-07-06T17:03:43-04:00

<img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/hsplogo.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="" />The Historical Society of Pennsylvania started out in 1824 as a repository of family treasures. Several mergers and changes of direction have given it a new mission.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone>

tag:www.exploring-philadelphia.com,2010-07-12:%2Fznote_sixth_and_walnut.html 2010-07-12T18:33:13-04:00 2010-07-12T18:33:13-04:00

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<img src="http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/effingham%20buckley.jpg" class="tn-l-w50" alt="t" />Effingham Buckley Morris may not have thought of himself as a scientist but his love for Natural History brought the Academy of Natural Sciences much closer to the public and established the institution as an important component of Philadelphia. His banking career was a notable one.<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag --> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --> <g:plusone></g:plusone>