Filters On: Topic(s): Philadelphia History
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Friends Speaker Series | Beyond Chestnut Hill's Water Tower
Tue, November 26, 2019
1:30 P.M.
Chestnut Hill Library
Philadelphia's Bureau of Water completed mains that reached Northwest Philadelphia in the 1890s. For hundreds of years before that engineering feat, folks in the borough of Germantown, and the Townships of Mt. Airy and Roxborough paid private enterprises for water of dubious…
History of Mt. Airy: A Tour of Tourison
Wed, January 15, 2020
7:00 P.M.
Lovett Memorial Library
East Mt. Airy has a fascinating and little known history, and many fabulous houses. Who designed and built these houses, and created what we know as East Mt. Airy? Attend this vivid, pictorial history to find out more. Ashton Tourison was a builder with strong principles with…
Invisible Warriors, African American Women in World War II
Sat, February 8, 2020
2:00 P.M.
Lucien E. Blackwell West Philadelphia Regional Library
Join us for a screening of the documentary, Invisible Warriors, featuring a diverse group of African American “Rosie the Riveters” who recount what life was during the war. Followed by a conversation with Gregory S. Cooke, the director of the film. To learn more, visit…
Voyages by Road and Sea
Now through Sun, August 30, 2020
8:00 A.M.
First Floor Gallery West
at
Parkway Central Library
Voyages by Road and Sea explores the legacies of Walt Whitman and Herman Melville through contemporary voices and art in Parkway Central Library's West Gallery. Marking the bicentennial years for both Whitman and Melville, Voyages examines the personal and literary journeys of these two…