A pint-size sapling will be planted at IndependenceHall tomorrow, bringing with it an outsize hope - that a mighty tree that all but disappeared 60 years ago will someday find its way back to the East Coast forests and hillsides it once dominated.
Additional images from our Philadelphia weekend - IndependenceHall was built as the state house for the Colony of Pennsylvania. It acquired its name when Lafayette made a triumphant return to the United States, and Philadelphia, and referred to it as the "Hall of Independence." IndependenceHall sits at one end of Independence Mall which was...
Writes Tom White: I went to Philadelphia with my nine-year-old daughter and visited the Liberty Bell, Franklin Court, Betsy Ross home, and finally IndependenceHall. After the usual bag checks*, we waited in line to enter the old Pennsylvania State House. They allow a group of thirty or so in at a time, escorted [...]
... Story of Matthew Henson, Co-discoverer of the North Pole YA Lit: ROLAND SMITH for I.Q. Book One: IndependenceHall . I suppose the No-Duh awards go to Portlanders Dickman and Raymond, whose work has, in the past six months, been met with much popular and critical acclaim on the national stage. (Not to take anything away from either winner; both are producing really striking, superior...
... today and a little known fact. The structures range from Egyptian tombs and Mayan temples, to IndependenceHall and a Shaker barn, to the Sydney Opera House and the Petronas Twin Towers in Malaysia. The final illustrations cleverly invite readers back into the book to make connections and to find architectural details in the structures. An illustrated glossary of architectural terms...
... of the building. "In the birthplace of American freedom, at the site of the Liberty Bell and IndependenceHall, people now do not have a right to stand on a public sidewalk and express their beliefs – in this particular case, the gospel of Jesus Christ," Marcavage has said. "And if [authorities] can shut down the gospel from being preached, they can shut down...
The two have so far appeared together outside IndependenceHall in Philadelphia, gone on The Ed Schultz radio show, and appeared on MSNBC's Hardball . They're also doing a live blog at Crooks and Liars right now.
So there we were strolling around on Independence Mall yesterday, when I heard a familiar voice coming over a PA. I recognized the campaign posters as those of Joe Sestak, the liberal Democrat former Navy admiral who is running in the Democratic primary against sitting "Democratic [allegedly] Senator Arlen Specter. I was with me Ma and me sis at the time, but I convinced them to stop and...
Former U.S. Senate candidate Ned Lamont of Connecticut will lend insurgent mojo to U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak's campaign for the 2010 Democratic nomination against Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter in a rally Monday at IndependenceHall.
So I happened to be at a train station near my home in suburban Philadelphia, and saw a sign for the new exhibit at the National Constitution Center downtown, fittingly located just a couple of blocks from IndependenceHall.Meaning no disrespect whatsoever to Princess Diana (I would happily have, er, escorted her to an event in this country, or enjoyed meeting her on a ski lift in the...
... government advocacy group FreedomWorks, which helped plan and promote the Tea Parties, town hall protests and the September ‘Taxpayer March’ in Washington. “If you can’t take it seriously, we will look for places of other employment for you.” .... Tea party organizers say their resistance to Republican Party-backed primary candidates has much to do with what...
... with London. Today in Philadelphia we had the chance to walk around the historical district in Independence National Park , seeing the Liberty Bell, IndependenceHall, Carpenters' Hall and the Franklin Court museum. Philadelphia is justly proud of its central role in the story of independence, federalism and the Constitution. The historic buildings sit uneasily...
Following are a selection of readers' responses to last month's Just Be Cause column by Debito Arudou, headlined "Meet Mr. James, gaijin clown": Having lived in San Francisco for nearly 46 years and grown up in the shadow of, and played in, IndependenceHall in Philadelphia as a child, had I chosen the career of barbering I might have come to Japan and worked trimming the hair...