Experts team up for Julia de Burgos school library reopening
Original architects Jane Rath and Vincent Rivera pitch in with library organizer Jessica Kahn to help the elementary school bring back its library.
Original architects Jane Rath and Vincent Rivera pitch in with library organizer Jessica Kahn to help the elementary school bring back its library.
While others worked indoors on our new library project at the Julia de Burgos Elementary School, 25 volunteers spent their Martin Luther King Day working outside with us at Historic …
We were grateful to welcome over 40 volunteers to our day of service this Monday, January 18. One group of 20 worked with us on a brand new project at Julia …
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Every year at Historic Fair Hill, we gather to celebrate the holidays. Together we bake gingerbread cookies, light a star on our grounds, toast marshmallows, and sing carols. This year we …
2015 has been a great year for Historic Fair Hill. With every passing year, we’re able to contribute more to our neighborhood. And this is all possible because of the …
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On Thanksgiving, we think about the help that the Wampanoag tribe of present-day Massachusetts offered to the recently arrived English settlers in 1621. The harvest that the group ate that year …
Over the last few years, we’ve been working together with volunteers and the Philadelphia Horticultural Society (PHS) to bring new life to our streets through trees. Our work tree planting …
In 1848, for the first time in the United States, women organized a convention to bring attention to their dramatically unequal rights under the law. Two of the abolitionists and …
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On October 4, 1777, George Washington lead American soldiers against the British in the Battle of Germantown. The British had recently taken Philadelphia. Washington had learned that the British General, …