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A Day of Service for MLK Day

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

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Lighting the Holiday Star

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

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Statue dedicated to the Lenape in Wissahickon Park

Lenni Lenape Food in the Colonial Era

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

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Volunteers plant trees in Fairhill

Eight new trees grow in Fairhill

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

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