Senior Architectural Conservator Marco Federico of Materials Conservation explains how his team will preserve Benjamin Franklin’s grave marker later this month at Christ Church Burial Ground in Old City, Philadelphia.
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Senior Architectural Conservator Marco Federico of Materials Conservation explains how his team will preserve Benjamin Franklin’s grave marker later this month at Christ Church Burial Ground in Old City, Philadelphia.
Friends and family are mourning the death of Ralph Archbold, a popular speaker best known for impersonating Benjamin Franklin for decades. Archbold died on March 25 at the age of 75.
Residents, restaurateurs, historians, retailers and the city’s mayor weigh in on the new and centuries-old wonders of Philadelphia’s Historic District, the original city.
The Christ Church faith community will gather specific pantry items on Sundays, January 29 and February 5 for PhilAbundance, a nonprofit organization fighting hunger and malnutrition in our city and the Delaware Valley.
East London’s Whitechapel Bell Foundry Ltd., a company nearly five centuries old, cast many colonial bells, including the 12 bells stashed during the Revolutionary War. In a statement released on December 1, the Foundry announced that within the next six months, it would stop its operations on Whitechapel Road, its home since 1738.