A Taste of PhilaPlace
With a small handful of important partner institutions and funders, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania (HSP) is developing PhilaPlace: A Neighborhood History And Culture Project.
What is PhilaPlace? An online resource chronicling the history, culture, and architecture of two of Philadelphia’s oldest immigrant and African American neighborhoods: South Philadelphia and Northern Liberties/Kensington.
Current and past residents will add historical documents, images, and voice recordings, deepening the documentation of this “city of neighborhoods.”
PhilaPlace it is expected to launch in fall 2008. Get a taste of it here with this report by Elisabeth Fiedler recently aired on WHYY’s 91FM.
November 15, 2007 at 2:14 pm
I hope they will encourage people to submit their folksongs, playground chants and rhymes to the National Children’s Folksong Repository.
Just dial toll free 1-877-220-0262
sing it or chant it and I’ll put it up in the repository.
best,
Karen Ellis