Five pieces on a Philadelphia neighborhood — its runners, its art, its pools, its trails — and the institutions that get built by people who just keep showing up.
Five pieces on a Philadelphia neighborhood — runners, art, pools, trails. Read in any order.
Bennett is the guy everyone in Fairmount knows — from college students to 80-year-olds walking their dogs. He has been running around the neighborhood for twenty years.
Eastern State Penitentiary at Halloween — five haunted houses for one admission, a glowstick that opts you in to being grabbed, and the night my wife disappeared into a dentist chair.
The wading pool at Sister Cities Park in Philadelphia: a square, a stream, and a toddler in a shark swimsuit who won't share.
I run with my son to the Art Museum steps in the stroller most days that it isn't raining. The Rodin Museum is on the way home, with the original Gates of Hell out front — one of only two pieces of fine art I have ever liked.
The Schuylkill Banks trail at 6:30 — Boat House Row, the rowers, the bridges, the light on the water, and the stroller-friendly path.