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January 21st, 2010

Register for Intro to PhilaPlace January 27 !

By The Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Introduction to PhilaPlace
Wednesday, January 27 at 6 p.m.
At the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1300 Locust Street, Philadelphia

Admission is FREE and open to the public. To RSVP online click here or call 215-732-6200 ext. 214.

Everyone has a story to tell. Learn how to share yours at PhilaPlace.org, an interactive Web site that connects stories to places across time in Philadelphia neighborhoods. At this workshop, PhilaPlace project director Joan Saverino and PhilaPlace project coordinator Melissa Mandell will discuss PhilaPlace and show visitors how to log their own memories, use the interactive map, access audio and video clips, create tours, and view historical records.

Check out the new stories posted to PhilaPlace.org! Watch a video history of the Bel Arbor Community Garden in South Philadelphia. Read tales of legendary games of halfball and re-creating World War II scenes in chalk on the streets of North Philadelphia in the 1950s.

And don’t forget to check out recent blog posts about an early 20th-century Philadelphia urban photographer, an Italian immigrant playwright in South Philadelphia, and memories of Mummers.

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November 30th, 2009

Sharing Stories from the City of Neighborhoods

By Melissa Mandell

When the Historical Society of Pennsylvania decided to build a Web site that would explore Philadelphia’s neighborhoods through the lens of place, we asked people in those neighborhoods to tell us which places are and were meaningful to them. Over the past three years, we have been building content for the PhilaPlace Web site not only by drawing on the rich collections at HSP (like the Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies Collections , The Philadelphia Record Photo Morgue, and the Society Print Collection, to name just a few), but also by collecting memories, stories, and photographs from the people who live or have lived in South Philadelphia and Northern Liberties and Kensington. The contributions PhilaPlace has collected from the community deepen the richness of the historical record by adding the personal stories and memories that make history real, and truly public.