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The Eastern State Penitentiary a former American prison and now a museum in the Fairmount section of Philadelphia, in Pennsylvania.
The penitentiary, which was in operation between 1829 and 1971, was once the most famous and expensive prison in the world. Its construction refined the revolutionary system of separate incarceration first pioneered at the Walnut Street Jail which emphasized principles of reform rather than punishment.
Notorious criminals such as Al Capone and bank robber Willie Sutton were held inside it's innovative wagon wheel design. James Bruno (Big Joe) and several male relatives were incarcerated here between 1936 and 1948 for the alleged murders in the Kelayres massacre of 1934, before they were paroled. At its completion, the building was the largest and most expensive public structure ever erected in the United States, and quickly became a model for more than 300 prisons worldwide.
Today it stands more in ruin, a haunting world of crumbling cellblocks and empty guard towers. The prison is currently a U.S. National Historic Landmark, which is open to the public for tours seven days a week, twelve months a year, 10 am to 5 pm.
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"May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right."
-Peter Marshall
Happy Independence Day from heavenly Tuber and I!
Backlit winter branches frame the cupola of Independence Hall as the afternoon sun throws a crisp star across the old red brick. A classic Old City Philadelphia moment inside Independence National Historical Park—historic architecture meeting bright blue sky.
The Bond, a pair of statues in Centre City District, Philadelphia Pennsylvania
Designed by James West and made from bronze and concrete, this sculpture was installed outside of the city’s Masonic Temple in 2017. It depicts George Washington showing his masonic apron to Benjamin Franklin.
The sculptor said:
“When Benjamin Franklin first went to France as a diplomat, he was highly influential and successful in securing a French Alliance in support for the American War of Independence. George Washington, at that time, was serving as Commander in Chief of the Continental Army of the American Revolution. Gilbert du Montier Lafayette, who led the French troops, gifted to George Washington, as a sign of solidarity, a ceremonial apron as a symbol of the bond between these two countries. The monumental statues sculpted by Jim West depict the moment at which George Washington presented that apron to Benjamin Franklin — an apron that is now displayed in the Grand Masonic Museum of Philadelphia, outside of which these statues stand.”
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The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; French: La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor in New York, in the United States.
In spite of her advancing years, and setting aside recent twitter distractions, Granny remembers:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
On this 4th Day of July, 2017, it’s Independence Day in the USA, and Red Blue White day at We’re Here!
Show your true colors – join We’re Here!
I've lived in Virginia all of my life and this weekend was my first visit to Monticello in Charlottesville. This is the home of Thomas Jefferson, our 3rd US President and principle author of our Declaration of Independence.
"And so, once again,
my dear Johnny, my old friend,
And so, once again
You are fighting us all.
And when I ask you why,
You raise your sticks and cry,
And I fall.
Oh, my friend,
How did you come
To trade the fiddle
for the drum?"
I'm late to the parade, but in my neighborhood the bombs are still bursting in air. (and waking my grandchildren, thank you very much… but I digress)
Anyone who wants to refresh their memory on the US Declaration of Independence, or learn anew, it's here:
When in the course of human events...
I will be blogging this very soon here: Suburban Halfling in Virtual Paradise
The perfect pose is by LouLou Teichmann of Bauhaus Movement
Second Bank of the United States
Independence National Historical Park
400 Block of Library Street
Philadelphia, PA
Copyright 2017, Bob Bruhin. All rights reserved.
(prints via bruhin.us/R6)
A sculpture of Major General John Fulton Reynolds created by John Rogers in 1884 outside the City Hall in the Centre City District in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
In 1863 Major General John Fulton Reynolds was killed by a sharpshooter’s bullet on the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg. He was the highest-ranking Union officer killed in the battle, dying instantly from a sharpshooter's bullet while leading his troops to form a defensive line. His decisive actions on July 1, 1863, blunted the Confederate advance and are considered a key factor in the Union's eventual victory at Gettysburg.
Over eighteen years after in 1863 , Joseph Temple of Philadelphia offered $25,000 toward a sculpture to commemorate the fallen Pennsylvanian and the state’s participation in the Civil War.
The artist chosen was John Rogers, who was known for his parlor sculptures, popularly known as “convention groupings.” Rogers had never produced a sculpture of this scale before, and initially hesitated. He ultimately took on the project, and began studying the anatomy of horses and collecting information about the general.
He aimed to “represent General Reynolds in front of the battlefield as he was on the first day of Gettysburg. The horse is startled and shying away from the noise and danger in the direction he is looking, while the General is pointing to the same spot and giving the direction to his aides at his side.”
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www.associationforpublicart.org/artwork/major-general-joh...
Author of the Declaration of Independence, Statesman and Visionary for the founding of a Nation.
This presidential memorial stands prominently along the southern edge of the Tidal Basin
Construction of the building began in 1939 and was completed in 1943. The bronze statue of Jefferson was added in 1947.[3] " The Jefferson Memorial is managed by the National Park Service of the United States Department of the Interior under its National Mall and Memorial Parks division.
November 10th, 2014
Benjamin Franklin, Craftsman (also known as Young Ben Franklin) a sculpture in the Centre City District in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
For the occasion of their 250th anniversary, the Pennsylvania Freemasons commissioned artist Joseph Brown in 1981 to design a larger than life-size sculpture of Benjamin Franklin to be installed near their headquarters.
It pictures a young Benjamin Franklin working at a printing press was intended to memorialize him as a printer and an artist, and to serve as a reminder of the dignity of the craftsman.
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www.associationforpublicart.org/artwork/benjamin-franklin...
The Eastern State Penitentiary a former American prison and now a museum in the Fairmount section of Philadelphia, in Pennsylvania.
The penitentiary, which was in operation between 1829 and 1971, was once the most famous and expensive prison in the world. Its construction refined the revolutionary system of separate incarceration first pioneered at the Walnut Street Jail which emphasized principles of reform rather than punishment.
Notorious criminals such as Al Capone and bank robber Willie Sutton were held inside it's innovative wagon wheel design. James Bruno (Big Joe) and several male relatives were incarcerated here between 1936 and 1948 for the alleged murders in the Kelayres massacre of 1934, before they were paroled. At its completion, the building was the largest and most expensive public structure ever erected in the United States, and quickly became a model for more than 300 prisons worldwide.
Today it stands more in ruin, a haunting world of crumbling cellblocks and empty guard towers. The prison is currently a U.S. National Historic Landmark, which is open to the public for tours seven days a week, twelve months a year, 10 am to 5 pm.
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This boy was operating a printing press at the Colonial Days celebration in the Scera Park. This press was producing copies of the Declaration of Independence.
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Midway Congregational Church, often called Midway Meeting House, was founded by Congregationalists in 1752 as they drifted down into Georgia from Dorchester, South
Carolina. Many originally had come from the city of the same name in Massachusetts. The current building was erected in 1792 to replace the church's first structure, which was burned in 1778 during the Revolutionary War. It is one of the oldest Congregational churches in Georgia.
The people of the Midway community, along with their neighbors in nearby Sunbury, were early supporters of the cause of American Independence. Church member Lyman Hall was sent to represent Georgia at the First Continental Congress in May 1775. One year later, joined by neighbor Button Gwinnett and Augusta resident George Walton, he signed the Declaration of Independence.
Midway, Liberty County, Georgia USA
[0232-D90-Neo]
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The Bond a pair of statues in Centre City District, Philadelphia Pennsylvania
Designed by James West and made from bronze and concrete, this sculpture was installed outside of the city’s Masonic Temple in 2017. It depicts George Washington showing his masonic apron to Benjamin Franklin.
The sculptor said:
“When Benjamin Franklin first went to France as a diplomat, he was highly influential and successful in securing a French Alliance in support for the American War of Independence. George Washington, at that time, was serving as Commander in Chief of the Continental Army of the American Revolution. Gilbert du Montier Lafayette, who led the French troops, gifted to George Washington, as a sign of solidarity, a ceremonial apron as a symbol of the bond between these two countries. The monumental statues sculpted by Jim West depict the moment at which George Washington presented that apron to Benjamin Franklin — an apron that is now displayed in the Grand Masonic Museum of Philadelphia, outside of which these statues stand.”
Information Source:
Independence National Historical Park
400 Block of Library Street
Philadelphia, PA
Copyright 2017, Bob Bruhin. All rights reserved.
(prints via bruhin.us/QR)
The Eastern State Penitentiary a former American prison and now a museum in the Fairmount section of Philadelphia, in Pennsylvania.
The penitentiary, which was in operation between 1829 and 1971, was once the most famous and expensive prison in the world. Its construction refined the revolutionary system of separate incarceration first pioneered at the Walnut Street Jail which emphasized principles of reform rather than punishment.
Notorious criminals such as Al Capone and bank robber Willie Sutton were held inside it's innovative wagon wheel design. James Bruno (Big Joe) and several male relatives were incarcerated here between 1936 and 1948 for the alleged murders in the Kelayres massacre of 1934, before they were paroled. At its completion, the building was the largest and most expensive public structure ever erected in the United States, and quickly became a model for more than 300 prisons worldwide.
Today it stands more in ruin, a haunting world of crumbling cellblocks and empty guard towers. The prison is currently a U.S. National Historic Landmark, which is open to the public for tours seven days a week, twelve months a year, 10 am to 5 pm.
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*Working Towards a Better World
I Have a Dream
Martin Luther King’s I have a dream speech August 28 1963
I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity.
But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself in exile in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize an shameful condition.
In a sense we’ve come to our nation’s Capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir.
This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check; a check which has come back marked “insufficient funds.”
But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we have come to cash this check- a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.
We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.
Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God’s children.
It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.
But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.
The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone.
And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, “When will you be satisfied?”
We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality.
We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities.
We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro’s basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one.
We can never be satisfied as long as our chlidren are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating “for whites only.”
We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote.
No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.
I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.
Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.
I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal.”
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, that one day right down in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exhalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.
This is our hope. This is the faith that I will go back to the South with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood.
With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
This will be the day when all of God’s children will be able to sing with new meaning, “My country ‘tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrims’ pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.”
And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.
Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado. Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California. But not only that; let freedom ring from the Stone Mountain of Georgia. Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.
Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
And when this happens, and when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, “Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!”
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"Happy Fourth of July" to all my Flickr friends. This is a mix of Hosta, Butterfly bush snd Gladiolus blooms. Made for a very lovely centerpiece.
“When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.” --Carl Sandburg
Second Bank of the United States
Independence National Historical Park
400 Block of Library Street
Philadelphia, PA
Copyright 2017, Bob Bruhin. All rights reserved.
(prints via bruhin.us/QT)
The Laigh Church in New street Paisley, now used as an arts centre. A preacher at this church was the Rev John Witherspoon who became a signatory on the American Declaration of Independence.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
If reading those words doesn't cause a lump in your throat, you don't know enough American history. Respect is grounded in knowledge.
I am taking a course on the early republic and am currently reading a biography of Thomas Jefferson. The last part of our assignment tonight was to carefully reread the Declaration of Independence.
I love being a history student.
The elegant historic home of prominent attorney and Signer of The Declaration of Independence, George Wythe (1726-1806). The house was built for the colonial elite in 1753 and given as a gift to George Wythe from his father in law. George Wythe is considered the father of American jurisprudence. He was America’s first law professor at the College of William & Mary. His home served as headquarters to General Washington and the French Lafayette before the Battle of Yorktown.
As the first American law professor Wythe taught and was a mentor to Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, Henry Clay and other men who became American leaders. The Wythe House in Williamsburg, Virginia was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1970.
“Otto, I thought you said that you were at the library reading the Declaration of Independence,” said Carl the crow.
“I was indeed at the library, Carl,” answered Otto.
“Then why do you have lipstick on your cheek?” asked Carl.
“Well, that’s another story,” said Otto. ; )
Otto, always the Constitutionalist, and Carl the crow wish all their Flickr friends a very rousing 4th of July. Carl appreciates Otto’s Constitution even though he is from Amsterdam.
Credits:
Background, Declaration of Indepence, flag, stars and dynamite from Marcee Duggar
Fireworks overlay from Ztampf
Carl the crow from Holliewood
Otto's glasses from Laura Deacetis
Lipstick from mgl Studios
Texture from Bending Lightt
Thank you for your much appreciated visits, faves, invites and support for Otto and friends!
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
Second Bank of the United States
Independence National Historical Park
400 Block of Library Street
Philadelphia, PA
Copyright 2017, Bob Bruhin. All rights reserved.
(prints via bruhin.us/R4)
The Eastern State Penitentiary a former American prison and now a museum in the Fairmount section of Philadelphia, in Pennsylvania.
The penitentiary, which was in operation between 1829 and 1971, was once the most famous and expensive prison in the world. Its construction refined the revolutionary system of separate incarceration first pioneered at the Walnut Street Jail which emphasized principles of reform rather than punishment.
Notorious criminals such as Al Capone and bank robber Willie Sutton were held inside it's innovative wagon wheel design. James Bruno (Big Joe) and several male relatives were incarcerated here between 1936 and 1948 for the alleged murders in the Kelayres massacre of 1934, before they were paroled. At its completion, the building was the largest and most expensive public structure ever erected in the United States, and quickly became a model for more than 300 prisons worldwide.
Today it stands more in ruin, a haunting world of crumbling cellblocks and empty guard towers. The prison is currently a U.S. National Historic Landmark, which is open to the public for tours seven days a week, twelve months a year, 10 am to 5 pm.
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Centre City District in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
William Penn, an English Quaker, founded the city in 1682 to serve as capital of the Pennsylvania Colony. Philadelphia played an instrumental role in the American Revolution as a meeting place for the Founding Fathers of the United States, who signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776 at the Second Continental Congress, and the Constitution at the Philadelphia Convention of 1787.
Several other key events occurred in Philadelphia during the Revolutionary War including the First Continental Congress, the preservation of the Liberty Bell, the Battle of Germantown, and the Siege of Fort Mifflin. Philadelphia remained the nation's largest city until being overtaken by New York City in 1790; the city was also one of the nation's capitals during the revolution, serving as temporary U.S. capital while Washington, D.C. was under construction. In the 19th and 20th centuries, Philadelphia became a major industrial centre and a railroad hub.
The city grew due to an influx of European immigrants, most of whom initially came from Ireland and Germany—the two largest reported ancestry groups in the city as of 2015. Later immigrant groups in the 20th century came from Italy (Italian being the third largest European ethnic ancestry currently reported in Philadelphia) and other Southern European and Eastern European countries.
In the early 20th century, Philadelphia became a prime destination for African Americans during the Great Migration after the Civil War. Puerto Ricans began moving to the city in large numbers in the period between World War I and II, and in even greater numbers in the post-war period. The city's population doubled from one million to two million people between 1890 and 1950.
Philadelphia is the home of many U.S. firsts, including the first library (1731), hospital (1751), medical school (1765), national capital (1774), stock exchange (1790), zoo (1874), and business school (1881). Philadelphia contains 67 National Historic Landmarks and the World Heritage Site of Independence Hall.
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Second Bank of the United States
Independence National Historical Park
400 Block of Library Street
Philadelphia, PA
Copyright 2017, Bob Bruhin. All rights reserved.
(prints via bruhin.us/Re)
Wide angle shot of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington DC. This memorial stands on the edge of the tidal basin and building began in 1938. Jeffersons bronze statue wasn't installed until 1947.
Independence Hall is the building where both the United States Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution were debated and adopted. It is now the centerpiece of the Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The building was completed in 1753 as the colonial legislature (later Pennsylvania State House) for the Province of Pennsylvania and was used in that capacity until the state capital moved to Lancaster in 1799. It became the principal meeting place of the Second Continental Congress from 1775 to 1783 and was the site of the Constitutional Convention in the summer of 1787.
The Avenue of the Arts the section of the cities designated arts cultural district, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
It includes many of the city's cultural institutions, most notably the theatre district south of City Hall. The availability of public transportation makes Avenue of the Arts highly accessible to visitors.
The name originated in a strategy by mayor Ed Rendell to redevelop South Broad Street in Centre City. The area is overseen by the non-profit organization Avenue of the Arts, Inc. led by Executive Director Karen Lewis.
It is the locale for many of the city's large theatres, including the Kimmel Centre (home of the Philadelphia Orchestra), the Academy of Music, Merriam Theatre, Wilma Theatre, Liacouras Centre, and Suzanne Roberts Theatre. Buildings for the University of the Arts are located just south and east of the Kimmel Centre; the Merriam Theatre is often used for high-end productions involving the school.
Philadelphia International Records' offices and gift shop is also located along this strip. Just south of the strip is the Clef Club of Jazz and Performing Arts, and on Broad Street in this vicinity, just north of City Hall, is the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, which, founded in 1805, is America's oldest art school and museum and boasts a distinguished collection of American art.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avenue_of_the_Arts_(Philadelphia)
Independence Hall is a historic civic building in Philadelphia, where the United States Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution were debated and adopted by America's Founding Fathers.
today was quite excellent.
i got no sleep last night, even after promising myself i would go to bed early,
woke up way earlier than should be allowed on vacation break, and
went to the casino with jessica to eat at timbers :D
it was fabulous and i didn't want to eat for the rest of the day.
then we bascially went to some random place in the woods
that had little waterfalls and stuff (and met a hick man dressed in
camo from head to toe) and it was sweet, and freeeezing. jess'
car also got stuck super super bad and it was scary. but i did
my noodle dance and figured out a way to get us out. i am brilliant.
parts of roads are so icy and snowy, it's really scary. i slipped down my whole
yard, the snow turned into ice. it's rock hard now.
then we were trying to find sweet places to take pictures, and we
went to like 9048502 different barn places, and we stopped at one
and knocked on the door, and just our luck, the person that answered could
hardly speak english at all. so i was basically just laughing the whole time
and we left saying "uhhh, well thanks...hace a nice day..?"
and went to some random person's house that looked like it had horses,
and the guy was super nice and let us take pictures of his horses.
omg i swear these horses were people. this brown one was definitely tyra
banks. it kept modeling AHAHHA. but they pretty much listened to everything
we said, it was insane. we were like BEND DOWN, COME CLOSER, CLICK
YOUR HEELS TOGETHER AND RECITE THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE,
and they would do it.
it was awesome. you should have seen their heels click together, they
looked quite foolish.
more pictures later.
and omg omg omg thank you so much azzam for the testimonial!