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  • Philadelphia urban design includes great public art.

    A hut, a bird blind and three benches — well-crafted and distinctive — were built in the Pennypack Environmental Center last year. Titled Embodying Thoreau, it’s part of the Fairmount Park Art Association’s New Land Marks program, which joins artists with communities to create new public artworks. The response of visitors encountering...

    • Sep 2, 2004
  • Phillyspeak: Examples of Philadelphia Accents and Sayings

    For some reason WHYY’s Morning Edition keeps changing the people who read the traffic tie-up reports on Shadow Traffic. And for some reason, none are native Philadelphians anymore. So I have to start my day without the hero who used to warn usabout gaper delays “caused by an overturned tractor trailer on...

    • Aug 14, 1997

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