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Back to SearchAshes to Ashes: The Outdoor Tour (to be removed April 20)
Episode 482
NOT ALL BONES CONSIDERED
NOT BIOGRAPHICAL BYTES FROM BALA
I did not have time to complete the Biographical Bytes from Bala podcast about Billionaire'…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Ashes to Ashes: The Indoor Tour (to be removed April 20, 2026)
Episode 481
NOT ALL BONES CONSIDERED
NOT BIOGRAPHICAL BYTES FROM BALA
I did not have time to complete the Biographical Bytes from Bala podcast about Billionaire'…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Samuel Perkins and the City Hall Cats
Episode 477
ABC:LHS #085-5 Samuel Perkins...
...was the driving force behind getting the job done at City Hall. He established a close relationship with archit…
6 months ago
John Christian Bullitt: Philadelphia and the Bullitt Bill
Episode 476
ABC-LHS #085-4 John Christian Bullitt...
...was a native Kentuckian who was pro-slavery, but who made his career as a Philadelphia lawyer. His cons…
6 months, 1 week ago
John McArthur, Jr.: Nude Defending a Staircase
Episode 479
ABC:LHS #085-3 John McArthur, Jr....
...was a Scottish immigrant who specialized in huge buildings that were meant to last a long time. When his ma…
6 months, 1 week ago
Matthias Baldwin: Taking Pleasure in Perfection
Episode 475
ABC:LHS #085-2 Matthias Baldwin...
...was always good with his hands. He started as a jeweler and progressed to bookbinding before he built one of t…
6 months, 1 week ago
Re-introduction to City Hall Statues, This Time Outside
Episode 478
ABC-LHS #085-1 Statues Outside City Hall...
... are eight. I talked about the 250 statues inside and attached to Philadelphia's City Hall in ABC:LH…
6 months, 1 week ago
Four Statues Outside City Hall: Baldwin, Bullitt, McArthur, Perkins
Episode 480
ABC:LHS #085-0 Philadelphia's City Hall...
...doubles as an art gallery and sculpture garden. More than 250 of Alexander Milne Calder's statues gr…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Sophie Hutchinson Drinker: Smashing the Patriarchy with Music
Episode 474
BBB:LHWS #054 Sophie Hutchinson Drinker...
...came from one Philadelphia blueblood family and married into another. I told of the singing parties s…
7 months ago
Clare Wofford: Emerging from the Shadow of Harris
Episode 471
ABC-LHS #084-4 Emmy Lou "Clare" Linford Wofford...
...was present at the creation of the United States Peace Corps, along with her husband Harris W…
7 months, 1 week ago