As I was heading to the Richmond Shops, I noticed an active camp under Interstate 95. It was in the recently completed section that links Port Richmond, Kensington, and Fishtown to the Deleware River (sort of) and the bike lanes along Columbus Ave. It includes dedicated bike lanes, a number of flood mitigation ponds, and […]
You can find a couple of reminiscences repeated in memorials around this part of the city–for “Cheo” and “Mickey” (see the map). But this is the first time I have encountered repetitions of the same memorial at multiple sites. As I walked around the streets of Kensington this summer I came across four different walls
Video presentation to the 2021 Digital Humanities Summer Institute.
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A new shrine is being kept in Kensington’s Letterly Green to remember the death of a 19-year-old man.
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Unlike vernacular memory, official memory is monumental, linked to the sacred, specialist, elite, and a reflection of power. In this post, I consider Penn Treaty Park as an example of local, official memory.
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