Join Philadelphia Water Department's Drew Brown and Adam Levine on this bus tour that will follow the winding course of the Wingohocking Creek. Philadelphia was once laced with a system of streams and their tributaries, most now hidden underground. In the 19th and 20th centuries, city engineers re-channeled most of these waterways into massive sewers that run far beneath […]
Join us every Sunday afternoon for Sunday Cinema – a free series featuring movies and documentaries that surround a water theme. It’s a great family-friendly event, and we’ll show a different movie every month. (Film selection subject to change.) Free Birds: Two turkeys from opposite sides of the tracks must put aside their differences and team […]
Join us every Sunday afternoon for Sunday Cinema – a free series featuring movies and documentaries that surround a water theme. It’s a great family-friendly event, and we’ll show a different movie every month. (Film selection subject to change.) Free Birds: Two turkeys from opposite sides of the tracks must put aside their differences and team […]
The LOVE Your Park program is a collaborative partnership between Philadelphia Department of Parks & Recreation and the Fairmount Park Conservancy to steward and support neighborhood parks throughout Philadelphia. The partnership works […]
Native Americans are an important part of our Thanksgiving celebrations. Learn about the original residents of Philadelphia and their reliance on local rivers and streams. We will learn about their culture, lifestyle and diet and about the local environment thousands of years before European settlers arrived. You can weave a mat of natural materials like […]
Join us every Sunday afternoon for Sunday Cinema – a free series featuring movies and documentaries that surround a water theme. It’s a great family-friendly event, and we’ll show a different movie every month. (Film selection subject to change.) Free Birds: Two turkeys from opposite sides of the tracks must put aside their differences and team […]
Join us every Sunday afternoon for Sunday Cinema – a free series featuring movies and documentaries that surround a water theme. It’s a great family-friendly event, and we’ll show a different movie every month. (Film selection subject to change.) Free Birds: Two turkeys from opposite sides of the tracks must put aside their differences and team […]
Meet the authors of City in a Park, James McClelland and Lynn Miller for a special book signing and lecture at the Fairmount Water Works.About City in a ParkFairmount Park is the municipal park system of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It consists of more than one hundred parks, squares, and green spaces totaling approximately 11,000 acres, and is […]
Native Americans are an important part of our Thanksgiving celebrations. Learn about the original residents of Philadelphia and their reliance on local rivers and streams. We will learn about their culture, lifestyle and diet and about the local environment thousands of years before European settlers arrived. You can weave a mat of natural materials like […]