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Mark Lord

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• Philadelphia-folk: if you could take a class of freshmen on a series of visits from the suburbs to the city between September and December, where would you take them? Could be culture, but could also be other kinds of experiences that encourage thinking and playful inquiry.
  
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• Lisa Wright Not a Philly-folk person any more, but I always loved the Italian Market and the Wanamaker organ (though I think they got bought out by someone?).
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• Alison Graf The museum of Archeology and Anthropology at U of P. Art Museum, Rodin Museum and Barnes foundation museums.
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• Joseph Browne Comcast Center Lobby, Elfreths Alley, definately Italian Market, Old City
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• Kevin Knorr Poe House on Spring Garden Street
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• Michele Sharp Mutter museum
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• Alison Graf The Ben Franklin house and print shop museum that is all the way down market a few blocks from the water. One of my favorite spots.
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• Sebastienne Mundheim Village of arts and Humanities, Ben Franklin Bridge, a Mural Arts tour, to meet Thaddeus Squire (and Nathaniel Popkin?) and have him/them talk about Culture Works and Hidden City, maybe a charter school(s), Crane Arts complex to see how well used real ...See More
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• Martha Michaela Hutchman Brown Eastern State Penitentiary. Also, up and down broad street, just cuz.
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• Inger Hatlen Daniels People-watching on septa. Three hour minimum. Must ride the 33 bus through north philly. Take a tour of Community College of Philadelphia. Explore the Central Library.
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• Sarah Martin When I think playful, I think Philadelphia's Magic Gardens at 1020 South - so many details to get lost in exploring.
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• Margit Detweiler Wagner Free Institute of Science, Mutter, Valley Green/ Wissahickon hike, Eastern State P., Winding tiny streets in Bella Vista and Queen Village,
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• Mauri Walton the Tall Ship Gazela on Penn's Landing... Kelly Drive bike path including the whispering wall.. Franklin Institute... Rodin Museum... Barnes Foundation... the Willows park (western suburbs)... i'm still thinkin'...
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• Pam Brickley Magidson Mural arts tour, University City (biowall at Drexel, Furness buildings at Penn, among other sites)
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• Margit Detweiler On a related note, something cool they do here in NYC which might be fun (if they don't already do it in Philly) are these explorative artist walks by Elastic City: http://www.elastic-city.org/about
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  www.elastic-city.orgElastic City intends to make its audience active participants in an ongoing poet...See More
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• Inger Hatlen Daniels Well the Franlil Institute *is* a kind of experience: overpriced, a bit dirty, overcrowded, rude/anxious people, depressed staff. Kinda depends on what you are going for.
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• Sara Zatz Mutter Museum - that will certainly provoke thought.
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• Mauri Walton whoaa Inger ~~~ guess i haven't been to the Franklin Institute recently. so ixnay on the RanklinFay
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• Anneliese Butler also Bartram's Garden
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• Ann Hoskins-Brown Lots of good suggestions. North Philly tour to include Village of Arts & Humanities.
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• Courtenay Wilson Wagner Free Institute and the Athenaeum come to mind as oft overlooked gems, in the burbs, the Mill at Anselma and Chester Springs Studio are other favorites 
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• Abby Kay You'll have to double check but the Franklin Institute used to be free after 4. The reason to consider it, if it's free, is the pendulum is cool When you think about how it works (only briefly). I second the magic garden, especially if Isaiah Zagar is ...See More
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• Karen Rosenberg How about Philly's Magic Gardens? Lafayette's headquarters? Reading Terminal Market, the Art Museum
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• NeighborhoodHouse Ccnh We've been known to take the right kind of group up the steeple or into the basement archives where the deed to the church lives (it predates the city of Philadelphia). Old building + new artistic work = food for thought.
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• Britney Leigh Hines Eastern State Penitentiary Twilight Tours. Haunting, beautiful, and thought provoking.
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• Jessica Wong I'm a huge fan of the Constitution Center. Teach them how to use the Norris High Speed Rail and the El to get into the city!! It's cheaper, you get to see the "With Love" murals and it'll get them used to taking city transit!
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• Zoe Cohen everything Sebastienne Mundheim said. especially POST! ( open studio tours) and: mural arts tour in north philly. urban farms of philadelphia.
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• Abby Kay Smith playground
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• Violet Phillips Rosenbach Museum to see the Ulysses and all the Sendaks, PAFA -- for the building, let alone the collection, the PSFS building (ok, the Loews Hotel), Walt Whitman's house in Camden (and drive over what has to be the only bridge in America named for an ...See More
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• Whit MacLaughlin The Philadelphia underground sewer system. To learn about municipal water treatment and grading.
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• Whit MacLaughlin The Cave of Kelpius off Henry Ave to understand the history of mysticism in Philadelphia.
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• Whit MacLaughlin Bartram's Garden, as mentioned above, to check in on the history of industrialization and the river. These are probably familiar to you. But much experiential information has come to me from Larry Loebell, who is a font of Philadelphia historical understanding.
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• Abby Kay If someone were to compile this thread we would have a unique new underground guide to Philly (literally & metaphorically)
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• Michelle Francl Mutter Museum, Eastern Penitentiary, Chemical Heritage Museum, ride the NHL, South Street, St John Neumann's shrine
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• Carol Loper-Cloud With a deep desire within, I'd like to visit the Powelton Village House that celebrates the art and life of the late Ellen Powell Tiberino reflecting her natural ability with the paintbrush & the kind of art devoted life she led
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• Jacqueline Goldfinger The Magic Garden, A Mural Tour
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• Kim Neely-Smith Take them into the woods.....the mountains......
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• Kim Neely-Smith With NO Ipods, Iphones etc....
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• Laura Vriend take them to look for toynbee tiles
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• Flash Rosenberg Take the R-7 from Center City to Trenton (or any thread of a passage on public transit). Get off at every stop. Students have until the next train to find the "The Essentials of Life" (according to me): (1) An Attraction (2) A Refreshment and (3) A Funny Thing
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• Flash Rosenberg When they find these things, they have to photograph, draw, write about or collect them....
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• Madi Distefano Ellen Tiberino Museum. Furr sure.
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• Zoe Cohen The rotunda, bindlestiff books, the a-space during food not bombs, the wooden shoe, studio 34 for a Saturday night concert, I-house for a film, the Philadelphia cathedral art installations, the Philadelphia museum of Jewish art at Rodeph Shalom...
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• Zoe Cohen Neighborhood bike works, Philadelphia orchard project, spiral q, the schuylkill center, how Philly moves, the MOVE bombing block, anything produced by Billy Yalowitz & temple students, first person arts, the waterworks museum.
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• Miriam Jones Billy Dufala and Fern at RAIR like to give tours of the recycling plant and art studio there. Seeing how recycling works and thinking about art made out of that scale of material was mind blowing to the group we took from MICA.
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• Raymond Ricketts Founders Hall, Girard College. With the nearby Eastern State Penitentiary, it's another good example of the architecture of power. The scale of it must of cowed over the orphan boys who were brought there in the 19th c. ( Add City Hall to that list, btw.)
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