Independence Hall echoes these words. Nearby the old cracked Bell proclaims liberty. The spirit of Franklin is alive in his adopted city. This is the place where Americans come to experience the beginnings of our Republic.
We were in line to go into the U.S. Mint (pennies made here) when I noticed this father and son who posed for me wearing these fine colonial costumes made by the Grandmother. What a seamstress!
This is a partial list of Benjamin Franklin's accomplishments. I just finished reading a biography of his life and (at the time) could think of more, especially scientific . I think he was an extraordinarily gifted person at the right time and place to help start a democratic nation.
The grave of Franklin's son Frankie, age five, who delighted his parents.
Like many Quakers, Lucretia Mott considered slavery an evil to be opposed. Inspired in part by minister Elias Hicks, she and other Quakers refused to use cotton cloth, cane sugar, and other slavery-produced goods. In 1821 Mott became a Quaker minister. With her husband's support, she traveled extensively as a minister, and her sermons emphasized the Quaker inward light, or the presence of the Divine within every individual.
Women's participation in the anti-slavery movement threatened societal norms. Many members of the abolitionist movement opposed public activities by women, especially public speaking. At the Congregational Church General Assembly, delegates agreed on a pastoral letter warning women that lecturing directly defied St. Paul's instruction for women to keep quiet in church. Other people opposed women's speaking to mixed crowds of men and women, which they called "promiscuous."
In June 1840 Mott attended the World's Anti-Slavery Convention, in London, England. In spite of Mott's status as one of six women delegates, before the conference began, the men voted to exclude the American women from participating, and the female delegates were required to sit in a segregated area. This is the beginning of Mott's realization that women's rights at the time were practicaly non-existent, similar to the enslaved population. She devoted herself to Women's Rights.
In 1864 Mott and several other Quakers incorporated Swarthmore College located near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which today remains one of the premier liberal-arts colleges in the United States. Lucretia Mott was an amazing American woman.
This might be Franklin's library, the first in America. I can't read the sign on the wall! I just remember it was a special place.
Pat, Adele and Paul explore Independence Square.
From May through September 1787, the men of the Constitutional Convention labored inside Independence Hall, creating an enduring framework of government. This is the seating chart.
A peek out the upstairs window of Independence Hall into downtown Philadelphia.
George Washington, the nation’s first president, ran his two administrations in Philadelphia from his rented house near the corner of Sixth and Market Streets. Wife Martha, two young grandchildren and as many as 24 servants, including enslaved men and women from Mount Vernon, made up his household.
Carpenters' Hall is a treasure in historic Philadelphia. It hosted the First Continental Congress in 1774 and was home to Franklin's Library Company, The American Philosophical Society, and the First and Second Banks of the United States.
Today, Carpenters' Hall is open to the public and welcomes over 150,000 world-wide visitors to this Georgian building. Set back from Chestnut Street, the Hall has been continuously owned and operated by The Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia, the oldest trade guild in America, since 1770. Today it is also part of Independence National Historical Park.
The Reading Terminal Market, established in 1892 at 12th and Arch Streets, is the nation’s oldest continuously operating farmers’ market. Through its long history it has seen times both good and bad, but has emerged now as a great market. We bought groceries there.
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