April 2, 2012 By Alan JaffeFor PlanPhilly Grand scale projects and an American icon are on the list of honorees, but a handful of small, lovingly restored sites will also be in the spotlight when the Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelph »
msnbc.com Long-forgotten dead of Duffy's Cut get proper ritesPhiladelphia InquirerBy Kristin E. Holmes Members of the 69th Pennsylvania Irish Brigade stand posted with the five coffins before the remains were given a full Christian burial at West Laure... »
We recently shared some selections for alternative New Year’s Eve celebrations, but here’s another to add to the mix. Laurel Hill Cemetery is hosting the annual General Meade Birthday Celebration on Saturday, December 31 which will mark the 196th anniv... »
Happy Halloween, Philadelphia! Check out our guide to where to celebrate today and tonight, if you didn’t get your tricking and treating out of your system this past weekend. And don’t forget you can still enter our Terror Behind the Walls & London Gri... »
Eastern State Penitentiary’s Terror Behind the Walls Terror Behind the Walls, America’s largest haunted house, celebrates its 20th year with the launch of two brand-new, state-of-the-art attractions: a special Encore Night and the return of the Eastern... »
Philadelphia's Laurel Hill Cemetery is the final resting place of some of the passengers aboard the doomed RMS Titanic. The body of Titanic passenger and prominent Philadelphia attorney William Crothers Dulles lies in a mausoleum at the cemetery on Rid... »
