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Join Fairmount Water Works and Schuylkill River Development Corporation in exploring the Schuylkill River both on land and on water!
Join Fairmount Water Works and Schuylkill River Development Corporation in exploring the Schuylkill River both on land and on water!
This free event takes place outside the historic Fairmount Water Works, along the Schuylkill River trail to the Walnut Street Bridge. Art in the Open celebrates artists, their inspirations, and their relationships with the urban environment. The program, now entering...
This free event takes place outside the historic Fairmount Water Works, along the Schuylkill River trail to the Walnut Street Bridge. Art in the Open celebrates artists, their inspirations, and their relationships with the urban environment. The program, now entering...
High Water: An Informal History of Flooding in Philadelphia In this illustrated talk, environmental historian Adam Levine will talk about some of the worst floods ever to hit Philadelphia, beginning in the early 1800s and ending up with Hurricane Ida...
Award-winning art exhibition at the Fairmount Water Works Interpretive Center in Philadelphia. Now through September. Powerful interactive installations build on one another to illuminate a history of segregated swimming in America, and its connection to present-day drowning issues affecting Black...
A special art exhibition directed by Karen Young for the Fairmount Water Works Interpretive Center and curated by Thom Duffy. The exhibition’s purpose is to bring focus to historic and current extreme weather events impacting our region and the planet’s...
Sure, people have loved drinking beer in the park for years, but did you know that beer was also made on these lands? Before the city created the park, the banks of the Schuylkill River were valuable to emerging breweries...
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