PhilaStories

Phillip Seitz - Prelude

Telling the first of three stories Phillip Seitz, Social Historian, worked for 9 years at Cliveden, located in the Philadelphia neighborhood, Germantown. During that time an enormous number of the Chew Family Papers were discovered and turned over to The Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Included in those papers were letters Benjamin Chew received from the overseer of his plantation in the state of Delaware. We talked in his Mt. Airy neighborhood home.

You can read more of Phillip's work at TheHistoryteller.

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Germantown Speaks

Community elders gather with students from Germantown High School and tell stories about Germantown history and share their visions of the future. You can see more of these stories at Historic Germantown Freedom's Backyard.

Lisa Nelson-Haynes - Choices

Lisa Nelson-Haynes is the Associate Director of the Painted Bride Art Center, a multi-disciplinary presenting arts organization in Philadelphia, PA. Lisa created this digital story at a Center for Digital Storytelling open workshop in Washington, D.C, in January 2007. Lisa describes choices her husband and she made when they decided to purchase a new home.

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