Hands teach, hands learn
The wool-worn hands of Keith Rees, an expert on the Welsh woolen industry, provide gentle guidance to a young visitor from Bergen County, N.J., spinning yarn from raw wool at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 2009.
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Star-spangled clamor
Youngsters join the patriotic spirit on the Ben Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia on the evening of July 4, awaiting performances by Jeffrey Gaines, The Roots and headliner Sheryl Crow, all leading up to fireworks over the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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Tags: patriotism, kids, fireworks, july 4, american flag
Forceful for the Fourth
Members of the Summer Stage Shooting Stars reach the finale of their pre-fireworks program of show tunes Friday night at Upper Darby High School, Upper Darby, Pa.
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Holiday under way
It wasn’t the most aerodynamic SUV on the road, but the luggage didn’t seem to slow down this family chariot on Thursday as it barreled south on I-95 in Delaware and Maryland. Like almost every other car on the stretch between Philly and D.C., it was going at least 70 mph and it was clear that — despite the national angst over energy — getting there in hurry trumps cost, especially when a family getaway is in progress.
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Tags: 4th of july, family travel, humor, i-95, interstate, july fourth, vacation
Los Tres Amigos
Narberth has its share of characters. These three were at the Summer Music Festival on Sunday. From left: John Carmen, Elmer Chestnut, Paul Turner.
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Early each summer Philadelphia’s Manayunk section cobbles together the three-day Manayunk Arts Festival, which this year came on the almost-perfect type of weekend for an arts fair — one with no rain. Organizers predicted huge crowds and the good weather guaranteed the prediction would be fulfilled. This shot was taken after 6 p.m. on Saturday, when the crowd had thinned.
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Tags: arts festival, crafts, fairs, festivals, manayunk, manayunk arts festival, summer
A river, a body, a mystery
The Philadelphia skyline rises in the distance as a police boat and a clutch of officers await the arrival of a detective after a body was pulled from the Schuylkill about noon on June 18. The detective inspected the body that had been moved to the bank beneath the Girard Avenue Bridge, then it was moved into a waiting police van. A week later, there were no published reports identifying the middle-age male.
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Tags: body, crime, drowning, girard avenue bridge, marine unit, philadelphia police department, police, river, schuylkill
Patriotic prescription
The borough of Narberth embraces the Fourth of July like sparks on a fuse, and by this time of year signs of the holiday pop up everywhere, including the window of Narberth Pharmacy in the heart of downtown. That evening the town’s population more than doubles as a throng collects in the park for a program that starts at 7:30 p.m. and culminates with the fireworks show that begins at dusk, usually about 9:15 p.m.
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Tags: fireworks, fourth of july, holiday, july fourth, narberth PA, patriotism
Real boys of summer
A team of three — or three teams of one — conducts the final drills of spring training on Saturday, the day before the first day of summer, in the street league of Narberth, Pa. The trio rotated positions regularly and called a ground-rule time-out whenever cars rolled through the playing field.
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Tags: baseball, humor, narberth
Oops — wet pavement
Late Saturday afternoon the rain ended, the sun came out, a father arrived at the playground to play catch with his kids and this mini-skirted lass took a little spill.We’re not sure what the story was on this playground crasher, but there was evidence a young guy had given her a lift.
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Tags: humor, narberth
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