Philadelphia 2025 Travelogue

The History Chicks : A Women's History Podcast

The History Chicks | QCODE

Society & Culture, Documentary, History

4.6 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

It's field trip time again! We took 50 listeners with us to the cradle of our country - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Over the course of a long weekend, we absorbed the sites and stories we'd learned about in school, and learned about those figures whose vital contributions have faded over time. Through our exposure to the artifacts, places and people at the heart of our country's founding, we began to comprehend that the freedoms we enjoy today were the result of hard-won battles and sacrifices from those who have gone before us; a torch we must pass to those who follow. You'll also hear stories of ghosts, museums, ice cream, gallivanting, and that most hallowed of indulgences: the Philly Cheese Steak. Thanks to all of the travelers who made this field trip a success, and we hope to see every listener on the bus someday. We call the back seat! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the history tricks, where any resemblance to a boring old history lesson is purely coincidental.
0:08.6	Hello and welcome to the show. Today we have a travelogue for you. Susan and I and Laura Hart and 50 listeners went to not exactly the cradle of democracy, which as we all know is Athens,
0:24.0	but the cradle of liberty in America, which is the city of Philadelphia.
0:29.3	This trip was one of our, we call it a long weekend.
0:31.9	It's like Wednesday night through Sunday.
0:33.7	And we cram as much stuff in those days as we possibly can. And this particular trip,
0:40.0	we did just that. Throughout this travelogue, you will hear the voices of the travelers that went
0:46.2	with us, their experiences, their impressions of the city, the things we learned, the people,
0:52.8	and the fun we had along the way.
0:55.5	Before the official tour starts, Susan and I and Warhart get there in advance to do some
1:02.5	administrative things, and then we have a little free time to do a couple of sidequists
1:09.2	ahead of when everyone else gets there. And an easy one,
1:12.8	an easy walk from our hotel, was Christchurch Cemetery. That is where Benjamin Franklin and his
1:18.1	wife are buried. Also has a large amount of extremely old colonial era gravestones. And I love walking through at Cemetery. I am very,
1:30.7	I mean, it was nice to see Benjamin. Hello, Benjamin. Yeah. I was pretty sad, though, that a lot of
1:36.4	the headstones no longer had letters on. It made me profoundly sad. And it also made me think that
1:43.1	I would like to start doing that. Have you ever seen those
1:47.1	YouTube videos of the man who cleans headstones? Oh yes, yes, yes. They're called cemetery
1:53.0	conservators. I was actually on my way to my father-in-laws and found a geocash in an old cemetery
1:59.6	in literally the middle of nowhere in Kansas.
2:03.7	Uh-huh.
2:04.4	And every single headstone from the early 1800s was white, was pristine, had no moss, somebody
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