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Free outdoor dance performance -- registration required In the wake of continued loss artists Emily Bate and Shayla-Vie Jenkins each present new meditations in the Christ Church Burial Ground. Each work, sited in one of the oldest resting places in Philadelphia, considers grief and communal gatherings of public healing. Bate and Jenkins each acknowledge the...

Visit Christ Church at 2nd and Market Streets and the Burial Ground at 5th and Arch Streets to view the final resting places of five signers of the United States Constitution. At Christ Church, you will see the graves of James Wilson, Robert Morris, Jacob Broom, and Pierce Butler. The Burial Ground holds the graves...

Please join us for another free virtual program From the end of the 17th century to the early 19th century the Rev. Thomas Bray, an Anglican clergyman, and after his death in 1730 his Associates, provided books to Philadelphia and operated schools for the education of young blackPhiladelphians, both enslaved and free. Hundreds of books were sent to form the first library of Christ Church...

A Special Veterans Day Remembrance Tour (included with admission). Military Historian Tom Snow will provide a distinct perspective on America’s wars by honoring the men and women that fought those wars. Tours are every half hour starting at 11:30 am until 4 pm.