This One Book, One Philadelphia season takes us back in time to the Civil War era, as we travel and travail alongside fictional southerners Inman and Ada in Charles Frazier’s Cold Mountain .… continue reading #OneBookWednesday: The Civil War on Display

By written by Kathy H.    January 20, 2016   

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• Rosenbach

As we read this year’s One Book selection and its companion texts, it is impossible not to keep returning to the question How did this happen? There is a moral component to that question,… continue reading #OneBookWednesday: What Were the Soldiers Thinking?

By written by Kathy H.    December 23, 2015   

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