Denise Valentine. Storyteller featured in Humanities, Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities | This End Up by Kevin Mahnken  (via This End Up) 

Book Denise Valentine’s SideTour in Historic Philadelphia! 

Unearth Philly’s Underground Stories of Freedom and Slavery

Food 4 Thought – Mural of Notable Residents of Historic Germantown, Save-a-Lot, Chelten Plaza, Philadelphia, Photo (2-10-12) by Denise Valentine

Food Equity/ Food Security
Germantown History Mural: “Notable” Residents
Marketplace as Metaphor
Food Emancipation
Food Folklore

I want to know whose idea it was to put a lily white representation of Germantown history, including two icons of slavery, on the wall in a predominantly black, and increasingly poor neighborhood?

See: http://storymama01.wordpress.com/2012/03/24/food-for-thought/

(Image) 1630, Africae nova descripto… Amsterdam, Willem Janszoon Blaeu.
This map, which appears in Volume X of Blaeu’s Grand Atlas…Yale Map Collection.

The International Transmission of Knowledge and Culture

In addition to our natural curiosity, certain forces have made travel and the exchange of knowledge both necessary and inevitable. Take a look at exploration, trade and conquest through maps, travelogues and stories of Ancient Exploration.