You can get free water ice, booze, and even cash for getting vaccinated in the Philly region. These incentives are meant to reel in people who haven’t gotten the shots yet, for any reason. “Whatever we have to do to get this last group of people, we need to do it,” Philadelphia Council President Darrell L. Clarke said. And, those who have gotten vaccinated are fueling a continuing decrease in .
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Dyymond Whipper-Young, an art teacher at Independence Charter School created a world-record-breaking drawing for the Franklin Institute s Creativitiy Exhibition. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
In this week of Philly world records, an attempt to make the world’s largest cheesesteak received pushback for actually being several hundred sandwiches placed end-to-end, totaling 500 feet.
The world’s largest drawing, however, is contiguous. For real.
Dyymond Whipper-Young composed a 6,510-square-foot drawing, or somewhere between the size of a Wawa and the floor of the Wanamaker building’s Grand Court. She drew it on large pieces of Tyvek assembled on the floor of the Franklin Institute as part of its current exhibition Crayola IDEAworks.
Director of the Library Company of Philadelphia to give 2021 Founders Day Address at W&L
Published Saturday, Jan. 16, 2021, 1:36 pm
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Michael Barsanti. Photo courtesy Washington and Lee University.
Michael Barsanti, the Edwin Wolf 2nd Director of the Library Company of Philadelphia, will be the featured speaker at Washington and Lee University’s virtual Founders Day/Omicron Delta Kappa Convocation on Tuesday at 5 p.m.