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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.
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Boise Schools went back to full time in person learning this week. I have a 7 year old who goes to Mary McPherson with Ada County and we have been in person learning for a while now. Even though my boy loved the freedoms of being home and claims he wants to be home, even though when I pick him up he is excited to tell me about what a fantastic day he had at school, silly, moody child. According to the summery ranking for great schools Mary McPherson got a 9/10.
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Director of the Library Company of Philadelphia to give 2021 Founders Day Address at W&L
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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.