We'll spend six weeks taking a look at many elements of our special Commonwealth. We'll first focus on Philadelphia, and look in turn at The 1876 Centennial Celebration, The Statuary in Fairmount Park, and The History of Newspapers in Philadelphia. We'll then go statewide with successive presentations on Ghost Towns in Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania Turnpike, and Defunct Manufacturers Throughout the Commonwealth.

Instructor: Michael Martorelli has written more than a dozen articles for Financial History magazine and contributed three essays to the Essential Civil War Curriculum (ECWC). He has also written for several websites and given presentations at DelVal University's CLR and several local libraries. He earned an MA in History from American Military University.