Don Shump, owner of Philadelphia Bee Co., stared at the empty bed of his pickup truck last Friday morning: His portable shop vac, an essential appliance for any bee removal specialist, had gone missing. But then, Shump, 46, of Frankford, remembered what had been inside the vacuum: hundreds of large hornets, giant queens, and...
Elkins Park in Montgomery County has several synagogues ... and one large monument to Nazi collaborators. Many people had no idea it existed until recently.
Colonial Philadelphia burst with bars. There were 101 taverns in the budding port town, or about 1 bar for every 160 citizens, historians say. But only A Man Full of Trouble survives.