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  • Trails to Ales: Guided Hike + Drinks

    Mount Pleasant Mansion 3800 Mt Pleasant Dr, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Join us for a brewing history hike through East Fairmount Park! DATE Thursday, July 31 TIME 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm LOCATION Mount Pleasant Mansion 3800 Mt Pleasant Drive Philadelphia PA 19121 Join John Sigmund, Fairmount Park Conservancy’s Director of Sponsorships and Partnerships, for a hiking tour to explore the history of brewing and beer gardens around East Fairmount Park. Naturally, we’ll end the hike at a modern-day park beer garden – the Waterworks Cider House and Beer Garden! As the name of the Brewerytown neighborhood that borders East Park indicates, Philadelphia was a beer-brewing town. In fact, in the late

  • Guided Hike + Labyrinth Making Workshop

    Mount Pleasant Mansion 3800 Mt Pleasant Dr, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Join us for a labyrinth-making workshop followed by a guided hike along the Boxers' Trail! DATE Thursday, July 25 TIME 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm LOCATION Mount Pleasant Mansion 3800 Mt Pleasant Drive Philadelphia PA 19121 Join Fairmount Park Conservancy for a labyrinth-making workshop followed by a guided hike in East Fairmount Park on July 25 from 6:00-8:30 PM. We’ll start out by working together to create an intricate but temporary labyrinth on the grass in front of the historic Mount Pleasant Mansion. Led by Athena Dugan, the Philadelphia representative of the International Labyrinth Society, this unique workshop will teach you

  • UpRooted: A Walking Tour of Enslavement and Abolition

    Mount Pleasant Mansion 3800 Mt Pleasant Dr, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Join Fairmount Park Conservancy for a walking tour telling the complex history of human bondage and the fight for freedom at the historic houses of Fairmount Park. DATE Saturday, June 24, 2023 TIME 10:00am - 1:00pm LOCATION Mount Pleasant Mansion 3800 Mt Pleasant Dr Philadelphia, 19121 Nearly every acre of Philadelphia contains evidence of the lives of early Black residents, and the historic mansions in Fairmount are no exception. Alongside the stories of the wealthy white men and women who owned these estates, we can find the stories of Africans and African-Americans, raising families, fighting for freedom, working in a