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The City of Brotherly Love
April 19, 2001.

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PENNSYLVANIA
"THE HOLY EXPERIMENT"
William Penn (1644-1718)

The fundamental law of the
 Holy Experiment was the 
Sermon on the Mount.

"The public must and will be served."
William Penn

William Penn  founder of the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, sits atop city hall.

"No power of doing mischief, that the will of one man may not hinder the good of a whole country." 
William Penn

William Penn was respected by the Leni Len-Lenape people who once made camp on the ground now occupied by city hall.

"Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children." 
 William Penn

William Penn's tower being covered with the workmen's scaffold, needs less attention the the neiborhoods of Philadelphia.

"Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world."
William Penn

William Penn and his Holy Experiment is lost.

"No building shall be higher than the shoulders of William Penn,"  From his vigilant post atop City Hall, William Penn's vision has become distorted.  Viewed from the northeast corner of the 30th Street Station, William Penn's presents has been diminished.   Photographs taken April 19, 2001.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Mayor Street entering city hall, April 23, 2001.  As the mayor walked into the door, a voice from behind  whispered," that's the Mayor, he's gone a fix the city." And when I turned around, a young African American proudly said to me, "that's the Mayor you just took a picture of."

James E. Frizzell
Post Office Box 595
Kimberton, Pa. 19442

e-mail: jimmy@jim-frizzell.com

date posted: April 22, 2001
last revised: November 30, 2007