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In Philadelphia, in what now is called Independence Hall, is preserved a Chippendale style chair crafted in 1779 by the cabinetmaker John Folwell, with a sun on the horizon carved at the top. For nearly three months in 1787, George Washington used this chair during the sessions of the Federal Convention. According to James Madison, whose feet would have dangled from it since, at 5’4” he was ten inches shorter than Washington, Benjamin Franklin mused: “I have often in the course of the session looked at that sun behind the President without being able to tell whether it was...

A federal employee of the National Park Service who offers guided tours of Independence Hall in Philadelphia -- the birthplace of the Constitution -- stunned a group of tourists this week by telling them the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence were the product of "class elites who were just out to protect their privileged status." Mary A. Hogan, a federal employee making in excess of $95,000 per year in salary and benefits, provided a tour Monday afternoon at Independence Hall laced with factual inaccuracies and disparaging comments about the Founders and the Constitution. Hogan, who goes by the...

'In July 2010, amid the gargantuan rebuilding effort at the site of the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan, construction workers halted the backhoes when they uncovered something unexpected just south of where the Twin Towers once stood. At 22 feet (6.7 meters) below today's street level, in a pit that would become an underground security and parking complex, excavators found the mangled skeleton of a long-forgotten wooden ship. Now, a new report finds that tree rings in those waterlogged ribs show the vessel was likely built in 1773, or soon after, in a small shipyard near Philadelphia. What's more,...

On the 223rd Anniversary of the Signing of US Constitution, join Us in a Ceremonial Re-commitment to Our Founding Document! We the People 2010 Friday, September 17, 2010 7-7:30 PM Independence Mall 5th and Chestnut Streets Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Honored Guest: Actress Janine Turner, Co-Chair Constituting America. Special Guest: We the People 9.17 Contest Winner Featuring: White Hall Guard Fife and Drum, Reading of the Preamble and Bill of Rights Sponsored by the Independence Hall Tea Party Association

<p>A Celebratory Picnic Commemorating 234 Years of American Independence!</p> <p>Mr. Kristol is to be presented by Dr. Robert Sklaroff, MD.</p> <p>Featuring: Dom Giordano, Joey Vento, Mayor Anna Little, Tim Phillips, Pastor Bill Devlin, Ed Turzanski, Rich Davis, Chris Hill, James Jones, Quentin Cody; Salute To Our Troops; Dramatic Reading of the Declaration of Independence; Scenes from 1776; Franklin Award Presentation; Colonial Costume Contest; Fife and Drum; Activities for Children; Information Tables.</p>

Sponsored by Independence Hall Tea Party PAC TAKE BACK CONGRESS TEA PARTY Saturday, April 17 2-4 PM Independence Mall 5th and Chestnut Streets Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Featuring: WPHT Talk Show Host Dom Giordano, 286 Band (formerly Tinder Box Band); Congressional Candidates; National and Local Luminaries; Best Sign Contest; Soap Box, where You speak your mind! Please Join Us -- and spread the word! Sponsored by Independence Hall Tea Party PAC

You've heard of the Boston Tea Party on December 16, 1773, but how many have heard of the Philadelphia Tea Party which soon followed? It was attended by 8,000 Philadelphians (one third the population of the city at that time)on December 27, 1773. How many are aware the Tea Tax rebellion actually began in Philadelphia with the ratification of eight tax resolutions in October 1773 shortly thereafter adopted in early December by our then brothers and sisters in Boston? Please join us for our CHRISTMAS TEA PARTY commemorating the 226th Anniversary of the First Philadelphia Tea Party, the first known...

Herb Denenberg's Keynote Speech at Philadelphia Independence Hall Tea Party III July 4, 2009 (Part I) Herb Denenberg's Keynote Speech at Philadelphia Independence Hall Tea Party III July 4, 2009 (Part II) Herb Denenberg, The keynote speaker at Independence Hall Tea Party III, puts it to Obama and tells it like it is! Irreverant and hilarious, it was the best speech given and the best received by the tea party audience, and was even better in person! We hope you love it as much as most of us did. : )

Alas, the Philadelphia City Paper insults the (Conservative) Philly Bulletin, Herb Denenberg, Independence Hall Tea Party III, all Tea Parties and Glenn BecKKK all in one little blurb: Philadelphia City Paper

Independence Hall Tea Party III was quite a success, surprising even to us. At the highest point 2100 people (a tad more than Philadelphia Tea Party II)were present. And people were coming and going through out. Over a thousand people signed our Tea Party Petitions on Cap and Trade, Health Care and EFCA,and to join Independence Hall Tea Party Association many also signing up for the Mother of all Tea Parties on 9/12. We were not permitted to collect money on Independence Hall territory, but if you were one of the people who signed up for a bus for 9/12,...

A horse carriage driver who worked near the Liberty Bell was charged today with phoning 28 bomb threats against Independence Hall. Michael Mancuso of Philadelphia was charged in federal court with calling the Philadelphia Police Department's 911 emergency line several times a month between Aug. 5 and Wednesday. In virtually every call, authorities said that Mancuso told the 911 operator, "There is a bomb at Independence Hall." In an affidavit, U.S. Park Ranger John W. Hopf said that police had traced the calls to pay phones near the park, including a phone near the corner of Sixth and Chestnut Streets....

Our Day in Liberty Liberty is defined as, "Freedom from unjust or undue governmental control." When is government control undue or unjust? Perhaps when it is aimed at the innocent? My 13 year old daughter, Kira has been studying the Revolutionary War. I want her to understand the reason the United States became so prosperous. I want her to understand what freedom means: that all men are created equal, that governments derive their power from the consent of the governed, that no free man lives at the expense of another. Kira has been reading about revolutionary heroes Thomas Jefferson and...