Preserving Philadelphia’s New Sweden Legacy
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A Taste of 1876: Food and Drink at the Centennial Exposition
January 12 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Come find out which foods were hot … and which were not … at America’s first official World’s Fair held right here in Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park in 1876. Author and lecturer Stephen Nepa, Ph.D. will dish on foods introduced at the fair.
Colonel Washington and Me
February 9 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
In 1768 George Washington purchases a young man who had been born into slavery. Washington has been a slave owner since age eleven. Author Jeffrey E. Finegan Sr. will describe one of the more extraordinary relationships in American history.
Founders Magazine
In our quarterly magazine, we publish our research about those who are buried here and their impact upon Philadelphia’s history. Here are some of our recent issues:
![The Rectorship of Snyder Binns Simes [Summer 2022]](https://i0.wp.com/preserveoldswedes.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/cover-art-copy.jpg?fit=300%2C383&ssl=1)
![The Life and Times of Andreas Rudman [Spring 2022]](https://i0.wp.com/preserveoldswedes.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Spring-2022_cover-1.png?fit=300%2C388&ssl=1)
![The Life and Times of Peter Gunnarson Rambo [Winter 2022]](https://i0.wp.com/preserveoldswedes.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Winter_2022.png?fit=300%2C383&ssl=1)
![Capt. James Snell, Kidnapped at Sea [Fall 2021]](https://i0.wp.com/preserveoldswedes.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Fall-2021.png?fit=300%2C388&ssl=1)
