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Rowing Adventures on Boathouse Row
1 Boathouse Row
Lloyd Hall
Philadelphia , PA 19130
(215) 928-1124
Neighborhood: Art Museum - Fairmount
Boathouse Row, home to Philadelphia’s rowing community, is a leading epicenter of the nation’s championship aspirations for the sport. To this day, it’s a national magnet for grass roots development of competitive athletes, since the boathouses and the clubs that populate them have long served as training ground for national and world championship medalists, including a long list of Olympians. The boathouses are home to more high school competitors than any other U.S. city, as well as the nation’s first and largest community of master’s athletes. They host nearly twice as many regattas as the closest competitor city.

This exhibit explores the psychological and physical spaces that place limits upon the human body and consciousness.
Thursday, July 9 • 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM •
Sage Projects • 333 South St., Philadelphia, PA
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Whenever I was allowed to sleep in on the Saturday mornings of my youth, I'd listen for the peddler with the sharpening stone. "Knives and scissors," he'd sing-song his way through the alley behind our rowhouse. Unfortunately, my mother was deaf to his calls. To her, cheap knives were good enough. And to my knowledge, she never had hers sharpened. Thus, I came to cooking inadequately armed. » Read more