PHILADELPHIA — The Free Quaker Meeting House felt like it was stuck in an 18th-century time warp, except for the video crew and the street noise outside.
From left to right, David Scott Taylor, Coe Kummer and Keith Henley talk about the Revolutionary-era people whose stories they tell in Philadelphia's historic district.
Anna Fiscarelli-Mintzer, as Betsy Ross, talks about the day George Washington, Robert Morris and her late husband's uncle George Ross visited to ask her to make a new American flag.
Lane Norris rehearses Patrick Henry's famous "Give me liberty or give me death!" speech at the Benstitute in Philadelphia, a training program for historic interpreters and storytellers.
Jackson Pavlik inhabits the persona of Benjamin Franklin at the Benstitute in Philadelphia, where historic interpreters and re-enactors learn to tell stories about Revolutionary-era figures.
Two hundred fifty years ago, Halifax, North Carolina, helped spark the American Revolution. Today, its living history is telling the whole story.
From left to right, David Scott Taylor, Coe Kummer and Keith Henley talk about the Revolutionary-era people whose stories they tell in Philadelphia's historic district.
Anna Fiscarelli-Mintzer, as Betsy Ross, talks about the day George Washington, Robert Morris and her late husband's uncle George Ross visited to ask her to make a new American flag.
Lane Norris rehearses Patrick Henry's famous "Give me liberty or give me death!" speech at the Benstitute in Philadelphia, a training program for historic interpreters and storytellers.
Jackson Pavlik inhabits the persona of Benjamin Franklin at the Benstitute in Philadelphia, where historic interpreters and re-enactors learn to tell stories about Revolutionary-era figures.