Glen Foerd-Holy Family University Speaker Series

10/27/2024

03/18/2024

Glen Foerd-Holy Family University Speaker Series, featuring Jeff Groff, Retired Estate Historian for Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library, presenting “Philadelphia Industrialists, Financiers & Manufacturers and Their Country Estates, 1875-1930” on Wednesday, March 20, 2024, at 7:00 p.m. in the ETC Auditorium of Holy Family University and simulcast via Zoom.

Jeff Groff will discuss leading families and the businesses that once made the Philadelphia area “the Workshop of the World.” He will look at a variety of industries including railroads, manufacturing, finance, shipping, coal and oil, department stores, and food and beverage, and the country estates and gentleman farms associated with these business magnates, including Percival Foerderer’s estate in Villanova, La Ronda.

Jeff Groff worked at Winterthur from 2006 until his recent retirement, as Director of Interpretation and Estate Historian from 2006 to 2019, and then as Estate Historian. He was previously director of the Wyck Historic House, Garden, and Farm in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia. Mr. Groff has an M.A. in American Material Culture from the University of Delaware, and also completed Winterthur’s program in Early American Culture. His research interests include architecture and interiors of American country places, the Colonial Revival, Quaker life, garden history, and “gentlemen farming.”

This event is FREE and open to the public.

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When: Mar 20, 2024 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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02/02/2024

Save the Date!

Jeff Groff, Retired Estate Historian for Winterthur Museum, will speak on Wednesday, March 20, at 7:00 pm in the ETC Auditorium of Holy Family University on “Philadelphia Industrialists, Financiers & Manufacturers and Their Country Estates, 1875-1930”

The Glen Foerd-Holy Family University Speaker Series is free and open to the public, with no tickets or reservations required.

10/03/2023

TODAY, Tuesday, Oct. 3
Dr. Elizabeth Kelly Gray will speak on her book Habit Forming: Drug Addiction in America, 1776–1914 (Oxford University Press, 2022) at 7:00 pm on Tuesday, October 3, 2023, in the ETC Auditorium of Holy Family University as part of the Glen Foerd-Holy Family University Speaker Series.
Dr. Gray’s book explores the history of habit-forming drugs in the United States in the 18th and 19th centuries, when regulation was ineffective at the state level and non-existent at the national level. Americans consumed hashish candy, injected morphine, visited o***m dens for pleasure, and used co***ne and he**in as medicine. While the consumers were mostly well-to-do white people who bought their drugs at drugstores few Americans thought regulation or criminalization necessary, but as drug use became more associated with lower class young men, support for a federal drug law grew, culminating in the Progressive-era Harrison Narcotic Tax Act that limited sales of opiates and co***ne. Dr. Gray will focus on the history of drug use and regulation in Philadelphia in her talk.
Kelly Gray earned a BA at Bryn Mawr College, and a Ph.D. in History at the College of William and Mary. She is professor of history at Towson University in Maryland, where her specialty is nineteenth-century America. Her current book project focuses on antebellum Baltimore.
The lecture series is free and open to the public, with no reservations required. Dr. Gray’s talk will be simulcast on Zoom.
Save the Date for spring 2024: Jeff Groff, the retired historian of Winterthur Museum, will speak on Wednesday, March 20, at 7:00 pm in the ETC Auditorium of Holy Family University. His talk is entitled, "Philadelphia Industrialists, Financiers & Manufacturers and Their Country Estates, 1875-1930," and will focus on leading families and the businesses that once made Philadelphia known as the workshop of the world. It highlights their Main Line, Delaware River, and Chester County houses including many that may not be well known today. Jeff Groff last spoke in this series in the spring of 2022, with his talk called, "Main Line Country Squires."
To attend Dr. Gray's talk via Zoom:
When: Oct 3, 2023 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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09/23/2023

Dr. Elizabeth Kelly Gray will speak on her book Habit Forming: Drug Addiction in America, 1776–1914 (Oxford University Press, 2022) at 7:00 pm on Tuesday, October 3, 2023, in the ETC Auditorium of Holy Family University as part of the Glen Foerd-Holy Family University Speaker Series.

Dr. Gray’s book explores the history of habit-forming drugs in the United States in the 18th and 19th centuries, when regulation was ineffective at the state level and non-existent at the national level. Americans consumed hashish candy, injected morphine, visited o***m dens for pleasure, and used co***ne and he**in as medicine. While the consumers were mostly well-to-do white people who bought their drugs at drugstores few Americans thought regulation or criminalization necessary, but as drug use became more associated with lower class young men, support for a federal drug law grew, culminating in the Progressive-era Harrison Narcotic Tax Act that limited sales of opiates and co***ne. Dr. Gray will focus on the history of drug use and regulation in Philadelphia in her talk.

Kelly Gray earned a BA at Bryn Mawr College, and a Ph.D. in History at the College of William and Mary. She is professor of history at Towson University in Maryland, where her specialty is nineteenth-century America. Her current book project focuses on antebellum Baltimore.

The lecture series is free and open to the public, with no reservations required. Dr. Gray’s talk will be simulcast on Zoom.

Save the Date for spring 2024: Jeff Groff, the retired historian of Winterthur Museum, will speak on Wednesday, March 20, at 7:00 pm in the ETC Auditorium of Holy Family University. His talk is entitled, "Philadelphia Industrialists, Financiers & Manufacturers and Their Country Estates, 1875-1930," and will focus on leading families and the businesses that once made Philadelphia known as the workshop of the world. It highlights their Main Line, Delaware River, and Chester County houses including many that may not be well known today. Jeff Groff last spoke in this series in the spring of 2022, with his talk called, "Main Line Country Squires."

To attend Dr. Gray's talk via Zoom:

When: Oct 3, 2023 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Topic: Glen Foerd-Holy Family Speaker Series

Please click the link below to join the webinar:
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04/01/2023

Glen Foerd-Holy Family University Speaker Series to Feature Andrew Diemer, Author of 'Vigilance: The Life of William Still, Father of the Underground Railroad.'

Holy Family University and Glen Foerd on the Delaware will co-host a Speaker Series event featuring Andrew Diemer, associate professor of history at Towson University and author of Vigilance: The Life of William Still, Father of the Underground Railroad (Knopf, 2022).

The live event will be held on Thursday, April 13, at 7:00 p.m. EDT in the Education and Technology Center Auditorium of Holy Family University (9801 Frankford Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19114). The event is free and open to the public. The talk will be simulcast via Zoom.

William Still was born free in New Jersey in 1821 to parents who had escaped from slavery. Moving to Philadelphia in 1844, he was hired by the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society; eventually, he became head of its Vigilance Committee that aided escaped slaves. Still documented the stories of the men, women, and children that he assisted in their transit to freedom in hopes of eventually reuniting them with family and friends. Once, while listening to the story of an escaped slave named Peter, Still recognized that this was his own brother, whom he had never before met, and whom his mother had had to leave behind when she had fled from slavery with her daughters. Among the other people Still assisted to freedom were the parents of Harriet Tubman, and Ellen and William Craft, who disguised themselves as a young white man and his slave in order to free themselves. Still published the valuable account of his work in 1872. Still also invested in coal and real estate during the Civil War, and left at his death a fortune worth between $100,000 and $1 million.

The lecture is part of the Glen Foerd-Holy Family University Speaker Series that showcases topics of area cultural and historical interest. All lectures are free and open to the public. Copies of Vigilance will be available for purchase and signing at the event.

There is no need to register for the event if you are attending in person; if you are attending via Zoom, you may register here:

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02/21/2023

Please join us:

Glen Foerd-Holy Family University Speaker Series
featuring

Andrew Diemer,
Towson University,
presenting

VIGILANCE: The Life of William Still,
Father of the Underground Railroad

Thursday, April 13
7:00 p.m.
ETC Auditorium of Holy Family University, and Live via Zoom

Andrew Diemer, associate professor of history at Towson University, will speak on Thursday, April 13, at 7:00 pm on his important new book, VIGILANCE: The Life of William Still, Father of the Underground Railroad (Knopf, 2022). He will speak in the ETC Auditorium of Holy Family University, and his talk will be simulcast on Zoom.

William Still was born free in New Jersey in 1821 to parents who had escaped from slavery. Moving to Philadelphia in 1844, he was hired by the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society; eventually he became head of its Vigilance Committee that aided escaped slaves. Still documented the stories of the men, women, and children that he assisted in their transit to freedom in hopes of eventually reuniting them with family and friends. Once, while listening to the story of an escaped slave named Peter, Still recognized that this was his own brother, whom he had never before met, and whom his mother had had to leave behind when she had fled from slavery with her daughters. Among the other people Still assisted to freedom were the parents of Harriet Tubman, and Ellen and William Craft, who disguised themselves as a young white man and his slave in order to free themselves. Still published the valuable account of his work in 1872. Still also invested in coal and real estate during the Civil War, and left at his death a fortune worth between $100,000 and $1 million.

Professor Diemer earned his PhD in history from Temple University in 2011. He is also the author of The Politics of Black Citizenship: Free African Americans in the Mid-Atlantic Borderland, 1815-1863 (Univ. of Georgia Press, 2016). Copies of Vigilance will be available for purchase and signing at the event.

This event, co-sponsored by Holy Family University and Glen Foerd on the Delaware, is free and open to the public. To join via Zoom:

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11/10/2022

Today, Thurs., Nov. 10, at 7:00 pm, Dr. Aaron Sullivan will speak on his book, The Disaffected: Britain's Occupation of Philadelphia During the American Revolution, in the ETC Auditorium of Holy Family University. The event is free and open to the public. If you prefer to register for the Zoom webinar.
When: Nov. 10, 2022 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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10/11/2022

Glen Foerd-Holy Family University Speaker Series Features
Aaron Sullivan, Author of The Disaffected: Britain's Occupation of Philadelphia, Thursday, Nov. 10, 7:00 pm, ETC Auditorium of Holy Family University.
Holy Family University and Glen Foerd on the Delaware will co-host a Speaker Series event featuring historian Aaron Sullivan, author of The Disaffected: Britain's Occupation of Philadelphia (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019), which the American Revolution Round Table of Philadelphia named the best book on the American Revolution Era in 2019.

The live event will be held on Thursday, November 10, at 7:00 pm EST in the ETC Auditorium of Holy Family University, and is free and open to the public. The talk will be simulcast via Zoom.

Sullivan explores the British occupation of Philadelphia during the American Revolution, chronicling the experiences of a group of people who were pursued, pressured, and at times persecuted, not because they chose the wrong side of the Revolution but because they tried not to choose a side at all. For these people, the war was neither a glorious cause to be won nor an unnatural rebellion to be suppressed, but a dangerous and costly calamity to be navigated with care. Both the Patriots and the British referred to this group as "the disaffected," perceiving correctly that their defining feature was less loyalty to than a lack of support for either side in the dispute, and denounced them as opportunistic, apathetic, or even treasonous. Dr. Sullivan will sign copies of his book, which will be available for purchase at the event.

The lecture is part of the Glen Foerd-Holy Family University Speaker Series that showcases topics of area cultural and historical interest. All lectures are free and open to the public.

Dr. Aaron Sullivan is Instructor of history at Rider University. He earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from LeTourneau University and a PhD in History from Temple University. He has received awards and fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Pennsylvania State Society Daughters of the American Colonists, and the David Library of the American Revolution.

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When: Nov. 10, 2022 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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03/18/2022

Thursday, Mar. 24, Jeff Groff, the retired Estate Historian at Winterthur, will speak live via Zoom as part of the Glen Foerd-Holy Family University Speaker Series

Jeff Groff, the retired Estate Historian for Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library, will speak about "Main Line Country Squires," on Thursday, March 24, at 7:00 p.m., Live via Zoom

Join us as Jeff Groff discusses gentleman (and lady) farmers and their extensive estates with prize-winning farming operations, horses, and livestock. He will highlight the history of the exclusive Farmer’s Club and the many country sports such as fox hunting that took place on the estates in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He will focus on some notable families like the Cassatts, Roberts, and Montgomerys, and their activities.

Jeff Groff has worked at Winterthur since 2006, as Director of Interpretation and Estate Historian from 2006 to 2019, and as Estate Historian since 2019. He was previously director of the Wyck Historic House, Garden, and Farm in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia. Groff has an M.A. in American Material Culture from the University of Delaware, and also completed Winterthur’s program in Early American Culture. His research interests include architecture and interiors of American country places, the Colonial Revival, Quaker life, garden history, and “gentlemen farming.”

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02/02/2022

Jack McCarthy, one of the Glen Foerd-Holy Family University Speaker Series' advisory board members, will be speaking tonight, virtually, for the

Northeast Philadelphia History Network


Zoom Meeting

7:00 PM, Wednesday, February 2, 2022

Topic: Robert Purvis in Byberry

Speaker: Jack McCarthy, Historian



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Robert Purvis ca 1850

In honor of Black History Month, Jack McCarthy will present a lecture on African American abolitionist and civil rights activist Robert Purvis (1810-1898), one of Northeast Philadelphia’s most compelling historical figures. During the 30-some years he lived in Byberry (1840s-1870s) Purvis made the community a well-known center of abolitionism and social activism, while continuing his clandestine Underground Railroad activities. In 1846-1847 he spearheaded the building of Byberry Hall (still standing), which hosted nationally-known speakers to discuss anti-slavery and social issues of the time.



Zoom Invitation



Friends of Northeast Philadelphia History is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: NEPHN Zoom Meeting - Robert Purvis in Byberry by historian Jack McCarthy
Time: Feb 2, 2022 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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Other Happenings

Adam Levine’s Dec 5, 2021 NEPHN Zoom Presentation on Frankford Creek is viewable at https://youtu.be/WJNg70JMRMs