Musically speaking, I remember my teen years with a warm and fuzzy glow. Looking back, I realize how lucky I was. The first formal concert I attended was Laurie Anderson on the Mr. Heartbreak tour, 1984 at Constitution Hall, with my friend Annie. I remember being blown away by the visual aspects and the mood [...]
It was another weekend of smashing here at the Fawcett/Honeycups household. The projects on the docket included tearing down a wall that separated the rooms in the front of the house:
We also removed the cinderblocks that closed off a window on the front of the building, and tore out another wall on the second floor, [...]
This is part three of my series documenting the demolition of the first floor of our house. Welcome back!!
Just in case someone out there can’t remember my last two posts verbatim, this is what the space looked like when we started:
What is the best music to listen to while smashing out masonry walls with a sledgehammer? For us, last weekend, this question led to a series of jokes (Hole, Smashing Pumpkins, Pavement, etc.) and eventually, grabbing a few CDs and heading down to the first floor to begin demolition.
One of my favorite weekend rituals is a Saturday morning trip to Philadelphia’s Italian Market. This outdoor market is the oldest of its kind in the country, having been started out of necessity by the large Italian immigrant population that settled here in the late 1800s. The market runs along 9th Street in South Philly, [...]