Thomas Hardy
Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock.
"Now they are all on their knees,"
An elder said as we sat in a flock
By the embers in hearthside ease.
We pictured the meek mild creatures where
They dwelt in their strawy pen,
Nor did it occur to one of us there
To doubt they were kneeling then.
So fair a fancy few would weave
In these years! Yet, I feel,
If someone said on Christmas Eve,
"Come; see the oxen kneel,
"In the lonely barton by yonder coomb
Our childhood used to know,"
I should go with him in the gloom,
Hoping it might be so.
April 12 – August 9, 2026
A gathering of previously published pieces and public addresses by the two-time National Book Award winner, offering a retrospective of her thought, observation, and moral clarity.
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Greg Vernick's first venture outside Center City — a pasta-driven restaurant that has been the most anticipated opening of the summer, bringing his precise, ingredient-obsessed sensibility north.
A major city-wide festival turning all of Philadelphia into a gallery, with over 30 exhibitions, performances, and art programs across multiple venues as part of the Semiquincentennial celebrations.
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Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees of a universe which is not the same as our own.— Marcel Proust