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3/26/02
Next we went up past the old "Fighting Quaker" meeting house (now a leather store) to Christ Church burying ground where lay Ben Franklin and his wife and child - and down Arch St. to the Betsy Ross house, where the flag was born. It is quaint little hole of a place where one climb up and down steps into the real little room where Betsy made it, with many of the old tiles in the fireplace. The windows once looked out on the river but now there are high buildings all around it. A polite young lady showed us the corner-cupboard & things and told us to go round the corner and see the old Christ Church where George & Martha used to go, so we did. Tho' the inside has been some what modernized, tho' the old high pulpit remains. John Penn's tombstone is in the floor - but his bones have been removed. We inquired of a policeman & then took a car on Arch St. which felt its way thro' the narrow un- attractive little streets way out to "Spring Garden Street" betw. 16th & 17th, where we went into the brand new, good looking N.S. mint and a "gentlemanly official" in uniform showed us around. First we

3/26/02
Next we went up past the old "Fighting Quaker" meeting house (now a leather store) to Christ Church burying ground where lay Ben Franklin and his wife and child - and down Arch St. to the Betsy Ross house, where the flag was born. It is quaint little hole of a place where one climb up and down steps into the real little room where Betsy made it, with many of the old tiles in the fireplace. The windows once looked out on the river but now there are high buildings all around it. A polite young lady showed us the corner-cupboard & things and told us to go round the corner and see the old Christ Church where George & Martha used to go, so we did. Tho' the inside has been some what modernized, tho' the old high pulpit remains. John Penn's tombstone is in the floor - but his bones have been removed. We inquired of a policeman & then took a car on Arch St. which felt its way thro' the narrow un- attractive little streets way out to "Spring Garden Street" betw. 16th & 17th, where we went into the brand new, good looking N.S. mint and a "gentlemanly official" in uniform showed us around. First we

3/26/02
Next we went up past the old "Fighting Quaker" meeting house (now a leather store) to Christ Church burying ground where lay Ben Franklin and his wife and child - and down Arch St. to the Betsy Ross house, where the flag was born. It is quaint little hole of a place where one climb up and down steps into the real little room where Betsy made it, with many of the old tiles in the fireplace. The windows once looked out on the river but now there are high buildings all around it. A polite young lady showed us the corner-cupboard & things and told us to go round the corner and see the old Christ Church where George & Martha used to go, so we did. Tho' the inside has been some what modernized, tho' the old high pulpit remains. John Penn's tombstone is in the floor - but his bones have been removed. We inquired of a policeman & then took a car on Arch St. which felt its way thro' the narrow un- attractive little streets way out to "Spring Garden Street" betw. 16th & 17th, where we went into the brand new, good looking N.S. mint and a "gentlemanly official" in uniform showed us around. First we
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