The Andalusia Journal

Caroline Colino’s Fellow’s Journal Archive

Recreating Captain Charles J. Biddle’s SPAD XIII Biplane

On a clear, late summer day last September, hundreds of visitors flocked to a small airfield in rural Pennsylvania for a long awaited and very special unveiling. For more than…

Andalusia’s Darkest Day – Summer 1923

“Andalusia’s darkest day,” reads the entry in Letitia Glenn Biddle’s garden journal for July 11, 1923. Written in her distinctive scrawl, squeezed between two other lines, as if added at…

Centennial Wedding Year: Charles J. & Katharine L. Biddle

The Washington, DC weather forecast for February 10, 1923, called for possible rain or snow with a high temperature of 44 degrees and a low of freezing. This was important…

Down on the Farm: A Summer of Produce from Andalusia in 1870

In 1870, five years after the Union victory in the American Civil War, the City of Philadelphia was a hustling, bustling metropolis of approximately 675,000 people, and growing in both…

The Farmers’ Club at Andalusia

The Farmers' club was an auxiliary to the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture (PSPA), one of the first agriculture societies in the United States, but all members of the Farmers…