Andalusia’s Darkest Day – Summer 1923
July 19, 2023“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
February 7, 2023The 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
September 2, 2021In 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
July 3, 2021The 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…
