It’s funny how certain places weave in and out of your life—ebb and flow—only to anchor themselves more deeply than we ever expected. My first memories of Fishtown aren’t sharp images so much as feelings. Nostalgia seems to work that way—sometimes the emotions come back stronger than the details. When I was growing up, my […]
When you show someone Fishtown for the very first time, where do you begin? At the end of October, two local TV reporters came to report on Fishtown. Visit to Fishtown and Leland are almost rite of passage for reporters new to this region, and for both it would be their first visits. By this […]
I first actually saw Fishtown on a gray winter’s day in 2007. I wanted to walk the snowy docks and take in the Fishtown landscape before a meeting, because that meeting was with the board of the Fishtown Preservation Society, which had just completed the purchase of Fishtown from the Carlson family. It was February […]
