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Bike Rides The Wiss _ Fall 2025

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A Few Recent Days in my life:

-I surprised my boyfriend Grant with his favorite band's concert tickets (Three Days Grace) and we went to the show in Atlantic City, NJ on Friday! It was a lot of fun.

-Grant's family was in town, so on Saturday night we went to a really cute BYOB Italian spot in Mount Airy. Then on Sunday we went hiking on a local trail at the Wissahickon.

-My two girlfriends and I have been consistently going rock climbing weekly for over a month now. My kind of girls night!

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Skating on the Wissahickon

Johan Mengels Culverhouse American

1875

"Although skating scenes were popular with Dutch and Flemish genre painters of the late sixteenth century and after, they did not catch on in this country until the mid-nineteenth century. They were among Culverhouse's favorite themes. His most accomplished scene in this genre depicts skating in Central Park, New York, and was executed in 1865 (Museum of the City of New York). Ten years later, he painted this Philadelphia skating scene. First called "Skating on the Schuylkill" when offered for sale in New York in 1942, it was later renamed "Skating on the Wissahickon." Wissahickon Creek flows through Philadelphia to the Schuylkill River; the Wissahickon Valley is a popular recreational area."