Counterculture
The Things that Put Powelton on the Map
Posted July 17th, 2008 by TeishanProducer of the Work / Filmmaker:
Powelton Village Civic Association with Scribe Video Center
Year released:
2006
Length:
10 min 4 seconds
Price:
This video is available for purchase as part of a Precious Places Community History Project Vol.2 compilation DVD.
Powelton Village has long been an incubator of progressive Philadelphia politics and counterculture. Neighborhood activism, communal living, national politics—Powelton Village residents have done it all, especially if it was the 1960s and 1970s. "If Philadelphia had any equivalent to Haight-Ashbury," says resident Sandra Mohberg, "Powelton Village was it. This was where the revolutionary types lived." Among other honors, the neighborhood was rumored to be the hiding place for documents that activists stole from an FBI office in Media, PA in 1971.
