RRandolph Mertz
Randolph Mertz digs into Philadelphia's layered past and present, using archival records and street-level interviews to trace how the city reshapes itself while holding onto its quirks. His writing treats every corner store and construction crane as evidence of a living, evolving organism rather than a postcard.
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