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SUMMARY:Tour Guide Coffee Break - July
DESCRIPTION:The Association of Philadelphia Tour Guides (APT) is organizing a tour guide coffee break on Tuesday\, July 21 at 10 am at the back of the Independence Visitor Center (IVC) at 6th and Market Streets. No set topics\, just good guide talk in a casual setting. Everyone is welcome. Wear your APT lanyard and you should get 10% off your coffee\, beverage\, and more at the Independence Café. Everyone is responsible for their own drinks or snacks. \nNo need to reply – just show up!
URL:https://phillyguides.org/event/tour-guide-coffee-break-july/
LOCATION:Independence Visitor Center\, 599 Market St.\, 1 N. Independence Mall W.\, Philadelphia\, 19106
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SUMMARY:Book Club for July
DESCRIPTION:The Association of Philadelphia Tour Guides (APT) will hold its next book club meeting on Tuesday\, July 21 at 7 pm on Zoom. The selection is Grave Dealings: Body Snatching in Philadelphia\, 1762-1883 by Tim Dewysockie. (BTW\, Dewysockie will be the speaker at the APT monthly meeting in October – just in time for Halloween!). In the 18th century the first American medical school was established in Philadelphia. Following the model of European universities\, anatomical lectures were conducted with cadavers. But where did the bodies come from? Dissection was viewed as a fate worse than death\, and the only legal source of “stiffs” was executed criminals. But there were not enough. As the medical profession and its need for “anatomical material” grew\, a new\, macabre practice emerged: body snatching. \nBody snatchers secretly obtained bodies from cemeteries and sold them to medical schools for dissection. But how did body snatching work? How did body snatchers and medical schools avoid getting caught\, and what happened when they did? How did the era of the body snatchers end? Grave Dealings: Body Snatching In Philadelphia\, 1762-1883 digs through archives to unearth the forgotten history of a time of graveyard patrols and anatomy riots\, when the dead needed protection from the living. Philadelphia pioneered and became the center of American medical education and practice–and body snatching–in the 18th and 19th centuries. \nThere is no fee to join the book club and everyone is welcome! Participants should come ready to discuss the book. The Zoom link will be sent out the week of the meeting in the APT Tour Talk email. Non-members who wish to attend should contact APT Secretary Pam Covey phillyguides@gmail.com by 5 pm the day of the meeting to get the Zoom link. \n 
URL:https://phillyguides.org/event/book-club-for-july-2/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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SUMMARY:Visit to the Independence Seaport Museum
DESCRIPTION:The Association of Philadelphia Tour Guides (APT) has arranged an outing to see the Independence Seaport Museum‘s new exhibit: Seeking Profit and Power: Philadelphia\, China Trade\, and the Making of America on Tuesday\, July 28 at 10 am. This will be a two-hour visit with a guided tour for $5. \nHave you ever wondered what happened after the United States achieved independence from Britain and lost its dominant trading partner? Independence Seaport Museum’s major new exhibition\, Seeking Profit and Power: Philadelphia\, China Trade\, and the Making of America\, showcases how as a young country we avoided economic isolation by creating a new foreign trade partner in China. It was lucrative. It was risky. And as a newly created nation\, our economic survival depended on it. \nSeeking profit and power\, merchants saw dramatic opportunities to make money from Americans’ desire for Chinese goods like tea\, silk\, and porcelain. The fortunes they built helped expand Philadelphia’s role as a major port and city. Seeking Profit and Power is comprised of roughly 150 objects that have rarely been seen\, many from the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Through exploring these artifacts with a museum guide\, APT visitors will learn how early trade relationships with China helped build America into a global economic power. \nHighlights include the rise of wealthy Philadelphia merchants like Stephen Girard\, whose China-trade fortunes turned early Philadelphia into a global port\, yet also launched us into the moral complexities of opium smuggling and the use of enslaved labor on merchant ships. \nYou can purchase your ticket in the APT store\, ‘field trip: tour or site visit.’ Contact APT Director-at-Large vpmccafferty@msn.com with any questions. Please join us! \n\nPhoto courtesy of the Independence Seaport Museum. \n 
URL:https://phillyguides.org/event/visit-to-the-independence-seaport-museum/
LOCATION:Independence Seaport Museum\, 211 S. Columbus Blvd\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Tour
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SUMMARY:Tour Guide Coffee Break - August
DESCRIPTION:The Association of Philadelphia Tour Guides (APT) is organizing a tour guide coffee break on Tuesday\, August 18 at 10 am at the back of the Independence Visitor Center (IVC) at 6th and Market Streets. No set topics\, just good guide talk in a casual setting. Everyone is welcome. Wear your APT lanyard and you should get 10% off your coffee\, beverage\, and more at the Independence Café. Everyone is responsible for their own drinks or snacks. \nNo need to reply – just show up!
URL:https://phillyguides.org/event/tour-guide-coffee-break-august/
LOCATION:Independence Visitor Center\, 599 Market St.\, 1 N. Independence Mall W.\, Philadelphia\, 19106
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SUMMARY:APT Certification Exam in September
DESCRIPTION:The Association of Philadelphia Tour Guides (APT) written Certification Exam\, based mainly on information in the APT HANDBOOK\, covers the history\, people\, and places of importance in Philadelphia. It tests knowledge of the basic facts about the city that any guide giving solid\, professional tours of both the Historic District and Center City would know. \nThe next exam will be held on Saturday\, September 12\, 9-11 am at Philly’s Gourmet Steaks\, 114 Market Street\, upstairs. \nDeadline to register is Thursday\, September 10. Please pay in the APT Store and email the APT President at president@phillyguides.org if you are interested in taking the exam on September 12. We want to make sure we have enough copies! \nThose who paid for the exam previously and didn’t sit for it or did sit for it and didn’t pass do not have to pay the fee again. They do\, however\, need to register with the APT President.  \nClick here for more information.
URL:https://phillyguides.org/event/apt-certification-exam-in-september-2/
LOCATION:Philly’s Gourmet Steaks\, 114 Market Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States
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SUMMARY:Tour Guide Coffee Break - September
DESCRIPTION:The Association of Philadelphia Tour Guides (APT) is organizing a tour guide coffee break on Tuesday\, September 15 at 10 am at the back of the Independence Visitor Center (IVC) at 6th and Market Streets. No set topics\, just good guide talk in a casual setting. Everyone is welcome. Wear your APT lanyard and you should get 10% off your coffee\, beverage\, and more at the Independence Café. Everyone is responsible for their own drinks or snacks. \nNo need to reply – just show up!
URL:https://phillyguides.org/event/tour-guide-coffee-break-september/
LOCATION:Independence Visitor Center\, 599 Market St.\, 1 N. Independence Mall W.\, Philadelphia\, 19106
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