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Boathouse Row Hidden History Tour

Code: TT21084

Dates: October 1, 2024

Meets: 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM

Sessions: 1

Course Fee: $45.00

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Dotty Brown, former editor at the Philadelphia Inquirer, leads this walking tour that will bring Boathouse Row to life through often unknown stories about the houses. What was the relationship of the painter Thomas Eakins to the Row? Why is the Row’s architecture so eclectic and what famous Philadelphia architect left his mark there? When were women included on the Row?
Fee: $45.00
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Dotty Brown

Dotty Brown is a former reporter and editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer. During her newspaper career, she edited numerous award-winning projects, including one that won a Pulitzer Prize. She is a graduate of Wellesley College (where she did not learn to row despite its historic crew program) and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism (where she did learn to report and write). She came to rowing as part of the surging wave of masters rowers and is a member of the Vesper Boat Club, on Boathouse Row in Philadelphia.

dotty.brown@gmail.com

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