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Contains the reports of city officials for the preceding year.
The new book by prize-winning biographer Evelyn Juers, author of The House of Exile and The Recluse, portrays the life and background of a pioneering Australian dancer who died at the age of twenty-five in a remote town in India. A uniquely talented dancer and choreographer, Philippa Cullen grew up in Australia in the 1950s and 60s. In the 1970s, driven by the idea of dancing her own music, she was at the forefront of the new electronic music movement, working internationally with performers, avant-garde composers, engineers and mathematicians to build and experiment with theremins and movement-sensitive floors, which she called body-instruments. She had a unique sense of purpose, read widel...
Excerpt from William Davis Gallagher: A Biographical Sketch William davis gallagher, poet, editor, and public official, was born in Philadelphia, August 21, 1808. His father, Bernard Gallagher, familiarly called Barney, was an Irishman, a Roman Catholic, a participant in the rebel lion that, in 1803, cost Robert Emmett his life. Barney' Gallagher migrated to the United States, landing at the city of brotherly love, where, by the aid of John Binns, editor of the Shamrock, he obtained work. Some time afterward he became acquainted with Miss Abigail Davis, of Bridgeport, New Jersey, who had been sent to Phila delphia by her widowed mother, to complete, at Quaker school, an education begun at ho...