Daniel Rubin

Thirteen Quaker and Mennonite families left what is now Krefeld, Germany, thirsting for religious freedom. Here is what remains of them.

How I made peace with a most-precious package.

Approaching the Walt Whitman Bridge on the way to South Jersey, there's an ad for a website that seems so Philly.

There are people who love cruises, and people like Jim Hoser who see them as floating penal colonies. "I'm too restless," says the scuba instructor from Schwenksville.

Linda Kaat describes herself as an amateur preservationist - she has led campaigns to keep the Brandywine Battlefield open as well as to save a colonial tavern and honor the last Leni-Lenape woman of Chester County.

The Radical Homemaker drove with her husband from their farm in Upstate New York to Penn State Great Valley, where she was giving a talk on their anniversary.

Sam Muscatello arrived four months early, weighing a pound and a half, tiny enough to fit in the hand of his mother, Ann Marie.

The poets took their autoharps, their berry cobblers, and bottles of burgundy to the Camden pizzeria Tuesday night, but the mood could not be called festive. They were meeting for the first time since Rocky Wilson got rolled.

The Atlantic City Aquatic Club is a great bargain, especially if you happen to live in Atlantic City. For $200 a year, you get instruction from coaches who have sent swimmers to the Junior Olympics, to college teams and to national meets, where one 10-year-old boy recently broke a backstroke record set by the young Michael Phelps.

The Atlantic City Aquatic Club is a great bargain, especially if you happen to live in Atlantic City. For $200 a year, you get instruction from coaches who have sent swimmers to the Junior Olympics, to college teams and to national meets, where one 10-year-old boy recently broke a backstroke record set by the young Michael Phelps.