[Photo of Jerry and Kirsti Newcombe by the original Liberty Bell] Many years ago, my then-teenage daughter was on a church choir tour in Philadelphia. My wife asked her by phone how it was going. Our daughter replied that everything had been going great, and they were hoping to visit the nation’s second largest shopping […]

Speaker 1: Welcome again to Providence today. We’re at the National Constitution Center here in Philadelphia, and we’re standing right by the Pennsylvania Liberty tree that the Providence forum had the joy of helping to plant some years ago. If you look at it, you can see, it seems to be very happy here. It’s […]

Written by: Steven Fisher, Board Member The Providence Forum has the honor and privilege of preserving the legacy represented by America’s Liberty Tree. The Liberty Tree was identified in 1765 by the Sons of Liberty in Boston in the context of their protest against the Stamp Act. As tensions mounted in the years leading to […]