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In the 2000s and 2010s, Hyman Myers and Bruce Laverty began to record oral history interviews with senior design professionals who lived or worked in the Greater Philadelphia region. Myers was then nearing retirement from the VITETTA Group and UPenn’s Architecture Department. Laverty was the Gladys Brooks Curator of Architecture at The Athenaeum of Philadelphia.

We have more than enough buildings. Instead of wasting natural resources we cannot replenish and polluting our environment even further with new construction, we should reuse, rethink, and reimagine what we already have. We should do such in a manner that opens up existing structures for all of us and allows us to understand where

The preservation movement has done more to determine the shape of American cities than nearly anything else in the last half century. But it is increasingly contributing to a crippling inertia, focusing too narrowly on bricks and mortar, divorcing itself from a broad public that has other priorities and needs–other things it wishes to preserve.

This presentation explores the enduring presence and living traditions of the Lenape people, emphasizing the deep cultural connections that have withstood centuries of displacement, disruption, and change. Highlighting stories of survival, adaptation, and revitalization, it traces the continuity of Lenape language, ceremonies, values, and community ties from ancestral homelands in the East to present-day Lenape