Philly History and Libations at the Athenaeum and Man Full of Trouble Tavern

Note: This is technically/originally an event for the "Philadelphia Old and
New in Town Meetup Group" (https://www.meetup.com/meetup-group-tdczcdif/), which I recently took on because the organizer had
stepped down. As I hope you'll agree from the photo alone, however, there
is artistic/aesthetic merit in the "historical" exhibits we'll be seeing.

Another note: :) This is a rescheduled event since our first stop was closed
due to weather the last time.

And now, the description:

According to its website, "The Athenaeum was established in 1814 as a subscription library, at a time when the free public library system did not exist and collections of books, available for reading or research, were still mostly limited to institutions, schools or colleges." It also contains exhibits, which are often focused on the city's history and architecture. The two that will be up on April 20th are "Building America, Becoming American: Philadelphia's Early Immigrant Designers" and "Lost Creeks of Philadelphia: Burying the Streams, Building the City" (from which the above photo was taken)

After seeing the above, we'll head over to the Man Full of Trouble Tavern
at 127 Spruce Street. Opening in 1759, it's the only standing
pre-Revolutionary War building of its kind in Philadelphia. (Owner Dan
Wheeler will give us an introduction to it.) Its painstaking, award-winning
renovation includes an upstairs history museum and a downstairs bar with
locally sourced drinks from Succession Fermentory.

Those of us who are hungry and don't have to rush off after our tavern visit
(though it is open until 10:00 for those who want to stick around) can
choose from a number of restaurants in the area...