Fifteen years ago, inspired by the late Kathryn G. Bosher (1974–2013) and her Classicizing Chicago project, I founded Classicizing Philadelphia. With some modest funding from the Classical Association of the Atlantic States and Bryn Mawr College, that digital humanities project grew into a web site, a short-lived mobile app, and this blog. By 2016 it was clear that the project needed a permanent home and a younger director, and I handed it over to Haverford College–where it remains, entombed in the graveyard of “Past Initiatives.” The blog, which had been used mostly to report on Classicizing Philadelphia and its progress, remained alive as classicizingphiladelphia.blogs.brynmawr.edu. Over time, the Classicizing Philadelphia blog had less and less to say about its original subject. I wrote about Cycladic art at the Metropolitan Museum, tyranny and Trump, Trump as a postmodern president, class and party realignments, Gibbon’s Decline and Fall, the fate of books, artificial intelligence, summer reading, Bryn Mawr’s cancelling of its founder, and pronouns—and those are just the ten most recent posts.

It’s time to move on. The previous paragraph, slightly modified, appears as the first post on Classicizing in Philadelphia, hosted on Blogger. I hope the new blog will be a little less formal, a bit more wide-ranging, and easier to find that this one, and that I’ll be able to post a little more often.

~Lee Pearcy

August 15, 2025