This peek at an Eastern State cellblock 👌

1,000 Tastykakes showering a crowd gathered to watch a drag cabaret outside a former prison? Must be Bastille Day celebrations in Philly.

Amid the Tastykakes, Philly’s Bastille Day celebration gets political

Signs of Solidarity joined up with The Bearded Ladies to infuse the fest with activist messages.

Explore Eastern State Pen for free

What	As part of the Wawa Welcome America festival, you can tour Eastern State Penitentiary tonight for free.
Where	Eastern State Penitentiary at 2027 Fairmount Avenue
When	June 30, 2017 at 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm
How much	Free

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Discuss the future of the death penalty at Eastern State Pen

What	Two of the nation's leading experts on the death penalty, law professors and siblings Carol S. Steiker and Jordan M. Steiker, have argued the Supreme Court has "sown the seeds for eventual abolition of the death penalty." Listen to them speak tonight at Eastern State Penitentiary.
Where	Eastern State Penitentiary at 2027 Fairmount Avenue
When	June 6, 2017 at 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
How much	Free

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Eastern State Penitentiary is opening the nation’s first museum exhibition on mass incarceration

Al Capone was so powerful that his prison cell at Philly’s Eastern State Penitentiary had all the comforts of home

Before Eastern State Pen was a museum, neighborhood kids used it as ‘our fort’

This is how they made Eastern State Penitentiary so scary it will put your high school boyfriend “into a fetal position”

It’s almost Halloween; Eastern State Pen is kind of ready.