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Rising Sun and Tabor
2004.06.16 13:14
I like how Mount Tabor in the Holy Land is where the Transfiguration took place.
The intersection of Rising Sun and Tabor then marks the crossing of a nicely named inversionary cardo and decumanus.
Rising Sun Avenue is an old Lenni-Lenape trail. It starts as an offshoot of Germantown Avenue, which is also originally an 'Indian' trail that begins in what became Northern Liberties--Penn's 'working title' for Philadelphia was Liberties.
The intersection of Rising Sun Avenue and Tabor Road is right on a high outlook point, indeed the destination of the Lenni-Lenapi trail. Their camp at the mouth of Rock Run on Tacony Creek, just down in the valley, primarily farmed and took care of the many honored burial sites of Rock Run Valley (which in the 1990s some locals referred to as Voodoo Valley; many Haitians now inhabit the valley).
Tabor Road was first 'planned' under King George III in 1776 as the link between Germantown in the west and Trinity [Oxford] Church in the east. The first time I tested this entire route from east to west, I was going to the annual reenactment of the Battle of Germantown at Cliveden a couple years ago. The route is something like 8 miles and remarkably direct.
The Rock Run camp at Tekene was always very busy right before the summer solstice, because that's when "the" outlook point was the destination for many, many Ur-Philadelphians.
Apparently, the weavers of the Great Isfahan have lately taken up special acrobatic lessons, and now a whole elaborate arrival show is about to happen.
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