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After Closing Due to Hurricane Ida, Exhibit About Black Resilience at the Pool Reopens in Philly

Victoria Prizzia curated "POOL," a multimedia exploration of the history of segregation at public pools set at the site of a former indoor pool at Fairmount Water Works.
Emma Lee
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WHYY
Victoria Prizzia curated "POOL," a multimedia exploration of the history of segregation at public pools set at the site of a former indoor pool at Fairmount Water Works.

A new exhibition about the history of segregation in American public pools has re-opened at the Fairmount Waterworks in Philadelphia, five months after it was completely submerged by Hurricane Ida floodwaters.

WHYY's Peter Crimmins reports the show, called POOL, had to close down on its opening day last September.

(Original air-date: 3/29/22)

WHYY’s arts and culture reporter Peter Crimmins first became interested in radio in the fourth grade, when he smuggled a contraband crystal-diode radio into the Boy Scout summer camp. Subsequent radio projects were more successful.