Join Carpenters' Hall and award-winning journalist Natalie Pompilio for an hour-long walking tour of Old City followed by a tour of historic Carpenters' Hall, host of the First Continental Congress in 1774. While at Carpenters' Hall, guests will also be invited to enjoy light refreshments while having the option to purchase Pompilio's new book, Philadelphia: A Walk Through History. 

Award-winning journalist Natalie Pompilio has lived and written in Philadelphia for more than 20 years. She's been a staff writer for The (New Orleans) Times Picayune,  The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Philadelphia Daily News. She has been freelancing since 2007 and has had newspaper and magazine articles published nationally and internationally. Philadelphia: A Walk Through History is her fifth Philadelphia-centric book. The others are Philadelphia A to Z with photographer Jennifer Zdon; More Philadelphia Murals and the Stories They Tell with Jane Golden and Robin Rice; Walking Philadelphia: 30 Walking Tours Exploring Art, Architecture, History and Little-Known Gems with photographer Tricia Pompilio; and This Used to Be Philadelphia with photographer Tricia Pompilio. Her sixth book, tentatively titled Mapping Philadelphia: A History of the City of Brotherly Love Told Through Maps, is slated for a September release by Reedy Press.  Natalie lives a mile south of the Liberty Bell in a three-story brick rowhouse located on an alley off an alley.