but he wanted just to call it sylvania, which means wooded place. >> what's the biggest question people come up with for you on the tours? >> people want to see the betsy ross house. while there is some historical basis to it, there's a little bit of mythology involved. i don't go into that too much but of course i encourage people to get their picture taken. one thing i like telling people is to look up. if you look at our city hall tower for instance, the first people who settled in the area were the dutch and the swedes. it's a really wonderful swedish connection. i always tell my clients when i give tours, i want you to learn something. when you get done with this tour, you're going to be smarter than when you started. du do you know what the big swedish connection is for philadelphia? >> i don't. >> it's the color of the philadelphia flag. it's the color of the flag of sweden. it's light blue and yellow, that's the color of the swedish flag. you look up at the city hall tower. who's on top? william penn. he's facing the indian village where the treaty of -- where penn's treaty was

and her life gives us the opportunity to look at early virginia, new york, and sylvania and new hampshire. and we get to sort of follow her life and look at how this nation is changing, how it is grappling with the issue of slavery, all of these very kind of central issues to this new nation. and this time we're doing it through a young black woman who made the choice to run away. so as i said i will read a bit. i will talk and we will look at a few slides and we walked together on this journey of oney's life. spring rain drains the streets in philadelphia in 1796. whether in the city of brotherly love was often fickle at this time of year vacillating between extreme cold and oppressive heat, but rain was almost always appreciated in the nations capital. it erased the putrid smells of rotting food, animal waste and felt that permeates the cobblestone roads of this new nation. it reminded philadelphians that the law and punishing winter was behind them. spring rain cleans the streets and souls of philadelphians. it ushered in optimism and hope, and if you think of rebirth. and in the midst