Marty Seroter of American Legion Post 371 in Gibbsboro plays Taps on the USS New Jersey in Camden to mark the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor. Edward Smith of Cape May, N.J., who survived the attack, spoke at the wreath-laying ceremony yesterday. The New Jersey, the first U.S. battleship built after the nation entered World War II, was launched on Dec. 7, 1942.
Other Inquirer photos today include the menorah on Chestnut Street is lit to mark the start of Hanukkah, the Mummers fly south to Atlantic City for their annual "Show of Shows," and yesterday's rainy weather has brought today's sunshine and gusty winds.
Photo Gallery
Inquirer photographers points their cameras at the candidates, their supporters and the media. Get a view of the campaign trail or go behind the scenes.
ROOTS
Seeking a heritage in Africa With DNA clues, an American travels to Niger and Sierra Leone to learn about a family line obscured by slavery.
Seventeen hours after takeoff, you land in Niamey. You unbend from your seat gratefully. It has been a difficult trip in ways that have nothing to do with flight time and everything to do with the fact that this isn't an easy journey to arrange. It's hard to book the flights, harder to book the hotels. By Leonard Pitts Jr. / The Miami Herald
The jams are smoking
Inquirer photographer Peter Tobia captures the sounds, voices and atmosphere of one of Philadelphia's oldest jazz clubs.
Discovering Route 6
I have taken many of my best photographs when I wasn't specifically looking for anything to shoot, usually on my way to or from other newspaper assignments. Serendipity is what makes the classic summer road trip a similar experience: an excuse to enjoy the journey and a way to explore, to seek out mysteries and revelations. By Tom Gralish / INQUIRER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Views of the battle for Ramadi
Photography by David Swanson / Inquirer
Inquirer photographer David Swanson spent a week and a half with the Marines of Echo company in Ramadi, Iraq. This is his account of that period, one of the deadliest in Iraq since the fall of Baghdad. Take in the events through slideshows, stories and more.
Photographer Tom Gralish takes a weekly look at our urban landscape. By Tom Gralish / Inquirer Staff Photographer
PHOTOGRAPHER'S JOURNAL
Rodin Museum's 75th anniversary
The Rodin Museum on the Parkway doesn't usually present special exhibitions, but periodically a good reason to do so presents itself.
After 150 years, clubs find cricket a hit again Big with the British, the game is surging Stateside.
Before baseball fanatics packed stadiums across the country, the batsmen and fielders of cricket squared off on lush green fields in front of large crowds in Germantown and Chestnut Hill.
Exotic Pet Vet
Inquirer photographer Michael S. Wirtz examines a day in the practice of Dr. Gloria J. Goodman. Goodman, of Aston, Pa., treats only exotic pets and people come from miles around for remedies for their pet lizards, rabbits and maybe a swan or two. But she doesn’t tend alligators.
Wildwood dims lights
The door, pulled off its hinges and propped up against a window at the Notre Dame Motel here, said it as well as anything: For Sale - Everything.
OCCASIONAL SERIES
New on the job
Inquirer staff photographer Jonathan Wilson explores the joys and frustrations of first-year-teacher José Díaz.
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