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If you have Comcast digital cable you have access to channel 241 which is WHYY Arts. They are featuring a show in the Precious Places series this week. It is worth a look. This is the schedule for the next few days.
Tuesday, April 15, 8:00am
Tuesday, April 15, 5:30pm
Tuesday, April 15, 10:30pm
Thursday, April 17, 11:30pm
Friday, April 18, 9:30am
Saturday, April 19, 7:30pm
Sunday, April 20, 10:00pm
Tuesday, April 22, 3:30pm
Tuesday, April 22, 4:00pm
Update on construction at Castor and Cayuga. As you can see the houses on Cayuga are moving right along. 
Some of the houses are fully framed outside. House wrap going up as fast as possible and some roofing is finished. One pair has windows going in today.
Wingohocking Street has been closed for a few days while they do road work. The slabs are poured on that side of the project but no framing so far has started.
Views of the rear of the properties from Wingohocking shows the road work ongoing.
You can see the entire slide show here.
The Norteast Times this week has another facinating (to me anyway) story on Northeast history. The subject is the William H. Sliker Photo and Arts Studio in Bridesburg. It is more personal to me because I grew up living on the opposite side of the street from the studio and remember the comings and goings of the studio very well.
The story is authored by Dr. Harry C. Silcox and Jack McCarthy of the Frankford Historical Society. It is thanks to Sliker that we have so many views of Frankford and the Northeast surviving today. These photographs were printed on postcards and offered for sale all throuthout the Northeast. Back in that day when the telephone was rare it was at all unusual for people to send postcards the way we might call someone today. To say, hey I got home ok or I’ll be coming to see you next month. Many of them for sale on ebay still have those interesting messages
This is a Sliker image of the old police station and fire house in Frankford. The fire house is now the Police Athletic League building. They were a bit casual about the captions for their pictures and wrote them on the original negative in india ink which when printed came out white on the print.
Read the entire story here.
Thanks to the Northeast Times, who is publishing the crime log every other week, we have been able to update the map and now have data for the past 6 weeks. This is a link to the map. It is interesting, to say the least. Better to be informed and know what we are up against. The police will say that statistics show a decline in most crime and that may be the case. To me it seems to be spreading to areas that we did not previously find it. No corner of Frankford is immune. We are all in this together and solutions are needed now.
The Northeast Times this week carries a story on the passing of Leonard Williams. Agree with him or not, he was a dedicated activist. We need more of those folks. Read the entire story here.
