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Someone Finally Posts on our Message Board

Here at the Gazette, we’re used to things taking time.  Frankford will not be rushed.  Now I don’t even remember when we put a link for the community message board up, it must have been months.  And yesterday, someone actually posted something.  Nothing really positive, more like “wow does it suck since I’ve left”.  But what can you ask for.

Come join the conversation over at the Message Board.

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Next Week in Frankford

  • Frankford Friends School’s 2009 Winter Soiree & Silent Auction
    When-Sat, February 21, 4:30pm – 7:30pm
    Where-Crane Arts Building, (map)
    Description-On Saturday, February 21, 2009, Frankford Friends School’s Winter Soiree & Silent Auction will take place at the exciting Crane Arts Building in Philadelphia. The event will be held from 4:30 pm to 7:30 pm. Proceeds from the event and the auction will help us realize our dream of a new building on our historic site at 1500 Orthodox Street in Northeast Philadelphia. (For more information about our school, click the “banner” at the top of this page.) In advance of the event, the bidding will begin here, at this online auction site – allowing people who can’t attend to bid and have a chance to win. (Auction items will begin appearing on this page in January, so please keep checking back.) All items will close at the live event, so if you really want something, you may just have to be there! This year our event will include a very special wine tasting with Greg Moore pouring his remarkable artisan Moore Brothers wines. Also featured will be a cheese tasting and light fare. We look forward to seeing all community members there, new and old! The online auction runs from February 8 through February 19. Tickets to the live event are a suggested minimum donation of $40 per person, or $75 for two people. There are a limited number of tickets available, so reserve yours early.
  • Northwood Civic Association Meeting
    When-Tue, February 24, 7pm – 9pm
    Where-St. James Lutheran Church (map)
  • Grand Army of the Republic Museum Open House
    When-Sun, March 1, 12pm – 5pm
    Where-4278 Griscom Street, Philadelphia, PA 19124 (map)
    Description-Presentation at 1:30 PM: Civil War Medicine Lesley Wood
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Black History in Historic Frankford

This week in the Northeast Times is the second part in a 3 part series byDr. Harry C. Silcox and Jack McCarthy.  It still reads like a good novel.  Because it is an regular column, you have to scroll down the page to find it.  This is the link.

Also this week is a feature story on Harry Silcox to go along with the series.  Read that one here.

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Frankford’s Haiku Master

I spent nearly two years in Japan soaking up the culture but I never appreciated Haiku until I read Jack Hohenstein’s book.  This makes Jack my second favorite poet after Walt Whitman, not bad.  The idea is to express something in very few words.  Jack’s book is filled with Haiku about life.  You will see Frankford in there along with other places and people and family.  hohenstein026

I asked Jack for permission to include a few of his Haiku and he only stipulated that I pick a good one.  The photograph cover was by Mike Hohenstein, Jack’s son.  Published by Full Court Press, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.  Jack is a resident of Frankford and we are lucky to have him.

These are three of my favorite:

Without bugs and birds

Would human beings have dreamed

That they too could fly?

Street scene

Her daughter in tow

Mother, son and open book

Spell their way to school.

and finally

I notice the snake

That turns laughter to slaughter

And become silent.

Copyright 2005 Jack Hohenstein