Newly released, “Frankford Heroes, 2nd Edition”, written by Bob Smiley and Richard Johnson, takes us from a small 17th Century village in Philadelphia county to a 21st Century neighborhood in the city of Philadelphia, PA. Frankford has a long history of proud military service. This new edition has the stories 190 brave men and women, 147 of them would not return from war.
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Through Tuesday evening, May 26, we will donate 10% of monies raised to St. Mark’s Church and Court St. Francis de Sales #2617 of the Catholic Daughters of the Americas for their Matthew 25 Food Cupboard. Thank you!
I love the photo essay!!
Just a note: the “wall art across from Marshall’s” is actually the wall art at the Frankford Friends Community Garden, created last year by Frankford Friends students under the direction of Frankford resident and art teacher Rufus Standerfer…
Thanks. If Mr. Standerfer does anything more like that in the future, ask him to let us know. We love covering good news in Frankford.
[…] Today the Archdiocese announced the closure of North Catholic at the end of this school year. I’m heart broken. Being in Frankford, it was so close I could walk it. I would start at Penn and Harrison and walk south. I’d meet John at Penn and Arrott and we’d walk the rest. At the tail end of last winter we retraced the walk we hadn’t done in twelve years, take a loo… […]
I am so sad to hear that. I went to Little Flower and we used have such a great time at mixers there in the late 1960’s. Anyone remember mixers?