The Frankford Business & Professional Association was thrilled to welcome District Attorney Seth Williams to our October general meeting yesterday morning!
During the hour long session, the D.A. took some great questions from a packed room, and discussed what his office is doing to prevent crime around the City, how we can all work together to create safer neighborhoods, and how his personal story has shaped his career path and his goals as the City’s top prosecutor.
For those who couldn’t make it, we hope you enjoy the pictures below. And we want to extend a special thanks to the D.A., his office, and all who came out yesterday!
Nivi Alroy, Christine Altman, Pam Bowman, Gandalf Gavan, Carolyn Healy and John Phillips, Joseph Leroux, Elizabeth Mackie, Ryan Mandell, David Meyer, Michael Morgan, David Page, Scott Pellnat, Reece Terris, Jacqueline Weaver and Timothy McMurray, Damian Yanessa
Special Events:
3:00 pm: Regina Lee Blaszczyk
Lecture: “Rainbow Makers: The Quest for the Perfect Color”
Book signing and reception to follow
Regina Lee Blaszczyk is Visiting Scholar in the Department of the History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania and an associate editor at the Journal of Design History. Her seven books include Imagining Consumers, Producing Fashion, American Consumer Society, 1865-2005, and her new book by MIT Press, The Color Revolution.
4:00 pm: Special performance of Camp X by David Page
Frankford native, Emma Gardner, returned with an exhibition of twelve new paintings at Rachel Citrino’s B102 Gallery at the Globe Dye Works on Saturday the 13th. The show will run each Saturday and Sunday through November 4th. Gardner grew up on Harrison Street and attended Frankford High School, then went on to the University of Delaware. She now lives in Flagstaff Arizona.
The subjects of the paintings are the roller derby girls of Flagstaff’s High Altitude Roller Derby team and the result is as colorful as the sport itself. There is something special about skeletal girls in roller derby gard. When I read about this I had one expectation and when I saw them, it turned out to be entirely something else. It works really well. The skeletons have personalities and charm. I will never think of Pipi Longstockings in quite the same way.
Stop by the Globe Saturday or Sunday between Noon and 5 and have a look for yourself. The show is open through November 4th.
On Philly Photo Day the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center invites everyone in the city to take a photograph. Every single picture received will be printed and hung for exhibition in December in the Crane Arts Building. Some of the best pictures will be selected for exhibition on local billboards, buses and trains!
The Free Library of Philadelphia will partner with the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center to present a digital photography workshop on Philly Photo Day. You’ll learn the basic foundations of photography, such as composition, elements of art and how to use a point-and-shoot digital camera. Then you’ll go on a guided tour of the neighborhood with a professional photographer who will help you create interesting photographs out of your everyday environment. At the end of the session, you’ll select one photo to submit for the Philly Photo Day 2012 exhibition.
The workshop will take place at Frankford Branch Library, 4634 Frankford Avenue on Philly Photo Day, Friday, October 26, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM. Participation is free and all ages are welcome. Preregistration is recommended A permission slip signed by a parent or guardian is required for participants under 12. Permission slips are available at the library. For more information or to register call 215-685-1473 or email, baxterb@freelibrary.org. The workshop will also be offered at the Frankford Community Development Corporation; call 215- 743-6580 for more information.
Charles and Delores Smith attended the monthly Historical Society of Frankford meeting on October 9th not realizing that their house on Orthodox Street would be one of those featured on the program that evening. The virtual tour of historic homes and sites in Frankford, conducted by Patricia Coyne, Secretary of the HSF, was a PowerPoint presentation of the booklet compiled by the HSF which was partially funded through a grant from the Preservation Alliance of Greater Philadelphia.
This booklet takes you back to the grand old days of the Historical Society with a degree of research information that has not been previously been put into one place. It will be an eye opener even for long time residents. Credit should be given to Patricia Coyne, Debbie Klak, Susan Couvreur, Diane Sadler, Kristin Hagar and Richard Thomas for the hours they spent on the project.
The meeting wrapped up with light refreshments as usual. There was some Revolutionary Cider produced right in Frankford at the Globe.
Coming Up at the Historical Society of Frankford:
Saturday, 27 October 2012 4:00pm
HAUNTED TOUR OF FRANKFORD
Join us at 4pm on October 27th for the second annual Haunted Tour of Frankford, sponsored by the Frankford CDC, as we walk from the Historical Society of Frankford and visit Frankford Friends Meeting School, St Mark’s Church, the GAR Museum and Library, and historic Frankford Avenue, the site of the W3R-PA movement of French and Continental troops under Washington and Rochambeau. South Jersey Ghost Research will be our “spirit guide” as we learn about this area’s haunted history. The tour is an hour and a half, with refreshments before and after, including locally brewed cider using a centuries-old recipe. Tickets are $6.00, and parking will be available at Frankford Friends Meeting, also on the 1500 block of Orthodox Street.
UPCOMING:
Tuesday, 13 November 2012 7:30pm HOLMESBURG PRISON: ACRES OF SKIN
Allen M Hornblum
Author “Confessions of a Second Story Man –
Junior Kripplebauer and the K & A Gang”
Join the author of “Acres of Skin” as he shares the challenges of researching a story of national significance about human exploitation in the name of medical science at NE Philadelphia’s former Holmesburg Prison. A subject of the experiments will offer an insider’s look at the prison.
Tuesday, 11 December 2012 7:30pm
Holiday Tea
N.E. HALL OF FAME
HONORING PAST and 2012 INDUCTEES
Learn about the 2012 NE Hall of Fame inductees, including Frank Shuman (Solar Power) and Leon Sullivan (OIC), and meet/greet former and current ones, including representatives from some of the area’s historic churches. This is our members’ traditional Holiday Tea, so bring desserts or tea sandwiches to share.
