- Saturday September 15th at Mozaic – The Vince Lardear Trio
- Tuesday September 18th – Northwood civic Association meeting
- Wednesday September 19th – Concert in Womrath Park – R&B group – Sparrow
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G.A.R. Museum
Saturday, September 22. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
13th Annual Association of Mid-Atlantic Civil War Round
Tables (AMART) Symposium
13th Annual Association of Mid-Atlantic Civil War Round
Tables (AMART) Symposium
“History of the Pennsylvania Reserve Corps – Shock Troops of
the Union”
the Union”
Ritter Hall – Walk Auditorium, Main Campus, Temple
University. 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Followed by an Honor Ceremony at Laurel Hill Cemetery for
PVRC commanders buried there at 5 p.m. and dinner at 6 p.m.
Distinguished speakers, book displays, artifacts, living
history.
Cost: $60. Includes: registration, breakfast, lunch, dinner
at Cemetery
Students free with ID.
Make check payable to “G.A.R. Civil War Museum”
Mail to G.A.R. Civil War Museum & Library
4278 Griscom St.
Philadelphia, PA 19124
Directions: http://www.temple.edu/maps/directions/main.htm
Ample parking at open lot 11th & Cecil B. Moore Ave.
For information;
215 – 289 – 6484 or garmuslib@verizon.net or see
www.garmuslib.org
Harding Junior High
This story featured Harding yesterday on Philly.com:
HER CLASSROOM MORE resembles a living room – with its green curtains and electric torch lamps .
But Victoria Monacelli yesterday nevertheless laid down the law like the seventh-grade English teacher that she is.
“You have a responsibility to push yourself and keep trying – and ask questions if you don’t understand something. I’m here at lunch every day. I’m here after school,” she told her students on the first day of classes at Warren Harding Middle School, in the city’s Frankford section.
Read the entire story here
What are Frankford’s boundaries?
That is a good question that I raised a while ago. For the lack of a better authority, I have decided to go along with the Cartographic Laboratory of the University of Pennsylvania who has created a very nifty web presence for neighborhoods called the Neighborhood Information System (NIS).
Contained in the NIS is a piece called the neighborhoodBase. Browse around there and have a look at what is available if you have not been there before. In their quest to provide useful information they have taken up the task of deciding where each neighborhood begins and ends. I don’t entirely agree with how they have arrived at Frankford but it is close enough for my purposes.
This is a link to the interactive map of Philadelphia that will let you display a map of each neighborhood in the city defined by Penn. Take a look and see if you agree with them.
Philly.com
Every morning I check the news feeds for Frankford news. You can imagine my surprise yesterday when I read on Philly.com that there had been another murder in Frankford. The location was near Castor Avenue and Benner Street.
Further compounding my surprise was that once again some reporter had incorrectly identified the neighborhood as Frankford when it was not. Why is this such an issue? Well most importantly these news reports on the internet become history once they are out there. And now the history is wrong. We have enough crime problems without taking credit for what is happening in Oxford Circle.
So I promptly emailed the reporter who wrote the story and the editor and so far no reply. I want the report, that was posted on the web, corrected.
This is the link to the original story for the record.
Feel free to send an email of admonishment too. Maybe we can get some justice.
