Celebrate Women's History month

The Historical Society of Frankford

Celebrates Women’s History Month

Please join us at our Sunday Matinee

Sunday, March 2, 2008

Doors Open at 1:00PM

$5.00 Donation & Members Free

At 1:30PM - Dr. Donna Skerry presents

“The History of Women’s Health”

Looking at changes in women’s health over history.

Tuesday, March 11, 2008 at 7:30PM

$5.00 Donation & Members Free

Meet Lydia Darragh, a Philadelphia Quaker who supplied General George Washington with vital information leading to the defeat of the British troops at Whitemarsh. Hear Lydia’s first hand account of this daring deed and maybe become part of the action during this interactive reenactment. Learn all about this fascinating but little known piece of American history told by Rachel Greisler storyteller.

Light Refreshments will be served.

Notice: This is our Annual Meeting where members vote in Board Members & the annual report is given.

The Historical Society of Frankford

1507 Orthodox Street Philadelphia, PA 19124

215.743.6030

Check out our website at: www.historicalsocietyoffrankford.org

Preserving and presenting the history of Northeast Philadelphia since 1905

Katrina Travis, Administrative Coordinator
Historical Society of Frankford
1507 Orthodox Street
Philadelphia, PA 19124
Phone: 215-743-6030
Cell: 215-805-2809

Northwood Civic sails on calmer seas

From Tom Waring of the Northeast Times this week:

State Rep. John Taylor feels welcome again at Northwood Civic Association meetings.
Taylor (R-177th dist.) had a strained relationship with Joe Menkevich, the colorful former president of the group.
Now, with Barry Howell as president and a united board of directors, Taylor thinks the meetings are now more warm and respectful.

Read the entire story here.

St. Joachim Parish

St. Joachim's has a new web site. It's good. Check it out here.

Crime - not in Frankford

nbc10.com reported on their web site that a shooting in the 5900 block of Horrocks was in Frankford. Wherever you might call it, it's not Frankford.

This is the original report, I asked them to make the correction. We'll see how that goes.

ARAMARK Corporation comes to Frankford

From Foxbusiness.com:

As part of the partnership kickoff, this week in Philadelphia, ARAMARK's global headquarters, over 100 ARAMARK employees will work with City Year Corps members to enhance the physical environment of the Frankford Group Ministries, a community based organization that provides human services to residents of Frankford, a neighborhood in northeast Philadelphia. Together they will update kitchens, build shelves, paint murals and sort clothing for donations to local families.

Read the entire story here.

Third graders go to college

From the Daily News:

The pupils who used to attend teacher Kristin Palmer's third-grade class at a charter school in Frankford would go to Room 118.

Not anymore.

Now they go into Room Temple.

It's the same room at the First Philadelphia Charter School for Literacy, at Tacony and Church streets, only the name has been changed as part of a program to instill in the 8-and-9-year-olds the concept of college.

"Many of the students live in poverty, and I believe if young children are exposed to college, even at the conceptual level, there's more of a chance that they'll attend college when they're finished high school," Palmer said.

"It puts the idea on their radar: They know that college comes after 12th grade and after college, a good job."

Read the entire story by TOM SCHMIDT here.

Main Street Frankford

We've spent the last few days going over the BRT web site to see what it shows about real estate activity on Frankford Avenue last year. It took some time but now we can report that 25 properties were transferred in 2007. One of them was transferred twice. This runs from the 4200 block through the 5200 block. $ of those transfers only were title changes. The remaining 21 were valued from $32,000 to $3,732,000. 8 of the new owners gave addresses outside of Philadelphia. 2 of those 8 are located in Brooklyn, New York.

In 2006 there were 37 transfers between $15,000 and $550,000.
In 2005 there were 39 transfers between $20,000 and $750,000.
In 2004 there were 30 transfers between $9,000 and $310,000.


This is the first of a series where we will take a look at those properties transferred in 2007.