Posts Tagged Hunting Park
Philadelphia Weekly: Hunting Park Bounces Back
Today’s issue of Philadelphia Weekly includes a cover story about the building momentum in Hunting Park, including a little cameo by yours truly. Thanks to Tara Murtha who told our story with sensitivity and warmth.
Via: Hunting Park Bounces Back | Cover Story | News and Opinion | Philadelphia Weekly.
About my new blog header – Hunting Park history
I thought this blog would look nice with a black and white header so I searched my files for a nice historic photo of Hunting Park.
I settled on a cropped photo of Philip Remich (1874-1947), whose granddaughter Helen Remich Dubas was raised in Hunting Park, graduated from Little Flower High School (‘64), and grew up to become quite the historic archivalist.
This photo is of Philip Remich in Hunting Park circa 1930 or so when most of our homes were just being built. After arriving in Philadelphia from the Timisoara area of Romania by way of Ellis Island (Filip Romich), he lived on Lycoming Street near the south end of the park. I am pretty certain that this photo is of the inlet off of Lycoming at the southeast corner of Hunting Park just before Little Flower High School.
pre 1950: Philip Remich, given name Filip Romich. His passport gives his residence as Timis Torontal.
abt 1950: Eva (Schneider) and Philip Remich.
As we think about a way forward for Hunting Park and other distressed communities, collecting and publishing stories is a helpful process. Most importantly to me, Philip Remich’s story represents that kind of neighborhood we’d like to be – a place where people can set up shop and pursue God’s best for their families. If his granddaughter is any indicator, it looks like Hunting Park served the Remich family well.
And I think his photo serves my blog well. What do you think?
A walk in Hunting Park – 10/25/09
Testing out my new Kodak Zi8 which is absolutely awesome. Hi Def video, external mic input, 2 hours and 49 minutes of HD recording time (using a 16GB MicroSD card), and smaller than my cell phone. Great addition to any mobile communication toolbox.
via A walk in the park – 10/25/09 on Vimeo.
A walk in the park – 10/25/09 from ClumsyFly on Vimeo.
Hunting Park United — http://HuntingPark.org
My latest project was to develop HuntingPark.org into a legitimate social networking platform. Done! This website is very robust with a lot of features including the ability to login via Facebook Connect and host a full WordPress blog for each individual profile.
Dig it people: Hunting Park United — Home.
p.s. – If you like what you see and you’d like me to set up a social networking site for you then give me a call using that little Google Voice thing on the right column or shoot me an email.
