by Constance Garcia-Barrio Some unusual prayers may come from the Sunday School classroom that now serves as a bedroom for immigrant Suyapa Reyes and her children at the First United Methodist Church of Germantown (FUMCOG). “I pray to go on living here in sanctuary until ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] decides my case,” she said. […]
Read More >by Len Lear I doubt if many white Americans are familiar with a phenomenon called “Colorism.” Having worked at the Philadelphia Tribune from 1967 to 1977, however, I learned that there have been social organizations made up of light-skinned African Americans who literally would not offer membership to another African American person, no matter how […]
Read More >by Len Lear It is a dream that millions of children dream about at some point: owning your very own candy store. Well, Andorra resident Paula Fingerut may be 58, but she still gets excited every morning when she opens Zipf’s Candy Store, a Chestnut Hill landmark that was started 50 years ago by Muriel […]
Read More >by John Colgan-Davis This Thursday is Thanksgiving, one of my favorite holidays. As my friends know, I put a lot of store in gratitude and giving thanks. It is one of the ways I get outside myself and remember that I am but a small cog in a much bigger picture and that I do […]
Read More >by Rose Seyfried Ihave a fascination with what people wanted to be when they grew up. The question has a bad rap, as a throwaway, to fill awkward silences on blind dates, but I love asking and being asked. I want to hear about how you wanted to be a firefighter when you were a […]
Read More >by Christine Wolkin Several years ago, despite being a full-time, working single mother with a bachelor’s degree, 39-year-old Mt. Airy resident Erica Chase found herself struggling to pay for the tuition at Holy Cross Catholic School for her daughter, Antoinette. “I’ve never had a job that could afford to pay me a wage that didn’t […]
Read More >by Barbara Sherf For those of you who are regular readers of this publication, you may recall two articles I wrote about the “Free Hugs” movement. For those not familiar, the “Free Hugs” campaign is a social movement involving individuals who offer hugs to strangers in public places. The hugs are meant to be random […]
Read More >by Constance Garcia-Barrio “Sugar Rush” is a Netflix show where bakers compete, using every nanosecond to make divine desserts from scratch. “You’re under huge pressure,” said recent contestant Jennifer Low, 34, the co-owner with her husband Sean Williams, also 34, of Mt. Airy’s Frosted Fox Cake Shop, 6511 Germantown Ave. “You’re on camera, thrilled and […]
Read More >by Len Lear Can you imagine having a good job, a good home in Mt. Airy, good friends, a car and the other trappings that go along with a typical middle-class life in the U.S. and voluntarily leaving in all behind to go and live a Third-World country, possibly even in a village where they […]
Read More >by Elizabeth Coady Four years ago, Mt. Airy resident Crystal Best won the lottery, but it had nothing to do with any scratch-off ticket or hitting the Mega Millions jackpot. Best is the single mom to 8-year-old Cydney for whom she applied and won a tuition scholarship from the Children’s Scholarship Fund of Philadelphia. The […]
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