No, rest assured that they didn't hire me. On the contrary, because of this blog, they would like to drag me in front of an eager district magistrate, and throw the book at me.
However, they did hire my father's Uncle Harry in about 1935. At that time, same time that they were building the magnificent WPA structures which the city is now allowing to go to seed, Earl Price was the City Forester, and in charge of maintaining the parks.
By 1900, my great grandparents and all their offspring were living in the Ward. I'm now the last Molovinsky left in Allentown, so this blog cannot embarrass any family members. It can, however, if I do my job correctly, cause some distress among those who are failing to properly honor the city's history.
Harry Molovinsky is in the back row, fifth from the right, in the light colored jacket.
use of photo courtesy of the Price family
ADDENDUM: It has been three weeks since I requested to be included in the new Allentown Parknership...There has been no response. While the new non-profit is being financed by the Trexler Trust in cooperation with the city administration, apparently a deep knowledge of the parks is not one of their requirements.
A deep knowledge of anything to be appointed to a board by Allentown City Administration?? You must be kidding. I would expect being a political crony within the totalitarian Tuerk clique would be needed to get you put on that board,
ReplyDeleteAllentown's is a one party, exclusive government that serves itself. You must agree or you are out. Diversity of opinions is what makes democracies work by including equally those with other thoughts and knowledge. Conversely, dictatorships use the process of negative selection and hire sycophants. No one knows more than the leader and everyone agrees with the leader. Doesn't look good for you Michael.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of going to Seed, out past the Rose Garden there are a couple Parks division buildings. One such building is totally covered in Ivy. Ivy will pull the cement from the stone eventually and destroy the structure.
ReplyDeleteYou are correct, and I was actually going to address that very issue in an upcoming post. Vines are incredibly destructive to buildings. In the case of that barn, the vines are now also invading the structure's wood frame and roof.
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