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Recorded at Selinsgrove Center April 2015.

About Frank

Frank has lived at Selinsgrove Center for 57 years.

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LIVES LIVED APART Interview with Frank Recorded April 11, 2015

PHOTO of Frank with his interviewer, Bill

PICTURED ABOVE: Frank and his interviewer Bill

Bill: This is Bill Katz and I am at Selinsgrove Center with Frank...

Frank: Gilorama.

Bill: Gilorama and it is about 1:15 in the afternoon of April 11th, 2015. Great and first of all thank you so much for having this meeting. It's really a pleasure for me and I hope I'll make it a pleasure for you too. Tell me where were you born and when? Do you remember? You wouldn't remember being born.

Frank: No I don't.

Bill: You told me over lunch. Where are you from?

Frank: Philadelphia.

Bill: Philadelphia and do you know what part of Philadelphia?

Frank: South.

Bill: South Philadelphia.

Frank: Yep.

Bill: OK and you were and today is your birthday, correct?

Frank: Yep, you got it.

Bill: How old are you today?

Frank: 68.

Bill: 68. Wow. Congratulations and Happy Birthday.

Frank: Thanks.

Bill: That's terrific. What's the earliest memory, Frank, that you have? When you think about your childhood, what do you remember? Do you remember anything about Philadelphia?

Frank: Um.

Bill: No? Nothing at all?

Frank: Nope.

Bill: Is your earliest memory here at Selinsgrove?

Frank: Yep.

Bill: Can you tell me what it is? What do you remember... the first thing you remember about Selinsgrove?

Frank: All the other buildings.

Bill: The buildings?

Frank: Yeah.

Bill: And how old were you when you came here?

Frank: 11.

Bill: 11? So you were just a boy.

Frank: Yep.

Bill: And what happened the day you came here? Do you remember that? The very first day that you came to Selinsgrove? Were you happy about it?

Photos by JJ Tiziou

A Fierce Kind of Love has been supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.

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