A mellower MOVE today

When Fran Opher’s mother, Pauline, died on March 8 at age 85, some Kingsessing Avenue neighbors took time to visit her daughter and note the passing of one of the block’s oldest residents. Opher was especially touched – but not surprised – by a “lovely floral arrangement” that came with a card signed “The Africa Family.” See Also The MOVE Disaster: May 13, 1985 That’s Africa as in MOVE, the radical, self-described back-to-nature group that figured so prominently – at times traumatically – in Philadelphia history over the last 30 years. The observations of Opher and other Kingsessing residents yield