Park is Open for Business

Well, it was a grand day and it has taken me a day or two to catch my breath.

Here are links to the articles in our local paper, first on Sunday:
Click here

And another on Monday:
And here


The day could not have been more beautiful. The neighbors arrived in droves. One good fellow counted in the beginning and told us there were 267, and they kept coming. All of City Council came, quite a feat, and the Mayor as well. Several of our donors accepted our invitations, and some of the other neighborhood leaders.



The place was covered up with kids! What a perfect day it was for them. I was pleased to notice kids playing in the park as I made my speech; did not want them to be bored through it.








The Kids' Committee dedicated the playground to "Fulton Heights Neighbors, past, present and future." They had a whole little dedication they read; I've got to get a copy of that.

The Mayor spoke and gathered the key players together to cut the ribbon. When she cut it, the crowd cheered!








We borrowed chairs from the neighborhood pool for Council and the donors. The chair backs do not all match, but the legs do. My gf, who is quite inventive, suggested we use our leftover neighborhood Tshirts to dress the chairs and mask their unmatching. It was a great idea. Many of the guests took a shirt home as a gift. If you look closely, you can see the trolley in our logo. The neighborhood was originally a trolley neighborhood. The median in front of our house covers up the old trolley tracks.


The Parks people had dug up some old granite when they graded the park. Ever resourceful AND THOUGHTFUL, they used it to build "Maggie's Bench." It's for me! Says so on the brass plaque.

Tucker and I have been visiting and sitting on it in the mornings. It's in the 'way back part of the woodland trail. It's quiet and beautiful. I love it and so appreciate their thoughtfulness.





Sigh. So. Thirty months and now it's done. Well, they have a few finishing touches to put to it, and of course if we ever get rain, there's a ton of landscaping. But my involvement for the most part is over. We do have aspirations for a custom piece of vertical art in the "donut" gardens but that can wait a bit.



Today I took the day off from Art Museum and from Curious Writer just to clean house and get some things done. We have been pretty disorganized around here the past few weeks. Little One has even had to buy her lunch 3 or 4 times. (shudder.) So, now on to a Normal Life.



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