Must be the summer vibe. More of you liked the last post—mainly photos—than any other post I’ve put up all summer. I’ve got essays to grade and essays to write, so another easy summer post for you. Shots from a walking tour of my neighborhood, the Whittier.
Manual High School sits at the center of the neighborhood. The new artificial turf field, in progress and after completion. The end zone reads: T-Bolts.
Check it out: a Mexican rainbow flag!
We have three pocket parks along 29th Avenue dedicated to noteworthy black Americans. Fredrick Douglass deserves a bigger park, don’t you think? Maybe the Park Hill Golf Course soon-to-be-a-park, we hope?
My husband, the talented graphic designer Phil Normand, designed the Madam CJ Walker signs. And the famous Whittier Neighborhood poster.
Dr. Daniel Hale Williams earned his M.D. in 1883, must have been one of the first black men to do so, founded the first integrated hospital in the U.S. in 1891, performed the first open-heart surgery in the country in 1893.
Sunflowers along a Whittier street. Pray for Ukraine.
The lily pond is someone’s front yard. Koi and all.
Whittier is an old inner-city neighborhood and many hundred-year trees have died but people planted more. We have many blocks with trees, welcome shade, cooler temperatures.
I was fond of the vampire barbershop. It’s gone now.
Cat in dandelion lawn.
Sunset at Manual High School, where we began.
Thank you for that lovely walk! Love Mr. Phil’s graphic design!
He’s a gifted designer, isn’t he? Thanks, Sylvia!