Funny thing about listening. You can actually hear people talk.
That’s what happened on August 18 at Passport Project. Neighbors talked and neighbors listened. I can’t say that everything was pleasant. Many of us are frustrated with some aspect of the Buckeye neighborhood.
David Smeltz is working full-time. He’s teaching martial arts and meditation. He’s written a memoir about his path through drug and alcohol recovery.
And, in his spare time, when other busy people might be content to watch television or catch up on lost sleep, he’s in the process of rehabbing a building and launching a nonprofit on Buckeye.
The first day of school at Harvey Rice Wraparound is this coming Monday.
To mark the occasion, Tanese Horton, the school's coordination manager, threw a "Welcome Back to School" festival.
Rice Library branch manager and all-around-talented-guy Ali Boyd joined in the festivities, playing drums as some incoming students joined him on vocals.
Listen to their sounds below!
A half-dozen artists from the Buckeye neighborhood mill around the crowded storefront of Passport Project, at the intersection of Buckeye Road and East 128th Street.
They’ll be leading arts events here in August, as Sidewalks of Buckeye moves into its second phase. The exact dates are August 11 to August 29.
A man with white hair and a matching mustache is the only person sitting in Calvary Evangelical United Brethren Church, a grand but faded red-brick building at Shaker Boulevard and Woodhill Avenue.
He doesn’t hear me and Seth enter, so we tap him on the shoulder and introduce ourselves. He smiles and tells us his name is Mr. Primm. He’s a block club leader from a nearby street in the Woodland Hills neighborhood - Buckeye’s immediate neighbor.
At the corner of Buckeye and East 117th, Ego Adigwe runs Som Di Mma Elegance, a beautiful shop filled from floor to ceiling with clothing, jewelry and carvings from her home country of Nigeria, as well as from Senegal, Mali and India.
She was kind enough to take a few minutes to share a little about her background with us ... and to demonstrate how she crafts hats right from her storefront.
When I walk into the Rice Branch Library’s community room saddled with camera bags, Eleanor Bergholz looks concerned. “Did you reserve the room for something?”
Sanders Henderson, the multi-talented owner of Nikki's Music - rightfully calls himself a workaholic. But as Justin asked in a recent post, does he think of himself as an artist? Does he see his many creative skills - in music events, store displays and balloon creations - as a way to contribute to community change? It's an important question.
Sanders Henderson calls himself a workaholic. In his case, the term seems inadequate. In addition to Nikki’s Music, a Buckeye Road music store that he owns and where he works six days a week, he also owns Carnegie Auto Wash & Detail on Carnegie Avenue downtown.
