Gardens on Main Street?

I would like to try and stick with my plan. and work the garden into the "Main Street" idea. I feel like the garden is an important part of the community and should have a place in the event.

At the event people could make paint panels for the garden's fence. We could have student ambassadors from the elementary school come and participate at the event.

My positions on this project will not only be Budget Manager but I would also like to be able to go into the schools and work with the students before the event and help with set-up and clean-up.

For my research project I would like to discover the history of the area, specifically the water front property. For this I will need to get access to old zoning records, deeds, old company records, housing records, etc. I would like my project to be more like a social history project for the Brooklyn/ Curtis Bay area waterfront.

Original Feasibility Study

Katie Hern

AMST 400

Mapping Baybrook: Keeping Connections Alive

Logo: Something integrating the water tower.

Mission Statement: Providing a collaborative gathering between generations in community space to remember the past, connect with the present, and preserve for the future.

            Artwork is something people of all ages like to look at and be recognized for. Working with the community to give people a connection that will make them want to preserve would help the community help itself. By creating panels of community made artwork, paintings or collages, and cleaning up the area around the community garden people will feel that they actually have an attachment to the community. Each panel would be a piece of plywood that is one foot by one foot. People designing the panels have a choice to bring in photos they don’t mind attaching to the board, paint their panel or a combination of both. These panels will then be sealed when they dry and hung along the fence of the community garden. In order to participate in the panel design the person will either have to help clean up the area around the garden, help in the garden, or pay $5.

Committee: To complete this project there will need to be groups for: table saw, cutting panels; grounds crew, cleanup and gardening; paint crew, supply the paint and clean paint brushes; and the finishing crew, seal and hang artwork on fence.

Revenue: Selling t-shirts and buttons at the event. Donation buckets around town in local Mom and Pop stores. Buckets are around $2 at Michaels.

Budget: On Spread Sheet

Schedual:

            Begin Advertising- ASAP

            Have Supplies – Nov. 3

            Have Supplies prepared (panels cut) – Nov. 10

            Hold Event – Nov. 17

Feasibility: This project is something people of all ages can participate in. It is an event that can be completed in one day. The money needed to complete the project is less then the cost of the materials. The outcome of this project is that the younger generations have something to connect them to in the future and the older generation has something to connect their past to.

Fence Panels and Community Connections

I feel that the discussion from Sept. 5th helped me to better understand not only the concept of completing an interview but also the etiquette. I know now not to write out my questions but to have an outline of ideas prepared.

Alex and I were talking while we were doing our tour and thought about doing a clean up and decoration project in the community garden with the elementary school kids. The area around the community garden could use some trash pick up and weed whacking. Knowing kids love to have something they can show off, the decoration came to mind. Each student, or class, can have a peice of plywood that they get to decorate. Maybe something along the lines of what do you think if when you think of home? (other then your house). We will seal the paintings and drill holes in the pieces of wood and attach them to the fence. This activity would not only get the students interested more in the community garden but give them something to connect to in the future. We could also ask other members of the community if they would like to design a panel for the fence so we could have different generations

Name Ideas:
Keeping Connections Alive

Total Disregard

The creation of the massive incinerator seems to have no benefit to the community or the surrounding areas. The company planning to build this large health risk does not even have the amount of buyers to justify putting the lives of so many at risk. I take the whole situation a ruse to interrupt peoples lives enough that they move out of town, leaving behind their histories. This freeing of space allows more companies to come in and use the land to their advantage. These companies are destroying people's homes for a quick buck.

As a class we could work with the community to bring back their memories, to bring back the community that dissipated when the industry came in and took over. We could get the kids involved with a clean up day where we could walk the streets and remaining shoreline to collect trash. Or a community garden with a compost center.