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Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Photo Wednesdays: Fort Green; what's the story for summer?

Just prior to last summer, as I recall, the area surrounding the monument at Fort Green Park was fenced off. The reason given was renovations, but a side effect of that closing, was to prevent what had been an annual ritual of summer from continuing.

That ritual was the house music sessions, that had been a lively friendly exuberant way of socializing, reclining and of course dancing.

I went up to the top of the park (located of course betweehttp://www.blogger.com/posts.g?blogID=3998432848415030405n DeKalb and Myrtle in Ft. green, and took some pictures, since thelast I heard the renovations were to be completed this summer. This is what I saw:
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Doesn't look like it. And it doesn't do anything to reduce the concerns and rumors that the "renovation" was part of an effort to remove dancers and dance culture from the park.


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