neighborhood life

Settlement House

"If you could make it through the wobbles and the buckles in the floor at the Neighborhood House, you could skate anywhere." [iframe width="100%" height="166" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/504990021&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true"] This is an audio excerpt from Just What a Neighbor Does....
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Just What a Neighbor Does – Radio Edit

"Because you’ve developed a relationship, you’re willing to meet that neighbor’s needs." [iframe width="100%" height="166" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/504992421&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true"] This is a short radio edit of Just What a Neighbor Does. To see the full video, click here. Transcript for...
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Lives That Are Totally Alien

"The use of the car, I think, has dramatically changed the way people live." https://youtu.be/gOBG4207ABw Transcript for Lives That Are Totally Alien It used to be that people could either walk to downtown Gary or take a bus and the...
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Just Got the Impression

"All they saw was the violence. They did not see the peace. They did not see the change." https://youtu.be/xJwnnJ7YAmw Transcript for Just Got the Impression I grew up in the Tolleston area of Gary which was, at the time, very...
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Neighborhood, Community, and Country

"I don’t know any other way to operate. I can’t just sit around and say, 'Oh, well. That’s the way it is.'" [iframe width="100%" height="166" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/574295211%3Fsecret_token%3Ds-VU9RC&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true"] Produced by Rebecca Werner with interviews recorded by StoryCorps, a national...
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Back Then, It Mattered

"So these are things that I kind of learned that I didn’t realize I was learning." https://youtu.be/LNAsOt9SGPA Transcript for Back Then, It Mattered I’m Croatian. And when I was a kid, it mattered. My dad was Croatian, my grandfather, George...
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Getting Rich for My Blood

“It’s just changed. It’s a bigger town feeling than it used to be.” [iframe width="100%" height="166" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/674310749%3Fsecret_token%3Ds-il8nY&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true"] Edited by Rich Elliott. Transcript for Getting Rich for My Blood Living in Valpo’s been great. My kids were able...
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Resilience of the Residents

"I’m talking about people in my neighborhood who have been in their homes for forty years—they believe in the city and believe that it can work. https://youtu.be/mP-MnM6cszU Transcript for Resilience of the Residents Well, you know, I used to always...
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Not Something That You Force

"You learn how to trust each other, you learn to assume responsibility for each other, you develop relationships… It’s something that happens in the course of time." [iframe width="100%" height="166" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/661432571&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true"] Rev. Dr. Gregory Jones Edited by...
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