Tag: neighborhood life
Green Light to Go Out of Town
"Did you want to take a stand… or was it just an inevitability, 'Man, we can’t stay here any longer?'" https://youtu.be/JDdfi8MzO7Q Transcript for Green Light to Go Out of Town It didn’t take a lot of, “Let’s sit down and...
Fences
"Just leave me alone. I’ll leave you alone. We’ll be good." https://youtu.be/mhIWAx5sznQ Transcript for Fences Ok, what I think makes a good neighbor is fences. That’s what I think makes a good neighbor, and that sounds mean to say that,...
Getting Rich for My Blood
“It’s just changed. It’s a bigger town feeling than it used to be.”
Edited by Rich Elliott. Transcript for Getting Rich for My Blood Living in Valpo’s been great. My kids were able...
Making Enemies
“People are so afraid of change.”
Edited by Rebecca Werner. Transcript for Making Enemies If you want to talk about making enemies, I could tell you that I did a lot of zoning...
Still Working on the Revolution
"You’ve given status to people who would ordinarily not have it...thus giving them power and ability to make change."
Rev. Dr. Gregory Jones Edited by Rebecca Werner Transcript for Still Working on the...
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...
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."
Rev. Dr. Gregory Jones Edited by...
Hold the Line
“These were good people who honestly believed that there was a real problem in terms of the difference between the races.”
Edited by Rebecca Werner. Transcript for Title of Story Well, at the...
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...