A New Homepage
Published April 23rd, 2006 in PersonalI’m trying out this new, more blog style homepage - I hope it gets me to be more active on the web.
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love this…
things are really going now…
I decided to see what you were up to these days. I was most interested in the Love Canal project. I worked ‘on’
Love Canal, the school year 1959-60, at the 99th Street
School, an elementary school. I was there every Wednesday teaching art. The school was quite new then and most of the children had recently moved to the neighborhood from slum areas in downtown NF.
I could never understand why the school, which had much clear land around it, was surrounded by mud. It was a big problem keeping the school floors clean, especially on rainy or snowy days, as the students alway ran across it.
It was at least 20 years later when I learned that the area was polluted and that is why nothing, not even weeds, grew there. It was just one full block of mud. I wish now I had taken a picture of it but the image is clearly in my memory.
I did use clay with the students which I had to dig out of a large garbage can that had been acquired before I arrived. I often thought about that and hoped that it was truly commercially-obtained clay.
Good luck with the project.
Anita