Posts Tagged ‘Grapevine’
The Pesinas: Fifty Years of Love and Memories
I feel two things as I step over the threshold into Rosa’s home: cramped and welcome. Because the living room has been converted into a spare bedroom, the front door is inaccessible. My camera equipment and I come through the back, squeezing through the space between the open door and the refrigerator. Perched in her…
Read MoreCommunity Powered Revitalization: Community Has No Boundaries
EULESS — There’s a hush in the air as Theresa and I sit for her interview; the kind of warm, buzzing silence that catches you off-guard in the suburbs of the mid-cities. We’re just around the corner from a major road that connects to a bustling highway, but you’d never know it. The hum of…
Read More700th Restoration Project Makes Grapevine Feel Like Home Again
GRAPEVINE — The muted sounds of worship music hang in the air, drifting from a wireless radio across a ten-yard stretch of grass that serves as Regina’s front yard. Her home — barely over 400 square feet in actual living space — is a swarm of activity. Volunteers surround the property; most within arm’s length…
Read MoreWe Build Forever – Maintaining Community in the Booming City of Grapevine
GRAPEVINE — High above the Grapevine City Council chamber, carved into the wall where sitting officials cannot hope to miss it, sits the John Ruskin quote that has come to define the city’s policy: “When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for present use…
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