UPDATED WEEKLY
The Sunnyside Almanac
Where Sunnyside comes to know itselfWe started with a name on a park sign at Baden and Martha. Dorothy Erskine spent decades arguing that rough open space deserved protection. In 1978 the city bought that rocky hilltop instead of letting someone build on it: her conviction, meeting a civic mechanism at the right moment. That turned out to be the pattern everywhere we looked. A speculator's streetcar bet became the street grid. The neighborhood's most detailed historical record exists because one volunteer decided to build it. Sunnyside is layered with choices that outlasted the people who made them. This issue names the ones the public record kept.
ISSUE #2
The Sunnyside Almanac
We started with a name on a park sign at Baden and Martha. Dorothy Erskine spent decades arguing that rough open space deserved protection. In 1978 the city bought that rocky hilltop instead of letting someone build on it: her conviction, meeting a civic mechanism at the right moment. That turned out to be the pattern everywhere we looked. A speculator's streetcar bet became the street grid. The neighborhood's most detailed historical record exists because one volunteer decided to build it. Sunnyside is layered with choices that outlasted the people who made them. This issue names the ones the public record kept.
ISSUE #2
Monday, July 27
