Want to get some general background info about the sewage plants on the creek in Syracuse?
Read this article, out today in Plenty Magazine:
http://www.plentymag.com/features/2008/02/syracuse_community_spotlight.php
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Monday, February 11, 2008
Black History Month Ceremony
Literacy Volunteers of Greater Syracuse hosted today's Black History Month Ceremony at the Common Council Chambers down in city hall. Geneva Hayden, a Literacy Advocate, gave a powerful testimony about her work. She helped me connect with 2 students for the audio reporter component of the UP THE CREEK! project and I was honored that she used the opportunity to read their words:
We go to the Beauchamp branch library to work with a lady named Fereshteh Toosi. We have a recording program. We do a lot of things with literacy, like we go and talk to people who have a story and they speak and if we don't get something we ask them what it means and they explain it to us. It is so very fun. We write down things that we can ask the people that we talk to, like "How old are you?" and "What do you know about Onondaga Creek?"
Most people in Syracuse do not know much about it, that is why we are here. In one of our interviews, a woman never even heard of Onondaga Creek before! We talk to people that we know and people we don't know. When you do this you can hear a lot of thing that person has not told a lot of people. This has helped us learn more about technology. You should join, it is very fun.
Senyah and Anastajah Haynes
9 and 10 years old
We go to the Beauchamp branch library to work with a lady named Fereshteh Toosi. We have a recording program. We do a lot of things with literacy, like we go and talk to people who have a story and they speak and if we don't get something we ask them what it means and they explain it to us. It is so very fun. We write down things that we can ask the people that we talk to, like "How old are you?" and "What do you know about Onondaga Creek?"
Most people in Syracuse do not know much about it, that is why we are here. In one of our interviews, a woman never even heard of Onondaga Creek before! We talk to people that we know and people we don't know. When you do this you can hear a lot of thing that person has not told a lot of people. This has helped us learn more about technology. You should join, it is very fun.
Senyah and Anastajah Haynes
9 and 10 years old
Sunday, February 3, 2008
Charlie C.
I spoke with Charlie about his youth along the creek and he shared stories about its significance to the Haudenosaunee people. 30 sec MP3
Saturday, February 2, 2008
creekwalk comments
The engineers for the city just had a deadline to take comments from the public on phase 2 of the DOT funded creekwalk. I'm going to write to request the full set of these remarks, but meanwhile, read one sample from Catherine Landis of SUNY-ESF: LINK
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