![]() ![]() Look through the residents’ photos in Time magazine and see the joy, love, humor and life in what they photographed as important to them. In 2015 a photographer, an editor and a former Metropolitan Transportation Authority official, offered a 12-week workshop to residents of New York City public housing. In addition, what do you know about public housing in cities near you? You can learn a bit about the history of the Robert Taylor Project and read Christine’s Gayles story of growing up in the Taylor Housing Project. The high rises built in the 1960s and 1970s have fared poorly over the decades and in many North American cities were demolished by the early 21st century. ![]() Life in a housing project is central to Last Summer on State Street. I recommend reading the book before the guide. Note that this guide, like all of the guides, may contain spoilers. There was so much for me to absorb especially as someone who does not have first-hand understanding of life in housing projects. And I connected with the joy of a group of 12-year old friends gathering to jump rope. I saw the result of trauma being passed from generation to generation. ![]() I saw the victimhood of the oppressors as well as the oppressed. Through a 12-year old girl’s eyes I was witness to the compassion of friendship in a community with great conflict. Last Summer on State Street is an incredible book laying bare the intersection of joy, trauma and childhood friendships in a world where there are few guideposts towards a more stable life. ![]()
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