Tuesday, June 26, 2007

June 26,2007 Touring Stax Music Museum



We would like to thank Kerry Hayes, a development manager at the museum, for showing us around and helping us get to know the history of talented artists throughout our neighborhood. We really enjoyed our time, while looking around, we saw a movie, we heard alot of songs, and also we took all the things we saw to heart. We really did learn quite a bit from the museum. To sum up, we had a wonderful time!!!!

Friday, June 22, 2007

Framing


This week we took lots of photos. We did framing which is holding up a frame and capturing different activities in our community. This is the L. E. Brown Swimming pool which is located in the Cleaborn Homes. Lots of people go to this community swimming pool.

The Heart Of South Memphis

Today I am showing you a house that have been up for many years and the picture frame is just showing me and the house so that u can see what i am trying to show you. These are the things that we got to worry bout in our community and the vacant houses need something done to them because that is not anything that we want people to see when you come to our community. Thank you.

June 22,2007 Different Types Of Houses




Today we research different type of houses and when they were made. After we finish researching the houses, we put some of those houses into a power point. Then, we went around the neighborhood taking pictures of different houses that have been standing for a long time. We saw alot of shotgun houses and it was very hot. We even went to an historic street in our neighborhood name St.Paul. The reasons they are so historic is because the famous, oscar winning movie, Hustle in flow were shot at the houses on those streets. To sum up, today we learned about different styles of house. Get back to you on Monday!!!!!!!




Plush Club

Hay, it's Kendell. How have you all been doing? I am here to tell you all about the plush club it is a nice place to be and you could learn more about it. I am all way there and you can learn more about the plush by coming to Memphis Tenn .

work of art


The art is telling us that we can do something for the hood.We had bad times before we where alive. It looks like we was locked up.The frames is for what do you and I see in the eyes of us what do u see in the frames?

Community


Today we walked around and look at house's that were built along time ago and they are still there til this day. Some of the house's we saw were very old and still looked good to live in. The only thing it needs is a little paint job.

Thursday, June 21, 2007

June 21,2007 Reviewing Our Neighborhood

Foote Homes Park
This a very big asset to our community, this keep kids out of trouble.


Today at work we went over different assets in our community from a positive and bad aspect. We reviewed all of the things our community need and have. As we went over the things we have that were positive in the community, I found out our neighborhood is a good area. Well, that's all I have to write about out today. Keep you updated!!!!!!

Our Community

Yesterday we want out to our community to take pictures of the good things in our community. We also took pictures of some things we think need to be changed in the community such as better stores, clean community,and better place to live. We also saw little kids outside playing around and that's some good things we like to see.

Wednesday, June 20, 2007

THE WALK

Hello how have u all been doing, it's yo boy Lil Kendell and I was coming here to tell you all about our new pictures we took . We took pictures of downtown and other place so when you look again you all can see the pictures we took .While we where out the people asked questions you can ask in a comm. I will be back soon so don't forget me and my team. THANKS FOR LOOKING AND READING.

Walking Alone

Today, we went out on our own and adeventured around and took some picture of the things we think make our community the way it is.

June 20,2007 Presenting the Peabody Vance




Today we were split into different groups. We were told to go out and find different things in our community that represents us well. So we went in our community, we took pictures of all type of things such as people doing work, kids playing, and people just having a good time. I felt good taking pictures of people trying to make our community look better. We even met a generous, construction worker who helped us with the pose they took and he even bought us sodas. Even though, it was scorching hot I still was enjoying my time talking to different adults in the community. Representing not only myself or the group but representing the Summer Youth Program(SYEP)!!!!

June 19,2007 Historical Sites of Downtown Memphis


Today, after our lunch break we walked towards the downtown area. When we first started walking, the first thing we saw was abandoned and boarded up houses. The first things we started noticing was how old the buildings were, so the first that came to mind was when was the building built. As we came to a street called mulberry, we noticed a man walking down the street. Coincidently, he was a protestor from that march at the Lorraine Motel. He talked to us about him
spending the last 17 days of Martin Luther King's life with him. I was very interested in what he was telling us. After that, we started seeing even more buildings and i started getting even more interested. So I decided when I come to work tomorrow I want to research more information on the diffent building in sited in our neighborhood. AS EACH DAY PASSES IM GETTING MORE INTERSTED IN THE PEABODY VANCE AREA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Monday, June 18, 2007

The Great Event

Today I learned that my neighborhood is a great environment because we could find things that needed to be to worked on to make a better image for the community.

Land use

Today we went out and took some pictures of the different type of land use. It was good exercise and a good experience until it started sprinkling. Overall, I had fun.

Kendell

What up world how have you all Ben doing it yo boy Lil Kendell and to day I am here to tell you all about what we learned today. We walked around the neighborhood and found out about the things we did not know and wanted to know and learn about the people who stay around us.

June 18,2007 Our Scavenger Hunt

Commercial Land Use
Hampton Inn & Suites(downtown Memphis)


Today at work we went on a scavenger hunt finding different land uses in our neighborhood. We had to find 9 different land uses. I had a great time time taking pictures of things I never seen in the neighborhood. I had a really great time. I even wanted to keep finding new thingas in the community. I definitely would like to do something like this again.

Scavenger Hunt

Today we did a scavenger hunt of different land uses. We found examples of industrial sites, institutional, commercial local and commercial restaurant land uses. We also found examples of multi family residential, single family residential and community facilities. I think that we learn more while we are finding things on our own and being outside instead of being in the classroom.

Making Connections

We had a nice conversation with a neighborhood resident today while we were out taking land use photos. She give us some information about the history of the neighborhood.

Friday, June 15, 2007

The City Of Memphis

Today I learned that we can make big changes in the community that we live in by helping each other out by not letting our community look the way that it looks in the city of Memphis because if we go out east there community is not going look like ours.

June 15th

Today I visited the Soulsville music area and the Elmwood Cemetary.

Stax Museum

Today we toured the Stax Museum area. It was a fun experience.It was an exciting but hot day today. I hope there are more days to come like this. I think this will turn out to be an fun, exciting program at the end. I think i will learn a lot out of this program when I am finish. I had no idea that there where so many that recorded in that museum. There was a historic house across the street from the Stax museum called "The Memphis Slim house". I really never understood mapping but now I have begun to understand and its been an great experience so far an the program has just began.We walked around saw and talked about the different types of houses.

Soulsville U.S.A

Today we toured Soulsville U.S.A and I learned alot about it that i did not know. If anybody ask me what is this best place to tour i would say Soulsville. So if you are out and about go and see how far Soulsville have came from back in the day until now and you will learn alot of new things that you didn't know was there.

King

We are the peabody soul.We are trying to make the hood look good as us. Come to this webpage and see how the South look before and after.We are doing some wrok on saveing the city.

K MONEY

What this program is about is me and my team working as one.The way things have been going, it seems fun so I chose to see things better . So as this goes on, I will choose to tell you more . Today we lerned about Soulsville USA and some more famous land and people.

June15,2007 Observing and Understanding


Today we toured the Soulsville U.S.A. area. I had no idea that there were so many talented music artists created in that neighborhood. We walked through The area were Stax was at and College Park. Also, there are so many historical sites that I wouldn't never came cross hadn't we walked through there. We even passed Memphis Slim,a talented artist from that area, house which would be torn down for renovation soon. There also were many houses that were rebuild and in my opinion they look very nice. While at work on wednesday, we learned words called jargins. We came up on a house that was very smaller than the other houses which is called an In-fill. When we first walked through college park the first thing i saw was a building with a bank,community center, and also foundation which is called Mayor Herenton Renaissance Center also known as mix-used. To end our tour, we rode through a very historic place which Elmwood Cemetery. While riding through cemetery, we saw alot of Street names that we ride through everyday and we found the street names where actually people. I enjoyed my time, observing and learning things I didn't know about.