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- Brittany Freeman and Sharon Beckford (Above) [Friends who live on opposite sides of the bridge.] “It was our first time on that bridge! Our wish is that the murals don”'t wear out in the winter! It was amazing to hear from the person who in 1973 tried to start an event about this bridge. It just shows that sometimes it takes a little while to get something started but once it starts”¦!”
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- Sandy Spieler “I loved the process of walking across the neighborhood and stopping at key spots and finding out more about a part of the community or a building from the people who were there. I was in a couple of places I had yet to step inside of and talked with people that I had not met before. I enjoyed hearing from Muriel Simmons and her beautiful idea for the community.”
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- Lee Cunningham “I really enjoyed the Sub-Saharan music. The audience engagement piece about soil that occurred near the bridge was very inspiring. My minor was soil science when I was an undergraduate at the U of M. I was reminded that there are microbes in a handful of earth than there are people on the globe! The bridge is a two-way bridge and we need more two-way bridges in our community.”
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- Julie “I was here today to be with my 16-year-old nephew who composed and delivered the poem spoken at the bridge today. I had introduced him to Dallas a few weeks ago and he just got right into it. I also got a chance to unveil one of the murals. I live in St. Paul but it is still very healing to see unity and beauty in a city. Art helps people to stop and consider the world around themselves.”
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- The Alley Newspaper says a special THANK YOU!!!! to our youth volunteers, Norah and Clarasophia (right) who spent an entire day helping us with our “Tell Us a Story” section at the Bridging event on August 13, 2011.
