‘Cover Stories’ Archives
Monthly Update: Phillips Community Oral History Project. Oct. ’25
By PHILLIPS COMMUNITY ORAL HISTORY PROJECT PARTNERS courtesy Phillips Community Oral History Project Welcome back to the Phillips Community Oral History Project monthly update! This regular Column is an important part of the Project’s outreach to the Phillips Community. It is a space where we will share key progress milestones and keep the project accountable to the people of Phillips. After a long planning period and the official launch in September, the Phillips Community Oral History Project is now well underway. We have several updates, but the most exciting of these is that interviews have begun! As of mid-September, the Project has interviewed ten people. Of those, three were planned in advance, including Steve Sandberg, Rico Morales, and Becky Gazca. Seven additional interviews were conducted across three pop-up interview events at Franklin Library. Look out for more pop-up events around Phillips; Community members are encouraged to attend and tell their Phillips [...]
Who Writes for the alley?? You Do!!
Did you know that the alley is a bonafide nonprofit, has no paid writers, and relies on community members to create what goes in it? For fifty years countless neighbors in and around the Phillips Community have filled the pages of the alley. That’s remarkable to consider! The paper continues to be community driven. The small volunteer crew who gets the paper to press wants to showcase all voices in our little plot of land on this planet. Add your voice to the pages - so many ways to do so: Are you a poet? Please allow all of us to enjoy your poems - submit them to the alley.Is there a garden with particularly lovely flowers on your morning walk? Snap a picture to brighten everyone’s day.Do you have a serial, cliff-hanger story idea set in the community? They have been a big hit in the past - we’d all love to anxiously await each exciting chapter.What is happening in your part of the hood? Keep us informed! Neighborhood borders are just lines on a city map afterall.Is your [...]
Lake Street The Great Street
By BOBBIE ERICHSEN Caption: Neighbors documenting their memories and experiences at a Lake Street Community Archive Pop-Up event at the Midtown Farmers’ Market on June 28. Invitation If you love East Lake Street — live near, work there, or feel connected —please, add your stories to a collection of memories. Incentive I’ve lived near the Lake Street Corridor most of my adult life; knowing it as a street, state highway, blocks of businesses, and a place of stories, contradictions, resilience, and creativity; significantly, centuries ago a walking trail of Indigenous Founders and animals between the Mississippi River and Bde Maka Ska, at the end of West Lake Street. Events five years, decades, and centuries ago inspired the creation of an additional way to hold its stories. That’s how the idea of East Lake Community Archive began. Community Ownership Community members dreamed and realized transformative projects before: Midtown Greenway from [...]
