Category: neighborhood life
Back Then, It Mattered
"So these are things that I kind of learned that I didn’t realize I was learning." https://youtu.be/LNAsOt9SGPA Transcript for Back Then, It Mattered I’m Croatian. And when I was a kid, it mattered. My dad was Croatian, my grandfather, George...
Lives That Are Totally Alien
"The use of the car, I think, has dramatically changed the way people live." https://youtu.be/gOBG4207ABw Transcript for Lives That Are Totally Alien It used to be that people could either walk to downtown Gary or take a bus and the...
Just Got the Impression
"All they saw was the violence. They did not see the peace. They did not see the change." https://youtu.be/xJwnnJ7YAmw Transcript for Just Got the Impression I grew up in the Tolleston area of Gary which was, at the time, very...
Neighborhood, Community, and Country
"I don’t know any other way to operate. I can’t just sit around and say, 'Oh, well. That’s the way it is.'"
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Just What a Neighbor Does
"Because you’ve developed a relationship, you’re willing to meet that neighbor’s needs."
Welcome Project at Valparaiso University · Just What A Neighbor Does - Radio Edit This is a short radio edit of Just...
Real, Basic Obligations
"We often don’t think about how the little things build up to create that relationship that you want with people you live around."
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Settlement House
"If you could make it through the wobbles and the buckles in the floor at the Neighborhood House, you could skate anywhere."
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How Do I Contribute?
"And the fact that people always, like, write off Gary as this horrible place made me feel like I just had to have this conviction to like, change people’s minds, and to be there, and make a difference." [iframe width="100%"...
One Common Cause
"Part of being part of a community is reaching out and helping out each other and being there for each other." https://youtu.be/BfIBcTWok80 Produced and edited for the Welcome Project by Rebecca Werner and Brandi Casada. Transcript for One Common...