Monthly Archives: January 2024
Welcome!
Since 2003, my husband Rob and I have gathered, shared, and preserved stories of neighbors creating community through our project Voices of the Violet Crown. Read about the project and its impact, as published in the Texas Oral History Association Sound Historian in 2023, here. For us, community is a continuum of past, present, and future. We believe that being a good neighbor is a creative process—one that matters. Our project includes: Our blog, augmenting … Read more
WABAC Machine, Part 12
Copyright 2024 Susan Burneson. All rights reserved. Kindly talk with us before reproducing any website content. (What’s a WABAC Machine? Find out here.) 2023 • A FEW HIGHLIGHTS JANUARY 7 • Former Brentwood neighbor Kay Nell Swenson Ramsey, below, died. Kay’s parents, Gladstone and Erna Swenson, built one of the first houses on Ruth Avenue in the late 1940s. Sixty years later, Kay contributed family photos and stories to our neighborhood’s mosaic wall and oral history … Read more