Monthly Archives: December 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. THE LATEST Blooming Where We’re Planted Just What Is a Violet Crown? Neighbors-in-History, Part 2—African-American Families A Green History of Brentwood & Crestview Fostering Community Through Oral History, Sound Historian, Texas Oral History Association For us, community is a continuum of past, present, and future. We believe that being a … Read more
Blooming Where We’re Planted, 2024
Copyright 2024 Susan Burneson. All rights reserved. Kindly talk with us before reproducing any website content. (More neighborhood history beginning here.) Hope you enjoy this look back at 2024 and earlier – with a few of my own stories thrown in for good measure – a riff on my 2012 blog posts about neighbors blooming where they are planted, in their own community. – Susan JANUARY 21 • Original Brentwood neighbor Ben Petmecky’s oral history … Read more