You never know who you’ll meet. Or at least I never seem to.
Oxmoor Neighborhood Association Meeting: January 11, 2010
Each time I present the park to a group, I end up leaving with new information about Red Mountain and Birmingham. I always meet someone who provides another piece to the puzzle. At last night’s gathering with the park’s Oxmoor neighbors, I met a room full of people with park knowledge. There were 4 people who had very strong connections with the park’s history: 2 women who had valuable information about the Oxmoor and Mount Olive mining cemeteries, a woman who tragically lost her father in a mining accident on Red Mountain, and a man who worked underground in the number 14 mine.
Oxmoor Neighborhood Association Meeting: January 11, 2010
Their personal ties to the mountain made the Oxmoor Neighborhood Association a special group to talk to. It was fun to let them know about the latest plans for the park’s arrival. I presented the park’s master plan and talked about 2 things: how we are building the park into the community, and how we are building the community into the park.
