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Happy Labor Day

September 3, 2018 by Adam Carr Leave a Comment

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  • A mural by Zesa Ramirez above Cesar Chavez Drive.
  • With deconstruction of the Westlawn housing development complete, construction of the new Westlawn Gardens continued.
  • A classic car parked in front of a birthday party at Jackson Park.
  • Alice's Garden was alive throughout the summer, hosting many community events, including this potluck.
  • Two bucks at dusk in Havenwoods State Forest.
  • Greenfield Avenue was under construction for the entire summer.
  • Andre Lee Ellis leads a tour group visiting the "We Got This" garden at Ring and 9th Street.
  • Artist Fatima Laster bought the former Johnson-Goolsby Funeral Home and renovated it throughout the summer to become the 5 Points Artist Gallery and Studios.
  • The view from the finish line during a pillow-case-potato-sack race at a neighborhood picnic in Silver City.
  • Aretha Franklin's legendary music filled the Tandem on the afternoon she passed away.
  • Dasha Kelly's Soapbox Project visited the Sherman Park neighborhood two years after the Sherman uprising.
  • The finale of 2018's Washington Park Wednesdays took place at the Washington Park Bandshell with the Diaspora Arkestra, presented by musician James Julius Anderson and DJ Tarik Moody.
  • As part of the Pop Up MKE program, Angela Kingsawan (behind table) sold her Yenepa Herbals products at a storefront on Cesar Chavez Drive.
  • A young man, posing at midcourt, helped paint the newly renovated basketball court at Tiefenthaler Park.

While heat and humidity look to stretch beyond Labor Day, with school back in session for students around Milwaukee, summer feels as if it’s over. These are photos from another eventful July and August in Milwaukee’s neighborhoods.

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Adam Carr is deputy editor for community engagement at Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service.

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