Lucky -- that's me (or, according to Ms. LB, high school English teacher, "That'd be I.") Sitting for 20 years at the corner of Campsie and Campsie, about four blocks north of Main, wondering when or if people will notice that it's great to live in Lexington's promising-but-not-yet-fulfilled downtown.
And then, people start noticing. About 20 seconds after they start noticing, they start moving in. There's a geneaology of who-told-whom-what to get the ball rolling, and then there are huge important moments in how it's all unfolding.
Key Group: Martin Luther King Neighborhood Association, Inc., chugging away on little projects so we can be proud of the place we live.
Key Visionary Persons: MLKNA founder Peggy Tichenor and her man Virgil, who defied all wisdom and moved from a snug suburb into a condemned house on North MLK -- and now it's an award-winning, HGTV-televised showplace.
Key Realtor Person: Donna Elder, realtor with a conscience extraordinaire, who helped save the Brand-Barrow House at Fourth and N. MLK by convincing the Episcopal Diocese of Lexington that moving into a promising-but-seedy-looking neighborhood could be an expression of faith. And then Donna got busy and showed house after house in the 'hood, acting as if these houses were really for sale, really good deals, with really good neighbors. So people started buying.
Key Savvy Energizer Persons: Todd and Sonya Blaydes, moving in, buying up houses with great potential, attracting energetic others to come too. Sonya formed a habit of forwarding info about houses for sale that Donna Elder posted to the MLKNA email list, and ......
Now Mick Jeffries and Lucy Points are moving onto Campsie, after they move some dirt. Their wonderful blog tells all about it. http://campsie.blogspot.com
And Mick's other blog is the very pattern of urban warm and cool -- spectacular.
http://minglefreely.blogspot.com
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