This issue shares stories of neighbors' resilience, resourcefulness, persistence, and most of all, kindness.
Now, three seasons into the pandemic, we examine Queen Village like never before. As we sheltered in place, we found neighbors in need and neighbors filling those needs by serving meals, running errands, and making friendly phone calls. We felt the loss of a community leader's passing: her often brash style and true pioneer spirit battled the city for and won a simple plot of land. Hallowed ground in her eyes, it was destined to be a garden; a labor of love for a community where money has no meaning and color is blind.
And by the time 50,000 protesters took to city streets in support of Black Lives Matter, our business district had been decimated; a victim of the pandemic. We tell how boarded windows became canvas for artists' statements about race, racism, and a hope for shared humanity.
We shout-out volunteers and the new adoptive "parents" sharing furever homes.
