but that the heck, if urban farmers want to try their hand at it, the green space can only be a good thing.
(h/t Evelyn, via the twittertoobz)
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Puddinhead said:
Absolutely nothing to do with the Gentilly urban farming topic (although we did have a guest contingent at our last Gentilly Terrace Homeowner's meeting pushing urban farming in general, and "plowing under" the Milne Boys Home property in specific; they were disappointed to hear from Coucilwoman Hedge-Morrell after their presentation that in fact an agreement had finally been hammered out with the Milne Trust that would lead to an $18 million redevelopment of the site that doesn't include acres of zucchini), but I can't figure out why I haven't hit you up with this semi-trivia question before now, given the New Orleans railway aspect of it.
As a kid I'd often taken notice of this, and speculated on just exactly what it was. No obvious signs to give an observer any clue, and it wasn't like we had the Internet around to do information searches whenever the mood struck us back then. Fast forward to just a couple of years ago, and I'm reading a reproduced piece online on the Pontchartrain Railway. In it I read that there remains (at the time of the article) one remnant of the old Pontchartrain Line...and it just happens to be the "artifact" that I wondered about as a kid. Well, as I've no doubt told my kids over and over whenever we pass it, the "artifact" still exists, and is passed daily by easily hundreds of whom I'd guess less than one percent have any idea. Any clue what and where I'm talking about, and what it's significance was regarding the Pontchartrain Railroad?
Absolutely nothing to do with the Gentilly urban farming topic (although we did have a guest contingent at our last Gentilly Terrace Homeowner's meeting pushing urban farming in general, and "plowing under" the Milne Boys Home property in specific; they were disappointed to hear from Coucilwoman Hedge-Morrell after their presentation that in fact an agreement had finally been hammered out with the Milne Trust that would lead to an $18 million redevelopment of the site that doesn't include acres of zucchini), but I can't figure out why I haven't hit you up with this semi-trivia question before now, given the New Orleans railway aspect of it.
As a kid I'd often taken notice of this, and speculated on just exactly what it was. No obvious signs to give an observer any clue, and it wasn't like we had the Internet around to do information searches whenever the mood struck us back then. Fast forward to just a couple of years ago, and I'm reading a reproduced piece online on the Pontchartrain Railway. In it I read that there remains (at the time of the article) one remnant of the old Pontchartrain Line...and it just happens to be the "artifact" that I wondered about as a kid. Well, as I've no doubt told my kids over and over whenever we pass it, the "artifact" still exists, and is passed daily by easily hundreds of whom I'd guess less than one percent have any idea. Any clue what and where I'm talking about, and what it's significance was regarding the Pontchartrain Railroad?