Rebecca Ferguson and Judson Church

When Rebecca Ferguson came in to talk to us, I couldn’t help but feel like she was just trying to do damage control—like she was used to people questioning her that she just assumed she was going have to defend the renovations, and her involvement with them, to us, too. And even though I expected her to be completely biased, I thought that what she said made a lot of sense. But I felt that it was almost a little silly that so she even needed to explain some of the things that she talked about. This renovation is meant to make the park better, not worse, and there are too many people involved in it, too many people who it is going to affect, for it to not turn out completely fine. And even it’s annoying that the park is closed for a while, I do think that it will be worth it.
Which brings me to the visit to Judson Church. I thought the whole thing was a waste of time. First, that woman was basically just saying that change is good until you get what you want, and then it everything should be the same forever. If the park stayed never changed, if it stayed exactly the same from its very creation, then we would still be burying yellow fever victims there. And besides, I don’t believe it’s actually going to change in any fundamental way. There will still be musicians. There will still be homeless people. There will still be drug dealers.