Contemplating mural, Camden neighborhood asks: Who are we? It will also be a Welcome home to you.
On a virtual meeting with about a dozen or so residents of the neighborhood and the city, Chandler, a community events manager with Cooper s Ferry Partnership, asked residents to discuss what makes Cramer Hill home, and how they wanted to be represented.
Artist Roberto Morales, who was born and raised in Cramer Hill and still lives there, would create the mural based on that input. It would be painted in the spring, Chandler said, with the site currently under discussion.
The mural will be funded by a Choice Neighborhoods grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for revitalization of Ablett Village, a housing project in Cramer Hill. A joint effort between Cooper s Ferry, a community development nonprofit, and St. Joseph s Carpenter Society, a housing nonprofit, the mural is part an early action activity for the revitalization, according to Meishka Mitche
Home for Christmas: A Camden family moves in, with help
CAMDEN It wasn t the lit-up and decorated Christmas tree, or the presents at its base, wrapped and ready for little hands to open them, that got to Maxiell Acosta. Nor was it the bedspread with pretty pink frills in her daughter s room, or the musical mobile above her son s nursery.
While all of those things were loved and appreciated by her and her husband, what made the mother of two become emotional was the dresser in the main bedroom.
She hadn t had a dresser since she was a young child, she explained; she d moved around as a child and as an adult, her apartment was too small for one.