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Narrative: Star Dust House
On Friday, February 3, 2006 Dr. K and the rest of the Urban Studies class met at Stardust House located in between Baseline and Southern off of 16th St. When we met there we were greeted warmly by two representatives one of AmeriCore (Volunteer work) and the Stardust director, Gail LeGrander. We were then introduced by Dr. K to Sara Griveski, who is almost finished getting her doctoral degree in Sociology. Sara gave us a brief 1 hour history about Phoenix and how it’s changed over the past 150 years or so. There were a lot of things I learned about Phoenix that I had no idea of or even heard of before. The most interesting bit of information was when the Salt River flooded only those who could afford to move away from the river were of “higher class”. At that point it seemed like there was a huge societal change and attitude towards those who could not move away from the River. There were
many other topics and parts of Phoenix’s history I found interesting
and Sara was a brilliant speaker. After Sara was done the director
gave us a tour of the Stardust House. When we walked through the
second portion of the house I noticed pictures on a wall that had in
big font “I have a dream…when I grow up I want to be…” and
underneath there were drawings made by the children of the Stardust
House. I noticed pictures of Firefighters, Police Officers, Doctors,
and so on. This hit me on an emotional level simply because this
just shows that society always seems to neglect the lower classes by
unconsciously ignoring them. The higher class including many
politicians seem to forget The rest
of the day was pretty much a blur since the time went by so quickly.
Me, Ash, Jackie, and Thomas traveled back to the “Excellent Market”
where we met the police officer the other week; we
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