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Little Georgia and the Apples

Author: Carolivia Herron
Copyright: 2006

Setting Year: 1931
Setting Decade: 1930s
Main Themes: African-American Life, Children's Lives, Family Life, Food
Excerpt: You're supposed to say a gaggle of geese when there are a bunch of geese running all over the road like they do up by Howard University and the reservoir. Haven't you seen the sign on Fourth Street telling you that geese are crossing? If you haven't seen them walking up out of the water and trying to go to college at Howard, then you just need to go on up there and look at them.
Submitted by: Carolivia Herron
Excerpt Page Number: 4
Address: Howard University, Washington, DC 20059
Setting Year: 1931
Setting Decade: 1930s
Main Themes: African-American Life
Excerpt: Today they call our lily ponds the Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens, and the National Park Service set up a gate there on Anacostia Avenue, but there was a time when I could lie on the grass near the front of our house and roll down the hill laughing and catch myself just before I splashed into one of the ponds. I used to roam around there with my dog, Prince, walking between the catalpa trees and the bamboo and the cherry trees.
Submitted by: Carolivia Herron
Excerpt Page Number: 2
Address: Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens 20019
Setting Year: 1931
Setting Decade: 1930s
Main Themes: African-American Life, Children's Lives, Family Life, Food
Excerpt: Back in 1931, my Kenilworth neighborhood was so countrified - can you believe it? - we had a real farm right inside the city of Washington. Today the old property is bottle in with new houses, although a brown stream still runs through in the back. But let me tell you, we used to have the best corn and tomatoes and string beans.
Submitted by: Carolivia Herron
Excerpt Page Number: 3
Address: 4335 Douglas Street, NW 20019
Setting Year: 1931
Setting Decade: 1930s
Main Themes:
Excerpt: If you do go, be sure you stand on the Washington Hospital Center side were it's safe, right in front of Children's Hospital. If you look, you'll see a gaggle of Canada geese swimming around and eating Howard University grass and stopping all the traffic on Michigan Avenue when folks are trying to get downtown on the weekend.
Submitted by: Carolivia Herron
Excerpt Page Number: 4
Address: Washington Hospital Center 20010
Setting Year: 1931
Setting Decade: 1930s
Main Themes:
Excerpt: Inside the store I buy a great big brown bag full of the sweetest, fullest, roundest, almost-red-but-with-bright-yellow-streaks apples, the true-coolest-apples, the most tingle-your-nose, calling-you-by-name kind of apples ever known to appear under Mr. Benson's green and orange District Grocery Store sign at Kenilworth Avenue and Douglas Street.
Submitted by: Carolivia Herron
Excerpt Page Number: 11
Address: Kenilworth Avenue and Douglas Street, NE 20019