DayStar/Carol's Quarters

After the movie, I took a walk in Emory's neighborhood behind the Miracle Plaza/Miracle Theater, through DayStar (pictured, abstractly, above), the urban in-fill community that Emory helped build and that Penny's friend Lemae lives in - a number of decent-size cute houses with porches - but on relatively small lots and no driveways/garages - but a community parking lot. Emory explained how tough new planning regulations made construction of a community kitchen unaffordable. Kind of like a slightly more radical/progressive little version of Seaside or Celebration (new urban design meccas) or even Norton Commons in Louisville (but no businesses right in the neighborhood - Miracle and Capital plazas are within easy walking distance though one of these across a wide, busy street). Completely overlapping with this is Carol's Quarters, with some shotgun houses (very small), slightly larger houses (all of these apparently from the 1920s - a little like my old Sarasota neighborhood but with smaller houses (except for mine) and even a little like Phoenix Hill or the part of Victorian Village/Flytown near the lard factory), and quadriplex flat apartments and with Shiloh Primitive Baptist Church (plus a cute city park on the south end of the area). (Emory told me that this neighborhood originally developed, down the hill, as a neighborhood where families whose members worked in domestic service for the white families that lived up the hill in what once was then one of Tallahassee's first suburbs. I think the family of a member of our high school track or cross-country team lived in Carol's Quarters, and so we used to drop her off there. Emory says that the little park - recently spruced up - was in decades past the African-American counterpart to the (then whites-only) Winthrop Park, in nearby Betton Hills, where we once lived.) It was midnight and no one was out, and it had cooled down somewhat, and so I enjoyed all the greenery in the dark and the smells and sounds of this version of Old Tallahassee (and got a little activity in after sitting almost all day in that Operating Room waiting room except for walking back and forth from my car once).