The Hyde Park September Neighborhood E P A R Y D K Meeting Association H . When: 7:00 p.m. Pecan Monday, September 8, 2008 Where: Hyde Park United Methodist Church 4001 Speedway Who: YOU and your neighbors Note: HPNA general meetings usually take place on the first Monday of each month. Press September, 2008 • National Register District Neighborhood • Vol. 34, No. 9 HPNA General Meeting Agenda for September 8th Austin State Hospital Announcement of new HPNA Officer candidates Project: HOPE See you there! ith the change in treatment of mental illness and HPNA Officers & Wthe mission of the Austin State Hospital (ASH), Steering Committee “Partnering to find solutions towards wellness,” this project fits well with our Nominees for 2008-09 mission and our nce again it is election time vision. Project: Ofor the Hyde Park Neighbor- HOPE has not hood Association. Elections will only brought take place as always at our Octo- ber (6th) meeting. You must be an a new caliber HPNA member to vote. I hope ev- of volunteers eryone will put the October 6th to ASH ,but meeting on their calendar. I have will continue always told everyone who asks that H.P.N.A. is the most demo- to improve the cratic neighborhood I have ever environment at One of the Murals Inspired by Project: HOPE dealt with. Our open meetings and ASH. bylaws have set a standard that How did Project: HOPE come murals for our children’s unit. Us- other neighborhoods use to mea- into being? A few months ago, ing the children’s visions of hope sure their associations by. Brenda Logan, a local artist who as their inspiration and guide, the The bylaws require published works on our children’s unit artist/volunteers created beautiful notification of nominees a month (CAPS - Child and Adolescent Psy- pieces of art, which will consti- in advance of the meeting, and chiatric Services), asked the kids, tute a permanent improvement to also provide for nominations from “If you could visualize hope, what the atmosphere and appearance of the floor on election night. If you would it look like?” The visions the CAPS unit. It was an amazing really consider yourself a member, they shared were just amazing. weekend! this is a meeting that you can- Not long after that, Bren- Moreover, once ASH’s Service Continued on page 4 da was at Brackenridge Hospital Director learned that this event Highlights in This Issue: and came upon a group of volun- was going to happen she decid- teer artists painting a mural on ed to paint all the units with pastel Tuesday, October 7: Hyde ✑ their children’s wing. This encoun- colors. Where the units were once Park celebrates National Night ter sparked in her the idea that an institutional gray and beige, Out crime prevention initiative something similar could happen they are now bright and colorful. with “A Walk Through the Ave- at ASH; so on July 26th and 27th, New colorful flooring will be add- nues” (see Crime Report, page 14) 2008, 30 volunteers gathered in the ed in 2009. ✑ Local Historic District Up- Rec Center at ASH and painted 33 Continued on page 3 date (see page 6) Minutes for the August 4, 2008 General Meeting of the Hyde Park Neighborhood Association
Members and guests gathered for the August 4, 2008 Gener- al Meeting of HPNA to enjoy an ice cream social. No business was conducted. Everyone enjoyed the ice cream and the opportunity to visit with each other. — Pam Whittington HPNA Co-Secretary
Pecan Press The Pecan Press is published monthly by the Hyde Park Neighborhood Association in Austin, Texas. Note: Each month’s ad and editorial deadline is th the 15 of month preceding publication. Pam Whittington’s Cat Ponders August HPNA Meeting Editor (photo courtesy Pam Whittington) Grant Thomas 450-0464
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Page — September, 2008 — Pecan Press Austin State Hospital Project: HOPE... …cont’d from page 1 Looking ahead, we also plan to recruit sculptors to Our superintendent gave his permission to have a assist with creating sculptures that spell out HOPE in mural painted on the end of our building, facing Gua- 5-6 different languages. Two will be placed at the chil- dalupe, honoring volunteers. A number of local artists dren’s unit. Brenda wants the word HOPE to be the have expressed an interest in participating in this first thing the children see when they arrive and the project. It’s a very exciting (and hopeful!) time here last thing they see when they leave. We will also ex- at the Austin State Hospital, and we give a special tend that theme to the front gate of our campus. thanks to Brenda Logan, who had a dream and made that dream a reality! If you are interested in participating in Project: HOPE, please contact Debbie Trammell at 512-419- 2323 or
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Pecan Press — September, 2008 — Page HPNA 2008-09 Nominees... …cont’d from page 1 not miss. The larger the turnout, the more democratic the process. Let’s see if the members can have a 50% turnout! If you have not renewed your HPNA member- ship, or if you are new to the neighborhood, please come and meet your new officers and register as a member at the Fire Station Festival on October 11th. The nominating committee this year consisted of Grant Thomas, Elaine Meenehan, Michelle Par- is-White and Alan Marburger. Many others in the neighborhood provided assistance in finding neigh- Hyde Park Presbyterian Church bors who would consider serving this year. After months of work canvassing the neighborhood for po- 3913 Ave B tential candidates, they are pleased to present the following slate of nominees: 459-7747 President: David Conner Vice President: not yet filled (This officer is instru- www.hydeparkpresbyterianaustin.org mental in setting the agenda for the monthly HPNA meetings) Sunday Worship service 10:30 AM Co-Treasurer I. J. Aarons (second term) Co-Treasurer Carol Jackson Nursery Available Co-Secretary: John Williams Co-Secretary: Kristen Remeza Homes Tour Chair: Barbara Gibson ��������� Steering Committee: First term: Mark Fishman, Cynthia Lyon; Second term: Stan Kozinsky, Dorothy �������� Richter, Wanda Penn �������� — Alan Marburger ������������������������ Chair, HPNA Nominating Committee ����������������������� ������������������� �������������� City Plumbing Company 35 YEARS EXPERIENCE �������� 453-1115 ������������� Sewer and Water Heater Replacement Slab Leaks • Gas Leaks Sewer and Drain Cleaning Service Repairs • Re-pipes • Remodels ALL YOUR PLUMBING NEEDS
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Pecan Press — September, 2008 — Page 17 TRINITY Hyde Park Poets United Methodist Church Welcoming and affirming all people inclusive of Race, Nationality, Age, Gender, Gender Identity, Marital Status, Sexual Orientation, Physical Ability, Mental Ability, Economic Class, Transcendence or Educational Class. What I’d really like in my old age Inclusive, Nature-affirming, Creative Worship is an all-night diner across the street, breakfast twenty-four hours, good coffee, smoking in the back. I don’t sleep long most nights. Years ago, when I knew Keith the baker across the way, I’d wake and walk over to the bakery and visit with him in the wee, small hours, maybe have a toke or two, listen to some weird NEW SUNDAY SCHEDULE beginning Sept. 7 flying saucer, interplanetary, aliens- among-us show on the radio and then 9:15AM – imprints Celebration, featuring body say my good night or morning and wander prayers, Taize chants, and guest artists back to my place and back to sleep. It was good. But what I’d really like 11:15AM – weave Celebration, blending traditional now is an all-night diner. I could and alternative elements and featuring the climb out of bed at two in the morning, Celebration Choir cross the street and into the light and smells of early morning, truck drivers, 12:45PM – earthbound Celebration, playfully newspaper workers, cab drivers, (I combining Nature-based and Christian elements worked in a place like this once) and 600 E. 50th St. / Austin, TX 78751 find my booth in back and sit watching (512) 459-5835 www.tumc.org and maybe writing while I drank my (one block east of Duval) coffee and smoked, feeling the night outside, not a harsh night, a benevolent night, guarded by the city cops at the counter, a sheriff’s deputy or two, everyone caught somewhere between sleeping and waking, a good place to be. We need these places and they’re fading fast, eaten up by the chains, the mass-producers. They’re getting harder and harder to find and I very seriously doubt that I will find one across the street from my apartment before I die. But it’s a nice dream. Sometimes I wake in the night and stumble to my bedroom chair and my last night’s cold cup of coffee, light a cigarette and sit there half-asleep dreaming of just such a place. And Own a piece of Austin history. This 1912 bunga- the dream takes on cosmic proportions low has been restored and combined with a tasteful and I find myself floating upward addition done by master Green Builder, Bill Moore. through the ceiling out into the star-cluttered night and I’m walking Approx. 3117 sq ft., this 3/3.5 home features beau- along a road that rises up into the tiful hardwoods, transoms, high ceilings, antique sky and far ahead, its lights out- doors, a gourmet kitchen, sleeping porch and more. shining the stars, is my diner, my You’ve got to see this one-it’s like no other home in cosmic diner, arms outstretched, Austin. www.4106AvenueB.com $950,000 just waiting for me. — Albert Huffstickler Ellen Kelsey 6.15.2002 512-422-0481
Page 18 — September, 2008 — Pecan Press Huff’s Ashes Find a Home (Editor’s Note: This reflection was sent to us in the wake of a recent poetry reading at NeWorlDeli honoring the late Albert Huffstickler, (see page 16) who served ably as the poetry editor for many years, and is fondly remembered in, and well beyond, Hyde Park.) n early April, a friend of Huff’s, Sylvia Manning, told me that she still had his ashes in an urn in her house. IHuff had once written a poem with fairly precise details about what he wanted done with his ashes, specify- ing that they should be scattered in a nondescript ravine somewhere outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico, a city he had visited often and loved. For six years Sylvia had wanted to take him home but had never had the op- portunity to go to Santa Fe. The next day I told another of Huff’s friends, Valerie Inman, the story. Valerie’s face took on a mystical glow, and she said, I’m going to Santa Fe on April 26. That was the moment when I started feeling eerie But there’s more. Valerie went to Santa Fe and about it, because I had a regular Fourth Thursday poetry searched for the right ravine, one that felt right for the reading scheduled for two days before her trip. I con- purpose. She was diverted from where she thought the sulted with Sylvia and she said she would love to bring place might be and turned up another road, where she Huff’s ashes to Valerie on the occasion of the reading, came upon the place that seemed perfect. She had set April 24th. Then we all realized that Fourth Thursday aside a portion of the ashes to retain for herself, but, as would be the perfect time for something we all had want- she stood in the ravine, scattering the ashes, she heard ed to do before, a memorial reading. We had already Huff saying, this is where I want to be. She took out her scheduled a youth poetry performance group for the oc- private stash of Huff and poured it out with the rest, and casion (Quiet Storm, from Huston Tillotson), but we also it felt good. agreed that there could be no more appropriate way to re- Then she returned to the road to identify the location member Huff than to have young, energetic poets reading in case she ever came back to Santa Fe. Get this, neigh- new work. We started doing publicity to bring together bors: The road she had chosen at random was named Huff’s friends for the event. The readings and reminis- Hyde Park. censes were wonderful, and Huff’s friends were actually — Robert Elzy Cogswell, saying goodby to the poet himself, since he was there in the form of his ashes as well as his poetry. Sylvia collected
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Thirst
This we know sailors recognize stars, the birth of storms, Magnificent Frigate birds. The sun, drinker of oceans, watches watches also, land-locked me, and sips my sweat — Nancy Taylor Day 8.4.2008
Head Over Heels
A poet sings of love. You can’t help it. If not that, you wouldn’t sing at all. Even when love means trying to figure out what you did wrong, it’s better than sliding into doing something worse. Now and then you get a chance to grab the string of that red balloon and let it lift you toward someone smiling down from clouds of beauty. — Robert Ely Cogswell
Two Masters
Buson meet Huff not a Zen or Beat, yet to hear him, the soft roll of south, sharpened by long bus rides and mountains, to hear him is to know he belongs. — Nancy Taylor Day 4.29.2008
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