C: Melvina Park
In 2022, WaterMarks interviewed neighbors of this community park being retrofitted into a larger multiuse space incorporating green infrastructure that manages water from adjacent Hopkins Street in Milwaukee’s 30th Street Corridor.
Lois Love
“It starts with one neighbor. If one neighbor’s doing their share, then the person next to them will start to do theirs and it just grows and that makes it better for everybody."
“I would like to interview Michelle Obama. I would ask her how does she keep everything in place? How does she balance her life and her fame life?”
“I’m hoping this park does something for the good, and not draw the bull. We got some OGs around here, so we’re going to patrol around.”
Tom Fehring
“It was incredible. It was the most sophisticated engineering machine in the world at the time.”
“Water is central to all facets of life—all parts of life. Everything that we know that exists on the face of the Earth is because of water.”
“God has smiled on me. He has set me free. Oh, God has smiled on me.He has been good to me.”
“Everybody’s going to come together as one, I think.”
“Pick up the paper. Watch for vandalism. Keep it clean like your house. Take care of it like you own it. It’s your area. You live in it. You gotta take care of it.”