- Creating Cal Anderson Park by Kay Rood (historylink.org)
Cal Anderson Park, a beautifully renovated and expanded park on Seattle’s Capitol Hill, re-opened on September 24, 2005. Originally one of Seattle’s Olmsted-designed parks (named “Lincoln Park,”), it had by 1993 deteriorated into weeds, trash, and a graffiti-covered rest room, and was avoided by community members as a druggy and dangerous place. Kay Rood and the community organization Groundswell Off Broadway was a prime mover in the process of organizing to rebuild the park into a beautiful community asset with an undergrounded reservoir, a playground, community buildings, a water feature, paths, gardens, and benches. This is Kay Rood’s story of the long process of rebuilding the park, which is named for Cal Anderson, Washington’s first openly gay legislator.
You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter.
James 5:5 NIV
- Cal Anderson Park (Wikipedia)
Cal Anderson Park is a public park on Seattle’s Capitol Hill that includes Lincoln Reservoir and the Bobby Morris Playfield.
