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A Brooklyn Project

A Brooklyn Project


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An urban book of poetry from the authors perspective of living in Farragut Projects located in Brooklyn, NYC. Hear about the author's friends, family and community through poetry, photographs and literary dialogue. Wonderful book, inspiring, educational and often funny. The book A Brooklyn Project is a representation of author's experience there from 1962 to 1985. The poetic vision of the events and people through the eyes of a child, teenager and adult. This book of urban poetry is culturally moving. She captures the essence of the neighborhood, it's shops, churches, schools and the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The Farragut houses are a cultural icon and is the focal point of the work. It's multi- cultural influence is a marvel from their block parties, community center marching bands, leisure time and Old Timers Day. Today you can Google Farragut Houses on Facebook with over 900 members strong. Blogs with an array of comments by community members posted daily in remembrance and recognition of the neighborhood. Every year they still get together for Old Timers Day to celebrate with the new community tenants and reunite with the old, usually at Commodore Barry Park (City Park) or a Block Party on Sands Street from the Brooklyn Navy Yard on Navy Street to Gold Street. The area of Farragut was the foundation of Shiva School (Yeshiva is Jewish), Watch Tower (Jehovah's Witnesses), Public Schools, St. Ann's Catholic Church, Drakes Cakes, Barney's Italian Grocer and Dr. White Community Center. Farragut Houses next door neighbors are Brooklyn Heights Historical District, and Fort Greene. It was the home of Italian, Jewish, African American, Puerto Rican and West Indians. It's building's location stand near the Brooklyn & Manhattan Bridges, Brooklyn, Queens Expressway (BQE). The High Street and York Street subway stations, formerly titled the BMT Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit (Subway fast food restaurant names their BMT sub sandwich - Ham, cheese usually provolone, spicy and regular hard salami and any fixings) subway line presently called the IND. IND means Independent.
About the Author: Born in Brooklyn, New York in the early 60's. She attended - Dr. Daniel Hale Williams Elementary School in the Farragut community. She lived at 191 Sands Street on the 14th floor with her older brother and parents. Her mother was Ruby M. Tully of West Indian descent (Barbados) and father; Robert Penamon a southern man from Oxford, Mississippi. The High School of Art & Design, West Beth, and The School of Visual Arts are where her creative inspiration and talents were nurtured. She moved to Memphis, Tennessee in 1999. Mother died 1989, father is 85 years of age. Brother; Robert Marc Penamon resides in N.Y.C.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781494950620
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 74
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: Urban Book of Poems inspired by Farragut Projects
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1494950626
  • Publisher Date: 12 Mar 2014
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Weight: 159 gr


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