LISTEN: From segregation to condemnation: the State Fair s history with Fair Park and South Dallas
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She and a couple of other residents eventually decided it was time to take back the neighborhood. They formed the Dolphin Heights Neighborhood Association with Hill as president.
She lived next to an empty lot and in 2006 a secret angel, as she calls it, bought the lot and donated it to the neighborhood association. She told the story of what happened next. I said OK, build a house. And the question came up, Do you want someone living that close to you? she said. And I thought about it and said, Then what are we going to do with it? So we all got together and came up with the idea of a community garden.
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‘I can’t fix the pandemic, but I can help raise the money to fix this community garden,’ says Dallas neighborhood leader Anna Hill.
Anna Hill, in the Dolphin Heights Neighborhood Association garden, which is located next to her home. Hill has led the group for years and has long fought to improve areas of Dallas east of Fair Park.(Lawrence Jenkins / Special Contributor)
The identity of whoever first said “because someone carries it well, doesn’t mean it’s not heavy” has apparently been lost to time.