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The last days of Kossuth Street Garden
Established by Michael Doody in 2007, the South Side community garden is being shuttered to make way for a new housing development following a prolonged fight
Columbus Alive
About five months ago, when he realized that Kossuth Street Garden would not be saved, Michael Doody, a former journalist and now private investigator, distracted himself by starting on a children’s book with the working title
The Life and Death of a Community Garden, a process that Doody termed therapeutic.
Though geared to children, the ending, as described by Doody, is one filled with horror, the garden gasping what it knows are its dying breaths. “Is this how humans treat each other?” she asks, finally giving in and releasing her spirit as the book draws to a close.
On a typical April weekend in the past, Candace “Chainsaw” Moser would be whirling around a roller derby track, smashing into competitors.
But with the Ohio Roller Derby league now in its second season of hiatus because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Moser instead on Saturday was walking along S. 17th Street on the South Side, picking up cigarette butts and candy wrappers.
Along with her husband, Drew Stafford, and daughter Ember Stafford, 12, Moser was among about a half-dozen of her roller derby teammates who joined Saturday’s cleanup, organized by the nonprofit volunteer group Green Columbus as part of its Earth Day Columbus effort.