A series of entries designed to capture the ongoing adventures of NINA! See how we came to be where we are today, and follow along as we enter the new century of social media!
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We celebrated 10 years of work in Asylum Hill tonight with a small party at the Town & County Club. Here’s Lynda Godkin speaking to attendees about NINA – it’s not a great photo, the lighting was terrible, and we were having too much fun to worry too much about photos. We self-published a book to commemorate the moment, and we’ll see what we can do about making a digital version of it available.
For the record, our actual 10th anniversary isn’t until December, but Lynda, along with Susan Winkler, was hard at work founding NINA from their offices at The Hartford in October 2013.
A look at two of the gardens from the Vest Pocket Program are doing. The gardens are at 47 Ashley and 59 Ashley, which bookend are current projects at 51 & 55 Ashley. Plus one heck of a tree.
Just love the way brick looks in good, strong sunlight! Repairs are underway to the mortar, and we’re also starting to remove the door on the side that should be – and will be again! – a window. As with the shingles next door at 55 Ashley, we’re saving as much of the original wood on the porch here as we can, but for now we have to restore the porch to structural soundness.
We’ve managed to save a lot of the original clapboard and shakes, but we did have to replace some of both. Also, if we haven’t pointed it out before, notice the decorative wood work in the back porch eave. It’s a pretty good match for the decorative rail on the front porch.
Aetna has done a tremendous job beautifying the streets around its campus, especially at its various surface parking lots.
Sorry these shots are blurry, but they were taken on the fly – and on the sly! This is a bit of how we make the sausage at NINA: that’s Ken on a table, getting a bird’s eye view of the window crown we recently uncovered at 1 Imlay. And that’s Mike, catching me out of the corner of his eye, as he knows all of what I’m about.
We never seem to show any photos of the basements at NINA houses, and it’s high time that we did. These photos were taken by my daughter, Rebecca, who was handed the camera during our open house today.
The City put down a temporary speed hump (not a bump, it’s a hump) on Sargeant Street in an effort to calm traffic here. If all goes well, it will be replaced by the real deal in the next year or so.
It’s always a thrill to see a community improvement that actually improves the community.
Thanks to a recent hurricane that flooded the pizzeria out (that’s a story for another time …), we have been able to move forward with plans to renovate their space a lot sooner than we thought we would, so, before we get started, we thought you might enjoy a walk around the place. You can see some of the water damage from the storm in some of the photos of the ceiling, and in one photo you can see the drops of water still coming into the space, caught in the camera’s flash. Almost everything that wasn’t nailed down has been moved into the empty retail space next door.
