Building Community

The project I have been working on for three years, finally came to life this week.  Designed by children, and built by the community, our playground, Puma Park, was built over the course of 5 days by about 500 volunteers.

Replica of our town's lighthouse, Highland Light

I am now a better person for having this experience.  We not only built a playground, we built community.  For more information about community built playgrounds, visit our partner in planning, Leathers Associates.  For more information about Puma Park, please visit our website here.  And please check out our slideshow of the opening day celebration.  Have some tissues ready!

Playground

I strongly feel that one should embrace the community that they live in and support any and all projects that they can.  My pet project in addition to my design company and the restaurant is a community playground in my town of Truro, Massachusetts.  About two years ago a town selectman, Curtis Hartman, and I got to talking about what our town needs and I felt that it really needed a playground.  So, fast-forward a couple of years and here we are elbows deep in planning an amazing playground for our town.  Yesterday was "design day" when a designer from Leathers & Associates, came to our little town to gather all the ideas about ideal playgrounds from the children of the community.  He then took their ideas and drafted a design on the spot with our location and budget in mind.  We concluded the day with a party to celebrate the design and we look forward to the community building of the playground in October.  We have an amazing group of people backing this project and I feel honored to be a part of it.