"a harbinger of a fully-developed neighborhood"
For the first time in many many years, an outdoor neighborhood bread oven was used to prepare nourishing food in the Smoky Hollow Neighborhood of Youngstown.
It happened yesterday at the weekly lunch of the Rotary Club of Youngstown.
The leadership of Wick Neighbors Inc, a CDC advancing the development of the Wick Ave area and the adjacent neighborhood, joined the Rotarians at the MVR to literally "break bread" together - in the form of artisanal hand-crafted pizzas.
The outdoor community bread oven was installed in the Hollow earlier this year at the park now known as the Harrison Commons.
Besides the oven and an herb garden planted around its periphery, Harrison Commons is also home to cut stone benches, a decorative pergola which doubles as a stage, and the replication in granite of a very old Sandborn map highlighting the previous locations of multiple bread ovens throughout the Hollow.
(please see this post from SY in July 2011 for a full overview)
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Another first-time events aligns with the first-time feast from the oven...
As seen below, it's the first ever topical neighborhood video produced by the New Media Team employed at Shout Youngstown.
Check it out:
You can learn more information about Wick Neighbors and their ongoing efforts here.
Next up?
Fixing up and construction along the Hollow's Walnut Street corridor.
more details coming soon . . .
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