This woman features in my GEORGIC cine poem. Her reverie on planting kept me going during the making of the film. I met her two years ago when I was shooting in the community garden at 4th Avenue and Baltic in Brooklyn. She talked about her garden as if it were her best friend. I tried to find her a few weeks later by asking people in the garden who she was and nobody could identify her. Recently, my husband Mark saw her picture on this billboard. I still do not know her name, but I do adore her hair, as it reminds me of the roots of a tree. I am sad to say that the garden itself is gone. They paved over paradise, just like the song. Lynne
I’m not aware of a garden at the corner of 4th Avenue and Douglass Street. Do you know any more about it?
There was one two blocks away, at Baltic Street. That was destroyed for school expansion.
Oh, Flatbush Gardener, thank you for this correction. I have now changed the street names in my post. I hope you too will post some images from your Georgic garden.