{"id":2790,"date":"2010-04-21T17:50:32","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T17:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hub-dev.bates.edu\/magazine\/?page_id=2790"},"modified":"2017-09-06T11:41:11","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T15:41:11","slug":"knox-street-blues","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/back-issues\/y2004\/winter04\/quad-angles\/knox-street-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"Knox Street Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seeing Lewiston at street level<\/strong><\/p>\n

“There were cretainly times when it wasn’t comfortable,” said Noah Corwin ’04, discussing how he and Alec Maybarduk ’05 created a “neighborhood portrait” for the environmental studies seminar “Study of the city.”<\/p>\n

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Alec Maybarduk '05<\/p><\/div>\n

The class was asked to use research and interpret the character of a Lewiston neighborhood. Corwin and Maybarduk ended up with Lewiston’s hard-bitten Knox Street district, a land of ups and downs.<\/p>\n

Among the downs was the initial trepifation\u2013 sometimes justified\u2013the pair felt about interviewing residents of these impoverished streets.<\/p>\n

The ups? Sam, the 90-year-old neighborhood lifer who remembers cows grazing there. The factory that still makes thread for stitching shoes. Calvin Dude, shepherd to the down-and-out at the Trinity Jubilee Center.<\/p>\n

In the end, “people were overwhelmingly warm,” Maybarduk said. And taking the cool with the warm was the point. As their teacher, Brunswick town planner Theo Holtwijk, put it: “If we’re going to learn about city issues, we’re not going to do it sitting ina classroom. You’ve got to get out there.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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