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MEMOIRS OF PLACE

Reflections of a gay baby-boomer / landscape architect living in San Francisco

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EUGENE

April 6, 2015 by stevenhanson7562@gmail.com Leave a Comment

    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.” ― Oscar Wilde Of course I’ve never been as posh or clever as all that, though like Oscar I sometimes find my own train of thoughts confusing, and have always felt a bit on the outside of things, observing. Unlike Mr. Wilde I was fortunate enough to be born into a time and place where my … [Read more...] about EUGENE

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: 1980s, AIDS, Eugene, landscape architecture, oregon

NOPA

August 28, 2014 by stevenhanson7562@gmail.com Leave a Comment

NOPA (North of the Panhadle) No one called it that in the early 90s, or if they did I never heard it while living those two or three years at Hayes and Broderick. Strangely the Napa earthquake this week brought me back to that big Victorian Hayes Street flat, which must have been built atop an old stream bed or sand dune the way that it shook and groaned with the terrifying sound of twisting wood … [Read more...] about NOPA

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: 1990s, AIDS, NOPA, San Francisco Neighborhoods, Victorian

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