Collaborative project of the Norris Square neighbors, the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, and the City Department of Recreation to revitalize city neighborhood parks.

Collaborative project of the Norris Square neighbors, the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, and the City Department of Recreation to revitalize city neighborhood parks.

Collaborative project of the Norris Square neighbors, the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, and the City Department of Recreation to revitalize city neighborhood parks.

Collaborative project of the Norris Square neighbors, the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, and the City Department of Recreation to revitalize city neighborhood parks.

Collaborative project of the Norris Square neighbors, the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, and the City Department of Recreation to revitalize city neighborhood parks.

Collaborative project of the Norris Square neighbors, the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, and the City Department of Recreation to revitalize city neighborhood parks.

Image from a circa 1984 audio and slide presentation created to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society’s Philadelphia Green program. Image of participants in the PHS Philadelphia Green City Gardens Contest. The garden was located at 20th and Diamond Street and indicates it was part of the Water Conservation Project. The woman in green is PHS staff member Anne Vallery. On right, community gardener Willie Mae Bullock (pink top and blue dress) looks at camera. Standing next to her in blue, looking at camera is Natalie Kempner, Norris Square Neighborhood Project,

"The brilliant garden on West Susquehanna Avenue is unmistakably El Batey, historically known as the indigenous Taíno ceremonial plaza for spiritual rituals and games. The garden encourages people to gather and celebrate life. Neighbors chitchat on brightly painted benches, putter around the painted Taino petroglyph replicas, and admire the colorful Butterflies of the Caribbean mural by Salvador Gonzalez, a muralist and Yoruba religious painter from La Habana, Cuba." -- Norris Square Neighborhood Project website