In September 2024, Friends of the Edgewater Library presented the first “Edgewater Stories” program. Our goal for this community engagement initiative was to reach into our diverse neighborhood, where more than 60 languages are spoken, and share stories about how and why individuals came to live, work, or visit Edgewater. We know that everyone has a story to tell!
We're pleased to present 17 stories that made us laugh, cry, ooh, and ah! We hope you’ll find them as entertaining, thought-provoking, and emotional as we did. More importantly, they helped us create new bonds of friendship with our Edgewater neighbors.
When I was a little girl living in the Philippines, I loved to draw, color and sketch. I vividly remember sketching coconut trees with nipa huts by the seaside, and columns and altar of the church. I liked drawing the profile of a woman. I did all these but never seriously had a desire to be an artist nor an architect.
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