Tag Archives: Woodruff Park

On The Street One More Time Again

    Hospitality, Vol. 24, No. 5   Let us go then you and I, ……… Through half-deserted streets, The muttering retreats Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels And sawdust restaurants with oyster shells: Streets that follow like a tedious argument Of insidious intent To lead you to an overwhelming question… Oh, do not [...]

The Struggle for Woodruff Park

  Hospitality,  vol. 22, no. 9 (Editor’s note: A version of the following article ran as an Op-Ed piece in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, August 7, 2003.  We hope you will join us in Woodruff Park for the Festival of Shelters, September 24-26.  Look on pages 4-5 for more articles and photos about the Open Door’s [...]

I See Mordecai Weeping in Woodruff Park. How Can We Make Him Laugh?

Hospitality vol. 16, no. 6     A good Friday it was when Gladys fell in the Conasauga River.  She was crossing at a point where the cold water rushes and sings among the boulders, and it is deep.  I had gone before her and the rhododendron limb held me fine.  Was it because she [...]

Atlanta Police Sweep Woodruff Park Without a Dustpan

  Hospitality Vol.15, no.11   We were just sitting there listening to Ron Jackson tell his story of struggle and triumph as a Black  man in America when eleven of  us were arrested.  Although no one in our group knew what time it was, the arresting officer told us, later, that it was 11:52 p.m. [...]

The Festival of Shelters

Hospitality, vol.12. no.9   Holy Week comes and we shuffle out to the streets to live a day at a time, in solidarity with our friends who are homeless. We walk with them, eat in soup kitchens, sit in labor pools, and sleep in catholes and shelters. In so doing, we often meet Jesus Christ [...]