Comments on: Eddie North-Hager (Los Angeles, CA) http://yeswecarve.com/eddie-north-hager-los-angeles-ca/ Change Your Pumpkin, Change Your World Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:44:44 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Eddie http://yeswecarve.com/eddie-north-hager-los-angeles-ca/comment-page-1/#comment-945 Eddie Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:22:24 +0000 http://yeswecarve.com/?p=3160#comment-945 The pumpkin is sitting on Martin Luther King Boulevard as it enters the African American arts and culture district, the Leimert Park neighborhood just southwest of downtown L.A. I thought the context is kind of interesting: 25 years ago, in 1983, Santa Barbara Boulevard in South Los Angeles was renamed Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, three years before President Ronald Reagan signed a law declaring Dr. King's birthday a national holiday. That event was celebrated as the first ever Kingdom Day Parade, now an annual tradition. I took the pumpkin there last night around midnight, it's a block from my house, put it on a saw horse, the cops stopped to check it out and I was back home by 1 a.m. The pumpkin is sitting on Martin Luther King Boulevard as it enters the African American arts and culture district, the Leimert Park neighborhood just southwest of downtown L.A.

I thought the context is kind of interesting: 25 years ago, in 1983, Santa Barbara Boulevard in South Los Angeles was renamed Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, three years before President Ronald Reagan signed a law declaring Dr. King’s birthday a national holiday. That event was celebrated as the first ever Kingdom Day Parade, now an annual tradition.

I took the pumpkin there last night around midnight, it’s a block from my house, put it on a saw horse, the cops stopped to check it out and I was back home by 1 a.m.

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