The neighborhood where I grew up 50 years ago was a modest, middle-class neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago called Beverly Hills. … Read Buck Buchanan’s Story of a neighborhood forever changed

… I was looking at some of my files from 30 years ago and I noted that I was writing about six or seven letters a day to public officials. … Read Don Willeke’s reminiscence about getting government to act in Minneapolis

… I went to Chicago and Detroit to see what other cities were doing and it was quite a shock. … We looked into Chicago and there were zero trees. … Detroit had just thrown in the towel … Read Rolf Svendsen’s recollections of confronting the effects of Dutch elm disease