Volume 52 • Number 10
As we celebrate the passing of the old and the birth of new, take time to reflect on our good fortune in Bolton Hill. We live in a real community that provides a web of friendship and support to its residents. This is far too rare.
It was a diminutive plaque, scarcely noticeable above the grass in a corner of the upper Park Avenue median. The buried block of concrete to which it was affixed had been dinged and gouged by the wear of roughly 90 years, but the tarnished plaque itself was very much intact.
Recently, someone posted on the BHCA Facebook page: When we were walking this morning, we noticed the absence of bells from Corpus Christi. Even though the last mass was celebrated there a week ago, the bells continued through Saturday. Today is the first day of its official closure, and . . . the neighborhood seemed emptier without the bells.
Eric Costello is out of office now – looking back mostly fondly on a decade as the city council member representing Bolton Hill. He’s looking to start a new phase of professional development that doesn’t involve city government.
Rats are the unfortunate reality of most every urban environment. But BHCA has received an alarming number of complaints about rats from all corners of the neighborhood. So many complaints, in fact, that we have formed a rat committee to work on the issue.
Bolton Hill resident and amateur historian Kevin Cross started pulling at a string of newspaper searches, old books and other historical archives earlier this year, poking around for neighborhood history. As with sweaters, the unraveling string became longer. The result in 2025 will be a new, open section of the BHCA website devoted to stories conveying the history of Bolton Hill, its early residents and builders, parks and architecture and more.
John von Briesen has railroading in his blood. His father was a B&O Railroad worker. His mother worked in B&O personnel. John’s first job out of high school was with the B&O. The same was true of his brother.
Every year around Thanksgiving, Doug Kelso creates a bustling multilevel cityscape in miniature – a matter of six feet within the two front windows of his house on the 1400 block of John Street.
💡 Hey, neighbor: have you got a light?💡
✂️ Artscape is scheduled, earlier and shortened ✂️
⚖️ State Center settlement is a small step toward redevelopment of the site ⚖️
♿ City agrees to spend more to make some sidewalks suitable for wheelchairs ♿
