Saturday, September 21, 2019
Walking Tour: 3:30-5:00pm
Performance of Swede Hallow Ghost Sonata: 6:00pm                       

For 150 years, immigrants have come to the East Side to build new lives and new communities. Join us for an unusual opportunity to engage this history and consider its impact on our present.

The East Side Freedom Library’s Peter Rachleff will lead a walking tour of “Immigration: Then and Now,” which provides a window into the experiences of immigrants from the Swedes, Germans, Irish, and Italians of the mid-19th century, to the Hmong, Mexican, Salvadoran, Somali, and Karen of the 21st century. We will meet at the East Side Freedom Library at 3:30pm, carpool to the Hope Community Academy parking lot at Payne and Minnehaha, and walk back to the Library. This gently uphill walk covers about a mile and a half and takes about 90 minutes. We will then return drivers to their cars.

Participants will have an opportunity to eat a quick dinner before returning to Swede Hollow Park itself for a performance of the “Swede Hollow Ghost Sonata,” which uses drama and movement to represent the experiences of the mid-19th century immigrants who turned this ravine into a community. The performance will begin at 6pm. You are, of course, welcome to attend the dramatic performance without participating in the walking tour.

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Free and open to all (the walking tour and the performance)