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CONTENTS FEBRUARY 2021 VOL.15 NO.2

UP FRONT 10 The heart of Dallas Jose Vargas makes El Corazón happen 14 Get brassy An Oak Cliff outfit to beat the band 16 Have a gargle Live like a Dubliner at Cannon’s Corner

FEATURES 18 BFFs Inspiring stories of long-lasting friendships 31 Rare photos Moore Park in the 1930s

A scene on Jefferson Boulevard, summer 2020, by Oak Cliff-based photographer Johnathan Johnson. See more on page 24. february 2021

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LOVE TRIANGLE THE MAN ACCUSED OF GUNNING down James

Faith near his South Waverly home in October knew James’ wife and was in a monthslong “emotional affair” with her, investigators say.

Darrin Lopez, 48, was arrested in Tennessee in the death of James, who was shot at 7:35 a.m. while he and his wife, Jennifer, were

When ‘Grandmama could whoop you’ The old YMCA gym on Edgefield Avenue, now part of Greiner Middle School, has a place in advertising history. Larry Johnson, the No. 1 NBA draft pick at the time, filmed the original “Grandmama” Converse commercial there 30 years ago, in 1991.

Johnson, a Skyline High School alumnus who led the University of Nevada, Las Vegas to an NCAA championship in 1990, lived in Downtown Dallas at the time.

The campaign was so successful that it continued for five years, and Johnson even appeared as the character in an episode of the sitcom “Family Matters” in 1993.

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walking their dogs on the morning following their 15th wedding anniversary. Jennifer told police that a man wearing a hoodie and a mask approached them, shot her husband and attempted to use duct tape to bind her wrists.

But she screamed and Jennifer has known her

Cute to boot

husband’s killer since

These Oak Cliff friendships stood the test of time. From left to right,

got away. Police say

high school and that they exchanged hundreds of text messages a day

happy-hour buds. The middle school besties who once spent all night

beginning in September

camped out in front of the Bronco Bowl as bored adolescent girls — their

2020. Lopez was expected to be extradited

daughters, both 17 and also best friends, could never! And these non-

to Dallas as of Advocate

identical cousins who were raised like sisters and now live across the

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the “Barbie buddies” who were once high school rivals and are now

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We can’t stop talking about…

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HE HISTORIC ATCHISON,

sometimes get swept up. If the trestle collapsed

Topeka & Santa Fe rail bridge, which was

in a flood, it would send literally tons of timber

demolished recently. It was built in 1934,

downstream, which could cause catastrophic

replacing earlier iterations. A railroad

property damage. The bridge went out of commission

bridge was first erected there in 1872, and it was an

in the 1980s, and a remnant that runs underneath

integral part of how Dallas became a metropolis. But

the Santa Fe Trestle Trail bike bridge will not be

it’s being torn down for environmental reasons. The

demolished for now.

bridge collects debris when the river floods, including

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portable toilets and construction equipment that

read more.

Real estate roundup Prominent Oak Cliff property holder Jim Lake, Jr. bought the tallest building in Oak Cliff. Lake, who also owns Jefferson Tower and a chunk of the Bishop Arts District, bought the Oak Cliff Bank Tower. The transaction also included other properties totaling about five acres on Twelfth, Zang and Beckley. The 15-story building opened in 1964 and was home for many years to Top O’ The Cliff Club. The tower currently is about 70% leased, and Lake plans to renovate it and “bring it into the 21st century.”

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RIC SHANAHAN Ric buys and sells DFW everyday, And even though his expertise spans all types of transactions across the metroplex, his heart is in Oak Cliff and surrounding neighborhoods.

That commitment is demonstrated through an acute knowledge of the housing market on the “Other side of the Trinity” and his active participation and sponsorship of community events that define the area, including a recent tenure as President of Heritage Oak Cliff. “I consider myself a neighbor first, a resource second, and your local REALTOR third. For me, it’s about familiarity and trust - both of which define a good REALTOR and Oak Cliff.”

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“I remember going to the Safeway and Eckerd’s on Cockrell Hill and Kiest.”

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“I saw that band at the Bronco Bowl.”

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Cliff streetcar on the eastern end of Jefferson Boulevard. That was prior to the construction of the Jefferson Viaduct in 1959.

The bottom photo, by Rosie Lindsey, was taken at a similar

“Crossing the river for alcohol.”

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angle in 2020.

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COMING AND GOING

I want the real human heart, not candy and flowers that get thrown away and forgotten. I want a big, bloody heart that’s in your face.

— JOSE VARGAS Read more about the artist, who organizes “El Corazón” art show, now in its 26th year, on page 10.

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J

ose Vargas walks into my office about once a year to hand deliver flyers for art shows he organizes for the City of Dallas, sometimes bearing small gifts and always looking like a wizard or a lama with his long hair, beard and calm demeanor.

He always has some astounding story about his life to share.

Vargas, 71, started putting on “El Corazón” art show annually in 1993, giving hundreds of local artists the chance to showcase their work over the past 25 years.

The city’s cultural centers have been closed since the start of the pandemic, and this year’s “El Corazón” show is planned as the first in-person event at the Bath House Cultural Center this year. The show will feature about 50 artists whose work has appeared in past shows, sort of like a greatest hits.

The artist also organizes the annual Virgin of Guadalupe exhibit at the Oak Cliff Cultural Center, among other group shows. His 2017 solo exhibit in Oak Cliff featured oil paintings he did in the 1960s, alongside recent ones.

He attended Adamson High School and still lives in Oak Cliff.

show. One of the artists I invited happened to be Terry Aguilar, who was the director of the Bath House Cultural Center at the time. She said, “Would you consider doing that show at the Bath House Cultural Center?” So I went to look at it, and of course, I liked it, so I said, “Let’s do it,” and it became the most popular show the Office of Cultural Affairs does. Well, actually, the most popular show now is “Día de los Muertos,” but it’s not a competition, even though it kind of is.

What “El Corazón” means to him It’s the heart, and it’s the human heart. All of the pieces have to have a heart in them, and I don’t want them to be sweet.

People associate it with Valentine’s Day because it happens to be in February, and that’s OK, but it’s not a Valentine’s Day show. I want the real human heart, not candy and flowers that get thrown away and forgotten. I want a big, bloody heart that’s in your face. The idea for the show came from lotería, the Mexican game that’s like bingo. Card No. 27, el corazón, is a big, bloody heart with an arrow in it, and it’s floating in the air. It’s very surreal. When I saw that, I said, “Now, this is art.” This is art I can relate to. Everybody’s had a wounded heart sooner or later. Give me a broken heart, a heart that’s been set on fire or stomped on, because that’s really emotional.

I don’t mind flowers and things that are considered pleasant as long as it’s not too sweet.

On 25 years of “El Corazón” I’m not sure we can call it “annual” anymore because I told them that I don’t Breaking hearts want to do it every year anymore. I want to do it every other year. I have a lot We have about 50 artists every year, which of interests that I want to pursue. I’ve means I have to reject hundreds of entries.

“Give me a broken heart, a been [saying] that I’m going to die soon, People get really upset with me, and they and I just don’t know when. I made a stop talking to me, and this can go on for heart that’s been set on fire list of things I want to accomplish, and eight, 10, 12 years. Enrique Cervantes has one of them is that I want to explore been in charge of the gallery at the Bath or stomped on, because that’s other themes.

House for 18 years or so. I consider him really emotional.”

the “nice guy.” When the work comes in, Hundreds of artists and you’re dealing with 50 or 60 artists, Usually we have about 50 people in the and people start asking a lot of questions, show every year, so I deal with hundreds you get a little frazzled. I have a strange of artists. I came across this individusense of humor. I say, “Enrique is the nice al, Kelly B. Morris, who had a piece in one.” I’m the other one.

“Corazón,” and I was really moved by it. So I met him. He Making connections lives in a small town about an hour and a half from here, and he’s a teacher. I looked at his work, and I was just I’ve always been lucky that I’ve met people. In 1975, I went to blown away. I said, “I’m going to do my best to get you college at El Centro and took photography classes. Right across an exhibition.” But this guy is really passionate about his the street from El Centro was this place called Tolbert’s Texas art, and he’s really working from his heart. I said, “What Chili Parlor. The owner was [journalist Frank X. Tolbert], if I started focusing on one or two individuals, and that and he started the first chili cookoff in Terlingua, Texas. I will be the ‘Corazón’ show?” I wanted to do something started hanging out there with my friend from photography different, and there it is. class, and [Tolbert’s son, Frank Tolbert II] said, “Hey man, we really need help with bussing tables. If you clean up these “El Corazón” started because of a cancellation tables, I’ll give you free beer and food” and however much I used to go see a lot of bands at Club Dada, and it was money. I can’t remember how much it was. So that ended up an art gallery back then. I became friends with the barbeing two years that I worked there. tender, who also ran the gallery. One day she called me, and she said, “Jose, I’m really in a bind. I had someone Live music When I was working at Tolbert’s, one of the managers was cancel, and I need something in two weeks. Can you help from Austin, and he said, “Why don’t I bring these musicians me?” I said, “Sure,” so I started measuring the walls to up from Austin, and we won’t have to pay them, we can just see how many pieces we needed. Lucky for me, I had just give them the door.” So he brought these guys up, and I ran organized the first Our Lady of Guadalupe show, in 1992, the door. We charged $2.50 per person, and the first show so I contacted a lot of the same artists that were in that

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If that’s the home you’re looking for, you need a real estate agent to match. was Jimmie Vaughan and the Fabulous Thunderbirds, before they were famous. We had Stevie Ray Vaughan.

The first time I saw him, I just stood there, like, “This kid is really good.”

Why he went to college I ran into a nephew of mine, because we have a big family and I have a lot of nieces and nephews around, and he told me he was in college. I said, “Really? You, in college?” He said, “Yeah, it’s full of good-looking women.

I’ve never met so many women in my life.” So, I said, “Hmm.” Why he dropped out of Adamson They were drafting people for the Vietnam War. My art teacher at Adamson was Hattie Wilbur, and she became a really big supporter. I’ve always been a little bit of a rule-breaker, and whenever she gave us an assignment, I would always do the opposite, and she always liked it. I was supposed to graduate in 1968, but I dropped out because of the draft. But I was drafted anyway in July of 1969, and I became a cook in the Army for two years.

Life as a muse Something bad happened to me, and I quit painting for 30 years. I used to paint with oils, and I had a wooden box with art supplies. I don’t want to go into it, but some of my best artwork was stolen from me. So I put everything in the closet and closed the door, and I knew it wasn’t going to be opened anymore. I felt traumatized.

It was sort of a fight-or-flight kind of mode of protecting yourself. And the way I decided to protect myself was to stop painting. I started getting heavily into photography, but in the back of my mind, I kept thinking about it, and that’s one reason I started organizing shows, because I want them to keep painting. Sometimes I ask people to be in a show, and they say they don’t know what to paint. I’ll go to their studio or home and start looking around, and I’ll say, “What about this painting over here. You could do this and this with it,” and I can see their wheels start turning.

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The Reveler’s Hall band marches in a second line in Winnetka Heights in September. Oak Cliff neighbors have kept the band in groceries, frequently hiring them to perform in socially distanced style.

PUTTING THE BRASS IN YOUR SASS The band that kept Oak Cliff dancing during lockdown BRIDGET AND RYAN WORLEY planned a formal wedding in New Orleans with 250 guests, but they got married in September with 38 people attending the ceremony in Austin. Following a bridal shower at their home, Ryan surprised Bridget with a New Orleansstyle second line around Winnetka Heights, musicians and all.

The pandemic meant they didn’t have exactly the wedding they wanted, but the Reveler’s Hall Band made it unforgettable. “ We b o t h l i v e d i n L o u i s i a n a previously, and we love spending time in New Orleans,” Bridget says. “So this

was the closest thing, and we had the best time.” Kevin Butler is a leader of the Reveler’s Hall house band, which formed around the same time the Bishop Arts bar opened, in March 2019.

Most of the members met performing in Butler’s other hustle, The Big Ass Brass Band.

That outfit played a four-month residency in Shanghai in 2017. That’s where they perfected their high-energy showmanship.

New Orleans jazz isn’t well known in China, Butler says.

“To break that barrier, we had to be larger than life,” he says. “And we started

leaning into that because it catches people’s attention more than just sitting there and performing.”

Their gig as a house band introduced them to audiences in Oak Cliff, and when the coronavirus lockdown arrived, neighbors kept the musicians busy with intimate weddings, birthdays and porch parties. They were hired to perform outdoors for Winnetka Heights neighbors several times last summer.

With colder weather, business has been slower for that, but they’re still performing their 2-5 p.m. shows every Saturday and Sunday in the Bishop Arts District.

Story by RACHEL STONE | Photography by LORI WILSON

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DINING FOOD IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD

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SLÁINTE! CANNON’S CORNER IS BANG ON SOMEDAY WE’LL TOUR THE HIGHL ANDS and sing Elton John at the tops of our lungs whilst swaying arm-and-arm with strangers in Dublin.

Any other time, “hike” the Trinity River and find your Emerald Isle vibes a wee saunter up the road at Cannon’s Corner Irish Pub. Owner Alan Kearney based the pub on one he owned in South Dublin. Even though it’s from the land of saints and scholars, Cannon’s is very Oak Cliff.

The name is a nod to the original business that occupied its century-old building on West Davis between Edgefield and Clinton, Cannon’s Five-Cent Store.

The menu also has its American side, with a menu of beer-braised wings in seven flavors. They cost $12 for 10, and for $3 more, they come wrapped in bacon.

Traditional Irish breakfast, corned beef, Scotch eggs, shepherd’s pie, pub curry and bangers & mash appear alongside a menu of specialty burgers, a Monte Cristo sandwich and a turkey reuben. There’s also a

vegan menu with three options: shepherd’s pie, tofu curry and a burger.

Cannon’s Corner also has 25 Irish beers on tap, as well as 200 Irish whiskey and scotch labels.

Kearney says tradition is important to him, whether that’s sharing Irish culture and food or keeping Oak Cliff history alive.

Did you know: The menu offers beer-braised wings in seven flavors.

“I appreciate the history has been well cared for, which is important to me coming from Ireland, keeping the same culture and tradition of the area,” he says.

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make new friends & keep the old THESE GOLDEN FRIENDSHIPS ARE SO OAK CLIFF

Oak Cliff is a great place to make a friend. Whether it’s sitting on front porches, running the levees, waiting in the school pick-up line or praying together on Sundays, opportunities are everywhere. These are just a few of the long-term intimate friendships that make Oak Cliff great.

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leopard vs. bison Suzanne Bass and Cheryl Collier met when they were 3 and 4 years old, respectively, in the auditorium of Hogg Elementary.

Their mothers were rehearsing for a PTA program, and their older brothers were students at Hogg.

“From that time on, until high school, Cheryl and I were besties,” Bass says.

They were “Barbie doll buddies” and still own most of the dolls and Barbie accoutrement they played with as kids.

The two friends drifted apart in high school because Collier went to Sunset, and Bass went to Adamson. One was a Bisonette, and one was a Leopardette, roses of different names.

They kept in touch but went away to different colleges and married. Commiserating on divorces brought them back together and gave seed to their adult friendship. They drifted apart again but reunited when their mothers died around the same time.

Now they’re both empty nesters living in Dallas, and pre-pandemic times found them shopping and having dinner in the Bishop Arts District about once a week. Bass has lived in the Knox/Henderson area for many years, and Collier lives in Lake Highlands, but she inherited her childhood home, on Colorado Boulevard near Methodist Dallas Medical Center, and is restoring it.

Bass is a retired lawyer and municipal judge.

She has another longtime friend from her Leopardette days, Cindy Hiegel Sloan. Their children were born six months apart and grew up like brother and sister.

“There’s something about growing up in Oak Cliff. We know a lot of the same people and have had similar life experiences,” Bass says. “It’s a friendship like no other.”

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sister, cousin besties Stephanie Hindall and Jennifer Svelan are the social directors of Catherine Street.

Most neighbors on their block come to “Catherine Street happy hour” around their fire pit.

These two across-the-street neighbors are cousins, but they act like twins.

They accidentally dress alike all the time.

“Like if I’m wearing a green shirt, she will come out wearing a green shirt,” Hindall says.

And they constantly “jinx” each other, saying the same thing at the same time, laughing and pointing at each other when they do.

Hindall and Svelan are the daughters of two sisters who emigrated from Colombia in the early 1970s. The cousins were born a few months apart in the same Dallas hospital, delivered by the same doctor.

“Our mothers were immigrants, so we didn’t have extended family to rely on,” Hindall says. “We grew up like sisters.”

She moved to Oak Cliff in 2006, and her dad has lived here since the ’80s. When the house across the street went on the market, she convinced Svelan to buy it.

“I wouldn’t trade it for the world,” Svelan says of living in Ravinia Heights.

They always take vacations together and had to cancel plans to visit Morocco last year. Their most recent trip was to Scotland and Ireland in 2019.

In Galway, they were surprised that pubs close at 11 p.m., but they fell in with a group of men who told them, “Follow us.”

“They kept calling themselves publicans,” Svelan says.

President Trump had been in the area around that time, and she told Hindall, “Do NOT mention politics!”

That was before they learned that “publicans” are pub owners, and they found themselves in an afterhours speakeasy with professional Irish drinkers, singing and swaying ’til the wee hours.

“We make friends everywhere we go,” Hindall says.

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Jennifer Svelan and Stephanie Hindall are those cousins you want to sit next to at a wedding reception. During a 2019 trip to Ireland, they fell in with a gentlemanly group of “publicans� who kept their glasses filled into the wee hours.

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bronco bowl gals Julie Salinas was a year older and the new kid in school, but she was so pretty and outgoing, immediately popular at Stevens Park Elementary.

Ana DeLeon noticed Salinas, who also lived in the apartments “behind Bronco Bowl,” on Bahama Drive. She says she was awkward and less popular herself and was surprised when the cool girl paid attention to her.

“She just started coming around and talking to me, so of course I wanted to be her friend,” DeLeon says.

They were like sisters, always together, spending the night, sharing makeup and doing all the silly things that adolescent girls do. One summer they spent the whole night camped out in front of the Bronco Bowl.

“If my kids did that now, I would kill them,” Salinas says.

They both swear that they saw a bicycle gliding by with no rider that night. Surely, sleep depravation had something to do with it.

At Stevens Park Elementary, they used to get in trouble for their hair-sprayed bangs being too high.

“One time I didn’t want to be in trouble by myself, so I said, ‘Ana has them too!’” Salinas recalls.

Now 37 and 38, they hardly ever disagree, but sometimes as kids, they had physical fights.

Once, Salinas’ older sister kicked them out of her apartment for fighting and told them to go home. So they walked home on opposite sides of the street, even though they knew they would have to pass each other to reach their doors.

“I just said, ‘See you tomorrow,’” Salinas says. “And that was it.”

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Julie Salinas and Ana DeLeon used to get sent to the office at Stevens Park due to their hair-sprayed bangs.

DeLeon moved to Georgetown, Texas, a few years after high school, and one day she called her friend after they’d stayed out of touch for awhile.

“I said, ‘guess what, I’m pregnant,’” DeLeon says. “She was like, ‘me too.’”

Those daughters, now 17, were born a month apart and have been best friends their whole lives.

DeLeon says her mother had health problems when she was growing up and

was in a wheelchair. They didn’t have much money.

“She always helped me through those hard times,” DeLeon says of Salinas.

Salinas was there for her friend when her mother died, just as DeLeon was there for her recently when her 27-yearold nephew died.

“I don’t know what I would do without her,” Salinas says.

Adamson High School, 1980. Front: Jennifer Barclay, Lupe Brown, Nancy Hobson, Dennis Banners and Alex Garcia. Rear: Sammy Piccola, Sheri Adams, Bruce Brown, Mike Giles and Danny Salazar.

a group of eight Remaining friends over decades with one person is a feat, but imagine eight best friends.

These women all grew up in Oak Cliff, and some of their friendships formed in elementary school, when they were in Girl Scouts. They all went to Greiner Middle School, and all but one to Adamson High School. Several were on the Adamson drill team, and over the years, their former instructor, 1972 Adamson alumna Linda Pauze, joined the group.

Three of them played French horn in the band.

“I was so excited to tell my mom I was third chair,” says Alex Garcia. “She said, ‘Well, how many chairs are there?’”

There were three.

Now 59 and 60 years old, every one of them lives in Oak Cliff. Most of them never really left.

Nancy Hobson lived away, in North Carolina and New York City, for 30 years but remained close with the group. When her husband died in 2012, she returned.

“I just wanted to come back here and be with my people,” she says.

They take vacations together almost every year. Once, they took a road trip from New York City to Spring Island, South Carolina, where Hobson’s in-laws had a vacation home.

They also take international trips together and had to cancel a planned vacation to Spain last year.

In high school, they hung out at the rambling early 1900s home of sisters Karla Rojas and Sheri Adams on Lake Cliff Park.

“We had a lot of parties,” Rojas says.

They used to go to Oak Cliff Donuts at 2 a.m. and just cruise around. Once, the drill team marched in a Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans. When the parade ended, they were “totally unsupervised,” Garcia says. Just teenage girls wandering around Mardi Gras in their dance uniforms. Hey, it was the ’70s.

But they were good girls. They didn’t really drink or do drugs. And all of them have strong religious ties, even Meeka Bain, who says, “normally on Sundays I go to our lady of Norma’s.”

Otherwise, there are two Catholics and five Protestants.

“We extend a lot of grace to each other,” says Adams.

In normal times, they have dinner every Thursday, and they love to play card games and dominoes.

Through the decades, parents have died, several in the group battled cancer, and three of them were widowed.

After 45 and 50 years of friendship, there have been no big fights, and they always keep each other laughing. They’re closer than family in many ways, they say.

“You can just be,” Adams says. “It’s so comforting to have this supportive group of friends.” february 2021

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ARTIST IN RESIDENCE JOHNATHAN JOHNSON

GOLDEN HOUR Jefferson Boulevard inspires clicks MEET JOHNATHAN JOHNSON, the 23-year-old Tarrant County College student who moved to Oak Cliff from Old East Dallas in July. He’s originally from Cleburne, population 30,000, about 90 miles south of here. “I grew up in the country, and I’ve always been attracted to street photography, but there’s not a lot of that you can do in the country,” he says. “Moving to Oak Cliff, it was like this explosion of just wanting to see everything and do everything.” Johnson works for The Collegian newspaper at TCC, where he’s also learning to use film and work in the darkroom. “I have such great professors there who encourage me to keep working,” he says.

Interview by RACHEL STONE | Photography courtesy of JOHNATHAN JOHNSON

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Car clubs brought their best out to Jefferson Boulevard every Sunday during the spring and summer of 2020.

Johnson says he found out one weekend when he got caught in unexpected heavy traffic and spent the rest of the evening taking pictures of the impromptu event. february 2021

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By ERIC FOLKERTH

Gut check Finding intestinal compassion

Some years ago, when I opened my Valentine’s Day card from my wife, inside she had written: “I love you with all my intestines.” Taking that too literally might make you wretch a bit or worry about us as a couple. But it made me smile.

She was referencing what I call my favorite word in all the Bible: “Splagchnizomai” (Pronounced: “SplaghNeats-Oh-My-ee”) “Splagchnizomai” denotes a kind of deep-level love and compassion that far outstrips romantic love. It means something like: “To be moved, as in the bowels, hence to be moved with compassion” It denotes a deep seated “feeling” and “emotion,” a visceral reaction of love and empathy.

“Civilization, as far back as you can look, locate emotion and love in what we’d call the core, or the gut.”

We often say we “have a gut feeling” about something. Turns out, many ancient cultures agreed. The Greeks believe our emotions literally lived in our gut, and were not just created in them. Ancient Vedic and Chinese culture (and many others) also locate love and other emotions not in the heart, but in the gut. Civilization, as far back as you can look, locate “emotion” and “love” in what we’d call “the core,” or the “gut.”

When our emotions get the best of us, when stress, worry, and anxiety are all we feel, it’s stomach-churning. When we are filled with love, if our gut feels love and compassion, often the entire rest of our body and spirit feels centered and safe too.

This word shows up in key Bible verses.

In “the feeding of the five thousand,” Jesus “has compassion” for a crowd that followed him even when he tried to get away.

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In the story of “The Good Samaritan,” it’s that foreigner who sees a hurt Jewish man and “felt compassion, and came to him and bandaged up his wounds…” And, in the story of the Prodigal Son, it is the Father who, seeing his wayward son, “was filled with compassion; he ran and put his arms around him and kissed him.”

It’s widely believed that the Father in this last story is something of a standin for God. Taken with all the examples listed here, you get a powerful overall message about God. God has this deeplevel compassion and love for the world.

We celebrate Valentine’s Day this month, and we throw down the phrase “I love you with all my heart,” with wild abandon.

But far too often, the heart-love of the world feels like it’s a mile wide and an inch deep. It’s schmaltzy, romantic love, forgotten the moment the rose wilts and the chocolate wrappers are in the trash.

But there’s a deeper love. A love you feel in your gut. A love that moves you to your gut. Maybe it starts with how you feel about your children and your individual family. Maybe this is the place we first notice it. We think of them and our gut literally moves. The butterflies flutter.

God invites us to broaden that out, and feel that compassion for all of God’s children. We’re called to love Democrats, Republicans and Independents.

Gays and lesbians, and those who hate them. Immigrants, and those who would deport them. Our own families, and the families of folks we resent-the-hell out of.

That’s the love and compassion God calls us to.

So, while I’ve never yet seen the Valentine’s Day card with this greeting, I’d pay good money for one. Because the card God wishes we’d send each other every day is: “I love you with all my intestines.”

In this deeply divided time in our world, that’s the love that can save us all.

ERIC FOLKERTH is senior pastor of Kessler Park United Methodist Church.

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By CYNTHIA MULCAHY

Baseball and brass bands Dallas’ biggest park for Blacks during segregation

Above, a brass band plays during a ballgame at Moore Park. Below, a men’s league game at Moore Park. Photos courtesy of the City of Dallas Municipal Archives.

M

ajor League Baseball recently recognized Negro Leagues players as deserving “Major League” status, giving overdue recognition to 3,400 pro athletes who played from 1920-1948.

Back in 2014, while researching Moore Park near the Santa Fe Trestle Trail as part of a public art project to erect historical signage in city parks created during the years of racial segregation, I found two remarkable photos while going through unmarked and uncategorized archive boxes at City Hall.

One is a beautiful image of a 1940s baseball game in action with folks watching from the bleachers while a full brass band sits in the shade of a park’s enormous pecan trees.

Research that my artist collaborator, Lauren Woods, and I uncovered established that Moore Park, founded in 1938 as Eighth Street Negro Park, was created by sustained advocacy from Black communities who were being excluded from other public city parks.

At its founding, Eighth Street Negro Park became the largest park designated specifically for use by Blacks in Dallas. The early years saw the public green space teeming with ballgames

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that drew spectators from all over, the most popular being games played by the Dallas Negro Amateur Baseball League.

But not just baseball games activated this historic public green space. Moore Park was also home to the first golf course created for Black golfers in Dallas as a modest six-hole course in the 1940s.

We also uncovered the remarkable history of Will Moore, an important early Dallas civil rights activist who was involved with voter registration efforts and the decades-long poll tax campaign fights. The park was renamed in his honor at the request of the community in 1940.

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