14 students and 4 advisors embarked on a week long Blitz with Project M in Greensboro, Alabama. They set out to make positive change inspired by place and discovered a town full of beauty, charm, mystery, and intrigue.
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The welcoming and warm-hearted towns people All the personalities! The fences made of old traffic signs Fried okra at Mustang’s All the amazing + friendly people HERO + Project M trying to help Greensboro revitalize I like the basketball team They have been very exciting to watch play Extremely well-priced thrift stores wonderful people The secret is the wonderful business Rick’s Diner’s amazing pancakes! The beautiful view from the top of the
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Birding Tower at Perry Lakes Nutella cream pie—can’t get better than that—at Pie lab I love Greensboro: very quiet, peaceful and slower than where I am from It is small and peaceful The thrift store was a movie theater where my daddy would give 2 eggs to see a movie in the 1950s The wild elephant garlic field In the 1950’s my dad and his friends would get on top of the buildings across from the sheriffs department. and shoot M-80s into the street with a
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sling shoot Pie lab: Mobilians make pit stops to Pie Lab on their way home from Tuscaloosa for delicious pie The rain was falling on the street when two purple balloons floated by and a bike passed me going backwards. A coin fell on the street; when I picked it up it was an Italian lira from the 1830’s. I knew Brian had been there. It was time for soda The Pie Lab (mmm) Caramel Pie The best little hair house (cute) Treasure…Lost & buried historical items
everywhere. You just have to look….and you will find many interesting items long lost Proximity to beautiful wilderness, undeveloped lands…only two minutes from hustle+bostle of downtown I’m always inspired by a clear Greensboro midnight skyline Fashion vaa. Not only do they clean clothes. They do fittings for tux and suits Its Citizens Potential Everybody here is already your friend, you just don’t know it yet.
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Thanks to the awesome people of Greensboro, AL, Pam Dorr (HERO), John Bielenberg (Project M), Ben Barry (Facebook), Rob Forbes (Public Bikes), and advisors Mira Azarm, Aleks Safarova, and Becky Slogeris.