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Today is September 14th. We're at Celebrate Petworth. My name is Diaki Tsumagari. I'm with the Humanities Truck and

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American University. Do I have your permission to record this interview? Yes. Yes.

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Can you please tell me your names? And what brings you out here today? My name is Ivy. And what brung us out here today.

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Is that we just live around the corner, and we thought we'd check out, what's going on and stuff. So yeah. Yeah.

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Basically. I'm Nikki Shea, and we came out with our family to come check it out. I hear that Ivy is a third

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generation Petworth resident. Yeah. My grandmother grew up down the street at the same age, so we thought that was really cool that they, you know, traipsed around

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the same stomping grounds. Right. Tell me about these stomping grounds. Do you have a favorite playground? Favorite restaurant to eat at?

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My favorite restaurant is probably like Chick-Fil-A, probably. But we like the fried chicken at-- What's the place up the street? The what? The hitching post. We love the chicken at the hitching post.

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And Ivy gets to go to school at Lincoln's Cottage in the US soldiers Home. So we really love that. And would you say that the neighborhood has changed in your

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mother's time compared to how Ivy's grown up? What are some differences. What are some changes over time? Since my grandmother's been here, everything's gotten much more

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expensive. But then we have a lot of great businesses in the neighborhood. And, people seem to really take

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care of their gardens and their lawns. So I walk around all day and look at flowers. Since we've been here, would you say things have changed much since we've been here in the last five years?

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The prices of stuff a little bit. Yeah. Things have gone up a little in price, right? Yeah.

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Do you think that there's been anything that's been gained as a result of some changes for the last five years? Yeah like the great businesses I feel like have brought, you know, a lot of attraction to the

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neighborhood and nice neighbors. What do you think? Yeah. Yeah I agree.

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You agree? I agree. What are your favorite places to go? Where are your favorite places to go around the neighborhood? Hmm.

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Well. I like to go to my school sometimes, and, like sometimes I play in, like, the triangle parks near my houses, and those are really fun to play at sometimes.

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Mhm. Um, so yeah, that's basically it And her best friend lives right next door. Oh yeah, she does.

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Do you have a favorite memory of the neighborhood for both of you? Not really. I have a bunch of them. What about you? We like the 4th of July party that

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they do over there. And the fireworks. Those are fun every year, right? Yeah, those are fun. And the farmers markets, stuff like that.

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Would you say that these-- There are specific places that make you feel like you're part of the community because of the businesses. Yeah.

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Danny's carryout is my favorite in the neighborhood. And then we love where her school is at Lincoln's Cottage in the US. Soldiers home is great, and the neighborhood is so beautiful. Like I said, I just walk around and look at all the gardening and

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the beautiful homes and nothing. It's never boring. Right. Never boring.

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And where would you like to see Petworth go in the next 5 to 10 years? For both of you? Where do you want to see these things in the future? What do you think? More playgrounds?

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Yeah. Yeah. More playgrounds. More great businesses.

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Yeah. A toy shop? Probably. Yeah.

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We would love to be able to afford to buy in the neighborhood. That's all the questions I had. Is there anything you wish I had asked? Anything I might have missed?

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No. That's great. I don't think so. Yeah. Good to go.

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Thank you. All right. Thank you for squeezing us in.