The comprehensive list of ideas for use generated at or for MAKE YOUR MARK ON THE PARK, July 11, 2009

Links to power point presentations: Byron Harrison, Jim McKnight

exhibits/events
PCA children’s art- horses, fish etc.
snow sculpture
sculpture garden
pics of coke trays
pics of traditional Coshocton products
quilts up high
local student art in plexiglass boxes
photography, wood crafts, hand made jewelry
town artist exhibit space, local collections display- flags, pedal cars
tarp covered arcade
flea markets (night time) European style street festival, carnivals
petting zoo
relay races, mini Olympics
foam party-teen dance; glow party-black light paint; Oktoberfest; St. Patrick’s Day Fest
cook-offs

performance/people (webcams to broadcast, Coshocton TV)
• LIVE MUSIC LIVE MUSIC LIVE MUSIC! good acoustics and an atmosphere that encourages audience performer interaction (gardening etc should not restrict movement or interfere with interaction between performers and audience)
• small ensembles–scheduled or buskers–brass, Tubafours, Second Wind, acoustic, garage bands, acapella groups, drumming,
• area college bands
• teen bands (parents would come to hear) battle of the bands
• movies, independent movies
• skits, improv, plays, comedy acts, songwriter showcases, talent shows
• place to come and play music
• private events/group photos
• one-man shows (Hal Holbrook) similar to Mark Twain
• debates, political/social discourses

environmental/gardens
• Coshocton County Soil and Water Conservation – is interested in a rain garden
• community garden–raised beds–profits could benefit community in some way
• potted plants, hanging gardens, trailing vines, hiding places
• benches, bistro tables, shade, shelter – a place to sit – access to beverages & food
• work space for classes (tables)
• half buried tractor, concrete stalks of corn, half-buried oil derrick etc. for play & as a reminder of Coshocton.
• bonfires-fire pits
• solar cell lighting
• wifi
• quiet space with ambient music/sound lessening urban/traffic noise i.e. reading space


participatory/play/education
hands on learning/activities (on a self-serve basis?) art and garden related for children http://www.edibleschoolyard.org/garden
kid sized maze with quick growing butterfly bushes
Coshocton Public Library Early Bird Chi (Tues. & Thurs. 7:30am?) morning exercise
play space for children
ice skating
modified climbing wall
seasonal Maypole, Christmas tree and other structures to decorate
inflatable big toys
painting class for adults
picnics, meetings, lunch space,
recreation space: lawn bowling and other lawn games


considerations
landscape should compliment court square-permanent background for all other things

potential resources
materials: wood from old Prarie Chapel
bricks from old Flag Co.
Steel Ceilings building?
labor
(career center as resource for building beds)

Put Your Mark on the PARK: Community Meeting

Coshocton Campus Director Dorothy Skowrunski says people in Coshocton "like to come together in the center." It doesn't get more central than the Old Park Hotel Lot.

The Pomerene Center has invited Byron Harrison (RHS '97) and Jim McKnight and the community to an open public meeting to help design a space we will all use.

July/11/2009
10a-noon or 2-4p
at the Civic Hall, Main Street Coshocton

Check out the comments that have been coming in and add your own ideas. The question is "What would bring YOU into this space? "

PARK: Plowing the Sand Garden

JUNE 20, 2009: The idea was to make sense of all the sand & gravel;
to give it some purpose by patterning it; clean it up, give it a
feeling of motion rather than leave it just lay there.

Delmar Finton was the first farmer to weigh in on the feasibility of
plowing a pattern into the sand. His equipment was too large he said
after looking at an image of a Zen sand garden. He’d hardly be
able to turn around.

Sam Wyler had the right sized equipment, an antique tractor and a two-
bottom plow. But he was worried about asbestos residue from the fire.
And he cautioned that the plow would not ‘turn’ the sand as it would
soil. This turning is what plowing is all about so there was some disdain, disappointment even, at the thought of pulling a plow without the pleasure
of seeing the soil (sand) turn.

Jim Childress voiced the same caution. The plow would not turn the sand–
which was not really a problem for this basic job of dragging lines into
the sand–though it seemed the sensitive thing to do to share in the dis-
appointment. Jim’s son Mark was the one who actually did the work. Took
a lot of skill with mixed success. Ends up the sand does turn a little and
reads out a little unevenly.

Planning experiment #2.

PARK: The Sod Island

Recorded Patterns of Use–PARK 2009

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Our short history with the Park Hotel Lot

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