Antonia Malchik (@antonia): "I served on our local Board of Parks for a while, and I have to say much of this is true. The people we heard from most—aside from the near-endless conversations about the damage caused by Oktoberfest to one central park—were organized sports groups. (The endless back and forth …"

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I served on our local Board of Parks for a while, and I have to say much of this is true. The people we heard from most—aside from the near-endless conversations about the damage caused by Oktoberfest to one central park—were organized sports groups. (The endless back and forth over softball vs. baseball fields was always interesting.)

Bill Davison

If you live in a town with a parks department, this essay is for you.

Most parks systems are built almost entirely for the 19% who play organized team sports. The 58% of us who walk, bird, sit on benches, and take our kids to the woods are the actual majority — but we do not form leagues for solitary morning walks, and the parks departmen…

billdavison.substack.com/p/the-talking-tree

May 4

3:48 PM

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