Nancy's Travelblogue

... there isn't a train I wouldn't take, no matter where it's going. -- Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Wednesday, August 09, 2006

SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA SECRETS: MacArthur Corridor

This series highlights great things about the San Francisco Bay Area that cost little or no money

I never thought I'd write about the MacArthur Corridor in Oakland as one of those special Bay Area gems but here I am doing it, thanks to Patricia, who conceived and carried out an amazing photodocumentary project of hiring professional photographers to capture images of a down-at-the-heels neighborhood who caught the life between the cracks.

Patricia wrote eloquently about it in her own blog, and even won the blog of the day prize. Check it out!