Volunteers in Easton are trying to spruce up the West Ward step by step.

Faced with limited funds, they decided the best way to give the 1000 block of Washington Street a face-lift would be to clean and paint each resident's front porch.

"We were trying to think of a creative way to do something with the little money we had," said Lynne Holden, a project coordinator for the West Ward Neighborhood Partnership. "Just painting one or two facades on a block doesn't make much of a difference. We tried to think of how we can make a bigger impact."

Each Saturday in April, more than 30 people gather between 10th and 11th streets armed with paintbrushes and drop cloths.

Holden has teamed up with Mike Hollenbach of the Bridge Community Church to attack the weathered porches. They hope a fresh look will inspire a sense of community.

"The more time we spend on the streets, on our porches, the greater chance we have of actually forming relationships and reconnecting with our neighbors," Hollenbach said.

Holden and Hollenbach set up operations at 9 a.m. each Saturday and hand out assignments to the volunteers. First, they cleaned the porches with power washers that the workers brought from their own homes. After that, they sanded the porches and began painting.

Without much money available to them, they knew they would need to be creative. The group contacted Sherwin-Williams, which donated paint for the project. Home Depot donated gift cards for other needed supplies.

A lot of the volunteers live in the West Ward and many belong to the Bridge Community Church. Church member Ashley Bunnell is a 25-year-old transplant from Quakertown. She attended Lafayette College and decided to stay in Easton after she graduated. She and her husband moved to 15th Street six months ago.

"I'm coming out to support the community," Bunnell said. "We're trying to make the neighborhood look welcoming. We love Easton."

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PHOTO COURTESY OF CINDERIC DOCUMENTARIES INC. He listens DeLand resident Eric Dusenbery is a photographer and a story listener, whose photography skills enable him to use many types of equipment. His favorite way to use photography as his artistic medium is taking photos with his 4 x 5 view camera, and he develops the film in his darkroom. Dusenbery says, The darkroom is where the magic happens. His listening skills enable him to let folks tell about their life and times growing up in Florida. Then he uses a delicate touch to hone what he has heard into compelling stories, like the ones in his book Florida Soup: Putting History on the Table.

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posted Apr 16, 2014 - 6:43:14am

On front porches, in gardens and barns, Floridians told their stories to Eric Dusenbery. It is not clichd to say these folks are the salt of the earth and the sea. Dusenbery has a love affair with Florida, and that shines through as you read the stories in his book Florida Soup: Putting History on the Table.

For more than 20 years, Dusenbery had a successful commercial/editorial photography business in Winter Park. He provided clients with images and stories for a variety of media productions, his photography appeared in numerous publications, and he was the recipient of several national awards.

As Dusenbery traveled across Florida for his business, he found that some ways of life were disappearing. Vanishing traditions had no outlet for expressing the significance and dignity of individuals from many different cultural groups and livelihoods. The desire to document Floridas rich heritage was the impetus for a career change.

Dusenbery wanted to use his photographic skills differently. He said, I was getting a bit tired of working commercially, and I know this sounds crazy, but it was like a job. This wasnt why I chose photography as a career. I was always passionate about photography and the experience of photography. I was losing that.

Read the whole story, including Dusenbery's experience with cattle wrangling, in the April 16-22 Extra! edition of The Beacon, which is part of the April 17-20 Weekend edition.

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