In regards: Louis Moses Park

The story of Nottingham Village may end as a Village eaten by a city, but a light-rail transportation oriented development (TOD) integrated with railroad museums in Collinwood and Nottingham could be a new chapter.

A vibrant village and stronger neighborhood will make the city better. That is one of those answers up on the shelf gathering dust; Ohio City and the Warehouse district are example of history coming to life in Cleveland.

I believe there should be a park in honor of Louis Moses at St. Clair and Nottingham Road tied to a Main Street TOD.

Mr. Moses, the son of Mary Dille and Augustus Moses (a real estate pioneer), was one of the most successful and respected developers in Nottingham Village up through 1917. The City owns land along Euclid Creek and could use the initiative to help with phase III storm water control.

In 1912, Louis Moses served as the secretary for the Cuyahoga Park Board; among the first of four community leaders appointed. He was instrumental in the formal creation of the park system and specifically in the protection of the Euclid Creek Reservation, which he envisioned as much larger.

In 1917, Louis Moses bought stock in the Land Title Abstract and Trust company. By 1918, he was a member of the board; in 1919, he was president. In 1932, the name was changed to the Land Title Guarantee and Trust Company and it was the largest title insurance company in Ohio. Louis Moses would remain president until his death in 1952.

In 1917, with the passage of the Park District Act and creation of the Cleveland Metro parks Mr. Moses was one of the first three appointed to the board. Through 1928, he served as the Vice President of the board and was elected president in 1929; leaving in 1930 due to business pressures during the great depression. He later served again as Vice President from 1937 through 1939.

"It does not fall to the lot of many men to be present at the birth of an idea, to nurture that idea, and over many years to protect it and to guide it and give intelligent direction to its growth. Not many reap the satisfactions which come to one who realizes that he, thru sacrifices of time and effort, has made contributions which have made his community a better place for all citizens to live in. Such must have been the satisfaction which came to Louis A. Moses as viewed the progressive development of Cleveland Metropolitan Park System." 1

"Whereas, it was the good fortune of the community that in addition to his business acumen and the development of his own interests he was able to devote so much of his time to building up the great Metropolitan Park System. His expert knowledge of land values was of immeasurable benefit in laying out that park system. In his careful concern with the city’s needs he helped materially to build the network of parks into one of the country’s finest. The park system was only a portion of his interest, for he identified himself with all worthy movements that would advance this city towards its commercial and cultural objectives. Builders of vision such as Mr. Moses are too rare. His dedication has left in the Metropolitan Park System a lasting memorial." 2

Historical Preservation can be the vital tool to help this neighborhood of Cleveland. Nottingham’s future is connected with both North and South Collinwood as city planners currently divide the neighborhood. The division is a practical matter due to the freeway dividing the neighborhood and the key issue a TOD could address by creating a new focal point.

To the west is the historic five-point’s commercial district and to the east is the old world section of East 185th. Connecting the history and the historic neighborhoods offers a wealth of opportunity; all that is required is more research, desire and the will of the community.

1 Cleveland Metropolitan Park District, Cleveland Ohio. Resolution 2787 passed at the news of Louis Moses’ death in 1952.
2 Cleveland City Council, Resolution No. 668-52; April 9, 1952

Florida 1992

If I told you I never know fear
Would you introduce me to reality
If I told you I know fear too well
Would you introduce me to a dream

When I know my dreams up close
No sense that what couldn't be
Only the facts of existence apparent
Then life is like singing in a field alone

If my dreams don't come this night
It is harder still to remember last night
Only the facts of creation apparent
Then life is like swimming in clothing

When I meet my dreams up close
They never surprise me with possibility
Even today nothing surprise me with ease
Now life is like singing in an Ocean

My life my dreams flow together to peace
Singing in the ocean creation for its own sake

When ever I look for another world
I always find it in the Atlantic
Swimming there the name seems so much
I wonder what's the value in a wave

Thinking and dreaming of salt water not
Just salt water but Atlantic salt water
I am there in my soul in an instant
By car it is an hour away still

When ever I enter another world today
Swimming out from shore seems so important
I wonder what's the value in a wave
Swimming in to the shore seems so arbitrary
I wonder what's the value in a wave

Five thousand birds flew across my path
Walking to a place I needed to be
I stop and look up still they continue
In awe I'll search for an end in eternity

Each was one but none were greater
There place was new to only my eyes
How they knew so well to go I must share

Five thousand birds flew across my path
Not a day in a thousand does that occur to me
There seemed to be no thought to travel alone
All went forward and found time still for around

How they went in all directions and only forward

Five thousand birds flew across my path
I stop and look up and follow in my mind
There seemed no end no beginning just now
That last wings by like all will too fast

I hold a piece of divinity in me
It is where I started and too end
I feel it and never needed to see
Even when I'm not sure where I'll be

I could die in her arms of tomorrow
I see a hundred sunrises in her eyes
Two together that could have just passed

With a hundred possible lives to lead
Even then someone waits for me to win
Nothing is what I'll let slip through my hands

Storms I've created swell all around me
I'll rise through life everything is possible

By my last breath I will know that now
I will die and I know storms can't win
They are me and you are we

Guilded Cage

This moment in ink
A smile on a page
Forever in a pen stroke

And now down once more
As amazed as am I
Captured by this creature

Couldn't imagine that I
Why would it ever imagine I
There is no then here

There is no when here
This moment in ink
Time's guilded cage

That I could imagine
And yet never quite know

Life came along we can agree
But can you imagine
It's more than you know
Man and woman living and dead
Dancing evolution intermingled charm

And the atom's whimsical heart
There from the start
With this task of you
There was too much to do
You are amazing it's true

And so now your almost aware
Now with this task of yours
Here at the start once more
There is so much to do
Who would not like to quit

From there to here to there
There is no chance for us
We could not complete
And yet there it is
Where we shall be

To find the way
Imagine your surprise

How quiet is it
Soft as the morning sun
How loud is it
Harsh as the hurricane

Love love fifteen races long

Everybody's got to be real
Only way to know how to feel
No limit can be defined
Till the heart have you mined

Tree don't care who finds the shade
Don't care how you got it made
All this and more at hand
People finding all over the land

Comforted counseled but not done
The mystery will give you some

Traveling light being the idea
What is the proper weight
How long should I wait
Will this come along
A word it is to live

There's no history in love
And the same no future
Could you conceive
Life no day at a time
Well before you'd blink

I know a story
All about me and what I am
I tell you lend a hand

That's all there is to me
Everything I am

Love

Not hard
Or easy
Far
Or near

All
The way
To Go
Right here

Will
You feel
Love
As

If it were your own
To hold
And to lose

In your
Grasp
And
Through

Your fingers
Strain
And
Soul

Would smile
To
See
Or

Know what it
is
You
Hold

Even as
you lose

Limbs that catch the breeze
That whisper to my soul
Of all that could be
And everything we shall overcome

In wonder I first am lost
Then stranded upon certainty
To be lost again in reality
And I look to pay the cost

In a fine summer's day
Arriving from the cold
It was not long
Shall not be to long

To be found
And yet not find
To now listen
And yet not hear

Limbs catch that breeze
In whispers to my soul

Love

Would it come to me in a dream
Or upon her lips

Could it now be done with...
I see has just begun

You see I might be lost
I could even be wrong
And you know at times I'll be
But there's this one thing

I am standing in this field
Lost I'll be right here
Wrong I'll still be there
Found the field wouldn't mind at all

In love I stand

Love is in the arms
I am not saying that it makes sense
Just that it would be cool
If it did

"Know then," said he, "that existence is a theory." Etidorhpa

This is know as following the always so. ttc

Reason

Not a bad world
For a start
Not a bad day
To begin

Out of the door
Live around
Know what I say
Say what I may

Out of my mouth
Perhaps to your ears
Just to ease those fears
What's the worse

Came far along
If we lose
What waste of a universe
Maybe there's no sense

Why'd the world go to the trouble
Of need you and me together?