Armstrong Park reopens to public
 

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Sage was burned, the Treme Brass Band played, and Congo Square dancers did the bamboula at today's reopening of Armstrong Park in the Treme, which had been behind chain-link fence since last year when it became clear that the Roots of Music Sculpture Garden had been installed shoddily. Making the repairs and reopening the park was a stated goal in Mayor Mitch Landrieu's State of the City address earlier this year, and before he cut the ceremonial ribbon, Landrieu acknowledged the work had been done with "a lotta fits, a lotta starts and a lotta anxiety."

A few images from the park and from the ceremony:




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