“To have a safe place for the children to play in summer and winter, to have a place where fair play is taught and learned, to have a place where young and old can enjoy God’s out-of-doors, are not these surely ideals worth while?
“Someone has said, ‘Troy is a good city, but let us make it better.’ Playgrounds are one of the things that would make it better.”
Troy Times. April 22, 1924: 5 cols 4-5.