On Sedgefield Avenue in Durham’s Walltown neighborhood, a gathering spot is tucked between homes, a brief reprieve from the street’s buildings.
A pair of cornhole boards sit near a life-sized Connect Four board and a chest of other toys. The mulched area has a concrete stage, adorned with stringed lights, and a picnic table that the neighborhood kids have autographed and drawn on in bright-colored paint pens. One edge of the site has a Little Free Library, with a birdfeeder nearby, overlooking Dye Creek.
A path lined with rocks leads to the creek, where neighborhood children have added their own fairy houses to the space.
Before neighbors began work on the site, resident Carina Barnett-Loro said it was overgrown with vines and invasive species. Now, passersby can see the creek, which was previously inaccessible, and enjoy the space…