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The
Story:
Leathers worked with the Jerusalem
Foundation to build two playgrounds in Jerusalem in 1990 and 1993.
The first was funded by the Boston and New York Leadership Groups
of the Jerusalem Foundation and the second by Friends of the
Jerusalem Foundation in the United Kingdom.
These playgrounds are unique in that the
people of Jerusalem have little to no experience working with
wood. Everything is normally built of stone. The playgrounds are
built into solid rock—every hole had to be jackhammered. The
lumber was shipped in containers from the United States.
Culturally, we had to adapt to their typical work days. We worked
from 7 to 10 a.m., stopped working for the afternoon, resumed
working in the early evening and worked late into the night. In
fact, one night we worked until 2 a.m. The site shut down from
sunset Friday to sunset Saturday. |
