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Jane Jacobs Walk Downtown Scranton's Lackawanna Ave. - a Living City

Saturday, 23 October, 2021

PORTRAIT OF SCRANTON PORTRAIT OF A NATION

Jane Jacobs Walk Downtown Scranton’s Lackawanna Avenue - a Living City

Saturday, October 23 at 1p.m. - Lackawanna Avenue, Downtown Scranton

This Jane Jacobs Walk will encompass different parts of downtown Scranton, observing architecture, streetscape, and city life with a focus on Lackawanna Avenue and drawing on themes in the recently published Jane Jacobs’s First City by Glenna Lang to consider questions around Scranton’s history, development, place, and identity. The walk will begin at AFA Gallery- 101 Penn Ave, Scranton, PA and will be led by guide/host Wayne Evans, owner/broker for Wayne Evans Reality and former Mayor of Scranton. This walk is free and open to the public. Space is limited.

Registration is required at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/JaneJacobsWalk

 For more information on all programs, please email community@scranton.edu or call 570-941-4419.

COVID-19 Protocols: Masks are not required outdoors but are required indoors regardless of vaccination status.

This event is a collaboration of The University of Scranton, the Center for the Living City, the Lackawanna Historical Society, the Scranton Fringe Festival and WVIA with the support of additional project partner organizations.

This Jane Jacobs Walking Tour has been made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom.

Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this walk do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Contact:

Carolyn Marie Bonacci

Phone: 5709414419
Website: Click to Visit

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AFA Gallery

101 Penn Avenue
 Scranton, PA 18503
USA