Rhonda Theus reminisces fondly of her youth growing up in Detroit’s East Canfield Village neighborhood, where get-togethers with extended family and close neighbors along her block on Montclair Street included barbecues, mingling, and relaxing in the alley behind their homes.
“The alleys were social spaces, you know,” Theus, 56, says. “We would all have our grills out there, play, and sit and talk; they were social spaces when we were growing up.”
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Rhonda Theus reminisces fondly of her youth growing up in Detroit’s East Canfield Village neighborhood, where get-togethers with extended family and close neighbors along her block on Montclair Street included barbecues, mingling, and relaxing in the alley
