Lizzy’s fieldwork from Carl Schurz Park
Fieldwork at Carl Schurz Park Promenade 5/3/15 4:29pm-4:51pm
- Variety of people here
- Benches on both sides of the promenade. On one side you can watch the people walk by and on the other you watch the river. It's really nice weather, around eighty degrees with a breeze.
- There's an old white woman in a wheelchair sitting in front of a bench, just watching the people go by. She's with a young black woman and an old white man reading a newspaper, probably her husband.
- The man keeps telling her "Isn't this pleasant" and "It's good to get you out of the room" and "Breathe deeply and look at the sky! There's not a cloud in the sky!" Woman seems pessimistic, responds "The temperature has taken a serious drop"
- At another bench, two women with strollers in front of them are chatting leisurely
- Old-ish man sitting at a bench next to them, alone, looking at river
- Parents walking with a boy around eight years old, they seem frustrated. Mom is yelling at boy because he wants to stay at the park and they need to leave. But this is an exception - most people are calm.
- Lots of fathers and sons walking by with footballs, soccer balls, etc. in their hands
- Many bikers and dog walkers
- Group of teenage girls in almost identical outfits and sunglasses walking by with ice cream cones
- Some kids playing hide and seek
- Many calm parents with younger kids in strollers are strolling by
- Person with cane is walking along, looking around
- Mostly everyone is strolling peacefully along, soaking in the good weather
- Joggers with headphones
- Father is taking pictures on his phone of his two helmet clad daughters by the river
- Woman is taking pictures on her phone of the flowers
- A woman with a rolling machine to help her breathe like in the fault in our stars is walking by with a man.
- Multiple young couples sitting on benches staring at the water
- Roller blading daughter dad duo
- Woman has a stroller with a little dog wrapped in a leopard blanket
- A man has a kite and is starting to fly it. His kids are intrigued, the kite is drawing the attention of everyone. Pretty soon a bigger group of kids is gathered around the kite flyer. The kids are delighted, but everyone else on the promenade is too. Adults are looking up at it and smiling.
- The man is letting his kid fly the kite, and he's taking pictures of him on his phone.
- Dude is passing me who's walking, listening to music, AND reading
- Parents are having fun with their kids
- Couple walks by, arms around each other
- All in all, there's a happy, carefree atmosphere
- Everyone seems to be dressed comfortably
- Atmosphere embodies "lazy Sunday afternoon"
