Fort Green Dreams Summarized

Fort green dreams is a autobiography of Nelson George. nelson george was a man about sustain excellence and achieve a lot by giving his best. He is also a music culture critic, journalist, film maker, and a author. This story tells the story of his career and his life. He moved to Brooklyn, fort greens from Jamaica ,Queens. He had seen downtown Brooklyn but now it was different for him. He moved to 19 Willoughby Avenue. He lived here for for 7 years from 1985 to 1992. These were important years for him as he made name for himself and also help make fort green the birth place of many stars. Fort green produced basketball greats but also was known for gang activities. Nelson also got mugged once his VCR was stolen as well. However the area was not that bad and he also liked his place, his apartment.He was thankful for getting all this as he really was not that rich or anything but made his way though life and earn it. It was huge, he had his space to work, and also this helped him with his work. His ambition grew in his bigger apartment, waking up at night helped him grind some new ideas and he liked it there. he wrote 5 books there and his most important and break through work “The Death of Rhythm and Blues”. He also invested in movies, wrote and produced screenplays. Nelson was friends with other artists and that helped him discover himself. The kind of writer he was, the kind of son he was and this helped him as he learned he was a mentor. He guided the new starts and gave them the exposure they needed to show their talent. The chance they needed to show they belonged. He made many people starts while on the other hand many failed not because of him but their own issues such a ego and many more. His dream was to fill the shelf with his books and live a active life and being productive was the way to show that. That is way he say “Achieving sustained excellence is what i preached to others and sought for myself”.He just wanted to say he achieved a lot through his life by giving their best and that what he wanted the other to do.

Picturesque

“There was a picturesque park with rolling hills and tennis courts, and in the fall it filled with hard, brown, fallen acorns that I used to college and on occasion toss at friends.”               –  Fort Greene Dreams by Nelson George

Picturesque means something that is beautiful and charming. Nelson George was using this word to describe a very beautiful park that had all of these features.
adjective; charming or quaint in appearance

an image of picturesque park & fort greene park
http://www.nycgovparks.org/photo_gallery/full_size/10265.jpg

Tangible

adjective

Define:  capable of being perceived especially by the sense of touch
Source: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tangible


Fort Greene Dreams pg34 ; “One Tangible document of the creative ferment in Fort Greene, and the overall New York black community, was a photo taken by Anthony Barboza for an unpublished  The New York Times Magazine piece on the “new black aesthetic” by  Trey Ellis in 1989.


Tangible means that something can be touched. Nelson George was referring to a document that actually exists and can be accessed was a photo taken by Anthony Barboza.