Saturday, June 15, 2013

Thank you Doris Richards

Last week's issue of The New York Times magazine was devoted to innovation and expanded its regular "Who Made That?" feature. In addition to covering inventions such as the digital camera, the issue covered concepts such as gay marriage, glass ceiling and (drum roll please) dog park.

Doris Richards encouraged a group of neighbors to turn their neighborhood gathering space into a dog park. The dog park started as an experiment in 1979, was officially incorporated in 1986 and started a nation-wide trend.

Spike loves going to the dog park. It's fun for him to walk or run off-leash, to meet other dogs, to explore interesting scents. Dog park socializing has been fun for Jeff and me too.

It's such a simple idea, but such a good one.

Thank you Doris.

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