In 1934, during the Great Depression, a group of Berkeley’s unemployed left a poignant message to the future in a local park.
Last Friday, Feb. 6, a group of locals gathered briefly during the lunch hour to honor that gift and contemplate what it means for past, present, and future, especially in our era that now echoes the mid-1930s with national recession, widening economic woe, and an energetic new president.