Address: Wylie St at Powell St SE; Atlanta, GA 30316
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Parking: street parking
Cost: free
Age Range: all ages
Ground Cover: wood mulch
Features: Play structure with slide, a couple of climbing ladders, monkey bars, and some swings. Nothing too fancy, but it gets the job done.
Surrounding Park Area: This park is just a teeny tiny little patch of grass basically, probably the lot size of one house. It is fenced in on 3 ½ sides though by a 6 foot chain linked fence, which I find comforting for the parents who have kids that run. There is some greenspace to throw a frisbee or ball and a covered picnic table and charcoal grill. Not bad for a simple plot of land.
Shade: No shade on the play structure, but the picnic table is covered and there are a couple of tree on the periphery of the park.
Seating: Picnic table
Stroller/Wheelchair Access: Nope.
Safety: No particular safety hazards. As I mentioned above, it has a fence that goes around the whole park, which I think is nice.
Cons: Just a small simple playground and park. There are no bathrooms. There is no water fountain. There is some doggie poo where there owners didn’t clean up after them.
Overall Assessment: I gotta say that any playground with the name Esther Peachy LeFevere has to be a cool playground. Just the name emanates some kind of sultry jazz singer with overdone makeup and hair wailing on a riff in a song. Or maybe she was an old southern belle with a huge hat and a prissy dog. Either way, what did Miss Esther Peachy LeFevere do to deserve this kind of park? It seems like a pretty lousy piece of land for the type of lady I am imagining in my head….oh well…. nevertheless, this is a piece of land that gets the job done. Greenspace, picnic tables, playground. I can imagine having a birthday party here for my little one without anybody complaining. I certainly hope Miss Esther would approve.
On a side note: I cannot find a single thing about Esther Peachy LeFevre on the internet. Who is she? That is truly the question.
The reason you can’t find anything on the internet is that the name of the park is misspelled. It is named for Esther Lefever (NOT Lefevre), who was a community organizer in Cabbagetown in the 1960s and 1970s, running a place called the Patch. She was also a musical performer on the autoharp who worked with Bernice Reagon and Anne Romaine on the Southern Folk Culture Revival Project in the 1960s (Anne, like Esther, is deceased, but Bernice, one of the original SNCC Freedom Singers, went on to work for the Smithsonian and in the singing group Sweet Honey in the Rock.) Esther served on the Atlanta City Council before her death. Her husband Harry taught for many years at Spelman College and is the author of a book on Spelman students in the civil rights movement. Now don’t you think that dear Esther deserves to have her name spelled correctly on the park that was designed to honor her? Please let the Parks Commissioner and the City Council members and the mayor know about this, and you will be blessed!
Wow! Thank you very much for this information. Yes, I do believe that her name should be spelled correctly. What a disgrace to her honor!