A little - known, can - do woman
shines in this picture book about Katherine Olivia Sessions, who planned the lush garden of the 1915 Panama - California Exposition.
But even as the town gropes toward a peaceful coexistence between the entrenched artistic underground and the thrill - seeking newcomers, the vintage, urban
picture -
book luster of Wicker Park continues to
shine on, undisturbed, through the winter solstice, thanks
in part to the Christmas lights that adorn a majority of the three - flats until early spring; these semipermanent, luminous fixtures work as a convenient simile for the spark that ignites the inexhaustible pride of those who come to dwell
in the hood.