...."the same year, 1931, the under-privileged children of Port of Spain must have spent a happy Christmas for in mid-December the "Thorne" children's playground was opened in Woodbrook and the "Alfred Richards" children's playground was opened near the eastern fringes of the city, on the St. Joseph Road."
"The Making of Port of Spain"
Michael Anthony
Play is place where adults can recall their childhood
What brings childhood pleasures? Sliding down a hill on a narrow plank of well-waxed wood with arms and hands extended, fluttering in the air to keep in balance. Or the rings of dirt stamped on the knees of boys from pitching marbles. And then there is flying a Mad-Bull kite with its cocoyea ribbed pentagon shape dipping under the glare of the Caribbean skies in the Queen�s park savanna.
Children�s playgrounds
A structure with an effortless motor assisted by pivots and counterbalanced by the laws of kinetic energy and human weigh. A simple pleasure that ask for not much and when the body is in motion without expending energy itself, the brain sends a message: What a thrill.
No batteries, no video screens, no subliminal acts of violence....you have entered the world of the wooden carousal, the rocking horse, the swinging boat, the witch�s hat and other neglected and unsafe swings plotted in various places in the Public Grounds, Woodbrook, Trinidad, West Indies. |
