thomas hayden. after thomas it is eileen gonzalez and then kelly torres. >> good afternoon and thank you for this opportunity to speak. my name is thomas hayden. i live at 527 wayland street, about a block and a half away from the greenhouses. i want to share a small story with you today about raising children in the southeastern districts of our city. i raised my children when they were nine and seven years old in a sense of place and a sense of history. we would read books about san francisco and when school is out of session, we make expeditions to the parts of our city that show up in the children's books and on postcards. we hop on munimobile and go to clayton tower, we come to city hall, we visit the cable cars, but we don't have a postcard location in the portola, we don't have a monument to our particular history, to the part that our neighbours in their neighborhood has played in the city's broader history. what i am asking today is that you consider whether the children of our neighborhood

all those things flowed into from thomas book reading of the of the 2 of them had a really great relationship. with hayden. in his rambles through brandenburg from time to also wrote critically of his birth place saying it was a bit lavish for such a small town but he did say it was beautiful it was situated on the lake you know and and and. out in from thomas childhood here in mobile being shaped him. i think much sean does from time i think that the wide open spaces here on the lake and forest landscapes gave him a certain sense of home with his crew here and to get out of that spot and off to also move up and that was the trigger for him to start writing not about other regions but the one he came from. and which he came to love so much that later in life he wrote 5 books about it that escape. before i keep following my fun time route there are a few tips for you what else does brant burke have to offer especially now in the summer many tourists come here to the most watery state in germany. brandenburg has around 3000 lakes more than any other state in germany and the water quality measured at the lak