Everybody was looking at you, so that if you didn’t do things just right, you were somehow speaking for a whole race of people. - Viola Baskerville

Leadership is about how well you listen to and help others. Any success I have attained is because I listened to someone who was much wiser than myself.

With this initiative, I’m still working for the public good but in a volunteer position, rather than in an elected position. The work still requires listening and responding to others and engaging them and leveraging their energies to get things done.

The community rallying to preserve and honor a significant piece of history has been truly gratifying.