The thick evergreen forests are home to several ethnic communities.
A 90 minute tour includes The Homestead and Emily's brother's home, Evergreen, next door.
(Toyota) Nascar Sprint Cup drivers Regan Smith and Paul Menard were reported uninjured after Smith, driving a pickup truck near his mountain home in Evergreen, Colo., reportedly lost traction on a patch of ice and crashed into trees.
"Frankly, I don't think I'm going to get the poor's vote, because of the 'R' next to my name," he said while touring the site of his childhood home, the Evergreen Garden Apartments.
By 6 p.m. a now weary Abigail Medina, 46, would make the eight-block journey from Metro International Church on Evergreen Avenue to her home on Jefferson, to cook: "Arroz con gandules; that's yellow rice and pigeon peas.
Evergreen serves as the home venue for the Pacific Symphonic Wind Ensemble, the Coastal Sound Music Academy, and the Stage 43 Theatrical Society.
In fact, many puritanical Christians may be shocked to learn that the Christmas wreath was originally a pagan symbol for fertility, and that the Bible actually warns Christians against erecting evergreen trees in the home (Jeremiah 10).
Next door, at Evergreens, was the family home of her brother Austin; his wife, Sue, was Emily's intimate, and she addressed much of her poetry to her.
And if my Hebrew ancestors had beautiful evergreen trees in their homes, why couldn't we?
