For time eternal, this Holy Sword has slept there silently. On his way to the Eternal Cave, Ox Ford reads the history of the Holy Sword from Excalibur's own book: "In a quiet shrine in a northern land, there exists a legendary Holy Sword. The Holy Sword is then heard shouting: "Fools!" The image returns to that white screen, where the name "EXCALIBUR" appears. The image increases in size until his entire black eye takes up the screen. The image rotates and multiples, then appears over various images: swirls, meadows, oceans, Saturn, a children's drawing. Mulholland Drive ( flashback) ( first appearance)Ī tiny figure emerges from the center of a white screen, and upon its arrival to the center of the screen, it is apparent that it is an image of Excalibur.Excalibur's New York City gang ( first appearance).Excalibur's Children (photograph only) ( first appearance).Excalibur's wife (photograph only) ( first appearance).Every dime we make funds reporting from Chicago’s neighborhoods.Īlready subscribe? Click here to support Block Club with a tax-deductible donation. Subscribe to Block Club Chicago , an independent, 501(c)(3), journalist-run newsroom. Pascal Sabino is a Report for America corps member covering Austin, North Lawndale and Garfield Park for Block Club Chicago. A lot of times we go outside our neighborhood looking for things they don’t realize are here,” she said. “I want the people in Austin who have not traveled Austin to discover the beauty within. When they learn those different facts on the tours, it makes a whole different narrative.”ĭyer hopes her newest tour will encourage visitors to come to Austin and “bring more money into the community.” “There’s so many ultra-achievers that never left our community. “They never realized that was right here in their community,” Dyer said. But since this program, I go out and about and try to do any and everything,” Stewart said.ĭyer has operated Black history tours for years to empower residents to “recreate the narrative” around their neighborhoods by unveiling stories of events, people and places in the area that inspire pride in the community. “I thought I was just going to always be around my neighborhood, like that’s all there was with life. The opportunity to take trips to places in the city he’d never been to or even heard of, like the DuSable Museum, has given Stewart a fresh perspective, he said. One participant of the youth program, Cedric Stewart, had “never thought about traveling until I got into the program,” he said. Credit: Colin Boyle/Block Club Chicago Gone Again Travel in the Austin neighborhood on May 24, 2021.ĭyer planned the trolley tours as a fundraiser for Gone Again’s sister nonprofit, Chicago Austin Youth Travel Adventures, to fund trips for local youth to visit West Africa and to “to help the youth see further than the block they lived on.” Many of the food choices selected for the tour feature “that sweet-home Chicago soul food, yet it has a healthier twist,” Dyer said. At some stops, restaurant owners will board the trolley to offer food samples and tell the stories of their roots in Austin, their cuisine and their businesses.
Chicago Ave., Suite 1, founded by Austin native Veah Larde. Chicago Ave., and Two Sisters Catering, a grab-and-go soul food restaurant at 4800 W. Tour-goers will also stop at several restaurants, including Schweet Cheesecake, 5248 W. Participants will visit historical sites like Epiphany Center for the Arts on the Near West Side, which was once a meeting spot for Fred Hampton and the Black Panther Party. It’s the group’s first Black history tour to also focus on food and local restaurants, she said. The Chi-Town Soul tours are organized by Gone Again Travels, which is Chicago’s first and only Black-owned travel agency storefront, founder Crystal Dyer said. Tickets for the trolley food tours, which are $45 and include transportation, food samples, a t-shirt, discounts and a tote bag, can be purchased online. The Chi-Town Soul trolley tour series, which launches Saturday, will take visitors for a ride to historical sites and Black-owned restaurants that speak to the oft-forgotten heritage of the West Side. AUSTIN - A new tour will help people experience the West Side’s history and culture through food.
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