Abstract
My purpose was to offer a counter-narrative of a group of urban residents who were dealing with a negative portrayal of their neighborhood, by retelling the “success story” of the Queen Anne Memorial Garden, a community garden they built to combat urban decline. Using narrative inquiry, I explored how fourteen garden participants collectively reconfigured the events that led to the completed garden and endowed those events with meaning and continuity. The stories, which were aggregated into a single community narrative, illustrate how a collective leisure pursuit can be part of a grassroots effort, address urban decline, and reshape collective identity.
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