Howdy.

Yes, Rangers say ‘howdy’ like we mean it, because we do.

With etymology tracing back to the 16th century, ‘Howdy’ is a shortened form of ‘How do ye?’ Where ‘hello’ is an imperative, and ‘hey’ is an exclamation, ‘howdy’ is, at its heart, an interrogative – a question:
How are you?
So –
Yes –
Howdy.

We’d love to see you this month at any/all of our back-to-back-to-back events, where we’ll be celebrating sound, water, summer, and sidewalks. (And neighbors. Always neighbors.)

Here’s the rundown:

Play(list) in the Playlot [June 6, 5:30-7pm]

Join us this Friday at the Manigault Street Playlot (1000 Manigault Street SE) for our second back porch/park-side DJ sesh, shaped and curated (hopefully) by you and other Reynoldstown neighbors. You can become part of the playlist at radiortown.com.

Rejected brainstorming ideas:
‘Playwright in the Playpen’
‘Payoffs in the Playschool’
‘Playdough in the Payphone’
Wiley even made a pretty strong case for ‘Coyotes on Peyote.’ 

In the end, though, Ranger Bryan cracked it open – let’s make a live radio show, and all we have to do is show up.

Water Cooler Club, Summer Fridays Edition [June 13, 2-3pm]

Are you happy to not have an office but sad to not have officemates?
We started the Water Cooler Club just for you, whether you work, play, or parent from home. 

If you’ve seen any of the giant water cooler signs around the neighborhood, those are ours! 
The next meet-up will be our third, and we’re shifting things to a Friday afternoon. (Don’t worry, we double-checked and our regular location will be nice and shady.)

As usual, we'll be hanging out on the patio behind Kronberg (887 Wylie); look for – you guessed it – the water cooler.

Want to get text reminders for Water Cooler Club? Send “WCC” to 1 (833) 674-6747

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Summerarium - [June 20 (the Summer Solstice), 5 to 7pm]

'What do you get when you cross summer with sanitarium?’ 
A question no one has ever answered because no one’s ever asked. 
Come at it another way – if summer is the problem, what’s the solution?

Join us on the longest day of the year, to find out. There in the shade of the Manigault Street Playlot (1000 Manigault Street SE), with all five senses, we’ll be treating prickly heat, hot flashes, summertime blues, and disco fever. 

There are ways in which being a Ranger will never be cool, and we’re cool with that. We own our neighborhood nerd-dom. But that doesn’t mean we can’t cool off. 

Summerarium: the prescription for summer. 

(PS – We’d like to borrow several kiddy pools for this event, and, in our dreams, an inflatable penguin or snowman. Please reply to this email if you can help a Ranger out.)

Seeking Hopscotch Honchos

The next time you’re walking through Reynoldstown, look lower. No, lower. Like below your feet low. 
What’s that? A freshly chalked hopscotch patch?
If all you see is concrete or asphalt or cement…that’s where you come in!

We’re looking for Hopscotch Honchos to help spread the joy of wild hopscotch across the neighborhood. What you’ll need:

• A stretch of smooth and flat (for Atlanta) sidewalk, driveway, or public surface. This should be out of the way of traffic and generally safe for hoppers to play.

• Chalk (which we will give you)

• Hopscotch Patch Sign (yep, we’ll give you that too)

Do you have a stretch of public surface that begs for one-and-two footed silliness? Request a 'Patch Kit by visiting The Reynoldstown Rangers website. 

Are you interested in being a Ranger?

Please fill out this survey to let us know your interests!
We can’t wait to meet you.

Sneak the Rangers Into Your Building

Homes come in lots of shapes and sizes. Maybe yours looks like one drawn like a five-year-old: a triangle on top of a square, a door, some windows. Done.

Or maybe yours is a condo, an apartment building, a townhouse, or a loft. Or something else.

The Rangers are currently looking for insiders with insight into ‘multi-family dwellings,’ to help us, well, get inside. There’s a code to crack here (and no, not just the passcode to the pool or parking). 

Help us, please – reply to this email, if you share walls with a neighbor and want to get to know them – and the Rangers – better.

Museum of Reynoldstown, Ground Floor

As an open-air, Beltline-fronting, just-becoming site for public engagement and attention, Museum of Reynoldstown only has a ground floor. Now is your chance to get in on it. We’ll be hosting several charettes across the month of June, shaping the ideas and the space. No, a charette is not a small chair – it’s a brainstorming session, focused on solutions. Want to make something special? Curious what an ‘attention engine’ could be? Please reply to this email, and we’ll loop you in.