Update: Letting Go

The Promise

Nashville Public Radio

Society & Culture

4.9 • 777 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2019

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Ms. Vernell has another big decision to make: to stay in Cayce through the chaos of redevelopment, or to leave? Her conclusion reveals something about this long, messy process to overhaul Nashville’s public housing. What happens when residents get tired — tired of being told to keep waiting, tired of being asked to keep moving … just tired?

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0:00.0	Well, good morning.
0:02.9	You're trapped, got you, didn't it?
0:04.0	You need me to move that so y'all can pull it in or?
0:06.4	I'm so ready.
0:07.5	I'm so ready.
0:08.6	I'm hyped.
0:09.5	This morning I got up here.
0:10.6	He go, calm down, mama.
0:11.5	Calm down.
0:12.9	When I pull up to Ms. Fernel's apartment in the James Casey homes,
0:16.2	one early spring morning, this is the scene that greets me.
0:20.5	I'm just height. spring morning. This is the scene that greets me. I've been up since 3 o'clock. I've been up still getting stuff together.
0:24.5	I don't even know what she was up at 3 o'clock doing. What's you going to do?
0:27.1	What's you going to do at 3 o'clock? Do you going to walk over there and walk back? What's
0:30.1	going to do? I don't know what you're going to do at 3 o'clock. I mean, I'm're trying to get things together, making sure everything is together. I make sure my chair in the bathroom, everything's together.
0:39.6	I'm just, I'm excited.
0:41.9	I'm just excited.
0:44.0	Miss Fernel is sitting on her stoop, practically vibrating with excitement.
0:48.9	She's wearing a light jacket to combat the early spring chill,
0:52.0	and her close-cropped graying hair is hidden under a
0:55.0	head wrap. Her son, Vernato is there, too, and like any good son, he's ribbing her every chance he gets.
1:03.3	Somebody call security, please. Call security. Today is moving day, but it's not where you might think.
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