A towering achievement

Thank you for the great article by Lynell George on Edgar Arceneaux and the Watts House Project [“Revitalizing Watts, One Home at a Time,” Nov. 2].

It was refreshing to read about the 107th Street/Watts Towers community that I know and the pride the residents and artists have for their world-renowned neighborhood and their desire to make it even better. I believe the brilliant John Outterbridge captured it all in a few words: “Art has the audacity to be anything it needs to be.”

Linda Campanella Jauron

San Fernando

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Revitalizing Watts has been a 50-year wait for a lot of us. It’s all good that Arceneaux has lots of help. George tells the story well. Some of us now old “young activists” lived it often since 1959. That was when a citizen group raised money to repair the sculptures, build a 107th Street Watts Towers Teen Post and art center that is still standing there, and buy and furnish artists-in-residence housing and even successfully fought the planned demolition of the Watts Towers! Go get ‘em, Edgar and team! The neighbors and history are your best friends.

Bud Golstone

Westchester