Doors Open Milwaukee

For the Doors Open Milwaukee event this past weekend, I decided to go National Ace Hardware seeing that I needed to pick up a few things for other classes. I also stopped by the Blue Dress Park just above the Holton Street footbridge we visited earlier this semester for class. As I consider my time spent at these two places, I suppose I was intrigued to visit these two because of their seemingly normal or accessible locations. Leaving me to wonder why they were included in Doors Open Milwaukee. Most of the sites listed were places that you would normally either have to pay or wouldn't be allowed everyday access, yet National Ace Hardware and the Blue Dress Park are both very public and open nearly everyday. So I ventured out to find something unique within these very common,often marginalized spaces in downtown Milwaukee. Yet when I arrived at these places, I didn't seem to find what I was looking for. While the weather may have put a bit of a damper on the festivities, I never really felt as though I was had been granted access to anything out of the ordinary.