"Jesus says God rejoices over each found sheep." New Hope Missionary A.M.E. Zion, August 4, 1833 From 1825 to around 1857, there were African Americans, Native Americans, Irish and German people living in the area now known as Central Park. Marilyn Nelson in My Seneca Village made the men and women live again through poetry and added fictional layers. Thankfully, due to her research and work these ancestors can live again in our minds. Forgetting them is impossible because all of them were individuals. Some lived quiet, ordinary lives and some lived through periods that live on in our history books. The poetry is inspiring. I could hear their screams, see their pottery or curios, see them walking, running, and I met real heroes and heroines of the past like Nat Turner, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Emily Dickinson, etc. At the end of the book, there are the poetic forms used by Marilyn Nelson. This early in the Nineteenth century it was surprising to learn that Afric