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Changing Lives 9: It’s All Relatives

Changing Lives 9: It’s All Relatives

May 15th, 2024 | Boston, Changes, Education, Genealogy, General, Indigenous Peoples, Memory

Revolutionary Spaces leads with its mission statement: “Open History. Enter Democracy.” Today that phrase resonates as strongly as it might have at the establishment of our Union. Based in the Old State House and Old South Meeting House, the organization presides over...
Of Time and Family 4: Nashua Connections

Of Time and Family 4: Nashua Connections

September 19th, 2019 | Family, Genealogy, General, Indigenous Peoples

As the Reverend’s 80th birthday was coming up, her sister Belle called and asked a favor: would I be willing to print off a copy of the family genealogy for a gift? Like the one she had received from her kids on one of her own big birthdays? Reverend and Belle are the...
“They Started It!”: Facts, Truth and Blame

“They Started It!”: Facts, Truth and Blame

January 23rd, 2019 | Education, General, Indigenous Peoples, Politics, Popular Culture, Society at Large

When I saw that video clip of Nick Sandmann smirking at Omaha Elder Nathan Phillips who was drumming and chanting, and realized just how close the two were standing, I was outraged at the boy’s insolence, shocked at the implicit insult of a white person to an...

Book # 22 in 2018: “The Pharaoh Key” by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child

June 24th, 2018 | Africa, General, Indigenous Peoples, literature and poetry, Popular Culture, Travel

I do like Gideon Crew–quite a bit more than Preston & Child’s better-known sleuth, Agent Pendergast, whom I find annoying in the southern, courtly, albino-pale, omniscient and omnipotent way. “The Pharaoh Key” (#5 in the Gideon Crew series)...
Book #2 in 2018: Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann

Book #2 in 2018: Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann

January 4th, 2018 | Family, Genealogy, General, Indigenous Peoples, literature and poetry, Politics, Society at Large

I had read David Grann’s article in The New Yorker, “The Marked Woman,” last March so the outlines of this appalling story were familiar to me.  The completed book, however, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Doubleday, 2017),...
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