Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Honoring Death When You Can’t Be There

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We recently cleared the 30 day mark of lockdown in New York. This week ten of my friends lost family members to covid-19. Any funerals o...
Wednesday, April 1, 2020

COVID-19 Deaths Month 1: March

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In New York we have been under stay-at-home orders since March 13. There is a virus spreading swiftly across the continents. The information...
Friday, March 20, 2020

Call to Prayer in a Time of Change

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It is time now, for those of us who commune with our ancestors, who petition them, who pray to them, or who simply pass their names over t...
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Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Robert Moulton and the Salem Witches

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illustration by Freeland A. Carter The first day of March of this year marks the 328 th  anniversary of the start of the Witch Trials ...
Wednesday, January 29, 2020

How to Salt Pork in a Barrel According to Great-Great Grandma Emma

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Years ago my father gave me some handwritten recipes we found among his Wicker-Whitcher memorabilia. I spent a while deciphering...
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Wednesday, December 18, 2019

Ask Your Family Their Stories

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Grandma Ruth in red & Great-Grandma Hattie in blue. Many of us are getting ready to spend time with our families for whatever ho...
Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Working for the Kenan Family

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433 Locust Street. Photos from Art family archives. There is a place in my home town called the Kenan Center. In my childhood it was w...
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