by kitchensisters | Mar 6, 2019 | The Keepers
#KeeperoftheDay – Janis Joplin, who worked at her local library when she was a teen. In this clipping from the Port Arthur News, she stands in front of a poster on display at the Gates Memorial Library, one of several she designed for the library. (As the paper...
by kitchensisters | Mar 5, 2019 | The Keepers
Daniel Lofredo Rota wrote to tell us about a project he is undertaking to revive his grandfather’s Ecuadorian music record label from the 1950s… Hello Kitchen Sisters, I am very pleased to have heard of your podcast. as a keeper myself, i feel that maintaining...
by kitchensisters | Feb 28, 2019 | The Keepers
Listener RJ Ramey called The Keepers Hotline to tell us about Monroe Work (1866-1945), who was hired by Book Washington as Director of Research and Records at Tuskegee Institute and worked to document every known lynching in the United States. Ramey created a website,...
by kitchensisters | Feb 27, 2019 | The Keepers
#KeeperoftheDay #KeeperoftheCheeks – Free The Cheeks: Twerk Church. On KALW’s Crosscurrents, Alyia Renee Yates takes us to Twerk Church. “Twerking and empowerment, they kind of go hand in hand.” Listen here.
by kitchensisters | Feb 26, 2019 | The Keepers
“The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man.” -T.S. Eliot
by kitchensisters | Feb 25, 2019 | The Keepers
#KeeperoftheDay – Le Musée de f.p.c. “We just started collecting slowly, not intentionally and we wake up 30 years later and we have this beautiful collection…” Listen to Beverly McKenna, who co-founded McKenna Museums with her husband Dr. Dwight McKenna,...
