by kitchensisters | Jan 22, 2019 | Podcast, The Keepers
This week on The Kitchen Sisters Present… podcast, we take a look at the Dark Side of the Dewey Decimal System… Melvil Dewey, the father of library science and the inventor of the most popular library classification system in the world, was a known racist...
by kitchensisters | Jan 21, 2019 | The Keepers
#KeeperoftheDay for #MLKDay – The King Center The King Library and Archives in Atlanta is “the largest repository of primary source materials on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the American Civil Rights Movement in the world.”
by kitchensisters | Jan 17, 2019 | The Keepers
“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.” -Jorge Luis Borges
by kitchensisters | Jan 16, 2019 | Hidden Kitchens, The Keepers
#KeeperoftheDay – The Center for Discovery On the Splendid Table, Ruth Reichl talks about how an article she was writing about prosciutto led her to The Center for Discovery, “a facility where people suffering from severe disabilities find not only...
by kitchensisters | Jan 15, 2019 | Hidden Kitchens, Podcast, The Keepers
#KeeperoftheDay – Georgia Gilmore & the Club from Nowhere In honor of Dr Martin Luther King, Jr, we reprise the story of Georgia Gilmore and her secret civil rights kitchen. In the 1950s, a group of Montgomery, Alabama women baked goods to help fund the...
by kitchensisters | Jan 14, 2019 | The Keepers
We interviewed writer Eliza McGraw for The Keepers podcast episode, The Pack Horse Librarians of Eastern Kentucky. She told us about other keepers in her life, including her Uncle Bill who “compulsively does dairy histories.” He and Eliza’s mother-in-law opened...
by kitchensisters | Jan 11, 2019 | The Keepers
“In the ten days since he was sworn into office, Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro has already enacted a rash of measures that have sparked concerns across the globe. “Among his first orders of business, reports Gabriella Angeleti of the Art Newspaper, was...
by kitchensisters | Jan 10, 2019 | The Keepers
The Pirkle Jones and Ruth-Marion Baruch Collection at UC Santa Cruz “documents the people, landscape, and politics of California in the mid-20th century.” More than 6300 photos from this remarkable collection are available online. Please take a minute to browse...
by kitchensisters | Jan 9, 2019 | The Keepers
#KeeperoftheDay – The Internet Archive – “Backing up Brazil’s internet so Bolsonaro can’t censor it.” “The site and its efforts are becoming more and more important, as links rot and totalitarian governments and dictators around the world crack...
by Barrett Golding | Jan 8, 2019 | Podcast, The Keepers
William Ferris grew up on a farm in Warren County, Mississippi in the 1940s and 50s. The Ferris family, the only white family on the farm, worked side by side with African Americans in the fields. As a teenager he began documenting his neighbors’ lives, the...
