by kitchensisters | Jan 7, 2019 | The Keepers
Zora Neale Hurston January 7, 1891 – January 28, 1960 Keeper of Culture, Zora Neale Hurston, was an anthropologist and the author four novels, including Their Eyes were Watching God (1937) and more than 50 published short stories, plays and essays. In 1939...
by kitchensisters | Jan 3, 2019 | The Keepers
#KeeperoftheDay World Central Kitchen Chef Jose Andres’ World Central Kitchen served over 3 million meals in 2018, in Puerto Rico, California, Hawaii, Guatemala, Indonesia, North Carolina, Florida, and Mexico. “Where there’s a fight so that hungry people...
by kitchensisters | Dec 21, 2018 | The Keepers
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by kitchensisters | Dec 20, 2018 | Podcast, The Keepers
Tony Gonzalez, a radio journalist in Nashville, called The Keeper Hotline to tell us about a Tennessee keeper named Bobby Fulcher. “He is a musicologist, a recorder of oral histories. He has been documenting traditional rural folk musicians for more than forty...
by kitchensisters | Dec 19, 2018 | The Keepers
#KeeperoftheDay – Maria Popova’s Brain Pickings. If you don’t subscribe to Maria Popova’s weekly newsletter, Brain Pickings, what are you waiting for? She also now sends a midweek pick-me-up on Wednesdays from her vast #archive of inspiring articles...
by kitchensisters | Dec 18, 2018 | Podcast, The Keepers
“Every story matters. The challenge is getting that story to the historical record. Simply putting it into the archive is maybe not enough.” -Doug Boyd, Director of the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky Libraries. Listen to this story...
by kitchensisters | Dec 17, 2018 | The Keepers
#KeeperoftheDay – Merriam-Webster Dictionary (Since 1828). Their 2018 Word of the Year: Justice.
by kitchensisters | Dec 13, 2018 | The Keepers
#KeeperoftheDay – Time’s Person of the Year. The Guardians/The Journalists.
by kitchensisters | Dec 12, 2018 | Podcast, The Keepers
#KeeperoftheDay – More from 21 Collections. Walnut Elephant, a recreation of the life-size elephant made of walnuts created for the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair by the LA Chamber of Commerce, helping to sell Southern California as a land of prosperity. See it live...
by kitchensisters | Dec 11, 2018 | Podcast, The Keepers
#KeeperoftheDay – 21 Collections: Every Object Has a Story at the Los Angeles Central Library. Open now thru 1/27/19. Entrance is FREE to the public. For those of you who can’t make it to downtown LA by the end of January to catch 21 Collections listen to latest...