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...
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.
