by kitchensisters | Jan 24, 2020 | The Keepers
#KeeperoftheDay – The Potato Museum, “the first museum about a vegetable.” “Tom Hughes and his wife, Meredith Sayles Hughes, are the couple behind the world’s first Potato Museum, the Food Museum Online, and the Food Heritage Center. The...
by kitchensisters | Jan 23, 2020 | The Keepers
#KeeperoftheDay The Pre-Cinema Optical Devices Collection at Princeton. Pictured: a Polyorama Panoptique.
by kitchensisters | Jan 22, 2020 | The Keepers
#KeeperoftheDay Information Hunters: When Librarians, Soldiers, and Spies Banded Together in World War II Europe by Kathy Peiss
by kitchensisters | Jan 21, 2020 | The Keepers
#KeeperoftheDay Harlem of the West: The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era by Elizabeth Pepin Silva and Lewis Watts
by kitchensisters | Jan 16, 2020 | The Keepers
Dear Kitchen Sisters, Perhaps of interest for your excellent series is the story of PAD/D or Political Art Documentation/Distribution whose archives now rest in the Museum of Modern Art? Two people organized this resource about politically engaged art: Barbara Moore...
by kitchensisters | Jan 15, 2020 | The Keepers
The Archive House, The Listening House, The Stony Island Arts Bank, The Dorchester Projects… Theaster Gates is a keeper of Greater Grand Crossing, his neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago. He first encountered creativity in the music of Black churches on...
by kitchensisters | Jan 13, 2020 | The Keepers
#KeeperoftheDay Trump’s threats to Iranian cultural sites disrespect our human heritage. Culture is what makes lives meaningful, and protecting it is one of the acknowledged limits to armed conflict. -William D Adams, in the Portland Press...
by kitchensisters | Jan 8, 2020 | The Keepers
Strong stories are ahead in 2020, full of humanity, heart and vision as we launch a new series — stories of youth activists and visionaries from around the world. We thank you for helping us turn our microphone in their direction. The Keepers also continues into 2020....
by kitchensisters | Dec 10, 2019 | Podcast, The Keepers
“Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away.” — Elvis Presley Dear Friends, Greetings as the year turns. We write to wish you well and to ask for your support for a new year of strong stories — stories full of heart,...
by kitchensisters | Dec 9, 2019 | The Keepers
The films of Martin Scorsese are astounding. As are his efforts to preserve and save the history and heritage of American cinema through The Film Foundation, a nonprofit he founded in 1990 along with Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and half a...
