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2020-10-17Caravanning Through the Eisenhower Gala
I try to attend the Eisenhower Gala every year. It is scheduled for the Saturday nearest to Dwight D. Eisenhower’s birthday. During the first year of the corona lockdown, in 2020, we got together to celebrate Ike’s birthday without the Gala. We caravanned around Abilene to different places of significance in young Dwight’s life with Mary Jean Eisenhower, Dwight D. Eisenhower’s granddaughter explaining the significant place to Ike’s life. We went to the fairgrounds where Ike announced his candidacy for President. We went to a historical building where Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower watched a parade to honor him. The building is now apartments for folks of modest means that, somehow, seems fitting. I’m confident Ike wished everyone well and to be happy. We went to the cemetery where Dwight’s father, Jacob, and mother, Ida, were buried. I was struck by how modest the graves were. I thought Eisenhower’s lived modestly like us. The tour finished at Ike’s favorite restaurant in Abilene, the Farmhouse Restaurant, where we had an excellent dinner. Though there was no Gala dinner with elegantly clad ladies and gentlemen enthusiastically lost in gregarious conversation, I thoroughly enjoyed visiting all the historical places of significance in young Ike’s life. The 2020 Eisenhower birthday celebration was once educational and engaging. -
2022-03-07Arizona to remember Covid-19 Dead at "Memorial Day" event.
This article is about the Covid Memorial Quilt exhibit at the Arizona Heritage Center in Tempe. The Arizona Heritage Center is a museum of the Arizona Historical Society. This article describes the quilt and the memorial event held on Monday, March 7, 2022. The event was sponsored in part by the non-profit group Marked by Covid which honors those who have died of Covid 19. Almost 28,000 Arizonans have died of Covid as of March 7th. -
2021-04-19Three Sisters' Patriots Day Parade, Concord, MA
Three sisters raised in Concord, MA take up the American flag, fife, and drum and march up to Old North Bridge and subsequently through Concord Center to commemorate Patriots Day in Concord, MA, one of the battle sites in the Battle of Lexington and Concord that sparked the American Revolution. Due to COVID-19, the famed Patriots Day Parade in Concord has been cancelled in both 2020 and 2021, and the Concord Minutemen--mainstays for the parade's performers--have been unable to play for the holiday. These three sisters, during both 2020 and 2021, took initiative to keep the long-standing tradition alive for the town and others who are typically attracted to Concord on this historical day. One of the sisters, the fifer, is a member of the Concord Minutemen. -
2020-09-09Taoist Priest Honours China's Coronavirus Dead With Memorial Tablets
In China, there are only a small number of state-approved religions. Taoism, or Daoism, is one of the approved religions. As COVID-19 began in China, many were quickly infected and died as it was a new virus about which little was known. This article discusses how a Taoist priest in China honors those who died of COVID-19. Taoism, as a religion, has a unique history as originally the religion began as a philosophy. Thus, there are very unique ways of thinking in the heavily philosophical religion. Memorializing the dead is extremely important in Taoism, because as the article relays, true death within the system of Taoism only occurs when one is completely forgotten. In order to make sure people are remembered, the priests create memorial tablets for the dead. -
2020-06-09Pandemic
As of today, we as a society have been struck by two major pandemics, COVID-19 and Racism. Although both of these pandemics aren't an easy fix it is important to acknowledge and remember those that have lost there lives to these two catastrophes. On each of the two sheets, I wrote down the names of 100 people that have lost to either the virus or police brutality in the United States on the backside of each sheet I wrote 'Black Lives Matter' and 'Covid-19' to signify the cause of death for the said group of names. I decided to sew the two sheets together to show how in both instances racial discrimination and bias can be accounted for as reasons for the death of these individuals. For this project, I wanted to make a piece to remember the people behind the statistics, to humanize them in an otherwise forgetful world, and to say their names. -
2020-11-18How art helps us make sense of COVID-19's incomprehensible toll
Across the country, people have been making public art installations in memory have those that died due to COVID-19. Some of these memorials are meant to help people understand the large scope of death, others are meant to help the creators and viewers start to heal after loss. -
2020-04-11Chalk Drawings at Altar Honoring Ms. Leona "Chine" Grandison, Owner of The Candlelight Lounge, New Orleans, LA
Ms. Leona "Chine" Grandison, owner of The Candlelight Lounge, passed away due to COVID-19 on April 9, 2020. Friends and family erected an altar in her honor outside of The Candlelight Lounge to allow people to pay their respects while maintaining safe social distancing practices. Visitors decorated the sidewalk with chalk in front of the altar. -
2020-04-11Altar Honoring Ms. Leona "Chine" Grandison, Owner of The Candlelight Lounge, New Orleans, LA
Ms. Leona "Chine" Grandison, owner of The Candlelight Lounge, passed away due to COVID-19 on April 9, 2020. Friends and family erected an altar in her honor outside of The Candlelight Lounge to allow people to pay their respects while maintaining safe social distancing practices. Grandison was born and raised in the Treme, and opened Candlelight Lounge with her brother, Landry Grandison, 40 years ago. The Candlelight Lounge typically hosts live music throughout the week and is the last remaining live music venue in the Treme. -
2020-04-11Letter at the Altar Honoring Ms. Leona "Chine" Grandison, Founder of The Candlelight Lounge, New Orleans, LA
Ms. Leona "Chine" Grandison, owner of The Candlelight Lounge, passed away due to COVID-19 on April 9, 2020. Friends and family erected an altar in her honor outside of The Candlelight Lounge to allow people to pay their respects while maintaining safe social distancing practices. This letter, accompanying the altar reads: "Thank you for coming to pay respects during this time of COVID-19 to Leona "Ms. Chine" Gradison. Know that you are not alone in your grieving. As we weep at the loss of Ms. Chine together though apart during this time, know that she dwells in your heart now where no pain can reach her. We will join together in some months for a secondline and proper sending home. We cannot see her with our outward eyes but we know she is smiling back upon us from within everything. Please add to this altar honoring her as you feel called. Kindly do not remove any items from the altar. Thank you, Your community member who cares for you, loves you, and prays for you every day."