Same! I felt joy and hope looking at the pictures and videos.
Posts by Barb Stachniewicz
Exactly this!
Edmonia Lewis virtually vanished from history when she died in 1907. A new exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum teases out the mysteries of Lewis's life while showcasing her marble sculptures.
I grew up just outside Wilkes-Barre and both my grandfathers and most of my uncles worked in the coal mines.
happy bday writer Edna St. Vincent Millay, b.1892, Rockland, ME.
“My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends—
It gives a lovely light!”
“I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.”
Oh no!
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays.
Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
A great insight from David Brooks. This is not populism. It's an intra-elite brawl that will hurt the poor and defenseless. Can We Please Stop Calling These People Populists? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/o...
Reverse Robin Hood! In our city, Haverhill alone, federal aid freeze would reduce $1 million in federal Community Development Block Grants, which help pay for housing the homeless, stocking food pantries and providing heating assistance, elder programs, meals, clothing, & other programs for poor.
This is the definition of a profile in courage. Thank you, Caroline Kennedy.
Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who became the first Black nurse in the U.S. Army Air Corps after President Harry S. Truman desegregated it in 1948, has died at age 104.
So gratifying to see, at long last, the great voting rights activist & legend Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer recognized with a presidential Medal of Freedom. A true champion of democracy, and personal hero.
(Hamer photo by Leroy Henderson)
I teach English at a community college and I can’t agree more with this! It is an essential skill.
Welp that bill failed so maybe we can get the pediatric cancer funding back? Would be nice, imho.
I had polio when i was 9. I was taken from my parents & placed in a Hospital for contageous diseases- the polio ward. I would see them once a week - thru the glass window at the end of my ward. I could not walk. It was terrifying. Kids died. Iron lungs were awful. Dont let RFK Jr ban the vaccine
Once you see them, you will never forget them!
I went to Vassar. No football team, but the mascot is the brewer. Look up Matthew Vassar! 😂