Black History isn’t singular; it comes with a multitude of thoughts, stories, people and culture. These resources are categorised by content, including books, communities, films/series and podcasts. Use them to gain insight as a tool to make us all allies.
African folklore, myths and legends have been handed down through generations via word of mouth. Within these tales, lies the mermaid. Mermaids are known by different names across the nations, for example in parts of West Africa, as Mami Wata. Yemoja, among the Yoruba people of Nigeria and La Sirène, is a Haitian spirit of the sea.
Narratives surrounding mermaids and sirens have been documented and published worldwide, serving as inspiration.
Rivers Solomon taps into her African heritage by channelling the story of water-breathing descendants of African slave women tossed overboard who must build their own underwater society and reclaim the memories of their past to shape their future.
“The deep will be our sibling, our parent, our relief from endless solitude. Down here, we are wrapped up. Down here, we can pretend the dark is the black embrace of another.”
Attorney, activist and scholar Nkechi Taifa shares themes of politics, law and culture in her memoir as an attorney during the Black Power era. The novel tackles her quest for justice in a society where the odds were against her favour but she was able to prevail.
“She wants a conscious Black attorney. She wants a revolutionary Black attorney. She wants you!”
A historical reconstruction of the Biafran War in 1967, the novel focuses on four perspectives: the daughter of a wealthy Igbo chief, a house servant, British expatriate and a university professor at the centre of the conflict.
It raises issues around identity, love, pain, journalism and war. History is present in this book through the stories and a glossary of words from the Igbo dialect and pidgin.
“If the sun refuses to rise we will make it rise.”
HR Strategist, Shereen Daniels delivers a manual for business leaders to drive change in the workplace. This involves practices to achieve an equitable environment where all can thrive. She shares lived experiences, historical facts, HR insights and quantitative analysis – striving for equality.
‘‘Reverse engineer your approach and seek to change the conditions, your workplace cultures and behaviours so that it works for everyone, not just the ‘majority’ who look like you.”
The memo offers a tailored career advice guide to women of colour to find their voice in the workplace. The guide is structured around career experiences, a plan of action to create a path to progress and support for women of colour.
“We are constantly fighting those lovely labels some of our colleagues adorn us with… it’s important to kill those harmful stereotypes.”
The real-life stories of nine immigrants from the West Indies who settled in Great Britain are compiled in this book. It celebrates the wealth of cultural impact that Afro-Caribbeans made in the UK and delivers tales of challenges, homage and identity.
“No records had been kept, apparently. People who had spent decades in Britain… were being tossed aside like old boots.’’
Discover a list of online communities on LinkedIn and across social networks that provide a community platform for people of colour to gain knowledge across specialist subjects:
Black Recruiters Network
Black Equity Organisation
Black Leaders Worldwide
BREATHE Black, Indigenous, People of Colour HR Professionals & Allies
Diversity and Inclusion Leadership
Diversity and Cross-Cultural Professionals
Dope Black Professionals
The Black HR Network
The Black Apprentice Network
Another goal of Black History Month is to highlight the stories of the untold, unwritten, and forgotten. There were many key figures but their history was diluted. Chevalier is based on the true story of Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, a revered French violinist whose career rose to heights in French society as a composer but was hampered by racism.
“One day the whole world will know me and of course, the music will be spectacular – bold.’’
This genre-busting science fiction comedy involves clones, conspiracy and charisma. Without revealing too much of the plot, it dives into societal issues and modern-day propaganda that are often overlooked.
“Somebody is conducting experiments on us.’’
This docuseries is about Black women’s relationships with their hair, leading viewers through a journey of connecting their lived experiences whilst touching on societal and historical themes. It’s an intimate, powerful representation of women’s identity, beauty, culture and humanity.
“Black hair is both stigmatised and celebrated.’’
If you’re a fan of supernatural thrillers and drama, this one’s for you. It explores the terrors of the refugee experience of a South Sudanese couple who must flee from war to an English town.
Struggling to adjust, they discover darkness lurking beneath the cracks of their home. The film reveals the experience of how immigrants are treated by the government and the host country.
“This is bail, Mr. and Mrs Majur. You’re being released on bail as asylum seekers. Not as citizens, not yet.’’
The series follows the lives of modern-day black women, throughout their trials and tribulations. It shares uncomfortable important topics that are often overlooked, rebelling against the stereotype of the angry Black woman.
“Black women aren’t bitter, they’re just tired of being expected to settle for less.”
The trailblazing film explores the perils of a Black man fighting for his identity and battling with societal norms on sexuality and love. It was based on Tarell Alvin McCraney’s unpublished semi-autobiographical play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue.
“At some point, you gotta decide for yourself who you gonna be. Can’t let nobody make that decision for you.”
This is a comedy television series based in Harlem about a group of unapologetically vibrant Black Women who navigate relationships, the corporate world and strive for world domination.
“Do not feel guilty about wanting more. Fear is good. Fear is fuel.”
This powerful epic is about strength and sacrifice told from the point of view of the all-female king’s guards, the Agojie of the Dahomey Kingdom. The Agojie women must abstain from marriage and children to serve the king and protect their kingdom.
The film follows true events that happened in one of the most powerful states of Africa in the 18th and 19th centuries located in Benin.
“To be a warrior you must kill your tears.”
Tune into insightful podcasts that deliver topics on DEI, leadership, workplace liberation and inclusive cultures:
This article marks the end of our four-part series celebrating Black History Month. Although this is the last article, the content of our series will be refreshed throughout the years. One month isn’t enough to acknowledge Black History as it is the past, present and future. Therefore, we will keep the series alive – stay tuned for more to come.


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Livingston - The Making Of A Scottish New Town
The book gives details about why the site of the Almond Valley was chosen right up until the winding up of the LDC
The book was written in 1996 and therefore some information is slightly outdated but overall it is an excellent read and one book which shouldn't be missed!
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Images of Scotland - Livingston
Livingston Alive has taken pictures out of this book and there are over 125 pages of photos for you to view and enjoy!
The book was written in 2000 and is very up to date detailing every aspect of the town from the Shopping centres to pre-war toll houses to the Shale Oil Industry!
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New Beginnings: Livingston Ecumenical Parish
In 1966 the Livingston Ecumenical Experiment was launched by the induction of the Revd James Maitland, Church of Scotland, and the Revd Brian Hardy, Episcopal Church, to the new ecumenical charge of Livingston, West Lothian. This book describes the origins of the ecumenical movement, the early years in Livingston, and the close co-operation of the church with the community to solve various problems which presented themselves.
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Livingston in Old Picture Postcards
This Book is a book full of old Postcards of the Liingston Area.Compiled by William F. Hendrie, the book was commissioned by the European Library and is a good book for nostalgic folk about the West Lothian area! Price: £9.95
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If you are an IAS aspirant then it should very clear in your mind that NCERT books are very crucial for the exam. The importance of NCERT books for civil services exam can be considered from the fact that a big section of paper is from these books. So you have to give full attention in reading all the books of NCERT and prepare good notes for the exam according to the syllabus of IAS exam. Have a look on the following tips for making notes for IAS from NCERT books.
Importance of NCERT Books for UPSC civil services exam
NCERT books are said to be the basic readings for the UPSC civil services exam. Those who do not bother reading these books owing to the less idea about best books and resources for IAS examhave to suffer a lot. These books are going to make your concepts very clear in precise manner. So try to make it your primary go for the preparation of the IAS prelims as well as mains exam.
How to make notes from NCERT books for Prelims and Mains of IAS exam?
Now the question arise that once you are done with the reading these books how to make notes from NCERT books for IAS exam. Here are few tips that are going to help you in making good notes for the exam.
- Read the concept of the topic in the book and understand its fundamentals.
- Now take your notebook and write whatever you remember in first two reading about the concept of topic, only that much stuff is important.
- Never go on adding examples in your notes at they will make the notes bulkier like that of book and there will be no difference between book and notes.
- Try to keep your hand written notes font as small as you can write and easy to read for you.
Important points to keep in mind while reading NCERT books for UPSC exam
While preparing your notes from NCERT books for UPSC civil services exam you can compare the same topic in different books as well. That is how you are putting a complied concept at one place to make it easy to understand the topic in one time during revision. Take out a note on the terms you do not understand and try solving then at the end of the day by managing time for them.


The Baptist community in North America has a rich, vibrant, and diverse community of researchers, writers, and scholars. Today marks the beginning of sharing this community of scholars with one another, throughout the 22 denominational groups, colleges and almost 20,000,000 people.
We have much to learn from each other and many resources to share.
Whether that sharing takes the form of reading one another’s books, live streaming on particular topics, or simply being apprised of who might be available to resource a particular congregation, this is the beginning of our learning and encouraging process!
The list will be managed by Derek Hatch.


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The 2007 Campaign Guide for Corporations and Labor Organizations is now available on the Commission website. Paper copies will be available by May 2007.
For each type of committee, a Campaign Guide explains, in clear English, the complex regulations regarding the activity of political committees. It shows readers, for example, how to fill out FEC reports and illustrates how the law applies to practical situations.
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Dr. Anne T. Rodgers has generously allowed the Lanesville Community Center to reproduce and include in this CD a number of images from her family albums, including the many close-ups of Lanes Cove fishermen and other Lanesville residents, as well as snapshots of the cove in earlier times. Dr. Rodgers is the granddaughter of George and Emily Rodgers, who for many years owned the two cottages at the end of Andrews Street, next to what is now the boat ramp. Old timers will remember the cottages as “Fleetwood” and “Seashell”, as well as Emily’s flower boat, which inspired the poem “The Flower Boat” by Robert Frost, who visited the cove in the 1930’s. The flower boat tradition is now carried on by Joan Stowell.
Starting in the 1930’s and continuing until his death in 1956, George Rodgers was harbormaster for the Lanes Cove Pier Company. Although George and Emily were summer residents, they were very active in a number of Lanesville community organizations.
According to Dr. Rodgers, the early photos – those going back to the first decades of the 20th century – were taken by Howard and Fred Foster, who were both prolific amateur photographers and the proprietors of Foster’s Drugstore on Washington Street in Lanesville. Fred Foster gave these photos to Emily Rodgers, and through the generosity of her granddaughter Anne they are now the centerpiece of this collection.


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Materials Science Research India publishes reviews, full-length papers, and short communications recording original research results on, or techniques for studying the relationship between structure, properties, and uses of materials. The subjects are seen from international and interdisciplinary perspectives covering areas including metals, ceramics, glasses, polymers, Laser materials, Photonic crystals, Piezo-, pyro- and ferroelectric materials, High-Tc superconductors, Magnetic materials, Molecular materials (including polymers) for use in electronics and photonics, Novel solid phases, electrical materials, composite materials, fibers, nanostructured materials, nanocomposites, and biological and biomedical materials.
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The Prologue of the Wisdom of Yahawashi the Son of Sirach. Whereas many and great things have been delivered unto us by the law and the prophets, and by others that have followed their steps, for the which things Yashara'al ought to be commended for learning and wisdom; and whereof not only the readers must needs become skilful themselves, but also they that desire to learn be able to profit them which are without, both by speaking and writing: my grandfather Yahawashi, when he had much given himself to the reading of the law, and the prophets, and other books of our fathers, and had gotten therein good judgment, was drawn on also himself to write something pertaining to learning and wisdom; to the intent that those which are desirous to learn, and are addicted to these things, might profit much more in living according to the law. Wherefore let me intreat you to read it with favour and attention, and to pardon us, wherein we may seem to come short of some words, which we have laboured to interpret. For the same things uttered in Hebrew, and translated into another tongue, have not the same force in them: and not only these things, but the law itself, and the prophets, and the rest of the books, have no small difference, when they are spoken in their own language. For in the eight and thirtieth year coming into Egypt, when Euergetes was king, and continuing there some time, I found a book of no small learning: therefore I thought it most necessary for me to bestow some diligence and travail to interpret it; using great watchfulness and skill in that space to bring the book to an end, and set it forth for them also, which in a strange country are willing to learn, being prepared before in manners to live after the law. All wisdom cometh from the Lord, and is with him for ever.


I don’t remember a time in my life when I didn’t read. Some of my earliest memories are of trips to the Victoria Public Library when I couldn’t have been much more than three years old. My parents were both fervent believers in the importance of reading and took us to the library every Saturday morning, until we were old enough to get there on our own. I remember the thrill of graduating to an adult card, and the hours I spent perusing that section of the library, often settling into a carrel to start reading a book even before I checked it out.
When we came home from our weekly library excursions, I tucked myself away wherever I could find a quiet spot – not always easy in a house that was often a bit too small for the ever-growing size of our family – took off my glasses and read and read and read. I read on my bed, on the living room couch, as I brushed my teeth, in the bathtub. If I was awake, there was a good chance I was reading. As soon as I opened my book, the rest of the world disappeared. Perhaps author Annie Dillard was thinking of me when she wrote:
“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”
Still reading after all these years
I feel the same sense of excitement now when I have a fresh batch of library books as I did when I was a kid, even if now those books are often on my tablet, and I put glasses on to read instead of taking them off. Almost every room of our house contains at least one but more likely two or three bookcases. While the bathrooms don’t have bookshelves, they are well stocked with magazines.
We buy, borrow and trade books. We take them out of the public library and pick up and drop off books from the Little Free Libraries that now dot our neighbourhood.
In the before times, I did a lot of my reading while I was on the road: in trains, planes and hotel rooms. In the now times, I have no such opportunities, and have had to work to create intentional time to read because – good times or bad – read I must.
I have long been a fan of mysteries and political thrillers for my recreational reading; mostly books that are set in the present day or recent past. However, I have kind of lost my taste for current times over the past several months. I may not feel quite as gloomy as a friend’s recent email sounded, but I am close:
“There is nothing I can think of in terms of contemporary writing that I’m remotely interested in reading now or in the foreseeable future. We are living in terrible times on any number of fronts.”
My reading over the past eight months seems to reflect this disenchantment with the times we live in. Virtually every novel I have read has been set prior to 1970, most of them set in the 1920s and 1930s.
I am woman, I am strong
I have especially enjoyed three series, all of which feature strong women as the main character: women who are not afraid to step outside their accepted place; women who take risks in their personal as well as their professional lives. There is comfort in reading about such women, even if they are fictitious, in a time when many of us feel like we are floundering to find firm ground under our feet. All of these series also explore social and political issues of their day, so I am finally learning the history I did not pay attention to when I was in school.
Jacqueline Winspear’s Maisie Dobbs series is set in 1920s and 1930s London, England, with frequent forays into Kent. Maisie is a psychologist and investigator with a very interesting backstory (you will have to read the books to find out what it is), whose cases often take her into the underbelly of English society and politics in the years between the two world wars. I am about halfway through this series of 18 books and am hoping madly that more will be forthcoming.
Lane Winslow is a young English woman who moves on her own to a spot outside Nelson, British Columbia, after WW2, during which she was a British spy. Created by Canadian writer Iona Wishaw, Lane is an adventuresome woman who stumbles over dead bodies at an alarming rate, given the tiny village where she lives. Naturally, she plays a significant role in solving the mysteries associated with these deaths. There are eight books in this series, and I have read them all.
Sujata Massey’s two-book (so far) series features Perveen Mistry, a lawyer in Bombay in the early 1920s. As a woman, she can work only as a solicitor and not as a barrister, so she does a lot of fairly tedious work for her father’s law firm, in the course of which she stumbles upon legal situations that require a “women’s touch.” Like Maisie Dobbs, Perveen has a rich backstory that informs the kind of woman she has become.
I have found it heartening in a time when so much is disheartening, to live vicariously through Maisie’s, Lane’s and Perveen’s rich lives as women ahead of their times.
And, as the cold weather arrives, I look forward to wrapping myself in a blanket, making a cup of cocoa, and continuing to escape through books, so share your recommendations.


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Have you seen this movie "Yeti"? Escape the cold and join us for a movie on the big screen! Water and popcorn will be served.
Movie Summary: A yeti is convinced that the elusive creatures known as "humans" really do exist.
In order to better serve our patrons, we will be distributing a limited number of tickets at the Youth Services Reference Desk on a first-come, first-served basis 30 minutes before the start of the program. One ticket will be given per person and all attendees must be present to receive a ticket.
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With less than a week to go until the 4th Renewable Futures Conference we would love to present one the keynote speakers: Jeffrey Cohen.
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Rainbow: The Promise of Prismatic Ecologies Beyond Green
Jeffrey J. Cohen
Arizona State University
A rainbow is the promise of a world beyond green. Having unleashed the climate catastrophe that scours the Earth and necessitates that all life start again from a new origin, from the highly selective archive within Noah’s ark, God pins a rainbow in the sky as a reminder of a covenant, a stability to come. According to Genesis, never again will God send a flood to eradicate all humankind. The rainbow is a weapon made of weather, its string pulled tight, ready but suspended. A gathering of all the colors of the spectrum, a rainbow would seem to be inclusive: all the world in a luminous band, all the materialities and possibilities for life in shimmering unity. No wonder we use rainbows for Pride, for joy, for affirmation. Yet in the second creation story that Genesis offers nothing really changes after the rainbow – in facts things get markedly worse. Humans and animals who had been messmates on the ark henceforth fear each other. Some of these animals are sacrificed to commemorate the change in the weather; some are devoured as a feast. Noah is soon planting purple grapes, fermenting them, becoming so drunk he passes out naked and his son laughs at him. What began as a story of commencement comes to a terrible end, with the mocking son and his descendants cursed to eternal slavery.
What green future exactly did that rainbow promise? This talk examines the rainbow of myth and narrative in its unifying as well as entropic force, as a weapon of affirmation as well as omen of chaos to come. A prismatic bridge to a world beyond verdant stabilities, the rainbow is a promise of both failure and striving to come.
This was the full abstract of Rainbow: The Promise of Prismatic Ecologies Beyond Green.
Who is Jeffrey Cohen?
Jeffrey J. Cohen is Dean of Humanities at Arizona State University and former co-president of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, the largest professional organization in the environmental humanities. His research examines strange and beautiful things that challenge the imagination, phenomena that are alien and intimate at once – from zombies and giants to the humanizing power of rocks, the materiality of color, the sky as an ocean full of life, and the intimacy of catastrophe to community. His work brings together medieval studies, monster theory, and the environmental humanities. His book Stone: An Ecology of the Inhuman received the 2017 René Wellek Prize in comparative literature from the American Comparative Literature Association. In collaboration with Lowell Duckert he published an environmental trilogy that includes Prismatic Ecology, Elemental Ecocriticism, and Veer Ecology. With Stephanie Foote he recently co-edited The Cambridge Companion to Environmental Humanities, and with Julian Yates has co-written Noah’s Arkive: Towards an Ecology of Refuge.


Living With ADD
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This workbook enables adults with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) to identify the personal problems caused by the condition and deal with and minimize those problems. Although medication has been shown to help adults with ADD, this workbook provides an alternative (or complement) to conventional treatment. This interactive workbook enables readers who are struggling with Attention Deficit Disorder to identify the personal problems caused by it and develop skills for coping with them. Readers learn how to assess themselves and work through exercises structured to help them deal with self-esteem issues, change negative or distorted thinking patterns, manange stress, and develop a structured approach to starting and finishing tasks. Final chapters offer specific suggestions for handling common problems at work and school, dealing with intimate relationships and finding support.
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Each entry includes production information, a synopsis of the play, a bibliography of the playwright and a scene summary. These books aim to celebrate the early generations of Black British writers who paved the way for the next generation and those who have taken the baton and continue to produce exceptional and groundbreaking work. This exciting two-book anthology consists of 80 monologues from cutting-edge contemporary writers.
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A.P. Stephens’ first epic fantasy novel, THE WHITE SHADOW SAGA: THE STOLEN MOON OF LONDOR, is a tale of a world in peril. When one of the twin moons mysteriously disappears from the heavens, things grow dim for the world of Londor and all of its inhabitants.
For more information about the book, check out the other links under “The White Shadow Saga”. You can read an overview of the book, see the first chapter, and view some artwork.
THE STOLEN MOON OF LONDOR is Book I of III in this trilogy.
This book is being released under my own publishing label, Fanda Books.
“A deftly written fantasy novel. Entertaining and reminiscent of the very best. A.P. Stephens is definitely a writer to watch.”
- Stacey Cochran, bestselling author of THE COLORADO SEQUENCE


The 1980s, an era often reminisced with phrases like “gnarly” and “radical” 80s phrases, witnessed a radical transformation in the realm of technology. It was a decade where vibrant expressions from the 1980s slang were as commonplace as the emerging gadgets and innovations. This write-up explores how the technological landscape evolved during this colorful decade.
Setting the Stage: The 1980s
The 1980s was a period marked by bold fashion, iconic sayings, and groundbreaking technological leaps. It was a time when the world started embracing digital technology, making way for a future that was once only imaginable in sci-fi. Phrases like “Where’s the beef?” and “I pity the fool” were not just part of the everyday lexicon but also a reflection of the era’s vibrant culture and technological curiosity.
Personal Computers and the Home Computer Revolution
This decade saw personal computers becoming “totally awesome” household items. Affordable and user-friendly computers changed the way we interact with technology. Remember the excitement of loading a game from a floppy disk or the sound of a dial-up modem? These were the humble beginnings of our now omnipresent digital world.
The Birth of the Internet
Although still nascent, the 1980s laid the groundwork for the internet. The development of protocols and the establishment of connectivity paved the way for the World Wide Web, which would later revolutionize communication and information sharing. It was a “bodacious” beginning to what would become an integral part of daily life.
Mobile Technology and the First Cell Phones
The advent of mobile technology in the 1980s was “like, totally radical”. The first cell phones, though bulky, were a significant leap towards our current mobile-first world. This era marked the start of a journey that would eventually lead to sleek smartphones, altering our communication, work, and entertainment.
Music and Old Media Transformation
The ’80s were transformative for music and media. It was the era of mixtapes, boomboxes, and the Walkman, changing how we experienced music. Moreover, it was a time marked by the popularity of VHS tapes. The last VHS movie released, symbolizing the end of an era, marked the transition to more advanced forms of digital media.
The 1980s was rife with other technological innovations. From video games to advancements in robotics and space exploration, the decade was a hotbed for scientific and technological creativity.
To Sum Up
The 1980s set the stage for the digital age, with innovations in computing, the internet, mobile technology, and media. These advancements laid the foundation for our modern technological landscape. As we look back, the “gnarly” 1980s were more than just a catchphrase; they were the beginning of a technological revolution.


The Sodus Pride Lions Club and the Sodus Lions Club have collaborated with the Sodus Community Library to open a Medical Equipment Closet. The Lions Clubs have identified a need in the community to have durable medical equipment available for Town of Sodus residents to borrow.
The Library’s Director Roxanne Roscup and Library Clerk Chritina Russell have been instrumental in assisting with the process. In partnering with the Sodus Library, the borrower will “check out” the equipment with an OWWL Library Card. The system will log in the information, including the borrow date, return date and item loaned.
Currently inventory includes crutchdes, walkers, canes, wheelchairs, shower chairs, commode risers and more.
Donations will be received on Satuday, March 4, from 10 am to Noon at the library. This will continue on the first Saturday of the month moving forward. All items must be clean and in good working condition. The library and Lions Club reserve the right to use their discretion when accepting equipment due to space constraints or other conditions. Please contact the Lions Club or 315-483-6774 or 315-483-6197 for more information.


Author, journalist, popular lecturer is my professional handle. In my 50 years as a writer [Wow, she’s that old?] I have done thousands of interviews and written 16 books, most notably Passages, a revolutionary book that changed the way millions of women and men around the world look at the stages of their lives. If you haven’t read it, you may have seen it on your mother’s bookshelf!
It’s still relevant.
Passages remained on The New York Times Bestseller List for more than three years and has been reprinted in 28 languages. A Library of Congress survey named Passages one of the ten most influential books of our times. In New Passages (1995), I revisited the stages of adult life and mapped out a completely new frontier, from age 50 onward, entitled our Second Adulthood.
Here’s what a New York Times book reviewer and Princeton professor Elaine Showalter wrote about the impact of Sheehy’s books:
In 1976, in her best seller Passages, the journalist Gail Sheehy invented a new way of thinking about the phases of adult life…[as] ‘a series of developmental stages and tasks, critical turning points along the life cycle when one’s opportunity for growth is also heightened‘ […] Women embraced Sheehy’s thinking and incorporated it into their expectations…. The New York Times June 7, 1998
Wearing my journalist hat, I have been a contributing editor to Vanity Fair for three decades. I culminated a decade of following Hillary Clinton with the biography, Hillary’s Choice, exploring the personal ambitions and vulnerabilities that drive the world’s most public woman. I’ve written about the character and psychology of presidential candidates from Robert Kennedy to Barack Obama and world leaders from Margaret Thatcher to Saddam Hussein.
I figured it was about time I turned the lens on myself and wrote a memoir about my own passages. The book is called DARING: My Passages. It will be published in September 2014 by William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins. I hope it inspires young women to dream big, take risks, outlive the early failures, and build toward success with meaning and social purpose by midlife. More about my books if you care to read on:
I like daring to start new conversations: In my book, Silent Passage, I broke the taboo surrounding menopause and opened a dialogue vital to maturing women’s health. In Understanding Men’s Passages I prompted men to reveal their fears of decreasing economic relevance and their pleasure in the emotional closeness of contemporary fatherhood.
In 2006 I drove across country to interview a hundred of the 750 women who answered my survey on sex and passion for life after age 50. I couldn’t shut them up! Nobody ever asked them before. I published their lusty stories in Sex and the Seasoned Woman.
While acting as the caregiver for my husband through multiple battles with cancer, I wrote my most personal book, Passages in Caregiving (2010). It tells the story of the eight stages of our journey and the deepening of our love and hard-won courage. But it also tells the stories of many other successful caregivers and their concrete strategies for saving their own health and sanity while performing this most demanding and potentially ennobling role.
Now, the awards:
- Seven time recipient of New York Newswomen’s Club Front Page Award for Distinguished Journalism
- Washington Journalism Review Award for Best Magazine Writer in America
- New York Public Library Literary Lions Award
- 1973 The National Magazine Award for Reporting Excellence
- 1994 Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Dartmouth
- 1997 Hospital for Special Surgery Award For Groundbreaking Work In Women’s Health
- 2002 American Psychological Associations Presidential Citation
- American Society on Aging Leadership Award (2011)
- Books for a Better Life “Lifetime Achievement Award” (2012)
NOTE: I’ve also made a lot of instructive mistakes. See About the Book


Join MPD officers and neighbors for the Eastside Coffee with a Cop on Tuesday March 8 at 10am (Pinney Library at 516 Cottage Grove Road) and on Zoom. The month’s special guest is Sarah Henrickson who is a Clinical Team Manager for Journey Mental Health. Sarah has been embedded with MPD’s Mental Health Unit and now works with the new CARES team. Sarah will be joined by Hope Edgren who is the CRISIS worker with Journey Mental Health who is assigned to the East District.
If you have questions, you’re welcome to ask them during the event, but you can also submit them ahead of time to Neighborhood Resource Officer Alexa Graham at firstname.lastname@example.org so she can gather any necessary data or information for you ahead of time.


In The Water Calls, Ariana masterfully crafts a mythical journey
for any woman to embark on to find her wings, her voice,
her “yes,” and her “no.”
What began as Ariana Strozzi Mazzucchi’s desire to understand her traumatic divorce became the revelation of a heroine’s journey. Written through the eyes and voice of “Emma,” Ariana unravels a lifetime of conditioning to fit in—to be “the good girl” and “the good wife”—convinced to hide her intuitive powers and deeply connected relationship to the natural world.
Through significant life moments, Ariana shares how her animal guides, sacred relationship with horses, and the healing lessons gleaned from nature helped her heal old wounds and betrayals—and reclaim her dignity and freedom. Her personal reflections reveal how a modern-day spiritual warrioress finds her way back to her shamanic way of being.
Each chapter, many adorned with her illustrations, provides inspiration from nature and her animal friends that ultimately guide Ariana through her most vulnerable and challenging undertaking: to stand tall without apology. At the end of each chapter, Ariana offers “opportunities to contemplate” and “time in nature reflections,” inviting readers to awaken to their personal transformations and take a stand for their original selves.
Author: Ariana Strozzi Mazzucchi
Publication Date: August 22, 2022
Ariana Strozzi Mazzucchi
Ariana Strozzi Mazzucchi grew up on the back of a horse on the coastal hills of Northern California. She enjoys sharing her love of animals, land, and nature with anyone who crosses her path. Her mission is to reconnect people to the natural world for the sake of saving the Great Mother Earth and all her creations.
She believes that time is of the essence. We need to take the reins in our own hands, form herds of like-minded people, share our dreams, and stand tall in the face of adversity. We need to awaken our spiritual longing and interconnectedness to all life and encourage possibility and hope in a time of uncertainty.
Ariana is a pioneer in the field of incorporating horses into human education and learning, coining the term equine-guided education (EGE) in 1999. She began pioneering this work in the 1970s, training horse and rider in a variety of disciplines and winning champion awards in dressage, jumping, eventing, gymkhana, reining, and working cow horse.
During this time, she realized that horses were listening to subtle forms of energy, intention, and imagery. She believes she grew up knowing this, but her consciousness expanded immensely once she brought it into cognitive form. She began to see people as animals also and went on to study animal behavior at UC Davis, where she graduated with a degree in zoology in 1984.
Ariana spent several years working with birds of prey and other wildlife at the UC Davis Veterinary School and managed several animal and equine facilities. The birds and wildlife taught her many of the same lessons that the horses had. She felt a need to bring the magic of animal communication into the world of people and began studying human dynamics—aikido, leadership, and somatics—becoming a Master Somatic Coach in 1996.
The seemingly separate worlds of horsemanship and self-mastery began to blend together and ultimately shifted her orientation from traditional horsemanship (in which we control the horse’s behavior through a system of cues and orders) to seeing the horse as a sentient being who can actually guide us into a deeper connection with ourselves and our whole lives.
She started to bring people out to work with the horses, not to learn how to work or ride the horse, but to practice energy awareness and centering. It was then she realized that the horses gave each person a truly unique experience that directly related to every other area of his or her life. This led to the beginning of Leadership & Horses™ in 1989.
Ariana’s students come from all walks of life, including youth, mothers, coaches, therapists, managers, small business owners, entrepreneurs, and corporate executives. Horses and the natural world have taught her to become more curious about helping people find their own reconnection to the natural world so they can come back into balance in their lives and have a better chance of staying on their destiny’s path.
She learned that the healing power of land and animals is profound beyond measure and also learned that our path is right in front of us once we get out of our clogged, logical appeals and rationalizations. Finally, she learned that it takes time to slough off and let go of the deeper underlying stories and experiences that stop us from being free in spirit and purpose.
Ariana Strozzi Mazzucchi is the author of the books, Equine Guided Education: Horses Healing Humans, Healing Earth; Horse Sense for the Leader Within; Planning Your Business in the “Horse as Healer/Teacher” Professions, and the DVD Intuitive Horsemanship™, as well as essays in the books, Being Human at Work and Horse Crazy. She cofounded the Strozzi Institute and has been in numerous agricultural board of director positions.
In addition to her love of horses, Ariana is an avid rancher, plant medicine grower, winemaker, artist, and mother of three. As an artist, she loves to work in a variety of mediums, including scratchboard, sumi painting, oils, acrylics, beadwork, and watercolor.
To learn more about Ariana, visit ArianaStrozziMazzucchi.com.
What Our Readers Are Saying…
“A remarkable woman with a remarkable life! I am so grateful to have been allowed access to Ariana’s history, art, and guided exercises, as The Water Calls takes us on a gentle journey inside ourselves and reawakens our beautiful connection to Mother Earth and all her creatures. The first layer of Ariana’s story and wisdom is refreshingly simple and direct … and then, after a time, there comes a moment when we notice that all along it was weaving circular webs into our very being, slowly and powerfully absorbed like a soft spring rain, until by the end we are saturated and utterly transformed. A book to savor slowly and then read again and again.”
—Amy Ricafrente, Owner of Amy’s Kitchen
“Emma’s journey is a tapestry of wisdom-rich stories and poems beautifully woven into the reflection of Ariana’s life. Through the eyes of nature—horses, birds, coyotes, and more—Ariana was guided to uncover aspects of her life through the magic of animal wisdom. As I read this book, I laughed and I cried. I saw humanity through a new lens. Ariana is a teacher, guide, and mentor to all, and the sharing of her most vulnerable Self touched my heart with love.”
—Kami Guildner, author of Firedancer: Your Spiral Journey to a Life of Passion and Purpose, kamiguildner.com
“Ariana’s stories are private treasures that don’t reveal themselves to the voyeur; rather, they are a feast for the famished feminine soul. It feels as if each word was set free from the magic place in between worlds, instinctively and vividly reminding us of who we really are and have always been. The Water Calls takes us on a journey that is utterly vulnerable and exquisitely powerful, leaving us hopeful, heartful, and head over heels in love with Mother Nature and all her creatures!”
—Maryanne Comoroto, PhD, Author of Hindsight
“Ariana Strozzi Mazzucchi has beautifully crafted a must-read tale for every woman on a spiritual journey. Through her trials and tribulations, she shares how her animal guides, her sacred relationship with horses, and the healing lessons gleaned from nature helped heal old wounds and betrayals. At the end of each chapter, she offers reflections and time in nature prompts, revealing the inner workings of how a modern-day spiritual warrior finds her way back to her shamanic way of being in this world. This book is a recommended read for any intuitive, highly empathic, and earthbound being in transition.”
—Kathy Pike, Author of Life Lessons from the Heart of Horses, Horse Spirits Speak, and Hope from the Heart of Horses
“It is nourishment for any human soul that seeks to find answers. It’s a must-read.”
“The Water Calls: One Woman’s Journey to Reclaim Her Dignity and Freedom by Ariana Strozzi Mazzucchi is an unforgettable true-to-life story of one woman’s journey. It is simultaneously an opportunity for us readers to get to know ourselves, as well as to tap into the latent connection we have to Mother Nature and what she has to offer. It is about how the author learned to set herself free after she emerged triumphant from struggling to make sense of her chaotic divorce. She shares her personal story as an invitation for you to explore your journey to free yourself from the shackles of other people’s judgments and expectations. Each chapter presents a poem that expresses an artistic sense of her personal experience, which she claims is presented in a pure state both spontaneous and intuitive.
Ariana Strozzi Mazzucchi’s combined narrative, verses, and images are profoundly evocative, making you sense the most powerful things in nature. It is a testament to the healing properties of the natural things around us, particularly animals, that guided Mazzucchi to decode the riddles of her existence with their untainted wisdom. The rhythm and sounds of her tales resonate, giving you a sense of renewal, of rebirth, as the most natural things yield fascinating revelations when you pay attention to them. The Water Calls isn’t simply written from the viewpoint of imagination. It is written from the heart and mind of observation and experience. It is nourishment for any human soul that seeks to find answers. It’s a must-read.”
“Ariana Strozzi Mazzucchi’s combined narrative, verses, and images are profoundly evocative, making you sense the most powerful things in nature.”


On October 25th, there was a fabulous gala reception for the Freedom's Sisters Show, as detailed in my Spirituality and Art Blog. Unfortunately, the local artist show on the 4th floor was not opened during the gala. I just had an opportunity to go to the 4th floor of the Sacramento Main Library (828 I Street) to view the local art show that accompanies the Freedom's Sisters Show. I enjoyed seeing the artwork of other female artists, especially those I did not know. I look forward to meeting the other artists, and I invite you to meet them too, on December 6th at 3 PM. We artists will have a round table discussion about our inspirations for the artworks. Come and bring your questions and give us your feedback.
The art show is open every day that the Main Library is open. Do check it and the Freedom's Sisters Show out. And bring the kids and grandkids so they can learn about an important part of African American history.


Celeste Augé is the author of Skip Diving (Salmon Poetry, 2014), The Essential Guide to Flight (Salmon Poetry, 2009) and the collection of short stories Fireproof and Other Stories (Doire Press, 2012), which was longlisted for the 2013 Frank O’Connor Award.
World Literature Today has said that “Celeste Augé’s poems are commendable for their care, deep thought, and intellectual ambition”, while the Anna Livia Review has said that “Fireproof is a remarkably strong debut into the world of short stories and will begin to build what is undoubtedly going to be a strong readership for the author”.
She works in the area of adult education, teaching creative writing to undergraduates at NUI Galway as well as teaching adult literacy. She mentors writers at all stages and in different forms of writing.
Celeste has a Masters degree in writing from NUI Galway. Her poetry has been shortlisted for a Hennessy Award and she received a Literature Bursary from the Arts Council of Ireland to write her poetry collection Skip Diving. In 2011, she won the Cúirt New Writing Prize for fiction. She lives in Connemara, in the West of Ireland, with her husband and son.


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In retrospect, I think he was amused. An extraordinarily gifted scholar with broad learning, our church rector was ever a gentleman. But he’d never mentioned it one way or another. So when I met dispensationalism ever so many years ago, it seemed natural to ask him if he’d heard of it.
Surprise — he had!
He then explained that dispensationalism rests largely on a misreading of apocalyptic texts. He continued by saying that while this genre is used in the Bible, it is very different. Reading it correctly requires an entirely different set of interpretative rules.
I then asked whether he’d made this any particular study of his own.
Another surprise — he had!
A fine, little book had just been written on topic called, ‘Apocalyptic.’ The publisher asked him to write a few lines to publish on the cover.
Years later, I was browsing a book store when I noticed a little book by Leon Morris. In his day, Morris was deemed by some the most capable NT Greek scholar in the English-speaking world. The title? ‘Apocalyptic.’
I read the table of contents, the bibliography, fanned it to glance at its headings, and then flipped it over. Among the reviews was this statement by the Rev. Dr. Ronald A. Ward:
“Dr. Morris has established a tradition, and it is here maintained: evidence of wide reading, mastery of the sources, the exercise of an independent, critical judgment, courtesy and fairness towards all. Apocalyptic sets out the main points clearly, and will be a great help — especially to young seminarians.”
At ‘seminarians,’ I recalled another of Dr. Ward’s observations: that day in church narthex, he said ‘the vast majority of theology students graduate from seminary having read not a solitary title on apocalyptic literature.’
He might have said that after a lifetime in pridefully ‘pre-mill/pre-trib’ sects, the vast majority of Independent, Fundamental Baptist pastors had yet to hear John’s message. But again, Dr. Ward was ever the gentleman.
Yet for anyone who cares to read them, these few posts recapitulating one chapter in Richard Bauckham’s book hold more perspective than most prophecy ‘experts’ will gain in a lifetime.
Anyone interested in further reading of apocalyptic literature can find a discussion of it here. Oh, and needless to say, I bought Morris’ book.
But you can download it free.


Book revisits Mile High City restaurants of the past.
A lifetime ago and two time zones away, I co-authored a book called Pennsylvania’s Historic Restaurants & Their Recipes. The premise was that the buildings in which the restaurants were located (though not necessarily the restaurants themselves) had to be at least 50 years old, which is no trick at all in one the country’s original 13 states. I traveled all the Keystone State, interviewed restaurant owners and chefs — and then vetted and tested recipes.
Robert and Kristen Autobee, the husband-and-wife team who co-authored Lost Restaurants of Denver, gave themselves a different mandate. Their restaurants they covered were ones that had closed, some decades ago and some within Robert’s memory. As a native Coloradan, he wrote that he “probably ate at all the places mentioned from the fourth chapter onward to the book’s conclusion.” They are both interested in food and are history nerds with both the personal passion and professional skills to delve into libraries, archives and even museum resources, as well as personal interviews with individuals who made or observed recent Denver restaurant history.
The result is a fascinating journey into the past of Denver’s hospitality business. They wrote about food in frontier boarding houses and as Denver grew up, glamorous haunts in facy hotels, 19th-century oyster houses in the middle of the country, modest lunch counters, burger joints and ethnic restaurants where the foods of various old countries were served. Sometimes, the “old” country was Mexico. There were, of course, growing pains. The authors therefore included the good, the bad and the ugly of the local dining scene. What would today be considered gender discrimination was seen a way of protecting “respectable” ladies a century or so ago.
In 1909, for instance, an order was passed “forbidding women unaccompanied by escort to enter restaurants serving liquor after 8:00 p.m.” Then there was also overt racial and ethnic discrimination without the guise or protecting any group. Therefore, the authors also wrote about the unfortunate times when hospitality was not always extended to African-Americans, Asians and other immigrants of various stripes. The book is in many way a sociological history of Denver within the enticing wrapper of restaurants that used to be.
The book was published by American Palate, a division of The History Press. Its 160 pages include photographs, menus, promotional items and documents. In case you want your bookstore to special-order it if it is not in stock, tell them that the ISBN number is 9781626197152. Click here to order directly from the publisher. (And if WordPress has added a strike-through, click anyway, and you should get to the publisher’s online store.) The cover price is $19.99.


|I. The Pottawatomies and Beyond
The waves of the great lake lapped against the shore, but the water would not be stopped. For miles Lake Michigan flooded the land, seeping into every crevice it could find with an unsatiable thirst to reclaim the geographic region that it had dominated for thousands of years. But even the great lake could not defeat the ice age, and by the time the area was settled by local Indian tribes, it had been beaten back to what is roughly now the state of Illinois? border.
In the time of the Indians there wasn't much to see except for swamp and mosquitoes and the onion root the Pottawatomies called 'chicakagou.' Still, the area known to the U.S. government in later years as the Chicago Portage did have its usefulness. A canoe could be easily carried over the portage from Lake Michigan to a river that fed into the Mississippi, linking the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. The portage was the key to the navigation, and thus commerce, of an entire region. The Indians knew this for a long time, and so did the French.
Years before any European attempted to find the Mississippi by way of the Chicago Portage, the Indians of the Great Plains?Pottawatomie, Chippewa, Ottawa?used this region as meeting ground. All easily reached the site by canoe, proving that location is real estates only law hundreds of years before the first Eastern huckster tried to sell a chunk of this stinking swamp to some sucker with a bag full of coins and a head full of dreams. For the Indians, the land belonged to no one but itself. But by the time they came to grips with the white mans conception of land it was too late.
In 1673 the Chicago Portage was 'discovered? by a Frenchman, Louis Joliet. A year later a member of Joliets expedition, a Jesuit missionary named Pere Marquette, further explored the region. It was to be his death. He contracted a para-typhoid disorder during the winter of 1674. Even though sick, he continued to preach to the Indians, but died in the spring of 1675 for his troubles. Not much happened for another hundred years. The occasional trader would come by, do his business with the Indians, and be glad to be rid of the swamp and the diseases it exhaled.
The first non-native to settle the land was Pointe De Sable, a fugitive slave from San Domingo. By 1779 a small settlement had sprung up around his camp and De Sables stake was eventually purchased by another trader, who in turn was bought out by Jonathan Kinzie in 1804. Kinzie was an Easterner with an eye for a sweet deal. Even though it was still swampland, he knew that this land was something special, and with the right men and the right tools it could be beaten and shaped into a form that would be most profitable. He was right.
As the settlement grew the government began to see it is a gateway to the Western frontier, and erected Fort Dearborn where the Chicago River and Lake Michigan kissed. The Indians were none too happy about this situation and in 1812 they massacred most of the soldiers and their families. Kinzie escaped and came back in 1814 when the fort was rebuilt. From then on, there would be no stopping the settlement of the area.
II. Growing and Flexing
By 1833 Chicago was a lively frontier town. The Indians were thrown out by way of a treaty, which paid them an annuity for two years under the provision that they would be west of the Mississippi by 1835. With the area free of Indian threat, land speculation picked up with a fury. The promise of a quick buck drew more and more people to the area and, in 1837, Chicago was officially incorporated as a city.
Eastern merchants descended upon Chicago to seek their fortunes, and they found them. The beginnings of such great enterprises as Marshall Fields', Carson Pirie Scotts, Sears and Roebuck, and Montgomery Wards can be traced to this period. The Illinois and Michigan canal opened in 1848, enabling a ship to enter Canada from the St. Lawrence River and make its way all the way to the Mississippi. Rail lines soon followed, and Chicago became the nations inland shipping hub. With the opening of the Union Stockyards on the western fringe of town, Chicago did, as poet Carl Sandburg famously put it, become the 'hog butcher to the world.'
Even though the city was now thriving there were still problems. Streets were terribly paved with mud bubbling and spilling through the cracks, the swamp land had yet to be beaten back, and the citizens were plagued by mosquitoes and thus malaria. On top of all this, many of the buildings in the downtown business center were sinking into the muddy, swampy foundations on which they were built.
George Pullman, an Eastern engineer, came west to Chicago and convinced the people that the solution to their problems was simple: raise the buildings. Using an ingenious series of jacks, Pullman and his crews successfully raised Chicago out of the mud. This would not be the first time that the fates of Pullman and Chicago would intersect. Later, Pullman would open his Pullman Palace Car Company and construct his planned community, The Pullman District, whose worker-residents would revolt against unfair wages and unjust treatment in a bloody strike in 1894.
But in the 1850s and '60s things couldn't have looked brighter. Chicago became known as the 'Gem of the Prairie,? 'The Garden City,? and a hundred other euphemisms that brought in more and more people. In just a few years, Chicago grew from a small frontier town to a booming metropolis on the lake, drawing not only Easterners but a slew of European immigrants.
And then disaster struck.
III. The Best and the Worst
The summer of 1871 was a scorcher. Rain was scarce, a dangerous thing for a city primarily made of wood and drastically under equipped to fight fires. It was bound to happen. Catherine O?Leary was an Irish immigrant living on De Koven street on the citys Southwest side. On the evening of Oct. 8 a small fire began in her barn and started to spread. The cow knocking over the lantern into a pile of hay has become the stuff of legends, but no one really knows what started the blaze that would forever become known as the Great Chicago Fire.
It quickly became a conflagration worse than the disastrous London fire of 1666. The fire swept across the Chicago river and burnt the business center of the city to the ground. It continued north, destroying everything in its path all the way to Fullerton Avenue before it finally burnt itself out. Firefighters were powerless, the city was at the mercy of nature, and thankfully the clouds finally granted Chicago a few precious drops of rain, which started to beat the flames into submission 25 hours after the fire began. Ironically, Mrs. O?Learys house was untouched.
The damage the fire wrought cannot be overestimated. Most of the city was in rubble, 100,000 people were homeless, 17,450 buildings were burnt to ash. Banks and bank records were destroyed as well as property records, leaving people penniless. At the time, losses were estimated at $200 million dollars. The heat from the fire was so intense that people trying to photograph it from miles away could not because their film melted in their camera. Metal coins were fused together. Fireballs rolled out ahead of the main blaze. Today, at the Chicago Historical Society, you can see many relics from the fire, including petrified cookies and the fire wagon that was first called out to combat the blaze.
But frontier towns have spirit and fortitude, and the people of Chicago would not be defeated. They would start again. Perhaps the most touching epithet to the fire was a sign left by real-estate man W. D. Kerfoot. Once the heat dispelled enough for people to return, Kerfoot erected a sign on the site of his former business: 'All gone except wife, children, and energy.'
The fire of 1871 was the best thing to ever happen to the city. Chicago was rebuilt from the ground up, bigger, better, and more uniquely American than any other city in the country. Seeing a tabula rasa to inscribe their art upon, legions of architects flocked to the city to join the ranks of local builders. Louis Sullivan, Daniel Burnham, John Root, Dankmar Adler, among other renowned architects, pulled up their sleeves and went to work, and in the process created something new and bold, a special brand of design where 'form followed function,? and where buildings rose to the sky supported by gridworks of steel. Such masterpieces as the Rookery Building, the Monodnak Building, the Auditorium Building, and the Marquette Building took shape to thrill and invigorate not only the city, but the rest of the country as well.
Contrary to popular opinion, Chicagos nickname of the 'windy city? was not coined because of the chilling winds coming off of Lake Michigan. Chicago, at this time, was a brilliant huckster, a self-promoter that beat loudly upon its chest to send out a signal to the rest of the world that this is where the future was. To prove itself, a group of Chicago politicians and businessmen set out to secure Chicago as the site of a 1893 Worlds Fair commemorating the 400th anniversary of Columbus? 'discovery? of America. A bitter rivalry ensued among Chicago, St. Louis, Washington D.C., and especially New York. Writing in the New York Sun, editorialist Charles A. Dana roared not to listen 'to the nonsensical claims of that windy city. Its people could not build a Worlds Fair even if they won it.'
Dana was wrong on both accounts. Chicago did win the contest, and they did build the fair. And what a fair it was. Under the guidance of Daniel Hudson Burnham, whose motto was 'make no little plans, for they have no magic to stir mens blood,? a gleaming city of white was erected in Jackson Park. The best talents of the country were called upon to fashion this neoclassical Utopia of marble, water, and green spaces breathtakingly landscaped by Frederick Law Olmstead.
The main part of the fair was the 'White City? centered around the 'Court of Honor.' Flanking it were monstrous buildings that housed the worlds art treasures, ingenuity, and, most of all, hopes for a better, and more technological, tomorrow. The other part of the fair was the moneymaker. The Midway Plaisance featured freak shows, Little Egypts? provocative dance, 'ethnological? displays of other countries, rides, and the monumental Ferris Wheel, which has been recreated today on Navy Pier, but at a much smaller scale. The Columbian Exposition of 1893 was Chicagos finest hour. Or was it?
The White City was just that: white. African Americans were denied jobs on the fairs construction and many were turned away at the gates. Bowing to pressure from Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, and other black activists, the fair committee created Negro Day to showcase the progress of blacks in America. But the day turned into a nightmarish mockery, with vendors hawking fried chicken and watermelon, and the black patrons being shamelessly harassed by the white staff and other fairgoers. Douglass was appalled. Things were no better in the midway. The 'Ethnological? displays had little ethnology but lots of commodity. The mock countries on display were designed to show how superior the West was and how backwards all other countries were. Many of the alleged natives brought in to work the displays were merely Chicagos homeless dressed up in costumes.
The fair hurt in other ways as well. Louis Sullivan was appalled by the neo-classical design of the buildings and claimed that the fair set American architecture back fifty years.' Furthermore, on what was to be the last day of the fair, celebrated with pomp, circumstance, and fanfare, the corrupt but beloved mayor of Chicago, Carter Harrison, was assassinated by a disgruntled office seeker. What was to be a day of triumph, turned into one of sadness and despair. The fair closed silently, and arsonists and looters destroyed many of the buildings. Today, all that is left of the White City is the Museum of Science and Industry, standing alone in Jackson Park on a site that once contained all the hopes and aspirations of a generation.
IV. 'Chicago Aint Ready for Reform Yet?
Many people benefited from the fair, but perhaps those who benefited the most were the men and women plying their trade along the levee. The Levee District was a vice area just south of the staid and stodgy Loop. Visitors to the fair thronged to the district to indulge in gambling, prostitution, and, for those who weren't afraid of the Chinese, the rich and intoxicating smoke of the opium dens. For years, the Levee was the seat of the corrupt First Ward, run by two of Chicagos greatest characters, Michael 'Hinky Dink? Kenna and John 'Bathhouse? Coughlin. Theirs was an empire that consisted of the riches of the Loop and the spoils of vice. They had in their fat pockets business men and madams, stock brokers and gamblers. And people loved them. They were the hit of the city, flamboyant, outspoken, and brash as only a Chicagoan can be. For years they reigned as the 'Lords of the Levee,? but changing social tides brought their empire to an end.
The late 1890s was a time of social reform and Chicago was in need of reforming, even though one politician screamed that 'Chicago ain't ready for reform yet.' Politicians were on the take, corruption ran through city government like molten lead, monopolies were squeezing the money from peoples pocket books, poverty was rampant, working conditions terrible, and children labored for pennies. It was a situation that any decent city couldn't tolerate.
Most of Chicago wasn't decent, but under the leadership of Jane Adams and her settlement house movement begun at The Hull House, the lives of thousands of immigrants were made better. At the same time the former baseball player turned minister Billy Sunday, along with the Womens Christian Temperance Union, turned their eyes to the Levee. Increasing public outrage at Hinky Dinks and Bathouses shenanigans ended up in the breakup of the Levee. Billy Sunday did, in fact, shut Chicago down.
While unions and social workers, with the aid of such writers as Upton Sinclair and Theodore Dreiser, were able to alleviate some of the conditions of the poor, the vice that had been contained in the Levee spread through the city. With no centralized base of control, gangs formed to stake their claims, and with the enactment of Prohibition and the coming of Al Capone from New York City, both in 1919, Chicago was to enter its bloodiest era, one that still stains the public imagination.
V. The Conflicts of the Past are the Conflicts of Today are the Conflicts of Tomorrow
There was nothing heroic about Al Capone. As a culture, we have mythologized him and his era, but Capone was a bloodthirsty killer who ruled Chicago by the gun and by the power he wielded with his pocketbook. During prohibition, Capone had an almost stranglehold on liquor supply to the city, and to keep that control he used any means necessary. Perhaps from this atmosphere of violence sprung the race riots of 1919. Among those allegedly involved with the hunting down and beating of dozens of African Americans was Richard J. Daley, who would become one of Chicagos most famous mayors.
Prohibition ended with the repeal of the Volstead act in 1933, but it did not end the culture of fear and violence. Racial tension would intensify over the coming decades. Even though Capone was in jail, 'The Outfit? continued to run vice in the city. And with the coming of the Great Depression in 1929, things only got worse as people lost their jobs and homes.
There were bright moments in the 1930s, though. In 1933 Chicago once again hosted a Worlds Fair, The Century of Progress. Chicago pioneered the broadcasting industry with the advent of commercial radio, and would go on to pioneer in television a decade later. Chicago was a musical innovator as well. Jazz had crept into the city from New Orleans, and brought along with it the likes of Louis Armstrong. Chicago put its own spin on the music, polishing it and refining it into the force we know today. Benny Goodman learned to play the clarinet at Hull House and in the 1930s ignited America with his own brand of swing.
World War II shook America and Chicago out of the Depression, and Chicago was a big player in the manufacture and repair of war ships. Municipal Pier, now Navy Pier, became a temporary Navy Base and hundreds of Rosie the Riveters could be seen bustling to work each day. The end of the war brought another boomtime, and Chicago prospered with new building projects and the annexation of suburbs on the North and South sides. However, racial fear in the form of 'white flight? drove many families from the cities, and tensions once more resurfaced between blacks and whites, fueled further by the civil rights movement and the oncoming war in Vietnam.
1968 was a notorious year. The Democrats were in Chicago to nominate their presidential candidate. A large group of protestors assembled near the The Congress Plaza Hotel on Michigan Avenue. Fearing a violent uprising from these 'hippies,? Mayor Daley, The Boss, cracked down hard. Film footage of Chicago cops clobbering protestors is still hard to watch without cringing in embarrassment. Dissatisfaction set in, and many once proud neighborhoods began to crumble. The 1970s was a period of great urban decline; grandiosely well-intentioned but misguided public housing projects such as Cabrini Green and the Robert Taylor Homes gained a national reputation as the most dangerous slums in America. Economically and racially, things looked bleak. And then the 80s happened.
With the upsurge in the economy, building began once more in the Loop, with huge office towers going up all over the place, joining the ranks of the Sears Tower and the The John Hancock Tower. It was the busiest time for building in the Loop since Mies van der Rohe erected his steel and glass buildings 20 years before. Elsewhere things were changing as well. There was a reverse of the 'white flight? syndrome with an influx of wealthy and up-and-coming people, both black and white, returning to the city from the suburbs. Neighborhoods that had been in decline, such as Lincoln Park and Lakeview, had new life breathed into them.
This trend continues to this day and is now a huge problem for the city. Neighborhoods are swelling and rents are skyrocketing. Neighborhoods that were once enclaves of artists and free thinkers, such as Old Town and Wicker Park, have become gentrified and too expensive for its traditional residents to live in. This includes not just artists and renegades, but minority groups as well.
But problems and all, Chicago is a thriving metropolis, the proud home of millions.
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Register for the 2019 Book It For Books 5K
Imagine the face of a first-grader in Northern Virginia, as he or she picks out a book to own — perhaps for the first time ever! Joy, excitement, and delight that “someone” thought enough to provide that book to take home and keep for always!
Who is that “someone?”
YOU! Reading Is Fundamental of Northern Virginia — RIF of NOVA — invites you to be one of the many “someones” by helping to provide free books to deserving children!
How can you help?
By running or walking in RIF of NOVA’s “Book It For Books” 5K and Family Fun Run. Our goal is to raise $25,000, which will provide over 12,000 books for deserving children in the City of Alexandria and in Arlington, Fairfax, and Prince William counties. Your $35 registration fee translates into 15 books for the children RIF serves.
Join Reading Is Fundamental of Northern Virginia for the Book It For Books 5K/One Mile Fun Run on Saturday, October 12, 2019 at Bluemont Park, 329 N. Manchester St. Arlington, VA 22203, starting at 9:00 am.
5K: $35 through October 10, $40 during packet pick & on race day
5K (teachers/librarian/school staff: $30 through October 10, $40 during packet pick up & on race day
5K (17 & Under): $25 through October 10, $30 during packet pick up & on race day
Fun Run/Walk: $20 through October 10, $25 during packet pick up & on race day
Online registration will close on Thursday, October 10 at 8:00 pm
Packet pick up will be available at the =PR= Arlington Store from 3-6 p.m. on Friday, October 11. Then again at the race site on Saturday, October 12 starting at 8:15 a.m.
Awards will be given to the overall male and female finishers. Medals will be given to all Fun Run finishers.
Race shirts will be given to participants who register online by September 26. Shirts cannot be guaranteed after this date and will only be available on a first come first serve basis for late registrants.
Teams of runners and walkers are welcome. Reduced prices for school/children's/scout/teacher/librarian teams; email email@example.com to request a children's team coupon code. Teams of teachers/librarians/school administrators should use the registration categories below. Children/babies in strollers are free.
Since this run is all about literacy, and with Halloween just days away, we invite runners and walkers of all ages to come dressed as a favorite book character! Prizes will be given for best costume.
We run because 57% of 4th grade children in Virginia do not read at proficient levels. If you value reading, you will know that your gift is more than just a book. It’s a gift that can help instill the love of reading and promote literacy in our region. RIF of NOVA currently provides books for over 20,000 children at 36 schools and sites, and we’ve been giving out books to NOVA kids for almost 50 years!
Reading Is Fundamental of Northern Virginia, Inc. (RIF of NOVA) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to motivate children to read by providing them with high-quality, free books of their choosing and to work alongside them, their parents and their community to make reading a fun and meaningful part of their lives.
Learn more about Reading Is Fundamental of Northern Virginia by visiting our website: www.rifnova.org
RIF of NOVA invites sponsors to support Book It For Books initiative. For sponsorship information and levels, please email, firstname.lastname@example.org
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A ONE TIME ONLY OFFER - SAVE on Patterns of Evidence: The Exodus (Hardcover book). Only $24!: This book is an in-depth narration behind the making of the “Patterns of Evidence” film with even more information, interviews, and behind-the-scenes enjoyment. Want to take in the concepts of the film at your own pace? - this book is for you! You will find beautiful photographs of Egypt, Israel, and Biblical recreations that accompany the additional information in the book! Plus - maps, charts, and diagrams to further illustrate the different viewpoints in the film! This offer is not available at ANY other time or place. ***CHECK THE BOX UP ABOVE TO ADD THIS TO YOUR ORDER NOW!


Tim Walker (1970), photographer and filmaker.
Tim Walker’s photographs have entranced the readers of Vogue, month by month, for over a decade. Extravagant staging and romantic motifs characterise his unmistakable style.
Walker’s interest in photography began at the Condé Nast library in London where he worked on the Cecil Beaton archive for a year before university. After a three-year BA Honors degree in Photography at Exeter College of Art, Walker was awarded third prize as The Independent Young Photographer Of The Year.
Upon graduation in 1994, Walker worked as a freelance photographic assistant in London before moving to New York City as a full time assistant to Richard Avedon. At the age of 25 he shot his first fashion story for Vogue, and has photographed for the British, Italian, and American editions, as well as W Magazine and LOVE Magazine ever since.
Walker staged his first major exhibition at the Design Museum, London in 2008. This coincided with the publication of his book‘Pictures’ published by teNeues. The Victoria & Albert Museum and the National Portrait Gallery in London include Walker’s photographs in their permanent collections.


A word from Ed’s wife, Ellen:
The writing of this book began, as best as I can recall, back in 2007. Ed and I are both dedicated Baha’is and the Baha’i Faith is the dominating influence of our lives. I’m so grateful for that!
We went on pilgrimage in Spring 2007 to the Baha’i World Center in Haifa, Israel and the resting place of the Founder of the Baha’i Faith, Baha’u’llah, in nearby Akka, Israel. Ed was praying that God allow him to render some service to humanity — something important.
I work in the national communications office for the Baha’is of the U.S. and Ed and I frequently discuss the need to learn how to share the teachings of the Baha’i Faith — especially the principle of “progressive revelation“.
As we talked and talked and talked (and talked!)… the idea of writing a book on the subject of the Mission of Baha’u’llah began to take shape. When we went on pilgrimage, Ed had an opportunity to share his idea with others whom we respected who were very encouraging. Soon afterwards, we decided that he should work on the book full time. We suspected it would take maybe 1, 2 or 3 years — at the most. Well, seven years later, and as the project nears completion, the book has grown into a much deeper endeavor than either of us could have imagined! (And a LOT more pages than we ever imagined it would be! It’s going to be six volumes! Ed will explain more about the structure of the book later.)
There have been many times when we were frustrated that it was taking so long but, I believe in Ed and I believe in the book and I genuinely believe it is an important piece of research and writing that will be of service to humanity.
I hope readers find the book as insightful, ground-breaking, interesting, educational, clever, thought-provoking, inspiring, and surprising as I have!


5 edition of Endocrine Mechanisms in Fertility Regulation found in the catalog.
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The incidence and/or prevalence of health problems associated with endocrine-disruption have increased. Many chemicals have endocrine-disrupting properties, including bisphenol A, some organochlorines, polybrominated flame retardants, perfluorinated substances, alkylphenols, phthalates, pesticides, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, alkylphenols, solvents, and some household products Cited by: The pituitary gland (or hypophysis) is an endocrine gland about the size of a pea and weighing grams ( oz) in humans. It is a protrusion off the bottom of the hypothalamus at the base of the brain, and rests in a small, bony cavity (sella turcica) covered by a dural fold (diaphragma sellae).
Endocrine Disruption and Human Health. starts with an overview of what endocrine disruptors are, the issues surrounding them, and the source of these chemicals in the ecosystem.. This is followed by an overview of the mechanisms of action and assay systems. The third section includes chapters written by specialists on different aspects of concern for the effects of endocrine disruption on. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines an endocrine disruptor as ‘an exogenous substance or mixture that alters function(s) of the endocrine system and consequently causes adverse health effects in an intact organism, or its progeny, or (sub)populations’ (Damstra et al. ). The endocrine system is one of the most complex and least Cited by: 3.
The endocrine system consists of cells, tissues, and organs that secrete hormones as a primary or secondary function. The endocrine gland is the major player in this system. The primary function of these ductless glands is to secrete their hormones directly into the surrounding fluid. Endocrinology has moved to continuous, online-only publication, with no color charges, and the first 8 pages free for articles authored by Society members. Endocrinology Editor-in-Chief, Teresa Woodruff PhD - YouTube. The Endocrine Society. K subscribers. Endocrinology Editor-in .
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Neuroendocrine regulation of the gastrointestinal tract is exceedingly complex and still incompletely understood. Redundancy of control mechanisms, the absence of discrete aggregates of endocrine cells that can be excised and studied or eliminated, and wide species differences make studying human.
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Ovum transport and fertility regulation. Book January Endocrine mechanisms in fertility regulation. July Journal of : David M Paton. Book Description: Encyclopedia of Endocrine Diseases, Second Edition, comprehensively reviews the extensive spectrum of diseases and disorders that can occur within the endocrine system.
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Found in many household and industrial products, endocrine disruptors. Encyclopedia of Endocrine Diseases, Second Edition, comprehensively reviews the extensive spectrum of diseases and disorders that can occur within the endocrine system. It serves as a useful and comprehensive source of information spanning the many and varied aspects of the endocrine end metabolic system.
Recent advances in the use of genetic engineering have shed light on novel pathways and mechanisms through which bone might function as an endocrine organ.
Previously, it had been reported that osteocytes secreted a bone-specific protein, sclerostin that could act to inhibit osteoblast differentiation in a paracrine fashion (3).
This chapter discusses the basic principles of endocrine regulation of the male reproductive system. The male reproductive organs include the testes (the central male sex organs), the vas deferens, the ejaculatory ducts, the penis, and the accessory glands, which include the prostate and bulbourethral glands (Figure 8–1).
Endocrine Disruptors: Effects on Male and Female Reproductive Systems examines the epidemiology and etiology of environmental toxicants/hormone imposters, many of which act as reproductive toxicants that cause fertility problems and carcinogenic hazards.
Thus far, over fifty such hormone imposters/persistent organic pollutants have been identified, the most common of which are.
Endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) are exogenous compounds with natural or anthropogenic origin omnipresent in the environment.
These compounds disrupt endocrine function through interaction with hormone receptor or alteration of hormone synthesis. Humans are environmentally exposed to EDCs through the air, water, food and occupation. During the last decades, there has been a concern that.
Abstract. The two functions of the testis are androgen production and spermatogenesis. The key role in the regulation of these functions is played by the two pituitary gonadotropins, luteinizing hormone (LH) and follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH), as supported by a vast number of experimental and clinical by: Endocrine Disruption and Human Health starts with an overview of what endocrine disruptors are, the issues surrounding them, and the source of these chemicals in the ecosystem.
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Abstract. Evidence accumulated during the last two decades indicates that a neural decapeptide, luteinizing hormone releasing hormone (LHRH), is the primary link between the brain and the pituitary—gonadal axis is through this decapeptide that the brain transduces its neural signals into a chemical one (LHRH), ultimately resulting in the initiation, maintenance and modulation of normal Cited by: 1.
Improving fertility is of major importance for efficient sheep, beef, and dairy productivity. More intense management, optimized nutrition and genetic selection for milk production have dramatically reduced fertility in the dairy industry in the United States.
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In order to survive, animals must constantly adapt to changes in the environment. The nervous and endocrine systems both work together to bring about this adaptation. In general the nervous.Swedenborg E, et al. Endocrine disruptive chemicals: mechanisms of action and involvement in metabolic disorders.
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The MSU Advanced Comic Art and Graphic Novel students will conduct 4 separate signings across the great state of Michigan as they embark on the largest signing tour ever attempted by an MSU Comics cohort. Stop-by any of the locations to buy a comic book and get is signed by the artist.
DR QIANA WHITTED / FEBRUARY 23 / MSU LIBRARY BEAL ROOM / 12PM
Dr. Qiana Whitted teaches at USC, her research focuses on African-American literary studies and American comic books. Her most recently published articles and book chapters explore race, genre, and comics in representations of historical figures such as Nat Turner, Stagger Lee, and Emmett Till. Her forthcoming book on race and social protest in 1950s EC comics will be published in 2019. Whitted is the 2019 Comics Forum Scholar Keynote Speaker.


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