@alvisdunn
#Historian and Teller of Tales Sometimes Tall. Latin America, esp. #Guatemala. North American South too. Sometimes I study why & how people move around. #Alcohol other times. #Basketball is my Soul. #migration #UNC #expatriates #DeepChatham #Storyteller
“On Dec. 29, 1890, a Lakota encampment on the Pine Ridge Reservation was attacked by the U.S. Army and close to 300 Native Americans were murdered near Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota. ‘We Remember’ poster by Bruce Carter, Library of Congress collection.” Zinn Education Project.
I believe that Lange’s photography mainly happened in North Chatham - btw Pittsboro and the Orange County line.
Bad Bunny not withstanding.
Woke in the. Ight to catch Freddie Freeman’s Amazing Feat. A step-up of physical and mental and emotional grace under fire and collective team spirit. I do love sports. Interesting how The Old School National Pastime is flourishing in places despised by MAGA. I guess they’ve got the NFL.
…The proprietress was smoking a cigar. The boy who acted as a waiter lounged about with a cigarette between his lips and slapped customers on the back when taking their orders." ~ Isherwood in the "communist dive" (_Berlin Stories_, "Winter 1932-3") #therealhardbackcafe
"The cafe was full of students, dressed mostly with aggressive political untidiness--the men in sailor's sweaters and stained baggy trousers, the girls in ill-fitting jumpers, skirts held visibly together with safety pins and carelessly knotted gaudy gipsy scarves….1/2
Going after ‘Homegrowners.’ Pass it along. youtu.be/j7SOc_8IhSY?...
Green Room 42. “Vincent” Reprise. With Delilah Dunn Performing!
#CarlSandburg
Gabbard is spewing MAGA malarkey in an old trumpist pattern - Dont Fall For It.
“Punk wasn’t about starting a band to sell clothes.” ~ Steve Jones
I saw a Coal Black Squirrel while walking the dogs this morning. And these other things too. #ThingsISeeWalkingTheDogs in #riversideparknyc
WOE in #WestHarlem
In The Heights…May 14, 2025. #WashingtonHeights on #Broadway
Who remembers the Red Rose/White Rose Mother’s Day Practice? Was it widespread? Regional? Generational? Does it still go on? Is it news to you?
May 9, 1970. In #NorthCarolina
On May5, 1862 a small, ill-equipped,inexperienced Mexican army defeated well-armed,powerful French invaders in Puebla. Mexican conservatives had backed the foreigners in hopes of ousting the liberal gov't of Benito Juarez. Cons colluding with foreigners betraying their nation-sound familiar?
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