She was born Malka Opiekun in 1898 in New York and made her debut on stage when she was six. In the 1920’s she was the doyenne of the Yiddish Theater; her first English role didn’t come until she was in her early 40’s. You might recognize her…she was Yente the Matchmaker in Fiddler on the […]
When my great-great-great grandfather William Candlish was born in Virginia in 1804, there were 1 billion people in the world. It had taken thousands of years for the world to reach that milestone of human saturation. When my father was born in the 1930’s, the number of people in the world had just passed the 2 […]
The boys couldn’t wait to get downstairs on Easter morning. The Easter Bunny had come, they knew that. And there would be an egg hunt and candy, and the surge of excitement would subside into a languorous morning of playing with the little treats that they found in their baskets. (Until Church, at least.) The years […]
via youtube.com A great taste of what NY felt like 100 years ago, with a little comedy thrown in. The energy and the bustle of today has a long history. from Dan McCarthy’s Stream
There’s so many levels on which to engage with this video from Lauren Greenfield. The video itself is a structured artifact, created from video clips and photographs that were taken with a specific use in mind. These clips were then culled and gathered to create a unique experience, a kind of photo-DJ transformation. The photos […]
via neuronarrative.wordpress.com A theory that emotion is one of the earliest attributes that evolved in the genome. Emotion is, in fact, a rudimentary system that we have to adapt to the more complex systems, such as culture and civilization, that have evolved to help assure the best possible behaviors for the propagation of the species.