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Library News August ’23
By CARZ NELSON All information listed here is accurate as of July 15, 2023. For the most recent information, check out the library website at www.hclib.org. FRANKLIN LIBRARY HOURSMonday 9 AM to 5 PM Tuesday 12 PM to 8 PM Wednesday 12 PM to 8 PM Thursday 12 PM to 8 PM Friday 9 AM to 5 PM Saturday 9 AM to 5 PM Sunday 12 PM to 5 PM LLAMAS AT THE LIBRARYReal live, living and breathing llamas will be visiting Franklin Library! Hang out with and learn about these curious, sociable creatures when Carlson’s Lloveable Llamas visit the library.Franklin LibraryThursday, August 32 to 5 PM FAMILY MOVIE DAYSummer of SoulThis film follows the 1969 Harlem Music Festival, a three-day event featuring performances from some of music’s biggest acts. Learn about the music of the time and how it reflected the political upheavals of the day.Hosmer LibrarySaturday, August 262 to 4 PM YARD GAMES AND OUTDOOR ACTIVITIESCome enjoy the summer outside on Franklin’s lawn. Youth are invited to [...]
Tales, No. 213: Freed Family Embraced Freedom Across U.S. & Haiti
Glenalvin Goodridge, 1829-1867; teacher, iconic photographer Goodridge and Grey Family: Extraordinary Abilities and Service While Enduring Racial, Economic, and Judicial Injustice By SUE HUNTER WEIR from Tales from Pioneers and Soldiers Memorial Cemetery The identity of the man in this photo has not formally been identified but John Vincent Jezierski, author of “Enterprising Images,” believes that it is most likely a photo of Glenalvin Goodridge. The man in the photo bears a strong resemblance to William Goodridge, Glenalvin’s father. The photo was taken sometime in the 1850s. Photo Credit: from 'Enterprising Images' It’s taken more than a century and a-half but Glenalvin Goodridge is finally getting his due. Although he was well-known and highly regarded during his lifetime, he died in 1867, and other than a handful of scholars, few people have heard of him. That has changed since his work is now part of an important exhibit at the Smithsonian American Art [...]
SIS: George Floyd – A Closer Look
By DWIGHT HOBBES A article in the series: Something I Said Dwight Hobbes His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice (Viking Press - 2022) is a strong, Pulitzer Prize winning read by Washington Post staffers Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa. One cannot read this book with your mind already made up. The authors neither fit Floyd for a halo nor do they demonize him. Without letting him off the hook, they place the man in compelling context, calling Houston’s and Texas’ criminal justice system out for their part in his unwitting, hellbent self-destruction.Nothing is simple about enduring institutionalized racism, particularly the truism, White folk are responsible for racism, but, we are accountable to deal with it. Like a lot of African American parents, Larcenia warned her son George that he was born with two strikes against him. Some of us make that third strike count. Most don’t. Viking Press George Floyd was a decent sort, [...]
