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 HOURS
Monday 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 LIBRARY
Real 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 Library
Thursday, August 3
2 to 5 PM
FAMILY MOVIE DAY
Summer of Soul
This 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 Library
Saturday, August 26
2 to 4 PM
YARD GAMES AND OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES
Come enjoy the summer outside on Franklin’s lawn. Youth are invited to explore the outdoors surrounding the library with nature backpacks and identification guides, and to play a variety of yard games.
Franklin Library
Mondays and Fridays 1:30 to 3 PM
VIDEOGAMES AND VR
Come hang out for an afternoon of Nintendo Switch and Virtual Reality.… Read the rest “Library News August ’23”
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
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 Museum in Washington D.C.
Glenalvin is acknowledged to be one of the country’s pioneering Black photographers. He began his career as a photographer in 1847, when he was only 18 years old. In addition to his extraordinary artistic talent, he followed in the footsteps of his father William Goodridge, one of the most successful entrepreneurs in York, Pennsylvania.… Read the rest “Tales, No. 213: Freed Family Embraced Freedom Across U.S. & Haiti”
SIS: George Floyd – A Closer Look
By DWIGHT HOBBES
A article in the series: Something I Said
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.
George Floyd was a decent sort, who, when he didn’t have bad luck, pretty much made poor choices. Like many black neighborhoods, there were two ways aside from, for instance, flipping burgers or swinging a mop, to beat life on Houston Ward streets – sports and entertainment.… Read the rest “SIS: George Floyd – A Closer Look”