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Comment on A slave revolt, still in progress by Amy Zucker Morgenstern

Amy Zucker Morgenstern — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:32:34 +0000

I’d like to see them.

Comment on A slave revolt, still in progress by Amy Zucker Morgenstern

Amy Zucker Morgenstern — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:31:51 +0000

Unbelievable. Except, you know, not so hard to believe at all.

Do you know a history of Haiti you’d recommend?

Comment on A slave revolt, still in progress by Kim Hampton

Kim Hampton — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:18:53 +0000

My mother went to L’Ouverture grade/middle school–so Haiti and it’s revolution have always been a part of my life.

Haiti holds a distinction that most people are unaware of…it is the only country in the world that has had to pay reparations to the country that it overthrew. And the US sided with France way back then (like 1810) to make it impossible for Haiti to ever get out from under that debt.

I could go on but I get mad whenever I think about it too much.

Comment on A slave revolt, still in progress by Sonja

Sonja — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:04:23 +0000

I think I have a book you might want to read. Did you know my ex-husband was Haitian? I spend two weeks there in August 2004 on honeymoon. One of these days, I should show you the pictures and tell the stories.

Comment on This year’s three Lenten practices by Amy Zucker Morgenstern

Amy Zucker Morgenstern — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:07:58 +0000

Yes! It’s in the front garden–come park in the church parking lot and walk anytime. It will be all fixed up, eh, probably by 1 p.m. tomorrow but definitely by Friday afternoon.

Comment on This year’s three Lenten practices by Donna Tensuan

Donna Tensuan — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:55:38 +0000

Hi Amy,
Is the labyrinth open to the public? It sounds like something I would like to do . . .

Comment on African American children’s literature by Amy Zucker Morgenstern

Amy Zucker Morgenstern — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:14:55 +0000

Excellent! Thanks! Black authors?: Juster, Elise Primavera and Chris Raschka (illustrator of The Hello Goodbye Window–for which, my internet tells me, he won the Caldecott Medal) are, as far as I can tell, white. Jerdine Nolan is black. Thanks for reminding me of Chris Raschka–he has written/illustrated several other books with black characters: Mysterious Thelonious, Charlie Parker Played Be Bop, Yo! Yes?, Happy to be Nappy…

Those are on our library list now.

Comment on African American children’s literature by Jenny Robertson

Jenny Robertson — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:41:22 +0000

The Hello Goodbye Window, by Norton Juster (He also wrote The Dot and The Line, another childhood favorite, and The Phantom Tollboth!)

Raising Dragons, by Jerdine Nolen and Elise Primavera

These are both favorites we read over and over. I don’t know if the authors are black.

Sam’s school had an author visit this year from this black author/illustrator:
http://www.ericvelasquez.com/

Comment on African American artists: drawings by David Zucker

David Zucker — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:34:34 +0000

The quality, skill, humanity of these drawings (the Bradford one wouldn’t come up on my computer) don’t amaze me; I simply assume, rightly, that “black” artists have the quality of “white” artists. In the arts in general African Americans have shone: theater, film, literature, across the board. What is worth taking note of is that blacks have in general been poor, suppressed and depressed. So the outstanding art shown here is amazing on that level, but in every other, they are equals to others.

Comment on 25,000 views by Stu Cooper

Stu Cooper — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 06:13:46 +0000

Mazel Tov,

Stu Cooper