A better time than any : Finding joy in music lessons, jams
By TRACEE M. HERBAUGH
These weren t the piano lessons of my youth. Quite the opposite.
Gone was the septuagenarian teacher crowding me on a piano bench at my grandmother s house, extolling the importance of Christian hymns. Old Rugged Cross, Jesus Loves Me, How Great Thou Art. Grandma finally accepted my resignation after a few solid years of protest.
Then last spring, as the pandemic droned on, I d lost my job, and our schools in the Boston area remained closed, I decided to start taking piano lessons again.
It had been 30 years. The grand staff was a foreign language and the only key I could recognize was middle C.
From left, Durham Record Office volunteer Bridget Cox and principal archivist Gill Parkes pictured at Durham Record Office THE hard work of archivists and members of the public to bring to life stories from the First World War has been recognised as a case study by the Imperial War Museum. Durham County Record Office’s Durham at War was a four-year online project which ran from 2014 to 2018 to commemorate the First World War. Durham at War is an interactive mapping website which tells the story of County Durham and its people during the 1914 to 1918 conflict. The website acts like a giant virtual jigsaw, making the links between the archives, objects and sites that survive today, and helping to uncover new stories about local communities from more than 100 years ago. Members of the public were able to log in and add their own contributions and pin them to the interactive map.