The Skaneateles Festival’s third week kicks off Aug. 11 with Knights at the Movies at 8 p.m. in First Presbyterian Church with Brooklyn orchestra The Knights, “an adventurous young orchestra
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After the pandemic, how will society remember more than 3 million lives lost to COVID-19? This spring, the Remembering Epidemics course delved into both the history of disease outbreaks in Philadelphia and the nature of public commemoration and collective memory. The National Covid Memorial Wall, consisting of more than 150,000 hearts hand-painted by volunteers representing each person lost to COVID-19 in the UK, stretches more than one third of a mile along the River Thames opposite the Palace of Westminster. (Image: Jim Osley)
To date, more than 3 million people worldwide have lost their lives to COVID-19. But while some countries move forward with vaccination campaigns and business reopenings, a resurgence in India and South America is a stark reminder of the pandemic’s severe and ongoing toll. Society’s staggered return towards “normal” also begs the question of what we will learn when this once-in-a-cen
Preserving Black history in Philadelphia is an evolving dynamic of the city’s legacy. Martin Luther King Jr. was in attendance at Marian Anderson’s Lincoln Memorial performance on Easter Sunday, 1939. This location served as the inspiration for King’s March on Washington address, says Jillian Patricia Pirtle, CEO of the Marian Anderson Museum and Historical Society. (Image: University of Pennsylvania/Marian Anderson Collection of Photographs)
Marian Anderson was at her Philadelphia home at 762 S. Martin St. when first lady Eleanor Roosevelt called, asking her to sing at the White House. In 1935, she became the first Black artist to do so. Four years later, Anderson sang at the Lincoln Memorial to 75,000 people dressed in their Easter Sunday best after the Daughters of the American Revolution, despite Roosevelt’s advocacy on the singer’s behalf, denied Anderson the right to sing in their Constitution Hall auditorium. Anderson s