NAAM Is Putting on Its First Juneteenth Week
Across nine days, the museum presents 10 events to commemorate the holiday, both online and in person.
By
Stefan Milne
6/11/2021 at 9:50am
NAAM s choir on the steps of St. Therese Church.Â
On June 15, the BlkFreedom Collective, a group of 10 African American museums from across the country, will come together ahead of Juneteenth, which commemorates the end of slavery in the U.S. and, as of May 13, is an official Washington holiday. Each museum has picked a word from the Negro National Anthem Lift Every Voice and Sing to represent its segment of the virtual event. For its part, Seattleâs Northwest African American Museum has taken that title to heart: NAAM picked the word âhopeâ andâsince president and CEO LaNesha DeBardelaben figured choirs are founts of itâstarted its own choir.Â
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I remember fondly many a midnight trip to Hastings in Helena to get an early copy of the latest Harry Potter book.
Katherine started reading in the store, continued in the back seat of the car â and looked quite sleepy when she left for school the next morning, book still under arm.
Thank you Jo for inspiring kids to read an 870-page book â twice or thrice or 30 times more.
May books forever hold weight in a childâs mind and hand â and I mean weight, as in ounces and grams â real books that hug shelves in bookstores.
“Crow Planet,” it’s not just about crows.
Coyotes are in there too, she says, as are many of the other wild things who are mixing it up with us mere humans, in West Seattle and elsewhere.
Chatting with Lyanda in the garden behind the 1920s-vintage home she shares with her husband and daughter, you might spot some of the wildness – a hummingbird hovering over a hedge, pondering whether to investigate the small bouquet of salvia that the author placed in a glass as a sort of feeder. (She wrote about the makeshift feeder last weekend on her website
“The Tangled Nest: Cultivating an Urban-Earthen Household.”) Or you might hear her stories, like the one about the raccoon that woke her up during a backyard family campout: