How did the American Dream get so green? The pandemic is sending jobs to the suburbs. Segregation isn’t just about houses it’s about where we spend our days.
The lawn of our dreams: Farrell Evans pens an essay about how the perfect green lawn came to symbolize the American Dream. The creation of the lawn as an American symbol starting from a development project helmed by Fredrick Law Olmsted has led to mower innovations, statements about culture and race, as well as concerns over biodiversity. (Farrell Evans | History Channel)
Pandemic job losses mount in cities: The pandemic is taking a toll on jobs in urban centers, where 400,000 jobs have already been permanently lost as people aren’t just relocating from cities to the suburbs they are taking their jobs with them. This trend is drawing concern about the health of cities and the toll these jobs losses are having on low-income communities and Black and Latinx workers, all communities hit especially hard by COVID. (Paul D
Photograph courtesy of the Brookline Preservation Commission
MCMLVI masks. For their sixty-fifth reunion, whatever form it may take, members of the College class of 1956 conceived of a custom mask subtly emblazoned with a golden MCMLVI. Design and manufacturing were overseen by the inimitable Daniel J. McCarron, long-time University printer and self-described “senior design consultant” on any and all projects Crimson.
Photograph courtesy of Daniel J. McCarron
In due time. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ memorial minutes, recalling the lives and scholarship of late colleagues, are an art form and, sometimes, a mystery. Consider the timing of the memorial for Gordon Randolph Willey, Bowditch professor of Central American and Mexican archaeology and ethnology emeritus, the towering figure in his field, who died April 28, 2002, but was not recognized until the faculty meeting of this past December 1. Whatever the reasons for the long interval, it feels somehow f