Color Us Connected: Keeping in touch with our history
Fosters Daily Democrat
This column appears every other week in Foster’s Daily Democrat and the Tuskegee News. This week, Guy Trammell, an African American man from Tuskegee, Alabama, and Amy Miller, a white woman from South Berwick, Maine, write about a person in their town devoted to history.
By Guy Trammell Jr.
African history was passed from generation to generation by storytelling, as dramatized in the television series “Roots.” The same is true for Indigenous Americans. Much of the world’s history has been overlooked, or covered with Correction Fluid, to highlight and emphasize only a European perspective of events. Preservation of history determines who we are. If we don’t know where we came from, we don’t truly know who we are.
NATIONAL MARITIME HISTORICAL SOCIETY LATEST NEWS
Sea History 173 Featured Article: “If Boat is Going Down” Bikes, Boats, and Robert Pirsig, by Paul F. Johnston
Best-selling author of
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Bob Pirsig spent a good portion of his adult life intimately involved with boats from building to living aboard them, to cruising and, of course, maintaining them. His widow recently donated a collection of personal items to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. Museum curator Paul Johnston shares with us the details of Pirsig’s love of nautical life and takes us on a journey through Pirsig’s experience in the boating world. In addition to providing the captivating photos featured in his article, Paul shared several additional photos from his collection that we didn’t have room for on the printed pages of