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WILMINGTON – In Beverly Tetterton’s early days at the helm of the library’s Local History Room, she got a piece of memorable advice from a stalwart in the field – Leora Hiatt Billie McEachern.
“She came down to the library one day and told me that if I was going to be the local history librarian, I needed to know some local history,” Tetterton said.
Dry as it might sound, this was an invitation to the young librarian to learn from and alongside of McEachern’s hard-fought years of research and work that produced massively influential works but not always the same amount of respect.
Four years ago, while out at lunch with a friend, I started drawing a logo on a thin and uncooperative napkin.
When I got back to the office, napkin in hand, I sketched out the shoddy design on a sheet of paper, even though the sturdier texture did nothing to help my lack of drawing skills.
Still, I managed to capture the image rolling around in my head of the words “Cape Fear Unearthed,” the first two stacked on top of the third with a shovel forming the “F” and dug into the “Unearthed.”
I was instantly inspired. In my gut, I believed I had created something truly special, even though at that point it was just an idea for a podcast telling the stories of local history, one episode at a time.
Joseph Sheppard
Special to The Citizen
The Auburn Enlarged City School District is a diverse district within a community rich in history and culture. Though the Auburn school district already embraces its diverse makeup, we admit there is much work that still must be done. To address this, we have recently begun to take the steps necessary to take an inward look at ourselves as a district as a whole and truly hone in on diversity, equity and inclusion within our schools.
In July, the districtâs board of education revamped the Strategic Planning Committee, shifting its focus toward diversity, equity and inclusion. This committee is made up of three board members: Dr. Eli Hernández, Dr. Rhoda Overstreet-Wilson and myself (Joe Sheppard). We began the work of establishing a long-range strategic plan focused on diversity, equity and inclusion. To assist with the creation of this plan, a Diversity Task Force was established and made up of district employees who are i
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Over the last two weeks I’ve been running through my favorite reporting and podcasts from 2020. It’s been a long year, but one that none of us are likely to forget anytime soon. As the final part of this three-part, best of 2020 series I wanted to rewind the clock on my favorite interviews of 2020. There were more than 200 interviews in 2020 on FingerLakes1.com, and even with a pandemic raging we made it happen connecting with countless news- and policy-makers from around Upstate New York.
So, what was the big theme of 2020?
Some may point to change itself being the theme of this year. But what I learned in 2020, talking with hundreds of people is that change takes many, many years. And even in times of uncertainty or chaos so much remains the same.