NORA EDINGER For the Sunday News-Register
WHEELING The day will come when it is possible to go to school or to the grocery store without a mask, which begs an interesting question. What will happen to all these colorful scraps of fabric and elastic when COVID is contained?
“Some people are going to be so excited to not wear a mask, they’re going to want to burn it,” joked Kara Yenkevich, curator for the Museums of Oglebay Institute. “You’ve got to have celebration like the memes of people turning them into hamster hammocks.”
But, if history tells us anything, she said it’s equally possible that some masks will make their way into museum archives. This could be as physical artifacts of the COVID-19 pandemic like those already being collected by institutions such as the Smithsonian. Or, it might be in the form of art.
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Late councilman remembered for his community spirit
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Those are the traits attributed to the late Barbuda councilman from those who knew him best.
Tributes poured in during and after his funeral ceremony at the Barbuda Pentecostal Church on Thursday morning.
Among them was one from Barbuda MP Trevor Walker, who recognised Burton’s contribution to the council, including one that many to this date remember as one of his most significant achievements on Barbuda.
Scenes from the funeral service of Lincoln Burton. (Photos courtesy The Barbuda Channel)
“I served with him in 2001 and one of the things that is very profound to me is that when he was first elected he served as chairman of the health committee and he insisted with us that the hospital should operate 24 hours a day,” Walker recalled.
Family shares fond memories of late Barbudan, Lincoln Burton
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Lincoln Jefferson Burton was a husband, father, grandfather and a man who many called a great Barbudan because of his contribution towards the development of the sister isle.
Burton, a former Barbuda Council member, died suddenly on December 16, 2020 after he complained of feeling unwell.
His son, Courtney Burton, said his father’s death was “shocking”, even though his family knew he was suffering from chronic non-communicable diseases.
“He suffered from hypertension and diabetes but his death was shocking and pretty sudden,” he admitted.
Burton at the Barbuda Council Hall in the 90s