Sunday, 24 January 2021, 4:32 pm
One crackling theme streaking through the US elections of
2020 was the issue of mask wearing. Critics initially felt
that facemasks were of the too important category in
combating the novel coronavirus: purchasing and using them
was tantamount to prizing valuable protective equipment from
doctors and frontline workers. But COVID-19 continued to
rage, and various public health bodies including the World
Health Organization revised their initially cautious
approach. Masks, manufactured in abundance, could be an
affordable non-pharmacological method of halting the spread
of the pandemic.
The facemask became the symbol of the
now departed Donald Trump’s view of the world: to don such
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NEW ORLEANS - The estate of a writer who chronicled Southern food and life will be auctioned next month to benefit a charity created to continue her philant
Before she died last August, the writer and long-time
Garden & Gun contributor Julia Reed set up a charitable trust to carry on her legacy. “She wanted to engage her friends, family, and community of readers,” says Keith Smythe Meacham, the chair of the Julia Evans Reed Charitable Trust, Reed’s business partner in Reed Smythe & Company, and her longtime friend. “She wanted to continue what she began so beautifully during her lifetime.” That trust will continue to give to Reed’s favorite nonprofits which support such causes as housing security, food security, education, and the arts in the Mississippi Delta while also targeting other charities that fit Reed’s mission.