‘We are in the business of memories’
By GWEN SWIGER
Posted 2/14/21
When the coronavirus put a halt to many of the library’s in-person activities, Margot Still, history branch manager, started looking at other ways of engaging residents in local history and the History Branch of the Cleveland Bradley County Public Library.
Although the History Branch had been sharing online activities on Facebook since 2016, its offerings began to expand.
One of its newest features is short documentaries on people and organizations in the community. Another focus is its Unknown but not Forgotten photos. They also may have a photo sparking interest and talk about a local building, road or place.
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Montgomery: Thousands of people showed up at sites from the coast to the Tennessee Valley as Alabama began vaccinating senior citizens against COVID-19. People spent the night in cars waiting for shots in Baldwin County, where health workers began immunizing people early Tuesday. County health workers in Huntsville vaccinated 500 people Monday, although only 300 people had appointments. Other sites opened in cities ranging in size from Birmingham to Rainsville. The state is offering vaccines to people 75 and older after limiting the initial doses to health workers. Alabama is among the Southern states trailing the nation in the rate of vaccinations. In Limestone County, Pat White showed up to get her first of two doses of the Moderna vaccine Monday. She said she misses going to church and has done little other than buy g
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Teepee erected by Indigenous groups to memorialize those who ve died from COVID-19 and look forward to a new chapter for the country under the Biden Administration.
The evening before President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, a collective of Indigenous organizations erected a teepee near Sacrifice Cliffs in Billings.
As the sun set Tuesday evening, Bill Snell, executive director of the Rocky Mountain Tribal Leaders Council and president of the Pretty Shield Foundation, explained the teepee serves as a memorial for those who’ve died from COVID-19 and as a symbol of hope as the United States transitions to a new chapter under the Biden administration.
Montana tribes to participate in national moment of unity by lighting teepee in Billings Nora Mabie, Great Falls Tribune
Montana tribes will participate in a national moment of unity and memorial for COVID-19 victims on Tuesday at 3 p.m. by illuminating a teepee on Sacrifice Cliff in Billings.
The teepee will be illuminated through Tuesday evening.
The national memorial, which will kick off in Washington, D.C. as part of President-elect Joe Biden s inauguration, will feature the lighting of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and the illumination of buildings in cities nationwide. The ceremony aims to honor those lost to COVID-19 while serving as a symbol of hope for the future.
ABC s Big Sky has drawn claims of exclusion and misrepresentation.
Activists and leaders in the industry say that Hollywood has significant outreach work to do: There s not parity in terms of the Native community getting an equal amount of support with what the other communities are getting.
On Dec. 2, Indigenous groups protesting the lack of Native and Indigenous female representation on the ABC procedural
Big Sky sent a message that they won t be backing down anytime soon. Not long after the show s executive producers responded for the first time to the weeks-long protest saying that their eyes had been opened and they had started working with Indigenous groups dozens more tribes joined the anti-