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THERE was a technical error in Memories 521, when we told of the Duke of Edinburgh’s visit to Durham on June 24, 1960. The pictures in the Echo archive have “Durham Technical School” written on the rear of them, and so we said that the duke visited Durham Johnston Grammar Technical School. “I attended that school from 1958 to 1965 but recalled no such visit,” says Glynn Wales. “On examining more closely the photograph, I noted a blazer badge which I failed to recognise and something which I regard as the major deficiency of my otherwise quite successful education at the School - namely the presence of girls (it was not until comprehensivisation in the 1970s that Durham Johnston became co-educational).” ....
.... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... It may lack the frenzied danger of running with the bulls, but don’t undersell the excitement of running with the burros. Just ask any of the members of the New Mexico Pack Burros club who compete in races with, but not on, their burros. “Think of it as a trail run with your donkey – no riding allowed,” said Shane Weigand, one of the leaders of the NMPB group. ...................... Picture 50 to 100 people clad in colorful T-shirts, shorts and running shoes, competition numbers pinned to their clothing, holding tight to their burros’ lead ropes as they all cluster together and jockey, so to speak, for position to break away and set their own pace. ....
Tourmaline, Morning Cloak, 2020, dye sublimation print, 29 1/2 × 30 . OVER NEARLY two decades of political organizing, archival research, writing, and art-making, Tourmaline has demonstrated that abolition, Black trans liberation, and abundant pleasure are interwoven, inseparable projects. In her first solo exhibition, “Pleasure Garden,” up through January 31 at Chapter NY’s Madison Street pop-up location, Tourmaline debuts a series of five photographic self-portraits alongside Salacia, a cinematic account of Mary Jones, a Black trans sex worker who lived in New York in the 1830s. The works weave together sites as varied as nineteenth-century Black-owned pleasure gardens, the free Black land-owning community of Seneca Village, outer space, and the Hudson River Piers, asserting that all these moments of “freedom dreaming” comingle in the present. The day before Christmas, we sat down over Zoom to discuss time-travel-y dreams, the Concord grapes you may n ....