tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77078232024-02-03T09:45:42.068-05:00GreeneSpaceOn law, life, literature and a little politicsSallyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00974560719588849769noreply@blogger.comBlogger1388125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7707823.post-43166521843411816952023-11-14T09:56:00.001-05:002023-11-14T09:57:55.740-05:00Roots of the land trust movementAttending the <a href="http://cltnetwork.org/conference/2014-national-conference-cleveland/">National Community Land Trust Network conference</a> in April 2013, with Robert Dowling, then executive director of our own <a href="http://communityhometrust.org/">Community Home Trust</a>, I expected to learn a lot about contemporary operation of land trusts and ideas for keeping them successful--and I did. But a session that I happened onto on the history of the land trust movement left my head spinning.<br />
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"<a href="http://www.cltroots.org/">Roots of the Contemporary Land Trust Movement</a>," a tutorial on the movement's historical and philosophical beginnings, opened a window into a rich, inspiring, and largely unknown story. It's a story about an alternative vision of land ownership, one that seems utterly alien today: land as a resource too valuable to be owned and exploited by individuals. Fortunately, this story is starting to be gathered and told. What follows draws largely on a <a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4088576/clt-roots/eBooks/Origins-Evolution-CLT.pdf">narrative</a> by John Emmeus Davis, one of the most influential leaders of the American land trust movement.<br />
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Within the history of the United States--in which land speculation for individual profit has played a critical role from the beginning--there has always coexisted another tradition: "an ethic of stewardship, where land is treated as a common heritage." <a href="http://www.progress.org/tpr/who-was-henry-george/">Henry George</a>, borrowing from John Stewart Mill, argued that "most of the appreciating value of land is created not by the investment or labor of individual landowners, but by the growth and development of surrounding society." That unearned increase in value, he argued, should be taxed: and this "social increment" tax could serve to fund schools, roads, and other public goods. Imagine that.<br />
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The essence of this idea in turn was embraced by Ebenezer Howard, in England, in his collectively managed "<a href="http://discoveringurbanism.blogspot.com/2009/06/ebenezer-howards-garden-city-concept.html">garden cities</a>."<br />
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In the United States, George's basic model was followed in <a href="http://www.cofairhope.com/about-us/history">Alabama</a> and <a href="http://arden.delaware.gov/">Delaware</a>. <a href="http://newschoolofliving.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-life-of-ralph-borsodi-unsung.html">Ralph Borsodi</a>, another follower of George's working in the 1930s and 1940s, went so far as to decry all private ownership of land. Among those inspired by Borsodi was <a href="http://www.communitysolution.org/arthurmorgan.html">Arthur Morgan</a>, who founded the <a href="http://www.ic.org/directory/celo-community/">Celo</a> community in western North Carolina.<br />
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It took the Civil Rights Movement to transform the idea of self-contained intentional communities into the core of the contemporary land trust model. This new model embraced a larger goal of making equitable housing available as a public community benefit.<br />
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<a href="http://www.centerforneweconomics.org/content/robert-swann">Bob Swann</a>, a pacifist and a student of Bayard Rustin, drew inspiration from Arthur Morgan and even worked for him for awhile, but soon felt called to more direct involvement in the major issues of the day. In Albany, Georgia, where he went to rebuild fire-bombed black churches, the idea came to him<br />
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Working with Albany activists Slater King and C.B. King, Swann crafted a new model for the land trust that opened a space for the public interest.<br />
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The story of the <a href="http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/albany-movement">Albany Movement</a> is, itself, one that in civil rights history is too often dwarfed by the objectively more successful Birmingham movement of the following year. Organizers failed in their efforts to desegregate the city--the first mass movement to take on a whole city as a goal. And yet after Martin Luther King had moved on to Birmingham, the work continued. SNCC organizer <a href="http://archives.livedtheology.org/node/1201">Charles Sherrod</a> came, like Swann, to draw the connections between land ownership and the kind of security necessary for blacks to claim their rights without fear of dispossession. Swann made common cause with Sherrod, Slater King, and others, and a new idea was born.<br />
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The <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=gfRnzfE0N4oC&pg=PA7&lpg=PA7&dq=swann+king+community+land+trust&source=bl&ots=rM-juEf169&sig=hC4OzPiWMHBR8VIzftgHC6QVOTs&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ku-QU8W-OZeWqAbY7oHABQ&ved=0CE8Q6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=swann%20king%20community%20land%20trust&f=false">rest of the story</a> is <a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4088576/clt-roots/eBooks/Origins-Evolution-CLT.pdf">fascinating</a>. From what I saw in Cleveland, this spirit of dedication to civil rights is alive and well among contemporary practitioners of the community land trust movement. Knowing the powerful history that lies at the roots of our own <a href="http://communityhometrust.org/">Community Home Trust</a> as well as the <a href="http://www.dclt.org/">Durham Community Land Trustees</a> puts their important work in a whole new perspective.Sallyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00974560719588849769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7707823.post-28807716377997248762014-07-13T21:30:00.000-04:002014-07-13T21:30:24.642-04:00Thank you for visiting GreeneSpace.Welcome! This blog was very active from 2004 through 2008; much less so after that. I now blog over at <a href="http://sallygreene.org/">SallyGreene.org</a>, and I hope you'll join me there.Sallyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00974560719588849769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7707823.post-6406053983170036402013-09-16T10:21:00.000-04:002014-06-03T19:32:32.954-04:00Atlanta bound: National Housing ConferenceThis morning I'm headed to Atlanta for <a href="http://www.nhc.org/Solutions-2013.html">Solutions 2013</a>, the <a href="http://www.nhc.org/index.html">National Housing Conference on State and Local Housing Policy</a>.
Some great North Carolina connections here: <a href="http://www.nhc.org/media/Chris-Estes-Hire-Announcement.html">Chris Estes, president and CEO</a>, came to the position a year ago from the North Carolina Housing Coalition, where he was executive director. He's well known to many of us working on affordable housing regionally.
And one of the keynote speakers is <a href="http://www.habitat.org/ceo">Jonathan Reckford, CEO of Habitat for Humanity</a>. He's another Tar Heel with local roots: he's the brother of Joe Reckford of Chapel Hill, and their father is Kenneth Reckford, professor emeritus of classics at UNC.
Looking forward to connecting with them and many others and learning a lot.<br />
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"<a href="http://hiddenvoices.org/pod/project/12">None of the Above</a>," the latest production from <a href="http://hiddenvoices.org/">Hidden Voices</a>, is a truly riveting critique of one of the most troubling trends of our time: the systematic bias against children of color in school disciplinary procedures, under the guise of objective "zero tolerance" policies. Under these policies, something as innocent as bringing a Midol to class for a friend could well be the trigger of a suspension, then an appearance in court--and so the school-to-prison pipeline begins.<br />
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You can read much more about this devastating phenomenon from such sources as the <a href="https://www.aclu.org/racial-justice/school-prison-pipeline">ACLU</a> and the <a href="http://www.tolerance.org/magazine/number-43-spring-2013/school-to-prison">Southern Poverty Law Center</a>. But if you haven't seen the Hidden Voices production, you're missing the human dimension to all of the statistics.<br />
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Written by Lynden Harris and directed by Kathryn Williams, the 40-page script was distilled from hundreds of pages of workshop recordings produced over a period of thee years. The performance is in the format of a radio call-in show. Moderator "Ernest Justice" (Philip Smith) deftly manages a conversation with student activists, a defense attorney, a Teach for America teacher, one very outspoken student, other teachers, a restorative justice worker, and other well-intentioned folks as well as call-in listeners, not all of whom are so sympathetic. By the time the evening is over, it is hard not to feel a little numb, and not a little powerless to change such overwhelming structural forces.<br />
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And yet doing nothing is the last thing that Hidden Voices intends to accept. "Do one thing," says the program copy, listing two pages of possibilities. A few of them:<br />
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Join the <a href="http://www.raisetheagenc.com/">Raise the Age</a> movement. North Carolina is one of only two states that charge children for crimes as if they were adults.<br />
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Get involved in the <a href="http://lawdev.campbell.edu/page.cfm?id=332&n=jon-powell">Restorative Justice</a> movement. Help give juvenile offenders and their victims an opportunity to address the harms caused productively.<br />
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Tutor a child. <a href="https://sites.google.com/a/chccs.k12.nc.us/brma/">Mentor</a> a child.<br />
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Talk to someone about what's happening in the schools. Reach out. Listen.<br />
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If you missed it, there are a few <a href="http://hiddenvoices.org/">other chances</a>: next weekend at the UNC Stone Center, and Oct. 5 on the Duke campus.<br />
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For me, "None of the Above" raises an opportunity to mention a book that fundamentally changed my understanding of our world--sometimes it's not an exaggeration to say that about a book. Michele Alexander's <a href="http://newjimcrow.com/">The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness</a> opened my eyes to terrible racial injustices in the criminal justice system that extend all the way from discipline in the school room to the administration of the death penalty.<br />
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Our "color-blind" laws are of little help--in fact they become rather confounding--when we grapple with the Trayvon Martin murder, for example. Last Thursday night, the Town's Justice in Action Committee hosted a <a href="http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/local&id=9246541">panel discussion</a> on "<a href="http://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2013/09/trayvon-0913">Lessons Learned from the Trayvon Martin case</a>." The room was packed. Our police chief, Chris Blue, explained the procedures he has in place that ask his officers to self-check against racial profiling. Let's hope it's working.<br />
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And let's keep talking.Sallyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00974560719588849769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7707823.post-6440047739507661352013-07-04T10:29:00.000-04:002013-07-04T10:53:37.841-04:00Fired up and ready to go.When the filing period opens at noon tomorrow, I will be in Hillsborough to file for election to the <a href="http://www.townofchapelhill.org/index.aspx?page=2160">Chapel Hill Town Council</a>.<br />
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Today, I'll be at the Eno River to join the 34th annual celebration of the <a href="http://www.townofchapelhill.org/index.aspx?page=2160">Festival for the Eno</a>.<br />
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Yesterday, spurred by events on the Senate floor on Tuesday night, <a href="http://chapelboro.com/news/state-government/amidst-protesting-nc-sen-oks-tougher-abortion-rules/">I joined hundreds of others</a> in witness to and peaceful protest of the Senate's passage of a bill that places unconstitutional restrictions on the right to safe and legal abortion in this state. <a href="http://openstates.org/nc/bills/2013/HB695/documents/NCD00024640/">This bill</a> was rushed through the Senate without public notice, without time for deliberation, and in fact it had come from the House in the form of a bill that would outlaw the recognition of "foreign" (Sharia) law (as if the United States Constitution did not fully require that the laws of the United States be only the laws of the United States). Though we doubted we would change the outcome of the vote after the third reading yesterday morning--just as the Moral Monday protests do not measure their success by immediate outcomes--it was important be there.<br />
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Serving in municipal government rarely involves such monumental questions of fundamental constitutional rights. Local elected officials do not have the power to say yes or no to abortion regulations or Medicaid money or unemployment payments or whether to rewrite the tax laws or to allow private school vouchers. In some ways, our charge can be read narrowly: We make decisions concerning public safety, land use, and other issues fundamental to the health and welfare of our local community. But all levels of government are interrelated. And local government is up close and personal: it's where we come together to make decisions that reflect values we hold dear. We know that our values can resonate upward and outward as well.<br />
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It was a privilege to serve for two terms on the Council, <a href="http://greenespace.blogspot.com/2011/07/thank-you-chapel-hill.html">from 2003 to 2011</a>, and since my <a href="http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/01/23/2628207/sally-greene-returns-to-chapel.html">appointment</a> in January I have been honored to step back into the good work of the Council on such important issues seeing our expanded <a href="http://chapelhillpubliclibrary.org/txp/?s=About+CHPL&c=05-new-library-faqs">Public Library</a> off to a <a href="http://www.heraldsun.com/chherald/chloclal/x1065839506/Library-to-add-extra-hours-in-August">strong start</a>, focusing attention on new ways of supporting <a href="http://www.ci.chapel-hill.nc.us/index.aspx?page=2232">affordable rental housing</a>, and continuing to serve those in our community who are <a href="http://www.co.orange.nc.us/housing/endinghomelessness.asp">homeless or at risk of losing their homes</a>. As we pursue implementation of the <a href="http://www.townofchapelhill.org/index.aspx?page=1656">Chapel Hill 2020 Comprehensive Plan</a>, I've been responsive to community members who are devoting much time and energy into discussions of the <a href="http://www.townofchapelhill.org/index.aspx?page=2020">Central West</a> planning area and the potential development of <a href="http://www.townofchapelhill.org/index.aspx?page=2239">Obey Creek</a>.<br />
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I'm proud that our work on what used to be called Lot 5 has come to fruition in the beautiful <a href="http://www.140westfranklin.com/">140 West Franklin</a> development and the associated public plaza, and I'm excited about the conversations for the future of the <a href="http://rosemaryimaginedblog.com/">Rosemary Street</a> corridor. This is an exciting time for downtown Chapel Hill, and these discussions are bringing out the best in our residents' creativity.<br />
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I look forward to the campaign, and to talking with each of you along the way about the issues that are important to you.Sallyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00974560719588849769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7707823.post-59844224676450614632010-04-25T20:40:00.011-04:002010-04-26T11:54:18.666-04:00Rebecca Clark Gazebo<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz6jsIVHZ4phuWMnrbkqkT3uVaO1Ejw2AXztrJHsaejIRglFc_I6pWwFbmjnN4YbrqWqsI4wS5w13OSDTmKef6z7LdvX2nrSjZQu1kdxQtc5s6N6YciXUS9VZ9l42vRQHG2rQw/s1600/IMG_0260.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz6jsIVHZ4phuWMnrbkqkT3uVaO1Ejw2AXztrJHsaejIRglFc_I6pWwFbmjnN4YbrqWqsI4wS5w13OSDTmKef6z7LdvX2nrSjZQu1kdxQtc5s6N6YciXUS9VZ9l42vRQHG2rQw/s200/IMG_0260.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464244005008964770" /></a><i>Yesterday many members of the community gathered to remember Rebecca Clark and to dedicate the gazebo in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery to her memory. Speakers included former Town Council member Jim Merritt, Mayor Pro Tem Jim Ward, and me. I was asked to speak in my role as chair of the Council naming committee--to talk a little about that process. Here are my remarks.</i><br /><br />The Town Council does indeed have a process for naming public structures and facilities after people. To have something named after you by the town is a great honor; it’s not something we do lightly. The first requirement is that the person be no longer living. There are good reasons for that policy, but there’s also a downside: Rebecca Clark is not here with us today to see this honor bestowed upon her.<br /><br />I think of that old song by the <a href="http://s0.ilike.com/play#The+Carter+Family:Give+Me+the+Roses+While+I+Live:5638657:s43424926.11341586.3782779.0.2.41%2Cstd_d08f5c9b9659418283cd5b9640a193ab">Carter Family</a>,<br /> <br /><blockquote>Give me the roses while I live<br />Trying to cheer me on.<br />Useless are flowers that you give<br />After the soul is gone.</blockquote><br />It’s a chilling song, and there's truth in the lyrics. So I’m sorry Ms. Clark is not here to see this day. But I hope I’m not wrong to think that she was appreciated, especially in later years, like on her great community 90th birthday. And I hope I’m not wrong to think that she did recognize that the work she had done for so long, especially in the arena of political organizing and getting people to the polls, did really make a difference.<br /><br />And certainly her presence is still felt and will be felt for a long time to come, through the memory established here with this gazebo but also in the hearts and minds of so many of us who can still remember vividly long phone conversations with her, in which she had something important to explain, something complicated with deep roots, going way back, <i>are you with me?</i> She wanted to be sure you know how some seemingly intractable problem had gotten to be that way in the first place, <i>are you with me?</i> Something was going on, going wrong, and it needed to be fixed.<br /><br />We’re still trying to fix it all, Ms. Clark. We’re with you—and we’re grateful that you were with us and that you stuck with us and worked with us for so long.<br /><br>Sallyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00974560719588849769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7707823.post-83422248910045133292010-04-25T19:50:00.007-04:002014-06-03T19:33:59.965-04:00HOPE Gardens<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgATLa-wR4d_FguvdRoIcpqqi6mu2271eCFJUrPIKsXniLuN7_owUHisLPLkB9m-kReR_-bwjOm7ElH85aJI8z-BgRQhEfHajOdSgO1RdGDsvXoelqALK9jxx_rrCU6-XIjNkxN/s1600/IMG_0251.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgATLa-wR4d_FguvdRoIcpqqi6mu2271eCFJUrPIKsXniLuN7_owUHisLPLkB9m-kReR_-bwjOm7ElH85aJI8z-BgRQhEfHajOdSgO1RdGDsvXoelqALK9jxx_rrCU6-XIjNkxN/s200/IMG_0251.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464235676247279026" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 150px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 200px;" /></a><i>Yesterday it was my pleasure to speak at the dedication of the HOPE Gardens, a community garden on town-owned land sponsored by the Homeless Outreach Poverty Education arm of the UNC Campus Y. The bountiful garden serves as a transitional employment center for homeless people. At the dedication event were workshops on sustainable agriculture, a garden art project, tours and lunch with salad fresh from the garden. Here are my remarks.</i><br />
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Greetings on behalf of the <a href="http://townofchapelhill.org/index.aspx?page=1">Chapel Hill Town Council</a>, and thanks to everyone involved, including Butch Kisiah and his Parks and Recreation staff, as well as our partners at <a href="http://www.activelivingbydesign.org/">Active Living By Design</a>, who worked closely with the HOPE group to make this happen. Congratulations to David Baron and the whole HOPE team.<br />
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The state of being homeless is such an unsettling, unnerving state that we don't even have a consistent word for it. “Homelessness,” the word we now use, describes a lack—it’s a description for something you don’t have. Generations ago, it was called other things: vagabond, gypsy, tramp, hobo. Sometimes it was just said that you had been put “outdoors.” A character in Toni Morrison’s novel <i>The Bluest Eye</i>, Cholly Breedlove, does that to his whole family: he throws them out of the house, puts them “outdoors.” On this unhappy state Morrison reflects, </div>
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In an essay called “<a href="http://www.ecobooks.com/books/unsettli.htm">The Body and the Earth</a>,” he observes that “no matter how urban our life, our bodies live by farming; we come from the earth and return to it. . . . While we live our bodies are moving particles of the earth, joined inextricably both to the soil and to the bodies of those other living creatures.” </div>
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What Berry beautifully describes is the connectedness of body and earth: The word “health” itself, he notes, is related to the words<i> heal, whole, wholesome, hale, hallow</i>, and <i>holy</i>. “And so it is possible to give a definition to health that is positive and far more elaborate than that given to it by most medical doctors.”</div>
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“In gardening, “ Berry continues, “one works with the body to feed the body. The work, if it is knowledgeable, makes for excellent food. And it makes one hungry. The work thus keeps the eater from getting fat and weak. This is health, wholeness, a source of delight.” </div>
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And so this cycle of work and exercise, community and conviviality, wholeness and health and happy eating—the nourishment of the body and the earth—this is what HOPE Gardens is all about. Please join with me in thanking everyone involved in this great project and wishing them lasting success, season after season. </div>
Sallyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00974560719588849769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7707823.post-29739970579336321862009-09-18T10:30:00.001-04:002014-06-03T19:34:28.753-04:00Peace and protest, justice and injustice: marking Chapel Hill's sacred space<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhePbvmpru4cQ1cx-WnrXtCA3w0NYbqlqfwORIjKHBsgT-dEjz6YvyuehRdBleCHsbjYPkmms4zwVQixnjewAgv3E9BCXPaI5iYigmnTBTo5PXWereZv87C-r9Onpy0QZU6N-GF/s1600-h/Untitled.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhePbvmpru4cQ1cx-WnrXtCA3w0NYbqlqfwORIjKHBsgT-dEjz6YvyuehRdBleCHsbjYPkmms4zwVQixnjewAgv3E9BCXPaI5iYigmnTBTo5PXWereZv87C-r9Onpy0QZU6N-GF/s200/Untitled.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5382811416385769026" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 161px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 200px;" /></a>A little-known fact: grass used to grow around the flag pole in front of the old post office on Franklin Street. That's why those red brick pavers are there--as filler. It was only in latter times, probably since 1979 when the town purchased the property from the federal government, that the space was paved over.<br />
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Luckily for these four young men, it was grass during Holy Week in 1964 when they <a href="http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/exhibits/protests/sitins.html">decided to fasten themselves</a> to this place 24 hours a day, fasting in protest of the Town of Chapel Hill's <a href="http://greenespace.blogspot.com/2006/12/upcoming-exhibit-on-student-protest-in.html">refusal</a> to pass a public accommodations ordinance.<br />
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Pat Cusick, LaVert Taylor, John Dunne, James Foushee (in the photo) and countless other activists will be remembered this Sunday at 3 p.m. as we unveil and formally dedicate the Peace and Justice tribute marker at the site we've named Peace and Justice Plaza.<br />
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<a href="http://www.townofchapelhill.org/index.aspx?page=22&recordid=730&returnURL=%2findex.aspx">Please join us for the celebration</a>. Opening remarks by Mayor Kevin Foy, Sen. Ellie Kinnaird, and local NAACP chapter president Michelle Laws will be followed by brief tributes to the people honored on the marker. We will also recognize Yonni Chapman, historian, for his tireless work to ensure that past struggles for civil rights in Chapel Hill are remembered. Dan Pollitt, emeritus professor in the UNC School of Law, will conclude with some personal recollections of his own experiences on the front lines of local battles for civil rights and social justice.<br />
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The marker bears the names of nine people who devoted much of their lives to working for causes of peace and social justice in our community: Charlotte Adams, Hank Anderson, James Brittian, Joe Herzenberg, Mildred Ringwalt, Hubert Robinson, Joe Straley, Lucy Straley, and Gloria Williams.<br />
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At the top of the marker is a quote from Martin Luther King, Jr.:<br />
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The marker is a flat granite paver, flush to the ground, directly in front of the flag pole. It is designed so that other names can be added in the future.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAESqNUEgOUKW5Kiz973s6a-powtRrSMtuoQvG0KcHcPIA_Kh5Fb0FoSZ9_Em08Rzbyar1xCcygpkxBvl1NPYFwUuEd-JVRW06hgVBp1IHt6jqlgNpNYOOXoS1vriRBJ7QCD5f/s1600-h/under+the+plaza.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAESqNUEgOUKW5Kiz973s6a-powtRrSMtuoQvG0KcHcPIA_Kh5Fb0FoSZ9_Em08Rzbyar1xCcygpkxBvl1NPYFwUuEd-JVRW06hgVBp1IHt6jqlgNpNYOOXoS1vriRBJ7QCD5f/s200/under+the+plaza.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5382822122181135842" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 150px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 200px;" /></a>What's been most remarkable lately, as town employees have worked to remove one section of the brick pavers and ready the space for the installation, has been an archaeological discovery. On the concrete base that was poured to stabilize the brick pavers when they were laid, someone etched a swastika. (Click on the photo for an enlarged view; it's in the lower corner.) Emily Cameron, landscape architect for the town, puts it beautifully in perspective: "We thought it was worth noting that we have removed an historic symbol of hate and racial prejudice that had been hidden at the foot of our nation’s flag to replace it with a marker to commemorate the struggle for equality, justice, and peace."Sallyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00974560719588849769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7707823.post-34315348277213402352009-07-25T13:57:00.004-04:002009-07-25T14:19:47.217-04:00Tomatoes<span style="font-style: italic;">Today is Tomato Day at the Carrboro Farmers Market. This essay was published in the "Tomato" issue of the </span><a href="http://www.carrborofreepress.com/"> Carrboro Free Press</a><span style="font-style: italic;"> on July 8, 2009.</span><br /><br />Overheard at the Carrboro Farmer’s Market, mother to silent daughter: “The ugliest tomatoes are actually the ones that taste the best.” I wondered if this one-way conversation would take the obvious metaphorical turn, but it stayed straight on message. “Mommy is very picky about her tomatoes,” she continued as she examined a promising German Johnson.<br /><br />Except for recognizing the inherent superiority of the home-grown varieties, I can’t claim to have ever been that picky about my tomatoes. Since I grew up in rural East Texas, my husband, bred in Charlotte, finds this to be curious.<br /><br />Trips to the farmer’s market with Paul in high summer are quests for the ugliest, tastiest tomatoes. In reaction to the acidy Burpee’s Big Boys that he remembers from his father’s backyard garden, he’s after sweetness, with enough texture to stand up to the heat of the stovetop. Pink Girls, Cherokee Purples, all manner of lyrical names will join the reliable German Johnsons in soups and gumbos and biryanis and jamablayas of his own invention.<br /><br />Assembling the tomatoes with other seasonal picks from the market, he’ll jump from cookbook to internet recipe to suggestions from his “tweeple” till he finds the magical combination of ingredients. He’ll put our son Tucker to work at the chopping board, encouraging all kinds of proper habits, not to mention the love of a good meal carefully prepared.<br /><br />At 16, Tucker is ripe for embarrassment, though that’s not my aim in sharing the story behind one of his best works of art. Preschool age being the high point of abstract expressionism for so many, the daycare years brought out a talent in Tucker that he has since let languish.<br /><br />On construction paper washed in pink he painted a fury of reds and greens, with a red center of gravity, random spokes of the red and green contributing energy and intensity. This creation of our young Jackson Pollock ended up on the coffee table next to a New York Times Sunday Magazine. The magazine happened to have a picture of a tomato splattered on its otherwise stark white cover. Tucker looked at the two, pointed to his own, and proclaimed, “Tomato!”<br /><br />The topic of the cover story was politics: the Gingrich Revolution of 1994, symbolized by an iconic image of the tomato as hand grenade. Out of the mouths of babes, though. With that pleasurable cry of discovery—Tomato!—political symbol was reduced to its literal essence, while the abstract was translated into a piercing reality, a bright red tomato so juicy it could not be contained. 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"The Real Paul Jones")). I wrote about him because many, many years after he was denied admission to the University of Alabama's law school, for no better reason than his race, the University of Alabama gave him an honorary degree. The degree was not so much to make amends but in honor of his accomplishments as an art collector.<br /><br />Dr. Jones has a long history with Alabama--while an official in President Nixon's education department, he awarded a multi-million dollar grant for extension education to the University of Alabama; and more recently he has donated a significant part of his art collection to the University. This is yet more evidence of the ways that, over the course of a lifetime, things change. It reminds me of a story Dr. Jones told me of his childhood growing up in Bessemer, Alabama. He sometimes went with his parents to the Bright Star--a legendary restaurant that's still in operation in Bessemer. I highly recommend it next time you're in Birmingham. Because those were the days of Jim Crow, Jones' family could not go in the front door--but the proprietor would set up a table in the back and the Jones came in the back door. That was a courageous position for the restaurant in those days, I am reliably informed.<br /><br />Some years ago I asked Dr. Jones whether he'd been back. And he said "yes. It's still a great restaurant. [Pause] And this time I went in the front door!" Ah, what changes he's witnessed over his lifetime--and what changes he's been a part of, and contributed to as well. It's an important lesson of foregiveness and of moving forward. As we say in the historical memory business, we are far too often burdened by memory.<br /><br />So you can imagine my surprise when a reader of Greenespace wrote me recently to tell me about another recent story in which Paul Jones figured. During the 1972 presidential election, Dr. Jones was in charge of President Nixon's campaign to get out the black vote. In that capacity he approached Sammy Davis, Jr. <a href="http://ibiblio.org/pjones/blog/">Amidst the recent talk of the release of Nixon tapes</a>, there's a story about a letter that Paul Jones wrote about his meeting with Davis. The Orange County Recorder reports:<br /><br /><blockquote><p>Campaign workers talked to Davis about supporting Nixon in January 1972. "The entertainer's reaction was that he has not chosen sides and is 'hanging loose,'" said a memo sent that month by campaign staffer Paul Jones to the re-election committee. "He indicated wanting to see 'what is in it' – which was spelled out to mean something 'for the people' – not for himself."</p></blockquote><p>Another example of the unexpected outdoing itself in its power to surprise, as Ralph Ellison said!</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7707823.post-23914603696591333072008-09-30T07:25:00.005-04:002008-09-30T07:32:42.192-04:00Bill ThorpeMy Town Council colleague <a href="http://www.carrborocitizen.com/main/2008/09/29/3523/">Bill Thorpe</a> died on Saturday. We will miss him very much. I came to know him first in early 2004, when he was involved with the NAACP in asking the Council to change the name of Airport Road to honor Martin Luther King, Jr. Seeing Chapel Hill's long history through his eyes helped me to understand why this gesture--which some dismissed as merely symbolic--was so important. More than that, after his election to the Council in 2005 he continued to remind all of us of the need to go beyond symbolism to action in addressing issues of social justice in our community.<br /><p>He also taught me a lot about collegiality in public service--that is, about working together as colleagues. And he never ceased to remind all of us us--usefully, no doubt--that we <span style="font-style: italic;">are</span> public servants, that our actions and decisions must always be for the good of the whole community. As anybody who knew him can tell you, he had a powerful deadpan--he could shock you momentarily into thinking you'd committed some mighty offense! only to let you know it was all right, everything was going to be all right. He really had one of the sweetest dispositions of any man I've ever known (and surely it is OK, in the 21st century, to call a man sweet). When I think of him, I will always see him smiling.<br /></p>A public viewing will be held from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday, Oct. 3, at University Baptist Church, and services will be held at 1 p.m.<br /><br />Sallyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00974560719588849769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7707823.post-23592421492894177412008-09-26T15:15:00.006-04:002014-06-03T19:35:05.053-04:00What's your support system?This is a question I was asked at yesterday's second annual <a href="http://www.dailytarheel.com/news/city/where_the_heart_is">Project Homeless Connect</a>. It's a good question. There's probably a time when I would have responded, What are you talking about? I don't need a support system! I was independent, gainfully employed, healthy, reasonably happy. I still am all of those things, but no longer so naive as to think I'm any of them without a lot of support from many directions: especially family. Everybody needs a support system. Most of us have one.<br />
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A couple of years ago at one of our conversations on homelessness, I met a woman living in the Homestart shelter. Her salary at a fast food restaurant allowed her to pay rent and buy gas, but little else. When her car broke down, she had to choose between fixing it and making rent. She chose the car--because she had to get to work. Couldn't your family help? I asked. Her family was sympathetic but no, they were in no position to help.<br />
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<a href="http://www.newsobserver.com/news/orange/story/1232813.html">Calvin Harris</a>' story is worse. His parents abandoned him; he was raised by cousins who didn't do very well by him either. He grew up learning New Jersey street smarts. In and out of trouble, in and out of prison for 28 of his 48 years, he lives in Person County now where he has been sober since 2006. Now, he's looking for work--a hard proposition for somebody with a felony record.<br />
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What's <span style="font-style: italic;">your</span> support system?<br />
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<a href="http://www.newsobserver.com/1202/story/1232535.html">Photos</a> from Project Homeless Connect.<br />
<br />Sallyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00974560719588849769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7707823.post-68601132766622776112008-08-29T12:18:00.007-04:002014-06-03T19:35:26.178-04:00Remembering KatrinaOn the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, some recommended reading: the special Katrina issue of <a href="http://www.unc.edu/depts/csas/southern_cultures/current_index.html">Southern Cultures</a>, cover to cover. Amazing stories, including a riveting first-person account, from Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, of taking the high ground in an elegant, "safe" old <a href="http://www.baytowninn.com/">inn</a>, being engulfed in water up to the second floor, floating out into open sea, holding on for dear life to the limbs of a live oak tree, and more.<br />
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An <a href="http://www.historictravelsfortwo.com/BayTownInn.htm">update</a> to their story: the live oak tree has since died, and it's been refashioned into angels standing watch where the old inn used to be.<br />
<br />Sallyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00974560719588849769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7707823.post-55146337683858652792008-08-22T13:35:00.015-04:002014-06-03T19:36:10.043-04:00"Traces of the Trade" in Hillsborough Sept. 6A couple of months ago, <a href="http://greenespace.blogspot.com/2008/06/traces-of-trade-on-bill-moyers-tuesday.html">Al blogged about</a> "<a href="http://www.tracesofthetrade.org/">Traces of the Trade</a>," a documentary made by a descendant of the DeWolf family of Rhode Island, "the largest slave trading family in U.S. history" according to the film. The documentary follows the steps of the filmmaker Katrina Browne and a handful of other descendants as they retrace the paths over which this trading took place: from Bristol, Rhode Island to Ghana to the Caribbean.<br />
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The film premiered at <a href="http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_94258_ENG_HTM.htm">Sundance</a> and has been shown on PBS (see <a href="http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/06202008/watch.html">trailer</a>). And because the family included a good number of Episcopal priests, it has been taken up by the Episcopal Church nationally as part of the church's <a href="http://www.thewitness.org/article.php?id=189">ongoing work</a> of <a href="http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2008/tracesofthetrade/special_bishop.html">reconciliation</a> with its complicity with slavery and racism.<br />
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On Sept. 6, as part of a <a href="http://antiracismcommittee.blogspot.com/2008/08/updated-program-for-september-6.html">conversation </a> sponsored by the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina at <a href="http://stmatthewshillsborough.org/index.cgi">St. Matthew's</a> church in Hillsborough, the film will be shown. After the film, I'll be part of a panel discussion--in which I'll be bringing our own Thomas Ruffin to the table.<br />
<br />Sallyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00974560719588849769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7707823.post-6610246806309219252008-08-19T20:04:00.015-04:002014-06-03T19:36:44.377-04:00Greening up the Garden<a href="http://ncbg.unc.edu/pages/4/"><img alt="botgard" src="http://ncbg.unc.edu/uploads/images/VECdrawing.jpg" width="400" /></a><br />
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Frank Harmon's beautiful design for the <a href="http://ncbg.unc.edu/">North Carolina Botanical Garden's</a> new <a href="http://ncbg.unc.edu/pages/4/">visitor education center</a>, slated to be the first Platinum LEED building in the southeast, is coming to life! Director Peter White took Tucker and me, along with Laura Moore (a neighbor and member of the Community Design Commission), on a fascinating hard hat tour today. This generously proportioned, green, and welcoming facility will have a transformative impact on the way the Garden is experienced.<br />
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<br />Sallyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00974560719588849769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7707823.post-79108398936947467112008-08-18T18:17:00.009-04:002014-06-03T19:39:48.237-04:00Asheville Before School StartsI made a very quick trip out to Asheville before school starts--been hearing a bunch about the place and, of course, it was everything I'd heard and more. Reminds me of Burlington, Vermont, Northampton, Massachusetts, and Portland, Oregon--the combination of restaurants and grunge and people with money, too. I'm looking forward to spending some more time out there in another year. But right now I want to talk about four things in particular.<br />
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As I was driving up Patton Street, towards (what I understand to be) the center of town, I saw an obelisk. And I said, ah, that must be a monument to the Confederacy; I'm guessing it was put up in the early twentieth century. So, after parking the car in a nearby lot (complete with spray-painted "Tourists Go Home"--gotta love the local flavor!) and a walk back there, I see that I was pretty much on the mark. It's a monument put up in the late 1930s to Zebulon Vance--governor of our state during the Civil War. And, of course, it was put up by the United Daughters of the Confederacy. So I was pretty close; and what to my wondering eyes did appear in front of it, but a smaller granite monument put up in the 1924, also by the UDC, marking Dixie Highway and commemorating Robert E. Lee. So far, so good. Actually, calling this stuff is like shooting fish in a barrel--every southern town needs its confederate monument and they're almost all from the early twentieth century. So you can impress your friends and family by making these kinds of predictions. Let's see, big monument; southern town; ... "well, [affecting voice of authority], I bet that's an early twentieth century monument to the confederacy." And almost all the time you'll be right!<br />
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So a walk down towards the enormous courthouse and what do I see: a bunch of hippies surrounding a magnolia tree. As close readers of GreeneSpace will recall, I love magnolia trees--and so does pretty much everyone else, which is part of the reason <a href="http://greenespace.blogspot.com/2008/05/this-is-why-they-call-it-moonlight-and.html">why the moonlight and magnolia school was so popular</a>. They were camping out, protesting the impending destruction of the tree to create ... <a href="http://www.downtownasheville.com/index.php/540">a condominium</a>, right next to the park they're building! They crux of this seems to be a decision by the local authorities to sell land left to the city by George Pack. One recent report talks about it in this way: "The park land was willed to the people forever by two deeds of the late and benevolent George Pack. The deeds and land now in question are said by many to have been improperly, if not illegally, sold by Buncombe County Commissioners in November 2006." Hmm, I'd want to see the deeds (or will, I take it in this case)--sounds like a gift in fee simple absolute, but perhaps there was a restriction on use or sale?!<br />
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Now, I part company with hippies on some issues--<a href="http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/property/2006/09/steal_this_book.html">like property rights</a>. However, I'm always happy to see people exercising their constitutional rights in order to encourage the rest of us to spare trees from the ax--particularly the ancient, beautiful, and slow-growing magnolia. Sounds like a new piece of <a href="http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/property/2008/02/reprising-hippi.html">what I might call hippie jurisprudence</a>. There's something about trees, which appeals to my sense of vested rights. The old ones are venerable in part because they are old; they've survived the test of time, so that alone is a reason to preserve them, it seems to me. (Not to mention that trees as a stand-in in southern literature for families.)<br />
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Anyway, after a short time at the protest, I spotted yet another monument to the side of the courthouse. And this time as I approached it, I guessed--based on the stones--that it was from the 1880s or 1890s. Bingo! 1893 monument to soldiers at Chickamauga in 1863. Ah, gotta love monuments and monument law--and what a day when you see them all combined.<br />
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And now I'm ready for school to start, because this has been just the perfect summer.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7707823.post-49451476406499587762008-08-17T21:28:00.008-04:002008-08-17T21:53:35.280-04:00For AshleyEarlier this week came the hard news that Ashley Osment's cancer has returned. The rare form of ovarian cancer that struck her last year, which had seemed to respond to treatment, was only hiding out. It has returned in the bottom of both of her lungs. She has gone through one round of carboplatin/taxol and avastin chemotherapy through her blood stream, and on August 25 she'll undergo a second round.<br /><br />Her friend Maria Palmer has thoughtfully <a href="http://forashley.blogspot.com/">created a web site</a> where she is posting her daily prayers and meditations--a lovely way to be present for Ashley without being intrusive at a time when it's hard to know how to help. Our love goes out to Ashley and her family.<br /><br />Sallyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00974560719588849769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7707823.post-64415728556000848922008-08-10T18:08:00.010-04:002008-08-11T11:51:11.061-04:00Too many Joneses!<a href="http://greenespace.blogspot.com/2008/08/what-do-sally-and-senator-obama-have-in.html">Cute post, Al</a>, but it's obvious I'm no Obama. I'd love to take his courses. Or teach some pale semblance of one of them again someday. But first I have to get this obsession with <span style="font-style: italic;">State v. Mann</span> behind me--which I may soon do if I'm lucky.<br /><br />On Saturday my goal in the archives was to bear down on Thomas Jones of Chowan County, the Thomas Jones who died in 1822 and was father of Elizabeth Jones and owner of a slave named Lydia. (Lydia subsequently became the property of Elizabeth and was kept hired out until Elizabeth entered her majority at age 18.) Whose family did he come from? Was it true--as it seemed likely, at least, on the surface--that he was the son of the <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=YF0dAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA47&dq=%22thomas+jones%22+chowan+constitution&ei=LGmfSPGMIoOAjwHr_aj7BA&client=firefox-a">Thomas Jones of Chowan</a> who helped to draft North Carolina's constitution of 1776? That Thomas Jones sounds like quite a fellow. According to Samuel Ashe's <span style="font-style: italic;">Biographical History of North Carolina,</span> he<br /><br /><blockquote>was bred to the law, was one of the very finest men of the province in genius and learning. About the time of the arrival of James Iredell at Edenton, Mr. Jones was clerk of the court. He was not a man of large means, but was esteemed one of the principal men of his community. He was married and had an interesting household that was on terms of intimacy with the Johnstons and others of that social circle. In 1771 Iredell mentions him as "one of the best as well as most agreeable men in the world."</blockquote><br /><br />He died in 1797, leaving a will that named three sons, Zachariah, Levi, and Thomas.<br /><br />Now, the Thomas Jones who was the father of Elizabeth died in 1822, possessed of over 600 acres. He was a justice of the peace and was evidently well respected. Given the frequency with which these people named their children after themselves, it seemed likely to me that there was a direct line here. And how interesting to re-discover this founding North Carolinian who had been lost to history and to connect him to this important case.<br /><br />Except, not so fast. It turns out that in the archival file of estate records titled "Thomas Jones, 1754-1798 (more than one estate)" (not even the state archivists can tell these Joneses a part), there's a document dated 1795 that says, "Thomas Jones, son of the late Thomas Jones esquire attorney of law deceased late of Edenton in Chowan County is dead," having died without leaving a will, and thus that Francis Jones, son of this Thomas Jones, is appointed his executor. More confusion ensues, because the will of the Thomas Jones who seems to be the father here, the lawyer and clerk, is dated 1797! <br /><br />There must be a story here, but unfortunately not a clear enough line to determine that Elizabeth Jones was the grand-daughter, or even great-granddaughter, of Thomas Jones the forgotten old patriot, a man who had his moment but then, according to Ashe, disappeared from public life 20 years before his death.<br /><br />Sallyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00974560719588849769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7707823.post-10661698491080375982008-08-09T14:37:00.004-04:002008-08-10T18:11:24.578-04:00What Do Sally and Senator Obama Have in Common?They both are interested in Justice Thomas Ruffin's 1830 opinion in <span style="font-style: italic;">State v. Mann</span>! Sally writes about it and Obama taught it in his seminar on current issues in racism and the law at the University of Chicago back in 1994. How do we know this? The syllabus for the course <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/politics/2008OBAMA_LAW/Obama_CoursePk.pdf">is up on the <span style="font-style: italic;">New York Times</span>' website</a>. Pretty interesting set of readings!<br /><br />I have some more thoughts on the syllabus--and why it's not getting more attention--<a href="http://www.thefacultylounge.org/2008/08/professor-obama.html">over at the faculty lounge</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7707823.post-35771577753781920712008-08-05T06:58:00.009-04:002014-06-03T19:41:02.956-04:00"The South Part of Virginia" c. 1657To follow up on the <a href="http://greenespace.blogspot.com/2008/08/quakers-with-slaves.html">post below</a> on the contested North Carolina/Virginia line, here's a great old map.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 85%;"><a href="http://www.learnnc.org/lp/multimedia/7780">Nicholas Comberford’s 1657 map</a>, <cite>The South Part of Virginia Now the North Part of Carolina</cite>. The east coast of North Carolina is drawn along the bottom edge of the map. The map extends south as far as Cape Fear and north as far as what appears to be the Virginia border. The western part of the map (on the top edge) is marked as Tuscarora Indian territory. Between the Pamlico Sound and Albemarle Sound (labeled the Roanoake Sound), the map is labeled “This is a swampy wilderness;” the land north of Albemarle Sound is labeled the same.</span><br />
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The original is in the <a href="http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?trg=1&strucID=744285&imageID=PS_MSS_CD18_271&word=23863&s=1&notword=&d=&c=&f=13&lWord=&lField=&sScope=Name&sLevel=&sLabel=Comberford%2C%20Nicholas&total=1&num=0&imgs=12&pNum=&pos=1">New York Public Library</a>.<br />
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Here's <a href="http://www.nmm.ac.uk/collections/displayRepro.cfm?reproID=K1036&picture=1#content">another version</a> of Comberford's map, a nice color image--but the heading isn't quite the same! This one is in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, England.<br />
<br />Sallyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00974560719588849769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7707823.post-32836115805371780702008-08-03T10:46:00.020-04:002014-06-03T19:53:03.503-04:00Quakers with slaves<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-qIXmSYPSxVAzu5YtuezLpapskpOUgG8ORSBBc9cl91hELXl4NooijjVg1V0RWfQmiFmhAF0dgKuDfr_tgWp5Rb9EwiVQTm9Z0ZoY0G8M2RLKASJq3vao87Cf25bVWZqeOfCi/s1600-h/IMG_0720_2.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-qIXmSYPSxVAzu5YtuezLpapskpOUgG8ORSBBc9cl91hELXl4NooijjVg1V0RWfQmiFmhAF0dgKuDfr_tgWp5Rb9EwiVQTm9Z0ZoY0G8M2RLKASJq3vao87Cf25bVWZqeOfCi/s200/IMG_0720_2.JPG" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5230304036491391218" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px;" /></a>At right is the cover of the Chowan County grand jury indictment, in spring 1829, of John Mann for the assault and battery of the slave Lydia. (From the North Carolina Office of Archives and History.) The charge was presented by a man named Josiah Small. Yet the slave's owner, as Ruffin's opinion in <a href="http://plaza.ufl.edu/edale/The%20State%20v%20Mann.htm">State v. Mann</a> tells us, was named Elizabeth Jones, who for all this time has eluded historians. Who was Josiah Small and what concern was Jones' slave to him? This document was my first clue in a long journey to find the answer.<br />
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Elizabeth Jones was Small's ward. Married to her older sister Matilda, Small assumed guardianship of Elizabeth and two of her brothers after the death of their father Thomas Jones, in 1822. To that household Elizabeth brought the slave she had inherited, Lydia. By 1829, Elizabeth was still a minor (barely, at 17), and Lydia was 23.<br />
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What's most interesting to me about the Small household is that Josiah Small was from an old Quaker family. He was a descendant of <a href="http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/%7Esmalljd/lines/quakerjohn-va.html">John Small</a> (c.1639-1700), a Virginia Quaker whose family was among the waves of Quakers who scurried down to North Carolina to escape the wrath of Virginia's governor William Berkeley. A faithful servant of Charles I, "a King's man to his autocratic fingertips" as <a href="http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/%7Equakers/iberian.htm">one historian</a> writes, Berkeley suppressed all dissent from the Church of England, even after Cromwell came to power. By 1660, he'd succeeded in getting the Virginia legislature to pass a law requiring the imprisonment of all Quakers until they left the colony. He stayed in office until his death in 1677.<br />
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This was happening during the same period when the boundary line between North Carolina and Virginia was up for grabs. The North Carolina charter of 1663 was at apparent odds with the one of 1665; in conflict was a swath of territory about 30 miles deep from where the line currently is to the middle of the Albemarle Sound. The dispute wasn't settled until William Byrd's survey of 1728--which means that for some 60 years, it was an open question.<br />
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The dispute had to do with differences of opinion on the location of Weyanoke Creek, which was supposed to be the boundary. The creek couldn't be found any more. Virginia claimed it was the same as Wiccon Creek, a tributary of the Chowan. North Carolina said it was the Nottoway River. But as William Boyd points out in an <a href="http://www.mitchellspublications.com/ur/loc/byrdwe2/histdiv/index.htm">introduction to William Byrd's work</a>, major questions of tobacco and trade routes were involved.<br />
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As the debate lingered on, in 1714, Governor Spotswood of Virginia, "claiming that North Carolina continued to grant lands in the disputed region and that 'loose and disorderly people daily flock there,' proposed that Virginia survey a line through the Nottoway River and North Carolina one through Wiccon Creek, and that all settlers between those lines be removed." !! That didn't happen. When Charles Eden became governor of North Carolina, he managed to reach a compromise on the boundary. The line he proposed is the one that eventually, in 1728, was surveyed by a company including William Byrd II.<br />
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It's a more complicated story than that, but let me return to the Quaker Smalls. Because of this confusion, it appears that some of Josiah Small's ancestors may have "moved" to North Carolina simply by staying put. At any rate, by the late 1700s his father Benjamin was well established in Chowan County. On his death he left an estate of more than 500 acres and some 18 slaves. Josiah inherited about half of this, plus he had other holdings. By the time of the 1830 census, Josiah had 17 slaves.<br />
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Quakers were certainly better off in North Carolina. Under the <a href="http://www.northcarolinahistory.org/encyclopedia/154/entry">Carolina Charter of 1663</a> (written largely by John Locke), "No person . . . shall be in any ways molested, punished, disquieted, or called into question for any differences in opinion or practice in matters of religious concernment, but every person shall have and enjoy his conscience in matters of religion throughout the province."<br />
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Quakers had many inconvenient practices and beliefs. They would not swear an oath in court. They considered everybody equal, rich or poor; all were brothers and sisters. Whether you were a lord or a servant, to them you were "thee." They would not fight. And of course, they thought slavery was wrong.<br />
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When did the Small family decide to become slaveholders, and why? We know that certain Quakers in Chowan County were considered dangerously abolitionist at least through 1795, when Josiah's father Benjamin, who did own slaves, would have been around 50. In December 1795, some Quakers in Chowan County were accused of actively promoting emancipation. Responding to a perceived "situation of great peril and danger" brought on by "the society of people called Quakers,"--by their "insatiated enthusiasm . . . as to partial and general emancipation"--a grand jury resolved that "speedy and resolute measures ought to be adopted by the good sense & spirit of the people" to combat their pernicious influence." This document links the Quaker agitation to "the miserable havoc & malfeasance which have lately taken place in the West Indies," which must have been a reference to the 1791 revolution in Haiti. <a href="http://www.unc.edu/depts/csas/Hutchins2007-2008/Lowe.html">Historians have finally understood</a> how terrifying that event was to slaveowners throughout the South--an event too explosive to even talk about. But in my research into the first three decades of the 1800s in Chowan County, I haven't yet found any evidence of Quakers standing on principle against slavery. Perhaps it was there, but the Smalls and many of their relatives by then were well assimilated into the slaveowner class.<br />
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A reasonable explanation for this phenomenon of slaveholding Quakers comes from Seth B. Hinshaw's <a href="http://openlibrary.org/b/OL2872492M">history of Quakers in North Carolina</a>: "The religious conviction that slavery was morally wrong developed quite slowly," he writes. By the time it took hold, Quakers in eastern North Carolina had been owning slaves for many years, handing them down (as we see in the Small family) from generation to generation. It's not a great answer, but it's the best I can do.<br />
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Some of this information will turn up in the law review essay I'm writing as a follow-up to my talk on <span style="font-style: italic;">State v. Mann</span> at the <a href="http://www.law.unc.edu/calendar/event.aspx?cid=635">Ruffin symposium</a> last fall. I want to acknowledge how helpful the web is for a project like this--rather, how handy the web is for connecting historical researchers with genealogists. A lot of what I know about the Small family comes from genealogical sources, especially Janice Eileen Wallace, with whom I had a fascinating email correspondence. The same is true for Elizabeth Jones and her descendants, for which <a href="http://www.sallysfamilyplace.com/">Sally's Family Place</a> and Sally herself have been very helpful.<br />
<br />Sallyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00974560719588849769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7707823.post-80783535093059136582008-07-23T20:19:00.006-04:002014-06-03T19:42:45.104-04:00Where are the Neo-Confederates When You Need Them?This evening I want to read Jefferson Davis' July 1852 address to the <span style="line-height: 1.2em;"> Phi Sigma and Hermean Societies of the University of Mississippi. But you know what? I can't find it on the internet. It's moments like these that I conclude the neo-confederates really are insignificant. If you can't scan in all the works of your leader and stick them up on the net somewhere, the question just has to be asked: what are you doing? And the answer has to be not much.<br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7707823.post-10497787183216091132008-07-23T14:17:00.011-04:002014-06-03T19:43:22.826-04:00Mountaintop experience with Rheingold<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggvSwktrp_IiMkejy6T7nFQXHQBXstTOLqxZqgysg4CSwLoPe_p3wHq7d5dp-Uhsnwby24X4op-4VHGgKSthhsMObTTSOsobawSAMVrPIMGaV26ATnSMbrMVmzY6VQBnCADid6/s1600-h/IMG_1105.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggvSwktrp_IiMkejy6T7nFQXHQBXstTOLqxZqgysg4CSwLoPe_p3wHq7d5dp-Uhsnwby24X4op-4VHGgKSthhsMObTTSOsobawSAMVrPIMGaV26ATnSMbrMVmzY6VQBnCADid6/s200/IMG_1105.JPG" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5226277841931727858" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px;" /></a>On Monday afternoon we visited <a href="http://www.rheingold.com/">Howard Rheingold</a> at his Marin County home, a cottage nestled into a lush California garden. On good days, which I suppose most are (Sunday was), his "<a href="http://flickr.com/photos/36333361@N00/2694325691/">office</a>" is a wooden chair under a plum tree. His <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/36333361@N00/2695143392/">sunflowers</a> are 10-12 feet tall. That would have been special enough, but there's more.<br />
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He drove us up to <a href="http://www.mttam.net/">Mt. Tamalpais State Park</a> where we hiked among redwoods, sometimes straight up it seemed, to a gorgeous peak with spectacular view of the Bay.<br />
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A few <a href="http://flickr.com/search/?w=36333361%40N00&q=Rheingold&m=tags">more pics</a> are posted on Paul's flickr page. (Clearly I need a flickr account myself!)<br />
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From there we headed to Half Moon Bay, where Paul is among the <a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=7707823">Brainstorm Techies</a> here at the luxurious Ritz-Carlton. He's <a href="http://twitter.com/smalljones">twittering up a storm</a>. At this moment he's going crazy over Neil Young.<br />
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We'll be heading home tomorrow. Only regret on this great trip is not having packed enough sweaters. But if you're one of GreeneSpace's Chapel Hill readers, I realize you might find it hard to sympathize.<br />
<br />Sallyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00974560719588849769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7707823.post-69774359870349654872008-07-21T11:23:00.015-04:002014-06-03T19:43:49.408-04:00Colorful San Francisco<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3Xo27Zh8tFGGkWZJlx_EYxE8wc7UL29Ucckgtg5TgvgystIET1kEnAgOsdKihZB_G-Qf0pnt_uZyL6YCMRgYbjUsRBt5WQ-ILIztK80tcZDsuA-S1mPRCOCqMg1KxREYwb7Fs/s1600-h/women's+building.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3Xo27Zh8tFGGkWZJlx_EYxE8wc7UL29Ucckgtg5TgvgystIET1kEnAgOsdKihZB_G-Qf0pnt_uZyL6YCMRgYbjUsRBt5WQ-ILIztK80tcZDsuA-S1mPRCOCqMg1KxREYwb7Fs/s200/women's+building.JPG" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5225498609687083794" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px;" /></a><a href="http://silverinsf.blogspot.com/">David Silver</a>, his wife Sarah Washburn, and their friends James Jacobs and ShinJohng Yeo spent the day yesterday showing us their San Francisco: the Mission, Castro, Richmond, etc.<br />
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Here's a portion of the fabulous murals on the <a href="http://www.womensbuilding.org/">Women's Building</a>.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOn1ErQEOTALljKxf8zxuAWXeT7aJWgASqQd8_8syL4jpoxwNwvxkp4I0FBoWKuadR-Q_lm87CILH7XZ51B32Mwhs3KP2Fqb_ulPOcRRpqbAuIR104bYuqno6MR-L3ESMyDUzW/s1600-h/cakes.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOn1ErQEOTALljKxf8zxuAWXeT7aJWgASqQd8_8syL4jpoxwNwvxkp4I0FBoWKuadR-Q_lm87CILH7XZ51B32Mwhs3KP2Fqb_ulPOcRRpqbAuIR104bYuqno6MR-L3ESMyDUzW/s200/cakes.JPG" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5225496029563439810" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px;" /></a><a href="http://schuberts-bakery.com/">Schubert's Bakery</a>, on Clement St. Viennese opera cakes and other European delights served up by friendly Asians. We shared a slice of <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidsilver/2687172799/in/photostream/">Swedish Princess cake</a>. For more photos of this and our later Vietnamese dinner at <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=%22la+vie%22+vietnamese+san+francisco&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a">La Vie</a>, see <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidsilver/">David's flickr</a>.Sallyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00974560719588849769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7707823.post-40077014887648597762008-07-20T11:38:00.023-04:002014-06-03T19:44:23.691-04:00Bay Area bits & bytes<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh87gSzcGL_I1VDZQpB_H4fKRij-vFvYY6Zg0y67L7XS8Gu7pMEGOM-EkZm-RW8l6_c_OvUqDyWWm0S66D37KQSXBiTuv0sFgWyhd6iBO01d99kgvhyMWuz6nZYvcCGL6wCOnNT/s1600-h/grizzly.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh87gSzcGL_I1VDZQpB_H4fKRij-vFvYY6Zg0y67L7XS8Gu7pMEGOM-EkZm-RW8l6_c_OvUqDyWWm0S66D37KQSXBiTuv0sFgWyhd6iBO01d99kgvhyMWuz6nZYvcCGL6wCOnNT/s200/grizzly.JPG" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5225130319074621842" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px;" /></a>View from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grizzly_Peak_%28Berkeley_Hills%29">Grizzly Peak</a>, Berkeley, near the home of our hosts, Lee Douglas and Betsy Strode.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDnpkc6qjm61T8xHzToUCfr-oo6z85Dv3JSKN58McHZdjzwZiKOlMcTRjN4Ka9-kvyEEoeIef4ACn5ZlQjt5o5MfNSZq600gnpw-rS_2VeFDSpAg8haryCvgMqegVUu6-i1BQ5/s1600-h/alma.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDnpkc6qjm61T8xHzToUCfr-oo6z85Dv3JSKN58McHZdjzwZiKOlMcTRjN4Ka9-kvyEEoeIef4ACn5ZlQjt5o5MfNSZq600gnpw-rS_2VeFDSpAg8haryCvgMqegVUu6-i1BQ5/s200/alma.JPG" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5225126695549075874" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;" /></a>Alma Kunanbaeva of the <a href="http://www.silkroadhouse.org/">Silk Road House Cultural & Educational Center</a>, Berkeley. Alma and her husband, Izaly Zemtsovsky, are friends of our friends David and Mary Alice Lowenthal, but we found out that we have another friend in common: Kazakhstan scholar <a href="http://www.uiowa.edu/%7Ehistory/People/michaels.html">Paula Michaels</a>.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEbCUV2LPEVO5vlAqVEwXWGn-mDrQ96fP5uFzEbSEwsemeZro-nFHVpudQmQoZoMJozocAt0go9keJjpsQ7tOxirYU5x7GyC9pixdyqCqQUcUYe4QivrE2g-VAui-Nb-uMODQi/s1600-h/dogs.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEbCUV2LPEVO5vlAqVEwXWGn-mDrQ96fP5uFzEbSEwsemeZro-nFHVpudQmQoZoMJozocAt0go9keJjpsQ7tOxirYU5x7GyC9pixdyqCqQUcUYe4QivrE2g-VAui-Nb-uMODQi/s200/dogs.JPG" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5225132389033957218" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px;" /></a>A stopped dog tells no time: amusement on the way to breakfast on Sutter St., San Francisco.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSieB0zelHxWXvNCPAa7GOJSI6KRSH0zEQzYDk8zhZ_UHr1gkWUFANNH29hPlUWhmlk0df4Tth_I5a77YGww3AcBTQ00Xb2FXwlyDRLf4eENEk93CIGjrmbwBz2aGm8RcBgCVe/s1600-h/dino.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSieB0zelHxWXvNCPAa7GOJSI6KRSH0zEQzYDk8zhZ_UHr1gkWUFANNH29hPlUWhmlk0df4Tth_I5a77YGww3AcBTQ00Xb2FXwlyDRLf4eENEk93CIGjrmbwBz2aGm8RcBgCVe/s200/dino.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5225133827677280962" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;" /></a>Plastic dinosaur (made in China), part of "<a href="http://www.examiner.com/a-1487882%7EChina_s_vivid_subconscious.html">Half-Life of a Dream</a>," exhibit of contemporary Chinese art, <a href="http://www.sfmoma.org/">San Francisco Museum of Modern Art</a>.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGfubOiqsRDs7jLb6ehGTMtjUWx9Vu7dkioPPfnZPzLQsSWlOxnl8pR4oC4gHARmXiXB69FRmBlygDT1BCdVs80hSL-HHZFd127IrBjwev6DRCMIwwm5n0oKlKWEiCNvB6mP0y/s1600-h/haring.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGfubOiqsRDs7jLb6ehGTMtjUWx9Vu7dkioPPfnZPzLQsSWlOxnl8pR4oC4gHARmXiXB69FRmBlygDT1BCdVs80hSL-HHZFd127IrBjwev6DRCMIwwm5n0oKlKWEiCNvB6mP0y/s200/haring.JPG" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5225136662377890322" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px;" /></a>Keith Haring sculpture, near SF MOMA. Earlier, we saw his tryptich at the AIDS Chapel in <a href="http://www.gracecathedral.org/church/tour/tour_4.shtml">Grace Cathedral</a>.Sallyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00974560719588849769noreply@blogger.com0