Saving the Family History - Geneology in the Face of Katrina

It is extremely necessary to continue to collect and maintain our historical history and heritage. Documentation can come in all forms such as photos, bibles or letters from family members.

A natural disaster can wipe out years of preservation efforts by the family.



This is an example of a woman saving her family's history and legacy before Hurricane Katrina destroyed her family home.

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How Art Shapes Culture - Thelma Godden

Maybe we are in the fix we are in culturally is because we are art deprived. We need a more expansive view of ourselves via art.



In this 2009 TED presentation Thelma Godden talks about the ways that art can be transformative for a community and how art can lead to the next level of cultural definition.

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History of Household Tools From the Library of Congress

In order to understand and appreciate how far American women have come you need to understand how women lived and worked in the past. This is a good opportunity to get an understanding of just how hard work was back in the day.

For example if you wanted a chicken dinner you had to grab it, kill it, clean it and cook it. Or there was beans. Lots and lots of beans.



March is Women's History Month. Let's go behind the stacks at the Library of Congress to learn about the tools used to make a home back in the day.

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For my Mom :: Food as Currency

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Makes me cry. Experimenting with iMovie's export for iTunes. No frills. It copied the file into the iTunes directory as well as left a copy in the movies folder. Not too bad. Unfamiliar with whether the m4v format will play for my subscribers, be transcoded by Blip to flash, or flow down the RSS feed. Here goes nuthin'.

Formats available: MPEG-4 Video (protected) (.m4v), Flash Video (.flv)

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The Ritual of the Annual Family Portrait

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A wee meditation on the nature of identity that leads me to ask how much influence family ritual and mythology exerts upon us.

Lots. Lots and lots.

Originally published @ The Faux Press.

Download Quicktime version HERE.

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POST NOTE: Can no longer auto-post directly here from Blip.tv. Guessing it's the word verification function. Understandable, but, oh well.

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