Mardi Gras season is here again! This year, Shrove Tuesday actually fell on February 21, but the festivities generally run for longer, starting just after Epiphany (January 6) and going until the beginning of Lent which shifts on the calendar from year to year. It may be too late to plan a trip to the [...]
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Laissez les bon temps roulez, encore! … reviewed by Jason
Posted in Adult Nonfiction, History, tagged Cajun Dance Party Fais Do Do, Choo Choo Boogaloo, Menagerie The Essential Zydeco Collection, Ned Sublette, The Cajuns From Acadia to Louisiana, The World That Made New Orleans From Spanish Silver to Congo Square, William Faulkner Rushton on February 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Black (Canadian) History Month … reviewed by Jason
Posted in Adult Nonfiction, History, tagged Blacks in Canada A History, Blacks in Deep Snow Black Pioneers in Canada, Colin Thomson, Robin Winks on February 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The history of Canadians of African descent is fairly well documented in a number of books (and more than a few non-print resources), most focusing on a specific, local area (eg. Halifax, southern Ontario, Montreal, Salt Spring Island, BC). Definitive, Canada-wide histories are harder to come by which makes the late Robin Winks’ 2003 Blacks [...]
The Historical House Series … reviewed by Deborah
Posted in Adult Fiction, Children's, History, tagged Chelsea, England, The Historical House series, United Kingdom on December 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Historical House is a series of 6 books written by three well-known British children’s authors. Each book is set in the same house in Chelsea, but in different times. The first book, Mary Ann and Miss Mozart, takes place in 1764. Mary Ann desperately wants to become an opera singer, but her wealthy family [...]
New Deal Era Art and Writing … reviewed by Jason
Posted in Adult Nonfiction, Art, History, tagged 1934 A New Deal for Artists, and Democracy, Art, David Larkin, FDR and The New Deal For Beginners, Mark Kurlansky, Michael Hiltzik, New Deal A Modern History, Paul Buhle, Roger G Kennedy, Sabrina Jones, Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Food of a Younger Land, When Art Worked The New Deal on November 7, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Recovery from hard economic times requires focus on the essentials: employment, health, infrastructure, education. Even in the best of times, art usually figures somewhere near the bottom in priorities. But during the Great Depression in the United States, the Roosevelt administration initiated, among a slew of other New Deal programs, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) [...]
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