Your Turn: The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, from New London to Norwich
A Navy truck filled with sailors and enlisted women rides down State Street on Nov. 11, 1918, soon after the armistice ending World War I was signed. The celebration occurred as the region was experiencing a pandemic that became known as the Spanish Flu. (photo courtesy of the Public Library of New London)
Published January 28. 2021 12:01AM
Vivian F. Zoe, Special to The Times
Editor’s Note: This is part one of a two-part series.
The Spanish Influenza pandemic in Connecticut is said to have started in New London on Sept. 1, 1918, when the active port debarked passengers and, a few days later, sailors from the U.S. Naval Base returned to port ill.
Office Hours: Daniel Libeskind
Jewish Currents in your mailbox.
Even among non-architects, Daniel Libeskind’s name is well-known. Over three decades, his firm has designed and built many high-profile institutions and cultural landmarks, beginning with his competition-winning proposal for the Jewish Museum Berlin in 1989. Libeskind was born in Łódź, Poland, to Shoah survivors in the immediate aftermath of World War II; in the past several decades, his name and explosive style have become synonymous with contemporary places of Jewish learning and memory. The destabilized, scarred forms of the Berlin museum reappear in the jutting hull of the 2008 San Francisco Contemporary Jewish Museum and in the warped Star of David at the Ottawa National Holocaust Monument, completed in 2017.
Amalgamated Bank Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2020 Earnings Conference Call
NEW YORK, Jan. 14, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Amalgamated Bank (“Amalgamated”) (Nasdaq: AMAL) today announced that its fourth quarter and full year 2020 financial results will be released before market open on, Thursday, January 28, 2021. The Company will host a conference call at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time on the same day to discuss the financial results.
Investors and analysts interested in participating in the call are invited to dial 1-877-407-9716 (international callers please dial 1-201-493-6779) approximately 10 minutes prior to the start of the call. A live audio webcast of the conference call will be available on the website at https://ir.amalgamatedbank.com/.