Austen museum wants to discuss slavery. Will her fans listen?
By Jenny Gross New York Times,Updated April 27, 2021, 4:50 p.m.
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The house in Chawton, England where the author Jane Austen lived for eight years is now a museum dedicated to her life. She died in 1817.LUKE WOLOAGIEWICZ/NYT
As part of the discussion over racism that followed the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis last year, museums have asserted solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement and begun to rethink and recast how they portray history.
Among them is a museum dedicated to writer Jane Austen in the English village of Chawton, where she lived from 1809 until her death in 1817 at age 41.
Helen Maxwell-Lefroy, from Winchester was overjoyed by hundreds of cards she received on her 100th birthday from strangers after her family couldn t visit due to Covid-19 travel restrictions.
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Plainview librarian named vice chair of state library association committee
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The City of Plainview Unger Memorial Chief Librarian Cynthia Peterson was chosen to serve as the Vice-Chair of the Texas Library Association Lariat Committee. Peterson currently completed her first year of a three-year board term, according to a news release from the city.
The committee is tasked with creating the Lariat Adult Fiction Reading List. Since 2009, the goal of the List is to highlight outstanding fiction that is simply “a pleasure to read.” Each year, 25 outstanding fiction titles are selected by the nine-member Lariat committee.
“Selecting books for the Unger Library is part of my job and the committee was a natural fit,” said Peterson. “It allowed me the opportunity to read a variety of books I wouldn’t normally read and offer a larger variety to our patrons.”
6,200 people have died from COVID-19 in Wisconsin. Here are stories of some we ve lost. DAVID WAHLBERG
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Feb 21, 2021
A high school principal who cared about music and sports. A state lawyer who wrote to numerous world leaders. A preschool teacher who organized regional Girl Scout cookie sales.
They are among six more Madison-area people lost to COVID-19 whose stories the Wisconsin State Journal is sharing as the statewide death toll has passed 6,200.
The new stories join six from November and six from December.
State lawyer wrote to world leaders, had eclectic interests
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A longtime lawyer for the state of Wisconsin whose volunteer work involved literacy and libraries, Thomas Boykoff had some unusual hobbies.