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(February 16, 2021)
WASHINGTON, D.C. Eight Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) were awarded more than $650,000 in grants today through the HBCU Cultural Heritage Stewardship Initiative, a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The program provides HBCUs with resources to protect, preserve, and leverage their historic campuses, buildings, and landscapes, ensuring these symbols of African-American excellence and American achievement are preserved to inspire and educate future generations.
With an initial investment of more than $1 million, the selected HBCUs will develop cultural heritage stewardship plans for either a campuswide site or for an individual building or site. These plans are intended to guide the grantees as they define preservation solutions to existing architectural or landscaping challenges and to identify a course of action that
Passed away Friday February 12, 2021 at Park Pointe Rehab and Healthcare Center.
She was the daughter of Lillie (Gunderson) and Fred Lynes and sister to nine brothers and sisters.
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Bette was married to Mitchell D. Nelson and in later years to Richard M. Rice. She has five children, Stephen P. Walsh of Florida, Terry D. Nelson of Morris, Darryl E. and David P. Rice of Arizona and one daughter, Marilyn K. (Rice) Hale of Virginia. She was also the grandmother of many grandchildren and several great-grandchildren.
Bette was born and raised in Morris and graduated with the class of 1952 from Morris Community High School.
CHC votes to landmark St. Augustine’s African Orthodox Church
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The Cambridge Historical Commission voted unanimously to recommend landmark status for St. Augustine’s African Orthodox Church, 137 Allston St., and to forward the recommendation to the City Council for approval.
St. Augustine’s was the home church of Bishop George A. McGuire, the founder of the African Orthodox church, a denomination for Black worshipers administered by Black clergy. By 1934, the church had 30,000 members in approximately 30 congregations in Africa, the U.S., West Indies and South America.
“And now we march on and continue the great work that we have begun. May God bless you all,” said Rev. Kit Eccles, St. Augustine’s minister, who responded to the vote.