No inaugural balls or gowns? How this change affects Jill Biden s donation to the Smithsonian Maria Puente, USA TODAY
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Of all the many unprecedented aspects of President Joe Biden s inauguration, perhaps the most disappointing to fashion fans is the lack of fancy inaugural balls – and thus the lack of fancy inaugural gowns.
Official, in-person, usually insanely crowded inaugural balls have been dropped from the schedule of inaugural festivities thanks largely to the dangers of the coronavirus pandemic, plus security concerns arising from the attack on the U.S. Capitol two weeks ago.
But a check back through history shows that inaugural balls on the evening of Inauguration Day, and the fashion displayed at them, have been familiar and beloved customs dating back to the administration of George Washington..
The two newest upcoming additions to the Smithsonian,
American Museum of Women’s History, will be fantastic strides in the soon-to-be Biden Administration’s slow but assuring work towards widespread cultural education and acceptance. In December 2020, Congress
officially approved legislation that will create the two museums, backed in part by the recently approved omnibus package including a $900 billion COVID-19 relief fund. Both buildings are slated to be built on or directly around the National Mall in Washington D.C.
The passing of the legislation was no small feat. In addition to decades of pushback, failed bill passings, and general ignorance from both the United States government and the art world at large, two separate proposals for the two museums were
A half-century after its bracing debut, sitcom âAll in the Familyâ speaks to todayâs conflicts
The issues and lessons of âAll in the Familyâ still resonate
By David M. Shribman Globe Correspondent,Updated January 9, 2021, 3:54 p.m.
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Actor Carroll O Connor as Archie Bunker in All in the Family. AP
One of them spewed ethnic slurs. Another was flighty and yet grounded. A third loved to dance, and danced around her parentsâ bickering. And the last of them
was a rebel without a pause.
They were Archie, Edith, Gloria, and Meathead. Actually the fourth oneâs name was Mike but few today remember that. Even now, a half-century later, they need no introduction, nor
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N CHRISTMAS DAY in 1948, Marie Harris published the mid-century equivalent of a status update. In June that year, “lying on the beach watching the waves of the Pacific roll in”, she and her husband Bob had decided they needed more space for their young family. Through an ad in the local paper they found just the place: a rambling old farmhouse with green shutters in rural Shedd, Oregon. They swapped their crowded city digs for a retreat worthy of Instagram: five acres of land, thick with boysenberries, apple, pear and walnut trees. But apart from the 17 chickens, three geese, two cats, a cow, a duck and a collie called Mac, Shedd was not a sociable sort of place. So Marie’s three-page bulletin ended with something akin to a friend request: “We have lots of animals,” typed the 28-year-old, “but would like company of a more human sort and mail.”
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